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Avengers Armageddon reading order: How to read Marvels upcoming event

Get ready for Armageddon, the new Marvel comic series event.

Chris Arrant
Guides by Chris Arrant, Editor-in-Chief
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The Avengers are ending.

Or that's what we're being led to believe will happen in Marvel Comics' upcoming marquee event, Avengers Armageddon. Launching this June as a five-issue event, this series is marketed setting up "a transformative shakeup" to the Avengers, and setting up "a new era" for them that hasn't been seen since 2004's 'Avengers Dissassembled' which saw the team broken up (and in some cases killed!) by the Scarlet Witch, only to return in a modern-day updated team framed as the New Avengers.

Veteran Marvel writer Chip Zdarsky (Batman, Spectacular Spider-Man, Sex Criminals) is heading up Avengers Armageddon, teeing off his current Captain America run and into a summer where the main Avengers series will be over, therefore leaving room for something else. He is joined by his current Captain America art team of Frank Alpizar and Delio Diaz (Doomed 2099, Terminus Veil, Time Sensitive) and cover artist Dike Ruan.

Here's everything you need to know about Avengers: Armageddon.

What will Avengers: Armageddon be about?

Avengers: Armageddon #2 cover
Image credit: Dike Ruan (Marvel Comics)

Last year, Marvel's heroes fought against a new initiative by Doctor Doom to take over the world, outlined in the 2025 event One World Under Doom. Good news: they beat him. Bad news? Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross (aka Red Hulk) took over Doom's homeland of Latveria, showing an intention to do much of the same. Since then, those intentions have become tensions in The Will of Doom one-shot and in the current Captain America run, and then began to boil over in the current Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon series, which has revealed that the Weapon X program has been revived, creating soldiers for an impending war.

"When the Avengers assemble against [Red Hulk], explosive escalations will force them to unleash a power that changes how the world views their mightiest heroes forever," reads a Marvel marketing text for Avengers Armageddon. "This pivotal chapter will lead directly into a new era of Avengers starting later this year."


How many issues will Avengers: Armageddon have?

The core Avengers: Armageddon series will be five issues. If you count its official crossover with the Captain America series and the prequel Armageddon/X-Men #1 Comics Giveaway Day Edition one-shot that expands to 11 issues. Digging even deeper, Avengers: Armageddon series writer Chip Zdarsky says that several recent issues of various series have acted as prequels/prologues, and those add up to 11 issues. So while the Avengers: Armageddon machete order is the five issues of the main series, to read the whole intended storyline it'd be 22 issues in total.

Marvel Armageddon reading order

Avengers: Armageddon teasers
Image credit: Chip Zdarsky (Marvel Comics)

A wise man once said the past is prologue. And in the case of Avengers Armageddon, although it doesn't formally begin until June, it's already being set up in comic stories that began last December, according to Zdarsky. With that in mind, we're assembling (and updating!) a growing checklist of all the stories to get into Avengers: Armageddon.

Avengers Armageddon reading order (prologue)


Avengers Armageddon reading order (core)

Avengers: Armageddon #1 cover excerpt
Image credit: Dike Ruan (Marvel Comics)

 

Avengers Armageddon collections checklist

Avengers: Armageddon #1 variant cover excerpt by Jerome Opena
Image credit: Jerome Opena (Marvel Comics)

Look for even more to be announced for Avengers Armageddon in the coming months.

Want more? Make sure you've read our list of all the best Marvel Comics stories of all time.

Chris Arrant

Chris Arrant: Chris Arrant is the Popverse's Editor-in-Chief. He has written about pop culture for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel, Newsarama, CBR, and more. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. (He/him)

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