But even in the face of all that, the Empyre title is storming ahead, aiming to bring even more cosmic mayhem to the Marvel Universe. The line-wide crossover has also been severely truncated with the recent reveal that multiple tie-ins seemed to have been scrapped. But due to the global pandemic essentially shutting down the comics industry for months, it’s been heavily delayed. On the publishing end of things, Empyre is Marvel’s big summer event. but at what cost? Why is Empyre happening now? After Tony Stark suffered a terrible vision, he pledged the Avengers’ aid to protect the Cotati, and stop Teddy and the Alliance. These peaceful plant creatures also hail from Hala, the Kree home planet, where their civilization was ravaged by the violent feud between the two warring factions. But there’s another force at play here, the alien race known as the Cotati. Image: Al Ewing, Dan Slott, Valerio Schiti/Marvel ComicsĪt first glance it feels like a retread of the classic Kree/Skrull War stories that have shaped much of recent Marvel lore and even made it into Captain Marvel. (When he’s superheroing, he goes by Hulkling.) After embracing his birthright as leader of a newly forged Kree/Skrull Alliance, the hero now known as Emperor Dorrek VIII sits upon a throne in the far reaches of the cosmos, apparently planning to use the might of both the alien races’ armies to conquer Earth. What is Empyre #1 about?Įmpyre #1 is ostensibly about the Avengers and the Fantastic Four coming face-to-face in deep space with the gay, green, half-Kree, half-Skrull, one time Young Avenger, Teddy Altman. The otherworldly art comes from Valerio Schiti and colorist Marte Gracia who craft a visual landscape that plays perfectly into the story’s one-two punch reveal, and Joe Caramanga does a brilliant job at translating all that alien-chatter to well laid out letters. He’s joined on writing duties by Marvel stalwart and current Fantastic Four scribe Dan Slott. Who is engineering Empyre?Īl Ewing is Marvel’s current king of the cosmic and anyone who’s been reading his Immortal Hulk book knows that he’s a creator who can put a unique spin on an idea that might be tired in another’s hands. The frankly fantastic news is that whatever you were expecting. This year that crossover is Empyre, and after numerous preludes and contextually fitting reprints, Empyre #1 has arrived to lay out the landscape that readers can expect from Marvel in the second half of 2020. Although the world may be changing drastically every day, one thing stays the same: Marvel is releasing a massive crossover event that will define most of the company’s line for the next few months.
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