This week’s Secret Wars #1 by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic showed the Marvel multiverse -- aka all of existence -- being destroyed, but believe it or not, that’s not the most surprising thing about it. The most shocking thing is that Marvel decided to make it so their big summer event has three years of convoluted backstory as a barrier to entry.
Granted, you don’t have to read everything that came before in order to buy Secret Wars -- a fact that Marvel is no doubt banking on -- but it does seem strange for such a hyped event to have an extraordinarily high fence around it. I’ve tried to explain the nuances of the lead-in story to several people, but they all got that confused look in their eyes once I started talking about Builders and Mapmakers and World Incursions -- and that’s before I even got to Rabum Alal! That the issue #1 recap page has a whopping 58 characters on it reinforces the idea that there will be a lot going on in Secret Wars.
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Granted, you don’t have to read everything that came before in order to buy Secret Wars -- a fact that Marvel is no doubt banking on -- but it does seem strange for such a hyped event to have an extraordinarily high fence around it. I’ve tried to explain the nuances of the lead-in story to several people, but they all got that confused look in their eyes once I started talking about Builders and Mapmakers and World Incursions -- and that’s before I even got to Rabum Alal! That the issue #1 recap page has a whopping 58 characters on it reinforces the idea that there will be a lot going on in Secret Wars.
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