Secret Wars Archives

In One Week, In Two Weeks – From Secret Wars To Star Wars
Next week, we have the launches of Adam 3, King Tiger, DC Bombshells, X-Files Season 11, Boy-1, Beauty, Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl, Archon, Fight For Your Life, Americatown, Sleepy Hollow: Providence, Sanitarium, Gears And Bones, King, Muirwood: Lost Abbey, and a new Secret Wars, Walking Dead and Batman. And the week after? New MGMT, TMNT Amazing[...]
Secrets Of The Battleworld – Heresisies From Heaven
What secrets to this week's Secret Wars titles have to offer? Well in two books, memories seem to be emerging that… should not be emerging Heresy, in other words In Age Of Ultron Vs Marvel Zombies, we have a Human Torch who has memories of another time, another place…  While in Thors, a certain name seems to[...]
Secrets Of The Battleworld – Getting The Period Right
Surely they were all getting onto a ship to rush out of the flames? Oh it's probably symbolic or somesuch…. Meanwhile back in the eighties on the original Secret Wars, Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars continues to rewrite Jim Shooter in a most entertaining fashion. But to the Battleworld! What is going on there this week? Well, it's[...]
Late: Secret Wars, Star Wars And Icon
An irregular look at how certain titles are slipping down the schedules… Secret Wars #7 has slipped again, now from 2nd September (whch is when #6 is now coming out) to the 23rd September And it is taking a number of other Secret Wars titles with it #8 is still scheduled for the 7th October. A-Force #4[...]
Secret Wars, Walking Dead And Strange Fruit Top Advance Reorders
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! Massive interest has returned to The Walking Dead after last issue's decapitation, as retailers also push up their orders of Secret Wars, Strange Fruit, Batman,[...]
Ch-Ch-Changes – We Are Robin To Battleworld
And the art was solicited as from Stephane Roux but now Elliot Fernandez has been added. Teen Titans #10 was solicited as with art for Kenneth Rocafort, in fact it's Felipe Watanabe. Secret Wars Battleworld #4 will be written by James Stokoe and Peter David, not the previously solicited Mike Benson and Sina Grace. We Are Robin #2 was solicited with art[...]
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… Loki: The Last Days looks like he may be stepping out of reality, with a way to save a sliver of it… And in Magneto: The Last Days, he[...]
Thor's Comic Review Column – Godzilla In Hell #1, Captain Marvel And the Carol Corps #2, Long Walk To Valhalla, Guardians Of Knowhere #1, Captain Britain And The Mighty Defenders #1, Hawkeye #22, Secret Wars: Siege #1, Secret Wars: Hail Hydra #1
This Week's Reviews: Godzilla in Hell #1 Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps #2 Long Walk To Valhalla GN Guardians of Knowhere #1 Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders #1 Hawkeye #22 Secret Wars: Siege #1 Secret Wars: Hail Hydra! #1 Godzilla in Hell #1 (IDW Publishing) By Bart Bishop Growing up I was a huge fan of Godzilla and devoured any and all of his[...]
Secrets Of The Battleworld – Where Did Starlord Go?
We wondered if a number of delayed Secret Wars spinoff titles were down to that moment in te delayed main Secret Wars title in which a bunch of 616 and Ultimate survivors were scattered to the corners of the Battleworld by Dr Strange Well, that doesn't seem to have been the case with most, but[...]
Future Secrets Of The Battleworld, With The Thing, Thanos And CB Cebulski
We learn of the near future, and Thanos (as seen in the main Secret Wars series) getting involved Looks like Siege is going to be a rather important series to the Secret Wars mythos. And we also learn, again, that som worlds seem to have experienced far more than the allotted eight years of the Secret[...]
Thor's Comic Review Column – Civil War #1, Star Wars: Lando #1, Invader Zim #1, Justice League United #1, Archie #1, Invader Zim #1, Secret Wars, And More
(You guys went to Comic-Con and… we didn't) THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS: Civil War #1 Star Wars: Lando #1 Invader Zim #1 Justice League United #11 Archie #1 Strange Fruit #1 The Tomorrows #1 Venture #1 Secret Wars #4 Secret Wars: Squadron Sinister #2 Secret Wars: A-Force #2 Secret Wars: Where Monsters Dwell #2 Secret Wars: Age of Ultron vs Marvel Zombies Civil War #1 (Marvel, $4.99) by Graig Kent 2006's Civil War[...]
SDCC'15: Spotlight on Jonathan Hickman
By Joe Glass Jonathan Hickman has been enjoying a hugely successful career at Marvel, even bringing their two main universes to an end in this year's mega-event Secret Wars As well as that, he's been making fantastic creator owned work with Image that is regularly blowing fans away. So it is perhaps without much surprise that the[...]
