A review by kgbarreto
Secret War by Brian Michael Bendis, Gabriele Dell'Otto

1.0

Comics for the Bush Era. Basically Bendis' endorsement of America's foreign policy during the War on Terror, with a laughable preoccupation on the good guys being red-blooded Americans and the foreign Others being the bad guys (with B-list American villains as nothing but pawns on this game). You can expect the occasional Islamophobia and even an interrogation scene where the interrogation subject is being subjected to torture by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and there's nothing wrong with that! It has the same politics as Millar's The Ultimates, but it's less fun and readable. Some characters come and go and are not properly explored; plot threads are abandoned without further explanation and development, and the final product doesn't do the concept any justice. This could be a good conspiracy thriller, but ends up being something much, much less.