10 Problems With Marvel's Secret Wars Nobody Wants To Admit
8. Most Of The Spin-Offs Are Pants
In most cases, crossover events are worth putting up with because the tie-ins will be interesting. Civil War is pretty naff, but the Frontline spin-off book was genuinely strong, and the one-shot of Iron Man mourning over Captain America was great too. The Superman issues which connected to Final Crisis were better than the event itself. That's not really the case with Secret Wars. The main series is a grand, sweeping feudal epic, played on a cosmic level with superheroes. There's some interesting stuff in the tie-ins Captain Marvel And The Carol Corps, Siege, 1602: Witch Hunter Angela, A-Force, Infinity Gauntlet but then there's...everything else. Inhumans: Attilan Rising continues to make the evolved humans happen (with about as much a chance as fetch), Secret Wars Journal is a mess, Inferno is the follow-up to an X-Men storyline nobody liked in the first place...Marvel has effectively cancelled its entire publishing line, and replaced it with what are mostly duds.
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