About the new (Secret Wars) Marvel announcement

[lucre-noin.livejournal.com]

Under cut for Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers spoilers and the next main event (Secret Wars).

I was just wondering if anyone else is worried? Or if this is just a clever way to dismantel the Ultimate universe? (I've never read Ultimate!verse so I am not sure what's going on there).
This is the link of Marvel's announcemente LINK and basically "they are dissolving the Ultimate Universe into the main 616 Marvel continuity. Details are scarce, but so far we know that there is the equivalent of a major continuity alteration underway after the big Secret Wars event. Secret Wars #1 ships in May, while what is presumed to be the last issue of Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man is likely April’s #12"
and

"It’s been the super secret plan of the Marvel staff for more than five years." (So in my hopeful little soul I still hope it's a way to undo Civil War somehow). "“This puts an endcap to decades of stories and starts a new era. When you see the scope of the event and what we’re willing to do [you’ll be amazed][.According to Alonso this isn’t necessarily part of anything to do with the MCU, which is developing its own continuity. “It all starts on the page. We tell our own stories, this is exactly what we’re doing here. You’ll be shocked for this.”"

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[partytimexelent.livejournal.com]

"I don't trust many of the writers currently in Marvel's stable... They aren't interested, for the most part, in writing the characters (or situations) as established canon, but in having fun by changing them beyond recognition..."

This perfectly sums up how I feel about this whole thing. Usually when Marvel announces a big event (which is quite often nowadays! When are we getting regular stories again?!), you're still given the option to not really participate by reading some of the other stuff other people are writing. There's always someone at Marvel that'll pick a character back up and fix all of the previous author's mischaracterizations. But I don't trust anyone that's currently there. I don't think any of them are really *fans* of the characters they're writing about (looking at you REMENDER) so why should I even bother?

And they didn't even bother fixing anything from their last event! I'm absolutely terrified that they're just going to roll with Superior Iron Man and change Tony's character permanently, which means that the chances of him and Steve becoming best friends again pretty much disappears completely. They're just going to continue to hate/ignore each other because hey, it's edgy and dark and fun and why would someone like Tony have a friend like Steve anyway right? People want MCUTony in the comics! >=/

(Oh and that bit about them not incorporating MCU elements into 616?! Are they kidding? That's complete bullshit.)

A very tiny microscopic part of me still wants to remain hopeful, though. Despite the THOUSANDS OF DISAPPOINTMENTS Marvel has dished out since the civil war, I'm hoping that sometime in the future, real-life Marvel fans will finally take control again, and realize that what made comics great and engaging were the characters and storylines, not the cross-overs and the big events. When will they get to team up again and fight actual super villains? Not any time soon apparently, and that's a fucking shame.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

(Oh and that bit about them not incorporating MCU elements into 616?! Are they kidding? That's complete bullshit.)

The MCU hasn't stopped them killing/exiling/depowering/revising the history of characters on-going in the comics. I once did a check (for a convention panel) on what was happening in the comics when each MCU film was released and you would be surprised how often a character has been depowered/dead at the same time or just previous to the release of a movie.

Other than that, though, you only have to mention Coulson or the current incarnation of Nick Fury to know they aren't kidding - they are downright lying.