{"id":26674,"date":"2025-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=26674"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:10","slug":"secret-war-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/05\/15\/secret-war-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret War 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, here we are, 6 months after last issue. Secret Wars started the same month as the Pulse. Pulse 6-10 are Secret War tie-ins. And now this book is so late that even though Secret War 1 came out 9 months before Pulse 6, which takes place at the same time, Pulse 7 and 8 have seen print before SW 4. Yeesh! This one actually comes out the same month as MKSM 12, despite Secret War starting 2 months before MKSM 1. Placing these things chronologically is nearly impossible for me. And Bendis will only make that harder with SW #5, but we\u2019ll see that when we get there. We start with Wolverine taking a break on the grounds of the X-Mansion, wishing he had a cigar. I think this must mean we\u2019re past Joe Quesada\u2019s controversial smoking ban in all Marvel Comics. I wasn\u2019t sure when it started, but both Nick Fury and Logan have had their love of cigars references but not shown in this series. No one could smoke in a Marvel comic, not even bad guys. It seemed somewhat less realistic than popping claws out of your hands. But, that was then. These days, I don\u2019t know anyone who smokes, so it\u2019s less obvious, and the idea of Wolverine or Thing with a cigar hanging out of their mouths, so common til this point, seems like it would look kind of weird now. Still seems to suit Nick, tho. Anyway, Logan gets attacked like the others, and all blowed up, because Bendis loved really damaging Logan since he can take it. He evades his captors in the fireball, and then we go to a 2-page splash of everyone else vs. the villains from last issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cap now using Tony\u2019s full name twice just seems out of place. It\u2019s like a comic of a by-gone age where they\u2019re not sure you\u2019ll know who \u201cTony Stark\u201d is. Also: No star on his back. -5 points, Gab. DD continues to be very irritated that all this is happening with no explanation, and, after saving a homeless person from the melees, sees Scorcher again and zeros in on him, diving him into the water away from the battle to get us some sweet, sweet exposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLet\u2019s do a fully painted series. And let\u2019s make the poor guy paint, like, every character ever on every page. Surely this can\u2019t lead to any scheduling problems.\u201d DD is eager to somehow get this away from a populated area \u2018cuz he\u2019s been tipped off, but before they can do anything, all the C-Listers start getting powered down, and Lucia Von Bardas arrives, as DD was warned she would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big Bad Lady\u2019s armor is somehow combining everyone else\u2019s into a big bomb. Which, presumably, will kill all those villains, and they seem to know it, and they all showed up for this, anyway. What sense does that make? Reed has figured this out, and as Von Bardas monologues, the heroes are trying to get the villains out of their suits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bombs don\u2019t really have\u2026 triggers\u2026 Whatever. It all comes to a head next issue, which, again, has a 6-month delay. This issue\u2019s backmatter is mostly short profiles on all the villains, including the Crimson Dynamo and Hobgoblin who aren\u2019t actually anybody, not seen before or since. Then there\u2019s a gallery of various Marvel character art Del\u2019Otto did that got him this job, many of which became covers of books (Including Pulse 2 and SMU, Vol. 2 #10, coming soon).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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