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Secret Wars #9 by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic brings Marvel's massive event comic book to an end, only three months after it was originally scheduled. The whys and the wherefores are all contained within Doom is defeated – or is he? Reed Richards wins – or does he? Some of what we expected is confirmed[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvaiVTXymTEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: A Comic Show 1.13.16: Secret Wars 9 is a 10! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvaiVTXymTE) Aaron Haaland writes, Hey Fandom This week I gush about Secret Wars #9, the long awaited finale This was worth the wait It's the best end to any event book I've ever read…and I've pretty much read 'em[...]

I have been told that the finale of Secret Wars #9 by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic, to be published this Wednesday, bears something in similarity to Steven Moffat's first Doctor Who story with Christopher Eccleston. That's all How peculiar What could it be? SPOILER SPECULATION to follow… Because that would be the two parter The Empty[...]

Are you waiting for the 9th and final issue of Marvel's Secret Wars and looking for a recap? Have you not read them yet but plan on starting with issue #9? Are you not reading the series at all but are looking for a nice recap to explain what is going on?  Well, Marvel has[...]

Marvel is still be far the strongest publisher in the direct market, but DC Comics traditionally does a lot better in the Christmas market, able to monetise its back catalogue, trades, hardcovers and collections far better than Marvel is able to. Secret Wars #8 topped the list, over Dark Knight III #2, both beating out Star[...]

Secret Wars #9 by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic was solicited with one word "Genesis." That was it. It has now increased slightly. The finale to Marvel’s largest event ever – SECRET WARS #9 arrives 1/13/16. You won't believe what this STARTED! Prepare for GENESIS and witness just the birth of All-New, All-Different Marvel. Here's a little look ahead at[...]

These are the Diamond Comic Distributors state for direct market sales to comic shops (and Loot Crate) in 2015. Not only did Marvel dominate, with DC knocked back in marketshare, but they took the top two spots with Star Wars #1 beating out Secret Wars #1 And both beating out the Loot Crate exclusives for Orphan[...]

And the new Squardon Supreme members as survivors of the Battleworld and their own realities…. But how did this happen? What did Namor do? Well the final page of Secret Wars #8 last week did give us Namor and Black Panther together, with an Infinity Gauntlet against Doom. So is this attack for Namor's work with the Cabal,[...]

We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. And, maybe with a boost of a possible return of Bruce to the Bat, maybe with boost from Dark Knight awareness, but Batman beats out both Secret Wars and Star Wars this week, with Walking Dead making a challenge…. 1 Batman #47 2 Secret Wars #8 3 Star[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chD0w7qNyaAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: New Comic Reviews! Secret Wars, the Violent, Scarlet Witch, Head Lopper & Gwenpool! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chD0w7qNyaA) The Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They say:   Foxi takes you on a tour of his top 5 new comic picks for[...]

Over at CBR, in a PR interview with Secret Wars writer Jonathan Hickman, they have given the first sneak peek of Secret Wars #9. It's not a lot Let's blow it up. Still not much the wiser Could it be Doom's gauntleted hand pushing himself up after being knocked down? Could this be the final humiliation of Doon? How[...]

We've been looking at the end of Secret Wars, the eight month gap and the nature of the reality of the All New All Different Marvel Universe most Wednesdays… so what's going on today? We've seen that there is something wrong with magic in the new universe, over in Doctor Strange And the launch of Scarlet[...]

A week ago, Bleeding Cool let you know that Secret Wars #9 has been delayed until the first week of 2016 And then the next day all sorts of other people coincidentally noticed as well… Anyway, we were all wrong. Because Secret Wars #9 is now scheduled at Marvel for the second week of January, on Wednesday[...]

Scott Campbell has been tapped to do a retailer exclusive cover for Secret Wars #9… the retailer in questions is Midtown Comics in NYC How do we know? Because Campbell just tweeted out the colored art for the cover… though it does say "Not final cover". Color art for @MidtownComics new #SecretWars #9 Exclusive Variant by[...]

Courtesy of CBR, three pages from the upcoming Secret Wars #8 out next week No, seriously, it really is. Not sure how The Maestro is free from his illusion of victory in his own Secret Wars spinoff Future Imperfect, but Sinister has lost his head, The Thing is coming for Doom (by way of Galactus), and for[...]

