re: Marvel Secret Wars: Upcoming Changes, MCU and All That

It's all the illusion of change. At the end of the day, the Avengers are Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the X-men are the ragged "hated" underdogs, and Captain America is all that's good about us. And so on.

I do think Marvel is trying to give some of their smaller characters are a bigger stage (and I forgot to list Black Knight and Moon Girl). They've been telling the same Iron Man story for 50 years. Let's give a new(er) character a try. If Marvel is lucky, maybe a few of these titles will stick like Ms. Marvel has, and they will be in the movies in 10 years.

But I think half of these books will fail (or just run their course and end -- as pumped as I am for Karnak, there's no way that has a long shelf life). As they get cancelled or writers move on, the bigger stars will move back into the spotlight.

But I think Secret Wars was necessary to essentially reboot the universe and get out from 50 years of complicated continuity. This is the reset button. DC did in the 80s with Crisis on Infinite Earths, at close to their 50th anniversary as well.