The mighty Marvel tradition of pulling a bunch of characters to a strange planet and making them fight it out will return in September, as Christos Gage and Marcus To bring back Battleworld in September.
Battleworld is the term used to describe the hodge-podge worlds seen in the 1980s Secret Wars series and its successor, the Jonathan Hickman-led Secret Wars event that occurred in 2015. In both cases, pieces of different worlds were called together to form a new world, a “battleworld” where, as the name suggests, battles took place.
This five-issue miniseries will feature characters from around the Marvel multiverse, including Hank Pym, the New Universe’s Starbrand, Days of Future Past Storm, the Future Imperfect Hulk dubbed the Maestro and many more.
“I was a rabid consumer of the original Secret Wars when it came out in 1984, so a chance to revisit the Battleworld ‘destroy your enemies’ concept was irresistible. Then they offer me Hank Pym, one of my favorite Marvel characters to write, and the amazing Marcus To on art?!” Gage said. He wrote the character when he was part of the cast of Avengers Academy as well as in Avengers: The Initiative, with co-writer Dan Slott.
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