Lobsterman Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) So, since announcing Hickman's Secret Wars story for next summer, Marvel has also teased slightly tweaked imagery for Civil War, House of M, Armor Wars, Days of Future Past, and now Infinity Gauntlet. I'm starting to wonder if all of the timeline wrecking stories over the past couple years are leading up to a big DC-style hard reboot of the MU, so they can retell all of the major events from the past couple decades and bring all of the characters and editorial more in line with the movie universe. Edited October 21, 2014 by Lobsterman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I'm starting to wonder if all of the timeline wrecking stories over the past couple years are leading up to a big DC-style hard reboot of the MU, so they can retell all of the major events from the past couple decades and bring all of the characters and editorial more in line with the movie universe.If so, then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zexion_Armando Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I'm thinking they are just retellings of those events for reconsumption. I'm assuming Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, Fear Itself, Siege, Onslaught, maybe Age of Apocaylpse will be shown off for the remainder of this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kostisfire Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I'd looooove to see a new spin on Dark Reign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellpop Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Just a guess here... but it could be just an empty gimmick to drive comic book sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkguerilla Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 So, since announcing Hickman's Secret Wars story for next summer, Marvel has also teased slightly tweaked imagery for Civil War, House of M, Armor Wars, Days of Future Past, and now Infinity Gauntlet. I'm starting to wonder if all of the timeline wrecking stories over the past couple years are leading up to a big DC-style hard reboot of the MU, so they can retell all of the major events from the past couple decades and bring all of the characters and editorial more in line with the movie universe. Honestly that seems like the most rational way for Marvel to do a line-wide reboot. Keep all the events, just change the details to make them more modern. Rational, but incredibly stupid. Let's just hope this is another effort from Marvel to break the internet and it ends up being a purely superficial event that gets forgotten after 6 months. That said, I would be really interested to see how they would redo Fear Itself. That storyline had nothing but promise and ended up being one of the worst things ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) I don't even... These don't need to be redone. None of those need to be redone. At all. Now, if Marvel wants to issue something like Absolute Hardcovers of these events with some tie-ins, revisiting, bonus items, etc, that'd be ok (although it's pretty clearly not what they're doing). Edited October 21, 2014 by Turtle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kostisfire Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) I don't think people have gotten the point (generally speaking, as I see lots of folk swearing and cursing on various comic forums about how Marvel is out of ideas and all that). They aren't re-doing them. Secret Wars will run for all of 2015 and it'll feature a lot of fights between the different universes. These teasers just show other universes where things went a bit different. They're just trying to hype it, that's all. Edited October 21, 2014 by Kostisfire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 That's certainly better than straight-up redos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stack32 Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I think Kostis is right that people are generally misinterpreting what Marvel is doing here, but I'd also say it's a pretty good indication that they absolutely are out of ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediJohnson Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 It sounds like fun to me, which is what I want out of comics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny B Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Old Man Logan is up next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 They'll stop just before they get to Amalgam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessex Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Aaaaaaand now Age of Apocalypse.... Hmmmm - if this means a chance at AoA Storm, Colossus, Bishop, Quicksilver, Nightcrawler, Gambit, Iceman etc.... then bring it on! But if it means more watered down AoA nonsense that sullies the joy of the original event, then shut it down. I suspect it will be more of the latter than the former :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekker 42 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Yaknow, I'm actually excited about Old Man Logan. I love love LOVE that storyline and as long as they keep faithful to that world, I'd like a continuation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Collector Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 I wonder if they are going to go near the Clone Saga, or just try to ignore it happened. Their ability to do so may be hampered by the current Spidey event (which looks really fun btw). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobsterman Posted November 3, 2014 Author Share Posted November 3, 2014 http://www.comicvine.com/articles/marvel-teases-x-men-92-from-the-animated-series/1100-150285/ I… don't know how to feel about this. On one hand, I know it represents a very important, nostalgic and beloved era in X-men history for a lot of people. On the other hand, I've grown to view that era, for comics in general, as having engaged in some of the worst excesses of promotional marketing (hologram covers, trading cards, complete control of the content by essentially poster artists) at the expense of good writing. It's like, the X-men cartoon was "good" because you loved it as a kid, but it wasn't actually good good. It was like eating frosting straight out of the can. The Jim Lee era was kind of like that, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 You're right. The '90s were terrible. The excess announcements are worrying me more than anything else at the moment. I was hoping that X-Men DOFP story with Art Adams would be a big event, but apparently it's not going to be anything special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pappymojo Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Just because its not a big event doesnt mean it wont be special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Just because its not a big event doesnt mean it wont be special. I've heard that line before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zexion_Armando Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 They released a new teaser for Secret Wars. Idont have a link, but it shows most of the main 616'ers: Doom, Cyclops, Jeen, Capt. Marvel, tchalla, Black Bolt, Star Lord, Spidey, and others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Interestingly, Reed Richards is on that cover, and a guy that looks like Johnny Storm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemosis Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 I'm nervous about the core event here. All signs suggest a reboot, and I never really wanted that from Marvel. It's never quite worked for DC, and I don't see HOW this could pan out any better. If you cherry pick what you like most from the past fifty years and distill it into one continuity, someone will come along and introduce NEW alternate realities. If you split everything off and give every different take its own place in the multiverse, someone will come along and throw neighboring worlds into the blender together. What DOES excite me are the tie-ins... revisiting these stories and worlds in light of this new event seems like a lot of fun to me. Now, there IS one end result I could get behind... in 1963 we started reading about a marvel universe we've come to know as the 616. But... after all the time travel and alternate realities and whatnot... is that STILL the world were reading about? I say keep the current continuity going, but have our modern heroes discover the TRUE 616, populated with a Steve Rogers who never died, a Tony Stark who was never replaced by his teenage self, a married Spider-Man, and so forth. Give us a Marvel Earth-2 with classic iterations of our heroes to mirror the more modern deviations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00jelwes Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 I've got such event fatigue, can't we just wait a few years before a new one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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