Defenders: Beyond the Beyond
Al Ewing · Kenneth Rocafort · Travel Foreman · Javier Rodríguez
Story era 12 · King in Black and the Krakoan Age
Ewing connects the Ultimates’ efforts to repair Galactus and Eternity to the Defenders’ exploration of successive cosmoses.
Book 2 of 2 in Al Ewing’s Ultimates to Defenders cosmology · 0 of 2 owned · 804 pages in all
Setup & reading order
1 earlier book in this run comes first
About these books · 4 sources
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- r/comicbooks — Let’s talk Al Ewing (opens in a new tab)Readers
- Comic Book Herald — Best of Marvel 2021: Defenders (opens in a new tab)Critics and editors
- Marvel — Al Ewing Ultimates and Defenders (opens in a new tab)Publisher
- Reference identity and legacy — Al Ewing Ultimates and Defenders (opens in a new tab)Reference
The books
Defenders: Beyond the Beyond
Book 2 of 2 · King in Black and the Krakoan Age
Ewing and Rodríguez travel backward through Marvel’s successive cosmoses and then beyond the multiverse.
9781302972622Planned edition#1–5#1–5#24#1000–1001Thor #24 contributes “What Comes Next,” also in Cates and Klein’s Thor omnibus; read that short piece once. Marvel Comics #1000–1001 supply the Masked Raider stories only, so follow those features here without treating this as a complete collection of the anniversary anthologies.
Edition sources
Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.
Duplication · Defenders: Beyond the Beyond
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Thor (2020) #24Things to know
Collecting rule: Ultimates is the conceptual foundation; Defenders is the deeper metaphysical continuation.
- Defenders: Beyond the Beyond collects both Ewing Defenders miniseries in one volume, so the cosmology arrives as one large book rather than two.