Well, I know I did joke about this -though I added that it would not surprise me Disney loves to suck more money in- but it has been confirmed at New York Comic Con and in USA Today so....
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — Marvel Comics' Secret Wars event 30 years ago kicked off the comic-book mega-crossover with the company's greatest heroes and villains.
So in bringing it back as the publisher's major story line of 2015, Marvel is going from simply large in scale to "overwhelmingly huge," says executive editor Tom Brevoort. "The scope of it is about the biggest thing we've ever done or attempted to do.
"It's may be not the best thing to say but I don't know how we'll top it a year later."
Marvel announced Thursday night at New York Comic Con that the new company-wide Secret Wars comic — written by Avengers scribe Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Esad Ribic — will not only affect the entire publishing side when it debuts in the spring but boasts a story that crosses over to digital platforms, introduces new consumer products from various licensees and will work in a synergistic fashion across the Marvel brand.
While
Brevoort only has to worry about the comics, he still jokes it's enough
to give him intestinal distress. "But we are an experienced and crack
fighting storytelling team. It really is a game-changer in as major a
way as you can imagine."
The seeds of Secret Wars have been germinating since Hickman began his run on the Avengers and New Avengers titles in 2012. He took both books eight months into the future last month and kicked off a "Time Runs Out" story line, and "when time runs out, Secret Wars is happening," says Brevoort.
A Secret Wars teaser image painted by Alex Ross shows the possible cosmic ramifications of the event, and it also showcases a variety of characters, from obscure supporting players to different versions of high-profile Avengers such as Iron Man, Hawkeye and the Wasp.
Sam Wilson, the new African-American Captain America, is shown, as is his predecessor Steve Rogers and a woman in familiar star-spangled garb, while the new female Thor is seemingly looking for a rumble with the old Thor — and a third Thor isn't far from the action either.
Brevoort confirms that each one of those versions is an incarnation of those heroes from some point within Marvel's 75-year publishing history. "None of it is random and none of it is brand new."
The Ross image "sort of sums up what we're doing," he adds. "However massive you think this is, let me assure you it is bigger than that. It's by far the craziest thing that I've dealt with."
When the first Secret Wars debuted in 1984, it was earth-shattering at the time for Marvel readers, with the Beyonder plucking all their favorite characters, good and evil, from Earth and taking them to a strange intergalactic place called Battleworld. (The 12-issue maxiseries also spawned a wave of action figures.)
People who have an understanding of what Secret Wars means to Marvel lore will find aspects and elements of the upcoming event that are familiar, Brevoort says. "It's the prototype for doing this kind of story."
Decades later, though, the expectations for an epic like this have grown exponentially.
"Our hope is that as seismic as the original Secret Wars was to the Marvel Universe and the readers, this new Secret Wars will be to the readers of today," Brevoort says.
"People are certainly going to be talking about it 30 years from now."
I would comment on Brevoort but the man is an ass-sucking leach who spits on the tradion and creators who made Marvel what it was before his kind moved in. This just oozes greed...
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY NEW YORK — Marvel Comics' Secret Wars event 30 years ago kicked off the comic-book mega-crossover with the company's greatest heroes and villains.
So in bringing it back as the publisher's major story line of 2015, Marvel is going from simply large in scale to "overwhelmingly huge," says executive editor Tom Brevoort. "The scope of it is about the biggest thing we've ever done or attempted to do.
"It's may be not the best thing to say but I don't know how we'll top it a year later."
Marvel announced Thursday night at New York Comic Con that the new company-wide Secret Wars comic — written by Avengers scribe Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Esad Ribic — will not only affect the entire publishing side when it debuts in the spring but boasts a story that crosses over to digital platforms, introduces new consumer products from various licensees and will work in a synergistic fashion across the Marvel brand.
The seeds of Secret Wars have been germinating since Hickman began his run on the Avengers and New Avengers titles in 2012. He took both books eight months into the future last month and kicked off a "Time Runs Out" story line, and "when time runs out, Secret Wars is happening," says Brevoort.
A Secret Wars teaser image painted by Alex Ross shows the possible cosmic ramifications of the event, and it also showcases a variety of characters, from obscure supporting players to different versions of high-profile Avengers such as Iron Man, Hawkeye and the Wasp.
