Set during Secret Empire, aka the most poorly received Marvel event in recent memory, the latest take on Secret Warriors is actually an Inhumans team book that’s about as good as most everything else Inhumans-related: poopoopoo!
The team is: Quake, Ms Marvel, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Inferno, and Karnak. They need to find someone who will help them defeat Hydra which means ROAD TRIIIIIIP!
It’s not the strongest of plots and I often forgot, during this short book, what these guys were doing and why. That’s partly due to the vaguely defined goal: how exactly will this person help them? And the dull ending turns out to be your generic superhero punch up, making it even more unimpressive.
Karnak was the only character I liked though I found his reasoning for joining the team unconvincing and contrived. Quake is straight up repulsive, Ms Marvel and Inferno are meh at best, and I can’t stand Moon Girl or her awkward red T-rex. Other teams are tossed in – the X-Men, the Howling Commandos Monster Squad, endless Hydra nobodies – to give the characters someone to pointlessly hit and not once was it interesting to read.
I really liked Javier Garron’s art which reminded me of Tradd Moore’s wonderfully kinetic and cartoony style (Moore draws the covers so the inside art isn’t too different from the outside). And I appreciated Matthew Rosenberg’s efforts to try to explain why the characters got together via flashbacks, rather than simply shrug and say “just cos”, which he easily could have, even though, like most everything else about this one, they were unmemorable.
Maybe if you’re an Inhumans fan you’ll get something out of Rosenberg/Garron’s version of Secret Warriors but I’m not and I didn’t!
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