Future Imperfect | Marvel Teasers 2015

bralinator

One of the more memorable Hulk stories I've read, Peter David and George Pérez’s Future Imperfect tale from 1993 saw the green goliath transported a 100 years into a dystopian future ruled by an even more powerful version of himself called the Maestro, and in complete control of his Bruce Banner mind.

Hickman’s New Avengers run has been slowly revealing itself to be a play on DC’s Crisis On Infinite Earths, and such a structure would facilitate the return to these imperfect worlds and the other storylines referenced in Marvel’s 2015 teaser campaign.

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bralinator

Mr_Cosmic

I wonder if each one of these will actually have their own book or if we'll just be seeing them represented in the Secret War story?

bralinator

This seems to be where it all leads... as ambiguous as it appears in this promotional video, I am thinking that somehow Secret Wars will be battles between the protagonists of each of these alternate realities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoN7SyWJCJI

David_D

bralinator said:

This seems to be where it all leads... as ambiguous as it appears in this promotional video, I am thinking that somehow Secret Wars will be battles between the protagonists of each of these alternate realities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoN7SyWJCJI

Looks fun. It looks like in this case, instead of a Battleworld that is an arbitrary, mostly empty place-- like a video game level that hasn't been built out enough-- they are instead taking some greatest hit stories, and fun settings (and alternate timelines/ continuities) and laying those down on a map. So that, say, Planet Hulk becomes a place that borders some other place, or What If? sort of timeline.

So in this case, instead of selling a toy line, it might introduce new or new(ish) readers to some greatest hits from the backlist.

We'll see. But I'm game to give it a try. Especially with that creative team.

Webhead

bralinator said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoN7SyWJCJI

"WORLDS WILL LIVE, WORLDS WILL DIE..."

Mr_Cosmic

I like that World War Hulk is right next to Future Imperfect.

DoctorDoom

bralinator said:

This seems to be where it all leads... as ambiguous as it appears in this promotional video, I am thinking that somehow Secret Wars will be battles between the protagonists of each of these alternate realities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoN7SyWJCJI

So a better version of DC's Countdown: Arena?

bralinator

David_D said:

So in this case, instead of selling a toy line, it might introduce new or new(ish) readers to some greatest hits from the backlist.

We'll see. But I'm game to give it a try. Especially with that creative team.

"This is the dream that video games are made from..."

Or maybe they'll be releasing some of these old trades with new coverart and dressing.