Since we’re months away from 2026, Marvel Comics is hyping up a major event it’s got planned for the Avengers.
That would be Armageddon, first teased last week as an event on par with Avengers: Disassembled in terms of signficance. All that’s know is that Captain America writer Chip Zdarsky will be at the helm, and that it’ll involve the Origin Boxes seen in the soon-to-end Ultimate Universe. These boxes created different heroes in the Ultimate universe like Spider-Man and Luke Cage, and in the pages of Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion, Miles Morales has recently brought several of them over, which is clearly gonna cause some problems.
Armageddon will also build on threads established in Zdarky and Valerio Schiti’s current Captain America run, which’ll jump to the present day with its sixth issue. Instead of focusing on a team of super-soldier Captains from other countries, the upcoming story arc now sees the return of Nick Fury Jr. and his “smaller, leaner” S.H.I.E.L.D. The new group only consists of a handful of agents, but Fury’s got on them on hand to retrieve a stockpile of Latverian weapons after One World After Doom, which puts them at odds with Cap. You can see designs for the S.H.I.E.L.D. characters and the book’s covers down below.
Speaking to the story change, Zdarsky explained he initially had a “different idea in mind” for the book’s supporting players. But “when the possibility of a new S.H.I.E.L.D. came along, we just hit the ground running. S.H.I.E.L.D. is Marvel. Bringing them back with a new mandate and scope has been incredibly fun—they’re starting small, but they, and Fury, have big plans.”
Zdarsky’s got at least one more story in the lead up to Armageddon, and that’s Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon. Drawn by Luca Maresca, the four-issue miniseries finds Wolverine fighting the reborn Weapon X program and its new corporate leader PrimeWarrior. Zdarsky called the miniseries “essential” to Armageddon, saying Wolverine will “kick off the end of everything.”
The “Road to Armageddon” begins with Captain America #6 on January 21, 2026, followed by Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon #1 on February 18. Avengers: Armageddon will begin in full that summer.
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