Jun 6, 2008
“…are there certain people the Skrulls want to f**k with…”
I thought that the latest issue of Secret Invasion#3 was decent and better follow-up after the lackluster SI #2 but still did not feel as popcorn over the top as issue #1. CBR has spoilers of SI #3 with Brian Bendis here:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16695
**SPOILER ALERT: Yeah there are some previews that may spoiler yer SI dinner if you check it out.
The biggest news from this CBR spoiler (bottom of the page) was that I may just flip through issue #4 in the store than picking it up as someone with a hammer shows up. Blah. I hope Marvel is bullshitting about the lack of Doc Strange in Secret Invasion but likely not. Lame.
http://www.fortheloveofcomics.com/2008/06/06/kneel-before-the-god-of-metal/
Maybe I’m alone in this but who else is not enjoying the fact that this major event is so incredibly Avengers specific? I can remember a time when the big events had representatives from all the various Marvel families. This one concentrates only on the Avengers to the point that it could have been written within the confines of the three Avengers books and not been a major event at all. The mutant-verse has become so segregated that it may as well be spun off into its own Ultimate style continuity/existence. But hey I might only be asking because I think the series needs more Cyclops… and Doc Strange. More Doc Strange absolutely.
Ehhh, I can see both sides on this one. Yes, it would be cool to see this span the entire universe and see the mutants ask themselves “Is Mystique really a Skrull?”, but having to pick up books that you normally have no interest in so that you can keep up with the story kinda sucks.
Both have downsides, really.
I fully see your point Bob, but I’m talking just about the Secret Invasion Book. One should be able to just pick that mini up and read it all the way through with all the major Marvel families involved without having to purchase a zillion ancillary titles. Case in point the 3 issue FF mini. Why the f*** is that story line not part of the main title? Why must I pick up the three other Avengers titles to read the whole of the story?
I suppose I remember Crises on Infinite Earths and the Infinity gauntlet minis too fondly. They were closed stories, huge colossal stories to be sure, but closed. You could purchase and read then without having to buy half a companies product lines. You got snap shot looks at most of the major characters and their world with out having to take out a bank loan to do it. Now though… Final Crisis is 6 (?) minis and climbing. Invasion is 5 books and growing.
I fully see the marketing benefit, us sheep, zombie, completion obsessives will buy the books, but will the new readers?
I doubt it.
Ok, now I see what you’re saying and yes, I agree.
It obviously CAN be done, since Annhilation and Annhilation: Conquest did a pretty good job of it.
You are so right about Annihilation. Those titles are an excellent example of where I was trying to go with my point. (And are they not just brilliant bits of writing?) Yes it can be argued that they’re a run of 4 books not just one as CoIE and IG were, or Secret Wars was, but you can get away with ignoring the other books and just reading the main title. That isn’t the case with SI and FC. I guess it was Civil War which brought this whole sad affair about. It acted more like a book ending title. You read an issue of CW and then read the other titles over the course of a month to see the rest of the picture. I hated it then and still find that I missed aspects of the over all story because of it.
Maybe this is just me ranting because I know that I’m not going to get the whole FC story line. Too many of the titles involved don’t appeal to me and those that do… so expensive. But this isn’t the place for a rant about value for my dollars.
Buy the Bob, How are you enjoying SI?
I’ll be buying all of the issues, but your point stands – the storylines going on in Mighty and New Avengers should really be in Secret Invasion. The only possible benefit to the consumer that I can see is not having to wait an entire month between updates to the story, but going twice or thrice-monthly is a better solution to that.
I’m… a bit ambivalent about Secret Invasion at this point. It’s by no means horrible, but it’s not really blowing me away, either.
I mentioned about the whole cross pollenization of the cross-overs a while ago. For Secret Invasion, you need to buy all this sub books plus the Avengers books. Lame. For Final Crisis – after taking some Key-23, you might get what WTF is going on and then you can read all the other books to figure it all out.
I agree and both of the big two have failed in their summer blockbuster events I think. Failed.
Also any note that like it seems that every week there is some bloody Avengers book coming out seems like?
I really wanted to like SI and FC but man does it seem disappointing.