10 Thoughts Review of Secret Warriors #20 by Jonathan Hickman and Mirko Colak

10 Thoughts, Reviews

1. Nick Fury takes his Secret Warriors to invade a Hydra base as the traitor may get them all killed.

2. Throughout this book, the strongest arcs have been those that focus on the Howling Commandos, Phobos, or Fury himself.  The rest of the team is still mostly woefully uninteresting and that surely doesn’t change here.

3. Hellfire as the traitor is obvious but works.  He’s pretty unlikable to begin with, but I really wish this wasn’t so similar to the Avengers: Initiative arc with the Hydra agent in their midst.

4. Apparently for the past 6-months Hydra and LEviathan have been warring and destroying major monuments, only no one in the Marvel Universe outside this title bothered to notice…

5. The art here is some of the best of the series, the first time I’ve prefered the art to the story here.  Everything looks perfect.

6. The teleporter being the escape plan is cool and logical, but Nick Fury has to have a backup plan or this is going to be utter nonsense.

7. Next issue promises Phobos vs. Kraken, which should be absolutely awesome.

8. I don’t care for the inclusion of Leviathan in this story.  They have added nothing that a Hydra alone didn’t.

9.  This beginnign the end-run of the book works, I suppose. I really want more of a Fury and Phobos focus.  We do not need a focus on Hellfire, particularly when he’s just going to be eliminated soon.  If this is going to be an action comic, we need to get it started.

10. <b>Rating: 4/10</b> – This is all set up focussing on the less interesting portion of the cast and lacking the action it sets up.  Next issue will be better, but this felt like a lot of recap after the Howling Commandos arc.  This should have just been a damn Nick Fury book.

Glazer is a former senior editor at Pulse Wrestling and editor and reviewer at The Comics Nexus.