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Get a look at Jonathan Hikman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S.!

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This October, visionary writer Jonathan Hickman and superstar artist Valerio Schiti will re-invent the cosmology of the Marvel Universe in G.O.D.S.! The new series will dramatically transform Marvel’s classic pantheon of cosmic beings and introduce brand-new concepts and characters that operate at the crossroads of science and magic. Today, fans can see Mateus Manhanini’s stunning cover for issue one as well as an exciting lettered preview!

Manhanini’s cover spotlights Wyn, one of the many new characters that readers will meet in the series. And in the preview, witness a gathering of two mysterious factions: THE-POWERS-THAT-BE and THE-NATURAL-ORDER-OF-THINGS. Alongside familiar faces like Doctor Strange, Clea, Mister Fantastic, and Doctor Doom, the agents of these groups learn of a Babylon Event, a rare occurrence that has the potential to upend the forces behind existence such as Eternity, Infinity, and the Living Tribunal. This cataclysmic threat will bring a eons-old war out of the shadows for the first time and shed light on long-guarded secrets of the cosmos!

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE-POWERS-THAT-BE MEET THE-NATURAL-ORDER-OF-THINGS?

The infinite détente between THE-NATURAL-ORDER-OF-THINGS and THE-POWERS-THAT-BE nears an end. Old acquaintances are reunited during a Babylon Event. The Lion of Wolves throws the worst parties. Don’t look under the table. There’s a John Wilkes Booth penny on the ground.

G.O.D.S. #1

Thor explores G.O.D.S. in this Immortal Thor #3 Giuseppe Camuncoli variant cover

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Every month, Marvel fans experience thrilling new tales of the Marvel Universe. And now, your favorite characters can enjoy them too with a new variant cover program coming this October! Dubbed Marvel Super Stories Variant Covers, this new monthly program will depict iconic heroes reading one of the most buzzed about new issues on sale that same month. These new covers celebrate the interconnected and familial warmth of Marvel comic storytelling and will be drawn by some of the industry’s most acclaimed artists. This fantastic artwork of the Marvel Super Stories Variant Covers can also be used as a helpful marketing tool for comic shops by pointing customers to what are sure to be the most talked about titles!

Marvel Super Stories Variant Covers kicks off in October with prolific Marvel artist Giuseppe Camuncoli’s cover for Immortal Thor #3. See Thor kicking back to experience the wonder and revelations behind Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s mythology-shattering G.O.D.S. #1!

Check it out below!

Immortal Thor #3 Giuseppe Camuncoli variant cover

The cast of Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S. descend on the X-Men’s Hellfire Gala!

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This July, mutantkind will host another game-changing night in X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 #1 and all of the major players of the Marvel Universe are invited—including all-new characters that are set to debut this fall in Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S.!

Fans can see Wyn, who recently debuted in Free Comic Book Day: Avengers/X-Men #1, alongside his rival Aiko Maki and assistant Dimitri on a newly announced variant cover for the one-shot by Valerio Schiti. With Eternity looming in the background, Schiti, designer and co-creator of the characters, captures this trio’s frightening gravitas as they approach the X-Men’s Hellfire Gala to witness the tragic onset of the Fall of X! And within the pages of X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 #1, these characters will make their first-ever appearance as they confront the X-Men face to face. After achieving immortality and terraforming Mars, mutantkind may think themselves gods, but when it comes to the building blocks of creation and the crossroads of magic and science, there’s so much they and readers alike don’t know…

The highly-anticipated G.O.D.S. series will see two of the comic book industry’s greatest modern visionaries team up to revolutionize the Marvel Comics cosmology. In addition to seeing iconic omnipotent forces like Eternity, Infinity, and the Living Tribunal in shocking new light, readers will also meet the mysterious agents of THE-NATURAL-ORDER-OF-THINGS and THE-POWERS-THAT-BE, two factions that have schemed and clashed with each other for eons. What is a Babylon Event and why will its’ occurrence finally bring this never-ending war out of the shadows? 

Check out Schiti’s new cover below and get more hints at the full scope of the G.O.D.S. mythology in X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 #1 on July 26! 

Marvel introduces the G.O.D.S.

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Who are the G.O.D.S.? This fall, readers will find out in a revolutionary series by Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti. Announced back in March, G.O.D.S. will see two of the industry’s greatest modern visionaries dramatically redefine Marvel’s pantheon of cosmic beings and masterfully deconstruct the forces behind reality. The breathtaking new saga will introduce a host of new characters—all players in a secret conflict at the crossroads of science and magic!