Sam Wilson, the new African-American Captain America, is shown, as is his predecessor Steve Rogers and a woman in familiar star-spangled garb, while the new female Thor is seemingly looking for a rumble with the old Thor — and a third Thor isn't far from the action either.
Brevoort confirms that each one of those versions is an incarnation of those heroes from some point within Marvel's 75-year publishing history. "None of it is random and none of it is brand new."
The Ross image "sort of sums up what we're doing," he adds. "However massive you think this is, let me assure you it is bigger than that. It's by far the craziest thing that I've dealt with."
When the first Secret Wars debuted in 1984, it was earth-shattering at the time for Marvel readers, with the Beyonder plucking all their favorite characters, good and evil, from Earth and taking them to a strange intergalactic place called Battleworld. (The 12-issue maxiseries also spawned a wave of action figures.)
People who have an understanding of what Secret Wars means to Marvel lore will find aspects and elements of the upcoming event that are familiar, Brevoort says. "It's the prototype for doing this kind of story."
Decades later, though, the expectations for an epic like this have grown exponentially.
"Our hope is that as seismic as the original Secret Wars was to the Marvel Universe and the readers, this new Secret Wars will be to the readers of today," Brevoort says.
"People are certainly going to be talking about it 30 years from now."
I would comment on Brevoort but the man is an ass-sucking leach who spits on the tradion and creators who made Marvel what it was before his kind moved in. This just oozes greed...
Man, is it just me or was the first SECRET WARS just a cheap ploy to sell comics and every new incarnation has sucked on ice.
ReplyDeleteDon´t get me wrong, I LOVE the SECRET WARS II ( I´ll have to continue with that some day on the blog ) because that´s where I began to read american comics on a regular basis and there are just so many really wonderful tie in issues. But the main series was not that good.
And Bendis´ SECRET WAR mini ? Hated it. All the characters were acting strange, in fact it got so bad Bendis had to do SECRET INVASION to explain those were all skrulls.
In any case so far every " new " Secret War has been a disappointment and I don´t expect this one to be the exception to the rule. The original just came out in Germany as part of the Hachette Marvel library but it´s in two parts and if I EVER pay money for that again in hardcover the least they can do is put it in ONE book, okay ? I don´t need two SECRET WARS hardcovers. Really.
Well, Secret Wars was meant to be a comic to promote toys but it created mystery and drama with the "White outs" and heroes/villains vanishing. Hey, it paved the way for Crisis On Infinite Earths...and we know how that turned out! Secret Wars II with the Beyonder was interesting and there were rumours that The New Universe which began with a "White Event" was the work of The Beyonder. No idea if they ever resolved that because selling Marvel to one new boss after another stemmed the flow of creativity that existed from 1964-1990. I did see two issues of Bendis' Secret Wars. That is ALL I am willing to write about "that". But this is Disney now and not Marvel of the 1980s. Disney executives get hard ons looking at prospective sales figures (if kids read this I mean they "get very excited"). Imagine what happened when they saw the movie profits from Marvel characters? Comics -meh. Pitiful earnings BUT merchandise and toys...I wonder how much tranquiliser it took to calm them down. Brevoort has said, on the extras on The Ultimate Avengers dvd that basically "Stan and Jack and the others" were plodding around and not as sophisticated as writers and plotters are today. What those creators did made them THE top comic company and paved the way for the bastard to get his ass licking job. I have no respect for "It" as I like to call him. He is, quite literally, saying in the release Wwe are going to do a cross over series with lots and lots of money-making merchandise that YOU will want and you'll buy it cus yer dumb-asses!" The movies make more than the comics and former X-Men joining an Avengers team means they CAN be used in any movie cus they aint X-Men...they are Avengers. Can I see comics being cancelled or just used as promo material? Yes. This is Di$ney and the ONLY thing that counts is that $ sign. I have both Secret Wars I and II in comic form. You can bet the price of a hardback or paperback is going to shoot up now. I have no problem with a company making money -that is business. But this has gotten worse it's greed, insulting fans and the fans saying "Okay. Gimme more" and when the comics vanish....
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