war of the realms Archives

War of the Realms is a super-mega-crossover event so big, it needs a gigantic tie-in series… literally! So Giant-Man is launching next Wednesday with Giant-Man #1, but don't let the title's lack of plurality fool you… there isn't just one Giant-Man starring in this new three-issue mini-series from Leah Williams and Marco Castiello There's four[...]

As Unbeatable Squirrel Girl ties into War of the Realms, Squirrel Girl has gone home to Canada to seek out and destroy the home base of the Frost Giants who have claimed North America as their own But there, she runs into Asgardian squirrel chaos god Ratatoskr, who she feels is definitely to blame for[...]

A lot of people are probably wondering how Ares came to be the villain hunting down Thor's baby sister in War of the Realms tie-in, Journey Into Mystery Sure, the guy is a dick… but would he really throw in with Malekith and his forces? Well, War of the Realms: Journey Into Mystery #2 sheds[...]

This Wednesday, Marvel will launch the latest War of the Realms tie-in, New Agents of Atlas, featuring Marvel's Chinese superheroes Aero and Sword-Master, and new Filipino character Wave It's a project they want to work so much, they're overshipping it to make sure retailers have enough copies to sell to interested readers What will readers[...]

But nevertheless, Frank Castle waxes philosophical in this preview of War of the Realms: Strikeforce: Dark Elf Realm #1 Frank is having a conversation with Freya after being recommended by Captain America for an important role in the War of the Realms… Frank is happy to reveal exactly which Marvel Heroes are messed up enough to[...]

War of the Realms, Marvel's latest super-mega-crossover event, has a lot to compete with thanks to the gigantic spectacle of Avengers Endgame, in theaters now And it looks like the comic is pulling out all the stops, at least according to this preview of War of the Realms #3. First, we see Daredevil teaming up with[...]

Venom joins the War of the Realms this week when Venom becomes a tie-in to the super-mega-crossover event, with Cullen Bunn returning to the title alongside Iban Coello to write the tie-in issues But is Venom joining the War of the Realms… on the wrong side?! Just check out the preview below for Venom #13, in[...]

There's going to be some major changes to the Marvel Universe after the War of the Realms, with far reaching ramifications for the movers and shakers of each realm. We already know Jane Foster will be hanging up the hammer to take on an all-new role, but what's in store for everyone else? Will Frank Castle[...]

To find out why, you're going to have to hear some spoilers for War of the Realms #2, so if you don't want to do that, click away now… Earlier today, Bleeding Cool remarked on how characters were dropping like flies today, in Uncanny X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, and War of the Realms And Rich[...]

But Marvel doesn't like to leave things simple, so they'll be making a major change to Howard's continuity on Wednesday as part of the War of the Realms super-mega-crossover event, as a story in War of the Realms: War Scrolls #1 by Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones changes Howard the Duck's name to… Howard Duckson?! Behold,[...]

If you read War of the Realms #1 (and if you didn't, honestly, why are you reading this preview), you know that Loki died, the second sacrifice to the gods of super-mega-crossover events, when he was eaten by his dad (and who can't relate to that?) But if you follow the 24-hour comics news cycle,[...]

But how does the Punisher feel about it? In this preview of War of the Realms: Punisher #1, Frank Castle busts down the door of a music studio and confronts a hippie music teacher who admits to smuggling some weed across state lines from Colorado to New York, even though New York has not yet[...]

In next week's War of the Realms #2, the New Yorkers of the Marvel Universe are having a really bad day, what with the invasion of Frost Giants and all of that happening Thankfully, there's a place where everyone can seek sanctuary: the Sanctum Sanctorum of Doctor Strange! So that's where everyone is headed when[...]

In last week's War of the Realms #1, we already saw the shocking deaths of two major Marvel characters, one's we'll name in just a moment, as soon as we've written enough words to make sure it doesn't appear in the Google preview of the first sentence of the article Okay, that's probably enough It[...]

War of the Realms is purported to be Marvel's biggest-ever super-mega-crossover event, which means no one can escape its orbit That includes Squirrel Girl, but how will she enter the fray when, as this preview of next week's Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #43 shows, she's currently visiting her doppelganger in the Negative Zone? We'll get to that,[...]

