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This review contains spoilers, click here to read
I am so very torn by this book. While the last issue and many of the tie-ins have left this series feeling as though Bendis was telling it with peanut butter and molasses in his mouth, we finally get to see some forward momentum. And parts of this momentum are really, really good. And then there's parts that just make me want to just stop reading it.
First, let's start with the good. I really enjoyed the parts of the issue that dealt with the fight in New York. they were action packed, and it was really fun to see how some of the Skrulls have combined the powers of the different heroes. It's also nice to see some of the lesser known heroes of the Marvel U get their time in the sun as they battle through the rank and file of the invading Skrull army. The beginning sequence with Jarvis is also awesome, and I loved Maria Hill's ability to joke and make fun of the S.H.I.E.L.D. hellicarrier amid all the confusion and hoopla. It was a fun scene and really added a lot to her character.
But, for me, this issue held far more head scratchers and eye rollers than the good stuff. After the sequence with Jarvis and Maria Hill, the reader is whisked away to the Initiative boot camp where we find the recruits in a tizzy because the power has gone out. The senior members are trying to calm them down when Hank Pym shows up to tell the team that New York is under attack and the Avengers are missing. The problem that I have with this scene is two fold: why are we spending almost a page about the power being out at the facility, and why is Hank Pym sending them to battle? It was shown in the first issue that Pym is a Skrull, but tactically, why would you want to send them into battle? Is it so they would lose? Do they want to slaughter them all in one place? What if the kid's were better fighters than he thought? Wouldn't it be easier to attack them later after the force has secured New York? To me, it just didn't make sense why this would be happening. Also, what's up with that scene between Osborne and Skrull Mar-Vel? It seemed a bit out of place. ("Hey, you're busy invading me, but let's have a drink and talk about it.") While I'm sure there's some reasoning behind it, I just didn't see the purpose behind these things from any sort of story perspective and the issue could have spent more time with my second gripe.
We're not getting the Avengers in any of our other comic books right now. So why is it that this mini refuses to show any of them on page? Last issue we spent time with some of the team, but where the hell is everyone else? Is there any effort being made to get out of the Savage Land? It just doesn't make sense to me why Bendis has all these characters and isn't using them. Yes, it's nice to see the B, C, and D characters, but would it hurt to see what Luke Cage and crew are up to in the Savage Land?
The last page was quite disappointing as well. Nick Fury's return is about as exciting as the rain: I knew it was coming, but I just don't know when. It was so telegraphed from the Mighty Avengers stuff. It would have been ten times better if it would have been revealed in the pages of Secret Invasion and then explained in a mini or in Mighty Avengers. I just found myself going, "Well, there's Fury and his band of dudes from Mighty Avengers. Yawn."
My last real complaint about this issue comes from the revelation that Jessica Drew is so priveledged to deliver to the readers: Tony Stark may, in fact, be a Skrull. I know that this has been postulated and tossed around many a chat room, particularly when the event was first announced. But for it to come to fruitition seems to be something of a cop out. If they want to undo Civil War, isn't there a better way to do it? I'm not a professional writer, but if I was crafting the big event of the summer, I'd try to throw some curve balls in there. I'd want some sort of deception in there to surprise the reader. And maybe that's what Bendis is doing with this. We certainly don't get confirmation of this fact, and it wasn't necessarily stated that Spider-Woman was one until we looked at Secret Invasion (I do realize this was revealed in New Avengers, but as I read it, it was merely hinted that the Queen would be taking her body. I'm fairly certain, up to this point, that it hasn't been addressed.). Having Tony be a Skrull seems cheap and uncreative, and I stroke my fingers in shame at Marvel if this becomes so. I just can't accept that they would make it that easy.
Yu's pencils are awesome in this issue, and I can't say enough how much better these pencils are than what he was doing in New Avengers. It's obvious what Marvel sees in him and why they are giving him such a high profile book. My eyes loved every single one of his crafted panels.
I'm giving this issue it's rating based on how I feel about the issue. While I fall on my knees to Bendis, thanking him for finally moving the story along, I'm left with a sour taste from the story, not quite liking where he moved it to. Of course, I'll still read it to see if what I think is going to happen happens, and I can only hope that Bendis proves me to be a stupid, whiny bitch.
Art: 5 - Excellent
I seriously doubt Tony’s a skrull.
I think a lot of the questions you mentioned are going to be answered. Sure, you may not be certain as to why Hank sent the Initiative into battle, but the story still has five chapters left. I assume we’ll see why in the next issue.
And I disagree about the Fury reveal. Sure, if you read MA, you know it’s coming. But it’s satisfying that way. Because we still don’t know what Fury knows, and we don’t know what his crew can do. I’m excited for next issue. Also: if you haven’t read MA, then as another reviewer said, this is a total WTF moment — the perfect cliffhanger for the next issue.
Just my opinions, of course.
@daccampo- Thanks for the feedback Dave. I’m glad you’re excited for Fury’s return, and I’ve only been glancing through MA for the last few months. For me, though, it’s definitely better if he’s dropped in without any warning. That way, it’s surprising, and you can still have options to consider what he knows and what his crew will do in the long run. It’s just better story telling that way I think.
I’m sure the questions I pose will be answered, but I was damn disappointed in this issue. I didn’t want more questions. I wanted some shit to happen, and while things did, it was just too loose…too baffling for me to enjoy. I’m certainly glad that you liked it though.
i think pym did want to get all those people killed – the purple lightning that the skrulls used (no clue what it was) seemed to disable the heroes, and just as the skrulls were getting down to the slaughter (starting with the vision), fury interrupts.
maybe?
agree with your thoughts on the fury ending – not an exciting climax.
I concur with this review, so much so that I’m going to write that says pretty much the same thing. Heh.
See, this is the difficulty of events like this and "Final Crisis"… in issue 1, 2, 3… you’re not going to get answers, you’re going to get questions. And if you don’t like questions that aren’t answered immediately, you should probably wait for the trade. This series is ENTIRELY ABOUT uncertainty, so the fact that the reader is uncertain about what they can trust (remember, the entire ad campaign for the book is built around the tagline "Who Do You Trust?") is almost completely the point. If you don’t like that… well, again, there’s the trade route to go.
@RaceMcCloud- I’ll give you that these questions will be answered in future issues, but I guess, for me, I don’t need more questions. I get the concept of the book. Now I would like Bendis to do something with it. The questions that I had relating to story points are minimal to the other problems that I had with the book. You mentioned on the forums that comics are all about fun, which I agree with, but I didn’t have fun reading this issue. It was just annoying.
Im with you Neb i feel that Bendis is just setting more and more up but not paying anything off. Surely by issue 3 something should have become clearer but thats just me.