Secret Wars (2015) [Marvel]

[The Twilight Mexican]

Glad to hear that! I'll be looking forward to your reviews (and I expect them to be detailed! =P).

On the other side of enthusiasm, the latest title announced is one I'm not sure I could give less of a shit about: Chris Burnham and Ramon Villalobos's "E is for Extinction"

This one is apparently about an alternate universe where mutants became first-class citizens while baseline humanity admired them, and is loosely based on the Grant Morrison era of the X-Men. And I don't give the slightest fuck.

Not that it was bad, mind you, but Morrison's era (across all the X-books; not just the one he wrote; this was also when Chuck Austen was writing "Uncanny X-Men," and while the first volume of "X-Treme X-Men" was being published) is probably my least favorite era of the X-Men. Again, Morrison's part in it wasn't bad or anything like that, and it's probably second in significance for the franchise only to when Chris Claremont came on board, but it was just never my thing.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

The next title announced isn't really a new one per se: "Guardians of Knowhere," by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato.

It's essentially just the regular ongoing book for the 616 Guardians of the Galaxy, but with a slightly different title. Whatever the case, it's being counted among the "Secret Wars" tie-ins.

Speaking of which, we have some good news about those: There's only going to be nine more of them, thank God. It can also be guessed what eight of them are likely related to thanks to those teasers from back in October -- there haven't been any titles announced related to the teasers featuring "House of M," "Civil War," "X-Men '92," "Age of Apocalypse," "Years of Future Past," "Armor Wars," "A vs. X" or "Renew Your Vows."

They're also apparently going for 41 tie-ins, which is the same as the number of domains on the map (well, there's technically 44 domains since Manhattan has four sub-domains ... or is it technically 43 since one "domain" is a giant wall?), the names for three of which remain classified at the moment. We were previously told by Tom Brevoort that there will be at least one title touching on every domain, and Marvel has already confirmed elsewhere that the following domains will relate to these teasers, though titles have not yet been announced:

The Warzone - "Civil War"
The Regency - "Renew Your Vows"
Marville - "A vs. X"
Westchester - "X-Men '92"

They've also confirmed that Egyptia is a domain based on the "Forever Yesterday" storyline seen in "The New Warriors" back in the early 90s; King James' England is from the world of "1602"; New Mars is from a universe where Killraven is still fighting the Martians; the Eye of Agamotto is -- surprise! -- Dr. Strange's abode; The Hydra Empire belongs to -- bigger surprise! -- Hydra; New Hala Field is home to the Carol Corps; the Valley of Flame is Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur's home; and New Quack City is from Howard the Duck's world. And Marvel has further confirmed that the "Earth X," MC2 and New Universe realities will be represented.

Oddly, though, we have no books to match up with these dangling domains and realities -- though we can probabaly safely guess that Howard the Duck's own ongoing series will take care of New Quack City with virtually no interruption to that title.

We can also rather safely infer that the Domain of Apocalypse is related to the "Age of Apocalypse" teaser; Technopolis is related to the teaser for "Armor Wars"; the Sentinel Territories go with the "Years of Future Past" teaser; the Monarchy of M is for "House of M" (that covers the domains for all the teasers); "Spider-Island" is in some way based off the "Spider-Island" storyline from a few years ago; and Higher Avalon is related to Captain Britain.

We've no idea, though, which domains will be the settings for "Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde," "Runaways," "Thors," "Ghost Racers," "X-Tinction Agenda" and "1872." The premises for those first three lend themselves well to multiple domains anyway (maybe "Ghost Racers" also does), but the latter two will definitely require a fixed location.

So, we've got a lot of information sorted through, and we can safely infer a lot of things, but there's still some mysteries here -- but not a lot of tie-ins left to address them, it seems.

I would say we'll know everything by the end of this month, though.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

I would say we'll know everything by the end of this month, though.

If that's a case, you should make a masterlist, and we can figure out who here's planning on following what.


Also, Guardians of Knowhere will be one that I'll be taking up, since I'm following GotG and plan on continuing to do so.



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[The Twilight Mexican]

I will get to work on that master list soon.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

You're a gentleman & a scholar.




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[The Twilight Mexican]

Oh, for God's sake: Gerry Duggan's "Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos"

Can't pass hard enough.

No interest in this either: Skottie Young's "Giant-Size Little Marvel: Avengers vs. X-Men"

I suppose I should be grateful Marvel will let me hang onto some more dollars, what with wasting two of the last nine announcements on these.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Try not to saturate your undies too much, Tenny: "Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps," written by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Kelly Thompson with pencils by David Lopez. Looks like an alternate universe's Carol, though. Pass.

Also: Marc Guggenheim and Carlos Pacheco's "Squadron Sinister." More interested in this than the other, but still -- yet another Hyperion? Seriously? Probably gonna pass.

 

[Tennyo]

I saw that on Facebook. :3

Hype traaaaaiiiin!

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Was in no rush to post about yesterday's announcement 'cause disappointed: Marguerite Bennett and Mike Norton's "Years of Future Past"

When I thought it was going to be about Rachel Summers's home reality (Earth-811) and might feature a resolution with Ahab (who escaped during the start of "AXIS"), I was looking forward to it. Yet another alternate reality altogether, though, so I'm going to pass.