And he's confiscated not only the Beacon, but the shard of the Rainbow Bridge that power their ship as well! And they're just going to along with it? Well, why did they even bother in the first place then?! Asgardians of the Galaxy #9 hits stores next Wednesday. Asgardians of the Galaxy #8 (W) Cullen Bunn (A) Matteo Lolli[...]

Journey Into Mystery is a new mini-series spinning out of War of the Realms next week, part of an overall effort to bilk Marvel readers for as much money as possibility based on super-mega-crossover event FOMO provide additive content to the event comic experience with stories that can't be told within the confines of the[...]

The preferred format is to start things off with a lesser shocking character death in the first issue to show readers you mean business and then to save the really shocking character death until the end. We already know to expect a shocking character death in the finale of War of the Realms, but we don't[...]

They may simply be asking you to lose yourself in the illustrious sounds of the new War of the Realms theme song, composed by Jimmy Urine, lead singer of 90s industrial band Mindless Self Indulgence (and if ever there were a band name which described Marvel's super-mega-crossover event publishing strategies…) Of course, they might literally[...]

As C2E2 gets into full swing, Marvel has released a new launch trailer for War of the Realms at their War of the Realms panel at the convention The trailer explains the first act of Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman, and Matthew Wilson's super-mega-crossover event Teams will be formed including Marvel heroes and villains, spin-offs will[...]

Marvel is holding their War of the Realms panel at C2E2 right now, and Bleeding Cool ace reporter Brian Lake is on the scene sending us live reports from the show After opening with a video of Marvel creators trying (and mostly failing) to name all ten of the titular realms, Marvel began showing off[...]

War of the Realms has been billed as Marvel's biggest-ever super-mega-crossover event, and it really does live up to the name Most super-mega-crossover events include one, maybe two realms tops But War of the Realms features ten realms, a pretty much unprecedented number Marvel is holding a War of the Realms panel at C2E2 right[...]

Not content with slowly destroying the comic book industry through shameless abuse of variant covers, Marvel has now declared war on the entire realm with six new international variants for War of the Realms Each cover, for a different issue of the series, celebrates the backgrounds of the artists: Humberto Ramos, David Lopez, Sean Izaakse,[...]

Marvel will use War of the Realms: War Scrolls #3 to debut the first Marvel work of two celebrities from outside of the world of comics in June The solicitation for War of the Realms: War Scrolls #3, the finale of the super-mega-crossover event tie-in, reveals that television writer Christopher Cantwell will write a story[...]

In June, barring the traditional Marvel super-mega-crossover event delays, War of the Realms will come to a conclusion, ending Marvel's biggest-ever super-mega-crossover event And what would a super-mega-crossover event be without needlessly killing off heroes for shock value? Likewise, what would a super-mega-crossover event be without jacking up the price of the final issue? It[...]

The War of the Realms, Marvel's biggest-ever super-mega-crossover event, is soon headed to rock the Marvel Universe to its foundations and leave nothing ever the same again But that's not until next month Until then, what does the God of Thunder have planned to kill the time? Well, in this preview of next week's Thor[...]

So who is going to take one for the team in War of the Realms, Marvel's biggest-ever super-mega-crossover event? Well, you know what they say: you can judge a book by it's cover.  If you couldn't, why would Marvel make so many damn variants?! That's why, though we can't tell you who will die in War[...]

Roxxon CEO Dario Agger is featured in a very revealing pose on Giuseppe Camuncoli's connecting variant cover for War of the Realms Marvel revealed the variant today, which features Agger in his minotaur form, sans clothing, enough to distract even the mighty She-Hulk. Unfortunately for fans hoping for an uncensored Roxxon: Damned type of situation, Agger's[...]

Marvel has heard the complaints levied by Brian Hibbs about their abuse of the variant cover gimmick (amongst other things) to extract more money from existing readers rather than trying to sell actual comics to new readers, and they have responded with… more variants! Hey, Marvel is nothing if not consistent, right? First up, two variants for[...]

Is it War of the Realms, or War of the Variants? Marvel Comics is planning to make War of the Realms their biggest-ever super-mega-crossover event, and part of that strategy includes releasing a @#$%load of spinoffs and tie-ins — there are $110 worth of them coming out in May, in fact — and another part[...]