Age of Marvels: New Universe – September 2020 Solicitations

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We present to you Age of Marvels: New Universe, a collection of all new fan-made issues on “sale” this month for SEPTEMBER 2020!

What is “Age of Marvels” and how does it work?

Age of Marvels is a fan fiction universe and solicitation game that has been in existence on the CBR boards for approximately eleven years! It has gone through several iterations and has survived forum reboots! The way it works is that “plotters” write short solicitations for monthly comic books! Then participants “buy” the books they want to read! The books with the most buys get rewards. Sounds fun, right? So let’s do this! Which of this month's solicits interest and excite you? Let us know by posting which books you'd pick up in the virtual Age of Marvels Store (this solicitation thread). You can pull as many as you'd like, but also consider your "virtual budget" when making your selections, as sales are used to reward our titles and plotters. Registers are open all month and sales are tallied at the end of the month.

Absolutely anyone can make purchases right here in this thread - so please do!. It’s free and is basically just saying “I’d read this” or “I like this!” So let us know! There has never been a more excelsior time to join the fun!

If you want more information on Age of Marvels or are interested in plotting yourself, please visit us at the Age of Marvels Bullpen Thread.

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Behold! Our monthly archive!
This is the repository of our prior work; a compilation of all the monthly solicitation posts since the forum was reset in 2014.

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Age of Marvels and Next Dawn have an OFFICIAL WIKI!

Now, this month’s solicitations:

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CIVIL WAR #3
Event Miniseries
Plot by EXCITER
Written by FRANK MILLER & ALAN MOORE
Art by SEAN GORDON MURPHY & MIKE MIGNOLA
“SPLINTERING URU”
The Civil War has claimed its first high-profile casualty: Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier. As the cry “Remember the Soldier” rings out, his allies swear his death shall not be in vain!
Avenging his fallen brother and bolstered by Vanir reinforcements, Captain America leads the charge and pushes back against the Asgardian Loyalists’ invasion! Now America is on the offensive, its soldiers, spies, and superheroes not merely defending their homeland but also bringing the fight to Alfheim, Nidavellir, and Jotunheim!
This unexpected rally is enough to force Thor back to the negotiating table, this time opposite Steve Rogers, Thaddeus Ross, and the All-Mother Freyja. Yet these negotiations shine the first light on cracks within this alliance. King Thor has grown weary of this endless conflict... and its cost in friends and family. Should Freyja agree to relinquish control of occupied Asgard, Thor is prepared to offer a massive concession his father never would have considered: he shall grant all realms independence from the crown, permitting the Vanir and their allies the freedom to rule themselves as they see fit. He proposes to let freedom ring, undoing Odin’s imperialist conquest from ages past. Cap is satisfied that the revolution succeeded... yet, to his shock, Freyja is not and refuses the proposal. Was this Civil War ever really about freedom - or was it always about revenge?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99


AGENTS OF A.R.C.A.N.A. #21 *Civil War Tie-In*
Plot by NX01A
Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art by JEROME OPEÑA
Theme Song: Demons & Wizards - Down Where I Am
“RELEASE THE KRAKENS!” part 2 “CLASH OF THE TITANS”
•In the middle of an enchanted arctic sea, white supremacist wizard OGMUND TUSSOCK rides HAFGUFA the Sea Mist, largest monster in the sea!
•DOCTOR STRANGE, DOCTOR VOODOO, ELSA BLOODSTONE, and a gravely weakened MAN-THING are nearby on the rapidly sinking not-island LYNGBAKR the Heather-Back, largest whale in the world! Voodoo has clashed with Tussock a few times but never on this scale. How did the White Wizard gain control of these leviathans?
•When Elsa cheerfully begins shotgun blasting Ogmund's signature Norse algiz and elhaz runes carved into the trees, heather bushes, and standing stones, Man-Thing feels the great whale beneath them coming free of the White Wizard's geas.
•And so, with their puny humans atop them, the titans tussle!
32 PGs./ Rated M...$3.99


