Marvels Secret Wars by Hickman & Ribic |OT| Everything ends... Everything begins

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Ok, I'm coming back to my local shop tomorrow.
 
Afrodium said:
Boy, no one cares about Secret Wars anymore, huh?
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I still think it's iffy this topic was put in the community forum a few months into the event, while Supernatural Season 10 discussion (they're on 11 now) is still in Off Topic.
 
Weirdworld's ending was rad, I wish Aaron was still writing this in ANAD instead of Humphries.

Agents of Atlas also great. I need more Jimmy Woo and Gorilla action in post SW Marvel.
 
Read Siege #1-4. It was pretty weird. The concept is super interesting, and the guest artist splash pages were awesome. Like with Secret Wars itself though, I feel that this entire Battleworld concept always teases stuff which are more interesting than the actual stories being told sometimes. The stories untold always seem to hint at really wacky stuff which could make good complete stories on their own, but will never be expanded on. What a shame. Can't say I really care for how the story ended though. For something that was originally built around the narrative of being the last stand between the civilized world and the demons that are, it just kinda fizzles into a direct Secret Wars story tie-in instead. Cheapens it imo.
 
Now that it's done I've finally read the whole Weirdworld series. I was utterly enchanted by it, it's one of the best things I've read from Marvel in years.

The story is molded in style of the best pulp novels I've read, it gathers a lot from Moorcock and obviously from Howard. Form me it mostly read like a Moorcocks Corum novel, where the main character jumps constantly from place to place, meets odd characters and enemies, trying to find his destination.

It all ckuld fall flat if not for Del Mundo, who was masterfully rendering all of weirdworld, from flying islands, through underwater apes and villainous sorceresses. The most striking aspect was the color pallet they've used, full off bright greens and pinks. It made the world look truly alien, with the few 'normal' looking characters looking like they don't really belong there.

A fantastic work.

I can't wait to show this to my father, whose fantasy books I've read as a kid, because I know he will love this as much as I did.
 
House of M ended better than it started somehow. It still wasn't that good or anything.

Where Monsters Dwell was fucking amazing and horrifying and evil and I liked it.
 
Better not be bullshitting again with that amazing cover. I'm still pretty salty over not getting any Thanos vs Zombies after this:

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Is #7 and #8 the monster that had to be split into two issues hence dragging the event on for an extra issue? If so, maybe it would be a better idea to just wait for #8 and read both like they were intended. Lol.
 
duckroll said:
Is #7 and #8 the monster that had to be split into two issues hence dragging the event on for an extra issue? If so, maybe it would be a better idea to just wait for #8 and read both like they were intended. Lol.
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At this point I'd assume issues 6, 7, and 8 were all chopped up to make #9.

and hell no I'm not waiting any longer!
 
Whatever Jane said must have been pretty convincing. Did that happen in Thors? With so many tie ins, its so hard to keep track of which mini-series actually have main story content in them.

Cyclops sans Phoenix features prominently on two different covers, which is strange since he died in 4. I guess he gets better.
 
Scirrocco said:
Whatever Jane said must have been pretty convincing. Did that happen in Thors? With so many tie ins, its so hard to keep track of which mini-series actually have main story content in them.

Cyclops sans Phoenix features prominently on two different covers, which is strange since he died in 4. I guess he gets better.
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Nah, unless she's in the last part of it, Jane's not in Thors. In general I was hoping there's be sole hijinks with her and the other Thors (her reactions to everything are so entertaining as is, haha), but whatever.
 
Inorigo said:
Nah, unless she's in the last part of it, Jane's not in Thors. In general I was hoping there's be sole hijinks with her and the other Thors (her reactions to everything are so entertaining as is, haha), but whatever.
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Although doesn't the last issue come out next week too? Maybe it's in there.

Because it really feels like there should be more. Like thanos in the last issue, we saw him there, and then it went into more detail in siege.
 
I mean Weirdworld and Old Man Logan both end with the end of Battleworld, the latter also involving the end of Ultimate End.
Neither of those were delayed.
 
duckroll said:
Is #7 and #8 the monster that had to be split into two issues hence dragging the event on for an extra issue? If so, maybe it would be a better idea to just wait for #8 and read both like they were intended. Lol.
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I'm more worried that there won't be enough time for a resolution by the end.
 
So is "Secret Wars" #9 a way to let the climax breathe and not have everything be compressed?

Brevoort: It's not entirely that. The problem wasn't issue #9, which originally was issue #8. The problem was issue #7. There was enough stuff to do that Jonathan's first draft of issue #7 was like 45 pages long. So at a certain point it just became unwieldy. I can stretch things a little bit by doing a couple extra pages. That's fine, but I can't do a book that's more than double the normal size at the normal price without it being a problem. Plus, every one of those pages is a page that Esad has to draw. There's a time factor as well.


So at a certain point we all huddled here and looked at our options. What we decided was that we would take what was issue #7 and restructure it, but effectively break it in half. We'd turn it into two issues #7 and #8. Then the original #8 is now #9. That hasn't changed at all. It's just got a shiny new number.

It just came down to the big pay off and big climax of all of this stuff was bigger and required more pages than we had estimated at the outset. It just got big and we needed the space. So we decided to take it.

Hickman: Yeah, the choice was basically do we want to make people wait two months for the big #7 to come out or do we want to put out a book each month? It was a no-brainer especially with how our schedules looked. So it is what it is. It was always going to be a bit bigger, but I turned in a monster.
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