Instead, the book opens on Doctor Doom, Molecule Man, and Doctor Strange introducing themselves to The Beyonders, god-like beings who play around with reality like it is their science lab. Secret Wars #1 does little to introduce unfamiliar readers to Hickman’s complicated, long-form storytelling outside of a few Marvel AR videos and a jam-packed cast page, featuring just about every major player in both remaining Marvel universes. In the months leading up to Secret Wars, I’ve been critical of Marvel’s approach to this event, especially their confusing Battleworld maps that do very little to entice casual readers to check out their expanded line of books. Just to understand the basics of the story, one has to have a working knowledge of Hickman’s runs on Fantastic Four, Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates, The Avengers, and New Avengers, and that’s just for starters. Make no mistake there has never been a Marvel event that asked more out of its readers than Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic’s new Secret Wars does.
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