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Marvel's INFINITY is Coming - First Contact at FCBD 2013

Thanos is coming back and it won't be good news for the Marvel Universe.

Free Comic Book Day is coming up. This year's annual event will take place on Saturday, May 4. Each year, publishers release special 'free' comics (which your friendly neighborhood comic shops actually purchases to give away).

This year, Marvel is planning on unleashing the beginning of a a new story - INFINITY.

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The biggest super heroes in comics today – the Avengers, X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, Fantastic Four, Inhumans, Superior Spider-Man & more!

The most dangerous threat in the Marvel Universe – Thanos!

The grandest Marvel Comics event of all time - INFINITY!

This May for Free Comic Book Day, prepare yourselves for the greatest battle for survival ever waged in the Marvel Universe as Marvel marches towards Infinity! In this all-new story by the blockbuster creative team of Jonathan Hickman and Jim Cheung, witness the opening shots of the war that will be heard around the galaxy. Plus, get a sneak peek behind a major Marvel release that hasn’t been announced yet and relive Thanos’ first solo story.

With the entire Marvel Universe on the brink of intergalactic war, no fan can miss this year’s Free Comic Book Day!

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2013: INFINITY

Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN

Pencils & Cover by JIM CHEUNG

ON SALE – MAY 4, 2013!

You'll want to be sure to get to your local participating comic shop early on May 4th to grab your copy. Be sure to thank them and try actually buying some other stuff to help them out.

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Holly crap :O

Is Adam Warlock still dead?

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nice nice

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Did Thanos just reality punch with his face?

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Edited By mrzero1982pt2

why marvel... WHY? WHY? i swear, you can not look a day online without seeing marvel pump out a new event to try to get more money. STOP IT! can we have one year where we just have self contained storylines?!?! heck, AvX was boring and did not warrant a 75 DOLLAR hardcover which is now being split into two different trade paperbacks which will be horrifically overpriced!  

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@Cafeterialoca: Superboy Prime had to use his fist. Thanos uses his face.

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@mikeclark1982: By the way, this issue is FREE.

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Awesome. Interesting to see Ex Nihilo in there.

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@mikeclark1982: i just wish they'd wait until Age of Ultron is over before advertising this.

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@mikeclark1982 said:

why marvel... WHY? WHY? i swear, you can not look a day online without seeing marvel pump out a new event to try to get more money. STOP IT! can we have one year where we just have self contained storylines?!?! heck, AvX was boring and did not warrant a 75 DOLLAR hardcover which is now being split into two different trade paperbacks which will be horrifically overpriced!

Yeah, Marvel. Stop making money, ya dumb business.

Seriously, I get event fatigue, too. They sell, though, We're also overlooking a point here.

A Hickman-helmed COSMIC themed event? Are you effing essing me? That's why I'm excited. I'm just about sick to death of the movies informing the comics. IF the movie-goers are too lazy to read comics, then let that be that. Stop changing all our ish, Marvel.

THANOS comes back, in a COSMIC event with the GAUNTLET? HMM! I WONDER WHY!

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I will say this, if the next event is Thanos getting the gauntlet again....that's uninspired. Why not try something new? Something more creative?

Recycling an already popular plot isn't going to bring anything new to the table. I mean, are we going to have Civil War 2 if the Marvel movies are thinking about a Civil War film?

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I have faith in Hickman to make this into more a recycled event.

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I hope Thanos yells "OH YEAH" as he busts through reality like a football team running through a paper banner.

@mikeclark1982: Like you said, Marvel does all these events for money, and it works. Every issue of a major event is always the top seller every month, and they're in an industry that's fighting to keep it's head above water, so they gotta do what they gotta do. And honestly, the only thing I don't like about major events is how regular ongoing books have to break from their own storylines to tie into them. Thankfully, Age of Ultron looks like it's mostly breaking from that trend, so if I didn't feel like following it, I won't be forced to anyway by reading my regular crop of books. If this does too, then I couldn't care less. Go nuts, Marvel.

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Looks good.

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Wow, a lot of bitching here

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Let me ask, how many suspected this was going to happen when the big heads of the Illuminate decided they would remake the Infinity Gauntlet?

That said, it's news like these (announcing an event when it's predecessor hasn't even started yet) that makes me appreciate those books that stay out of events.

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I'm still trying to get over Spider-Man being dead. Oh wait, he's not DEAD dead? So he is "Haunt"ing Doc Spock? And is it time for Age of Ultron or did I miss that? And I should clear all this up before the summer time happenings in Spider-Man aka a return to Spider-Island or some-such. And here I thought it was all about Marvel "NOW"..............(or is it The Heroic Age?)

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And so begins the age of Thanos.

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I'm excited!

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It looks good but i have to wonder if that´s superior spiderman alongside cap then I think he didn´t get fired from the avengers.

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oh look marvel is announcing another event before its current and upcoming events even take off...FFS we get it you like money...oh well atleast Cheung and Hickman are some of my favs (even though cheung still doesnt know how to draw lips by the look of it)

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Hope the real Nova comes back!

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Save us Richard Rider, you're our only hope....

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@Danial79 said:

Awesome. Interesting to see Ex Nihilo in there.

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Lets see what thanos is up to this time , i mean he did all already so i am waiting.

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With Hickman writing it wont be bad

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Oh Snap! Thanos is Back!

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As long as Thanos is cool, and not a chump again...

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I saw the teaser with Thanos' face and just groaned, then I scrolled and saw Hickman's name and almost backflipped with joy. Hickman is able to pull off big events and make them feel properly epic, like an event should. His FF run (especially forever) really felt like an event book, while being just a self contained story, so an official Johnathan Hickman penned cosmic event is probably the best thing I've heard in a while. I'm very heavily event fatigued, but this has convinced me to give marvel one last chance.

