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On Sunday, Secret Empire writer Nick Spencer was stuck at the airport, waiting on a flight. https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/896964713401139200 What better way to pass the time than with some political tweeting? https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/896975538119614466 https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/896977327065714688 But Twitter, a temperamental beast, decided to respond by bringing up some inconvenient comparisons: the pictures of Nazis in Captain America costumes… so fucked up :( — kaua-e-aru-hīrere the porcu-bear (@thelittlepakeha)[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] *Ties in heavily to the Secret Empire crossover Secret Empire is heating up as it Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson go to war Steve Rogers and Hydra have invaded both New Tian and Wakanda, while Sam Wilson and the Underground take the fight to the Inhuman prison on New Attilan Both operations yield great rewards,[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] After my thunderous review of Captain America #25 (his name was Barf), one might not expect me to return to Secret Empire Even if I did, they might expect me to put this on blast once again. I did say that I was finished with this series, and I didn't pick up #6 or #7[...]

Tomorrow sees the release of Secret Empire #8 as the massive Hydra invasion of the USA gets closer to its conclusion And, yes, Captain America is still Hydra, and always was But, presumably, we will also see what is behind the silhouette figure seen on the solicited cover of Secret Empire #9 when that is released. Here's[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] *Ties into the Secret Empire crossover In this issue, we're given more insight into the mind of Sam Wilson, AKA Captain America We see him in his new Falcon costume, looking over his Captain America uniform and shield We get a flashback of him conferring with his preacher brother about his decision to give up[...]

Occupy Avengers has been a great comic. David F. Walker put together something special here, and it’s a shame it had to be killed so soon.

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] *Ties into the Secret Empire crossover In The Mighty Captain Marvel #7, Captain Marvel, Alpha Flight, the Ultimates, and the Guardians of the Galaxy continue their struggle against the Chitauri forces attacking Earth. The new cadets — Glory, A'Di, and Dante — find themselves in a bad position as they attempted to contact Earth with the help[...]

Okay Hulk, from Civil War II is getting a quicker turnaround than most, but some significant superhero death in a major event has a certain amount of sticking power. But the one in today's Secret Empire #7 that has been causing much fuss is a little on the dubious side. So We see the Black Widow get[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] *Ties into the Secret Empire crossover Alright, after a weekend of writing San Diego Comic-Con news articles, we're back to writing comic reviews Everybody cheer! Now stop cheering, because we're about to tear into a comic series I previously liked by a writer whose work I generally enjoy. For those who haven't been keeping up with the[...]

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. Today sees the publication of  Secret Empire #6, as well as crossover comic books Doctor[...]

Ah, what a naive time we were living in, way back in 2016. As Marvel wraps up the Secret Empire super-mega-crossover event, in which Captain America is revealed to be a lifelong agent of Hydra and takes part in a fascist takeover of the United States, let's just say the center has moved far to the[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] *Ties into the Secret Empire crossover With Doctor Voodoo possessed by demons from the Darkforce Dimension and Rogue pinned down with Shocker and Scorpia, the Uncanny Avengers find themselves in a lot of trouble. Human Torch and the Wasp attempt to cover Synapse in the hopes that she can tap into Jericho Drumm's mind and free[...]

And as often happens when series close in on their final issue, the creative teams chop around as the publisher has better and brighter things for their artistic talent to bother their schedules with. And so the fifth issue out in August will now have art by will now see the previously solicited artist Butch Guice,[...]

As it starts next month, the PR machine must really ramp up for Marvel's ten issue series of one-shots, Generations, that promises to prove that there is space in the Marvel Universe for original Legacy characters and their modern counterparts. All beginning inside yet another Marvel event, the currently running Secret Empire, the stories begin with[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] *Ties into the Secret Empire crossover With the mutants being relegated to the state of New Tian in the wake of the Hydra takeover, Jean Grey and her X-Men: Blue squad are fighting to free the mutant and human prisoners being forced there. The leaders of New Tian, Emma Frost, Xorn, and Sebastian Shaw, do not[...]

