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SECRET AVENGERS #5

A secret foe has been revealed – or has he? Find out everything you need to know about the OTHER Nick Fury as Secret Avengers continues to explore the volatile landscape of Marvel’s new Heroic Age!

WRITER: Ed Brubaker
PENCILS: David Aja, Michael Lark & Stefano Gaudiano
COVER BY: Marko Djurdjevic

Price: $3.99
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  1. Minion Minion says:
    September 20, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    OR HAS HE?!?!?

  2. RoiVampire RoiVampire says:
    September 20, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    A secret foe has been revealed … but has he really been revealed?

     

  3. Malecema Malecema says:
    September 20, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    3 different people doing the pencils?  I wonder how well that will work…

  4. MisterJ says:
    September 20, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    Unless it is set up so that each artist is doing a separate scene, or any similar attempt, it normally does not work well

  5. OttoBott OttoBott says:
    September 20, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    Lark and Aja have very similar styles – I wish either/or would be the full time artist on this book. I’d read it then.

  6. mikeandzod21 mikeandzod21 says:
    September 20, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    OMG this is gonna be gorgeous! Can those guys be the regular art team? I’d like this book so much more

  7. Minion Minion says:
    September 20, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    I have high hopes for the art at least Lark and Aja are awesome.

  8. ABirdseysView ABirdseysView says:
    September 20, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    Gaudiano will probably just be inking/finishing Lark’s pages

  9. edward edward says:
    September 20, 2010 at 6:14 pm

    Nick Fury is definitely under some kind of mind control.

    Because there is no way he would wear some silky woman’s spandex costume. No way

  10. MisterJ says:
    September 20, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    That is actually the best reasoning for it to not be Fury in some way. 

    I would also extend that theory to cover Steve Rogers and Dum Dum Dugan as well.  If you see them in drag, there is something amiss

  11. TheNextChampion TheNextChampion says:
    September 20, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    Brubaker, Aja, and Lark are the best trio since the lawyer team of:

    Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.

    Super excited to read more of the best Avengers book with Avengers on the title.

  12. JimBilly4 JimBilly4 says:
    September 20, 2010 at 8:30 pm

    Ewww, Nick got some blonde hair caught in his gun. Always keep your firearm clean and ready to go Nick. First rule of superspying.

  13. har13quin har13quin says:
    September 21, 2010 at 6:58 am

    I dropped this after the first issue, just can’t abide deodato jr’s pencils. His style for women is particularly irksome to me. Not only that, but i also was not a great fan of the writing, as far as you can be after 1 issue, so I just want to ask wtf is going on with Nick Fury? No one, and I mean NO ONE, should be fucking around with Nick Fury unless his name is Jonathan Hickman.

  14. comicBOOKchris comicBOOKchris says:
    September 21, 2010 at 11:02 am

    Buying this solely for Aja and Lark. There hasn’t been much that’s been good about this series so far, but I think one of the biggest problems has been the art. So with Aja, whose worked I adored in Iron Fist, we’ll see how this goes.

  15. JimBilly4 JimBilly4 says:
    September 21, 2010 at 3:17 pm

    [Fingers crossed] Oh, I hope it is a clone! Clone stories are awesome.

  16. petropeterson petropeterson says:
    September 21, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    Had to drop this last iss just wasn’t going anywhere

  17. RoiVampire RoiVampire says:
    September 21, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    @har13quin  Well the thing is, it’s probably not nick fury

  18. AmirCat AmirCat says:
    September 21, 2010 at 7:39 pm

    @ROIVampire – I agree. I dont think it’s Nick.

  19. Evangelion11 Evangelion11 says:
    September 21, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    one of the books actually making me interested in marvel

  20. neums neums says:
    September 22, 2010 at 10:35 am

    How many rogue LMDs are out there? Really?

  21. Evangelion11 Evangelion11 says:
    September 22, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    art didnt do it for me hope this is just a fill in

     

  22. djd djd says:
    September 22, 2010 at 4:27 pm

    Cool that Bru’s drawing on his recent excellent work elsewhere. The ‘test-tube clone with identity issues’ thing was in Incognito, and he used John Steele in The Marvels Project.

    I suppose some people may say he’s plagiarizing himself, but he just uses these tropes so well. Glad to see them deployed in the modern mainstream Marvel U.

  23. Minion Minion says:
    September 22, 2010 at 9:39 pm

    This was a classic comic book exposition issue. I really enjoyed it but, really? Max Fury? How cliche is that?

