Well, this summer's Marvel event hit, and it hit hard.
I will now do the obligatory warning to anyone who has not read Secret Invasion #1 and wishes to keep mystery to look away now.
Well, cracking stuff, the Skrulls make their first move, and it looks like this invasion is about to become a whole lot less.... Secret.
The Skrulls put a virus into just about all Stark Tech, which due to Stark designing all the coolest stuff, takes the Hellicarrier out of the sky and disables a huge bulk of earths satellites and presumably a good lump of SHIELD technology. And as a bonus Iron Man. The Baxter Building, The Raft, The cube and Thudnerbolt Mountain are hit, the SWORD space station destroyed, Reed Richards is shot and a massive Skrull fleet is headed for earth. It was exciting stuff and has a real feel of "We are so screwed. We also had the ship opening up to reveal a host of 70's heroes claiming they've finally made it home. Also all the attacks have come with the cryptic phrase "He loves you"
I'm wondering if this is going to be more like Annihilation Conquest, where the invasion is swiftly over and next issue or issue 3 will be earth under Skrull Rule. Hope so, this is the sort of industry wide crossover I prefer, and I hope other titles will reference it in some way.
Now for some geeky analyses.
Page 1. Don't worry, not a page by page account, It reads out a SKrull prophecy, supposedly about their world being destroyed. and we then see skrulls approaching some sort of outcast leader. This destruction, is it the massive attack by the Illuminati after the Kree/Skrull war (As seen in Illuminati #1 I think) or the result of the annihilation wave pretty much wiping out the Skrull parts of the universe, or a bit of both.
Since New Avengers #1 there's been a hint that there are corrupting forces within both SHIELD and Hydra. Well, we now know that for an undisclosed period of time Duggan has been a Skrull. We also know from Ms Marvel that the Skrulls were sampling Human DNA just in case it became useful, could it be that an undetectable Skrull has to be in part cloned from an existing human? We don't know since Hank Pym shot Reed before he could say which happily reveals that Pym is the SKrull in Camp Hammond seen in The Initiative Annual #1 who had a goal of putting a Skrull on every one of the 50 state initiative teams.
Jarvis was a Skrull, wow.
We See Noh-Varr in The Cube, a secure holding facility last seen in Young Avengers/Runaways during Civil War, where he took over. Is he a Skrull, or will this forgotten element of an old Marvel Knights title be a key in resisting the invasion?
We also have the crashed transport full of 70s marvel heroes. Who think they've returned home. Which raises more questions. Are these heroes, abducted earlier and replaced by Skrulls. I doubt it. Note Jewel and Iron man amongst their numbers. I'm going to go out on a limb here, where sadly if I'm proven wrong I will be subject to the ridicule of my peer (Look at the comments, I only have one) but the heroes on that ship are Skrulls. The "Finally made it home" comment I reckon is based on one of 2 things. 1. It could be deep cover Programming, as in they are programmed as sleepers, who are convinced they are who they look like until a certain codeword is activated. 2. There is a Skrull belief that Earth is in fact some sort of new home, with the Skrulls definitely displaced by the Annihilation wave, that old prophecy must look pretty attractive now. That could also put a timeframe on when the infiltration started. Either way, the opening of the crashed ship seemed to trigger the attack, and the pieces were all conveniently in the places to do the most damage before it was open, so My guess is it is part of the invasion plan and not escaped real people. Thunderbolt Mountain was attacked by Mar-Vell, I'd heard he may be a skrull. Thought it was a nice response to the people complaining about his return to life if he is.
Worth considering is the list of current Skrulls living on Earth.
Zavin - Super Skrull in training currently one of the Runaways
Hulkling - Son of Captain Mar-Vell and a Skrull, Currently with the Young Avengers
Jazinda(sp) - She Hulk's sidekick, a Skrull bounty hunter, exiled from her own people because she stole some form of science that means she can't die
Crusader - Secretly a skrull, currently in Camp Hammond with the initiative.
