15 Fun "Secret Invasion" Facts with Brian Bendis

[mattbib]

Fun little article over on Newsarama. No real immediate spoilers if you're current on titles...okay to read this before reading SI#1.

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=152226

[StoneGold]

What the hell? So now he's saying he can't reveal if Tony's a Skrull or not, after months of saying he isn't?


Really, that's not saying anything. It's just saying he can't say. Which if you hadn't read anything before, might make the series more intriguing. But for me, it's a pain in the ass.

[Don Quixote]

What the hell? So now he's saying he can't reveal if Tony's a Skrull or not, after months of saying he isn't?


Really, that's not saying anything. It's just saying he can't say. Which if you hadn't read anything before, might make the series more intriguing. But for me, it's a pain in the ass.

Well, I would assume that much of the suspicion still rests on Tony, given his role in Civil War. Doesn't do much for the suspense and tension if Bendis comes out and says Stark isn't a Skrull.

I'm very sure he's not, or at least if there is a Stark Skrull, it's operating at the same time as the real Stark, like the Ms Marvel one has been.

[TotalWorldDomination]

What the hell? So now he's saying he can't reveal if Tony's a Skrull or not, after months of saying he isn't?


Really, that's not saying anything. It's just saying he can't say. Which if you hadn't read anything before, might make the series more intriguing. But for me, it's a pain in the ass.

No it means "We had to say tony wasn't a skrull to stop the bloodbath out there from people who would slaughter us preemptively for making stark a skrull and not read secret invasion as a result, but I wrote it to cast doubt on his nature, so now I have to backtrack, even though I'm totally full of you-know-what."

It's severly annoying that they're trying to do that after they've already confirmed he's not a skrull. unless he's being cute and saying "Well, OUR tony isn't a skrull. but the tony from the crashed ship is. And that would ALSO be annoying.

[Netley]

Fun little article over on Newsarama. No real immediate spoilers if you're current on titles...okay to read this before reading SI#1.

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=152226

Thanks! That was good.

What the hell? So now he's saying he can't reveal if Tony's a Skrull or not, after months of saying he isn't?


Really, that's not saying anything. It's just saying he can't say. Which if you hadn't read anything before, might make the series more intriguing. But for me, it's a pain in the ass.

I know what you mean. They've pretty much established through both comics precedent and various interviews that Tony can't be a Skrull (and Cap neither, imo), so I don't know why Bendis would say it like that (maybe trying to appeal more to people who haven't been following NA/MA?). But it is annoyingly contradictory.

I still think there is absolutely no way Stark is a Skrull. At most there could be one who impersonated him for a moment or two (which I'm not a real big fan of, plot-device-wise). But I'm saying there's no way the Tony we've been reading since Extremis/NA has been replaced by a Skrull!

[verybored3]

how do we know extremis is not skrull in nature

[TheAmazingSpidey]

Thanks for the link! :)

By the way...these new smilies are kind of creepy. I feel dirty just using one. :confused:


Er...two. :eek:


OH GOD!

[Monty_Cristo]

Fact # 16: Bendis likes characters to repeat themselves. he, likely, believes that this makes his characters sound more "natural."

[Bryson the Red]

Fact # 16: Bendis likes characters to repeat themselves. he, likely, believes that this makes his characters sound more "natural."

... and I believe it.
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[Monty_Cristo]

... and I believe it.
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do you believe it?


really?


believe it?

oy.

[TheAmazingSpidey]

"Do you believe it?"
"Do I believe it?"
"Yes."
"Yes."
"Yes?"
"Yes!"
"So you really believe it?"
"Yes."
"Yes?"
"Yes. I really believe it. Yes, yeah."
"I--I need you to believe this."
"I believe it."
"You believe it?"
"I believe it."
*Random Jewish phrase goes here*




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[Monty_Cristo]

"Do you believe it?"
"Do I believe it?"
"Yes."
"Yes."
"Yes?"
"Yes!"
"So you really believe it?"
"Yes."
"Yes?"
"Yes. I really believe it. Yes, yeah."
"I--I need you to believe this."
"I believe it."
"You believe it?"
"I believe it."
*Random Jewish phrase goes here*




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i wonder what they'd sound like if they were speaking telepathically. it'd probably be even more garbled but with random longings for donuts or sex spliced in.

[mobb]

"All of the elements are important, including a conversation Maria Hill had with the President of the United States"

I think bush is a skrull.

