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Secret Avengers (2013)
Secret Avengers, Volume 2: Iliad
S.H.I.E.L.D. takes the fight to AIM's door with deadly repercussions, and the Secret Avengers find themselves outgunned and trapped in enemy territory! As the truth about the events on AIM Island come to light, the fallout from the Secret Avengers' attack on continues! But what waits deep inside the chambers of the High Council of AIM? And after the smoke clears, an old friend is laid to rest, while a new one joins the fray. Quake takes on Maria Hill, and everything rides on the outcome of their clash! Then: Infinity tie-in! With the Avengers off-world, what will S.H.I.E.L.D. do when Thanos strikes? It's up to Maria Hill, Nick Fury and Agent Coulson to repel the invasion! But what's the deal with the newest member of the Secret Avengers?
Collecting: Secret Avengers 6-11
Collecting: Secret Avengers 6-11
136 pages, Paperback
First published February 26, 2014
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Jackson Butch Guice
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December 29, 2014
Gosh, I find this series incomprehensible. I don't know if it's just me or if it's the script not being that well-written. I don't mind a few twists and turns in a storyline, but there are so many that this book doesn't make much sense to me. I don't think this is a good choice for people who are new to the Avengers comics diving in. I would probably try to track down some older Avengers titles instead of this. There is a lot of assumed knowledge that I feel I only have picked up because of random Marvel title reading I've been doing this year. Other aspects slip over my head and I have to rely on the Marvel Wikia to get more information.
I would give this barely three stars.
This is a preliminary review. I may revise it over time.
I would give this barely three stars.
This is a preliminary review. I may revise it over time.
December 14, 2014
This was kind of frustrating. Not the first half or so of the book, which continues the A.I.M. storyline. That part is written quite well, it has some really exciting action, and it left me wanting more. The covert hit on the Scientist Supreme has lost Daisy her position as director of S.H.I.E.L.D., leaving Mockingbird stranded on A.I.M. island, disguised as an A.I.M. scientist. Cool stuff, and a great cliffhanger.
But it's only a cliffhanger because the actual story gets the boot for the Infinity crossover. It doesn't have any of the regular team, it totally ignores the storyline, and it's incredibly jarring. And frustrating. I could blame editorial for forcing the crossover, or I could blame the writer for not planning for it. Either way, I wish it wouldn't have happened.
But it's only a cliffhanger because the actual story gets the boot for the Infinity crossover. It doesn't have any of the regular team, it totally ignores the storyline, and it's incredibly jarring. And frustrating. I could blame editorial for forcing the crossover, or I could blame the writer for not planning for it. Either way, I wish it wouldn't have happened.
May 6, 2016
A.I.M. is pushing SHIELD to take extreme measures.
Unfortunately a house divided against itself can not stand. SHIELD is divided and may be ready to fall.
Iliad was a frustrating volume. This comic has all the necessary pieces to be incredible, but it just keeps falling short. For being Nick Fury's protégé Quake is naïve at times while massively overreacting at other times. She just doesn't seem to be ready to run all of SHIELD and the United Nations committee agrees. Maria Hill seems like a myopic and heartless...starts with a B and rhymes with witch. Fury Sr.'s point on her was spot on, she's a good soldier who only knows how to lead from the front. Which is a nice way of saying she shouldn't run SHIELD.
The memory wipes still bother me incredibly. It shouldn't as Nick Fury wiped the minds of all the heroes in Secret War, but just replacing operatives minds and abandoning them in battle seems beyond cruel. Fury at least brought everyone home before messing with their heads. This SHIELD seems a touch on the evil side to me, especially with Hill and her mind wiping Avengers initiative.
Unfortunately a house divided against itself can not stand. SHIELD is divided and may be ready to fall.