Ms Marvel - Not the real one, we see in a recent issue that there has been a Duplicate, probably skrull, wondering around Avengers tower. In fact her issues showed her DNA being recorded by the Skrulls for future use, she may be the prototype for the undetectable Skrulls.
If I remember the splash at the end with the returned retro heroes, Ms Marvel in her first costume is amongst them. This may bring the current number of Carol Danvers's in the MU to 4. (The original, Warbird - the nutty one from an alternate universe, Duplicate Carol at large and seen in Ms Marvel, Duplicate Ms Marvel as seen in secret invasion)
So, theorising aside a great start. Hope for more of the same.
I will now do the obligatory warning to anyone who has not read Secret Invasion #1 and wishes to keep mystery to look away now.
Well, cracking stuff, the Skrulls make their first move, and it looks like this invasion is about to become a whole lot less.... Secret.
The Skrulls put a virus into just about all Stark Tech, which due to Stark designing all the coolest stuff, takes the Hellicarrier out of the sky and disables a huge bulk of earths satellites and presumably a good lump of SHIELD technology. And as a bonus Iron Man. The Baxter Building, The Raft, The cube and Thudnerbolt Mountain are hit, the SWORD space station destroyed, Reed Richards is shot and a massive Skrull fleet is headed for earth. It was exciting stuff and has a real feel of "We are so screwed. We also had the ship opening up to reveal a host of 70's heroes claiming they've finally made it home. Also all the attacks have come with the cryptic phrase "He loves you"
I'm wondering if this is going to be more like Annihilation Conquest, where the invasion is swiftly over and next issue or issue 3 will be earth under Skrull Rule. Hope so, this is the sort of industry wide crossover I prefer, and I hope other titles will reference it in some way.
Now for some geeky analyses.
Page 1. Don't worry, not a page by page account, It reads out a SKrull prophecy, supposedly about their world being destroyed. and we then see skrulls approaching some sort of outcast leader. This destruction, is it the massive attack by the Illuminati after the Kree/Skrull war (As seen in Illuminati #1 I think) or the result of the annihilation wave pretty much wiping out the Skrull parts of the universe, or a bit of both.
Since New Avengers #1 there's been a hint that there are corrupting forces within both SHIELD and Hydra. Well, we now know that for an undisclosed period of time Duggan has been a Skrull. We also know from Ms Marvel that the Skrulls were sampling Human DNA just in case it became useful, could it be that an undetectable Skrull has to be in part cloned from an existing human? We don't know since Hank Pym shot Reed before he could say which happily reveals that Pym is the SKrull in Camp Hammond seen in The Initiative Annual #1 who had a goal of putting a Skrull on every one of the 50 state initiative teams.
Jarvis was a Skrull, wow.
We See Noh-Varr in The Cube, a secure holding facility last seen in Young Avengers/Runaways during Civil War, where he took over. Is he a Skrull, or will this forgotten element of an old Marvel Knights title be a key in resisting the invasion?
We also have the crashed transport full of 70s marvel heroes. Who think they've returned home. Which raises more questions. Are these heroes, abducted earlier and replaced by Skrulls. I doubt it. Note Jewel and Iron man amongst their numbers. I'm going to go out on a limb here, where sadly if I'm proven wrong I will be subject to the ridicule of my peer (Look at the comments, I only have one) but the heroes on that ship are Skrulls. The "Finally made it home" comment I reckon is based on one of 2 things. 1. It could be deep cover Programming, as in they are programmed as sleepers, who are convinced they are who they look like until a certain codeword is activated. 2. There is a Skrull belief that Earth is in fact some sort of new home, with the Skrulls definitely displaced by the Annihilation wave, that old prophecy must look pretty attractive now. That could also put a timeframe on when the infiltration started. Either way, the opening of the crashed ship seemed to trigger the attack, and the pieces were all conveniently in the places to do the most damage before it was open, so My guess is it is part of the invasion plan and not escaped real people. Thunderbolt Mountain was attacked by Mar-Vell, I'd heard he may be a skrull. Thought it was a nice response to the people complaining about his return to life if he is.
