The Marvel multiverse enters a brand new cycle as its largest battle begins as soon as once more. Anticipation for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars grows with each new replace. A bit over a yr earlier than Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters, Marvel followers the flames with a brand new multiverse-themed comedian guide occasion that synergizes with the MCU’s most formidable films to this point.
Written by Christos Gage, Battleworld #1 sees a brand new model of Secret Wars‘ iconic patchwork universe take form. Like its predecessors, it brings collectively heroes from varied continuities, together with components of their residence worlds. Battleworld #1 arrives forty-one years after Marvel Comics’ authentic Secret Wars crossover and ten years after its critically acclaimed 2015 reboot.
Marvel Comics’ Battleworld is not a franchise-wide crossover occasion like previous Secret Wars crossovers, however it does happen someplace within the Marvel multiverse, affecting a number of unconnected timelines.
A New Battleworld Is Created In The Marvel Multiverse
Battleworld #1; Written by Christos Gage; Artwork by Marcus To & Rachelle Rosenberg
Marvel Comics presents Battleworld #1 via the eyes of an older Hank Pym, who will get to fulfill a youthful Janet van Dyne who’s the chief of her universe’s Avengers. Battleworld appears to be putting deal with long-overlooked eras of sure heroes, as Luke Cage sports activities his Seventies outfit and Carol Danvers wears her old Ms. Marvel costume. Probably the most acquainted face is likely to be Spider-Man, who’s solely months into his superhero profession.
Hank Pym seems to be the one character who’s conscious of all earlier Battleworlds, acknowledging the multiversal crises created by the Beyonder, the Stranger, and Physician Doom. Nevertheless, Carol Danvers additionally appears to have skilled the occasions of at the very least the unique Secret Wars on condition that she additionally addresses the Beyonder. Hank and Carol’s information may turn out to be necessary later down the road.
Marvel’s New Battleworld Locations The Highlight On An Underrated Supervillain
Korvac Joins Physician Doom & The Beyonder As A Multiversal Supervillain
In June, writer Christos Gage confirmed Battleworld‘s main villain is Korvac, a cosmic supervillain who has gained godlike energy however has by no means gotten near reaching what the Beyonder, the Stranger, and Physician Doom completed in Marvel’s Secret Wars occasions. After a number of deaths and resurrections, Korvac lastly seems to set his sights on multiversal chaos, solely with much less distinguished variations of iconic Marvel heroes as his victims.
With the unique Beyonder fully out of the image and Physician Doom busy on Earth-616 making an attempt to guard his reign from collapse, it is Korvac’s time within the limelight. Korvac’s Battleworld might not be all-encompassing. Nevertheless, it is set to usher in extra powerhouses quickly, together with Maestro and King Thor, in addition to different, equally underrated characters like Ken Connell a.ok.a. Star Model.
