New Avengers, as a series, has become both incredibly rewarding and rather frustrating of late. During the whole Secret Invasion crossover, it’s been the main place to find answers to the myriad questions of how the Skrull invasion was achieved. As a result, we have issues like this - a brilliant issue of Fantastic Four, [...]

For those of you who, like me, have been getting slightly upset that Secret Invasion has been stretching out mere moments into entire issues, well, good news - stuff actually happens in this one. Important stuff. Look away if you don’t like spoilers, because I AM going to discuss what happens, as well as what doesn’t [...]

It’s becoming a cliche to complain about event pacing, but seriously, this is getting a bit trying even for a practical Marvel Zombie like me. While almost every page of this series looks positively frenetic, there appears to be almost nothing going on in terms of actually moving the plot along. Instead, we spend every issue [...]

A blockbuster epic approached as a short story collection might sound a contradiction in terms, but is a concept very suited to Brian Bendis’s slow-burn writing style. With the casts of both Avengers titles still tied up in the Savage Land, the Secret Invasion’s mastermind continues his trip through the Marvel Universe’s recent past, showing [...]

We’ve said it before on this site a few times, but it does bear repeating that the Ultimate universe is in an awfully strange place at the moment. The catastrophe of the supposed flagship title, Ultimates, has of course had its bones picked over ad nauseam in the now-months-long wait between the third and fourth [...]

After a slow second issue, Secret Invasion does speed up a little, though it still feels like it could be doing a lot more. As a writer, Bendis is more reliant on slow-build atmospherics leaving Secret Invasion feeling far, far less dense when compared to the short, punchy scenes that typified Millar’s Civil War series, and [...]