“ Secret Wars was designed to be fairly straight-forward,” explains Tom Brevoort, Executive Editor and Senior Vice President of Publishing at Marvel. Comics of this magnitude cater to the curious as much as the converted, and the authors have crafted this event with newcomers in mind. That said, the Secret Wars miniseries, whose first issue debuts today, certainly won’t be impenetrable to those unfamiliar with the twists and turns that preceded it. These two series have featured scores of orbiting characters, emerging and receding in alternating story arc cycles to solve meticulous mysteries seeded years in advance. Writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic’s eight-issue miniseries-set to conclude the Marvel Universe as we know it-lies on a foundation of 77 issues of comics Hickman’s been writing since 2012 in Avengers and New Avengers. To say that the history of Secret Wars has a lot of moving parts is a vast understatement: Marvel’s mammoth summer event is a Russian Nesting Doll of moving parts, if Russian Nesting Dolls could time travel and break into the fourth dimension.
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