Calvin, I did not resist the temptation.
I even read it! The most surprising thing is that it's not terrible. It's not good either, but by the standards of 1990's Marvel it could be much, much worse. Both writing and art are solid but unimpressive. The storytelling is clear but never dramatic. It's competent, if dull. That said, there's a halfway interesting central mystery.
There are a couple of clumsy, weird moments, like Spider-Woman almost fumbling an investigation just so Wolverine can tell her off in the next panel, or whatever the creative decision was behind this panel:
After some arbitrary fighting with random costumed villains, the issue ends with the introduction of a new character! We don't know if they are hero or villain, which I think was probably the intent. I hope.
(It's impossible for any of these characters to be standing where they are based on their positions in the previous panel, by the way.)
I don't have #2 so I don't know why this character is called Dreadlox, but I'm hoping it's something to do with liquid oxygen related powers. I did look the character up to see if they had appeared again, as they are just the sort of obscure rando who would get used in an Al Ewing or Jed McKay comic, but alas they only seemed to appear in this one storyline.
Anyway, that's Secret Defenders #1. Not terrible, not good either. I give it two Cables out of five.
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