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Ahead of this winter's new Avengers movie and new Avengers comic series, Marvel needs to give them something to avenge... so they're disassembling the Marvel Universe.

This summer's Avengers: Armageddon event series from Marvel Comics has now been revealed (or is it spoiled by a press release?) to culminate with, in the publisher's own words, "a broken world" and a "dramatically transformed Marvel Universe."

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Revealed as part of the announcement of the next major story after Avengers: Armageddon, the five-issue series will find "the world order completely rewritten," with a newly assembled Avengers team doing so under the mission "to avenge the Marvel Universe." These heroes, however, aren't seen as saviors or even heroes. Because, according to Marvel, however this 'Marvel U disassembled' incident occurs, the public at large on Earth "has more reason than ever not to trust them."

Chip Zdarsky is the writer of both Avengers: Armageddon and the relaunched ongoing Avengers series to follow, with his Daredevil partner Marco Checchetto joining him on that endeavor.

“It’s obviously a massive honor getting to write the world’s greatest super hero team! And after what happens in Avengers: Armageddon, this lineup is angry as hell and ready to avenge," Zdarsky says in the Avengers series' announcement.

In Shakespeare's The Tempest, one of the characters says, "Whereof what's past is prologue; what to come, in yours and my discharge." But now with Marvel's goal to promote not just what's next, but what's after that as well, not only is the past prologue, but so is the present and near future.

Avengers: Armageddon #1 (of 5) by Zdarsky, Delio Diaz, and Frank Alpizar launches on June 10.

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