Iliad was a frustrating volume. This comic has all the necessary pieces to be incredible, but it just keeps falling short. For being Nick Fury's protégé Quake is naïve at times while massively overreacting at other times. She just doesn't seem to be ready to run all of SHIELD and the United Nations committee agrees. Maria Hill seems like a myopic and heartless...starts with a B and rhymes with witch. Fury Sr.'s point on her was spot on, she's a good soldier who only knows how to lead from the front. Which is a nice way of saying she shouldn't run SHIELD.
The memory wipes still bother me incredibly. It shouldn't as Nick Fury wiped the minds of all the heroes in Secret War, but just replacing operatives minds and abandoning them in battle seems beyond cruel. Fury at least brought everyone home before messing with their heads. This SHIELD seems a touch on the evil side to me, especially with Hill and her mind wiping Avengers initiative.
July 18, 2014
Another Marvel book by Nick Spencer that I enjoyed!
Undercover espionage stuff in the Marvel Universe is something I have a soft spot for (I blame Brubaker and his Captain America run. Also Bendis and his Secret War). But setting some of this stuff before the last issue of the last volume was a bit risky. It does all make sense in the end. Maybe I'm just not as smart as Nick Spencer thinks I am?
I also think the Infinity tie-ins hinge the volume a bit. Spencer is building something really cool and the out of nowhere comes Infinity tie ins written by someone else. It felt really force. I know event tie ins get a lot of flack for this, because they can disrupt a books ongoing story, and I think that's what happens here. But it is only two issues. And they do help add to the new Nick Fury, who I'm not sure if I like or not.
Also find myself wanting to read the third volume to see where this goes. Not because I feel like I have to, but because I actually want to. I guess Spencer is doing something right then.
Undercover espionage stuff in the Marvel Universe is something I have a soft spot for (I blame Brubaker and his Captain America run. Also Bendis and his Secret War). But setting some of this stuff before the last issue of the last volume was a bit risky. It does all make sense in the end. Maybe I'm just not as smart as Nick Spencer thinks I am?
I also think the Infinity tie-ins hinge the volume a bit. Spencer is building something really cool and the out of nowhere comes Infinity tie ins written by someone else. It felt really force. I know event tie ins get a lot of flack for this, because they can disrupt a books ongoing story, and I think that's what happens here. But it is only two issues. And they do help add to the new Nick Fury, who I'm not sure if I like or not.
Also find myself wanting to read the third volume to see where this goes. Not because I feel like I have to, but because I actually want to. I guess Spencer is doing something right then.
July 19, 2017
A fun continuation of the storyline that began in "Reverie", split into two story parts: Part One, dealing with a failed invasion of A.I.M. Island and poor Bobbi Morse getting (quite amusingly) left behind , and the second diving into the origin story of SHIELD analyst Sarah Garza who wakes up in Park Slope with Inhuman powers...and gets immediately sent out by mean old Cobie Smulders to fight some rando-Thanos-led henchmen alongside Samuel J. Jackson and Clark Gregg.
Enjoyable, on the whole, though I'm probably the 1057th person to be annoyed by how virtually identical the character designs are for Maria Hill and Daisy Johnson. If it weren't for their fetching opposite black 'n' white jumpsuits (apparently comfortable and functional enough to wear to the office as well as on missions) one couldn't tell them apart!
Enjoyable, on the whole, though I'm probably the 1057th person to be annoyed by how virtually identical the character designs are for Maria Hill and Daisy Johnson. If it weren't for their fetching opposite black 'n' white jumpsuits (apparently comfortable and functional enough to wear to the office as well as on missions) one couldn't tell them apart!
May 18, 2020
Secret Avengers wzięli na celownik lidera A.I.M., tyle że sam zamach nie przeszedł tak jak to zostało zaplanowane. Lidera zastąpił figurant, który zginął ku chwale nauki, a cała grupa znalazła się w sporych tarapatach, naprzeciw przeważającym siłą organizacji przestępczej. Ale od czego SHIELD ma w swoich szeregach Hulka i Iron Patriota? Z drugiej zaś strony Mockingbird nadal infiltruje całą organizację, ale wskutek przetasowań na najwyższych szczeblach SHIELD zostaje "wyłączona". Miejsce Daisy zajmuje nie kto inny jak Maria Hill. Nadchodzi nowe...
