Chip Zdarsky is gonna dance little animal crackers across the tummy of the Marvel Universe this June with Armageddon, an event that — you won’t believe this, you’ve never heard this before — will change the Marvel Universe forever.
Specifically, Marvel is teasing that Armageddon will not only “impact the entire Marvel Universe,” per PR from the publisher, it will change “the face of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in a way not seen since Avengers: Disassembled, the event that redefined the team for the 21st century.” That event not only wrecked Avengers mansion, killed multiple heroes, and gave us an iconic line from Hawkeye (“Not. Like. This.”), it also paved the way for the game-changing New Avengers.
Interestingly, Marvel also notes that the “groundwork” for the event will be laid in Zdarsky and Valerio Schiti’s run on Captain America, but the introduction of “Origin Boxes” in Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion #5 will be important, as well. If you’re not familiar, the Origin Boxes contain powers/weapons/costumes that should have gone to heroes and villains in the new Ultimate Universe, but did not. At the end of Incursion, Miles Morales brought some of those boxes back to the regular universe for safe-keeping… So it’s a fair bet that one of those boxes (if not more) will fall into the wrong hands.
The promo image shows what looks like a man with a cape holding an object that could be an Origin Box, or a chalice on its side. And the text reads, “Witness the origin of the end” followed by “Armageddon Assembles, June 2026.” So is Armageddon the guy in the cape? The name of the event? Perhaps an extremely evil asteroid that’s bearing down on Earth? And will DC release an event next Summer titled Deep Impact to compete?
You don’t want to miss a thing when Armageddon assembles this June. Check out a teaser by Zdarsky below, which I believe he learned how to create as an elite oil driller.
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