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A review by samgalanor
Secret War by Brian Michael Bendis, Gabriele Dell'Otto
4.0
Nick Fury finds evidence of a great threat against humanity, a team of super villains equipped with high technology. He informs the president about it and wants permission to eliminate the leader of the country Latveria, who finances them. But the president turns him down, they’ll solve this problem the political way. Fury doesn’t accept this order and goes on a private, secret war against Latveria . He gathers Superheroes like Captain America, Spider-Man, Dare Devil, Wolverine and some more, and flies with them incognito to Latveria . But the heroes do not know that this is an inoffical, not authorised mission.
Nick Fury seems often like the most powerful person in stories and films which include S.H.I.E.L.D. But here we get a great look of how helpless he really feels about his job. He kinda became the monster he tries to fight, at the moment he took the law into one’s own hands. Secret War is more a story about Fury than of all the others. They stay in their characteristic role and don’t develop like Fury. The story idea reminds me a little of Watchmen, who is the one who decides which is the right way to save people, or not. And what kind of decisions are made.
The decision to start the Secret War ends in (spoiler). A incredible big amount of super heroes has to fight against an army of super villains at the outskirts of New York. The end of this epic fight is also a remarkable change for Fury’s life, after he confessed that the mission wasn’t authorised.
The art by Dell’Otto is simply astonishing and amazing. It’s almost like an artbook, so much details and realism. Sometime little face pannels are redundant, but it really doesn’t matter, since they are so beautiful made.
Secret War has everything I would like to see in a MARVEL film, character development of the great puppet master Nick Fury, a deep moral conflict and of course a bunch of super hero action.
Nick Fury seems often like the most powerful person in stories and films which include S.H.I.E.L.D. But here we get a great look of how helpless he really feels about his job. He kinda became the monster he tries to fight, at the moment he took the law into one’s own hands. Secret War is more a story about Fury than of all the others. They stay in their characteristic role and don’t develop like Fury. The story idea reminds me a little of Watchmen, who is the one who decides which is the right way to save people, or not. And what kind of decisions are made.
The decision to start the Secret War ends in (spoiler). A incredible big amount of super heroes has to fight against an army of super villains at the outskirts of New York. The end of this epic fight is also a remarkable change for Fury’s life, after he confessed that the mission wasn’t authorised.
The art by Dell’Otto is simply astonishing and amazing. It’s almost like an artbook, so much details and realism. Sometime little face pannels are redundant, but it really doesn’t matter, since they are so beautiful made.
Secret War has everything I would like to see in a MARVEL film, character development of the great puppet master Nick Fury, a deep moral conflict and of course a bunch of super hero action.