With Avengers: Secret Wars on the not-so-distant horizon — projected to be launched in 2026 — each Marvel followers and newcomers alike have had purpose to Google the phrase “Secret Wars.” A number of comedian guide occasions have borne that title, most not too long ago in 2015, however now Marvel Comics is able to meet followers within the current day. On Wednesday, the corporate introduced an upcoming four-issue collection known as Final Invasion that picks up the place 2015’s Secret Wars left off, and can maybe supply extra clues as to the place the MCU may lead after its personal Secret Wars.
Final Invasion additionally indicators the surprising return of the Final Universe, an alt-universe that launched within the 2000s as a reboot of types that includes “final” variations of Marvel’s most well-known superheroes. Like all first rate comedian guide reboot, it supplied an excellent jumping-on level for lapsed followers; it additionally garnered sufficient success that it might later function one of many inspirations for DC’s New 52 reboot. The Ultimates didn’t final, although. Secret Wars (2015) put an finish to the complete Final endeavor, with only one exception — its best concept: Miles Morales, the much-beloved alt-universe Spider-Man.
It makes excellent sense, then, that Miles Morales shall be entrance and heart within the upcoming Final Invasion, given how well-known he’s change into. Final Invasion’s author and artist — Jonathan Hickman and Bryan Hitch — make numerous sense, too. Hitch labored on the unique Ultimates run, as did Hickman, who additionally wrote the 2015 Secret Wars collection that put an finish to all of it. As of late, Hickman is also referred to as the mastermind behind the present Krakoa period of X-Males comics, which began with the epic 2019 reset, Home of X/Powers of X.
“We each knew there wanted to be an excellent purpose to revisit the thought of ‘Final Comics’ past telling a cool story or simply attending to work collectively, which is one thing we’ve been making an attempt to do for years,” Hickman instructed Leisure Weekly. “So with that in thoughts, it couldn’t be replicating or revisiting what Bryan [Hitch] did within the authentic Ultimates — making a streamlined, modernized model that will finally change into the backbone of the MCU — and it actually couldn’t be what I did [in Secret Wars], which was a closing chapter of a pre-existing universe.”
It additionally seems as if some model of the Illuminati (keep in mind them from the MCU’s Multiverse of Insanity?) will reconvene in Hitch and Hickman’s collection; EW’s unique preview artwork depicts a number of former Illuminati members like Black Bolt, Mister Implausible, Namor, and others. One other main character in Final Invasion shall be The Maker, a villainous alt-universe model of Reed Richards; Hickman instructed EW that The Maker is “just about the right automobile to get us from level A to level B.”
Comedian guide readers will be taught what that unusual journey will entail when Final Invasion arrives in June, with preview pages slated to be launched as a part of Free Comedian Ebook Day on Might 6, 2023.
