If you’re going to read Secret Wars, you need to start with 2012’s Avengers and New Avengers series, written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by various artists. If you missed last week, read this.īut what is Secret Wars about? Image: Marvel Comics Think of it as part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers.
Hell, it’s what Avengers: Endgame wished it could be.Įach Monday, while the comics industry takes a bit of a break, we’re looking back at some of the stand out moments in comic history. But here’s the thing - and know that this is coming from someone with DC Comics lore running in their veins - Secret Wars is what Crisis on Infinite Earths wishes it could be.
Secret Wars evokes the granddaddy of all event comics, DC Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths, with a promise of universal armageddon and the mashing up of different parallel earths. The project set me on a riveting path to Secret Wars, and it’s where you should go, too. Some months ago I decided to read Hickman’s older Marvel work, starting with his run on the Fantastic Four, which bleeds into his Avengers series. Secret Wars was about what happened next.
But before Hickman did that, he told a three-year story about Marvel’s greatest heroes compromising their morality to save the universe - and failing anyway. Modern visionary Jonathan Hickman begins his Marvel magnum opus! As threats to Earth mount, the Avengers expand! But even the mightiest roster of all may be powerless in the face of what's coming! And while Iron Man and Captain America assemble their Avengers World and strive to decipher the meaning of the White Event, Tony Stark secretly tries to solve the biggest crisis of all along with his influential allies the Illuminati! While they seek to prevent the collapse of reality itself, the Avengers face a war on two fronts! Protecting Earth from the Builders may only hand it to.Thanos! Collecting AVENGERS (2012) #1-23, NEW AVENGERS (2013) #1-12, FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2013 (INFINITY) #1, INFINITY #1-6, INFINITY: AGAINST THE TIDE INFINITE COMIC #1-2, ASTONISHING TALES: MOJOWORLD #1-6 and material from SHANG-CHI: MASTER OF KUNG FU (2009) #1.Last summer, House of X/Powers of X, a galaxy brain sci-fi superhero series from writer Jonathan Hickman and numerous collaborators, rocked the comics world.
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