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New Secret Wars miniseries Battleworld draws on different timelines

- WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL

POISED TO BE THE LOCATION OF next year's Avengers: Doomsday, Battleworld is taking centre stage in a new miniseries, set in an iteration of the patchwork planet that's drawn from various different timelines.

“Some were included just because they’re cool, like Killraven’s War Of The Worlds future when the Martians have conquered Earth,” writer Christos Gage tells Red Alert. “Others are there because of the characters we wanted to use, so with Days Of Future Past Storm, we get the Days Of Future Past New York and Sentinels.”

Starting with one of his personal favourite characters, Hank Pym, Gage has assembled a band of disparate heroes including a fugitive Luke Cage, a recently sober Carol Danvers and King Thor, who rules over a dead future Earth, and has also included characters from the long defunct New Universe and Crossgen universes.