Secret Wars #6 Review

Writer: Jonathan Hickman / Artist: Esad Ribic / Marvel Comics Secret Wars has jumped 3 weeks after Doom gave his “daughter” Valeria the assignment to find the fugitives that Stephen teleported to safety before his death, but his genius daughter ain’t found shit. Well, that’s what she tells Doom anyway. The cracks were starting to form in this facade that Doom has propped up in issue #4, but you can certainly see that not only is Valeria skeptical, she’s holding back key pieces of intel from Doom. As it was in the beginning (or at least the introduction of Battleworld in issue #2), the beautiful way that Hickman has been able to simultaneously hold true to Marvel lore and also throw it completely into blender and set it to liquefy, has been fascinating. The tone was interesting for this issue, if not a bit different. A lot of cool moments, but a lot of – dare I say – cute moments as well. Valeria criticizes the drones as shoddy work that were created by the father she doesn’t know existed. Miles and Peter, the Reed Richards who are equal in brilliance but couldn’t be more different in sentiment, were sent on a mission to discover the source of Doom’s power together. There are comedic moments and aha moments, but the narrative never drags because of it and we are still given more and more insight.

We also see the introduction of a lot characters that had been vacant along with the confirmation of some others (damn, Johnny Storm, I hate it had to be you). My favorite moment had…