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The Sexual Secrets Of Secret Wars Today – And Who Remembers The Stars?

We're keeping an eye on the secrets of the Secret Wars, Marvel's current massive event, and how Secret Wars-y each crossover issue actually is, marked out of ten by Doomheads. So if you want the continuity heavy books, you can get them. And if you don't, you can avoid them.

You can see previous chapters of our coverage right here. There are some spoilers below, but the only major one is for Where Monsters Dwell.

Planet Hulk is much more Secret Warsy, as Captain America and Devil Dinosaur from one reality are sent by Doom for a mission that may see them rescue Bucky.

We have speculated, and purely that, that this version of Captain America and Bucky maybe even closer than the Marvel 616 version. And the Hulk here seems to tease at such a closeness…

And one could take their flashback visuals in that fashion as well.

There's no doubt  at all in E Is For Extinction #1 though.

As Chris Burnham give his his best Frank Quitely to date, recreating that New X-Men run, with only minor Secret Warsiness interruptions of the type above.

And considering that the world of Mutopia is meant to be the 616 Marvel universe if it went on a different path, Angel Salvadore expressing bisexuality here…
 …should probably mean that it would apply in the 616 as well.

While what we have described as the most heterosexual comic book in the Secret Wars, Where Monsters Dwell, playing on the Boys Own Adventure type of character and a very Imperial view towards men and women takes it straight into blatant misogyny…

Which also plays up on Garth Ennis' previous volumes about "what it means to be a real man" in Preacher, The Boys, War Stories and Hellblazer. And then gives us a series of Frank Cho style Shanna The Savage She-Devils…

And amongst all this male heterosexual normality with the possibility of an Amazon woman tribe that, clearly, only need a man to show them what's what, a twist. 

That put the imperialism definitely on the back foot, old school. Oh and very little Secret Warsiness.

The schism of Captain Marvel And The Carol Corps, asking about the stars, is echoed in today's Korvac Saga #1. In Secret Wars we learned that Odin took the stars from the sky and turned them into hammers. But how literal was that? Korvac Saga #1, heavy on the continuity, with two domains run as one, and people starting to remember a time before Doom, when there were stars….

It reminds me rather of a certain episode of Doctor Who, where the universe had collapsed to just one planet, Earth, and stars were just a legend, believed in by religious nutcases like Richard Dawkins.. hmm.

So yes, heavy on the Doomheads.

There is more romance in the air – MODOK: Assassin is very Secret Warsy, as the barriers between worlds are breached, Doom's representatives are involved and an Angela Thor gets caught up in one of those. With MODOK trying to play it all off as goofiness of Love Actually…

He does look a bit like Hugh Grant, doesn't he? Roll out the Doomheads…

While Infinity Gauntlet, still relatively Secret Wars-free, especially given that no one is talking about the stars that the Novas are meant to travel through.

Especially when you have some dog distraction.

Age Of Ultron Vs. Marvel Zombies is utterly Secret Warsy, playing out battles beyond the Shield. And, in a moment with Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne from Timely, the 1872 world, we get more of Doom's anti-mutantness with one line…

That would be adamantium, yes? Doom have a thing against Ultrons – or Wolverines?

While a number of books are going through their Last Days that led up to the Secret Wars, Black Widow prepares for the end…

…by giving us a flashback. The Punisher sees the aftermath of a scene in Secret Wars #1..

…before going on one last international mission of punishment. And Loki, as the world is ending…

…takes the opportunity, as worlds end and old friends return, to tell the origin and life story of their human Lying Cat, Verity Willis. Loki of course has a plan. Maybe one day he'll tell us…

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. Who will be hosting a signing with Si Spurrier of his new Boom! comic The Spire next Wednesday from 6pm.

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