Tag: Secret Wars

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows Ongoing Coming to Marvel NOW!

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It was recently announced that the popular Secret Wars mini is to become a new ongoing in the new Marvel NOW! relaunch, to be written by Gerry Gonway with art by Ryan Stegman. It looks like it might be in regular continuity after Secret Wars. Renew Your Vows was the Secret Wars series that saw Peter Parker, Mary Jane and their daughter May Annie from a parallel universe where they remained married. It was very, very popular, The big bad, Regent was also somehow resurrected in the standard Marvel universe…

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The Original THOR Returns In New UNWORTHY THOR

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After being largely off the playing field for the past two years, the original Thor is returning for “Marvel NOW!” ongoing series titled The Unworthy Thor. According to io9, the series “will follow the god’s escape and captivity – revealed to be at the hands of none other than cosmic archiver the Collector – and his journey to becoming a hero once more.” Long-time Thor writer Jason Aaron will be on The Unworthy Thor, joined by returning Thor artist Olivier Coipel. “I’ve always written him as a guy who wakes…

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Who Is Marvel’s Beyonder And Battle World?

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I just read New Avengers 29 and found out as other readers did that the Beyonders will play a part in the new Battle World coming soon and the remaking of the Marvel Universe. As you can see from the cover is the Beyonder from the original Secret Wars series toying with Yellowjacket. And at the end of the comic book is another version of Beyonder enities from the Beyond Realm. They followed Hank Pym to earth and meet the Avengers, Hank called them the Ivory Kings and The White…

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Marvel Secret Wars Live Kick Off

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This May, time has run out and Secret Wars, the landmark eight-issue event, is ready to shake the very foundations of the Marvel Universe as you know it. But first, on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 3 PM ET, we’re hosting the ground breaking SECRET WARS LIVE KICKOFF! Fans can head to Marvel.com/secretwars to get their very first Secret Wars info straight from Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso and SVP, Executive Editor Tom Brevoort streaming live from New York City’s own Midtown Comics next week! Prepare for the coming of a…

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Is the Marvel Universe Changing?

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DC Comics in 1938, with Action Comics #1, launched the original comic book super hero universe. They introduced Superman, the Man of Steel, the Last Son of Krypton, the Man of Tomorrow. Very soon afterwards they introduced Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Hawkman, the Flash and more. Then, in All Star Comics #3, they took the boldest step yet and introduced the Justice Society of America and with that created a shared universe. Over the course of the next fifty years, the DCU expanded exponentially and one world was no…

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Spider-Man: “Renew Your Vows” Summer 2015 teaser

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This past Tuesday afternoon Spider-Man writer Dan Slott tweeted this warning to Marvel readers: “Set your watch. Your next Spider-Man related freak out is on the way.” Slott wasn’t just whistling Dixie. Marvel has premiered their latest “Summer 2015” teaser (which we’re still convinced are all related to Secret Wars) and it’s another callback to an iconic and now controversial moment in Spider-Man history – his wedding to Mary Jane Watson in 1987’s Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21, undone in 2007’s One More Day storyline … but with a twist. The…

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