so is Secret Wars basically New 52?
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all this new Secret Wars series don't make any sense to me... r they just re-imagining everything?
sounds like I won't be reading Marvel, as well as DC, pretty soon
sounds like I won't be reading Marvel, as well as DC, pretty soon
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We'll know in a few months.
So... MANY... Secret Wars mini series. I can't possibly afford to get my regular monthly haul and the ones that I want (and that is only a fraction of what Marvel is pumping out). I know that Marvel is postponing some of their regular titles until after the "event" (with anticipated relaunches), Avengers for example, but OMG... there is so, so much.
Worlds will live. Worlds will die.
And the Marvel Universe will never be the same!
But the thing it is also doing, which is different than AofA or House of M, which were like big "What If?s" is that all these minis are meant to be returns to some of the greatest hits, as far as stand out stories or Marvel 'Elseworlds' of the past. It is like a giant summer stadium show with a lineup of nostalgia acts like Marvel Zombies, Old Man Logan, 1602, Age of Apocalypse, etc.
It seems like a smart approach-- the main Secret Wars story-- essentially the multiversal crisis story-- is the payoff that Hickman has been building towards for years. But instead of a series of minis that have to find a way to tie into his story, without being essential beats in the main story (and, in past events, those are sometimes really stretched connections) instead they will sell you some riffs on greatest hits that you already like. And it may be that some of these are sort of self-contained in their own piece of Battleworld. So there is less of an effort of having those stories have to be in dialogue with the more "important" main story, sometimes at the expense of the self-contained story.
It's a smart, and shrewd model. I probably won't buy much of it in print, but I look forward to binging on a lot of this via Marvel Unlimited a year from now.
As for whether this is meant to be like the New 52, with Secret Wars being the Flashpoint? I don't think so. I mean, again, we'll know for sure later, but my guess is no. Maybe they might use this clash of worlds to make some nips, tucks, and little bits of rebranding (the sort of changes and soft reboots they are doing all the time). But I don't think they will make this a grand throwing out of a lot of books that are actually selling. They don't need to. They simply aren't in the position that DC was in pre-New 52. So I wouldn't see the upside in a line-wide reboot.
It could be a misdirect.
Marvel are masters at public relations.
Potential spoilage has become preferable to spending money on piles of disappointing comics.
Countdown/Final Crisis was my last straw.
Grodd help me.