Na mocny plus zaliczam przedstawienie czytelnikowi (wprawdzie króciutko, ale zawsze coś) poszczególnych członków Rady Najwyższej A.I.M. Każde z "ministrów" ma charakter i jestem ciekaw jak się potoczą ich dalsze losy. Wreszcie chciało mi się to czytać i były jakieś emocje. Takowe odczułem gdy Mockingbird trafiła przed oblicze rady, aby złożyć referat z jakieś sprawy. Właśnie, z jakiejś. Wrzuconą ją przez przygotowania. Nie wiedziała czym się zajmuje jej przykrywka, co lubi, etc. I wyobraźcie sobie sytuację, że trafiacie przed katedrę, aby zdać mega ważny egzamin bez należytego przygotowania. Mega. Spencer świetnie się tu spisał. Tym bardziej, że cały wątek zostawił na kolejny tom. Czemu?!!
Końcówka należy do niejakiej Sary Garza. W skutek działań wojsk Thanosa z eventu Infinity na świat opadła mgła terrigeniczna, która spowodowała "obudzenie" się genu Inhuman w ludziach. Także w tej bohaterce. Szara myszka w organizacją SHIELD, jaką do tej pory Sara była, musi staną od razu na polu bitwy, gdzie przyjdzie jej zweryfikować to co dobre, a co złe. Bo walka z monstrami to jedno, a walka z innym Inhuman drugie. A Sara nie należy do słabych postaci, oj nie... Szkoda tylko, że całość jest utrzymana w dość standardowych ramach. Nie ma mowy o jakimkolwiek zaskoczeniu.
Ale całość kradnie jedna postać. Taskmaster. Jest świetny, było go za mało, ale to i tak preludium przed tym co będzie nam pokazane w ostatnim tomie. Nie mam wiele do zarzucenia Ross'owi, jego ciemna krecha idealnie pasuje do tonu opowiadania i świetnie się sprawdza przy walkach wszelkiej maści. Secret Avengers mają trend zwyżkujący i szkoda, że przed nami ostatni już tytuł z tej serii. Mocne 3.5/5
Na mocny plus zaliczam przedstawienie czytelnikowi (wprawdzie króciutko, ale zawsze coś) poszczególnych członków Rady Najwyższej A.I.M. Każde z "ministrów" ma charakter i jestem ciekaw jak się potoczą ich dalsze losy. Wreszcie chciało mi się to czytać i były jakieś emocje. Takowe odczułem gdy Mockingbird trafiła przed oblicze rady, aby złożyć referat z jakieś sprawy. Właśnie, z jakiejś. Wrzuconą ją przez przygotowania. Nie wiedziała czym się zajmuje jej przykrywka, co lubi, etc. I wyobraźcie sobie sytuację, że trafiacie przed katedrę, aby zdać mega ważny egzamin bez należytego przygotowania. Mega. Spencer świetnie się tu spisał. Tym bardziej, że cały wątek zostawił na kolejny tom. Czemu?!!
Końcówka należy do niejakiej Sary Garza. W skutek działań wojsk Thanosa z eventu Infinity na świat opadła mgła terrigeniczna, która spowodowała "obudzenie" się genu Inhuman w ludziach. Także w tej bohaterce. Szara myszka w organizacją SHIELD, jaką do tej pory Sara była, musi staną od razu na polu bitwy, gdzie przyjdzie jej zweryfikować to co dobre, a co złe. Bo walka z monstrami to jedno, a walka z innym Inhuman drugie. A Sara nie należy do słabych postaci, oj nie... Szkoda tylko, że całość jest utrzymana w dość standardowych ramach. Nie ma mowy o jakimkolwiek zaskoczeniu.
