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Starring Wolverine, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Captain America, Black Widow, Luke Cage and more! Brian Michael Bendis, the most popular and acclaimed writer in comics, reveals the darkest chapter in Marvel Universe history! When Nick Fury discovers a disturbing connection between many of Marvel's deadliest villains, he assembles a ragtag team of the MU's most misunderstood heroes for a secret mission to do what the U.S. government could never allow - eventually leading to a super-powered blowout between a who's who of NYC heroes and mutants! Featuring the American debut of the stunning, fully painted work of Italian artist Gabrielle Dell'otto. Collects Secret War #1-5 and From the Files of Nick Fury.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Bendis story,
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This review is from: Secret War (Paperback)
This is one of the Bendis stories, along with Avengers Disassembled, that seeded the big events that came over the past five years in Marvel Comics. If you're a Brian Michael Bendis fan, this book is a must-have. The story is fairly short but very well written. There's a lot of supplementary material as well -- interrogation transcripts and the like. Most of this material that is included between the five "chapters" is quite good. The large section at the end, after Chapter Five, however is not nearly as interesting and I mostly just ended up skimming it. You may also find it interesting to note that this is the story upon which are based the events of the opening levels in the video game, "Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2".
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3.4 out of 5 stars (30 customer reviews) 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Much Better In A Collected Edition,
By Dave - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Secret War (Hardcover)
SECRET WAR was a mediocre comic book. It's a great hardcover, though.Let me explain. SECRET WAR by Bendis and Dell'Otto was originally supposed to be a quarterly series. It ended up being effectively a biennial. With gaps that large, it was tough to follow the dark and somewhat complex story. Read in one sitting and with oversized pages to showcase Dell'Otto's painted art, however . . . It's a lot of fun. The story concerns super-spy Nick Fury discovering that a foreign power has been supplying supervillains with weapons in what amounts to state sponsored terrorism. Prevented from intervening by the government, Fury organizes a covert action which involves Wolverine, Captain America, Spider-Man and other top Marvel heroes taking the fight to the foreign capital. Flash-forward to a year later, when the heroes are attacked by powerful supervillains and one, Luke Cage, is seriously injured. The story of the fight for survival is intercut with flashbacks to the covert action, with the true nature of the "Secret War" revealed late in the game. Also included is a series of in-character profiles of various superheroes "by" Nick Fury. They're a hoot, albeit fairly superfluous. The dialogue is trademark Bendis (not for all tastes) and the pacing still leaves something to be desired, but there's a lot of action, a lot of intrigue, and Dell'Otto is an amazing new talent where Marvel is concerned. Overall, I'd recommend it. 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not quite as good as it's namesake,
By Impulse - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Secret War (Hardcover)
I'm not a great fan of Bendis, but I do think he's a good idea man. The premise behind this series is compelling, the execution could be better. But the good parts first:The artwork is perfectly suited to this story, gritty and blurry without being sloppy, it's an excellent moon setting. The moral ambiguity that the tale centers around was implict as soon as you open the trade and see the graphics. The storyline is a good look at some of the darker corners superhumans might find themselves in if they did exist, a nice realistic depiction over the idealized that overall comics are associated with. And this is an important trade that leads up to events going on now (Civil War). This use of superheroes starts the questions that really start getting asked in Civil War. But on the negative side, the story really seemed to drag to me, when I read it. The action is nearly nonexistant, and mostly in dimly remembered flashbacks. You don't really see the actual war, just its fallout. The series starts out with a bang, in media res, but after that it goes downhill. The few issues it ran for would have been improved if the actual conflict took place in an ongoing narrative, in the middle of the story would have been fine, but it should have happened. This series was either not long enough, and should have had the story of the actual war, or way too long, as revelations are boringly dragged out. The all text "transcripts" of shield agents, as mentioned before, are way too frequently and lengthy to be interesting, and the "shield files" or whatever at the end of the series is reprinted filler. It's a shame that they design "covert ops" costumes for the heros involved and we barely get a glance at them as well. This series did not live up to its potential 6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Idea Scaled Down,
By Tin Pham - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Secret War (Hardcover)
Overall, good concept, amazing art and great writing. However, there are obviously some gaps. It looks like the artist and writers got tired part way through and rushed the the series.One of the bonus pages has Bendis giving a synopsis - the big battle was supposed to include the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, the Defenders and more! Unfortunately, this was not the case as it got scaled down quite a bit. That's how the entire story feels, a great idea scaled down. They put all this work into designing new costumes for the heroes and we only get a few flashbacks. Too bad. If they ever came back and filled out the missing parts of the story this would easily be a 5 star book. |
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