SECRET INVASION #2 (OF 8)

Review by: Tork

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Size: pages
Price: 3.99

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Story: 2 - Average
Art: 3 - Good

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  1. I agree with most of your comments on this one Tork.  It definitely lost some momentum.  There was some really good character moments in this, and a part of me is really excited to see the Young Avengers get back into action.  But, yeah, the story just kind of meander and the fight was cool, but nothing different from what we’ve been reading in New Avengers for the last six months.

    I do want to point out that Yu’s art was very good, so I’m curious why you gave it a 3?

  2. Excellent review, Tork.  I’m with Neb in liking the art.  In fact, I think it was the saving grace of the issue.  It was the only thing that kept this from being a 2 minute read.

    Your comments on the Sentry are spot-on.  Marvel has to get rid of this guy.  No one knows what to do with this guy, so they just remove him from every fight.  It would have been interesting to see the fight take to the skies with a one on one between The Sentry and the The Phoenix, but instead Vision just had to give him a strong talking-to.

    Logic or not… I thought the super-skrull outfits were pretty cool.  Especially the Colossus/Wolverine/Cyclops guy… 

  3. Eh, I thought it was good, but it didn’t wow me.  I’m mostly bothered by those garish Skrull Hybrid outfits at the end.  I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it either.

  4. I definitely agree with a bunch of your points.  While I enjoyed the book for what it was (splash pages), I was really ticked when I realized it was 3.99.  I don’t think there were any extra pages….so did I pay extra just because its a high profile book?  If so, at least give me a skrull reveal or something (and I mean someone from the actual marvel u…not just the people that just showed up…)

  5. The Super-Skrull outfits WERE cool.  And as for Cage fighting even when the god of war says not to… perhaps Cage is a Skrull?

  6. @nroa~  The $3.99 is because it’s a high profile event book.  Usually, these books also have better quality paper, coloring, covers, etc. which also makes them expensive.

  7. I agree completely with this review. I think the moment with Ares was the key point where the story turns mediocre. I would have liked it so much more if they listened to Ares, or even if there was just less emphasis on the fight and something about what the hell was going on with shield and sword at that point.

     

    @ Doc Hess, I disagree with you about sentry. I don’t think he has to be gotten rid of, he just has to stop being such a baby. If he fought phoenix like you suggested, that would have been cool. Or if vision tried the void thing, and Sentry just rocked in the face or something.

    I probably wouldn’t be mourning the loss of characters who weren’t workin, but I rather have the skrull reveals be ones where you go "Good Lord!" and "what does this mean to the Marvel U" than reveals that make you say "okay, we finally got rid of that jerk". I like the school of thought that says fix that bad charachters, break the good ones.

  8. oops, meant *rocked him in the face

     

     

    …as in punched that dude right in his face. 

  9. @Neb:  Deal, but I still don’t have to like it…haha

  10. I agree that this was underwhelming, but I also found this issue tantalizing. There are many who would argue that Al Gore did invent the internet, in the same way that Bill Gates invented DOS – creating the financial situation that allowed those things to be. From that view, one might hope or pray that this is indeed the real Cap. However, if that were to be true, then the body of the recently assassinated Cap would have to be Skrull – right?

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