The art looks amazing, though.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

And no sooner have I made that post than James Robinson and Marcio Takara's "Armor Wars" is revealed. This one isn't really jumping out at me either, but I'm not annoyed at it, at least.

So, with that, there's only five teasers from October left to announce titles for ("House of M," "Civil War," "Age of Apocalypse," "X-Men '92" and "Renew Your Vows") -- but only three spots left for May and June tie-ins? There also hasn't been a title announced for the Spider-Island domain, and the three domains marked "Classified" have yet to be revealed.

I suppose one or more of those remaining teasers and domains could be featured in something like "Secret Wars: Battleworld" or "Secret Wars Journal," but I really expect the remaining teasers to get their own titles, as all the others have.

Could just be that a couple of them launch in July, I guess, or "Renew Your Vows" may take place in the existing Spider-Man book. We'll know soon at least.

 

[Super Mario]

I'm watching out for Ultron vs. Zombies and Armor wars. Is Tony Stark still evil as 'Superior Iron Man' or someshit till now? I miss old fun tony...

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

He's still inverted right now, yeah. Who knows when that will end.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

MAY THE FAITHFUL REJOICE

"X-Men '92," by the creative team of Chris Sims, Chad Bowers (co-writers) and Scott Koblish

A must-have for me. I have no idea who the creative team is, mind you, and I'm a little sad the print version will be a month behind the digital-first edition (why?!?!?!), but I will absolutely be getting this one.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Digital-first is advantageous for me, so I'm just all around excited here.



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[Tennyo]

Details for Renew Your Vows.

Boom yeah I got one!

 

[Ryushikaze]

Hey, little May Parker exists again! This might not suck after all.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Details for Renew Your Vows.

Boom yeah I got one!

Perhaps the one that mattered most.

Obviously this will be another alternate universe, but the fact that this mini-series is taking the place of the main Spidey title for a few months and that Slott promises it will have a lasting significance for the character are both really good signs.

Hell, even without either of those things, I'd buy this as a statement about "One More Day."



We got one other announcement today, by the way: "1602: Witch Hunter Angela," written by Marguerite Bennett and Kieron Gillen with Stephanie Hans penciling. I can't help but love the combining of two Neil Gaiman concepts into one here, the central idea is interesting, and this could end up being the actual 1602 reality -- and yet ... and yet I'm not ready to commit to this one for some reason.

I don't know why. Oh well, I have time to figure it out and change my mind.

Didn't expect this series, by the way. At this point, I won't even try to predict what's left to be announced. We still have three teasers from last fall ("Civil War," "House of M" and "Age of Apocalypse") left to do something with, but beyond that ... I have no idea where they might go next.

 

[Tennyo]

Spoiler: Scottie Young Renew Your Vows #1 variant

D'aww

 

[Super Mario]

I'm glad they're fixing this fuck up Quesada did.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I'm glad they're fixing this fuck up Quesada did.

Yeah, though I have my doubts they'll be reversing the deal with Mephisto. What I expect is the kid will stick around while her parents die or something like that.

Our Pete and MJ will likely end up with her somehow or other, and while not together at the end of this, have the bond of this kid whom they will both take responsibility for.




In other "Secret Wars" news, the "Age of Apocalypse" teaser from last fall became a real announcement yesterday -- the AoA series will be written by Fabian Nicieza and illustrated by Gerardo Sandoval.

I wasn't sure if I would get this one until the announcement came. With Nicieza writing, I will have to -- he was my favorite X-books writer of the 90s, and is possibly my favorite X-book writer ever. He was also one of the writers on the original AoA event (he wrote "Gambit and the X-Ternals," as well as "Amazing X-Men").

I'm not sure whether this one is planned as a mini-series or what, though.

 

[Super Mario]

You know what I wanna see the most? Age of Ultron vs. Age of Apocalypse. Simple rules: WHO CAN END THE WORLD FASTER! ?

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Charles Soule and Leinil Francis Yu's "Civil War" is the latest tie-in to be announced.

Obviously we're past nine remaining titles at this point, so that was just for the May and June announcements. We still have three domains on the Battleworld map marked "Classified," and they'll probably be getting titles of their own. We also still have one teaser from the fall yet to have its title announced ("House of M").

Odd that it's going to be the last of those teased to get an announcement. I really thought "Civil War" would be the last one, coming even after the classified domains were unveiled. It's the one with movie name recognition after all.

I figure we have one more week for announcements to go at this point. We'll probably get the "House of M" title announced Monday, the names of the three classified domains announced on Tuesday with the weekly update of the Battleworld map, and then a daily title announcement for each of those Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

I'll get started on that tie-in master list this weekend.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Latest announcement: "Hail Hydra" by Rick Remender and Roland Boschi.

That breeze you just felt was me passing on this one.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Al Ewing and Alan Davis's two-part mini-series "Captain Britain & The Mighty Defenders" is the latest to join the fray

And the latest not to catch my attention. =P

Come on, Marvel. Where's the chase and how do I cut to it?

 

[Roger]

I appreciate wanting to give Faiza another go but that does not make a pitch. what's up with the rest of team, what time's this taking place.