Remember that time when Doctor Doom was a literal god?
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Mike Allred's rendering of Doom as Eternity my beloved. Him holding together the universe via his iron will alone
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Moon Knight Ladies (Adjacent???)
Baroness Khonshu of Earth-51910
She's a tyrant who enslaves mutants and turns people into werewolves, but dang, look at this design.
(Secret Wars Journal #1)
This iteration of Khonshu was created by Matthew Rosenberg and Luca Pizzari and appears in Secret Wars (Vol. 2/2015), #2 and #6, as well as Secret Wars Journal (Vol. 1/2015), #1.
Honestly there's not much to say, except she's as criminally condescending as 616!Khonshu and carries out the sort of vision that probably would have been the end result of the "Age of Khonshu." But again...she’s got some cool looks.
[Secret Wars (Vol. 2/2015) #2]
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"Doctor Doom's body was never found. It could be that he still lives his fierce life somewhere else, but from that day on, parent Beyonders would tell their godlings that if they did not do as they were told, the Doctor would get them. Such was Doom's monument, and perhaps it would not have displeased him."
-- Reed Richards
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What are your thoughts on House of M v2 (2015)? I swear I saw someone say they don’t like it but I can’t remember why
I like it just fine. The nice thing about the 2015 Secret Wars event is that you don't have to take a lot of worlds it depicts too seriously. They're mostly fun AU ideas or riffs on established alternate continuities that, in this case, aren't strictly canon and aren't going to have any lasting impact. Obviously, you still need to be critical of certain things, but my point is, the stakes were a lot lower for titles like House of M or 1602, and they were able to leave a lot of their problematic elements at the door and just focus on the fun, interesting stuff. 1602 is probably the better example-- they took a very heavy, very challenging depiction of colonial history that made a lot of offensive choices in the original text, and they turned it into a really fun Shakespeare & Marlowe fantasy pastiche.
So, Secret Wars: House of M (2015) is a fun little AU miniseries that asks "what if the Magnus clan was a dysfunctional royal family" without the context or baggage of the original event. Yes, there are still challenges-- the premise of a mixed Romani & Jewish family forming a quasi-fascist monarchy replete with "education camps" is a big problem, and I wish that it had been interrogated more closely. I do appreciate that this story removes the layered sexism and ableism from the original-- Wanda is full herself here, and it's actually one of the most earnest depictions of her as a regular mom and a good parent to Billy and Tommy since 1989.
The most frustrating thing about this comic, for me, is that none of the characters appear to actually learn anything, and no real change is brought to their world or their nation. Magneto remains secure in his rulership. His children and grandchildren are allowed to continue their internal conflicts and minor rebellions because they've also been brought closer together as a family-- it seems sweet, but it effectively defangs any true rebellion that could have occurred within the court. They no longer pose a threat to the power structure, and the actual oppressed people of this world are no better off.
But none of that really matters, because, by the end of the summer of 2015, that world had ceased to exist. If you can disengage your political ideals far enough to enjoy fantasy media about court intrigue and messy royal families-- as many people do-- you can enjoy Secret Wars: House of M for what it was-- a fun miniseries that was, in many ways, a swan song for the Magnus family. Remember, the AXIS retcon had taken place the year prior, so this is the last time we saw them all together as a "true family." In a lot of ways, indulging in an almost-guilt free HoM AU felt like fanservice, but I think a lot of fans at the time were happy to have something to look forward to.
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Comic - Secret Wars #01 (Dynamic Forces Edition) (2015)
Art by Greg Land
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Anyway
Hi tumblr, just had to share this moment from one of the Secret Wars (2015) tie-ins, k 'bye tumblr!
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Sana Amanat (creator of Ms Marvel) was an editor at Marvel’s Ultimate office….was Ms Marvel gonna be an Ultimate original like Miles before Cataclysm completely annihilated New Jersey? Sometimes I wonder
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