Secret Wars Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Jim Shooter Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0785158685 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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- Age Range: 9 and up
- Grade Level: 4 and up
- Paperback: 376 pages
- Publisher: Marvel; 3rd edition (December 28, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0785158685
- ISBN-13: 978-0785158684
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars has spurred a lot of debate in the last twenty years. Many fans dismiss it as nothing more than a year long commercial for the Mattel action figure line. Others dismiss it as a blatant attempt to rush out and upstaged DC Comics Crisis on Infinite Earths far more historical series that came out at roughly the same time. Neither of these claims can be denied and even Marvel has admitted the transparent commercialism of the series. Still, when it comes right down to it, while perhaps nothing critical to the Marvel Universe came out of the series (Other than Venom) one certainly can't deny that it was an enjoyable series to read. It was a 12 page battle royal pitting most of Marvels top heroes against their top villains on neutral territory, all for the amusement of the God-like being known as The Beyonder.
The Beyonder was an all-powerful being from beyond our universe. His origins would be explained in much more detail in Secret Wars II. But basically the Beyonder entered our universe through a pinprick in the fabric of reality and became curious as to our world, and particularly Earth. The Beyonder then created a world and plucked out a few dozen heroes and villains and basically told them to battle each other to the death to get whatever they desired. The selection of heroes was pretty solid and included Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Spider Man, The Banner Hulk, Wolverine, She-Hulk, The Fantastic Four, Cyclops, Storm, and Professor X. The villains are much more of a mixed lot which includes heavies like Dr. Doom, Kang, Magneto, and Ultron, but some curious minor leaguers like Wrecking Crew, Titania, Klaw, and The Molecule Man.
This series was clearly not published for the purposes of having a well developed story that would hold any significance in the Marvel Universe. It is even explicitly stated in the text that this was nothing more than a means to market the franchises most popular characters through an underlying theme in order to sell action figures. Now I wouldn't have a problem with this if the characters were actually fleshed out and if the story actually held any weight in regards to how the Secret Wars event subsequently affected them.
Secret Wars is a poor excuse to bring Marvel's best together in an aimless battle for survival. Now again, I would be okay with this battle royal module if the fight scenarios and the way in which these characters interacted were actually fun and interesting, but sadly this is not the case. So there's no story, there's no purpose, but to add insult to injury the dialogue is terrible, Jim Shooter exposes himself as A POOR MAN'S STAN LEE with corny catch phrases, and the personal struggles that some of the characters undergo are just bothersome and disturbing.
THIS WAS JIM SHOOTER AT HIS WORST. Peter Rasputin (Colossus) is struggling with his pedophilic desires, the Wasp is overly feminized with her apparent obsession with cosmetics, and there is a tremendous amount of emphasis on the fact that Iron Man is black. James Rhodes is constantly referencing his skin color as means to exemplify the color blind notions held by the white characters and what's worse is that in one particular interaction with Captain Marvel, this character is projected in a manner that equates being black with being undignified and the polar opposite of the classy Tony Stark.
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