New Avengers #33 and Secret Wars #1-2

I'm not dead! And neither is this comm. (I'm just woefully failing at keeping track of what's going on in comics at the moment.) This post is a bit of a multi-recap of several recent comics, partly because my comic shop got one of them in late, and partly because the story's - slightly - more comprehensible taken in larger chunks. Spoilers below the cuts.

New Avengers #33 )

Secret Wars #1 )

Secret Wars #2 )

Summary and Thoughts )

New Avengers #7

Doom also has a cameo in New Avengers, following on from the events of issue #6. It's only brief, but Hickman writing Doom is always worth turning up for...

Spoilers )