Ale całość kradnie jedna postać. Taskmaster. Jest świetny, było go za mało, ale to i tak preludium przed tym co będzie nam pokazane w ostatnim tomie. Nie mam wiele do zarzucenia Ross'owi, jego ciemna krecha idealnie pasuje do tonu opowiadania i świetnie się sprawdza przy walkach wszelkiej maści. Secret Avengers mają trend zwyżkujący i szkoda, że przed nami ostatni już tytuł z tej serii. Mocne 3.5/5
August 29, 2019
The opposite of meh. A lot of good and a lot of bad averaging to a middling rating.
I prefer this version of the Secret Avengers. What with the Avengers being a high profile, high visibilty team, it would make sense for them to need a covert ops team to handle certain types of problems. But some of the previous rosters didn't make sense. Here we've got Black Widow, Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Nick Fury Junior. That makes sense.
(I know the Hulk's on the cover. He only shows up for, like, two pages and it makes sense why he's there.)
But this volume was oddly paced. First we get wrap up of the previous volume's story on AIM Island, albeit with lots of loose ends. Then a one-off of Mockingbird undercover. Then a two issue Inhumanity crossover, which is better than most of the Inhumanity crossovers. And through it all, we get the side story, which overshadows the main story, of just who's in charge of SHIELD. This whole Secret Avengers run is divided into three volumes, this one being the middle. I think it would have been better as two bigger volumes, with the eight-issue AIM Island arc in one collection.
On the surface, the art looks good. Veterans Butch Guice and Luke Ross taking turns. Everything looks good except for the long conversations between Daisy Johnson and Maria Hill, because the two women are indistinguishable from each other. Their hair is similar, their outfits are similar is shape, different in color, but dropped into shadow enough that it doesn't matter. But their faces are the same. I took the time to try to find subtle differences and couldn't find any. Daisy Johnson is nineteen years old. Maria Hill is, I'm guessing, early forties. They should not look the same!
I wanted to like this more than I actually did.
I prefer this version of the Secret Avengers. What with the Avengers being a high profile, high visibilty team, it would make sense for them to need a covert ops team to handle certain types of problems. But some of the previous rosters didn't make sense. Here we've got Black Widow, Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Nick Fury Junior. That makes sense.
(I know the Hulk's on the cover. He only shows up for, like, two pages and it makes sense why he's there.)
But this volume was oddly paced. First we get wrap up of the previous volume's story on AIM Island, albeit with lots of loose ends. Then a one-off of Mockingbird undercover. Then a two issue Inhumanity crossover, which is better than most of the Inhumanity crossovers. And through it all, we get the side story, which overshadows the main story, of just who's in charge of SHIELD. This whole Secret Avengers run is divided into three volumes, this one being the middle. I think it would have been better as two bigger volumes, with the eight-issue AIM Island arc in one collection.
On the surface, the art looks good. Veterans Butch Guice and Luke Ross taking turns. Everything looks good except for the long conversations between Daisy Johnson and Maria Hill, because the two women are indistinguishable from each other. Their hair is similar, their outfits are similar is shape, different in color, but dropped into shadow enough that it doesn't matter. But their faces are the same. I took the time to try to find subtle differences and couldn't find any. Daisy Johnson is nineteen years old. Maria Hill is, I'm guessing, early forties. They should not look the same!
I wanted to like this more than I actually did.
March 16, 2020
The Secret Avengers,a team lead by Director Daisy Johnson has been sent to AIM island to assassinate their leader.Due to the mission being unsanctioned,Daisy is being removed from her post and replaced with Maria Hill.
Daisy and Eden break into a Stark lab and extract as much information as they can from her brain before it gets deleted,as the Secret Avengers possess an memory-erasing implant for security purposes.