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@HushoftheWind: Didn't work out so well last time he tried.

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NIce I'm down for this and this issue is free!!!

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Awesome. However, I do hope this isn't just a re-tooling of the Infinity Gauntlet arc. That was an all-time great and shouldn't be piled on with some hacked up, 2.0 version of the story. I hope this is something new. They'd better get Thanos right.

For something new, it would be cool if Thanos was trying to take over an entire dimension. Put him up against a ruler of a dimension like Cyttorak, Nightmare or Thog, and see how/if he can become the absolute ruler of that dimension. Then take that dimension and its resources and use it against Earth's dimension.

But as the title is Infinity, it will likely have to do with the gems or the infinity well.

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I guess the Illuminati might get a big role in this.

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@mikeclark1982: Hopefully this will be like the other infinity events and just a very well written short self contained 6 issue series.

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Oh God I hope they do something new with Thanos instead of giving him a glowing orb of Infinite power or a flashy gauntlet that could destroy the universe.

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@entropy_aegis:

I hope that he keeps his character development this time. Its not so much that I don't want him to do the same thing because its repetitive. I don't want him to do the same thing because I would hope that he has learned his lesson by now.

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@mk111 said:

@entropy_aegis:

I hope that he keeps his character development this time. Its not so much that I don't want him to do the same thing because its repetitive. I don't want him to do the same thing because I would hope that he has learned his lesson by now.

Unfortunately comics these days are dictated by status quo.

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Great now I have to spend more money when the event comes out.

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I really hope this event is short and doesn't tie into series I buy. I'm already going to be getting Age Of Ultron and was hoping there'd be a good gap before another event starts. It'd be nice if virtually every Marvel title wasn't £3.99 too.

I'll see what the plot is before considering it. I'm not a big fan of Jim Cheung, so the story'll have to be good.

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@entropy_aegis:

Yeah, I suppos you're right. Its just that after reading Marvel Universe: The End, I was very pleased with the development that Thanos got.

And then Assemble wrecked it. I hope this rectifies that.

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Hickman

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@Loki9876 said:

Hickman

is not good enough to make me buy a decompressed event which is being redundant. That's how I would finish that sentence. Now if it's only 5 or 6 issues sure.

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@spinningbirdcake said:

@Loki9876 said:

Hickman

is not good enough to make me buy a decompressed event which is being redundant. That's how I would finish that sentence. Now if it's only 5 or 6 issues sure.

you might be right I'll wait for the reviews.

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@V_Scarlotte_Rose said:

I really hope this event is short and doesn't tie into series I buy. I'm already going to be getting Age Of Ultron and was hoping there'd be a good gap before another event starts. It'd be nice if virtually every Marvel title wasn't £3.99 too.

I'll see what the plot is before considering it. I'm not a big fan of Jim Cheung, so the story'll have to be good.

I've always wondered why comic companies haven't gone the way of Magazines. Add a few more Ads to get revenue to increase either the book size or to decrease the pricing. Could even to banner advertisements like DC/WB does with their covers. And they could also get additional revenue from digital comics by similarly adding a few Ads unless you have say a premium membership to Comixology then the comic companies would get some of the premium membership revenue. Just a thought.

OT: This should be fun, but since Marvel has made every book an X-Men/Avengers title, every Story Arc will now include similar titles. This means instead of nice small stories in each book, you get the grand cross-overs that force customers to buy additional titles. If I'm not mistaken they have 3 Arcs planned so far this year.

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you had me at Hickman and Cheung

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I want it.

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@Loki9876 said:

you might be right I'll wait for the reviews.

I hope I'm wrong. I'm probably going to skip Age of Ultron so I might be more interested once this starts up. I will say if I had to pick a writer for an event it Hickman would probably be number 1 on my list.

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For the first time in a very long time, I'm actually interested in a Marvel event. Thanos, Hickman and cosmic stuff makes for a wicked combination. As long as Thanos is revitalised (and Richard Rider is brought back) I'm tentatively optimistic about this. Looks better than Age of Ultron already.

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@wmwadeii said:

@V_Scarlotte_Rose said:

I really hope this event is short and doesn't tie into series I buy. I'm already going to be getting Age Of Ultron and was hoping there'd be a good gap before another event starts. It'd be nice if virtually every Marvel title wasn't £3.99 too.

I'll see what the plot is before considering it. I'm not a big fan of Jim Cheung, so the story'll have to be good.

I've always wondered why comic companies haven't gone the way of Magazines. Add a few more Ads to get revenue to increase either the book size or to decrease the pricing. Could even to banner advertisements like DC/WB does with their covers. And they could also get additional revenue from digital comics by similarly adding a few Ads unless you have say a premium membership to Comixology then the comic companies would get some of the premium membership revenue. Just a thought.

OT: This should be fun, but since Marvel has made every book an X-Men/Avengers title, every Story Arc will now include similar titles. This means instead of nice small stories in each book, you get the grand cross-overs that force customers to buy additional titles. If I'm not mistaken they have 3 Arcs planned so far this year.

I've just noticed that none of the $2.99 titles have 'free digital copies', but most of the $3.99 ones do. No extra story, no extra advertising, so it seems that 'free' digital copy, is actually a dollar in disguise. Maybe if they didn't include the digital copies, and just made them available for those who actually wanted them, they could cut the prices down. They probably wouldn't though. Better to just charge everyone whether they want it or not.

What's the third arc? Age Of Ultron, Infinity, and...?

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I am not sure if I am going to like this story arc, but at least the first bit of it is free

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Seriously awesome but dumb...Age of Ultron hasn't even begun and they're already talking about another big event...damn give it a rest.

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