Secret Wars Archives

So, Jason Aaron and Chris Sprouse launch Thors #1 in June, a police force for the Secret Wars Battleworld in June… with all the available Thors on hand.   The chaos of Secret Wars requires a different kind of lawman Welcome to the force Whenever there's trouble on Battleworld, the Thors answer the call Gods of Thunder[...]

May not have had the big guns of Marvel and Dark Horse, but Brian Bendis was making the keynote speech tomorrow… Jim laid out the plans for the Secret Wars divided into three subdivisions and the announced books we'd be getting Along the way, we learned that Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars, with its action figure variant[...]

Secret Wars will be line wide so regular publishing will pause during it, some equivalent titles, some minis, some new. They didn't want to brand every monthly book with "Secret Wars" as if they were all tie-ins Some will pause, some will tie-in. They are being elusive because a lot will change in September, but for the[...]

And for Marvel's internal Previews pullout, it's still all about Secret Wars…. This edition of Previews should be in stores in a couple of weeks.     Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' new monthly comic book Providence takes the front of the Previews order form for next month, for comics shipping in May… But of the front cover[...]

He's doing a Secret Wars 2099 series It may not be the biggest reach to suggest that Peter David would be writing the Secret Wars: Future Imperfect series, as already teased About as logical as Brian Bendis writing the Secret Wars: Years Of Future Past series. But his recent interview with CBR seems to have underlined the[...]

In the most recent issue of All-New X-Men written by Brian Bendis, we saw a dimensional portal open from the Ultimate Universe to the world of Old Man Logan, briefly. Now MTV has been handed the PR puffery that Bendis will be writing the Old Man Logan series spinning out of Secret Wars, drawn by the newly-Marvel exclusive Andrea[...]

CBR has been given the exclusive PR puffery from Marvel on another of the Secret Wars Battleworlds, in a new series Planet Hulk by Sam Humphries and Marc Laming. This May, writer Sam Humphries and artist Marc Laming introduce readers to several of these familiar yet different faces in "Planet Hulk" a "Secret Wars" series falling under[...]

Nerdist has the PR puffery on Spider-Verse being a Battleworld reality in Secret Wars with its own spinoff series. SPIDER-VERSE #1 MIKE COSTA (w) • ANDRE ARUAJO (a) Cover by NICK BRADSHAW "Spinning out of the SPIDER-VERSE event, a team of Spiders finds themselves face-to-face with Battleworld! Starring SPIDER-GWEN, SPIDER-MAN NOIR, SPIDER-MAN: INDIA, MAYDAY PARKER, SPIDER-UK and SPIDER-HAM!" Sadly Spider-Ham appears to have[...]

So we have a Secret Wars and a Convergence coming, with all manner of dimensional travel, worlds fighting worlds and Marvel and DC fighting to tell the same story So what signs are there in today's comics of what might be happening? This is the Old Logan dimension/time, known as the Wastelands on the Secret Wars[...]

Might have has a lot to do with Todd McFarlane transforming New York into an array of demonic forms, but damn I loved Inferno. And we get to revisit that reality again as a world on the Secret Wars Battleworld Newsarama have been given the info by Marvel PR. Dennis Hopeless and Javier Garron bring us a[...]

Yet. Vulture is given the PR package by Marvel on a Secret Wars tie-in series with Russ Braun and covers by Frank Cho, Where Monsters Dwell, reviving a classic Marvel series throwing in Marvel WW2 hero character The Phantom Eagle, as a biplane pilot encountering dinosaurs. What can you tell us about the plot? Sometime in the early 1920s,[...]

The Secret Wars Party promotion requires retailers to order 150% of their Thor #1 numbers for Secret Wars #1 – something I don't believe will be hard to accomplish… Those who do qualify will then be able to order as many of the Chip Zdarsky Secret Wars #1 Party Variant Every store will get one free[...]

UPDATE: No Star Wars. But forceful. But not on The View. Marvel's announcement announced for today seems to have been bumped.  Which is why they gave it

During which Marvel will announce… something for Secret Wars Though, compared to all the DC Comics announcements today, it will have to be something pretty big We'll update this article when they tell us all what it is. Was the use of "Forceful" in the press release headline really there to tease the possibility of the[...]

