Imperial: House of X's Jonathan Hickman Reveals His Next Great Marvel Epic

Having fundamentally transformed the X-Men franchise and debuted a marque caller incarnation of the Ultimate Universe, writer Jonathan Hickman is gearing up for his adjacent large Marvel epic. Today Marvel Comics revealed caller details astir Imperial, a four-issue lawsuit bid that promises to reshape the cloth of the wider Marvel Universe.

Similar to however 2023's Ultimate Invasion paved the mode for the ongoing Ultimate Universe line, Imperial is designed to shingle up the presumption quo for Marvel's cosmic characters and laic the instauration for a caller enactment of comics. In this series, galore of the accepted powerfulness players successful the Marvel Universe volition beryllium destroyed oregon overthrown, leaving country for caller empires to emergence successful their place. The bid volition specifically halfway astir the Hulk family, Black Panther, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Nova Corps, and different cosmic kings and queens.

Imperial volition beryllium written by Hickman and drawn by Federico Vicentini (Miles Morales: Spider-Man) and Iban Coello (Venom). Hickman's Ultimate Spider-Man collaborator Marco Checchetto is drafting the covers for the series.

"I'm precise excited astir this task arsenic I’m evidently a immense instrumentality of each things Marvel Cosmic," Hickman said successful a statement. "The extremity present is to benignant of bash what we did with the caller Ultimate enactment for each of our abstraction titles, but having the setup publication (Imperial) beryllium much of an lawsuit than a world-building workout (like Ultimate Invasion). The creation squad is sidesplitting it, and we’re each conscionable precise excited for what’s happening successful this peculiar country of the Marvel Universe."

Based connected the screen and conception creation revealed truthful far, we tin infer definite things astir the large changes coming successful Imperial. It seems the Nova Corps volition beryllium decimated (again), portion Star-Lord looks to play a cardinal relation successful the conflict. It besides appears that an full household of Hulks volition instrumentality power of the bloody satellite of Sakaar. And fixed Black Panther's beingness successful the story, it's a harmless stake that the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda has a portion to play successful this conflict.

Imperial #1 volition beryllium released connected June 4, 2025. Let america cognize your theories astir the publication successful the comments below.

In different upcoming Marvel news, we're getting a caller Thunderbolts squad that includes Wolverine, Hulk, and Carnage, and we got an exclusive look astatine Daredevil: Cold Day successful Hell.

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