Chaos at Diamond Distributors Signals the End of an Era for the Comic Book Industry

Probably lost in the move of…all the…everything…going on in the world in the past few months …is the probable end of an era for cartoons. For 20 years, the only way for comic shops to get their comics was through Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc., the Baltimore-based company that once served as the sole warehouse and supplier ]… ]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

Doomsday is coming. You know it. I know it. And today, thanks to the Leader, Captain America knows it to.

In the hapless post-credit field for Captain America: Brave New World, criminal Samuel Sterns offers a reminder to Sam Wilson, one that points to the next Avengers movie and, probably, the close of the MCU as we know it.

Captain America 4&#8217, s Post-Credit Field Explained

Sam Wilson is no Steve Rogers, as the selling for Captain America: Brave New World often reminds us. And that &#8217, s a good thing. Sam&#8217 ;s history as a counselor is used by Brave New World to transform him into a Captain America who prefers to talk things up with villains over punching them in the face.

So it &#8217, s no wonder when Brave New World ends with Sam visiting Thaddeus Ross, no longer in Dark Hulk kind, in prison on the Raft. Nor is it a wonder when he also drops by the body of Samuel Sterns, the movie&#8217, s great poor, a gamma-radiated supergenius called the Leader.

Yet though he&#8217, s been defeated, Sterns cannot help but moan, getting a one-up over Sam by showing off his knowledge. For the work they did to save the world, Sam and his other soldiers are commended by Sterns. But then he reveals the results of his estimates. &#8220, Do you think this is the only earth? &#8221, Sterns asks. &#8220, We&#8217, ill see what happens when you have to defend this position &#8230, from the others. &#8221,

On one hand, Sterns &#8217, s reveal is a bit of a let down. We&#8217, have known that there are other universes. Pop tradition is choking on multiverses. Heck, this present period of the MCU is part of the Universe Story, a story that includes Spider-Man: No Method Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool &amp, Wolverine. The Leader&#8217, s reveal seems clear and Sam seems decrease on the uptake around, even if there&#8217, s no cause for most people on the perfect truth Earth-616 to know about these kingdoms.

On the other, Stern&#8217, s caution is n&#8217, t just that there are other worlds. Additionally, it &#8217 is important to note that these other worlds are a risk and that there are heroes who would fight against them. That makes a more in-depth comparison to the Secret War story, which was published by Marvel Comics in 2015, and that will serve as inspiration for the next two Avengers movies, Doomsday and Secret Wars.

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Uncovering the Surprise War

Secret Wars, which was written by Jonathan Hickman, really begins with his Fantastic Four operate in 2009, moves up through his work on Avengers and New Avengers in 2013, and wraps up with Key Wars in 2015. In a situation where Earths from two different challenges start to step into one another, Reed Richards describes an &#8220, Incursion, &#8221, interplanetary conflict. After eight hours, the Planets and their respective worlds are destroyed after each invasion.

The New Avengers sections of the Key Wars story deals with attempts by the Illuminati of Earth-616&#8212, a key group of prominent people that includes Richards, Iron Man, Namor, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, and Beast/Professor X of the X-Men&#8212, to save their world. Along the way, the team encounters both good and evil people from other worlds who want to annihilate our planet to save their own. Although first opposed to the idea, the determined Illuminati finally follow suit and launch attacks on other worlds to save Earth-616.

New Avengers is a grim story, one filled with a creeping horror that &#8217, s more threatening than anything the MCU has done before. But we&#8217, ve now heard allusion to attacks before, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Not only do the Illuminati of Earth-838 featured in that film refer to incursions, but the post credit scene finds Clea ( Charlize Theron ) arriving to recruit Strange in a battle against the Incursions.

Also, the title of the next Avengers video suggests that the MCU soldiers will cope with the attacks in a way similar to that of the Marvel Comics &#8217, soldiers. Most of the heroes in the last issues of Avengers and New Avengers either accept their unavoidable close or pass away trying to avoid it. One warrior and one criminal are able to see the solution. With the help of the all-powerful Molecule Guy, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom take the fight to the Beyonders, the god-like engineers of the world.

The pair defeats the Beyonders to the point where they lose their extraordinary abilities. Unusual tries to use such amazing energy, but Doom does never. He recreates the world to make himself God and uses it to save our planet.

The final installment of the Secret Wars series follows Reed Richards and other soldiers ‘ battles to restore points to how they were in Doom&#8217’s tenure as God Emperor of a newly designed Marvel Universe.

Preparing for Doomsday

Given the Leader&#8217, s warning, it sounds like Avengers: Doomsday did show Marvel&#8217, s soldiers fighting with those of other challenges, all trying to protect their Earth from the attacks. And like in the cartoons, Robert Downey Jr., who plays Doctor Doom, may create an outrageous choice to remake his world.

If that &#8217, s the circumstance, Earth &#8217, s Mightiest Heroes may face their greatest challenge yet in Avengers: Key War. The Leader should have given Sam the warning right away so he can begin assembling his Avengers and perhaps fixing issues.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in venues.

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