Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jul 25, 2015 22:10:09 GMT -6
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COMIC LEGEND: The Beyonder created the New Universe.
STATUS: I’m Going With False
With Marvel in the middle of a new Secret Wars, I figured I’d deal with a long-running rumor regarding Secret Wars II, the final series with the Beyonder by his creator, writer Jim Shooter.
The first Secret Wars mini-series was written by Jim Shooter and it involved a mysterious powerful being known as the Beyonder who brings a bunch of superheroes and supervillains to a Battleworld and then forces them to fight each other.
Two years later, in 1985, Shooter began a sequel series. Now the Beyonder has come to Earth to learn what it is to be human. Hijnx ensue, and in the finale of the series, published in January of 1986, the Beyonder determines that he might have to comprehend mortality if he truly wants to know what it is to be a human…
After a series of resurrections, the Beyonder decides to recreate himself as a human, albeit with the Beyonder’s powers. The heroes of Earth decide to stop this, and it ultimately results in the Beyonder’s death…
In 1986, Shooter helped launch the “New Universe,” a separate line of Marvel Comics built around the premise of “What if people got super powers in the real world?”
For years, fans have assumed that the end of Secret Wars II was suggesting that the Beyonder helped create this New Universe, especially since the event that gave people powers in the New Universe was called the “White Event,” and that certainly was a whole lot of white in Secret Wars II.
Jim Shooter, however, says that:
The New Universe wasn’t supposed to be related to SW or the Beyonder.
In addition, the New Universe launched seven months after the release of Secret Wars II, so if Shooter really planned on having the Beyonder lead directly into New Universe, I would tend to think he’d have the New Universe launch around the same time that Secret Wars II ended. That he didn’t is a major reason why I am willing to believe him when he says that there was no connection intended. The other reason I’m willing to believe him is that there isn’t really any reason for him to not tell the truth about it. If he DID intend for the Beyonder’s death to be the creation of the New Universe, why deny it now? I think it is likely more a case of Shooter simply addressing a lot of similar themes in his work, so it makes it easy to think that different works of his are interrelated.
Thanks to Doug Nelson for sending me the Shooter confirmation!
COMIC LEGEND: The Beyonder created the New Universe.
STATUS: I’m Going With False
With Marvel in the middle of a new Secret Wars, I figured I’d deal with a long-running rumor regarding Secret Wars II, the final series with the Beyonder by his creator, writer Jim Shooter.
The first Secret Wars mini-series was written by Jim Shooter and it involved a mysterious powerful being known as the Beyonder who brings a bunch of superheroes and supervillains to a Battleworld and then forces them to fight each other.
Two years later, in 1985, Shooter began a sequel series. Now the Beyonder has come to Earth to learn what it is to be human. Hijnx ensue, and in the finale of the series, published in January of 1986, the Beyonder determines that he might have to comprehend mortality if he truly wants to know what it is to be a human…
After a series of resurrections, the Beyonder decides to recreate himself as a human, albeit with the Beyonder’s powers. The heroes of Earth decide to stop this, and it ultimately results in the Beyonder’s death…
In 1986, Shooter helped launch the “New Universe,” a separate line of Marvel Comics built around the premise of “What if people got super powers in the real world?”
For years, fans have assumed that the end of Secret Wars II was suggesting that the Beyonder helped create this New Universe, especially since the event that gave people powers in the New Universe was called the “White Event,” and that certainly was a whole lot of white in Secret Wars II.
Jim Shooter, however, says that:
The New Universe wasn’t supposed to be related to SW or the Beyonder.
In addition, the New Universe launched seven months after the release of Secret Wars II, so if Shooter really planned on having the Beyonder lead directly into New Universe, I would tend to think he’d have the New Universe launch around the same time that Secret Wars II ended. That he didn’t is a major reason why I am willing to believe him when he says that there was no connection intended. The other reason I’m willing to believe him is that there isn’t really any reason for him to not tell the truth about it. If he DID intend for the Beyonder’s death to be the creation of the New Universe, why deny it now? I think it is likely more a case of Shooter simply addressing a lot of similar themes in his work, so it makes it easy to think that different works of his are interrelated.
Thanks to Doug Nelson for sending me the Shooter confirmation!