[THUNDER ROLLING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
DAN SLOTT: What is happening in
the new Marvel event "Empyre"?
TOM BREVOORT: It's a big,
sprawling space epic primarily
focused on the Avengers
and Fantastic Four
that's a spiritual
sequel and successor to
the original Kree-Skrull War.
AL EWING: The Kree
and the Skrull
have been at war for millennia.
This is the very first
time they've declared
not just peace but an alliance.
 And it's heading
to our solar system.
Oh my God, that can't be good.
AL EWING: The Avengers
coming from earth.
The Fantastic Four are coming
from an adventure in space.
So they're both coming at this
vast Kree-Skrull fleet that
is heading towards the
planet, and then in Empyre 1,
it all comes together.
DAN SLOTT: Immortal
Hulk Al Ewing,
he has so many big ideas.
 Dan's been very gracious in
allowing me to take the reins
and push the story into
its different territory.
 Al, don't kill that character.
That's kind of
been my involvement
is the oh my God, Al, no.
If someone dies, it
means I failed you.
AL EWING: Valerio Schiti is just
a beautiful, beautiful artist.
There's no page I've
looked at that I've
not just been blown away by.
 It was kind of fate that
Valerio is the one doing
"Empyre" because the first
Marvel comic that he ever
read was this
Fantastic Four annual
involving the Kree-Skrull War.
 Working off of these Al
plots and these big events
that we planned, no one has
seen Valerio like this before.
TOM BREVOORT: "Empyre" is a
huge story with some really
important ramifications.
 If you're a long-time
Marvel reader, this is going
to pay off so many big things.
If you're a Marvel reader
who started yesterday,
welcome to the rich legacy
of the Marvel universe.
AL EWING: This is going
to change things forever
both in terms of the
architecture of mobile space,
the vast cosmic
politics of it all,
but also in this really intense
emotional personal level.
I would be astonished if anybody
guesses what we've got coming.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
