However, as a culmination of one of the greatest rivalries in the Marvel Universe, and one that lives at the very heart of of the comics-that of Reed Richards and Victor Von Doom-I think any fan will find this final chapter to be very satisfying.

Those who were expecting changes to the Marvel Universe on the level that we saw in the DC Universe after events like Crisis on Infinite Earths or Flashpoint are going to be very disappointed… or very relieved. Otherwise, Secret Wars’ ending is a bit ho-hum, I’m sorry to say. Yes, for the ending of a big status quo changing event, it doesn’t really feel like the Marvel Universe is very different at all… with the exception that Miles Morales, the Spider-Man of the now defunct Ultimate Universe (may it Rest In Peace), who is part of the mainstream Marvel Earth now. Well, it turns out that Secret Wars #9 is both anticlimactic and still totally satisfying somehow. So how could this feel like anything other than anticlimactic? And we basically knew which characters survived the end of Secret Wars and who didn’t. So we’ve already seen that the Marvel Universe that results from the end of Secret Wars is… well, very much like the old Marvel Universe. On top of that, it was decided that the series would end at nine issues instead of the original eight, adding to the wait for this, the grand finale.Īll of that wouldn’t be such a big deal if it wasn’t for the fact that the “ All-New, All-Different” Marvel Universe was scheduled to launch spinning out of this series, and all those titles couldn’t wait ’til January 2016 to begin. Writer Jonathan Hickman’s series, which started out strong right out of the gate, ultimately hit the stumbling block that most comics hit these days: delays. After what seems like forever, the final installment of Marvel’s epic Secret Wars crossover event is finally here.

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