SDCC '15: Jonathan Hickman Will Draw As Well As Write His Next Comic
Such as that Jonathan Hickman, currently writing the direct market industry's best selling title Secret Wars, is taking a wee break afterwards – but will return with a comic that he will draw as well as write. Jonathan Hickman broke into comics in that way with The Nightly News, sent blind into Image Comics submissions, using[...]
SDCC'15: Marvel's Secret Wars
By Joe Glass Marvel are starting Friday at SDCC with their panel on the massive Secret Wars event currently taking over their whole line. Panel features senior Marvel editor, Tom Brevoort, Jonathan Hickman (the writer of Secret Wars), Josh Williamson (artist), Charles Soule (writer Inhumans Rising)…and hopefully Sana Amanat. They started with a short video advertising Agents of[...]
Talking Comics – Discussing This Week's Upcoming Titles From Archie, To Civil War, Age Of Apocalypse, Star Wars: Lando & More!
Deadpool And Howling Commandos #2 18:02 Runaways #2 18:20 Secret Wars 2099 #3 18:42 Squadron Sinister #2 19:09 Spider-Verse #3 20:08 Harrow County #3 20:35 Injection #3 20:59 Starve #2 21:31 Saga #30 Contact Links: Site – http://www.excaliburccg.com/ Digital Store – http://www.excaliburccg.com/digital-s… Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Excali… Twitter – https://twitter.com/ExcaliburCCG MP3 of this video – http://www.excaliburccg.com/videomp3-…   [...]
Marvel Maintains Over 15 Point Marketshare Lead Over DC In June 2015 As Renew Your Vows Indicates Desire For A Return To Watson-Parker Marriage
DC's much vaunted DC YOU mini-relaunch and promotion has not translated well into sales, it seems, at least not against Marvel's Secret Wars crossover machine. Meanwhile Image maintain their recent ten-percent-as-standard position with a 9.81% dollar share and a 10.83% unit share. Marvel also dominates the top ten, with seven titles, and the Renew Your Vows spinoff coming[...]
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 5th July 2015 – We Stand On Secret Wars
We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. The big news will be the successful launch of Brian K Vaughan and Steve Skroce's We Stand On Guard from Image Comics knocking out everything but the Star Wars and Secret Wars, and beating plenty of those too DC Comics don't get a single comic[...]
Where Is The Thing In Secret Wars? (UPDATE)
Check out cover to Secret Wars 4 Cc @JHickman — Polar Vortex Soldier (@djb_in_cbus) July 4, 2015 Still prefer the Shield theory though… The Human Torch is the Sun. The Invisible Woman is Doom's wife. Valeria and Franklin are his children. Reed Richards has now returned Both of him. But where, oh where is The Thing? This isn't him. That's Thunderbolt Ross. Could… this[...]
Today's Secrets Of The Secret Wars
Kirby River ran around the town of Timely, until it was diverted by Governor Roxon. A townin which they found silver and gold. As in "age"... Apocalypse
Is This Why The Secret Wars Crossovers Were So Late? (SPOILERS)
The Secret Wars crossovers seem to exist in and of themselves There is a status quo set at the beginning of Secret Wars #1 of a Battleworld split into a variety of dimensional domains rulled over by the God Doom And each crossover spinoff tells the story of that world, or the world they cross[...]
The Secrets Of Today's Secret Wars As Everyone Is Versus Doom….
You can see previous chapters of our coverage of Secret Wars as it is published (or just before) right here As ever we look at the week's Secret Wars titles, with Doomheads to measure how Secret Warsy each issue is, allowing you to pick and choose titles that are more – or less[...]
Even Later Secret Wars Crossovers
We've been looking at the lateness of Secret Wars titles here, here and here. Well more titles continue to fall down the schedules, here are some new delays…. Secret Wars #7 has slipped two weeks from 9th September to 23rd September Issue 8 is meant to ship on the same day as Iron an #1, currently October[...]
A Comic Show – Secret Wars Stands On Guard!
And The Autumnlands: Tooth and Claw volume one's a $9.99 that's Kurt Busiek's best work yet. Secret Wars #4 is perfection While all the Battleworlds and Warzones tell their smaller localized stories, Hickman's main book is super compressed, and moving at a fast clip Sure it'll probably end with Doom and Richards taking each other out,[...]
Prints Charming – We Can Never Go Home To A Secret Wars Misprint
Secret Wars #2 is getting a second printing… but it's going to be later than expected as it was misprinted and had to be printed again No idea if the misprints have made it onto the open market… Howard The Duck #3 gets a second print..  As does Mrs Deadpool And The Howling Commandos with a[...]