Marvel’s Secret Wars, Too

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Secret Wars! Secret Wars! All the buzz is about Secret Wars coming to the MCU, but which one? The original comic event generated massive sales, spawning a 1985 sequel that is best forgotten. Where did it all go wrong? Also, a profile of the worst comic book store owner of all time!

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0:00.0	Today we are examining the sequel to Marvel's biggest hit, biggest hit ever in the 1980s.
0:19.6	The sequel to Secret Wars.
0:20.8	You hear Secret Wars all the time now. Secret Wars. It's in a movie. It's an Avengers. The sequel to Secret Wars. You hear Secret Wars all the time now.
0:22.2	Secret Wars, it's in a movie.
0:23.2	It's an Avengers.
0:23.8	It's the Secret Wars.
0:24.6	What Secret Wars are they doing anyway?
0:27.2	There's so many to choose from.
0:29.5	We're going to talk that out at the top of the show today.
0:32.5	But then we're going to get into the sequel to Secret Wars.
0:35.0	1985's Secret Wars 2. It has to be seen to Secret Wars, 1985's Secret Wars 2.
0:38.1	It has to be seen, to be experienced.
0:42.7	But did you know that there's an entire first issue of that that didn't make it to print?
0:47.8	It got it got trashed.
0:49.9	It got dumpstered.
0:51.8	And then they started off with the new creative team.
0:54.8	But we're going to look at the original premise, the original pencils, the original pages to Secret Wars 2.
1:02.8	Why did it go awry?
1:04.4	Why did that sequel fail to hit the mark?
1:07.4	And as a bonus, an interview in comics interview magazine from 1985
1:13.4	when Secret Wars 2 was coming out
1:15.3	with a retailer that is so bonkers,
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