>This summer, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes assemble for a battle that will define their next era in AVENGERS: ARMAGEDDON! The five-issue event series by superstar writer Chip Zdarsky and acclaimed artists Delio Diaz and Frank Alpizar launches in June, and today, fans can learn about issue #3, on sale in August, which teases the team’s new post-Armageddon lineup. Avengers: Armageddon shakes up the Avengers in a way not seen since Avengers: Disassembled, kicking off when the team assembles to stop Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, A.K.A. Red Hulk, from igniting a global conflict following his takeover of Latveria. >The saga is currently being set up in Zdarsky’s hit run of Captain America (2025), as well as the Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon (2026) limited series which follows Wolverine and Dave Colton, a new Captain America introduced in Zdarsky’s run, as they team up to dismantle an all-new super soldier program. Along the way, the pair will unleash a mysterious power originating from another universe that will shift the tide of the coming battle with Ross—but at a heavy cost.>Civilians riot, villains rise, and heroes fall! The entire globe is thrown into chaos in AVENGERS: ARMAGEDDON #3. With the rest of the world turning against the Avengers, what will they choose? Stand down or fight against Red Hulk, even as he seems more and more unbeatable? And when an unstable new power takes center stage… the Avengers—and the world—will need all the help they can get! Wolverine sends out the call: Avengers Assemble!
>Meanwhile, the next arc of Captain America (2025) serves a companion to the event, continuing in CAPTAIN AMERICA #14 with art by Ton Lima. The story sees Captain America, desperate to return to Earth to stop Armageddon, teaming up with Doctor Doom to acquire a weapon powerful enough to defeat their captor: Mephisto!>In CAPTAIN AMERICA #14, Captain America and Victor Von Doom, bound together in an unfamiliar war zone, are after the Antidivine, a sword powerful enough to destroy Mephisto. But someone else also has their eyes on the weapon! Can Steve stop Doom’s first love from destroying Victor as his own soul hangs in the balance?>Pick up ARMAGEDDON/X-MEN #1 CGD 2026 this weekend at your local participating comic shop for a special Armageddon prelude story and stay tuned in the weeks ahead for more about the upcoming saga!SOURCE:https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/avengers-armageddon-3-captain-america-14-august-2026
>>153479490>Doom is back from the dead alreadyit hasn't even been a year since he "died">Mephisto againcan Marvel stop shoving that motherfucker into EVERYTHING
>>153479636Doom is in Hell, so he is still technically dead
>>153479476It's painfully obvious that this is setting up a new status quo for the marvel universe at large where superheroes are viewed unfavorably by the wider world. It also seems that they're going the movie route and doing the "government sanctioned avengers" (yes I know this was a thing in Civil War). Why they promoted this as anything to do with the Ultimate Universe is insane to me but I guess they're desperate.
>>153479476>Wolverine is back on the Avengers againBeastfag in shambles
>>153479476>Have no fear we have stories for years like>Maybe Wolverine joins the Avengers>An X-Man forcing normal people to be mutants>Have we killed Steve Rogers before?
>>153479476So that's the part from Disassembled/New Avengers they're doing? Wolverine on the Avengers again?>>153479707>It's painfully obvious that this is setting up a new status quo for the marvel universe at large where superheroes are viewed unfavorably by the wider world. It also seems that they're going the movie route and doing the "government sanctioned avengers" (yes I know this was a thing in Civil War). Why they promoted this as anything to do with the Ultimate Universe is insane to me but I guess they're desperate.So they're going back to an old status quo (superheroes being viewed unfavorably by the wider world) and an old 00s/10s status quo (Ultimate/Civil War/MCU goverment sanctioned superheroes)
>>153479490>are after the Antidivine, a sword powerful enough to destroy Mephisto If there was a sword that could kill Mephisto why hasn't it been used in the last 60 years?
>>153479476Comics have become such a chore.
>>153482105This reminded me of that old newsletter Zdarsky did that was sent out to comic shops, there was one issue where he was sarcastically saying continuity was important and then listed off all the ridiculous and convoluted things that have happened to characters, and whether he wanted to or not I remembered noticing the most ridiculous and convoluted stuff he listed happened in at least the last 15 years, maybe more. It sounded like an unintentional condemnation of modern Marvel
>>153481084>No one knows where it was or how to find it except for the Sorcerer Supreme so Doom didn't know until he got the title>Dangerous to retrieve, possibly guarded by traps or spells or powerful beings>Consequences of using it, could summon something more dangerous or piss off Capital G God>Power vacuum after killing Mephisto could be worse than having him on the throne, every demon, warlord and Hell owner could go wild trying to carve up his influencePlenty of potential reasons it hasn't been used until now. And Doom is the kind of asshole who would be arrogant enough to ignore them all
>>153483518Damn.
>>153483518do you have an image of that letter? sounds entertaining
>>153479476>superstar writer Chip ZdarskyThey just say things now.
>>153485461Unfortunately no, I was hoping someone would've scanned Zdarsky's newsletter but that never happened. If I come across it I'll scan it, though.
>>153482105Have you been screened for ADHD, anon?
>>153486227oh that faggot writes this comic, that explains why wolverine looks defeated and weak in the promotionalall he does is write white male "protagonist" as losers and idiots that spend the entire storyline getting insutled, lectured, beaten up and rescued by woman
>>153481084Didn't Blackheart have a sword or knife that killed Mephisto back in the 90s?>>153483518I really don't understand why the Big 2 treat this guy like he's a star and a draw, like on the basis of what?
Marvel's desperation feels palpable
