INFERNO (2015) #4 VF/NM SECRET WARS BATTLE WORLD TIE-IN

INFERNO (2015) #4 VF/NM SECRET WARS BATTLE WORLD TIE-IN
Publisher: Marvel
Genre: Superhero
Main Character(s): Marvel Superheroes
Year: MODERN AGE (1992-NOW)

Co-plotted with Gerry Duggan, this series follows a young girl, Anwen, as she and her family all get Nova Corps powers and fight Thanos to prevent him from getting all the gems for the Infinity Gauntlet. It’s emotional and thrilling and just stunning to look at. And also there is a dog named Nova.

11/10, impossible to recommend more highly.

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2. Weirdworld

by Jason Aaron and Michael del Mundo

Mike del Mundo is incredible. It’s cool that there was a comic about Arkon and Crystar and Weirdworld and it’s 2015 and all, but Jesus, dude, del Mundo is something else. Usually someone like him, artists who do beautiful painted art and weird panel layouts, can get lost up their own ass being nontraditional for different’s sake.

But that’s not even remotely the case in most of his work, and especially with Weirdworld. He manages to tell an incredibly clear story and still put some of the most exciting, innovative, bizarre stuff on the page. Jason Aaron did a good job writing it, but… my god, it was like a Frazetta painting, only without boobs and for like, 100 pages.

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3. Civil War

by Charles Soule and Leinil Yu

There were two main types of What If? stories that came out during Secret Wars: Event What Ifs (what if Inferno had never ended?) and setting What Ifs (what if the Avengers were founded in the old west?). Civil War was the best of any of them, and maybe my second favorite book from Charles Soule’s Marvel work.

In this book, Civil War never really ended, it just cooled to angry sniping instead of open superhero fighting. Soule wrote a completely logical, intelligent story that had some added heft because of the Cap/Iron Man fight that ended the 616. And Leinil Yu made it look so pretty.