Secret War ? Can anyone give me a synopsis?

[bert]

I never picked this up. . what with all the other books I get (and the lateness of the shipping pretty much decided it for me not to pick it up in the middle of the series).

but a comment in the current Comic Shop News about the ending makes me curious?

what was the deal here? I know it had something to do w/ Nick Fury, but what was the general plot?

and what was the ending? (CSN gave it a "Red Kryptonite" award, saying that it certainly "seemed" that the ending changed due to Identity Crisis' popularity).

can anyone give me the scoop?

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Nick Fury finds out that a lot of minor tech-based villains (think the Ringer) were being covertly funded by the new Latverian government. The US won't allow him to take action, so he grabs a team of superheroes and retaliates. A large part of the capitol city is destroyed, and the heroes get pissed that it isn't what they signed on for. Fury erases their memories and does his whole plausible deniability thing. One year later, tech villains start attacking these oblivious superheroes and all hell breaks loose. It ends with a huge fight between the heroes, the villains, and the former Latverian head of state (now a cyborg). The heroes win, the truth about the "Secret War" comes out, and Nick Fury is forced out as SHIELD's leader.

I don't necessarily think that IDC influenced SECRET WAR all that much. Sure, there are mindwipes, but they're used in a very different way.

[bert]

Thanks ED.

hmmmm. . .well, it doesn't *sound* too bad (tho, with the mindwipe stuff, I can see the comparison that CSN made).

is it worth picking up in trade, you think?

[protege]

I have a thought; where do you see a new "Nick Fury" series leading, after all these events? (If there was one.)

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Thanks ED.

hmmmm. . .well, it doesn't *sound* too bad (tho, with the mindwipe stuff, I can see the comparison that CSN made).

is it worth picking up in trade, you think?Hard to say. The painted art is pretty, the character bits are fun, there're some nice atmospheric touches, and the extras are cool (character profiles in Nick Fury's "voice," transcripts of SHIELD agents interrogating supervillains, that kind of thing). But . . . it's extremely Bendis. Slow moving, very talky, and not 100% in sync continuity-wise. It probably reads a lot better in one sitting than spread out over a year and a half, though.

I liked it, but it's probably not for everybody.