Secret Wars Archives

The new Boom! series Strange Fruit by JG Jones and Mark Waid takes the front of next week's Previews catalogue from Diamond Comic Distributors… while Bryan Hitch's Justice League Of America takes the back. The Customer Order Form booklet also features a Boom! book, The Fiction by Curt Pires and David Rubin. While Marvel's Previews order form?[...]

Here are Marvel's solicitations for July, with all the Secret Wars series we'd been hearing about, with others teased and not realised, and one artist talking about working on Age Of Apocalypse, will there be more new series to come in July? Probably, yes… we have Civil War and House Of M to come for a start[...]

Secret Wars campaign gets underway. Exceed 200% of total orders of Guardians Of The Galaxy #22 with orders for Attilan Rising #1 and get an large discount off Attilan Rising #1 Guardians had a North American order estimate of 52,470, if every retailer took advantage of this promotion, the comic would have orders of 105,000 Exceed 200% of total orders of[...]

When Leinil Yu tweeted he was working on a nineties style shoulder padded series for Marvel, we wondered if it it could be the previously teased Age Of Apocalypse series for Secret Wars. But its seems that Gerardo Sandoval stated he was working on Age of Apocalypse on Humberto Ramos' YouTube show Los Forasteros a couple of weeks ago… and we had[...]

Entertainment Weekly has the Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows news for Secret Wars, while Buzzfeed has the Angela: Witchfinder General Secret Wars series. First, Renew Your Vows written by Dan Slott, "Spider-Man, when you get down to it, is a character about responsibility And the second he's a father and a husband—he has a responsibility to share his powers with[...]

At the London Super Comic-Con yesterday, Garth Ennis took the stage to a packed house with Avatar Press publisher William Christensen. Here to talk about

Announced on Polygon, the Secret Wars series teased last year, X-Men '92 will be a decampi-style digital comic from Marvel, under their Infinite Comics banner. And who'd have thought that Chris Sims would get to write an X-Men comic a) before a Batman comic and b) before Andrew Wheeler? And that still leaves the big two… age[...]

One of the expected Secret Wars series, just confirmed, is Armor Wars Revisiting the classic Iron Man event that saw Tony Stark try to round up all the different folk who were using Stark technology, the new series by James Robinson and Marcio Takara will revisit the concept. extended a bit Comics Alliance tell us, [...]

And now it has… but possible not by who we thought. Marguerite Bennett and Mike Norton are writing Years Of Future Past for Secret Wars, in a world where Kate Pryde was never able to travel back in time to her youthful Kitty self And had to fight with the rest of the mutants… CBR gets the exclusive[...]

We're looked at two examples of Marvel offering large discounts to retailers if they order large copies of their Secret Wars titles in June. Now it's DC's turn This is how they intend to get those numbers up Firstly every retailer must order five issue of every launch or relaunch title to qualify Not too hard… Take[...]

If you are planning a trip to another dimension, it's always good to take some precautions. For example, take Earth Two in World's End #23, it might be

Last year, we looked at the solicitation for the Secret Wars Prelude, searching for potential clues toward the Secret Wars The book includes early issues of the New Avengers, where we learnt about the incursions of Earths… And while we were looking at Mister Fantastic and the use of the Infinity Gauntlet in both these issues, there[...]

I think that's only five left… Marvel.com have announced a new Secret Wars spinoff, Squadron Sinister, based on the parallel universe Justice League team, Squadron Supreme from Marc Guggenheim and Carlos Pacheco. We had seen Supremists in the original covers, now it gets confirmed. "Our lineup is Hyperion, Nighthawk, Whizzer, Doctor Spectrum, and Warrior Woman[...]

In Secret Wars, they are going legit FastCoCreate has been given the MArvel PR on the latest Secret Wars series for June, Captain Marvel & The Carol Corps by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Kelly Thompson and David Lopez. "When I created the Banshees in the first go round, I did something really dumb," says DeConnick[...]

X-Men that started the whole Skottie Young Baby Variant cover that has obsessed the industry since. Which is why Marvel is revisiting that cover for a Secret Wars reality, Giant-Size Little Marvel: AVX #1, as revealed by Marvel PR to MTV, from writer.artist Skottie Young. I took that, the rules laid out for the world of Secret Wars and[...]

 Looks like we will have more new Secret Wars beginning in July… As today sees HitFix reduced the amount of to-be-announced Secret Wars titles down to 8 Oh, and we get a lead female character Just not one that anyone was expecting Written by Gerry Duggan, Hitfix didn't think mentioning the artist was important, but the cover[...]

