The importance of Reece, the relevance of certain characters from the Avengers/New Avengers series (what little I’ve read of them), and how exactly Doom got the power to make himself a God, as well as who he was speaking to in the first issue - it’s all uncovered here. Maybe it’s retrod ground for faithful Jonathan Hickman readers who’ve read every single issue he’s written for Marvel, but for readers like me who’re just reading Secret Wars as a standalone, it was useful to hear how it all went down. What follows is the most artless exposition ever as Reece and Doom tell each other why universes were being destroyed and how Battleworld came about - as if they’d forgotten! So Doom visits Owen Reece aka The Molecule Man to inform him of the death. The funeral of the character who was killed at the end of the last issue is being held but no-one knows it were Doom what dunit. This is the shortest issue in Secret Wars yet at 25 pages and it’s mostly one big info dump.
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