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[BlueStreak]

Last week on Review Group Drama:Bendis Bashing was a sucess. This week: Hicklash!


Secret Warriors #25
selected by GLX
Double-sized, secret revealing issue! What ties Hydra, The Howling Commandos, and Leviathan together? How did Nick Fury, Dum Dum Dugan, Baron Von Strucker, Kraken and Orion become part of the same mysterious organization? It's all here in “Wheels within Wheels” part 2: “Zodiac”!


Eli Katz has next week's pick.


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Comics are to be scored on a scale from 1-10. 1 being suck, 10 being a damn good comic. Beyond that, there's no right or wrong.


If it's your week, you must announce your selection by 5pm EST the day Diamond releases it's shipping list. If you do not announce your pick at that time, I will add a poll to the thread that will remain open until 12pm EST so that the group can make the selection for that week. (If you're seriously MIA, I'll probably put the poll up sooner) To ensure that you know it's your week, I will PM you when Midtown's list goes live on Thursdays. Also you'd better keep in mind the Amber Atoms rule, if your pick isn't reviewed by 2 or more people you will be exiled from the Group for 1 year. Our definition of a single issue comic is limited to comics listed at $3.99 or lower, anything above that is off limits. Also, to prevent utter filth being chosen deliberately, the Weird Worlds Rule has also gone into affect. Any book scoring a new all-time low (2.68 as of today) will not count as a miss if people wisely choose not to purchase it. Any poor soul who did review the book will earn a free pass on a book of their choice.

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chap22
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[BlueStreak]

[Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand

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[Punchy]

Ah, here it is.

Good to see the 'Hicklash' is picking up speed, it's a sensation.

[Jubilee]

Why are we picking mid arc books?

[BlueStreak]

Ah, here it is.

Good to see the 'Hicklash' is picking up speed, it's a sensation.

I dropped the term at my LCS last week. People didn't believe there was such a thing.

[Punchy]

Why are we picking mid arc books?

People can pick what they want, but either way, I think this is a largely standalone (as much as SW can be) issue, it's a double-sized special which promises to reveal a lot of secrets, so I expect it will be all back-story rather than the main plot ramping up.

But who knows?

[Punchy]

I dropped the term at my LCS last week. People didn't believe there was such a thing.

They'll learn.

[BlueStreak]

They'll learn.

Well, they got a healthy dose of it when I shattered through Hickman's "big words screen" and showed how four of six issues of SHIELD were set up almost exactly the same.

I do like Secret Warriors, though. I really wish they weren't rushing the ending.

[Punchy]

Well, they got a healthy dose of it when I shattered through Hickman's "big words screen" and showed how four of six issues of SHIELD were set up almost exactly the same.

I do like Secret Warriors, though. I really wish they weren't rushing the ending.

I'm wary of this issue, it looks like it's tying in pretty heavily with SHIELD which is a bad idea.

[******]

Why are we picking mid arc books?

So that I can skip a week?

[Victorian Squid]

So that I can skip a week?

It doesn't really matter what order you read this stuff in, it's not going to make much sense anyway..

[******]

It doesn't really matter what order you read this stuff in, it's not going to make much sense anyway..

H8r. Go sit in the corner with Punchy.

Also, this issue probably won't show up until SW v6. Marvel hasn't even released SW v4 in TP yet. Far too much story to make up when the comic doesn't come in a death bag. And if it ties in with S.H.I.E.L.D. like Punchy said? That collection doesn't come out until next month.

[Victorian Squid]

H8r. Go sit in the corner with Punchy.

Also, this issue probably won't show up until SW v6. Marvel hasn't even released SW v4 in TP yet. Far too much story to make up when the comic doesn't come in a death bag. And if it ties in with S.H.I.E.L.D. like Punchy said? That collection doesn't come out until next month.

I meant that in the most positive light possible. Hickman's created quite a puzzle for them that don't read his books monthly, but in the end I doubt it matters much. Too bad you aren't reading SW monthly.

P.S. Thanks to the Marvel Event bonanza, I'm almost halfway to getting that PS3 and forgetting about comics forever.

[GLX]

Why are we picking mid arc books?

It was either this or Joe the Barbarian #8.

[Punchy]

Uh... what?

This issue only raised more questions! I think we found out who Kraken is... but I'm not sure.

So Hydra, Leviathan and SHIELD all came from The Shield? And what was that scene when it looked like Nick Fury was shot in the head? Guh.