A new creative team! New villains! New directions! New #1 issues! IT’S…Tuesday at Marvel Comics. The iconic comic book brand may be known as the house of ideas, but that idea has largely been singular in the last couple of years as the publisher has relaunched comic book after comic book with several new fresh starts that have left fans fatigued and retailers angry. It’s happening yet again this year, a mere handful of months after Marvel Legacy promised to get back down to basics with the established roster of characters who had been side-lined in favour of a more diverse cast of successors.

The first Avenger’s next adventure kicks off in Captain America #698 next week, as Captain America finds himself once again frozen and awoken in a nightmarish future that writer Mark Waid says will be the complete opposite of the heavily criticised Secret Empire storyline of 2017.

Thanos is on the march, his deadly order of converts have joined his side and the Infinity Stones are waiting. Is all hope lost? See for yourself in the first trailer for Avengers 3: Infinity War, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo.

While the third Avengers film will debut on the eve of Marvel’s tenth year in the film business with its cinematic shared universe, it’s Avengers 4 that will close the door on the careers of many of the heroes who helped make it a global juggernaut, as Vanity Fair’s huge new feature on the franchise detailed the beginning of the end.

DC would pull its reboot trick again with last year’s Rebirth, as flicking that switch on and off again is something that the Distinguished Competition has mastered over the years. It’s also a trick that Marvel needs to desperately become experts at, as the last couple of years haven’t been kind. Marvel Legacy is meant to be that switch, as heroes new and old return to the fold.

Secret Empire had potential. It failed, as Marvel's biggest event of the year resulted in a new catchphrase: Fail HYDRA.

It’s the 1990s, and comic books need to get with the times dudes. Kids today don’t want big blue boy scouts! They want action! Edginess! Content that appeals to their new-fangled Generation Xtreme culture of mountain dew and skateboarding! Comics naturally were happy to oblige on that trend back then. Here’s ten examples of gnarly character reinvention gone tragically awry.

There’s been one other thread amongst the chaos of Secret Empire that was finally unravelled this week. Revealed back in Civil War II, was a prophecy that Spider-Man would be responsible for the death of Captain America, as a vision showed Miles Morales standing with bloody fists above a beaten and apparently dead Steve Rogers. This week, someone did die.