Alright, let’s lay out a few bits of information here:
- Marvel has been releasing a series of teasers all teasing an upcoming book (ongoing or mini)
- The teasers consist of characters made up with words, some of which feature highlighted and color coded letters
- The letters, when put together with respective colors and descrambled, spell the following phrases: “The universe will break”, “Shut the engines down”, “Everyone you love dies”, “Fight to save everything”(Thanks to user maskedmanissue1 for submitting those to us!)
- Three out of the four characters silhouetted are in some way related to the team the Defenders, with Silver Surfer and Doctor Strange being former members and Red She-Hulk being the former paramour of a former member
- Marvel is putting out a Fear Itself tie-in entitled The Deep, starring a form of the Defenders and even originally being titled Fear Itself: The Defenders (as confirmed by Cullen Bunn in an interview with us)
- This week, Marvel released a “From The Vault” single issue of a classic Defenders story by Kurt Busiek
- At Marvel’s Fear Itself panel at Comic-Con, it is safe to assume that Marvel will be announcing this post-Fear Itself title – and the panel will feature Greg Pak, Nick Spencer, editor-in-chief Axel Alonso, and current Fear Itself: The Deep writer Cullen Bunn (as confirmed by CBR)
- Every single one of the teasers has the word Defender in it.
Iron Fist. Doctor Strange. Red She-Hulk. Silver Surfer. It certainly stands to reason that a Defenders book is on the way in some form or fashion, no? And perhaps Cullen Bunn is writing it? If we’re lucky, anyway.
