6/20/2023 0 Comments Secret Wars #1 by Jonathan Hickman![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s cool that Hickman fleshed out the concept of a dying multiverse and filled it with different players with grand, abstract motives, but keeping track of it all is another thing entirely. It’s New Avengers that started with a science lesson about how the multiverse was ending prematurely, sending us down a deep rabbit hole of sci-fi constructs that take more than a minute to wrap your head around. The road to Secret Wars began in late 2012/early 2013 when Hickman started two comics: Avengers, which showed the Avengers saving the world as heroes, and New Avengers, which showed the Illuminati fighting a secret threat. ![]() I’ve tried to explain the nuances of the lead-in story to several people, but they all got that confused look in their eyes once I started talking about Builders and Mapmakers and World Incursions - and that’s before I even got to Rabum Alal! That the issue #1 recap page has a whopping 58 characters on it reinforces the idea that there will be a lot going on in Secret Wars. Granted, you don’t have to read everything that came before in order to buy Secret Wars - a fact that Marvel is no doubt banking on - but it does seem strange for such a hyped event to have an extraordinarily high fence around it. ![]()
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