
The new storyline will be written by Jonathan Hickman with art by Esad Ribic, and is set to begin next year in May 2015.

And theoretically, had things progressed from there, that would have been the inciting incident that began the Incursions happening. There was also a very popular Secret Wars toy line as well. Reed and Nathaniel ended up there and they have a conflict with him, and by the end, that universe is destroyed. That story was all about (how) Doom had been knocked into a universe, and he took over the universe. Brevoort states:Īlmost nobody knows this, but the last issue of his Fantastic Four run would have been the inciting incident to Secret Wars had it not happened in Avengers. It turns out the conflict in this realm was going to kickstart the multiversal collapse.

The Fantastic Four later confronted Doom, taking away his control of this reality. In FF #16, Hickman and artists Nick Dragotta and Steve Epting set up Doctor Doom in his own hidden universe, planning to build a new empire in the devastated base of the Council of Reeds.

In an oral history of the event published by SKTCHD, Marvel editor Tom Brevoort and Jonathan Hickman discuss the original conception of the event, revealing that rather than the Beyonders, Secret Wars' central multiversal disaster - in which different realities crash together in an awe-inspiring cascade - was originally brought about by Doctor Doom. Related: Doctor Doom Changes Forever as Marvel Obliterates His Biggest Success