What great timing. Secret Wars-related, what could it be? "The View," a live, one-hour daily talk show from ABC (11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, ET), features Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Rosie Perez and Nicolle Wallace It's the original forum in which real women discuss everyday issues, share their opinions and engage in colorful conversations "The View," broadcast in HDTV[...]

Courtesy of Marvel.com comes Secret Wars Journal, a new series running through their Secret Wars event With stories featuring the likes of Night Nurse, Millie The Model, Misty Knight and Paladin A cover by Kevin Wada, edited by Jake Thomas, expect some oddness along the way… Courtesy of Marvel.com comes Secret Wars Journal, a new[...]

As part of the Secret Wars Battleworld line of titles, Master Of Kung-Fu is a four issue mini-series from Haden Blackman and Dalibor Talajic set on one of the realities on the Battleworld… Can one man defeat an entire empire? Find out this May, as fists fly on the surface of BATTLEWORLD and a victor will be crowned[...]

Converging one might say… The battles in Secret Wars are so big, we had to launch an entirely new book just to contain them! This May, prepare for the big, bombastic action like you've never seen before in SECRET WARS: BATTLEWORLD #1 – a new 4-issue limited series of wall-to-wall action across the surface of Battleworld![...]

So some are concerned with recent interviews with Marvel apparatchiks that the upcoming Secret Wars will lead to a unified Marvel universe, rather than the multiverse that has informed so many stories in their comics, from Spider-Men line, to All-New X-Men, to the Fantastic Four, to the Avengers – and especially Spider-Verse. In an interview with[...]

Well, our original mindless speculation was wrong. This looks a bit closer, Attilan Rising, Marvel's fourth ongoing series starring Inhumans (to follow

Ultimate Earth incursion coming in Secret Wars #1…. There have been some fan complaints asking why the heroes didn't do this, or that, to save the multiverse as Earth crashes into Earth Today, New Avengers explains some of the many attempts taken over the last eight month – and how all of them failed If you[...]

Marvel kicks off the first of the Last Days titles tying into the upcoming Secret Wars comics, by telling CBR about Loki and Newsarama about Magneto Expect ComicBook, IGN, The Hollywood Reporter, ComicVine, Wired, Comics Alliance and more to follow up with the rest. Does "Last Days" also indicate that these books are cancelled? POssibly[...]

A piece of analysis of the Secret Wars announcements beat that, and all of the actual announcements. I should do that more often, clearly Okay, so what else were you reading this week? Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week 1. So… That Marvel Announcement – Why It's NOT A Reboot 2. 'Fear The Walking Dead' – Bleeding Cool Reads AMC's The[...]

From Charles Soule's list of upcoming work... 10. The Romantic One. A mini-series, about a couple I’m excited to write in a new context and a new way.

We even get a much cleaner look at it during the only "Secret Wars" project I'm doing It's going to be something that ties into the Hydra storyline, where we'll get a look at it from another angle Then, coming back, there will be some huge stuff for Hydra. Coming back…. Then there's Cindy Moon, Silk. So I[...]

Marvel's Free Comic Book Day title in March had been solicited as FCBD Secret Wars #1 Even though an actual Secret Wars #1 is shipping in May. It will now be called Secret Wars #0 – which indicates a whole different kind of comic book An FCBD #1 might indicate a preview of sorts, a sneek peek at[...]

Dan DiDio gave two Convergence interviews to CBR and Newsarama, lined up to run while Marvel was announcing the details of Secret Wars Both events involving their respective multiversities being mashed up, with many blasts from the past being revived for one night only Or a couple of months, anyway. We first mentioned what would become[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! Before I tackle this week's New Comics Now, I make a personal and business related announcement and weight in on the Secret Wars Marvel melting pot coming. I talk some on the Spider-Verse issue and tie-ins, the GotG and Rocket Raccoon, Superior Iron Man, and[...]

But Mr Fantastic – both of him – are prominent in Secret Wars as the Marvel and the Ultimate Universes clash. And I understand that this arc will specifically lead into that We've certainly looked at the importance of Mr Fantastic to the series, Doom looks set to join that, and it is very likely that writer Jonathan[...]

Today's Spider-Verse reading order for continuity and spoiler sake... Spider-Woman #3. Nice passcode. Scarlet Spiders #3. And you'll get an explanation of