What is Marvel's SECRET EMPIRE All About? [Update]

@eto: HAHAH, why haven't I seen this before?

This event is going to be so garbage lol.

I'm so over the cryptic shit. Just annouce the event all at once, nothing is gained by just drip drip dripping the info. Also, Marvel could learn a thing or two from the way DC is doing events now. Small, mostly self contained, done in a month/month and a half. Oh, and not having heroes fight each other, every. Damn. Time.

@kevinwalsh: Event fatigue aside as a valid argument. People here like almost all of the forums on the internet are too outrageous in their outrage. It has to be really bad having Marvel holding you all at gun point and forcing you to buy this event (which we know close to nothing about yet) or risk having Cap leave a horse's head in your bed.

Nick Spencer and Jesus Saiz have done a great job so far and i want to see the next phase of their plan. I'm intrigued.

I'm starting to wonder if Marvel picks their teams by pulling names out of a hat.

Looks like another event I will skip.

Another convoluted event. I give up. Nobody in that damned Marvel office is listening.

P.s...that promo art is shamefully awful. Shame, Marvel. Shame. They all look like bitmojis.

The first pic state "united we stand"

Why Marvel? You are freaking about 0-2 issues in different runs into "divided we stand" so why doing this? It is to freaking soon

Oh look, it's everyone who's going to be in an upcoming movie.

I think most here are just tired of all the events following each other without them completing not one but two events as of now. Also I think most of the sales Marvel is making are probably not from people commenting.

Not that I will be reading this (because I typically do not want events and hope they stop making them) and I understand CV and comic fans in general are fairly negative, but man, the negativity in here is way over the normal levels. Maybe you'll all finally stop buying these and send the message they will actually get ($$$) because I assure you, the Marvel executives aren't reading your comments.

Lmfao. Same whiners whining over an Event comic they don't supposedly care about but still manage to post in threads about said Event comic. 90% of you crybabies will buy this series so do everyone a favor and stop buying them if you want to show Marvel you are sick of them.

Marvel is horrible at listening to fan feedback.

Slow down with the damn events...

We just finished one terrible event, we barely started another one, we got introduced to a new one that will start in a month or two and now we get teased by yet another event.

Take a freaking breather.

Lmfao. Same whiners whining over an Event comic they don't supposedly care about but still manage to post in threads about said Event comic. 90% of you crybabies will buy this series so do everyone a favor and stop buying them if you want to show Marvel you are sick of them.

Considering DC is stomping Marvel in the sales currently, that's exactly what the people are doing. Now instead of creating this ironic ouroboros where people always whine about other people whining and it goes in circles endlessly, you show those people how you're the bigger man/woman and move on from those said "whiners".

@captainmarvel4ever: thank you

@atheistknowledge: Agree with your message about taking the high road.

But DC was on top of sales for 4 months June through September then Marvel has been on top again since October and December's numbers just came out and Marvel is again ahead of DC on unit market share (can be messed with and both DC "returnability" and Marvel "overshipping" do) and also in Dollar market share. Now Dollar market share can't be played with and in that Marvel is ahead

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So i think people are loving Rebirth as they should but it's not at the expense of Marvel right now.

@jesusdisciple001 said:

@eto: You sir have won the internet today. ; )

Seconded.

Marvel Comics needs to be buried in the same hole that Atari's "ET" cartridges are consigned. I have'nt bought a comic in well over a decade, and this is the reason why. Un-orignal, hamfisted, hacks, posing as writers and editors. Jack Kirby is petitioning God right now to come back to earth.

Αnother event...Great....Where's the new blood??(Riri,Khamala,Miles e.t.c.)

@jloneblackheart: It's probably not the people here that are buying these events and I think at some point, people just become completely frustrated.

Yeah, I've been trying to figure what on Earth would get these nine disparate characters together ever since I saw that god awful promo pic. Rocket hates Earth to his guts, Wolverine has no reason be chummy with Blackbolt, Blackbolt has no reason to get mixed up with this, Spider-man is there because his heroic in general and Cap, Cap Marvel and Black widow are Avengers and I guess so is Deadpool...

Oh well. crap is crap. I guess or at least the art is 100% crap. Can't say anything about writing yet but it isn't looking good.

Meh^9000.

Cheesy event aside...what's with the terrible art? Who green-lit that garbage? It looks like a 4th grader drew it and a professional colored it in.

I haven't bought an event since Secret Wars. Seeing this art? This may be a new low for Marvel. Pointless repetitive action from CW2, idiotic fighting from genocidal people thinking they're heroes in IvX, and now shit art? Wouldn't be surprised if the story is bad and pointless.