Mockingbird is trapped behind enemy lines as she is forced to adopt the persona of an AIM scientist,but that may soon come to an end as she has to face the council of the island.
Finally,we have the rise of a new Inhuman,Sarah Garza,as she develops explosive powers due to the Terrigen Mist.
Interesting concept of the superheroes,and I'm curious for more,but it wasn't an amazing story.Merely a good one.
Daisy and Eden break into a Stark lab and extract as much information as they can from her brain before it gets deleted,as the Secret Avengers possess an memory-erasing implant for security purposes.
Mockingbird is trapped behind enemy lines as she is forced to adopt the persona of an AIM scientist,but that may soon come to an end as she has to face the council of the island.
Finally,we have the rise of a new Inhuman,Sarah Garza,as she develops explosive powers due to the Terrigen Mist.
Interesting concept of the superheroes,and I'm curious for more,but it wasn't an amazing story.Merely a good one.
January 2, 2023
After the strong setup for this Secret Avengers run, this second volume felt rather underwhelming. We just had a lot of things shuffling around, but it never felt like we were really making progress with the big mission that the likes of Black Widow and Hawkeye had agreed to memory alteration for.
Yes, there's the need to resolve the big mission to take the current Scientist Supreme off the board, but that was about it. And we had some confusing bickering between Daisy and Maria Hill, who are drawn a little too closely for my comfort.
I recognize that the big Infinity event happening in the middle of things probably didn't help since it ate up some of the space. We had to bother to introduce a hero Inhuman SHIELD agent only to use her as a weird vehicle to stress that SHIELD has been going to a rather dark place.
Yes, there's the need to resolve the big mission to take the current Scientist Supreme off the board, but that was about it. And we had some confusing bickering between Daisy and Maria Hill, who are drawn a little too closely for my comfort.
I recognize that the big Infinity event happening in the middle of things probably didn't help since it ate up some of the space. We had to bother to introduce a hero Inhuman SHIELD agent only to use her as a weird vehicle to stress that SHIELD has been going to a rather dark place.
September 15, 2022
The story has too many events to do my usual style of review. Suffice it to say that the complexity has ramped up compared to the previous volume, arguably making the story less fun. There are too many characters to count and too many interactions to remember every detail. It's a slog, kinda. But it's still relatively enjoyable thanks to the humor in the dialogue and the fact that everything makes sense in a superhero comic kind of way. It's just that it's so much stuff...
April 16, 2021
Secret Avengers is more like SHIELD with some super powered people.
This volume is all about politics, whether taking down AIM is worth the hassle. It has a good cast and plenty of intrigue. A good read.
This volume is all about politics, whether taking down AIM is worth the hassle. It has a good cast and plenty of intrigue. A good read.
March 7, 2018
[review for volumes 1-3]
The art is the best thing about this series. Otherwise, there are some good ideas here but it seems unnecessarily complex. Maybe it's just me.
The art is the best thing about this series. Otherwise, there are some good ideas here but it seems unnecessarily complex. Maybe it's just me.
April 15, 2024
Really all over the place. Not really enjoying this run. Maybe not for me?
June 18, 2014
This second volume follows directly from the first, with Rhodey being brought into the Secret Avengers fold to help stop the Iron Patriot legion of drones. Further, Daisy orders the assassination of AIM’s Scientist Supreme; an unsanctioned hit that Maria Hill uses to wrest control of SHIELD out from under her. As a result, Hill leaves Mockingbird for dead a midst their enemies, by wiping her memory before she can continue the mission. And all this is just the first half. Everyone changes colors so frequently, the story leaves readers wondering who, if anyone, can be trusted.
The second half of the volume is the Inhumanity tie-in. One of SHIELD’s techs becomes Inhuman and is recruited into battle against Thanos’ invading force. Thought this was an action-packed piece, with an interesting new character, it feels shoe-horned into the series. Secret Avengers is about clandestine agendas and black ops and this really only served to pull readers away from a developing story line. However, it was a good story despite that and worth reading.
