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Secret Wars – Believing Everything Lives

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When everything ends, there is only Secret Wars.

Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic’s cataclysmic 2015 Marvel Comics event is the culmination of years of stories about The Fantastic Four and Future Foundation and the inevitable conclusion to his multiversal heat death saga of Avengers and New Avengers. It’s a 9-issue epic that sees every universe destroyed until only a single composite Battleword remains, with constant turmoil lorded over by one man who has declared himself god emperor – DOOM. [Read more…] about Secret Wars – Believing Everything Lives

SECRET WARS #9 Review: “All. The. Marbles.”

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Anticipation! Dread! An overriding desire to just see it finally over and done! It’s not so much that the long-awaited conclusion to Marvel’s 2015 mega-event succeeds in pressing the obvious buttons (it does) but where it truly excels is in its Fantastic propensity for the inventively subtle and delightfully unexpected. Capital “F” for a reason. [Read more…] about SECRET WARS #9 Review: “All. The. Marbles.”

SECRET WARS #6 Review: “Spiders in Head, Hamburger in Pocket”

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While the Event of Secret Wars is winding down, the story itself is just picking up steam. After a far-too-long gap between installments, writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic waste no time steering a wandering audience back to the center attraction with bold interactions and one of the saga’s biggest laughs. Packing it in at twenty-five pages, it’s all roving cam, all the time on the push to what the solicits refer to as “The Final War”! [Read more…] about SECRET WARS #6 Review: “Spiders in Head, Hamburger in Pocket”

YEARS OF FUTURE PAST #5 Review: “Cage-Free Metaphors!”

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Earth-811 is never really a “healthy” source of nostalgia- unless you’re fond of no-win dystopias. The conclusion of writer Marguerite Bennett and company’s “inspired by” riff on the Claremont/Byrne touchstone isn’t so much about course-correcting and bringing about a much-needed ray of sunshine as it is full-bore allegorically presaging the shape of things to come. [Read more…] about YEARS OF FUTURE PAST #5 Review: “Cage-Free Metaphors!”