  24. comicBOOKchris comicBOOKchris says:
    September 22, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    This was the definition of so-so. The art was pretty good, which was expected. I wasn’t expecting big bombastic panels, since this issue was pretty much a denouement for the first arc. Regardless, Aja and Lark certainly pulled their weight.

     

    The Blade Runner-esque story of Max Fury was OK, I guess. It was a typical issue of this series so far…technically, everything is alright, but even the zany story of the team going to Mars to rescue a possessed Nova was kind of a snooze fest. I’m buying the next issue, since there is promise of kung-fu, but this series is on a thin thread for being so damn lackluster. 

  25. OttoBott OttoBott says:
    September 22, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    Was it a malfunctioning LMD? I figured that’s what it would be.

  26. TheNextChampion TheNextChampion says:
    September 23, 2010 at 12:20 am

    @Ottobott: It was an LMD turned into a living, breathing Fury clone by his brother…..I hope this is actual Marvel storyline because that sounds like a huge pipe dream.

    This was also close to being my POTW as well. Can’t really put my finger on why it got edged out to Fantastic Four; but it just sneaked by to steal it from this issue. This was a fantastic issue though. A little cliche that it was an LMD in some capacity; but the history of this clone was really intriguing. That and Brubaker is laying down groundwork from his other work (Marvels Project) makes me excited what else to expect. That and the art by Aja, Lark and (insert name here) was solid as well. I recently read the Gotham Central HC and Immortal Iron Fist and I grew to love Aja and Lark. Styles were so similar that each page flowed nicely.

    5/5 

  27. OttoBott OttoBott says:
    September 23, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    Fury has a brother? Is this common lore or a new reveal?

    I hope it’s not an older brother, as Nick is a WW2 vet. If he is the older brother, maybe he’s a survivor of The Big One…

  28. Minion Minion says:
    September 23, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    Haven’t they said that Fury took a version of the Super Soldier serum and that’s why he’s lived so long?

  29. ProjectX2 ProjectX2 says:
    September 24, 2010 at 6:22 am

    I wish Lark and Aja could draw every issue.

  30. ABirdseysView ABirdseysView says:
    September 25, 2010 at 12:06 am

    I really wonder how the art was divided up.  flashbacks by one, present day by another?  breakdowns by Aja, pencils and finishes by Lark/Gaudiano?  all three in a room working together?  this process junkie has to know!

    I got a feeling this is a plot thread that will last for a while in this series.

    and Fury took the Infinity Formula to stay so young.  not sure about his brother. 

  31. TheNextChampion TheNextChampion says:
    September 25, 2010 at 12:53 am

    @ABirdseysView: I think Lark/Gaudiano did the present day stuff (Fury talking to Cap) and the beginning with Max being chased; while Aja did the flashbacks. You can definitely see some SLIGHT change in the flashbacks but it is a bit tricky to find out.

    Stefano Gaudiano, as far as I can tell, seems to do mostly inks and always seems to work with Lark on titles. So not sure why he was lumped together with the two main artists; but I guess his reputation is so high he deserves the artist credit. 

  32. OttoBott OttoBott says:
    September 25, 2010 at 10:11 pm

    Aja tweeted that he did layouts, Lark did finishes.

  33. odare77 says:
    September 26, 2010 at 4:30 am

    …oh that art…puts the first storyline’s pencils to shame.  I had also thought this was a different Ed Brubaker writing the title til now, it’s as if these artists made him raise his game.

  34. Franktiger Franktiger says:
    September 26, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    Doesn’t Zodiac from that Dark Reign mini-series have the Zodiac Key now?  Kept picturing that creepyass guy when they were mentioning Zodiac. 

    If Max Fury kept fighting evil forces, like Hydra and AIM, whenever he escaped, why would he all of a sudden join the Shadow Council.  If he’s an artificial Fury through and through, would he really do that? Guess it was simply cus they tried to kill him, like Steve Rogers was saying.

    If Aja doing the layouts means he did the background of that Hyrda blimp panel, man, pretty incredible. 

  35. jlddlj11 jlddlj11 says:
    September 27, 2010 at 2:02 am

    That answered some questions.  Looking forward to more!

  36. RoiVampire RoiVampire says:
    September 30, 2010 at 11:05 am

    @Franktiger  Yeah Zodiac stole the key from the hellicarrier when Norman was in charge. I hope Brubaker has plans for that. Loved that mini.

  37. JimBilly4 JimBilly4 says:
    October 8, 2010 at 5:16 pm

    Wow, so exposition heavy. I like two Furys running around, but this wasn’t a good story. It was a good summary of a complicated story.

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