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If you're a Marvel Comics fan, chances are you've heard of this big event called Avengers: Armageddon that's shaping up to rock the Marvel Universe this summer. Writer Chip Zdarsky has been working towards this cataclysmic event with two series, the ongoing Captain America series and upcoming miniseries Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon. And though Zdarsky has written events for Marvel before, he says that Armageddon is coming from a different sensibility. 

In the promotional art for Armageddon (which you can see to the side), Zdarsky has embraced simplicity over spectacle, contrasting the busy artwork of recent Marvel events like AXE: Judgment Day (no hate to AXE! It was a great event!). Because Armageddon is being promoted to us as so different from your typical Marvel event, it's only natural that it would be conceived in an atypical manner. In fact, it wasn't even intended as an event, originally.

Speaking to SKTCHD, Zdarsky said, "I just wrote a story that I thought was like big and cool and interesting. And then Marvel’s like, 'Oh wow, this is a cool event.' I’m like, I guess that’s what it’s called. And to make the event work, the Wolverine mini-series kind of cropped up in my head so we added that to it and it kind of ties into Cap, because it feels like a big thing."

As a comic book reader, my personal favorite crossover events are those that feel organic and have a genuinely interesting premise. Ultimately, while it's always cool to see our favorite heroes teaming up to fight the latest big bad, it's the story that keeps us reading, after all. If Chip Zdarsky thinks it's cool, chances are I will too. 

Avengers: Armageddon begins June 2026. 

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