Oh no! It's Secret Wars II.
Perhaps one of the worst crossover events I've read, though in a strangely masochistic maneuver I am only 5 crossover issues away from having the whole crossover.
Where the first Secret Wars, or Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars, if you prefer, gave us what basically amounted to a war comic using superheroes (a very gentle war comic, but a war comic nonetheless), the second mini-series is a jumbled mess about a god trying to understand what it means to be human. And he does a lousy job of it. I think the reason may be that he's trying to do so on a world that is populated by gods.
In today's issue he's not particularly intrusive, in that he's not around for a long time, but he does manage to blow the big battle that the Avengers had been engaged in, and foil their capture of Nebula. I only know of this character from the Guardians of the Galaxy film, and her backstory seems to be a bit different in the MCU, but she's definitely the madwoman the movie makes her out to be.
Actually, her lineage does raise a couple of interesting questions about the MCU. For obvious reasons, any claim to Thanos's lineage will be of interest to Starfox, given that they're brothers. So are we going to see any of the Titanian Eternals in the next few MCU films? Thanos has to have come from somewhere, right? And the MCU powers that be aren't afraid of throwing alien races at us - witness GotGv.2.
To be continued.
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