Marvel Comics Teases Avengers / Fantastic Four: Empyre #1! Event Begins With Action In Art! Ed McGuinness Party Variant Unveiled! Plus A March & April 2020 Empyre Checklist! Preview!

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Marvel Comics Teases Avengers / Fantastic Four: Empyre #1!

Event Begins With Action In Art! Ed McGuinness Party Variant Unveiled! Plus A March and April 2020 Empyre Checklist! Preview!

Marvel reports:

      Look Inside ‘Empyre’ #1 and Find Out Every Book Connected to Marvel’s Cosmic Event

      Preview the official beginning of ‘Empyre’ today!

      Marvel’s upcoming cosmic comic crossover event, is nearly here! EMPYRE #1, written by Al Ewing and Dan Slott with art by Valerio Schiti, goes on sale Wednesday, April 15 — but you can get a look inside the issue now!

      EMPYRE will bring Marvel’s greatest heroes together to face the newly allied Kree and Skrulls in an intergalactic conflict. United under their new emperor Hulkling, the Kree and Skrulls now have a common enemy — the Avengers and the Fantastic Four have different ideas on how to avert catastrophe.

      The Kree and the Skrulls have united under a new emperor – and their war fleet is on a collision course for our world. On the moon, the Avengers are ready to strike with the full power of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Approaching from outer space, the Fantastic Four are seeking a diplomatic solution. If the two teams can’t work together to save the day, things can only get worse…

      But there’s even more EMPYRE before this issue arrives! Don’t miss an issue of the Road to EMPYRE — here’s a checklist with every issue:

      EMPYRE #1, written by Al Ewing and Dan Slott with art by Valerio Schiti and a cover by Jim Cheung, goes on sale Wednesday, April 15!

      Visit Marvel.com/empyre for all the news coming from this new cosmic comic event!

Plus, the Ed McGuinness variant for Empyre #1 has also been revealed.

Solid art.

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