Okay, we're in the final stretch for the Marvel announcements of the Secret Wars spinoff books for June. There appear to be nine slots left This is out best guesses for the books still to be announced, based in part on those Marvel teasers from last year… Renew Your Vows by Dan Slott Years Of Future Past by Brian[...]

We already showed how Marvel are incentivising retailers to order as many Secret Wars #1 orders as possible, as well as certain spinoffs. Well, that promotion continues for some of the other new Secret Wars series too. If retailers exceed 250% of their orders for Avengers #39 for A-Force #1, retailers get a large discount off the[...]

again so so so sorry. — BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (@BRIANMBENDIS) March 7, 2015 Well, they found him… "It Ain't Over Yet" Those were the words that Brian Bendis gave the In-Store Comic Convention Kickoff regarding the future of the Ultimate Universe, post Secret Wars, as well as talking about how they found a way to get Guardians Of The[...]

Shown off during the In Store Comic Convention Kickoff, your first look inside Secret Wars… Thanos, Mr Sinister and more… We also got to see a few June covers for Secret Wars series… Look everyone, it's Sugarman with Magneto… and a rather cool Captain America And The Mighty Avengers "Last Days" cover on the right…. Is Old Man[...]

But there is still enough to data mine some erroneous conclusions from, looking at te upcoming collections based on this summer's Secret Wars event. While Battlezones TPBs seem to be getting their own title listings, Warzone books mostly seem to be collected like this: Eleven trade paperbacks, all for October and November, with strange letter markings rather than[...]

Hollywood Reporter ran the PR about the Secret Wars Future Imperfect story, from Peter David and Greg Land, revisiting the classic future-set Hulk story. They also showed off some art, featuring a blonde red skinned woman Newsarama seems to think it's Betty Ross somehow but we know better, we think. That's Ruby Summers from David's X-Factor… The[...]

We have another new Battleworld for the upcoming Secret Wars event, Weirdworld #1 This series will be written by Jason Aaron and drawn by Mike Del Mundo and its being called "the strangest domain of all". It is a world of swords, sorcery and all things bizarre A land of gods and monsters Where perverted science[...]

A handy Secret Wars checklist so far looking at information supplied We;ll try and update as more comes in… Secret Wars: Ultimate End #1 Inhumans: Attilan Rising #1 Secret Wars: Battleworld #1 Secret Wars: Master of Kung Fu #1 Secret Wars Journal #1 Ghost Racers #1 Thors #1 Age of Ultron vs Marvel Zombies #1 Starlord and Kitty Pryde #1 Marvel Zombies #1 Runaways #1 Secret Wars: 2099 #1 Deadpool's[...]

And also in the same month that Marvel cancel or suspend a number of their books, replaced by a number of Secret Wars crossover series and mini-series. Well, DC Comics have told retailers that increasing launch numbers, in some cases above Batman numbers, will see them get an additional 15% discount on launch issues, on top[...]

So, Secret Wars #1 – and all issues it seems – are getting a bit of a cover treatment. It cannot be denied that, in the hand, DC Comics have felt thicker, glossier, more impressive, that Marvel who use the same stock for internal pages as they do covers, or "self cover" as it is known. But[...]

Marvel are looking to give retailers large discounts if they order lots of titles for certain books. Secret Wars #1 if retailers order 250% of their recent Thor #1 numbers (estimates in North America to be 150,862) or 200% for a lesser discount. Captain America & The Mighty Avengers #8 if retailers order 200% of their recent Captain America[...]

You;d have thought we'd had enough Secret Wars mindless speculation today, But not a but of it We've already had one Marvel Zombies series announced for Secret Wars Well now we are getting a second. Bloody-Disgusting has worked with Marvel PR to announce a Marvel Zombies series by Si Spurrier and Kev Walker for June. With an irresistible[...]

And now, the Most Honest Bleeding Cool Headline of All Time pic.twitter.com/bJ1ld5rvyB — David Uzumeri (@DavidUzumeri) February 26, 2015 Nothing like a little mindless Secret Wars speculation Let's start with Age Of Ultron Vs Marvel Zombies.  "Getting sent to this No Man's Land means you've done something wrong in Battleworld…It's equivalent to having to walk the plank over shark-infested waters[...]

Could this be the foundation for the Secret Wars Battleworld to come? And recalling New Avengers #8 from eighteen months ago… A cutaway from deep space that was never explained… is finally resolved. And damn, if that panel wasn't decent foreshadowing for Original Sin…. Meanwhile in DC's Futures End, we see Braniac capturing the Manhattan of Earth 0 and[...]