Marvel Is Teasing Its Next Event, ‘Secret Empire’
Man, I don’t really fuck with events anymore. DC, or even Marvel, and I’m a Marvel fanboy. But hey! That doesn’t stop them from sliding out the maw. The next one? Secret Empire.
Strap yourselves in, folks. Civil War II may have barely just ended, Inhumans vs. X-Men may have only just begun, and Monsters Unleashed might be on the way, but Marvel is already teasing a major new arc—and it seems like it’s going to be focusing around a certain evil Captain America.
Marvel has sent out a teaser image to members of the press, featuring little more than a title—Secret Empire—a very vague release window of “2017,” and the current shield used by Steve Rogers as the shockingly evil agent of Hydra, Captain America. Attached was a quote from Abraham Lincoln: “A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand.”
There’s no details about the event just yet—whether it’s a smaller affair in the vein of something like last year’s Standoff or a line-wide blockbuster like Civil War II or Secret Wars—but clearly it’s going to end up involving Steve’s heel turn as a secret Hydra operative thanks to some cosmic cube meddling. It may even involve his current, outlandishly villainous plan to try and get the Chitauri to invade Earth and cull its population.