That means that most of your regular pull-list is going to be non-existent for the duration of Secret Wars. And Marvel haven't actually announced how long the event will be going on for, outside of the suggestion that the main book will be done in five months. That means five months without any of the titles they've been publishing for the past however many years. But that doesn't mean that you'll be better off. Oh no. With the main limited series and (at last count) over fifty tie-ins, Marvel aren't skimping on what they publish in the interim. And whilst a lot of those are one-shots - including Skottie Young's Howard The Human, trapped in a world he never made! - a lot will be five-issue runs over as many months. And a lot of those books are really, really exciting. Long-time Grant Morrison collaborator Chris Burnham brings back his era of X-Men with Ramon Villalobos in E Is For Extinction, Lumberjanes writer Noelle Stevenson is tackling fan-favourite teen series Runaways, and Garth Ennis is finally returning to Marvel to do a story about WWII planes fighting dinosaurs. Yep.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
