NYCC 2014: SECRET WARS by Jonathan Hickman in 2015

so who is that above captain falcon? and who is the egyption god looking dude at the bottom? seems to be either alternate realities fighting each other OR past vs present but with miles morales being there im leaning towards the alt reality thing.

In the top right corner...is...is that a clown?

Yeah they will :)

If those characters will not sell copies, they'll just bring back the old guys and reintroduce them with "All-New First Issue" crap.

They might bring back Wolverine on that event :)

It's not for me but it looks awesome for people that are reading the Avengers books.

Who's the clown?

Looks like Marvel's Crisis on Infinite Earths.

stoked on this!

Hickman and his crew will do a great job im sure.
and then after he is finally done with all his Marvel
titles he'll be more free to do what he is personally
better at: his creative-own stories. We all need more
Hickman originals, i say.

Another hero vs. hero event from marvel? Yeah I think ill sit this one out.

You may actually be right. Because the more I think about this event, the more it actually has me worried that Marvel might really be planning to reboot their main Marvel Universe.

Think about it: we have the incursion which, from what little I read in Hickman's Avengers and could be wrong on, is some short of force that will destroy not just the Earth of Earth-616 but other Earths in different universes. This could be why we're seeing an all-out war between different characters from various Earths as they're all fighting for their own world's survival.

The idea itself could lead to Marvel literally whipping away their multiverse, having the "winner" of this war being the rebooted Marvel Universe.

Another repeat of the Secret War event? A multiversal war between the Marvel Universes? The potential of a Marvel Universe reboot? Yeah I'm gonna pass thanks. You jumped on the Crisis of Infinite Earths bandwagon a couple decades late Marvel, a full scale reboot isn't going to go over too well.

Still, with Ross on covers and Ribic on interiors, it may look nice at least. But this just shows the Marvel comics of today aren't the comics I want to be reading. Good thing their movies are consistently solid.

Thought this may be what happened during the 8 months skipped but now have seen picture not sure. Looks a bit too "and then the heroes fight" to me but its Hickman so sure I'll be brilliant and added bonus Ribic on art.

Hate to be THAT guy, but the Secret Wars name has been used a lot. I think they should've used another name to separate it from the original Secret Wars & Bendis' Secret Wars. But I digress. If this does lead to a reboot, I hope it fixes some of the things that have been done to major, iconic Marvel characters, I don't have to mention their names. At this point, I'm cool with that idea, as long as they don't reboot the Winter Soldier, Star-Lord or Rocket Raccoon I'm fine. (Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier, Legendary Star-Lord & Rocket Raccoon are the only books I'm reading concurrently, & picking up Angela: AA when it comes out.) If they do a reboot however, I feel it might be to make things closer to the MCU, & the characters I mentioned will be excluded since they're already pretty close to their movie counterparts. Maybe GOTG will get a better writer, not picking on Bendis but the book could be so much better; love the characters but the team would be much better in other hands. Not exactly a reboot fan, but if that's what's in the cards..well, them's the brakes, kid, gotta roll with it. As long as the characters are still recognizable as the characters I know & love & have the same values, I'm cool.

Moving on, it's awesome to see Mar-Vell in that pic, done by the talented Mr. Ross. Been reading Starlin's Captain Marvel lately, man I miss Mar-Vell, so seeing the good Captain in that pic made me smile a bit. And as always, Ross' art is fantastic.

That was obvivios from the beginning of the incursions, heh.

I don't see the point of doing a hard reboot other than to make it easier for the writers so they won't have to worry with continuity. Some characters (Spider-man for one) might benefit from having their stories rebooted in a soft reboot sort of way, but it would be a lose for the entire Marvel Universe to be rebooted.

He-he-heh. What if Great Destroyer will be called Anti-Tribunal or Unliving Tribunal?)

+1

Reboot!! Reboot!Save Daredevil

Rabum Alal, the Great Destroyer?

yep, that's what im getting out of it. I think by the end of this event some people are going to be pissed b/c Marvel really wants Spider-man in their cinematic franchise i noticed that Miles got a pretty big spot on that art. I wouldnt be surprise if Miles become the main spider at the end of this.

Edit: Also i think a reboot would benefit the villains of Marvel b/c as of now Marvel seem to throw their bad guys by the waste side.

Sadly our man DD needs a reboot

I will riot

So, good ol' Marvel vs crappy new Marvel? 3 guesses who I'm rooting for.

That reminds me, did the original X-Men ever get sent back to the past?

this

Hickman has been amazing with his Avengers run, so I'm all over this.

@daredevil21134: From what?

If I'm reading that image right, and I like to think that I am, this looks like Crisis on Infinite Earth meets Civil War (ugh, not again :-/) meets Secret Wars ? But is like Secret Wars 3, isn't it?

Lol @ no XMEN, Fantastic Four or original 616 Spider-Man being included in this massive event....I swear MARVEL has turned into a bunch of junior high school girls *smh*

Why use the Secret Wars name again? It's already been used a few times.

is anyone aware of the fact that dc has an event like this going on right now called futures end ?

That clown it the corner....some please tell me that is NOT Obnoxio The Clown?!...Please say that is not him!

I see Miles Morales on the "current" side. Probably an outcome of Spider-verse? I wonder if he'll come over to the main U or if Miles might die and Peter takes over his suit as tribute. I feel like the latter would not go over well. And if something ELSE happens to Peter being Spider-Man I'm really gonna be annoyed

Well Im only excited because Hickman new-avengers/avengers run has been setting this up for ages... if it was any other writers i would't care

Are people reading a different article than me? It only states series and event is nowhere mentioned in this.

Is this going try and fix the damage done by Age of Ultron or something?

It doesn't need to be said, with a name like secret ways it's going to be called an event.

@captainmarvel4ever:

I wonder if this is going to lead to the rumored reboot.

More importantly though Another Event! C'mon Marvel.

This^^. These people make me angry.:(

Infinite crisis.

On the poster the Hulk looks pretty insignificant. And a universe/dimension wide event without Reed Richards just seems wrong.

That's the wrong Cap in that pic...

I've never read secret wars. Should I check it out?

Anyone else see Iron Man Noir O.o

On this side

<,<

Lots of Iron Mans

Falcon's in it.

I am DOWN with this thing.....if they don't have Superior Iron-Man fight Pre-Douche Iron Man i WILL be dissapointed

How is it every time an event is announced people start screaming of a Marvel reboot? And it never happens. And certain characters are not in the one press picture released, so all of a sudden Marvel is not using them anymore. I'm pretty sure their is an event going on right now featuring the Avengers AND the X-Men. So please stop all the reboot, or Marvel wants to devalue the X-Men and Fantastic Four talk. Until they actually do it, there is no real evidence they are going too. Reconning certain things is not the same as a New 52 style reboot at all. And cancelling all the X-Men and Fantastic Four books is not common sense, cause it will not get the movie rights back. That being said, as good as this looks, I hope its a series, not a huge crossovers to every book event. Marvel really is getting carried away with the events. But they seem to make money, so I guess it's hard to blame them.

You know what's real interesting? Notice how none of the properties Marvel can make movies out of are there. No 616 Spidey, FF, or X-Men.

@meatwadf: I've been telling everyone, Marvels going to reboot them out of continuity. Just watch.

@micah: I'm not sure about that, but hey, you never know. When serious money is on the line, anything is possible. Heh