Amazing Spider-Man #1 artwork by Mike Del Mundo (A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders) Much has been made of Marvel's recent decision to publish a publish of variant covers for their comics featuring Marvel-themed versions of famous hip-hop covers. There have been allegations of appropriation, and of outright theft, but it hasn't stopped them from being popular. Well on[...]

Okay, who had money on this? The final issue of Secret Wars #9 has now been delayed yet again, to 6th January 2016. Originally planned for publication at the beginning of October to coincide with the All-New All-Different Marvel relaunch, the final issue of Marvel's big summer 2015 event will be now three months late. So far Already we[...]

And we await their upcoming Secret Wars masterpiece….     From those folks at Illuminating Comics…Part two is here And we await their upcoming Secret Wars masterpiece….     From those folks at Illuminating Comics…Part two is here And we await their upcoming Secret Wars masterpiece….     [...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! The newly announced Skottie Young cover for the final issue of Secret Wars has pushed that to the top of the chart, with the Jason[...]

There are only two Secret Wars-related comic books out today As the main title has stretched into infinity (or the end of December) so other books have also stretched And today the final issue of Hail Hydra and the last issue of the Last Days Of The Silver Surfer both promise much. Hail Hydra sees the adopted[...]

Doctor Doom in Secret Wars Too knows who the best Fantastic Four writer was Maybe they'd bring them back if they could persuade a certain bearded man through the door… so never, then. Ant Man's also critiquing the lineup as well He's not even in a parody comic to give him some cover…. Can you guess Superman's[...]

Secret Wars, the Battleworld and the All-New All-Different Marvel Universe… what's the transfer like between the two A little rocky? From today's comics, Jonathan Hickman makes promises he can't keep in parody title Secret Wars Too As the spinoff titles have all but fallen away it seems such a shame that this domain didn't get more[...]

This Week's Reviews: The Ultimates #1 Cyanide and Happiness: Stab Factory All-New Wolverine #1 All-New Hawkeye #1 All-New Karnak #1 Secret Wars #7 Battleworld: Squadron Sinister #4 Battleworld: Thors #4 The Ultimates #1 (Marvel Comics, $3.99) By Devon Sanders (@devonsanders) After nearly 30 years, comics can still excite me. The Ultimates #1 excites me It is a comic bold in its thinking It has the nerve to[...]

Well that was fast. Secret Wars #7 out this week with a humongous print run that will no doubt see it at the top of this week's Bleeding Cool, has sold out from Diamond Comic Distributors Which means a second print, the Alex Ross cover with a slightly different colour variance, will be on it's way, probably in[...]

But I fancied highlighting two… The first by Jonathan Hickman looks at his initial presentation to all the other writers and editors at Marvel for the Secret Wars event  And in doing so told us how the series is going to end…I mean, I guess, that's how we all knew it would end[...]

Secret Wars #7 is published today As are the final issue of Thors, Infinity Gauntlet and Squadron Sinister So what secrets can we ascertain within? Spoilers, obviously. We've already told you what appears to be the fate of Mister Fantastic. Well, Secret Wars is all about rousing the troops to battle Which or some reason means that the[...]

There are semi-spoilers for Amazing Spider-Man #3 published last week, Secret Wars #7 published today, and also larger spoilers for Uncanny Avengers #2 also published today Read them in that order And bring on the warning. So, the battle royale begins in Secret Wars #7 And everyone is preparing their moves against Doom, as he prepares[...]

One of the Secret Wars spinoff comics from Marvel was Where Monsters Dwell, By Garth Ennis and Russ Braun, it was a story that had very little to do with the wider Battleworld, with an ex-war pilot landing his place in a strange land full of dinosaurs and savage warrior women. It both revived the old[...]

This was how the scene played out in the recent Secret Wars by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic The God Doom with a face he is unable to change, despite his ominipotent powers. But it didn't always look so bad Here is the original pencil artwork for that page, on sale for $1000. He kept his nose[...]

In a preview of the upcoming Ultimates #1, we get a look at the state of the Marvel Universe on a physics level. In a previous time, the structure for a