Secret Wars led to a few months of interesting and creative minis and one-shots from various creative teams.
What were the best?
With so many books, its hard to tell which ones were worth reading and which ones were crap.
Lucky for you, Im here.
Here it is, our definitive, authoritative ranking of all theSecret Warsminis…
1.
Its emotional and thrilling and just stunning to look at.
And also there is a dog named Nova.
11/10, impossible to recommend more highly.
Weirdworld
by Jason Aaron and Michael del Mundo
Mike del Mundo is incredible.
But thats not even remotely the case in most of his work, and especially withWeirdworld.
Civil War
by Charles Soule and Leinil Yu
There were two main types of What If?
stories that came out duringSecret Wars:EventWhat Ifs (what ifInfernohad never ended?)
andsettingWhat Ifs (what if the Avengers were founded in the old west?
And Leinil Yu made it look so pretty.
And HOW AWESOME is demon first grader Cable?
This comic was amazing.
Thats not why this is so high, though.
It lives up to its namesake series in every way.
Its so much fun.
I have a deep, passionate hatred of police procedurals.
ButThorsactually made them fun.
Either way, Gillen writes a massively entertaining Brand, and an almost-as-good Kang.
Even though all the zombies getting shot in the head was pretty not bad.
Its why I started an advocacy group to keepLooney Tunesin our schools.
And as part of our proposed curriculum, I thinkM.O.D.O.K.
Assassinshould be taught, because it was too damn funny.
falls in love with her.
There was a lot of good comedy in theSecret Warstie-ins, but this was the best of the bunch.
Holy crap, did I just inadvertently nail a lasso metaphor-pun?
Hail Hydra
by Rick Remender and Roland Boschi
I… holy shit.
Im reasonably sure this was a middle finger to corporate comics.
I cant believe this was published.
But we wouldnt have been able to seeAttilan Risings examinations of Black Bolt and Medusa without these specific circumstances.
And its all the better for it.
And John Timms makes it fun to read.
Bonus points for the dark as hell ending, too.
X-Tinction Agenda
by Marc Guggenheim and Carmine di Giandomenco
Look.
I know thisX-Tinction Agendais not objectively good.
But you know what?
I really enjoyed this series.
If you were a fan of Morrisons old work, you will certainly enjoy this.
This felt like an old-school Avengers adventure starring all the best women heroes from around the Marvel Universe.
Also I know I blew past this, but there is anexcellentamount of shark punching in it.
I could have used a bit more shark punching, but thats a fairly standard complaint for all comics.
I really enjoyed theDark Knight Returnspanel in the last issue, but the whole series was fun.
X-Men 92
by Chris Sims and Scott Koblish
I was genuinely surprised at how goodX-Men 92was.
If youre at all familiar with Chris Sims internet output, you know exactly what youre getting here.
Its done well and genuinely entertaining to fans of the cartoon.
Giant Size Little Marvel AVX
by Skottie Young
Skottie Young is great.
Hes got a great sense of humor and hes an excellent cartoonist.
Honestly, I know that sentence is usually sarcasm, but I really mean it.
Flash gets a nice death scene, and Stegron is prominently involved.
As was everything Doom said to him.
Skottie Young and Jim Mahfood had a blast spoofing noir movies with Howard.
Silence, future goblets was gold.
Korvac Saga
by Dan Abnett and Otto Schmidt
Korvacwas an interesting book.
It was interesting and well-told, but largely insubstantial.
Planet Hulk
by Sam Humphries and Marc Laming
Devil Dinosaur is magnificent.
I dont think I could ever really dislike a comic that has Devil Dinosaur fighting to reunite Stucky.
That said, this whole series felt like it was a little padded out and repetitive.
It was completely hamstrung, though, by Greg Lands art.
The exiled 1602 Punisher looks exactly like Steve Dillon drew him, and Vision and Jim Hammond look Ditkoesque.
The last issue is mostly filler, but before that this was a really good series.
Spider-Verse
by Mike Costa and Andra Araujo
There was nothing memorable about this at all.
I think the Sinister Six all got jumpsuits in their color?
I guess Im sorry?)
are the last mutants born in that domain.
And the ending tried to pull a lady or the tiger, and it just came across as silly.
Unfortunately, his artist onMaster of Kung Fuis… not Williams.
Im as big a fan ofMagnum P.I.mustaches as the next guy, but sometimes theyre just superfluous.
The art was nice, but the story had a couple of big problems.
First, it didnt go anywhere.
Where Monsters Dwell
by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun
What an odd comic this was.
I dont really remember, and I just finished this a couple of hours ago.
Which isnt a great sign.
It feels like Marvel threw a ton of money at Garth Ennis just so they could say Look!
We got Garth Ennis back forSecret Wars!
and then published a script he hadnt gotten around to pitching to Avatar yet.
Dan Slott writes good Spidey, and Adam Kubert is a surprisingly good Spider-Man artist.
Then on the last page, Crossbones comes out of nowhere to shoot the Skull in the head.
Its like the creative team was taunting the audience for caring about what happened in this story.
The art was very, very bad.
Age of Apocalypse
by Fabian Nicieza and Gerardo Sandoval
This one almost broke me.
I loooooooooooooooooooove the Age of Apocalypse.
And not just the timeline.
I love all the amped up 90s-comic-tics-on-steroids series from that whole crossover.
I bought theBlinkmini that led intoExiles.
I so desperately wanted to like this, but dear heavens it was terrible.
And ends up a puddle of goo?
Which is cool, Im pretty sure thats exactly what happened at the Nuremberg Trials.
Okay guys, youre :poof: not German anymore.
Now lets all say sorry.
Jawol, herr richter!
Seriously, this was horrifyingly bad comics.
The only thing keeping this out of the bottom is Andrea Sorrentinos art, which is incredible.
But its not enough to make this book good, or even not terrible.
Even the incredible art only holds it to not the worst comic Marvels published this year.
Its a heist romance featuring Shadowcat and the guy fromGuardians of the Galaxy.
Ok, so what?
There he meets Kitty Pryde from the Age of Apocalypse domain.
Thanks,Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde!
), bears absolutely no resemblance to the character from the actualAoAcrossover.
There, she was a broken, furious woman who got murdered to death by Colossuss shinbone.
Splinter religions were created from similar hair splitting, but it was never quite this stupid.
This comic is the reason why people make fun of philosophy students.
Emma Frost then beams whats been happening in the main series into everyones head.
Then theres a double page spread of like, 60 headshots.
Then theres a double page spread of Doom smiling.
