Product Description: 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 finds a disturbing connection between many of Marvel's deadliest villains, he puts together 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! Collects Secret War #1-5; From the Files of Nick Fury.
Meh It contains some relevance now due to Skrull Invasion, but it really was not very good...I would not recommend getting this.
Bendis doing what he does best I just recently revisited this series, and I enjoyed it even more the second time. This series is superbly written (Not to mention fantastic artwork and extras). B.M. Bendis is at his best when he takes B-list characters and writes terrific story lines that makes these second division characters as intriguing as A-listers. The exciting storyline that links the A-list heroes with the B-list villains involved is fascinating and extremely engaging. What's also great about Bendis is his ability to write a short series which has such a major impact on the entire universe. If you liked Disassembled and have enjoyed what's going on with the Civil War fallout you will enjoy this series.
I rather liked it I've heard some complaints about this book, and it has its weak moments, and I'll admit, I groaned a little when I first heard of it, but it's a nice story, though not as fully explored as it could have been, and it led up to much more and bigger changes in the Marvel Universe (also could have been handled better), but in the end, this book stars a great cast of characters doing what they do. Yeah, I'd give it five stars (or maybe 4 1/2).
So, Uh, What Happened? Shhhh....It's a "Secret"! The "Secret War" is so secret that not even the reader is witness to it. We're told about a massive war between a clandestine group of heroes and the Latverians--a war that we never actually see. In the afterword by Brian Michael Bendis, Bendis states, "What was their mission? Did they succeed or fail?" The war eventually moves to U.S. soil, where "sleeper cells" of villains are activated in an attempt to destroy New York City. This was one of Marvel's first attempts to bring the Marvel Universe into the "real world," and as such it's only a moderate success. The art, by Gabriele Dell'Otto, is amazing.
One of the Stepping Stones to Civil War This is one of the stories that set the spring board for Civil War. The story goes that it is discovered that villans are being backed by the Latverian Prime Minister and Nick Fury gets a group of Heroes to stop him consisting of Captain America, Spider-man, Luke Cage, Daredevil, Black Widow, Wolverine and a SHIELD agent named Daisy Johnson. The fallout of this event helps to make Civil War happen.
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