It's almost certain that Masked Raider is
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Jason Halloway. He has Two-Gun Kid guns that Masked Raider has and he was introduced during earlier big anniversary celebrations, but he wasn't used.
Though that's not really Empyre plot in any way. He wasn't connected to the event aside from Incoming which was a general future tease book.
From what I've read they've already snuck in how they're going to undo Nick as The Unseen. **************************SPOILER***************** ** It was apparently revealed that it was a time traveling Cosmic Ghost Rider who actually shot Uatu, and not Nick.
I hope Slott really has plans for the Reckoning War and didn't just use the "there shall be a reckoning" line to troll old fans of his She Hulk, GLA and ATI series.
Bringing back the old, killing the young: that's the Marvel way
It's not really a flex for me to say I got this right, because it was obvious, but
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comi...s-in-s-w-o-r-d