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[Undead Scottsman]

So Marvel is going to be spilling the beans on their upcoming, post-Secret Wars relaunch in an "All-New, All-Different Marvel Previews" print magazine set to arrive in comic shops on July 1, but in the meantime they've been releasing info and promos.  The biggest thing they've emphasized is that it is not a reboot.

 

So far they've put out some images of prominent characters from the relaunch  The first is fairly predictable, and seems to be building off the pre-Secret Wars status quo

(Left to Right: Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man, Vision, Ultimate Spider-Man, Coulson, Spider-Woman, Black Panther, Captain America (Sam Wilson), Steve Rogers (Still Old), Iron Man, new Thor, Ant-Man, Ms. Marvel and Red Wolf.)

 

The Second is a LOT more interesting

(Left to Right: Dr. Sprectrum (Last surviving member of the Justice League analog known as the Great Society), Rocket Raccoon, Hyperion (likely the Hyperion from Hickman's Avengers run), Daredevil, Dr. Strange (Battle Axe!!), Citizen V (Most known for being Baron Zemo's secret identity when he created the Thunderbolts), the Thing (sporting Guardians of the Galaxy duds), Karnak (of the Inhumans; Not Doom), Inferno (from the recent Inhumans ongoing), Iron Man again, Medusa, Wolverine (X-23), Star-Lord and Old Man Logan.

 

Also they recently spilled the beans about the new Invincible Iron Man; it'll be written by Bendis and drawn by Marquez, and the person taking up the armor will be

Spoiler

Tony Stark.

 

More updates to come, including a new Hulk and more about the mutants.

Edited by Undead Scottsman, 06 June 2015 - 07:34 PM.

[Silent_Magnus]

What's Rocket holding in his had? Is it censored, or is it supposed to look like that?

 

Wolverine is cool, but I'm eager to see more new stuff, or confirmation that more obscure characters I care about are still around.

[Sean Whitmore]

What's Rocket holding in his had? Is it censored, or is it supposed to look like that?

 

They're definitely referencing the "incoming lewd gesture alert" from the movie.

[Silent_Magnus]

 

What's Rocket holding in his had? Is it censored, or is it supposed to look like that?

 

They're definitely referencing the "incoming lewd gesture alert" from the movie.

 

Oh, that's not quite the same thing I thought it might be.

[Internet Jesus]

I love that they're keeping Hyperion. He was one of my favorite Hickvengers characters.

 

I hope they keep Tamara/Captain Universe and the New Universe kids, too.

[Maruten]

Bendis on IM feels like a step backwards to me, I feel like he doesn't need to be that close to the Avengers again. But I love the new armour design. Hope Tony isn't too RDJ, I'm over that take.

My biggest hope from the teasers so far is that we get something great for poor Black Panther. And that we still have Soule-led Inhumans.

[CORVUS]

Indeed. Hyperion rocks, and if he were to get his own title I'd buy it.

Edited by CORVUS, 06 June 2015 - 09:23 PM.

[Undead Scottsman]

He's probably going to be apart of the "team of hereos from dead universes" that was mentioned, along with Dr. Spectrum and possibly Miles Morales.

[Internet Jesus]

Multiversal Squadron Supreme?

 

Yes please.

[CORVUS]

I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

 

Or in this case, $3.99.

[Benbot]

I'm not loving that armor.  It looks like a teenager is going to come out of it.  It has very "teen" proportions.  So is everyone else (the old version of these characters) going to be dead?  Is this Marvel's New 52? 

[1stStageMidboss]

So is everyone else (the old version of these characters) going to be dead?

All the characters here who've had someone else take up their title (Cap, Thor, etc.) had that transition well before Secret Wars, except for Wolverine who was just killed off without a new Wolverine showing up and who is now standing right there so we know he's still around. If anything the first image here is emphasising how the older characters will still be around alongside the newer ones.

[Tyranno]

That's not 616 Wolverine though, it's Old Man Logan Wolverine.

[ZacWilliam1]

Yeah, as sane heads have been saying from the start it's just gonna be the regular Marvel U with a few things added to it here and there. Nothing subtracted or lost.

-ZacWilliam they have repeated lots that it's all additive. Nothing is being erased.

[Undead Scottsman]

Sounds like Battleworld might be sticking around in some capacity, too.

[Rust]

I'm not loving that armor.  It looks like a teenager is going to come out of it.  It has very "teen" proportions.

 

Agreed.

 

Then again,

 

Spoiler

I've always wondered where Teen Tony went after the Onslaught saga. Heroes Reborn Tony was a return to form and either killed and replaced by a Skrull, or shunted back into the main Marvel Universe as part of Heroes Return, depending on the issue/which side of the dimensional divide you stood.

 

All I can hope for is they have enough sense to finally bring Rebel into the main Marvel Universe, but I'm not holding my breath on that front. I've been banging that drum for years.

[Maruten]

I started reading IM during the Teen Tony era, and I would be totally up for his return. Me and, like, three other people on Earth.

[Undead Scottsman]

Didn't Teen Tony get merged with normal Tony?

[Rust]

That's the explanation that's been given to me, but I either lack that issue or it's just implied...and besides I never liked it as a explanation anyway.

 

Dang kids now-a-days, and their Ultimate Universe. Back in my day we had Heroes Reborn with steampunk Iron Man and Bruce Banner with long, flowing John Romero hair.

[Sean Whitmore]

That's what happened, Franklin merged the three Tonys (classic, Teen, and HR) into one when he brought the heroes back to life. Tony once commented that he had three distinct sets of memories of himself growing up, but that's as far as it ever went. And even that was buried in a backup story in an Avengers annual by Kurt Busiek.