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Reviews
Secret Invasion #1
Column by Lee Newman, 2008.
Skrulls. Finally the invasion is here. Get your popcorn,
kiddies, this is gonna be fun!
We all know what this is about. The Skrulls have infiltrated
the Marvel Universe and have their eyes set on domination.
They are undetectable by most of the means our heroes have
used in the past. The Invansion starts here and it comes hard
and fast.
Wow. Brian Michael Bendis has given us one heck of an opening
issue. Pretty early on things get out of control and it does
nothing but ratchet up from there. This is the big summer
popcorn blockbuster that Quesada has been promising us all
along. Fortunately for us, this one seems a little smarter
than War World Hulk proper did.
This story comes at us with a frenetic pace and the internet
is sure to come to a loud roar. For all the jaw dropping moments
contained in the first issue, there are probably ten other
things to be explained. The Skrulls, like Bendis, are not
going to let us take a breath during this whole thing. The
reveals and big moments start just a few pages in and almost
every other page features a moment that will make fanboys
everywhere bug out their eyes.
There are a couple of clunky bits. Scenes that dont readily
tell you what is going on (yes, I have my eyes on you, Thunderbolt
Mountain) and dialogue that doesnt make immediate sense.
However, I have a feeling that these are supposed to be that
way (in fact, I KNOW it is true for one particular piece of
repeated dialogue) and that all will be explained in time.
Heck, I imagine by the time the dust settles that we will
even know for sure what that Skrull was doing in Avengers:
Disassembled.h for the title to retain its readership-Caps
alter ego, young Billy Batson, became Micky Moran. Shazam,
the wizard who empowered him, became astrophysicist Guntag
Borghelm, who taught Micky the magic word Kimota (atomic
spelled backwards, near enough). Captain Marvel Junior became
Young Marvelman, while Mary Marvel underwent a more conspicuous
change and morphed into Johnny Bates AKA Kid Marvelman! The
Marvelman titles retained the sense of whimsy which had made
Captain Marvel so popular, and they sold well for almost a
decade before fading away in 1963. End of story, it seemed.
It sure is nice to see Yus art get inked again. It still
isnt as tight as the work Gary Frank is doing with the style
over in Action Comics, but it is much better then the rushed
and unfinished art that plagued Yus run in The New Avengers.
There is still some wackiness from the penciler though, his
Spider-Man is way too ripped. Seriously, with the paper thin
costume he must be wearing, there is nothing left to the imagination
and a breeze must make old Pete awfully cold.
Yu does a fantastic job conveying the script here. There
are none of the muddy panels that were often indiscernable
in Stranges Inner Sanctum. There is a little color thing
at one point, but if you heed my advice and pay attention
to colors, you should do fine. As I stated above there are
a few panels that dont readily make sense, but I am not sure
they are supposed to at this point.
While it is not a perfect comic by any stretch of the imagination,
if the first issue is any indication, this is going to be
one heck of a ride. Fortunately, much of the prep work has
been done in other books, so the exposition is light and summary
like so that we can get to the reveals and explosions right
away. Yippy Kiyay!
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