Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-61022-20150909141417/@comment-61022-20150910121608

The Many-Angled One wrote: And regarding the "familiar" realities seen in Secret Wars, one of them, the Domain of Apocalypse, is a reality unique to the event, as confirmed by Fabian Nicieza in one of the latest X-Positions.

Thanks for the link!

The thing with writers is that often what they intend is not what ultimately happens. Keeping in mind that Marvel has final editorial say and what is what. Naturally, the job of the editor on a title is to keep a story in line with whatever plot policies they have, sometimes a writer will say what they will outside of that.

Now that said, with Nicieza, he's a long time writer (very much entrenched in the X-Men franchise since the 90s, and one of the architects of every storyline in the 90s including the original AoA) he's very much trusted in the company. He proved himself. So I don't really see him making such a bold statement without it being a fairly accurate statement.

My own glance (I have been getting the issues, but don't plan to read them until all five issues or so are out) it looks like it's basically based on Earth-295, just without all the baggage that has come from the past 20 years of changes they made since the original run. (I think the point was to capture the esthetic and plot themes of the original AoA run, which has long since -- pardon the pun --- mutated into an entirely different beast since)

But that all said....

AnnabellRice wrote: That being said, if the Secret Wars Guide says the Domain of Apocalypse is Earth-295, then I assume we go with the guide and not an interview?

Annabelle has the right idea. At the end of the day, we're going to go forward with the editorial decisions at Marvel over anything else. While in same cases the writer might have the better interpretation, in order to remain factual, we have to go by Marvel's editorial policy on the situation, because when that's what the next writer after Fabian is going to go by, and the writer after that, and so on...