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Secret Wars #8
The penultimate issue! So, mostly a sense of things being moved into place for the finale.
The two Reeds arrive at Castle Doom, though their ship, piloted by Star-Lord, crashes on arrival. Giant-sized Ben Grimm is also headed there, but he's met by Galactus, being controlled by Franklin. They fight, but after Franklin refers to Doom as his father Ben realises that he's Sue's kid and loses heart for the battle, so he gets blasted apart by Galactus. (Franklin also calls himself "Franklin Von Doom"; it'll be interesting to see if he retains any memory of this afterwards, since previously Val's been the only one who's had a more complicated relationship to Doom and Franklin's just seen him as a bad guy.)
Sue's watching the battle in horror, and asks Victor to intervene. He says, "I will... but not just yet." He's more concerned about the fact that if Ben's given up his role as shield then the annihilation horde will get in, and teleports off to deal with that. Valeria takes her mom to the cave where Doom's got Molecule Man stashed to prove that Doom's been lying to them, where they run into the two Reeds; 616 Reed is unsurprised to see Val and says, "Hello, Susan," though we don't get to see her reaction.
Meanwhile, Doom confronts Thanos, who is unimpressed his approach to godhood involves acting like a mortal and saving things instead of sitting in judgement over them. Doom rather casually rips his spine out of his body Mortal Kombat style, which I guess pretty much proves he's been indulging the whole rebellion thing and could have dealt with any level of threat any time he chose. Doom orders Annihilus to go and devour his enemies, but that's when two of his former on-off bromances, Namor and Black Panther, show up with the zombie horde in tow.
So. Kinda tough to review this issue, since it feels very much like the first part of a two-parter, getting everything into position for the finale. Plus this is the eighth issue in a row of the art being consistently brilliant and also brilliantly consistent, so, you know, not much to say on that front either.
But next time we finally get to see how the universe, and more importantly Doom, end up at their post-Secret Wars status quo. We've already seen from Iron Man that Doom comes out of things remarkably well, so is that because he voluntarily steps down, he manages to hijack the good guys' plans, or even because one of them - Reed? Val? Strange? - sets it up for him in hopes it might make him less villainous? I'm also eager to find out how much if anything people will remember of the eight years they lived on Battleworld, and whether the Richards kids are going to stick at their current ages (by my reckoning maybe about 15/16 and 11?) or revert to being younger again. (I'm hoping they'll at least age Val up a bit, because her being three just got silly.)
Looking forward to the big finale!
The two Reeds arrive at Castle Doom, though their ship, piloted by Star-Lord, crashes on arrival. Giant-sized Ben Grimm is also headed there, but he's met by Galactus, being controlled by Franklin. They fight, but after Franklin refers to Doom as his father Ben realises that he's Sue's kid and loses heart for the battle, so he gets blasted apart by Galactus. (Franklin also calls himself "Franklin Von Doom"; it'll be interesting to see if he retains any memory of this afterwards, since previously Val's been the only one who's had a more complicated relationship to Doom and Franklin's just seen him as a bad guy.)
Sue's watching the battle in horror, and asks Victor to intervene. He says, "I will... but not just yet." He's more concerned about the fact that if Ben's given up his role as shield then the annihilation horde will get in, and teleports off to deal with that. Valeria takes her mom to the cave where Doom's got Molecule Man stashed to prove that Doom's been lying to them, where they run into the two Reeds; 616 Reed is unsurprised to see Val and says, "Hello, Susan," though we don't get to see her reaction.
Meanwhile, Doom confronts Thanos, who is unimpressed his approach to godhood involves acting like a mortal and saving things instead of sitting in judgement over them. Doom rather casually rips his spine out of his body Mortal Kombat style, which I guess pretty much proves he's been indulging the whole rebellion thing and could have dealt with any level of threat any time he chose. Doom orders Annihilus to go and devour his enemies, but that's when two of his former on-off bromances, Namor and Black Panther, show up with the zombie horde in tow.
So. Kinda tough to review this issue, since it feels very much like the first part of a two-parter, getting everything into position for the finale. Plus this is the eighth issue in a row of the art being consistently brilliant and also brilliantly consistent, so, you know, not much to say on that front either.
But next time we finally get to see how the universe, and more importantly Doom, end up at their post-Secret Wars status quo. We've already seen from Iron Man that Doom comes out of things remarkably well, so is that because he voluntarily steps down, he manages to hijack the good guys' plans, or even because one of them - Reed? Val? Strange? - sets it up for him in hopes it might make him less villainous? I'm also eager to find out how much if anything people will remember of the eight years they lived on Battleworld, and whether the Richards kids are going to stick at their current ages (by my reckoning maybe about 15/16 and 11?) or revert to being younger again. (I'm hoping they'll at least age Val up a bit, because her being three just got silly.)
Looking forward to the big finale!