Marvels Darkest Story Ever Made

Marvel Ruins written by Warren Ellis and Art by Cliff Nielsen Terese Nielsen and Chris Moeller

Marvel Ruins covers a What if take on the Marvel universe where everything went horribly wrong and a Reporter feels as though the world could’ve been Greater.

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[mecojean]

The reason why Galactus body is just floating in space its because after Silver Surfer ripped himself appart, he didn't have someone to help him finding new worlds to eat and died of hunger

[manavudgirkar]

goddamn the art in this comic is insane

[lucky_shot]

Its so creepy how peters disease is meant to look like his spider suit in a way.

[crimsondynamo]

I feel if Thanos existed in Ruins his attempt at doing the snap just ends in the entire universe being destroyed.

[urahara]

I do think it's interesting that there actually appears to be no magic in this universe. All the magic based heroes are just insane people.

[Alvinnator]

I don't know why, but galactus floating in space dead is the funniest thing ever.

[navalends]

I love how fundamentally wrong the world of Marvel Ruins are. Whenever someone almost achieved greatness and become either superhero or supervillain, they instead become something else that could, realistically, go wrong if depicted in more realistic lenses.

[stevencooper]

Warren Ellis. The man who hates superheroes more than almost anyone else on earth.

Also, Silver Surfer wasn't destroyed from the inside out. He felt like he was suffocating because he no longer needed to breathe, so he ripped his own chest open in a desperate attempt to get air in his lungs.

This book is grim as hell.

[RaixsOreh]

Just for some people's information:
Ruins was actually released as a sort of dark reflection, a parody, of the Comic Miniseries "Marvels", which is a magnificent 4-issue short story depicting the entire 616 Marvel Comic Universe from the point of view of a regular civilian, a reporter named Phil Sheldon. it's actually a really great miniseries and I always recommend that all fans should read this at least once in their life time.

So yeah, if you're thinking, this is just so obviously trying to be edgy and dark, you're right! it's just supposed to be a sort of joke story parodying a better story. Ruins didn't even get 4 issues like Marvels did, it only got 2 issues. that should tell you how seriously you should take this story.

[ONEPEAKFRFR]

Marvel ruins would make for the perfect stand alone R rated movie

[theproginator]

good lord, imagine just getting out of bed then u saw a DEAD galactus floating out of space

[JarvisBaileyVA]

There's also a Valkyrie flying by the window when Phil is on the plane with Mystique. That is perhaps the single little bit of hope for this desperate and hurting universe

[СергейШевелюга]

Although this world is designed to be a mirror image of the original 616 universe, it is also the most realistic. All these bites by mutated animals, exposure to gamma radiation, and exposure to cosmic radiation could not lead to anything but a painful death ... Or suffering worse than death.

I'm glad for Ben (the thing), at least somewhere he was lucky and he remained a man and did not suffer ... unlike the others. And all because he thought of refusing to fly with them on this crazy mission.

[eciyahsmalls-sanders]

Fun fact the wiki states

It's implied that Ben Grimm's refusal to pilot Reed Richards' spaceship to study cosmic rays, the event that would've created the Fantastic Four, was the catalyst for this dark Earth. Though judging by Nick Fury's comments about Captain America teaching him to eat human flesh (i.e. "cannibalism") during World War II, this may also have been the event that created this dark reality/Earth.

[CyberneticStreetrunner]

This is literally if Garth Ennis was allowed to make a Marvel Comic

[samuelshaw]

Weird how things like mutations, Galactus, Silver surfer, etc. are adapted pretty faithfully but simply had sad endings while characters like Thor and Ghostrider are these weird real world edge lord adaptations. There's some interesting ideas here but the inconsistency is kind of distracting and makes me wonder what the point of it all is. The art is nice though.

Also, no mention of how Phil Sheldon is the protagonist of Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross's Marvels series? It's a really great read

[natratcritter]

The horrific art style adds to the tragedy. The stencle shading and realistic detailed faces are distorted in the worst possible way making it seem like everyone is in the maximum amount of discomfort. This was really depressing to watch but I always have had the thought of what Marvel heroes would look like if they had the "bad ending".

[educkwithfedora]

I find it fascinating that Ben was the only hero in this story that didn't went insane or died terribly, kinda contrasting with his fate in the 616 universe where he was the only one of the Fantastic Four who had his appearance permanently altered by the cosmic radiation and was the one that suffered the most with his powers out of the group

[Linken]

The spookiest part about Galactus floating around Mars is that he was so close to Earth before he evidently starved to death.

[michaelaudreymyers]

I was really hoping that Phil would make the story. That was such a twist and sad ending.