PREVIEW: New Avengers #31

[CBR News]

Who is Rabum Alal? He who set off a chain of events that has led to the systematic destruction of every single universe and the death of everything. But what is the identity of this mysterious destructor? The question that has alluded all will finally be answered this March in the pages of NEW AVENGERS #31 - from blockbuster writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Kev Walker!

The Avengers and the Illuminati race against the clock to halt the death of their universe, yet the source of the Incursions remains a mystery. But not for long! Another signpost on the road to Secret Wars has been planted and you do not want to miss this issue! At long last, Rabul Alal's identity and the origin of the Incursions revealed in March's NEW AVENGERS #31!



Full preview here.

[PlanetaryDevastation]

They're doing previews for this book?! I'm so excited for March. Look like Stephen's group got the Swans.

[UltimateTy]

I kinda wish we got more from Doctor Strange's side from the time he disappeared to TRO

[Mutant God]

Oh, I thought it was because of the Age of Ultron time thing or the Cancerverse being wiped out, so it was this guy (or creature?)?

[frostywontons]

I am so ready for this issue. Don't think I can contain my boner until March.

[vitruvian]

Oh, I thought it was because of the Age of Ultron time thing or the Cancerverse being wiped out, so it was this guy (or creature?)?

It might help to read the story, since Rabum Alal has been mentioned like a hundred times so far...

[useridgoeshere]

Do they get these from Marvel? They didn't even spell the character's name the same in a two paragraph solicit.

[PlanetaryDevastation]

I kinda wish we got more from Doctor Strange's side from the time he disappeared to TRO

I do too but I suppose they want us to fill in the blanks ourselves.

[Dabpool]

This is going to be some shit

[_underscore]

This is going to be some shit

The way you kids talk today, I can't tell if that's a slam or a compliment.

[vitruvian]

I do too but I suppose they want us to fill in the blanks ourselves.

That's reasonable to an extent, sure.... but take it too far and we might as well save our funds, skip the published comics, and just write MU fan fiction for ourselves.

[jphamlore]

Geometric floor pattern, arch in the door. If it is Isaac Newton, he may have reproduced a memory of part of Trinity College in his no space citadel.

[Superkreep]

Isn't that the new Unseen/Watcher Nick Fury on the cover there?

Could this was all have been Nick's fault?
Maybe he screwed something up during his time as "the man on the wall".

[Random4]

i honestly believe Rabum Alal is either Doom or an alternate Reed

[_underscore]

Isn't that the new Unseen/Watcher Nick Fury on the cover there?

Could this was all have been Nick's fault?
Maybe he screwed something up during his time as "the man on the wall".

I would certainly welcome ANY explanation at this point. Why hasn't any of this been happening before now? There has to be a reason why no one had ever heard of the word incursions before in the Marvel U for however many decades and somehow everything was fine; but now all of a sudden, every 15 minutes it's the end of the world and it must be dealt with.

Also, good luck making ANY story feel important after you've essentially run the "END OF THE UNIVERSE" doomsday scenario on a daily loop for about a year. ;-) We've seen Wolverine die, every possible Spider-Man fantasy team-up imaginable through Spider-Verse, we're seeing Hulk rip through all the other Hulks (rush-ending any debate there might have had about which was strongest), seen Dr Strange sell what's left of his soul to attain Godlike power, unlike anything we will ever see in a Dr Strange story again...

...this is what you call the "CLIMAX" of 75 years (or however long it's been) of storytelling.

There is absolutely no way to make a story feel important after that, for at least a few years... but that's the NEXT EIC's problem, right?

(That's right, I'm predicting Alonso is stepping down after he and Brevoort have reset -- and cashed in on -- everything.)