Secret Warriors #27, July 2011, written by Jonathan Hickman, penciled by Alessandro Vitti
Secret Warriors #24, March 2011, written by Jonathan Hickman, penciled by David Marquez and Alessandro Vitti
So Jonathan Hickman is just pure ideas right? Like he throws frisbee with an idea hand and digests food with idea intestines? Every thought he has is uncharted territory in the world of fiction, breaking new ground for everything ever? Right? Because wow, he doesn’t quit. In his 24 issues of Secret Warriors he has given the Marvel Universe a straight up brick of characters and mythology. I know I need to read all of this again just to get it all.
In this issue Hickman sets up an entire team of agents, complete with backstories rich enough to form an ongoing series with (one that would last 4 issues). And then he kills them. All of them. All that work and all those ideas, and bam, dead. But it worked for me, because even though I was just meeting these characters (I was right? Or have they appeared before and I just straight up forgot due to the truckloads of details in all of Hickman’s tales?) I knew all about them. It was really well done.
I’ve always thought that Secret Warriors fluctuated greatly between genius and mediocrity, but now I think I just haven’t been paying close enough attention.
My Score: 8.6
Secret Warriors #23, February 2011, written by Jonathan Hickman, penciled by Alessandro Vitti
Secret Warriors has been hit or miss with me for the last couple months. The relatively slow pacing and scant dialogue of recent issues has caused me to zip through them without much thought. The previous issue changed that with Fury letting J.T. drop to his death after finding out he’s a traitor. That was a pretty big deal and, with #23, we’re seeing the ramifications of it. The first half of this issue shows Sebastian Druid getting whipped into shape (Fury’s real reason for letting him go) and the second half shows the aftermath of the team’s battle. The issue ends with the Secret Warriors apparently disbanded, which knowing Hickman could very well be true. I’m getting back into this title again.
My Score: 8.4
1501. Secret Warriors #22, January 2011, written by Jonathan Hickman, penciled by Alessandro Vitti
My Score: 8.6
1444. Secret Warriors #21, December 2010, written by Jonathan Hickman, penciled by Mirko Colak and Alessandro Vitti
My Score: 7.5
1346. Secret Warriors #20, November 2010, written by Jonathan Hickman, penciled by Mirko Colak
My Score: 8
1235. Secret Warriors #19, October 2010, written by Jonathan Hickman, penciled by Alessandro Vitti
Hey Tumblr, your queue function is about a million times worse than it was before you took a week doing maintenance on it. You know the one thing a queue is supposed to do, you know, publish posts automatically? Why doesn’t it do that anymore? Why does it post them whenever it wants to? Why does the automatic queue that I tell to start at 9am and go to 5pm set the first post in the queue to post at 11 pm? What? Why do posts that DO post on their own ONLY show up in the dashboard and NOT when you go directly to the tumblr’s URL?
So two things:
1. Tumblr, you are being dumb.
and
2. I’m sorry if your dashboard gets flooded. I really try to space these things out because I feel that dashboard flooding is way obnoxious, but Tumblr ain’t working with me here.
A fine issue!
My Score: 8.4
