I have been loving the Thor book since Jason Aaron started writing Thor: God of Thunder. He truly has a great feel for adventures worthy of a Thunder God. I had my doubts when the new female Thor was announced. Very few of them remain. The new Thor, whoever she is, keeps proving herself, and doing so really well. This issue, she not only needs to deal with Maleketh and Dagger the Minotaur, but the original Thor comes by, and he wants his hammer back.
Peggy Carter really does seem to be attacked from all directions in “The Blitzkrieg Button.” Leviathan is still out there somewhere, plotting. Howard Stark is back, and he has some questionable motives. And, due in part to how Howard came back, a smuggler called Mr. Mink is after Peggy and Jarvis, with a very odd weapon. It looks something like a Gatling pistol to me. And, of course, she’s still getting clubbed over the head by the “Men are awesome, women are worthless” theme of the show, over and over and over, but more on that later.
And so we’ve come to what is probably the most significant issue in the Secret Wars series… Not only is this book significant to the Marvel Universe as a whole, but it also usually fetches the highest price in the collectors’ market of all the Secret Wars books. After months of already seeing the suit in the pages of the various Spider-Man titles, we’re finally given the origin of the black suit that will eventually prove itself to be a very dangerous alien entity. Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, let’s get a quick catch up and then crack open the issue!
With the first half of Marvel’s Secret Wars behind us, Comic Book Classics Revisited moves forward into the second half with some big moments coming… Starting with today’s issue #7!
Last issue, Marc Spector took a desperate gamble, apparently attacking a UN diplomat to break up a complicated plot involving assassins, a very unusual psychiatrist, and Khonshu apparently choosing a new mortal agent. “Rendered” shows Spector in an anonymous holding facility, going through the routine of his cell, an exercise space, and some kind of…
Comic Book Classics Revisited is back! Today, we’re going to crack open Secret Wars #6! Last issue, the heroes held back another attack by the villains with the help of the X-Men. All the while, Galactus is preparing to devour Battleworld and all those on it. A love triangle is forming between Colossus, the Human Torch, and the alien healer Zsaji. Most importantly, Doctor Doom sneaked aboard Galactus’ ship and is looking for ways to gain all the power and take the war for himself.
Comic Book Classics Revisited continues its look at the original Secret Wars. We’ve made it to issue #5, and at last, the X-Men strike back!
Welcome back to Comic Book Classics Revisited – a place we like to give detailed annotations of comics from a bygone age. We’ve reach the fourth issue of Marvel’s 80s mega-event, Secret Wars.
Agent Carter’s miniseries continues with “Time and Tide.” Like in the first few episodes, they manage a nice blend of humor, action, and period appropriate references and scenery. I like the research they did and the feeling that this is, indeed, very early in the Cinematic Marvel Universe. There were fewer references to the other Marvel projects (I can only think of one, if you don’t count Howard Stark himself), but I think that worked quite nicely.
Last year, it was announced that the Expanded Universe of Star Wars, the decades worth of novels that many fans have been enjoying, was going to be retconned away, after Disney bought Star Wars from creator George Lucas and announced new movies on the horizon. Many fans, me among them, were very annoyed. If you haven’t read the EU books, there are some great characters and storylines there, and they’d gone far enough past the movies that some of the main characters were the next generation of heroes. Oh well. Comic book companies do it to us all the time. It’s something sci-fi and fantasy fans need to deal with.
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