Heralding their debut, a new line of variant covers this August will spotlight some of the core cast as they team up with heroes and villains from throughout the Marvel Universe. This past weekend, fans met Wyn in Free Comic Book Day: Avengers/X-Men #1, and these new variant covers provide a first look at the likes of Aiko Maki, Dmitri, Cubisk Core, and Mia. From powerful mystics to daring scientists, these are agents of THE POWERS THAT BE and THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS and servants to the very building blocks of creation. They may be new to readers but they’ve been scheming and clashing with each other for eons in the shadows.

The G.O.D.S. Variant Covers will adorn nine issues that each contain a bonus story page written by Hickman that explore just how these characters move throughout the Marvel Universe and how they interact with its iconic inhabitants like the Doctor Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Scarlet Witch, and more. In addition, some of the cast of G.O.D.S. will attend mutantkind’s biggest night and witness the beginning of the Fall of X in July’s X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1!

Here are the characters spotlighted in the variant covers and bonus pages:

  • Wyn, a powerful magic expert who’s operated in secret for thousands of years and is now forced to come out of the shadows.
  • Aiko Maki, a high-ranking agent brutally loyal to the ways of science and willing to do anything to keep the building blocks of creation in balance.
  • Dmitri the Science Boy, Wyn’s reckless partner who has a secret mission of his own to discover the dark truth of his past.
  • Mia the Magic Girl, a young sorcerer struggling to achieve her full potential.
  • Cubisk Core, a mysterious being of pure corruption seeking to shatter the existing systems.
  • And more!

Check out seven of the G.O.D.S. Variant Covers now and stay tuned for more news about G.O.D.S. in the months ahead.

  • DOCTOR STRANGE #6 G.O.D.S. VARIANT COVER BY EMA LUPACCHINO – 75960620534900641
  • FANTASTIC FOUR #10 G.O.D.S. VARIANT COVER BY GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI – 75960620289801031
  • MOON KNIGHT #26  G.O.D.S. VARIANT COVER BY SALVADOR LARROCA – 75960620137202631
  • SCARLET WITCH #7 G.O.D.S. VARIANT COVER BY LUCAS WERNECK – 75960620235500731
  • GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #5 G.O.D.S. VARIANT COVER BY TODD NAUCK – 75960620535600531
  • UNCANNY AVENGERS #1 G.O.D.S. VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND – 75960620597400191
  • AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #32 G.O.D.S. VARIANT COVER BY ADAM KUBERT – 75960620200303251
  • IMMORTAL THOR #1 G.O.D.S. VARIANT COVER BY BRYAN HITCH – 75960620664300191
  • VENOM #24 G.O.D.S. VARIANT COVER BY JAN BAZALDUA – 75960620191402441

Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti conceive a grand new design for the Marvel Universe in G.O.D.S.

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First teased last year at San Diego Comic-Con, the time has finally come to reveal what writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Valerio Schiti have planned for Marvel Comics. This fall, the forces at the heart of the Marvel Universe will be stunningly reimagined and evolved in a new series from two of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

Over the last decade, Hickman has boldly transformed the worlds of the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and the X-Men. G.O.D.S. will mark his most ambitious undertaking to date, dramatically reshaping Marvel’s pantheon of cosmic beings and the entities behind the very fabric of reality.

Known for his outstanding work on events like Empyre and A.X.E. Judgment Day, acclaimed artist Valerio Schiti will join Hickman to bring forth this epic journey into the unknown. Together, along with master colorist Marte Gracia, the team will build a new Marvel mythology overflowing with daring concepts, intricate systems, and fascinating new characters, some of whom have been in action long before your favorite Marvel heroes. At last year’s New York Comic Con, fans got a glimpse at the new cast in early concept art, but who are they really? And what catastrophe finally draws them out of the shadows?

Meet Wyn, a mysterious player in a war that exists outside of the orders we know and a vital member of an eons-old hierarchy that includes the omnipotent rulers of the universe such as Eternity, Infinity, and the Living Tribunal. After a fateful meeting with Doctor Strange, Wyn hints at something even bigger than the forces of good and evil, where the very building blocks of creation scheme and clash. It’s the beginning of a breathtaking epic at the crossroads of science and magic, one that will shatter our understanding and open our eyes to ideas beyond all that we perceive.

What happens when The Powers That Be meet The Natural Order of Things? You wouldn’t believe us if we told you. Be among the first to dive into this extraordinary new series on May 6 with a special preview in Free Comic Book Day: Avengers/X-Men #1.

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