I was the beginning of an age of heroes, of wonder, of Marvels... then something went horribly wrong. Now, photographer Phil Sheldon searches for the elusive truth of a world that might have been. His quest will lead him through the flaming wreckage of the last Avenger's quinjet, past the horrors of America's Kree concentration camp, and over the corpse of a shining silver harbinger of the end of the world. And it will leave him with one question: where did it all go so wrong? Of a world of Marvels that might have been, all that remains is... RUINS. Part 1 of 2.

On another world, they might have been mankind's greatest heroes -the Marvels. But for photographer Phil Sheldon, his is an altogether different reality, a world left in ruins. With a camera that has seen it all, and a tenacious sense of events that have gone horribly wrong, Sheldon travels the world, one step ahead of death and ever deeper into a nightmare. His is a story that will shock his already crumbling world. If he lives to write it. Part 2 of 2.

Marvel's favorite pessimist looks through his darkest glass yet into a world where 'marvel' is just another word for 'horror.' Nuclear warfare, internment camps, government oppression, drug addiction, degradation, suicide...and those are just the ones we have words for. Have the men and women we know as heroes made the situation better or worse? Here's a hint: In the Ruins, radiation only kills. Collecting RUINS #1-2. 80 PGS. (LOGO VARIANT COVER)