M.O.D.O.K. Assassin #2 is out today. It has this cameo.
And that’s the entirety of the House of M’s appearance in the issue. I honestly expected that, but I still picked it up and read it anyway, because Polaris and the Magnus family.
Rest is my thoughts on the issue and what I gleam of Secret Wars through it. Keep in mind I’m only reading stuff relevant to Polaris and sometimes the X-Men franchise, so I’m going to be ignorant of a lot of things.
So this is my first introduction to both M.O.D.O.K. and Angela. I was aware of both, but knew nothing of either of them except that they existed, and that Neil Gaiman created Angela.
I liked this concept. We get a fight between the two, and in that fight, we see the POV of a villain character losing a battle, how that’s working out and why. My personal familiarity with a lot of this sort of X versus Y showdown stuff tends to be that the story is horribly stilted to make one character look weak and stupid just to make the other character look better, but in this case, it’s more that M.O.D.O.K. doesn’t even really want to fight but his instincts kick in anyway.
I don’t quite get what Doctor Strange has to do with anything. I assume this is either a follow-up from #1, or it’s a forced inclusion to try to drive sales of Secret Wars comics. If it’s the former, then maybe that’s explained in the summary I didn’t read. If it’s the latter, it seems forced and tacky; at least the House of M inclusion gives insight into Angela as a character.
It was a pretty good issue overall.
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