Secret Wars 2015

[Phil]

I wonder if we'll see any Alphans in any of these?

http://www.newsarama.com/22554-marvel-s-age-of-apocalypse-returns-summer-2015.html

Possibly Wildchild in the AoA one?

[Le Messor]

We could see any number of Alphans in that one! (Even 0. :( Zero is still a number, right?)

But there have been AoA Beaubiers and (iirc) Puck, Jeffries, and Langkowski.
(I haven't tracked AoA since it first came out, so I could have added some and/or missed others.)

~ Le Messor
"A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory."
~ Bumper Sticker

[-K-M-]

Saw a few for past events such as Infinity Gauntlet, Planet Hulk,House of M, etc. are they new stories in those universes, reprints (doubt it), retcons, or all new tie-ins to Secret War (very likely this option?

[Le Messor]

... are they new stories in those universes, ... or all new tie-ins to Secret War...?

Based on the article Phil linked to, a combination of these two. Hmm... Except Infinity Gauntlet and (I'm pretty sure) Planet Hulk were both 616.

~ Le Messor
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
~ Winston Churchill

[Phil]

Hmm...

http://www.newsarama.com/22650-secret-wars-teasers-revealed-what-marvel-comics-has-planned-for-summer-2015.html

[Le Messor]

Hmm...

The idea in the article sounds pretty cool - but I lost what interest I had (which wasn't much) when they released a poster showing "heroes" fighting "heroes". (By the way, quotation marks should never be used for emphasis.) I got sick of that idea five "events" ago.

OTOH, as a rule, I love alternate realities.

~ Le Messor
"2 Kings 9:20"
~ Bumper Sticker

[Mokole]

I don't see how AF will have a part in this beyond cameos.

[Phil]

The idea in the article sounds pretty cool - but I lost what interest I had (which wasn't much) when they released a poster showing "heroes" fighting "heroes". (By the way, quotation marks should never be used for emphasis.) I got sick of that idea five "events" ago.

Yeah, I kinda agree.
On the other hand that is how AF began...

[Phil]

I don't see how AF will have a part in this beyond cameos.
I'd be happier with a cameo rather than nothing.

[Le Messor]

I don't see how AF will have a part in this beyond cameos.

I don't see how they'll get beyond Thunderdome.


Yeah, I kinda agree. On the other hand that is how AF began...

That's true... ish. AF began in a one-off issue of an ongoing series as a group of new characters trying to get one of their members back, not as part of the nth "big event" in a row with every established "hero" in the Marvel Universe fighting every other established "hero" in the Marvel Universe.
BIG difference - to me anyway.

~ Le Messor
"We don't need another hero; we don't need to know the way home. All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome."
~ Tina Turner (and Marvel Comics, apparently)

[Phil]

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/11/30/your-checklist-to-the-worlds-of-secret-wars/

[Le Messor]

Thanks, Phil!
Egyptia - could that be the alternate reality in the issues of (original) New Warriors where the Sphinx took over?
Killville and Arcadia - something to do with Arcade?
Earth / Paradise / Utopia X will be in there somewhere, too. Maybe some of the Excalibur alternates. And Exiles.

The other day I read about DC's new crossover, Convergence in CSN. It's about a villain who gathers pieces of all the DC alternate realities and puts them together on some distant planet to fight it out.

~ Le Messor
"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
~ John Updike

[Phil]

Further fuel to the potential rumour fire

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/all-new-marvel-for-september/

[Phil]

The solicitation to the FCBD book:

Prepare yourself for the final days of the Marvel Universe as you know it as the march to the biggest comic event of the year continues! From the ashes of a decimated cosmos rises… Battleworld! Amid the strange, patchwork realm, refugees from thousands of obliterated universes struggle for survival. Even if they can endure the horrors of Battleworld — the home they knew has been destroyed! Time has run out, and the opening salvo of Secret Wars has been fired. But can anything restore the Marvel Universe that once was?

[-K-M-]

Hmmmmm....interesting. It is looking more and more likely it will be a reboot, but not 100% convinced

[Le Messor]

Prepare yourself for the final days of the Marvel Universe as you know it...

Hmmmmm....interesting. It is looking more and more likely it will be a reboot, but not 100% convinced

I'm with you, K-M-; more likely, not 100% convinced.
But I just suddenly remembered that the Nu52 began with a bunch of alternate realities, too.

I mean, I don't want to imply that Marvel and DC are copying each other or anything, but Marvel and DC are copying each other.

~ Le Messor
"A great test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart."
~ Dave Roberson, former New Trier swim coach

[-K-M-]

Haha yeah, copying someone is a form of flattery after all.

[Le Messor]

:) Yep, that's true.