Secret Empire #1

Secret Empire (Single Issues)

by Nick Spencer, Mark Brooks (Cover Art), Steve McNiven (Artist)

It's been building for months, across a bevy of titles! But now, the moment has arrived for Steve Rogers to step into the light and declare his allegiance to Hydra! How can the heroes of the Marvel Universe cope with this shattering betrayal by the most trusted figure among them? And what will this mean for the world? The map of the Marvel Universe changes in ways nobody will expect — TRUST THE SECRET EMPIRE!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Marvel

44 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 3, 2017

About the author

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There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Nick Spencer is a comic book writer known for his creator-owned titles at Image Comics (Existence 2.0/3.0, Forgetless, Shuddertown, Morning Glories), his work at DC Comics (Action Comics, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents), and for his current work at Marvel Comics (Iron Man 2.0, Ultimate Comics: X-Men).

Reviews

[Jedi JC Daquis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Secret Empire #1 focuses on the two sides of the story: the ruling Hydra empire and the interplay between their "high council", and the superheroes in hiding, just beyond the reach of Hydra with the sole purpose (for now) to survive and help others survive.

While the whole reading experience so far with Secret Empire is just okay, this series feels like it is treading very generic and familiar grounds. It is too obvious to deny that the general beats in this issue feels like a Star Wars story on Earth.

Now that Marvel is pleading to its readers to wait until the series ends, well okay, give us a great story then.

[Nicolo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I initially had high hopes for Nick Spencer's take on Captain America; a reversal of everything what the character symbolized; and a brave statement on the direction of American politics and of some of its citizens. In short time, Hydra Cap or Neo-nazi Cap became infamous because it hit on everything that was wrong with the perception of the country at that moment. This was a story I was interested in seeing it play out and this series was the climax. Then event fatigue became real.

Marvel Comics had a ton of event stories this year, and with it came extra-sized books at an extra price. I live in a country that exports this books and extra dollar that came with these books and the premium I had pay to read them as it happened was just too much. Coupled with event fatigue and the fact that there was a zero issue before the number one issue was enough for this reader to just give up and take a break from comics. The controversy behind this story arc was enough to distance myself from Marvel comics. A break was needed, and it had to be clean one and go cold turkey.

It was several weeks until I went back and tried the few new books Marvel offered for free. Secret Empire #1 was one of them and I have say while McNiven's illustrations was certainly enough to merit this book four stars, I just didn't care about the Nazi Cap story anymore.

[Solace Winter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm still not positive where this falls in any timeline, since only a few of the comics out there seem to actually be crossing over with this one, but it's a good read anyway.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!

Really fun stuff to read and I don't give a shit if people didn't like it. (well, I really haven't read anything to avoid spoilers and such all this time until SE ended, but c'mon... come on... you know what's what. Every time there's a comic book event everyone is hating'.. so... yeah..)
I may be some of them haters sometimes but I'm special and I know my shit and they don't so shutup.

BUT.

I like it.

SO interesting and since it's making me readreadreadread and wanna read more thats' a plus.
I just read Secret Warriors #1 to try a 3rd tie-in to the event but nope, it almost ruined my excitement cuz it wasn't good. Boring stuff. So I'm not continuing Secret Warriors right now and I'll just keep reading my SE and Cap's books and them Uprising brave new world stuff.

Anyway, Cap is HYDRA. Kills bunch of people and friends and whatnot, there's a resistance group, half of them want to kill Cap / the other half want to somehow save him from this whole thing and the games begin \o/

YAY HYDRA!

[Aldo Haegemans · Rating 5 out of 5]

I see this series has gotten allot of slack....I dig it! I might change and become one of the haters as I continue the series. But So far I like this allot. Just Looking at this as a story on it’s own this is fine. So far....

[Warren Kallsen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A phenomenal comic, even for someone incredibly new to comics it was an enjoyable and fun read. "Secret Empire" plays on the concept of Captain America being a sleeper agent for Hydra and destroying the Marvel heroes from within. The heroes that survived are forced into hiding and have to live in a world governed and ruled by Hydra. Even though the surviving heroes try to resist Hydra, they're efforts make little to no impact.

I bought the second issue and I can't wait to dive into it. Being so new to comics it is hard for me to fallow the eminence backstory of every single character in the Marvel universe so wiki has been by best friend for sure. After its all said and done I would recommended this to anyone interested in comics, old or new to the super hero world.

[Ilse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Al fin lo termine!! después de meses termine esto,
y creo que me eh dado cuenta de algo, y es que aunque se me hizo interesante y todo el rollo, la verdad es que creo que en definitiva no soy una persona de comics de este tipo, simplemente no, por que esa es la única explicación que se me ocurre de que en lugar de acabármelo desde principios de junio (no estoy completamente si era junio, o finales de mayo) mejor inicie y acabe libros (los cuales te tardas mas en leer).

En fin, no creo que vuelva a leer un comic en un futuro cercano, a lo mejor leere la continuación de este después, pero dentro de mucho, mucho tiempo....

[Deltron 303o · Rating 4 out of 5]

On top of all the heroes present, all kinds of changes as well. The first sentence of the comic's introduction says "what if your greatest ally was secretly your greatest enemy" and from there we learn Captain America believes in the ideals of Hydra!
If I was a history teacher I'd recommend my students read this during a unit on totalitarian societies; whether we're studying Mussolini's fascism or secret police like the Stasi of East Germany or KGB of the Soviet Union.

[Dante · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing, i love how they show this captain america emotional side, like he really care about whats going on and what he did.
Stark, the character that is always leading and trying to find new ways to help people and fix stuff, he already lost hope, which makes you realize how serious the situation really is.
Very good comic.

[Vinton Bayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

That zero issue made me feel like I might be able to enjoy this series. This one had it's moments, but I'm just not sure I'm going to like where this is going. Not very much was explained this issue, but I expected as much. I liked everything going on with the resistance.

[Dave Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like with # 0, the story was good but I'm not confident enough in Marvel to make this something that actually means anything. Also the list of crossover titles in the back of the issue was staggering.

[Mr. Cody · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting.

[Mesh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not bad. Cap America as the bad guy is intriguing but the other characters are quite basic. Fun read, nonetheless!

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great Marvel story begins!

It's a great change of pace for Marvel and the the story developed nicely in the first issue. I'm excited to see what happens next!

[Bugrahan Kazancı · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/10 Vasat bir sayı. Okurken çok dağıldım.

[Don · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series has been OK so far, but I have really had to suspend disbelief to get into the story. It is trending downward for me but still good enough to keep going.

[Derek Neveu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just when Rick Jones thought it was safe to take part in The Marvel Universe again...

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm totally digging this story.