Overall, this is an excellent continuation of a promising series. So far, this is my favorite Marvel Now team title after Avengers Assemble.
The second half of the volume is the Inhumanity tie-in. One of SHIELD’s techs becomes Inhuman and is recruited into battle against Thanos’ invading force. Thought this was an action-packed piece, with an interesting new character, it feels shoe-horned into the series. Secret Avengers is about clandestine agendas and black ops and this really only served to pull readers away from a developing story line. However, it was a good story despite that and worth reading.
Overall, this is an excellent continuation of a promising series. So far, this is my favorite Marvel Now team title after Avengers Assemble.
June 27, 2016
This seems like a relatively interesting story that has been chopped to pieces and reassembled in a haphazard way without much concern for whether the reader can understand what is happening (or has happened). Add to that the fact that the story drops after four issues to go in a completely unrelated direction, and you have a rather frustrating volume. The flashback has a vaunted history in comics and is great when used properly, but making each issue a flashback that comes back to the present makes it formulaic and really lampshades the concept, taking me out of the story itself, which is generally good (though still told in a way that emphasizes how complicated it is, even if it is more or less a simple shell game). I would have been fine with an issue of flashback that set up the main story told straight. I gather that this added complexity is meant to make the workings more mysterious, but it was taken too far in this volume. The second story about a new Inhuman was reasonably good for a character with no particular history, but I am not particularly interested in seeing more of the character, either.
May 27, 2014
This comic is really all over the place. Spencer used a similar technique in Secret Warriors and there it worked. Here, it's nice to see the viewpoints of radically different characters, but it's not nice to see the storyline come to an abrupt halt after issue #8, and for us to lose both our main plot and the majority of our characters thanks to the newest crossover. It's unfortunately reminiscent of how badly Secret Avengers was used in some of the previous crossovers, where the whole main cast got shuffled off stage. (Also, I felt like the start was really clumsy, because we seemed to start en media res with little explanation of what was going on.)
The result is a mishmash where I liked the (somewhat confusing) first 3 issues and found the back half entirely disposable. It's a shame to see a comic killed by crossovers, as this could easily have been a new Secret Warriors.
The result is a mishmash where I liked the (somewhat confusing) first 3 issues and found the back half entirely disposable. It's a shame to see a comic killed by crossovers, as this could easily have been a new Secret Warriors.
June 8, 2014
Both art and the story are better than in the first one, but it's still very all over the place and not giving away any answers to what the overarching plot is and it's getting frustrating.
This is not helped by the fact that trade paperbacks are not the intended way for these to be read in (though it is my preferred way of reading because you get a bunch of the story at once, usually whole arcs, instead of mini parts of it that tend to be over before you've really gotten into them). And everything connects to events happening in other current comics runs as well. There's two issues at the end of this trade that I assume are part of some big comics event and even though I enjoyed them (especially the character the focus was on) I don't have any clue as to the context and it was jarring to be thrown into an entire other story when there were cliffhangers in the previous two issues that I wanted to see resolved.
This is not helped by the fact that trade paperbacks are not the intended way for these to be read in (though it is my preferred way of reading because you get a bunch of the story at once, usually whole arcs, instead of mini parts of it that tend to be over before you've really gotten into them). And everything connects to events happening in other current comics runs as well. There's two issues at the end of this trade that I assume are part of some big comics event and even though I enjoyed them (especially the character the focus was on) I don't have any clue as to the context and it was jarring to be thrown into an entire other story when there were cliffhangers in the previous two issues that I wanted to see resolved.
June 26, 2017
This series is a follow up to Secret War, so it is fair for it to be confusing. So you take superhero types and give them Mission Impossible style missions with the ability to memory wipe at any point as well as implant memories at a moments notice. And then you take the difficulty of finding a useful reading order. And you wonder if the reason you don't know what's going on is intentional or not.
