NEW AVENGERS #40
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first – 22 pages of exposition, ending with a reveal that really didn’t surprise anyone who has been reading these books? really?
second – this was a new avengers book, right? i mean, i know that the secret invasion is tied in, but i would have liked to see, y’know, the new avengers in action. this should have been secret invasion 1a, or secret invasion: the skrulls 1, or something other than new avengers.
(and as a side note, it seems like that’s exactly what dc is doing with final crisis, having subsidiary titles rather than tossing the story into their main books.)
the art was very good, and the backstory details are somewhat interesting, but really, didn’t we all know a lot of this information before? a fine book, but i wasn’t that impressed at all. secret invasion needs to EARN my love.
Art: 4 - Very Good
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Oops, picked this up by mistake. Oh well, it wasn’t a bad wee read. The cover, a la last week’s Mighty Avengers, was a Skrull-take on an old one (that was Avengers 4, this was 1) but it was less nice – ugly figures, dark colours.
Inside, as Greg said, we saw how the Skrull Secret Invasion came to be. It’s basically what everyone assumed but Brian Bendis’s script wasn’t half bad – it made sense, on its own terms, mostly – I didn’t get how in the first scene the King looked to be behind the DNA-grabbing of the Illuminati, then later on it was the Princess’s scheme.
And I’m not convinced that spending years as Elektra achieved much – sure, as Elektra the Skrullette knew Daredevil, ran a gang of ninja wallahs and had nice chats with Wolverine and Nick Fury, but what information could she actually get? The heroes would likely get suspicious were the notoriously unchatty Elektra suddenly to start asking questions about Earth’s defence and the Hand are a gang of very quiet thugs. Nah, she just wanted to sleep with Matt Murdock.
I can see Spider-Woman making a bit more sense, what with her ties to Shield, Hydra and the Avengers, though it’s a pity the last page revelation wasn’t much of a surprise – we’ve had so much bluff, double and triple bluff on the subject of Jessica Drew’s loyalties that her being a Skrull was as likely as anything else.
What I did like about the script, lots, was that the space-bound nature of this issue meant Brian Bendis had to stay away from the smart alec gags. And the comic was the more absorbing for it.
Artwise, Jim Cheung and John Dell did a terrific job showing us Skrulls gawky and fearsome. If they’re around a few issues I’ll stick with this book. Who knows, I might even see a few members of the New Avengers in it.