A review by dosymedia
Secret Empire by Nick Spencer, Steve McNiven, Mark Brooks, Leinil Francis Yu, Andrea Sorrentino, Gerry Alanguilan

dark slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

There were moments of relevancy, particularly in the epilogue when we're summing up just why we made Captain America the world's most inclusive Nazi (for example, the legality of the Hydra Supreme's actions and how they were made possible by reactive laws), but those moments were too few and too late, dominated by a ponderant narration accompanying beats intended to be resonant that actually did and said nothing.

And I'm like 100% done with Hydra's magical bullshit, in comics and in the movies. This was the wrong place to come in with a magical do-over since tonally, this clearly wanted to be super-gritty-hardcore-ultradark realism (laughable) and therefore should've found its solution in realism. 

Just, messy. Boring. Adolescent.