And finally things pick up the pace a little, Huzzah.
A better issue, with some real plot movement happening, which is good as this event seemed stalled. There is some annoyance about the revelation that everyone on the ship was a Skrull, but tactically it makes sense, what better way to get the Avengers out of the way than send them on a wild goose chase to the savage land. Whats slightly more surprising is that Ares called it, in #2 he basically tells everyone its a decoy and to return to new york while he dealt with them, could this mean that as a god he was warned about the Skrull invasion or has a 6th sense, or it could simply be that, as he has previously stated, being a god of war doesn't limit him to being good at cleaving things in twain, it also includes tactical thinking. It actually kind of makes me wish we'd had more issues of Mighty Avengers between civil war and secret invasion to get to know some of the more fringe characters a little bit better. Still since Maria Hill is getting some T-Shirts made up, I'll add the first one to the pile, Areas was Right.
Second obviously is Maria Hill, who isn't a skrull and did listen to Nick Fury, yes she got the drop on Skrull Jarvis but it does mean SHIELD is down yet another helicarrier, hope it was insured. T shirt 2, is of course, Nick fury was right.
If rumours are true this may all be Reed Richards' fault, if so I'll tentatively propose a third T-Shirt, Doom was right, it was all the fault of that damnable Richards.
In other corners of the MU, Ms Marvel kills stack loads of skrulls and finds something nasty in the Vault. The runaways Xavin and Young Avengers hulkling argue over who's fault the invasion is and Captain Britain and MI13 has a strong finish where Pete Wisdom gets to do his Scarlet Witch thing and clear Britain of skrulls, sadly one of the selling points of the title is gone as it now no longer contains a Skrull who thinks he's John Lennon. Still, good setup and definitely a keeper as a title, at least while Cornell is writing
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16 years ago
Put me down for one of those "DOOM was right!" T-Shirts :-D
ReplyDeleteAgree completely about this being a much-improved issue. Slightly bummed out that the Savage Land was a decoy (especially after 3 issues and some tie-ins mucking about there), but this story seems to be back on track.
Complete speculation here, but I wonder if this was always the structure? Given a lot of these big events have tended to be 7 issue minis in recent years, while this is an 8, I wonder if it was originally written as a 7, and then padded out to an 8, with extra Savage Land?
Complete speculation though, and probably wrong.
With the amount of padding I'd almost say 6 and padded to 8, but if you read Bendis's comments (SOmewhere on CBR) he basically put in so much savage land stuff because it was a decoy and he wanted to show that it had worked in drawing teh avengers out of new york. I'd not say he was entirely successful in portreying that but you can see what he was trying to do when you hear that.
ReplyDeleteWith the amount of padding I'd almost say 6 and padded to 8, but if you read Bendis's comments (SOmewhere on CBR) he basically put in so much savage land stuff because it was a decoy and he wanted to show that it had worked in drawing teh avengers out of new york. I'd not say he was entirely successful in portreying that but you can see what he was trying to do when you hear that.
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