What this Secret Empire i about? Well, my realy simple gues it that:

Captain Hydra is up to eliminate everyone (on that picture and their associates) and everything that could be either threat to his agenda or unwanted competition (coughCarrol Danvers aka. Captain Fascist, coughBlack Bolt and Inhuman scum, cough cough).

But i have feeling that read deal will NOT gonna be that easy:(

Ps. Marvel should realy rename Captain America: Steve Rogers title (and character) into: Captain Hydra. Realy, that thing in it isnt Captain America and/or definitlelly NOT Steve Rogers.

Events have lost all meaning for Marvel at this point.

That's what I was going to say too. It's pretty bad.

That's the worst Blackbolt I've ever seen, and Carol looks like Mother Russia from Kick-Ass 2, with even more forehead.

@owie: Yeah it sucks. John Cassaday must've been in a sleepy or in a hurry. His art was never that great anyway.

Hope he's not the artist for the books too. Jesus Saiz or someone better should do it.

i'm afraid of reading those terrible puns in those teasers

I give every event a chance I appreciate the risks that marvel takes

His work in Astonishing X-Men was so beautiful...but when he phones it in, he phones it in hard.

That artist cannot draw heads at all.

please don't ruin Old Man Logan

lol so true

I wouldn't say better, although I like him more and his comic isn't boring like the current Amazing Spider-Man comics are.

@mrkareemruiz: LMAO. I haven't laughed so hard in a bit of a while. Thanks, dude.

I'm glad to see Peter at the front, hopefully this event will give him a nice, strong role. Thank god Bendis isn't writing this!

@blackspidey2099: I love your optimism man... So let's hope it will at least be entertaining and maybe even good despite all signs pointing south atm.

I didn't partake in civil war II, i knew it was just another cash grab. I only grabbed 2 of the side titles.

As far as these secret empire teases go,it's probably another lame event teased til til the summer event starts.

We currently have Inhumans vs X-men, clone conspiracy and monsters unleashed is starting very soon. Do they really need another event this soon ????

@thunderscream: It's really the editors fault. I guess none of them knew how to say no or do it again.

I'm guessing the ones who buy it are not as vocal, or the types who don't frequent message boards. I have not followed a Marvel event in a long time. I think the last one I followed was Secret Wars, but I kind of had to do that to understand what was going to happen. Before that was Age of Ultron, and before that I think was World War Hulk.

Or at least he could be called Captain Murica lol

The art on that teaser is horrible.

@sinikettu: Haha, thanks. So far, I think Cap's title has been written pretty well, so I'm hoping the event won't be another Civil War II. If it is, though, I'll probably be one of the first to start bashing on it...

This, and I hope they won't shove the bad rip off down our throats (Miles Morals).

I love the Marvel Universe and their characters but I don't love what Marvel do to their Universe or to their characters.

#bringbackSentryallisforgiven

@spiderhyphenman said:

@kevinwalsh: Event fatigue aside as a valid argument. People here like almost all of the forums on the internet are too outrageous in their outrage. It has to be really bad having Marvel holding you all at gun point and forcing you to buy this event (which we know close to nothing about yet) or risk having Cap leave a horse's head in your bed.

Nick Spencer and Jesus Saiz have done a great job so far and i want to see the next phase of their plan. I'm intrigued.

I avoid events, but then the event runs through a book I read like Spider-man or Ms. Marvel, and I'm forced to either skip my regular books for a while to avoid the event, or read it and be confused. It kind of breaks the flow of the series. It's not always the issue of having to buy it, it's that it's interrupting other series.

That artwork looks terrible

@moogman13: Oh yeah Marvel is on full events lalaplooza and it can and does destroy the momentum on many books with stupid tie-ins. CW2 is guilty of that.

Many writers don't know how to approach it but some are better at it than others. Bendis on Spider-man just didn't make it work but Duggan made fun of it in Deadpool, Ewing explained the whole concept better than Bendis did in his event (sadly). Spencer had an awesome tie-in with Cap Steve Rogers sneaky behind the scenes work.

The best one was Wilson on Ms. Marvel. Those tie ins are one of the best books i read last year especially the high school science competition between Miles and Kamala. Wilson is a great writer.

But i digress, those are more of the minority. Many tie-ins can be very much crap with events.

Anyway I hope this event is good as i'm enjoying the main series by Spencer and i hope the tie-ins are kept to a minimum.

This writing is like Hello Giggles. Very shitty writing this article. I'm not impressed by the staff. Understand my thing. U can do better, men at ur job.

@heavyone Maybe Professor X gets resurrected here. Empire is connected to his Illuminati group. Villains, like Zemo are involved. A blast will occur.