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fisk42 's review for:
Secret Wars
by Jonathan Hickman
So I'm counting this as having read a book because of the insane number of issues that I read in the lead up to this and the tie-ins. The tie-ins were mostly completely useless for the main story, but at least helped get a feel for battleworld.
My rating break down is as follows:
Avengers/New Avengers lead up to Secret wars: 77 issues - 4.5 stars
Secret Wars: 9 issues - 5 stars
Tie-Ins: 202 issues (by my calculation) - 3 stars
The buildup in Avengers/New Avengers was some of the coolest story telling I've read in all of comics. Some of the twists and turns and references that Hickman makes however are pretty opaque, especially at the beginning when he uses many obscure (to me) marvel characters. Overall its a fantastic story which is a must read for a fan of marvel.
The main Secret Wars event was almost pitch perfect. My only gripe is that they didn't stretch it out into 12 issues. There were enough pages printed for 10, and adding in a couple extra to allow for some decompression and extra scenes would have been amazing. But that's just me being greedy. Overall this is a superb story with the perfect ending. You could read this without Avengers/New Avengers but I wouldn't recommend it.
The tie-ins were extremely scattered and hit or miss. I won't review any of them here except to say that some were amazing, some I couldn't even finish and the vast majority of them were just average.
My rating break down is as follows:
Avengers/New Avengers lead up to Secret wars: 77 issues - 4.5 stars
Secret Wars: 9 issues - 5 stars
Tie-Ins: 202 issues (by my calculation) - 3 stars
The buildup in Avengers/New Avengers was some of the coolest story telling I've read in all of comics. Some of the twists and turns and references that Hickman makes however are pretty opaque, especially at the beginning when he uses many obscure (to me) marvel characters. Overall its a fantastic story which is a must read for a fan of marvel.
The main Secret Wars event was almost pitch perfect. My only gripe is that they didn't stretch it out into 12 issues. There were enough pages printed for 10, and adding in a couple extra to allow for some decompression and extra scenes would have been amazing. But that's just me being greedy. Overall this is a superb story with the perfect ending. You could read this without Avengers/New Avengers but I wouldn't recommend it.
The tie-ins were extremely scattered and hit or miss. I won't review any of them here except to say that some were amazing, some I couldn't even finish and the vast majority of them were just average.