All-WINNERS SQUAD vs. LIBERTY LEGION #4 of 4
Miniseries
Plot by EXCITER
Written by JOE KELLY
Art by RYAN OTTLEY
“ENDGAME”
Whoever won the contest between the hand-picked superteams of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the Grandmaster ensured he would be the true winner! For with both men trapped on Battleworld and beset by menaces from the worst dimension in the multiverse, Earth 2020, it leaves the presidency of the United States of America to be filled by a true Elder of the Universe. No, not Biden... but the Grandmaster himself! (“Bigly illegal. Show me his birth certificate!”).
The ultimate game, the presidential election, is now set to be taken, through an obscure legal loophole regarding delegates, by the ultimate gamesman, En Dwi Gast… and his platform is horrible!
Healthcare coverage decided by gladiatorial combat!
Police abolished and replaced with Sakaarian guards!
Civil disagreement resolved through mandatory obedience disks!
It is up to both U.S. Agent’s All-Winners Squad and Daisy Johnson’s Liberty Legion to team up and stop him! But can they come together? (“Avengers ah… you know… do the thing!”). Or is it already too late? This is the final round in the Contest of Champions… winner take all!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

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AMAZING FANTASY #9 *Civil War Tie-In*
Written by J.M.DEMATTEIS
Plot by CAPTCLEGHORN
Art by SARA PICHELLI
“ARMIES OF ONE” starring Spider-Man
S. Stephen Seymour is principal of Peter Parker’s High School in Queens. Next year shall mark his final year before retirement. His biggest concern was the renaming of the school to Steve Ditko High School, but the American/Asgardian conflict has gotten all his attention. The biggest issue is the proposed setting up of a JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps) at the school. Students and faculty both are on both sides of the issue with ace student Gwen Stacy (wanting to get some way to avoid another hostage crisis like she was in in the last few issues) and star athlete Flash Thompson leading the push for the group at Ditko High.
Principal Seymour’s time in Viet Nam has colored his life and he finds himself supporting students Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson is the fight to keep Ditko High a military free school. Parker is also trying to use his connections with the daily bugle to get some video published, but can Pete keep his objectivity enough to show a fair presentation
And in our Fantasy/Horror back-up…
Written by GARTH ENNIS
Plot by CAPTCLEGHORN
Art by WAYNE VANSANT
“ULIK? YEAH, LICK THIS!”
Willie and Joe are two American soldiers fighting in the US Army against an Asgardian force outside Washington D.C. See how the 21st century army does things.
32 Pgs./ Rated T...$3.99

ASTONISHING ANT-MAN AND THE WASP #17
Written by CHRISTOS GAGE
Plot by DEKU
Art by DAN MORA
Cover by DAN MORA
A cake is missing from the Pym Labs Fridge and nobody is admitting they took it. We go through the daily life of everybody at the lab to get to the bottom of this mystery.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

CAPTAIN AMERICA #21 *Civil War Tie-In*
Plot by EXCITER
Written by FRANK MILLER
Art by SEAN GORDON MURPHY
“REVOLUTIONARY”
”Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none." - Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. You might be labeled as “Strength Class 100” by the nerds who put together whole handbooks on that kind of stuff, but you’re still equal to any other man or woman in the eyes of God and America’s Constitution.
Steve Rogers thought his side in the Civil War was fighting for that equal freedom, but now he’s starting to suspect his allies had less noble motivations. The Vanir don’t just want freedom. They want revenge on Asgard for acts that happened millennia ago. That isn’t a cause America needs to champion. Has Steve helped make the terrible mistake Washington and Jefferson warned of, getting his nation involved in entangling alliances with foreign powers?
He’s about to find out, as he confronts Vanaheim’s general, Balder the Brave! Is the half Vanir/half Asgardian son of Odin fully aware of the plans of his mother, Freyja? And will he fight to carry on her true dream of vengeance?
Plus: A Frontlines Op-Ed by Sally Floyd, “Don’t be Misled by the Thunder and Lightning: Vanaheim Citizens Voice Mostly Peaceful Opposition to Asgardian Stormtroopers.”
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99