[Tetsuo_man]

"But they said tony's not a skrull!"

true but they also said they had years of stories of an unmasked spiderman and lied about it not to ruin the ending of one more day. anyone else think they lied about tony so not to "ruin" secret invasion?

[gunnerfan69]

"All of the elements are important, including a conversation Maria Hill had with the President of the United States"

I think bush is a skrull.

He would be the obvious one which means it is really Obama -- Hilary and Bill=Skrulls as well. Actually Obama might be Kree ;)

[Omega Alpha]

What the hell? So now he's saying he can't reveal if Tony's a Skrull or not, after months of saying he isn't?


Really, that's not saying anything. It's just saying he can't say. Which if you hadn't read anything before, might make the series more intriguing. But for me, it's a pain in the ass.

It's like what happened in Messiah Complex: they spent months saying the baby was an entirely new character, but you still had lots of people stupid enough to say "the baby is Jean Grey" or even "the baby is Rachel Summers/Grey" and, believe me, "the baby is Layla Miller". So, then they begun to do the same thing Bendis is doing now, throw some suspicion because they knew it would make people discuss the story more.

[StoneGold]

It's like what happened in Messiah Complex: they spent months saying the baby was an entirely new character, but you still had lots of people stupid enough to say "the baby is Jean Grey" or even "the baby is Rachel Summers/Grey" and, believe me, "the baby is Layla Miller". So, then they begun to do the same thing Bendis is doing now, throw some suspicion because they knew it would make people discuss the story more.

I think that's the opposite of Messiah Complex, actually. Or partially the opposite.


Anyway, the Jean people weren't so stupid after all. But I doubt Tony is a Skrull. He's so much more interesting being so ridiculously human.

[maraxus60]

I just re-read the Avengers Dissassembled trade and looking for the skrull specifically. when I was looking at the costume he was wearing it was the same outift that Triathalon was wearing in the big splash page of Avengers. thought that was kinda interesting.

[Netley]

I just re-read the Avengers Dissassembled trade and looking for the skrull specifically. when I was looking at the costume he was wearing it was the same outift that Triathalon was wearing in the big splash page of Avengers. thought that was kinda interesting.

Tony was wearing Tiathalon's outfit during a part of Disassembled?

[maraxus60]

No the skrull was wearing Triathalon's outfit.

[mikekerr3]

"All of the elements are important, including a conversation Maria Hill had with the President of the United States"

I think bush is a skrull.

Do they have retarded skrulls? the version in the MU seems to be

[Netley]

No the skrull was wearing Triathalon's outfit.

Oh, thanks. Well I read in an interview with either Bendis or Slott that said Triathalon might become the "new 3-D Man" or something (I've never read a story with 3-D Man in it, but I think he's a Skrull hunter).

[moonknight11]

Do they have retarded skrulls? the version in the MU seems to be


He's a retard in our Universe too. :biggrin:

[Slaymaster]

If someone asked me,"Is Tony Stark a skrull?", then naturally I'd say,"No!"

...of course he isn't, he's a human. (get it? pretty easy to 'word' around that question. wow, what a bad pun, I even amaze myself sometimes.:redface: )

Is the current Tony Stark/Iron Man a skrull? I doubt it. I thought so possibly during Civil War, but since then it doesn't look like it.

One of my theories came to pass though... second-in-commands (i.e. XO's [Executive Officers, usually one rank below the CDR/Commander]) have to really watch their @$$*$. Dum Dum Dugan was one of those I figured would be a skrull, and he blew up the space station. Look at it this way... why go after the top spot and risk blowing your cover because everyone is watching you, when you can take over for the #2 guy and have less people watching you while retaining access to nearly everything the #1 guy has?

Bush isn't a skrull... Cheney is.

We all wish it was Bush, but even a skrull would do a better job of CiC, even if only on accident.:rolleyes:

I should've seen Daredevil as a skrull... with 3 running around during CW, it was rather obvious. (Best place to hide something... in plain sight.:mad: )

I still think Wasp is a skrull.

Mighty Avengers #12 has a page with pictures circled in red and blue... one of the blue circles is Daredevil, along with Spider-Man and Namor. DD was a skrull, I'm thinking Nick thinks Spidey, Namor, Stature and LockJaw are skrulls also. Of course this means that red is Nick's take that Wolverine, Doc Strange, Hulkling and Sentry aren't skrulls. (Could be wrong, but we'll see.)

Slaymaster

(^--not a skrull.)