SECRET WARS #2 Spoilers

[cwatz]

"Guided tour of Battleworld" would have been a more proper title.

[ZephyrSurf]

Nothing concrete yet on that.

I'm going to assume he used these realities and made it this way so there would be order and control. Problem is he never counted on Thanos and his crew getting plopped into his perfect ecosystem.

There clearly isn't order and control. I'm fairly certain it's far more likely that Doom managed to pull off some scheme or gambit a the last moment against the Beyonders and had to make due with what he had to play with rather than just becoming completely supreme and then forming replicas of random remnants

[Iron Maiden]

Oh I'm loving it for sure...but like above poster said, he's most likelt going to have a fall from grace/humbling at the end. Curious to see how this ends for Doom. DOOM!!!!!!!

I think there will be some kind of comeuppance. Even in his Fantastic Four Doom did get put through the wringer at times like when we found out about the "great culling" of the Doom's by the Council where Nazi Reed pretty much murdered one in cold blood. He was in peril of being lobotomized when they slapped that same collar on him. He was going to be the fall guy in holding off the Celestials ...there is a panel showing him as "the left behind" in that summary of the fight to save Earth from the Mad Celestials. But Val insisted they go back and rescue him from his Doomverse

It all worked out pretty well for him in the end. I think Hickman is one of those writers that will put all the toys back in the box for the next guy....unless they get killed off!

[dzub]

Also, no clear depiction of Namor...I assume he's the shadowy figure to the right in the top right panel on the last artwork page, but silhouette isn't quite a match

yes..where is he and why reduce him to a shadow?
did they off him off panel? is he taking a vacation?
or could he be scheming behind the cabal again

[MindofShadow]

I don't have the comic in front of me

can someone explain the traitor bit for me? I can't remmber how it went.

Who was Brian's brother talking to illegally and such? And why? WHich region?

[Iron Maiden]

I noticed the same when I was googling around. This is super helpful thank you!

You're welcome. I am glad Marvel really planned this out so Ribic had the advance time to work on the issues and that they come out at an accelerated rate. I guess they learned from past mistakes...But what the heck is going on with Hawkeye (but that's another story for another time)

[jamesfbeard]

I reckon, and I probably am wrong that the survivors of the incursion (reed, Thor) are going to to try and start an uprising. I know Star Lord and Thor are appearing in their own series but maybe they get tasked with trying to fit into the world and doing some recognisance or something like that. Thor working for Thors but feeding Reed and his Merry band of heroes secrets. Star Lord maybe traversing the Battleworld map and finding information but meets age of apocalypse Kitty who aids him as well. Something like that I imagine. Who knows until next month!

[ZephyrSurf]

yes..where is he and why reduce him to a shadow?
did they off him off panel? is he taking a vacation?
or could he be scheming behind the cabal again

He's clearly the 8th shadowed figure. Unless you think Miles is rolling with the Cabal

[cyberhubbs]

"Guided tour of Battleworld" would have been a more proper title.

Well, that was pretty much the solicit all along. Second issue was supposed to map out Battleworld for the read.

[Biclopcicle]

I don't have the comic in front of me

can someone explain the traitor bit for me? I can't remmber how it went.

Who was Brian's brother talking to illegally and such? And why? WHich region?

There's a resistance movement- this will probably be elaborated in the Inhumans tie in. Part of the resistance movement involves a passage in Higher Avalon

[MyriVerse]

haven't we had 3 years of set up for this though?

Only in that everything is "setup" for what comes afterward.

Oh come on we should've all known this issue would be how it was. We needed to know a little about Battleworld before the real action could start.

No, it could have just as easily been all of the characters being the same, just in a different place. Instead we basically got new characters in a new place.

[JustJelly]

He's clearly the 8th shadowed figure. Unless you think Miles is rolling with the Cabal

At least he'd get to do something

[Biclopcicle]

....And where is Owen Reece?????? Did the last MM sacrifice himself to make Battleworld????

[PlanetaryDevastation]

I don't have the comic in front of me

can someone explain the traitor bit for me? I can't remmber how it went.

Who was Brian's brother talking to illegally and such? And why? WHich region?

There is a secret collection of people called the silent chambers trying to overthrow him and they say a Braddock involved.

[Raye]

Called it.

Okay, not all the details, I wasn't expecting so much reference to Norse myth, for one. But I suspected Battleworld was Doom's creation, and that the people on the raft would have their memories intact while everyone else believed Battleworld had always existed.

So, who/what do people think Battleworld is created from, taking the place of Ymir in our Norse myth parallels? Beyonders? Molecule Man? A friend of mine suggests Ben Grimm, as an off the wall theory.

Ok...

P.S. Odin died :S

Don't know if this has been answered yet or not, I haven't read all the pages of the thread, but that was King Thor, (Thor from the future in Aaron's God of Thunder) or someone very much like him, not Odin.