User blog:Gemnist/THREE new upcoming Marvel events - one a death, one a sequel, and one a.... reboot?

If you haven't heard already, Marvel is going pretty big with 2014 after Original Sin wraps up. In fact, we're getting three - yeah, THREE - Marvel crossover events until the end of the year. Kind of an excess, but they're all shaping up to be really, really great. Let's go into detail over them:

(WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!)

First off is another tragic yet redundant comic book death event. The event is called "Three Months to Die", and will run between a certain eighth issue and a certain twelfth issue. I didn't mention the actual title because, well, the next sentence I say will make you do what you did to Dan Slott the December before last.

WOLVERINE IS GOING TO DIE.

I'm actually surprised that Wolverine is getting the boot NOW of all times. After all, he is the person that is leading the mutants against the tyrannical, megalomaniacal, Magneto-ish, mourning-for-the-past-decade-over-a-character-that-should-have-come-back-eight-years-ago Cyclops. Sure, we needed it after so long, kind of like Spider-Man in a few ways. And sure, he's going to come back. But still - NOW!?!?!

The second event is the biggest event of the year. It is called "Axis", and is coming out this Fall, written by Rick Remender and illustrated by Jim Cheung. When I first heard of this, I thought that the event would be a sequel to AvX (the logo initially had the Avengers A and the X-Men X in it), and would feature Cyclops and the New Charles Xavier X-men finally trying to destroy the world in the wake of the death of the only person he ever wanted dead - Wolverine - thus leaving open the possibility that Jean Grey or Professor X would make their long-awaited return. In reality, the event will feature the two teams teaming-up (no pun intended) to fight a supervillain team composing of Loki (yay, he's back!), Carnage, Doctor Doom, Sabertooth, and Green Goblin, under the leadership of Red Skull. It will also spin out of the to-be-concluded Uncanny Avengers Vol 1. The loss of that series itself is not big, considering it was really just a long, obviously-going-to-be-reverted story arc involving the Horsemen of Apocaly- I mean, Death and not really having good writing (Rogue a bloodthirsty killer? That was thirty years ago, people!). If the team goes, though, I'll get pissed, because I liked that team. Either way, this event is going to be epic, no doubt about it.

And then there's the third event, which may very well be the bane of all Marvel Comics - ever. Titled "Time Runs Out", the event will feature the Avengers and Illuminati getting sent eight months into the future and having to deal with ANOTHER Incursion. What makes this event so bad? Prepare for another Our Lady of Sorrows moment.

THIS EVENT MAY REBOOT Earth-616 JUST THE SAME WAY DC DID IT WITH THE NEW 52 (and countless other times).

I say "may" because, well, Bleeding Cool thinks that this will happen, and Marvel has so far made no statement regarding a reboot. What WILL happen, though, is that this event will conclude Jonathan Hickman's run on his Avengers titles (thank God). Oh - and if Marvel DOES reboot Earth-616, prepare for me to go Dreadpool on all of them...

So those are the three new events coming up. What do you think about them? Please say your opinions in the comments below.