What Happens After Secret Wars? We’ll Find Out “8 Months Later”
For Marvel, you could argue there has been no bigger event in recent years than the one that just recently started, Secret Wars. An event so big it actually began years ago with the relaunching of Avengers and Secret Avengers, and quite literally ended the Marvel Universe to bring the event to life.
With a new Battleworld officially started, and many characters fates still up in the air, many have wondered not only how the event will end, but how the Marvel Universe will be afterwords. We know it will be reborn in some fashion, and new stories will come from it, but in what way?
Well now, Marvel has shed some light on it, primarily that when the stories of the Marvel Universe “begin again” it’ll be eights months after the events of Secret Wars.
“In the same way that events jumped forward in time eight months in ‘Avengers’ and ‘New Avengers’ during the lead-up to Secret Wars, so too when we enter the new Marvel Universe eight months will have passed for all of the characters as well,” said Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort on Marvel.com. “This provides our creators, even apart from Secret Wars, to drop into exciting new situations and status quos on the fly. So look for surprises and mysteries and changes galore as series resume in the new MU.”
But don’t think the events of Secret Wars will mean nothing, many of the stories in there will affect the new stories to come as Brevoort reveals:
“As we’ve been saying, the building blocks of the NEW MU are being established throughout the various SECRET WARS titles, with every series contributing something to the NEW MU—whether that something is a character, a place, an environment, an object, a status quo, or any other thing that you might think of.”
So Secret Wars will change everything in multiple ways, it’ll be fun to read this event and see how it all plays out.