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Secrets Of The Battleworld – From Crystar To Kitty (SPOILERS)

Taking a run through anything Marvel publish today with a Secret Wars label on it.

So while in Punisher: The Last Days, Castle goes out to one last mission…

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Loki: The Last Days looks like he may be stepping out of reality, with a way to save a sliver of it…

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And in Magneto: The Last Days, he is giving his life to save our Earth, an act that we all know will be futile, and mirroring the Xorn-star-in-his-brain identity… IMG_0057

Over in the Battleworld, it is strangely a little calmer.

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Future Imperfect #2 basically gives you the cliffhanger to the first issue again, as all the rest of the characters catch up with Maestro and Ross/Thing.


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Magneto gets creepier than usual by getting down and dirty with a Stepford Cuckoo in E Is For Extinction, just as we get yet another league of characters all made up of the same person across different domains. We've had Thors, we've had MODOKs, we've had Spider-Men, we've had Jane Fosters and now we get Beasts.

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As Old Man Logan takes refuge next door in the Technopolis world, his healing factor the only thing that saves him from the plague, we see more signs of the ghettoisation of mutantkind by Doom in the Battleworld.IMG_0048

While Star-Lord & Kitty Pryde, the only one of the spinoff books so far to feature a survivor of the 616 (because as we've seen Ultimate End is something else entirely) and a rather grisly end for Longshot, this Gambit won't be the only character to be wielding a set of bone knives. I've just googled and there is no result for "what if Kitty Pryde was Wolverine" – well, I'm mean, there is now…

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While Marvel Zombies uses the language of BBC zombie series In The Flesh to describe the living dead…. And maIMG_0052And also transforms a recent scene from The Walking Dead into an early warning system for the very-much-alive mutant at the center of the Deadworld.

While over in Weirdworld…. it looks like we were right about the identity of the one-eyed crystal warrior.
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That's the guy.

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But what of Crystar, the Crystal Warrior who led that book back in the early eighties? Did he survive as well?

IMG_0040Yeah, I'm not exactly sure how crystal warriors work. But that can't be good, can it?

The war continues…

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. Currently preparing for an exhibition launch for Mark Buckingham.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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