Hickman Talks "Secret Wars" #2, Shines Light on Battleworld's Secrets

[CBR News]

Jonathan Hickman talks with CBR about the events and major players of "Secret Wars" #2, revealing some of the secrets of patchwork planet known as Battleworld.


Full article here.

[Hariel0079]

This is the Victor Von Doom I remember. Not Bendis interpretation, not Rememders.

[Derek Metaltron]

Yeah take note Fox, this is the Doom you should be utilising. The ruler, the leader, the genius, the would be god.

[Knives]

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Expected someone else?



Embrace life the corporation of White Lanterns gives you welcome Doom.

[Ravin' Ray]

Sounds like you're a fan of the Roger Stern and Mike Mignola's Doom and Strange graphic novel, "Triumph and Torment."

Who isn't, right?

This. Doom and Strange have a history stretching practically forever. I welcome this shout-out to what I consider Stern's Magnum Opus.

[Rosebunse]

Secret Wars #2 was just...it was just...we have been blessed, friends. We have been blessed with genius!

And if you mess this up, Hickman.

If you mess this up, there will be blood!

By which I mean we'll shoot a pig caucus onto your yard

[Iron Maiden]

This. Doom and Strange have a history stretching practically forever. I welcome this shout-out to what I consider Stern's Magnum Opus.

Just by coincidence, when I met him in at C2E2 in Chicago, I had my color guides that I bought from an eBay transactions ages ago. I've got about 16 pages and I brought them with me when I got in the line to meet him. When I showed them to him he was delighted and said they were the coolest things he'd ever seen. I also presented him with a Tokidoki Doom as a keepsake and for being kind enough to do the Doom sketch cover of NA#1, the first appearance of the Black Swan and the incursion over Wakanda. He's a pretty cool guy to meet and he remembered me from his only other booking way back when he his first issues of the Fantastic Four and SHIELD were coming out.

step one is the inked version on a transparency. This is an old process that they used before the digital age, etc.



Then the coloring was painted on another drawing sheet.


And then you put the two together

[jackolover]

This was what we were all waiting to get too. We had 8 months of Time Runs Out, waiting for the Time that TRO, and knowing we were headed for another world after the MU, and here we are. We anticipated something of this nature but weren't quite sure what form it would take, or what the event that took us there was going to actually look like. How do you kill off the Marvel Universes world full of characters? We saw in the final issue of Avengers what happened to all the heroes, before Secret Wars #1. Then the issue struck and we saw Rafts ascending and trouble. Lots of trouble. Things not going the way they should, and losses along the way, till a blaze of light and then resting on something. Almost like Noah's Ark coming to rest after the flood wiped out mankind. Here we had a couple of Noahs, and the families they rescued with them.

So Secret Wars #2 opened at last. What was this world that was promised so long, going to open out like? Would it reveal early enough who was the ruler of this place, how the place runs and what laws are in effect to set it in place? Yes it did all those things. The introduction to Battleworld swam over us as we transferred from the spoilt MU, to the new Krypton. The opening sequences threw us for a while, thinking this is still the MU, until the elder Thor began rambling about the God they all bowed too, was Doom. We went from one location to another, one political intrigue to another until the track led to something that survived all this turmoil, we thought was over about the MU. One lone thread remained to link the MU to new Krypton and threatened to destroy the serenity, set up so brutally.