Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars - an "Exploring the Unlimited" Comic Book Review
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I had a ton of the toys as a kid but never read the comics. This was a great insight into what I missed. I never realized it was all to sell toys.
I never had any of the toys! I had a lot of the Marvel toys that started coming out around 1990, but in '85 I was pure He-Man!
will you be doing more comic based reviews? or like.... is this account for posting stuff about the comic book world? because id be very interested
Correct! @exploreunlimited will be focused on comic reviews and probably stray into other comics relevant information as well. I hope to eventually expand it to host various columnists and reviewers in addition to myself. Happy you're interested!
I'm the Spider-Man
This really is a great review! And you get 5 stars for the effort of reading it. Secret Wars was always about money and never about plot or everything else. Kinda like Marvel is today. So many events.
Here is a quote from Marvel Comics about Secret Wars from The Untold Story: "Almost immediately after the last issue of Secret Wars had shipped, Carol Kalish addressed a gathering of comic-book store owners. 'Let’s be honest,' she said. 'Secret Wars was crap, right?' (The retailers agreed wholeheartedly.) 'But did it sell?' The room cheered. 'Well, get ready for Secret Wars, series two!'"
I need to read Untold Story, I'm sure I'd really enjoy it. Secret Wars certainly has the feel that it could have existed only as a pack in comic with the action figures.
I certainly suffer from "event fatigue" in today's comics world. However since the target market is no longer children and most modern events (while still aimed at driving sales) aren't beholden to toy tie ins and focus groups, I find many of them to be more readable and better crafted then Secret Wars.
Untold Story is great, but it's not updated, kinda ends with arrival of brian michael bendis. and stops getting into the smaller details it doesn't at the beginning of the book, so it is very uneven.
I don't care if they are more readable and better crafted, I want less of them. Little crossovers are fun, but it's totally getting out of control. Every time Marvel announces an event, a unicorn dies.
I'm totally with you on less! It gets ludicrous how so little aftermath and actual world development goes on because they move right into the next event!
I'd love to see a "non-event." Call it Day Off! Marvel should coordinate a couple months in the summer where nothing happens. All the stories are things like the X-Men playing softball, Avengers at the beach, FF at the shopping mall, etc. Just fun character writing.
Or just you know, them fighting against villains. They can even invent some good new villains for this special occasion. They need a none-event year. That's how bad it is. even publicity wise. People hear event and instead of getting exited, they are exasperated.
To this day one of my favorite in my collection.
As an old comic book nerd, I'm definitely hoping to see more of these. :)
I will do my best to provide, and hopefully recruit a couple helping hands along the way!
Excellent review of this series. Never read it in full either despite it's placement in Marvel history (dat symbiote) and owning I think the full set. Looked like corny fun right from when I found out exactly what was going on and still intend to go back and enjoy this, and maybe sooner than later now after reading this review.
I'm glad the review encouraged you to read the series rather than discouraged! I wasn't sure if I was being a bit hard on it, but I do think it's important to distinguish between something being entertaining, vs. it actually being "good." Of course entertaining and good at the same time are the goal! Reading it will be time well spent to a comics aficionado like yourself. I would liken Secret Wars to a lot of golden age material, which in many cases was actually quite low quality, but has carved out a place in comics history and serves as an interesting reflection of the times it was created in.
I recommend reading Marvel: The Untold Story by Sean Howe to get a better insight on the whole creation process behind this thick beast.
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STOPI was fortunate to meet Mike Zeck, the artist of this book! :D
Great review man! So what are your thoughts on the Marvel's 2015 Secret Wars?