Last week Marvel released a teaser for the upcoming AGE OF ULTRON event. Today, Marvel and writer Brian Michael Bendis have released some details about the ten issue miniseries.

The ten issues will ship between March and June of 2013. Bendis will be joined by Bryan Hitch on the first five issues with the second five drawn by Brandon Peterson and Carlos Pacheco. According to Arune Singh, Marvel's Director of Communication, "There will be a very cool reason for the artistic shift."

The Avengers will be entering the "darkest days of the Marvel Universe" as they fight for survival and have only two choices—Submit or Perish.

According to Bendis:

In the vein of Infinity Gauntlet, Secret Invasion and Civil War, Age of Ultron is a massive Marvel Universe-spanning Event. One of our most famous villains, Ultron, the super artificial intelligence, has fulfilled his destiny and taken the Earth. This story touches every corner of the Marvel Universe and will have an amazing effect on things going forward. We have taken the time to do this right- everything is gorgeous, every page matters, and most of all- something I'm very proud of- is that it will be shipping at a furious pace. Every day for the last year and a half people have been asking me when this story will come and I'm thrilled to announce that it is here.

If you read last year's POINT ONE one-shot, you saw the sneak peek at what we can expect. Marvel has released some images to give us a taste of what's coming.

AGE OF ULTRON #1

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS

Art and Cover by BRYAN HITCH

On-Sale March 2013 A.U.

AGE OF ULTRON #2

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS

Art and Cover by BRYAN HITCH

On-Sale March 2013 A.U.

AGE OF ULTRON #3

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS

Art and Cover by BRYAN HITCH

On-Sale March 2013 A.U.

Wow. This looks amazing...

OH...MY...GOD! Marvel doing an event? Wow. Just Wow. About time. I can't believe it!

im assuming you got my email then@G-Man

I wonder how much involvement Moon Knight will have in this series considering it was basically a prologue to it.

They are going to kill this in 4 months? 3 issues each month? Damn! What is the point of this, then? Why Marvel loves to throw everything right away? Too many questions, few answers.

The Marvel universe goes through a lot of darkest days. I wonder when they have time to be superheroes, these days. Maybe the big joke is they were under Ultron's control this whole time and the last 10 years worth of events were all a dream!

Stoked!

This sounds awesome. Definitely something I'll wait to read in trade.

i dont get why people are complaining about bendis. when he writes the avengers he is awesome. and if his last mini is any indication this will be awesometacular. spider-men if you're wondering what im reffering to.

Hawkeye last man standing

I love how everyone complains about new events and then when the sales figures come out, said event is always at the top of the list :)

Got a feeling that this pushing of Ultron may mean we're due to see him in the Marvel Movieverse.

I usually sit Marvel events out(since Siege) but I'm definitely gonna pick this up. This is going to be great!

@AlKusanagi said:

Got a feeling that this pushing of Ultron may mean we're due to see him in the Marvel Movieverse.

dobut it

@Cavemold: Marvel sent us a full press release on this as well.

@Spellca: i agree. it is becoming a bit much now... i just bought avx!

so its Ultron war vs Trinity WAR

really Hawkeye is the last one standing

@Danial79: The news bits also get crazy views as well when we post.

@G-Man said:

@Cavemold: Marvel sent us a full press release on this as well.

that would make sense. isnt trinity war coming out the same time?

Return of Moon Knight. I'm Happy, but knowing Bendis someone's gonna die :/

actually excited about this. bendis is a punk sometimes, but the guy knows how to write an event for sure

@mikeclark1982 said:

@Spellca: i agree. it is becoming a bit much now... i just bought avx!

Exactly my thoughts. The ink isn't even dry on the AvX consequences books, Marvel NOW is halfway through its launch and another big event is on its way?

Sigh. At least the art looks good.

Finally! the Ultron War we saw so many years back in that timeline in the cave.

@G-Man said:

@Danial79: The news bits also get crazy views as well when we post.

So it's either a case of Vocal Minority, or Compulsion (a strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act, especially one that is irrational or contrary to one's will) :)

Never mind Megatron, All Hail Ultron!!!

@Danial79:

People be hypocrites.

No tie-ins!!! just let the writers tell their own stories ffs. Not buying.

I hope they all die.

Age of Ultron sounds really interesting. Although shipping 10 issues between March-June seems a bit much. What they should have done is made it 5 double-sized issues in that same period, made it $3.99 - $4.99. You would get massive numbers if it were seen as value for money.

The accelerated rate of release doesn't bother me as much if the tie-ins are kept to a minimum and the mini-series is self contained. Reading the article on CBR it looks like there will be no more than 10 tie-ins and they will be treated like .1 issues.

While the event could indeed be interesting and the art shown so far looks great, I wonder when they say its "a massive marvel universe-spanning event" does that mean most titles are going to be disrupted for 4 months like in AvX cause I am not cool with that. AvX had far too many useless side plots to tie in the other books and it dragged on far too long. I would like for this to have its own core titles and maybe tie in a few Avenger books rather than disrupting everything for the event.