The way this death went was like this: The boundaries between parallel dimensions began to fail, specifically at the point in the universe where Earth existed. This point marks the beginning of the Incursion era, when the Marvel multiverse began to die. I did it with a Marvel Unlimited subscription ($9.99/month, with a 7-day free trial), simply by looking up Hickman under “creators” and reading chronologically. If you’re going to read Secret Wars, you need to start with 2012’s Avengers and New Avengers series, written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by various artists.

If you missed last week, read this.īut what is Secret Wars about? Image: Marvel Comics Think of it as part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. Hell, it’s what Avengers: Endgame wished it could be.Įach Monday, while the comics industry takes a bit of a break, we’re looking back at some of the stand out moments in comic history. But here’s the thing - and know that this is coming from someone with DC Comics lore running in their veins - Secret Wars is what Crisis on Infinite Earths wishes it could be. Secret Wars evokes the granddaddy of all event comics, DC Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths, with a promise of universal armageddon and the mashing up of different parallel earths. The project set me on a riveting path to Secret Wars, and it’s where you should go, too. Some months ago I decided to read Hickman’s older Marvel work, starting with his run on the Fantastic Four, which bleeds into his Avengers series. Secret Wars was about what happened next.

But before Hickman did that, he told a three-year story about Marvel’s greatest heroes compromising their morality to save the universe - and failing anyway. Last summer, House of X/Powers of X, a galaxy brain sci-fi superhero series from writer Jonathan Hickman and numerous collaborators, rocked the comics world.

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