And yet this book worked pretty well. Still don't know the gooder guys from the good guys from the bad guys from the badder guys. But the writing and art is pretty good and the use of characters interesting.
Still trying to work out what Nick Fury was pulling with Daisy Johnson and what Maria Hill knew or didn't know. But looking forward to the next volume.
And yet this book worked pretty well. Still don't know the gooder guys from the good guys from the bad guys from the badder guys. But the writing and art is pretty good and the use of characters interesting.
Still trying to work out what Nick Fury was pulling with Daisy Johnson and what Maria Hill knew or didn't know. But looking forward to the next volume.
April 23, 2014
The opening four issues are decent, but not as good as the previous trade - the storyline from that trade is rehashed and dragged out here, seen from multiple angles, and it does get a bit grating. It's especially annoying when the cliffhanger for issue 8 is completely forgotten for the rest of the trade, so I hope it gets picked up on and resolved in volume 3. The Infinity tie-in issues are great however, with a strong cast including some new characters, and a very personal approach to the whole Inhuman debacle that's sweeping the Marvel universe. The artwork from both Butch Guice and Luke Ross is exceptionally suited to the world of espionage and superheroics that the Secret Avengers straddle, so even when the story isn't at its best, the book still looks gorgeous.
September 15, 2014
Collects Secret Avengers (2013) issues #6-11
Whereas the last volume focused a lot on the troops on the ground and their missions, this volume focused on the behind the scenes; specifically in regards to the feud between Maria Hill and Daisy Johnson. I actually liked this politically-charged story more, so I would say that this was an improvement over the last volume.
There was still some Avengers-style fighting going on, with the final two issues of this collection being tie-ins to the 2013 Marvel event, "Infinity."
Whereas the last volume focused a lot on the troops on the ground and their missions, this volume focused on the behind the scenes; specifically in regards to the feud between Maria Hill and Daisy Johnson. I actually liked this politically-charged story more, so I would say that this was an improvement over the last volume.
There was still some Avengers-style fighting going on, with the final two issues of this collection being tie-ins to the 2013 Marvel event, "Infinity."
July 7, 2014
Nick Spencer never disappoints. If you really enjoyed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this is the title you should be reading. This is superheroes and espionage mixed together with just the right amount of fantasy and covert ops. It also deals with AIM and the new Island nation, which is always comical and terrifying in equal measure, whether featured in this book, or in Hickman's work.
January 4, 2017
There were some entertaining moments and some of the twists and turns were nice, but I found this volume forgettable overall. There is a lot of assumed knowledge, which I accept me not having did not allow me to fully follow the events within the timeline. As such, I was at best mildly entertained, despite whatever unique premise and tone was set out to be achieved.
November 23, 2013
Secret Avengers continues to be great. The last two issues tie-in to the Infinity event but don't require any real knowledge of that event and together make a nice 2-issue story arc that may be continued in later issues.
December 14, 2015
Boring, mostly. The first two thirds is overly dependent on knowing/caring about S.H.I.E.L.D. office politics. The remainder is related to other goings-on in the Marvel Universe. So the second half starts in the middle of a story, apparently just so a new character can be introduced.
October 11, 2014
Individual issues on marvel unlimited
February 6, 2015
2.5 stars
April 24, 2015
Nothing quite like dropping the entire story half through for random stories that didn't tie together at all!
November 10, 2017
the first 2 thirds of this book were pretty great. more of the story from the first. the best part was mockingbird losing her memory and having to live disguised as an aim agent for a while, although that majorly cliffhangered at the end. fun stuff, but still very few real answers yet. looking forward to the last volume. the last two issues in this volume were completely unconnected tieins to some thanos bullshit. with inhumans. bleh. but the pov character was pretty great, so it was fine.
November 14, 2017
The team continues to fight against AIM and get caught up in the Infinity storyline after the Terrigen mist is released.
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