Saturday, May 30, 2015

A-Force # 1 -Secret Wars-

By Mark Rodriguez

The regular Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe are both about to be destroyed as their Earths smash into each other. Somehow, someway, this led to the formation of an all-female team called A-Force with such famous Marvel ladies like She-Hulk, Spider-Woman, Rogue, Storm, the Black Widow, Scarlet Witch and many more. How and why? Let's find out.



The issue begins within Battleworld, on an island called Arcadia, as the super powered women fly off to start their daily patrol. Some of the women find a giant flying shark causing trouble and She-Hulk calls for the A-Force to assemble. Captain Marvel and Sister Grimm attack the shark while Dazzler sent the civilians to safety. The mutant laser light show help the others fight the shark, that turns out to be the only one of its kind. Ms. America grabs it and tosses it miles away, not caring about it being an endangered species. The shark lands in the Deadlands.



The girls comment that everyone is safe, but are still worried by America's actions. Just then, Sam Wilson, who is now a Falcon version of Thor (since there are many Thors now) arrive and tells America that she broke the laws of forsaking Doom's borders. He grabs her and soon vanishes with her before the others can do anything.

She-Hulk tries to reason with Sheriff Strange, but he says America has gone against laws of Doom and she must be punished. She-Hulk returns to the others and tells them the bad news. Loki arrives (he's a female in this world) and hugs her. The Thors arrive and She-Hulk hangs her over as she is now sentenced to spend her life at the SHIELD.



After they leave, Nico calls She-Hulk out for not being able to do anything about this. Jennifer apologizes and says it was out of her power, and Nico mutters that she wishes they were out of her power, as she walks off with Loki.

The others try to comfort Jennifer, but she decides they should go investigate where that flying shark monster came from in the first place. The woman go to seek out the Sub-Mariners, Namor and Namorita, and they take to the sea to find what happened. Medusa disagrees with She-Hulk's mission but she tells her she has to find out what is endangering her people. Namorita sees something that shocks her.

Meanwhile, Nico is crying out of not being to do anything to help Ms. America. Suddenly something lands nearby and she thinks it might have been America that somehow escaped from SHIELD. Instead she finds this woman that has the galaxy painted all over her. Or she's made of stars. Or something.




My Opinions- 

So now we get to see more of Battleworld and how we have an island of amazon superheroines. She-Hulk rules over them as the ambassador. Well what can I say? Gotta love She-Hulk. There's not much I can say about this comic. It was pretty good, and I do love seeing some of my favorite females like She-Hulk, Spider Woman and especially Dazzler take center stage.



It's kinda weird cause it seems some characters like Loki and Sub-Mariner were turned into women during this Marvel/Ultimate merger. Yes, I know Loki has been known to turn into a woman when it suited his schemes, but he was always a male in his default form. Here we clearly see that she is a female in her default form. Or.... who really knows with Loki? And.... is that Miss America girl supposed to be their version of Captain America? How do you explain that?

We see the Thor police in here too and we see more of Strange being a boot licker for Dr. Doom. I'm curious as to what will happen as it seems Loki is gonna lead the ladies into some kind of mutiny against She-Hulk. I wasn't gonna get these tie-ins to the Secret Wars story..... but I just couldn't resist this one...and another one that I'll be reviewing shortly. Not much to say, but this story got my interest. Just what is this weird galaxy-glazed woman, and just what did Namorita see that shocked her so much? Let's find out.