All I know is that with as little that I do actually pay attention to Marvel (only through Unlimited)(( and by 'pay attention' I mean
pay money's attention to Marvel
)), I'm not putting money into Secret Wars. I'll read it after, and to be honest, hope to maybe want to buy it so it can book end Hickman's Avengers trades.
If it maintains even 50% of story it is now, you will have no problem wanting to buy it. And sooner rather than later. This is, so far *crossing fingers* ... (and then uncrossing so I can continue to type
) the best Marvel "event" I have read since Civil War or House of M.
If it gets even a little better than it currently hits at, just a tad, and finishes this strong, this may be the best "event" comic since the original Secret Wars. It is, to me (and a lot of others) just that freaking good. All this worry I had ... haha ... wow, seems so silly now. Of course we still haven't gotten too deep in the side comics yet, so they could suck. Or be like the Convergence minis and be very hit and miss (mostly miss). so I am not yet counting my Howard the Ducks yet.
But I also come from a more Marvel stance, so ...
EDIT -
But I have to ask. How is it that both DC and Marvel came up with the idea to have the characters from different era's battle each other at the same time? Too close to be a coincidence IMO.
Well this is a copy-cat industry, but honestly, this time I think it was pure happenstance. They really are totally different animals really.
This is just a way for Marvel to clean up its universe. Incorperate all the "other" universes characters that it likes or may have use for, into Marvel U proper while eliminating all the clutter. Kinda like Crisis, but instead of mind wiping away all the other worlds and starting over the way DC has done, Marvel just blew all the other worlds up and continued on.
Plus, this gives them the opportunity to move the X-Men titles (and possibly a FF title) away from the main Marvel story-lines (Moving the Mutants (the x-books) to a moon around Jupiter I hear was the plan that has now changed, possibly, but something like that). Marvel has decided the Inhumans are their new X-Men. If Fox would have worked out a deal similar to Sony, I doubt this would be happening but it is what it is. Marvel feels like, while the movies don't pull too many new readers into the Marvel U, they do feel that X-books and FF books are just a free advertisement for the FOX movies. They don't want to lose the cash cow that is the X-Titles, but they don't want to have to work around it either. Move the X-Men out ... problem solved. The X dudes keep raking in the money while Marvel gets to tie in all the aspect of Mutants into the Inhumans and reach the goal.
DC was just a filler to move. That is why I am not too mad about Convergence. It is just a time filler with no implications. It is a bad time filler
, but nothing I hold against them as they had to work with less than stellar talent at times to make this move work
