Well that’s that done, on with the review. This week is a look back at a darker time for the Marvel universe; it’s a book set bang smack in the middle of Dark Reign. Once again it features a number of stories so I will be focusing on them each listing the writers and artists and giving information of what to pick up after each story and how we got to where the story starts.

The Book is “The List” it was published originally in 2009 and was collected in a nice book that has some great stories in it. When these stories originally came out I only picked up the Uncanny X-men version as it became clear that it was essentially a jumping on point book for other titles. The list is something that Norman “Green Goblin” Osborn creates to make life easier for him and contains the following things to do:

Pages: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9

We've all known for some time now that there are creators stationed at Marvel who drive the direction the universe is going. Now it seems Marvel want to make that assurtion official with their Marvel Architects. The names are familiar and will be no surprise to anyone that is a fan of Marvel comics. Just what do these guys have planned and where will it leave our favourite books? PR stunt? Probably. Will status quo be 'irreversibly' altered only then to be put back together? Definitely. Am I still excited, even though I know all this? Hells yeah!

PRESS RELEASE

The very fabric of the Marvel Universe is changing and the Architects are the ones leading the charge! Marvel’s Architects initiative spotlights the writers and artists telling the most exciting and impactful stories that rock the Marvel Universe to its very core every month.

But just who are the writers in Marvel’s Architects?

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Link: http://www.g4tv.com

Got an email today promoting Jonathan Hickman's latest project for Marvel with very little information other than the Gerald Parel cover shown below:

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It did say 'They’ve been around since the dawn of time….how do they impact the past, present and future of the Marvel Universe?'

It also gave out a link to G4 where apparently all will be revealed this evening 7pm Eastern on Attack of This Show. Where's the fun in that? Let's try to work this thing out ourselves shall we?

First of all we have an image of Galactus in the style of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. My next thought was Eternals but surely not, we've just wrapped up one Eternals series that couldn't support itself as an ongoing. The guys with the helmets, it's difficult to tell where they're from could be Attlantean, could be Shi'ar? It's all very intriguing, what do you think?

*******UPDATE******

Turns out it's a book called Shield and will chronicle the attempts to protect earth from intergalatic threats by some well known figures. Speculation is that these figures will then go on to eventually form S.H.I.E.L.D. Sounds interesting I'm in.

Link: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19191

Spotted this over at CBR and if you check the secret message from Nick Fury on the cover you'll get a nice surprise. Nuff Said!