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Marvel Film Talk Podcast Episode 5 - The Marvel Universe is coming to an end
MarvelFilmTalk Podcast - Marvel Film Talk
English - January 21, 2015 04:30 - 25 minutes - 22.7 MB - ★★★ - 2 ratingsTechnology TV & Film marvel marvel entertainment comic comic book comic books Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today at a live press event at Midtown Comics in New York City moderated by Marvel PR man Chris D’Lando, Marvel Comics’ Executive Editor Tom Brevoort and Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso announced that the Marvel Universe will smash together with the Ultimate Universe and will be replaced by Battleworld -- a mashup of many different Marvel realities.
Take a moment to compose yourself.
This huge development has been in the works for some time in Jonathan Hickman’s years-long Avengers saga. The heroes have been trying to stop a series of universe-ending “incursions” where two universes collide with one another. The inciting incident to May’s eight-part Secret Wars event will be when the heroes fail to stop the regular and Ultimate universes from crashing together. The resulting Battleworld will the Marvel Universe going forward.