CIVIL WAR: AGENTS OF A.R.C.A.N.A. vs. UNCANNY X-MEN #2
Tie-In Miniseries
Plot by NX01A
Written by KIERON GILLEN
Art by J. H. WILLIAMS III
Theme Song: Richard Wagner - Ride Of The Valkyries
“RAGNARÖKALYPSE” part 2 “ASTEROID A”
•Quick thinking and quicker running by super-fast QUICKSILVER saves his sister, the SCARLET WITCH, from being sucked out into space from aboard what their father, MAGNETO, would call (after sealing the destroyed wall with metallic ore) Asteroid M. The rock in high Earth orbit is now, as PROFESSOR X explains while telepathically sedating Wanda, under new management.
•He has had many names over the millennia: En Sabah Nur, •-|A|-•... The name that stuck was Apokálypsis but you can call him APOCALYPSE! Back when the Norsemen knew and dreaded him as gray, unkillable Ragnarøkkr, he and his mutant kind were called Ú-Fólk, the un-people, the ex-men. Unto the Ú-Fólk, Apocalypse will deliver new heavens and a new Earth. He has his Adam and Eve, now he just has to wipe the old heavens and old Earth clean of life for them to thrive!
•Another not so touching family reunion occurs when MAGIK finds her long lost brother is Apocalypse's right hand, and his Uru-enhanced metal form is impervious to the Scarlet Witch and Magik's magic!
•And should the combined mutant and magic might defeat this COLOSSUS, Apocalypse has another champion with bloody red hair and an enchanted Uru hammer that cries out for bones to crush!
32 PGs./ Rated M...$3.99

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CIVIL WAR: HULK #3
Tie-In Miniseries
Plot by EXCITER
Written by MARK MILLAR
Art by GREG CAPULLO
“MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK, BERSERKER”
In order to put up a fight against the hulked-out soldiers of Gamma Force, Bruce Banner dug up the bones of ancient Norse “berserkers” to see if they held the secret to Asgardian-inspired proto-Hulk transformations as he hypothesized. But there must have been some magic in that old berserker skeleton he found, because now things are getting really weird...
Puny Banner always struggled with dissociative identity disorder - multiple personalities. Besides Bruce and Hulk, there have been Joe Fixit and Doc Green, amongst others. But now there is a new personality in town: Sterkr Grœnn Maðr, a Viking berserker that likes to do exactly what you’d assume a Viking berserker likes to do. Is Sterkr a product of Bruce’s fragmented psyche or the actual possessing spirit of a long dead warrior? Either way, he’s invasive and quickly becoming a dominant persona. Bruce and Hulk will have to team up in their mindscape to wrestle control of their big green body from the Norseman, while the world at large must contend... with Viking Hulk! As far as Nordic monsters go, Grendel ain’t got $&@# on him!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

CIVIL WAR: IRON PATRIOTS #3 (of 4)
Tie-In Miniseries
Written by JOSHUA DYSART
Plot by MARVELL2100
Art by SALVADOR LARROCA
Cover By Iron Man Legend BOB LAYTON!
“HERE COMETH THE DESTROYER!”
It's a heavy metal showdown! The Iron Patriots have defeated an army but now they face Asgard’s most powerful weapon, The Destroyer, whose fists can shatter mountains and can disintegrate any foe with but a look from his visor! The balance of the war lies here! But what can Tony and his allies do against such a monstrous foe who has never met defeat? Five must become one as the Iron Patriots unite to form ...The Iron Shield!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99

CIVIL WAR: SORCERERS OF THE STARS #3 of 4
Tie-In Miniseries
Written by JEFF PARKER
Plot by H-E-D
Art by HAEMI JANG
“PRISON SONG”
The Sorcerers of the Stars find themselves neck-deep in Draugr in the heart of Niffleheim!
But the team seems more concerned with bickering among themselves, as grievances old and new come to the surface.
When the others are captured by Draugr mages, Ika and Magique must work together to save them; will they be able to set aside their mutual disdain long enough to do so?
Things in the prison are just as tense, considering Mantis just broke Moondragon’s heart by committing to Mantis.
Star-Lord tries his very hardest to stay out of the conversation.
All this would be bad enough if it didn’t mean that Sorcerers of the Stars are neglecting to stop the resurrection of Cul Borson...
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

CIVIL WAR: THE ULTIMATES #3 of 4
Tie-In Miniseries
Written by KIERON GILLEN
Plot by H-E-D
Art by ACO
“STEP”
It’s Marvel versus Marvel as an Ultimate defects to Thor’s side!
Adam Brashear has fought for the United States many times over the years — but that won’t stop him from doing what he thinks is right.
The God of Thunder has convinced the Blue Marvel that Asgard is on the right side of history.
But Carol Danvers remains a loyal right hand to Captain America. How long before these two powerhouses come face to face?
And what side is Spectrum on?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99