It ain’t neat, but Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, and Sal Buscema’s work across early 1970’s Avengers comics stands out as one of the most ambitious multi-part epics from the tail-end of Marvel’s Silver Age.

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Likewise, it’s a blast seeing a whole slew of Marvel stories we just covered in the My Marvelous Yearreading club getting referenced so enthusiastically by Marvel’s latest hype machine.īelow you’ll find a complete guide to Empyre, with both background reading and comic book checklists updates as issues are announced and released.Ĭomic Book Herald is reader-supported. Ewing has written a variety of Avengers titles for Marvel including Avengers: No Surrender, and Slott is the current writer on Fantastic Four, so expect their work across those teams to set the stage for Empyre as well. The main event story will be told by Al Ewing, Dan Slott, and Valerio Schiti beginning in April 2020. The overarching connections are all about the warring Kree and Skrull, and how their various conflicts over the years – and perhaps their lesser discussed agreements – have built to this moment in Marvel. If you’re thinking “I’ve seen this one before,” that’s intentional! Marvel’s leaning heavily into their own history with promotions for Empyre, meaning there’s a good deal of background reading from as far back as 1971 to help set the stage for 2020’s comics. Except this time, it looks like the Kree and Skrull are working together!

Marvel’s big event of 2020 (or at least their first big event of 2020), promises to bring the Avengers and Fantastic Four together for the latest cosmic affair with the Kree and Skrull turning Earth into a battleground.

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