Marvel have just popped out a press release revealing the previously unseen cover to Secret Empire #9 and promising that the secrets of a Hydra agent Steve Rogers will finally stand completely revealed. The cover, by Mark Brooks, has one of Marvel's tried and tested blacked out, silhouette's on the cover, facing off against Baron Zemo[...]

Every issue was a 8-10 on ratings scale, and it was easily one of my most anticipated comics to come out each month. And then it abruptly stopped at the beginning of Secret Empire. Curse you, Secret Empire Must you take everything from me? I mean what I said at the top of this article[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] * Ties into the Secret Empire crossover A month of reading these characters in other stories — namely Secret Empire and its Uprising tie-in — can really make you forget how charming they are in their own book, am I right? Frankly, with all the Secret Empire shenanigans, one could very understandably feel a bit fatigued[...]

The latest issue of Champions tackles the idea of internment camps, and it does not go quite as you might expect. All part of the Secret Empire!

I was Bleeding Cool's resident "Secret Empire is actually pretty good guy." I'm not so much anymore I tried to defend it, because I saw a lot of good in it It's hard to do that anymore I'd say Secret Empire #5 broke me, but, in truth, it finished off the culmination of problems that[...]

In celebration of the American Day of Independence, it's a great time to point people in the direction of some great stories about the greatest champion of the United States, Captain America: The Sentinel of Liberty. It happens to be more relevant these days when the current mainline story about Steve Rogers is…less than satisfying and[...]

Ironically, he started off with the original "Secret Empire" story in Captain America & The Falcon. I decided, in honor of the 4th of July, the American Day of Independence, I would interview the biggest Captain America fan I know: my dad. For those who don't celebrate the day, this is still a worthwhile read to see[...]

The portal then appears to be dealt with. But in subsequent issues of Secret Avengers,  we see the Shadow Council's recruitment involves being taken into a timeless space outside reality. Oh, and as well as the likes of John Steele, they also manage to recruit Arnim Zola, recently seen in Secret Empire And they have monsters… Become Supreme Leader[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] *Ties into the Secret Empire crossover Occupy Avengers has brought something to the table this month that really should have been here already: an actual fight-the-power narrative. Where is the fight-the-power stuff in this story about a Neo-Nazi fascist organization taking over America? Yeah, the Underground, the Champions, and the Defenders are trying to find a[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Now, even though I am Bleeding Cool's "Secret Empire is actually pretty good" guy, doesn't mean I think the series is perfect It has its flaws, and one of my first two articles for BC was my review of #2, which was a comic that could basically be summed up with "Hey, don't forget[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] As Bleeding Cool's resident "Secret Empire is actually pretty good" guy and as someone who was looking forward to the debut of the new Patriot, Rayshaun Lucas, I felt that it was necessary to review this comic. Yes, it's over a week old now, but that doesn't mean that the material has automatically become stale[...]

If you picked up Secret Empire #5 today, and you're an X-Men fan, you may have found yourself a little frustrated by the continued presentation of Doctor Henry 'Hank' McCoy Because for a while now, the X-Men's Beast (the adult one) has been shown in a less than favourable light. Art by Andrea Sorrentino Here we have[...]

Secret Empire #5 is out now and with it a couple reveals of resurrections (and yeah, yeah, Rich got one wrong, but hey, all these Marvel geniuses lookalike with the same damn facial hair and in THAT art-style) and treachery (one of which we called by the way). But it also gave us a new mystery[...]

The current Captain America comic and the Secret Empire event series has seen Steve Rogers revealed as a secret sleeper agent for Hydra all along, seizing power through legal means and enacting a takeover of the Unites States of America, with the aim to remake reality itself through the Cosmic Cube. Reaction against the storyline has[...]

But it's endlessly interesting, and the implications — both narrative and meta-narrative — are really fun to speculate about. Then Secret Empire happened, and the Ultimates are trapped trying to protect the Earth from the Chitauri But far be it from Ewing to let that stop his crazy celestial-filled story, as this issue really has nothing[...]