LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING: A GUIDE TO THE COSMOS

[Monolith]

As a companion article for this week's Captain Universe Spotlight, we delve deep into the mechanics of the Marvel Universe itself. The cosmic hierarchy of forces began with Steve Ditko, was expanded by Jim Starlin, Ron Lim, and Mark Gruenwald, and is currently the playground of Al Ewing. What came before this universe, what is the universe made of, and what will happen at cosmos' end? Read here to find out!

https://uncannyxmen.net/continuity/life ... the-cosmos

[AntiBody]

Whoa!! I love this!! How fascinating!! Incredible job, Monolith and Douglas!! Thank you!

[Oldie]

This is a lot of fun. The problem inherent in this — and this is not a knock on the article, just an unavoidable consequence — is that by drawing together all these disparate myths it really highlights how incoherent so much of if is.

For example, Eternity is the “embodiment of everything” except all those things that it doesn’t embody.
The First Firmament didn’t have any “concept of time or change,” except that there were “creations” who “created,” which is change.
The Second Cosmos introduced “duality,” except that there already existed multiplicity in the form of creations that had fought a war. Celestial and Aspirants. Being and non-being.

And so on.

These incoherent ideas are easy to shrug off in isolation, but they’re compiled together the pattern of incoherence becomes really obvious.

[Blackcyclops]

If you think about them in religious terms and that you are imposing human definitions on things to understand them, it makes total sense to me. Plus the short summary here kind of simplifies alot of the explanations too (so its worth to read alot of the stories this draw from). And of course in real life the theoretical physics that people like Ewing are drawing from sounds as strange or contradictory as alot of this. And further, it is fictional too.

[Douglas Mangum]

Antibody, thanks for the shout-out of praise, but I only worked on the images. The research and weaving together of this continuity masterpiece was all Monolith!

[Monolith]

Laughs in foreshadowing...

I do look forward to the one day Monolith does an article exploring the geography of the Marvel cosmology. I love thinking about how Ewing and other writers have created a relatively coherent idea of the different “layers” of the MU.

Sure, can I pencil you in for next April?

[WorldWideWade]

Fantastic read Monolith. So much of the cosmic realm tends to fly over my head, so this breakdown really helps me make sense of it.