You must remember the original Secret Warriors. Led by Nick Fury they were a team created out of necessity and rose to the occasion during the Skrull invasion. But the seed originally grew out of Fury being ousted Shield after his “secret war.” In that miniseries Fury advertently sent Wolverine, Luke Cage, Spiderman and a few others on a secret mission, then wiped their minds clean. All except Black Widow and Quake (AKA Daisy Johnson). That sixteen-year-old is so tough that her security clearance was above Maria Hill, that’s practically next to Fury. As a result of Fury’s secret war, Quake became a part of his warriors and went on several missions which solidified her as one of the badasses in the Marvel comic book universe. Written by Jonathan Hickman with the artwork of Alessandro Vitti, the first incarnation was unapologetically in your face. It showed the death of ten-year-old Phobos (son of Aries) and Fury taking revenge. Always making the tough choices in the worst set of circumstances Nick Fury was a true leader. Flash forward to a few years later and there’s a new need for a secret warrior team, but not in the way you think.
In ‘Secret Warriors’ issue one Quake wants answers. She’s in the middle of an Inhuman concentration camp situation, Captain America has become the symbol of HYDRA and she has no one to trust. Through a series of nonlinear storytelling, Matthew Rosenberg is taking on the near impossible. Here we are with yet another cataclysmic crossover event which has taken over earth-616. As a reader why should you care if Steve Rodgers is living a terrifying falsehood? You may think you’ll sit this one out until Marvel figures out that you don’t want another epic operetta. But wait, you don’t have to buy ten different titles to appreciate what ‘Secret Warriors’ is trying to do. You’ll see Moon Girl and her dinosaur and Ms. Marvel, heroes you may have heard of, however, you might not have picked up their monthly titles. Then there’s Karnak, a member of the Inhuman royal family, why doesn’t he want to leave prison? And what is his story?
Artist Javier Garrison has you sense the urgency of this situation. Like its predecessor, this incarnation of a secret team has a finite amount of time. And Garrison wants you to be emotionally invested from page one when we see Quake just trying to have a cup of coffee. There’s always that moment in your day when you just need a moment, but Quake will never have this luxury. Not until Cap comes out of his dreamscape caused by the cosmic cube and the world is set back to whatever normal is for the Marvel universe.
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