Wednesday Comics Discussion! - Secret Wars edition

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The Marvel (Comics) Universe is ending! ...but first, Marvel's going to revisit its favourite time-periods and make up some new ones. Secret Wars #1 is out today, giving us our first peak at the last of the Marvel Universe as we know it, so here be the post to discuss and speculate in!


SO, if you've read Secret Wars #1, you'll have noticed that while there was Ults!Tony, there was no 616!Steve or 616!Tony in it. So the body of this post is actually going to be about the possible mini-series with Steve and Tony that we're going to have during this event. I have Thoughts on SW#1, but they're going down below in a comment.


Taking a look over the event guides, it looks like we've got a few mini-series with Steve and Tony:

• 1872 has gotten a lot of commentary on tumblr due to the awesomeness of the concept and Evan Shaner's concept art, and it will definitely have both Steve and Tony


• Civil War will be a leap sideways and and into the past, into a world where Steve and Tony are still fighting (are we sure this isn't the main storyline?).


• After we all have our hearts broken again, there's Giant-Size Little Marvels to cheer us up. Yes, its the return of A-babies vs X-babies by Skottie Young!


• I'm not quite sure how Ultimate End is going to work, since Steve's supposed to be dead, but there he is on the cover with Tony. And, uh, Thor - who was also dead? Ults has generally played more for keeps than 616, but since the universe is ending, maybe they've decided to do away with that.


• No names confirmed on who will be showing up in Battleworld yet, but I'd be surprised if Steve and Tony didn't both appear there, especially given the last line in the article. Whiiiiiich also makes it sound like they'll be fighting against each other, rather than teaming up, once again. Ah, well, I've the A-babies to console me.


• Armor Wars is going to feature 'Baron Stark' in a futuristic city. I'm hoping it will still be a version of Tony, since there's going to a James Rhodes at his side.


• Hail Hydra - there was a moment in reading the summary where I went OH MY GOD THE RETURN OF NOMAD (who is the star of this one) buuuuut it's not Nomad Steve (any excuse to link that photo), it's his adopted son Ian, who sadly has a slightly saner fashion sense. But it does sound like Nomad will be interacting with Hydra!verse Avengers and villains and getting to see how they turned out differently, so I'm hoping that Steve, at least, will make an appearance.

I think that's probably all of them... but let me know if I'm missing any, and I'll add it to the list.