CBR: SPOILERS OF WAR: Secret Invasion #6

[CBR News]

The stage is set for one of the biggest clashes the Marvel Universe has ever seen
in "Secret Invasion" #6, on sale now. Brian Michael Bendis walks us through the
issue page-by-page and hints what's to come next.


Full article here.

[Xero]

I don't know about Portland, but I do know New York. And New Yorkers, even New Yorkers from Greenwich Village would have told the Skrulls to "Go **** themselves".

[jsf]

Given what he says at the end, I've the feeling the Skrulls will either win this, or that there'll be some sort of stalemate ... either of which would be an interesting outcome.

Only hero I wish were present who's not, is the Hulk. The REAL Hulk, not that red imposter.

[The Valeyard]

FINALLY something happens in this book!!

[EarthX]

"This is what the whole series has been about. This double-page spread. This is the reunited Marvel Universe for the first time in maybe ten years. Even before I was on Avengers, they weren't this group."

I take it Bendis has never read anything from Busiek's run, since the classic Avengers were there almost every step of the way.

More and more, I wonder if Bendis really ever read super-hero comics very much before his Marvel work.

First, he actually thought bringing back Gwen Stacy and then-dead Hawkeye in an alternate reality story was completely fresh and mind-blowing.

Now, this. He really seems to think every (very old) idea he recycles is something he came up with for the very first time.

I also can't figure out how he can claim Bucky is the more interesting Cap from only a handful of issues. There's plenty of intrigue in the title but his character development is still very small. And since his history is really a poor man's Wolverine, I'm not sure how he can ever be seen as unique.

[ILLUS]

An enemy that first looks human and then invades in the name of god and saving humanity first by destroying it. Sounds like Battlestar Galactica a bit.

[Comicguy1981]

My biggest problem with this book has been that all the important reveals seem to happen in other books. Bendis revealed how the war actually started in an issue of New Avengers. He revealed that Spider-Woman was a skrull in one of the two Avengers books. Fury's bulletin-board with all the pictures happened in one of the two Avengers books. I thought in the beginning that more of the story would happen in this book, so I kept buying. Now that I'm through 6 issues of it, I realize it's all just fight scenes, which is a shame since it had a fairly solid start. I'll continue now to finish the rest of the book, but it is really disappointing.

[cookie_boy2000]

Skrull invasion?
meh.

The Kree - Skrull war happened in one title, is over 20 years old and still manages to blow this "event" away.

[B. Kuwanger]

I'll join Bendis in praising Yu. Regardless of how I feel about the plot and script so far, the art has been kicking some real ass.

[XPac]

"This is what the whole series has been about. This double-page spread. This is the reunited Marvel Universe for the first time in maybe ten years. Even before I was on Avengers, they weren't this group."

I take it Bendis has never read anything from Busiek's run, since the classic Avengers were there almost every step of the way.

More and more, I wonder if Bendis really ever read super-hero comics very much before his Marvel work.

First, he actually thought bringing back Gwen Stacy and then-dead Hawkeye in an alternate reality story was completely fresh and mind-blowing.

Now, this. He really seems to think every (very old) idea he recycles is something he came up with for the very first time.

I also can't figure out how he can claim Bucky is the more interesting Cap from only a handful of issues. There's plenty of intrigue in the title but his character development is still very small. And since his history is really a poor man's Wolverine, I'm not sure how he can ever be seen as unique.

Bendis didn't say united Avengers... he said united marvel universe. This isn't just the Avengers... it's even a large portion of the villain community fighting side by side with the heroes against a common threat.

So I think this is pretty unique. We have kind of seen in in other instances... in the TBolt corner during CW if anyone was actually paying attention. But I do think it's fair to argue that it's a pretty big and unique moment.

Howard the freaking Duck answered Thor's call to arms... that's a united MU if ever I saw one.

[Nyssane]

Bendis didn't say united Avengers... he said united marvel universe. This isn't just the Avengers... it's even a large portion of the villain community fighting side by side with the heroes against a common threat.

Too bad it's those villains who will probably consist of 90% of the body count of this storyline.

[RazorBats79]

I'll join Bendis in praising Yu. Regardless of how I feel about the plot and script so far, the art has been kicking some real ass.

Amen brother! I'll just echo what you said. The book stands alone with the great artwork it has! I cant even remember the last time so many heroes/villains were drawn in such numbers and so damn well!
Now forgive me, but whats with Captain America's new suit?

[XPac]

Too bad it's those villains who will probably consist of 90% of the body count of this storyline.

Yeah... that's unfortunately true. I do suspect we'll get some major loss on the hero side (I'm leaning towards Wasp at the moment) as far as selling the real drama, but as far as a body count does the Z listers on Hoods crew are probably the ones wearing the red shirts.

Though several of them are probably back from the dead without explanation anyways, so it's not too bad.

[Cthulhudrew]

I'll join Bendis in praising Yu. Regardless of how I feel about the plot and script so far, the art has been kicking some real ass.

I'm completely in disagreement with you. That double page spread demonstrates everything I can't stand about Yu's art. The faces look the same, too many people crammed together so tightly you have to really squint to distinguish them from one another, and- worst of all- most of the characters consist only of torsos (some of them- like Ares- badly proportioned), and completely fall apart once you move below the waist. He doesn't bother to try and continue the figures once another figure crosses their view (even when you would otherwise be able to see portions of their anatomy between gaps, say in a person's arm or legs). Heck, the Black Widow's right leg completely fades away into mist for some inexplicable reason.

[Monty_Cristo]

Bendis didn't say united Avengers... he said united marvel universe. This isn't just the Avengers... it's even a large portion of the villain community fighting side by side with the heroes against a common threat.

*cough* Onslaught! *cough*