Worth considering is the list of current Skrulls living on Earth.
Zavin - Super Skrull in training currently one of the Runaways
Hulkling - Son of Captain Mar-Vell and a Skrull, Currently with the Young Avengers
Jazinda(sp) - She Hulk's sidekick, a Skrull bounty hunter, exiled from her own people because she stole some form of science that means she can't die
Crusader - Secretly a skrull, currently in Camp Hammond with the initiative.
Ms Marvel - Not the real one, we see in a recent issue that there has been a Duplicate, probably skrull, wondering around Avengers tower. In fact her issues showed her DNA being recorded by the Skrulls for future use, she may be the prototype for the undetectable Skrulls.
If I remember the splash at the end with the returned retro heroes, Ms Marvel in her first costume is amongst them. This may bring the current number of Carol Danvers's in the MU to 4. (The original, Warbird - the nutty one from an alternate universe, Duplicate Carol at large and seen in Ms Marvel, Duplicate Ms Marvel as seen in secret invasion)
So, theorising aside a great start. Hope for more of the same.
Time for your peer to comment :-D
ReplyDeleteI'm with the people that think the ship is actually a mix of both. Although its quite believable that the ship could consist entirely of Skrulls.
Despite Stark's efforts, the heroes in the Marvel Universe are still largely on thin ice with the general population. Especially given that just a couple of months ago (Marvel time) they were knocking lumps out of one another and causing mammoth property damage, throwing open the possibility that they're all aliens and part of an invasion attempt really will stack the public against the heroes.
I picked up the Infiltration trade to get caught up. Its interesting reading all the stuff they've tagged as important to the story. I'm definitely in the "Cage is a Skrull" camp. Largely due to his habit of running around calling everyone else Skrulls. Its like Tigh in Battlestar Galactica.
Loved the scene in New Avengers where Wolverine is rattling off the reasons why they could all be Skrulls. Including the fact that he manages to be on every superteam going :-D
I was going to pick that up, but I have most of the issues in question. If Cage is a Skrull, Is Jessica Jones? Jewel was on teh ship and tehre is the green eyed Skrull.
ReplyDeleteYou coudl say that Dr Strange's spell should remove every New Avenger from the possibility of being a SKrull, but that falls down as his magic can't detect them (Although wheather that's can't detect them with general eye of Agamatto stuff or without a complex spell remains to be seen) also Strange could be a Skrull.
From what I read the gist of it is going to be the Skrulls will actually on some level sell being part of the Skrull empire to Earth. So it could get very V
I like your update to your profile pic :-)
ReplyDeleteIf I'm sticking by my "Cage is a Skrull" theory, then I'd say Jessica Jones isn't, as it creates more of a story dynamic with her finding out her husband is a Skrull, and having a Luke Cage kicking around who isn't her husband.
I'd think Steven Strange will be able to detect them, but like the tech-guys, needs to figure out how to do it first.
Although having him being a Skrull could be interesting. He did give shelter to the New Avengers after Civil War, and he kept out of Civil War and let it all kick off as well, which could play into Skrull plans.
And actually, in New avengers, not long after the Elektra is a skrull thing he turfed them out of his house. Hmmm. ALthough he made the excuse of what with all teh dark magic he's been using recently he pretty much has to go back to square 1 and retrain himself. Either way there's a good chance Doc STrange won't be available for Secret Invasion.
ReplyDeleteDo like the 2 Hawkeyes theory, wonder if they'll fight over Mockingbird. Unless she's a skrull.
I just hope baby cage, if its (Can't rmeember if its a boy or a girl) is half skrull, doesn't pan out to be the starchiled from V