I apologize if this has already been posted. This news is about a week old.
Anyways Marvel will have an event this Summer called Secret Wars that will be a combining the 616 Universe with the Ultimate Universe. After Secret Wars we'll get an All-New Marvel Universe.
What do you think?
And let's try to stay relatively positive, ok? Or at least civil.
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I for one, am curious about this. I'm sure I won't love everything about it but the event itself sounds fun. The after effects will be fun to watch. I'm for a fresh start for Marvel though I'm enjoying it as it is now.
I was all for the New 52 when DC did. Currently I only read some Batman titles but that's been my DC history even before New 52. I'm more of a Marvel guy so I'm excited to see what the changes are and if they'll stick to them.
I suspect there's going to be a lot of flash and excitement in the story, and then the result will be a *slightly* streamlined Marvel Universe -- maybe find a way to include Miles Morales (if that hasn't happened already) and make the Samuel L. Jackson Nick Fury the one and only. Plus it might leave open a formalized way to visit other continuities (married Spider-Man, for example, or a 60s cold war era Marvel U).
Maybe I'm thinking small. But Marvel's current lineup seems so lucrative from a marketing/licensing perspective that I think they'd be VERY leery of rocking that boat.
Right, that's what I'm thinking as well. They've gone out of their way in a couple of podcasted interviews I've heard with the major players to say that it's not a reboot. All of the stories are still there and still count (well, I would expect except for the ones that were retconned or whatever).
I'm cautiously excited. I think fifteen years ago, I would have been up in arms. Now I'm just saying, "Ehhh. We'll see."
I like what Conway said about our stories still being there but creating new stories for today's youth. Referring to it as a new "childhood" implies they will attract pre-teens. I think that's doubtful.
I'm not reading any Marvels today. Maybe if they do it right I will be? Even if they lose the majority of old readers it won't matter if they add enough new readers. But will this happen?
Sounds like a Flashpoint style reboot.
Thinking about it there's more I could say but it's probably safer that I don't.
I wish they weren't going to do this. The solution to creative doldrums is handling the characters well and telling good stories about them. Rebooting is a false solution, because it presupposes the problem is continuity, rather than characterisation and storytelling. Creators don't have to base their stories on past stories, so continuity is rarely the real problem.
Rebooting the characters won't be changing the people creating the stories.
How much of this is just to toss out whatever current writers and editors don't like and make the new Marvel more like the movies? No matter what they do they're never going to get the swarms of movie fans to read comics. Will this attract younger readers? Extremely doubtful. Not unless comics start moving and talking. Might it drive the older audience away? Much more likely.
And at the same time DC is doing their own super big crossover bringing in erased characters, like Supergirl finding out she's going to get killed soon in Crisis. Coincidence they're both doing something like this within weeks of each other?
Or in less positive or civil words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsbYx6hevoQ
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