Secret InvasionFollow

Well, as far as comic books go, I thought the writing was OK, but I expect a lot more from Leinil Francis Yu. I think maybe the inking was a bit too heavy for my tastes, but normally I really appreciate his work (his work on the New X-Men Annual back in 2002 was AMAZING).

For story purposes, I don't really see this accomplishing much in the Marvel Universe. Ultimately, I can imagine them retconning a BUNCH of unpopular plots with this sort of story.

Picture this:

Thousands of angry fan-boys (and probably at least 1-2 fan-girls) are constantly sending Joe Q. bad vibes over the Spider-Man "One More Day" story line.

Eventally it's revealed that Spidey was actually a Skrull and so was Mary Jane, and the real ones are who knows where, but I bet it's some place convient that will make fans happy when sales drop!

I'll give the story a shot for 2 more issues or so, but right now, I'm too cynical about most of the things Marvel does to care.

Hell, Messiah Complex was great with Xavier getting shot in the head! I was ecstatic when I thought Marvel would remove him from the mix. But what happen, just 1 month later he was alive and another month after that he was as good as new!

-Jakel of Caitsith!

Edited, Apr 27th 2008 7:04pm by Jakelthegreat

I'm not just considering Spider-Man plots being majorly retconned, I'm considering much more in the Marvel Universe.

If you look at the back of Issue 1 of Secret Invasion you can basically find a recap of all the Trades/Hard Covers that Marvel considers important to Secret Invasion.

Unfortunently, House of M is one of those and straight from Marvel: "...but look who wrote that return to the blockbuster crossover. Hey, it's that Bendis guy again. Guess what that means? Yep, there's a skrull in there, too. And there's someone in the heart of the story that could undo everything the Skrulls are doing, but that remains to be seen. We still have 7 issues to go, don't we?!"

Now, if you look at the "Blockbuster" (more like lackluster) crossover of House of M, there are only a few people at the "heart" of the story, and even fewer with the power capable of potentially undoing a huge invasion. The whole story centered around Magneto and his family, and certainly those characters at the heart of the story were Scarlet Whitch, Magneto, and Quicksilver.

Over in Uncanny X-Men, (pre-Messiah Complex)some cryptic Diaries written by a Morlock that could see the future (very similar to Destiny's Diaries) revealed that Magneto was still a mutant, even though he lost his powers in Messiah Complex.

My guess, by the end of Secret Invasion, Scarlet Witch will use her abilities in a way that restores a lot of mutants to power, to help return former mutants to their status quo, as well as to help fight off the Skrull invasion.

All of this, and it would be nice to have Magneto make a triumphant return for Uncanny X-Men #500 out in a few months?

Spider-Woman was barely in House of M though, and certainly not a core character or powerful enough to be able to be described as being able to potentially undo a large scale Skrull invasion.

I guess we will just have to wait and see, but at least it's been a fun read so far!

So, Secret Invasion two is out and nothing much happens in it.

A couple of the 70's throwbacks turn out to be skrulls (Including Spidey, which makes sense as Bendis probably wanted to reassure the masses right away that the last 40ish years we haven't been following the wrong Spidey, Again) and a massive super skrull army arrives in NY.

Besides Super Skrull Wolverine/Cyclops/Colossus looking extremely bad ass: Little has changed.

Or a skrull.



Well, technically the "real" Captain America IS back. WWII Cap is back in the Avengers/Invaders crossover happening now. But I doubt "70's" cap IS the real cap, as Caps body didn't go skrully when he "died", & Sharon being pregnant by Skrull would really throw a wrench in The Red Skrulls plans over in Cap.



That's more realistic. However, more realistic would be that if the skrulss controlled the Phoenix, their would be little need for an army.

She could just eat everyone and they could move right on in.

As for Emma, what, you want MORE cleavage?

Is it sad that i do too?