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How Imperial Are This Week's Secret Empire Comics? Champions #11, Avengers #10, Generations: Hulks #1 And Jessica Jones #11

As ever, we take a look through this week's Secret Empire tie-ins to see which are essential to your Hydra experience and which are mere frippery that you can knock along well without. The more Imperial importance they contain, the more Hydra Heads we give them.

You may have gotten used to two issues of Secret Empire in subsequent weeks as the series plays catch up a little, but this week it's just the tie-ins. Two official ones, Champions #10 and Avengers #11, both written by Mark Waid. But Brian Bendis continues his own Secret Empire thematic crossover in Jessica Jones #11, and then there's whatever's going on in Generations: The Strongest with Banner Hulk and the Totally Awesome Hulk which is somehow meant to tie in… but how?

Avengers #10 by Mark Waid, Mike Del Mundo and Marco D'Aldonso sees the Hydra Avengers going into battle, not with any of the Marvel superhero resistance but by a threat to the Planetary shield. With Superior Octopus, Unworthy Thor, Taskmaster, the Black Ant, Vision, Scarlet Witch and of course… Deadpool.

You know, that joke is never going to get old. The comic shows the cold heartedness of the team, the denial employed by some and the corruption that has worked with the soul of this brand. And also, along the way, gives us portent of just how powerful the Hank Pym particles could be.

Marvel Comics have often taken some minor superhero power base and shown how powerful the individual could be with some creative thinking, Iceman and The Invisible Woman come to mind – could Black Ant be next?

Champions #11 by Mark Waid, Humberto Ramos, Victor Olazaba and Edgar Delgado is a little more on the nose.

Very much entrenched with the storyline of Secret Empire, with the characters dealing with the destruction of Las Vegas and painting it in an even more wanton act of destruction than the main series, a real act of God leaving the entire city dead.

It goes into the details of those deaths and the widespread horror, alongside the naivety of the young who wish to make a difference – but then feel they can't.

Can this really be explained away by "something in the water? Anyway, plenty of Hydra heads for this one.

As well as a little note for things to come…

Captain America? But he's in Washington, DC. Which would mean a trip to make more portentous statements.

Sorry, no that's today's Superman, I mean…

Generations: The Strongest featuring Banner Hulk and The Totally Awesome Hulk by Greg Pak and Matteo Buffagni gives little away. But it seems that however the heroes will be transported in the Vanishing point, they won't know much about it. Wax on, wax off…

Some kind of personal therapy then? Will other books follow this pattern or will there be some variance? There is care not to say anything about Secret Empire though, to keep these books perennial…

While Jessica Jones #11 by Brian Bendis, Michael Gaydos, Javier Pulido and Matt Hollingsworth has its own Hydra story to tell. Bendis may be sitting Secret Empire out, but he keeps trying to have a little go all of his very own.

And as a result, ends up being more Secret Empire-y than Generations which is actually meant to tie in.

So. how Imperial were your titles?

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