A review by depreydeprey
S.H.I.E.L.D. Secret History by Matthew Rosenberg, Kathryn Immonen, Daniel Warren Johnson, David F. Walker, Patrick Kindlon, Joëlle Jones, Luke Ross, Scott Hepburn, Chelsea Cain

4.0

The bulk of this collection are 50th anniversary issues to commemorate characters who have been important to S.H.I.E.L.D. like Nick Fury, Agent Carter and Mocking Bird among others. The best of these is probably the Mockingbird issue. Chelsea Cain has a real feel for the character and the story along with Joelle Jones remarkable art really lean into Jim Steranko's run with Nick Fury with a few touches of Fraction's Hawkeye thrown in. Fury #1 does it's best to retcon the two Nick Fury characters into a Hatemonger story that involves a young and unnamed but who are we fooling here, Barack Obama. The issue bites off WAY more than it can chew in 20 some pages and should be a mini or maxi series but David F. Walker gives it his best shot. Also, why hasn't Hatemonger been in more stuff lately? He's basically the perfect villain of 2019.
After the new stuff we get a few reprints starting with Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos number 1 which is fun war throwback, the Strange Tales story where Commander Fury joins S.H.I.E.L.D. and issue 6 of the Battle Scars mini series that seems like it directly contradicts the Fury issue earlier in the collection.