Summary
- The Annihilators, a powerful team of cosmic superheroes, are making their way into the Marvel Future Fight game
- The team was first introduced in Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning’s Marvel Cosmic
- The update for the game includes new characters, uniforms, and upgrade
From the pages of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning’s Marvel Cosmic comes The Annihilators, including Quasar, Beta Ray Bill, Ronan, and Ikon, as Marvel’s most powerful team makes their way into the Marvel Future Fight game!
Abnett and Lanning’s (DnA) Marvel Cosmic started way back in 2005/6 with the late Keith Giffen’s stellar Annihilation event (you like Helldivers 2?! you’ll LOVE Annihilation!).
The event sees Fantastic Four villain Annihilus and his bug army from the Negative Zone invading the Marvel 616 universe. The Avengers? The other heroes? They’re nowhere to be found, as they were too busy on Earth fighting amongst themselves during Civil War while the entire universe was under siege and at risk of total annihilation!
Marvel Cosmic Golden Years under DnA
DnA wrote the Annihilation: Nova series, then the 2007 Richard Rider Nova series, penned Annihilation: Conquest and the 2008 Guardians of the Galaxy series which inspired the James Gunn MCU movies. From there, DnA would write The Thanos Imperative (awesome), Realm of Kings, and out of The Thanos Imperative: Devastation would arise The Galaxy’s Mightiest Heroes — The Annihilators!
The Annihilators consists of Wendell Vaughn Quasar, the Cosmic Avenger, the Protector of the Universe; Ronan the Accuser of the Kree; Gladiator of the Sh’iar; the Korbite “brother” to Thor, Beta Ray Bill; none other than the Sentinel of the Spaceways himself, the Silver Surfer, and joining them included the Galadorian Spaceknight, Ikon. Richard Rider Nova is also featured.
Cosmic Book News actually got its start back then as we helped Marvel promote its Marvel Cosmic comic book line. Editor Bill Rosemann coined us as the “rabid” Marvel Cosmic fans!
“I’m also grateful for all the readers. We never had a huge following, but it was loyal,” Rosemann told Marvel.com back in 2017 in a retrospect interview. “Every issue there were about 35,000 fans who read every issue of NOVA and GUARDIANS and every issue of every [limited series] that was a part of all of our events. They helped spread the word and they were there along for the ride and never went away, and without them the books would’ve never even existed; there would be no film without those loyal readers.”
I bet Marvel Comics would love to have 35k readers now!
Check out the official info for the Annihilators in the Marvel Future Fight game below including the cool art and gameplay trailer.
MARVEL FUTURE FIGHT’S NEW GAME UPDATE RECRUITS COSMIC SUPER HERO TEAM: THE ANNIHILATORS
Netmarble, a leading developer and publisher of high-quality mobile games, has launched a new game update for its blockbuster mobile RPG MARVEL Future Fight. Agents can experience a variety of content that is based on the Annihilators, a powerful team of cosmic superheroes, featuring new characters, uniforms, character-tier upgrades, Tier-4 Upgrade Support Missions updates and more.
Two new characters are now available: Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) and Ikon as well as new uniforms for Beta Ray Bill and Gladiator. Character tier upgrades have been added for Beta Ray Bill (Tier-4 with new Striker Skill) and Gladiator (Tier-4 with new Ultimate and Striker Skills). Additionally, Awakened Skills have been added to heroes Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) and Ikon.
As part of this new update, agents can enter the Progressive Missions to obtain bonus effects, such as an increase in acquiring growth materials, by completing certain missions. The bonus effect will be activated by checking in the game on the next day. Tier-4 Upgrade Support Missions has been updated that enables agents to quickly upgrade their heroes to Tier-4. Guardians of the Galaxy is now available in the Team-Up Collection as well.
New agents can participate in a Check-In Event that offers the opportunity to obtain a maximum of four heroes (Tier-3 or Potential Transcended heroes) and two Comics Cards with increased Pierce Damage effect. These items can be obtained by checking in the game every day.
MARVEL Future Fight has over 150 million players across the world with the game currently available worldwide in the App Store and Google Play.
