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 [...]

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 [...]

We pick up immediately where last issue ended - the Savage Land. A bunch of 70s-lookin’ heroes have piled out of a crashed Skrull ship and confronted the modern heroes. A fight ensures.
After the killer setup of last issue, this one actually becomes something of a disappointment - it’s mainly composed of people pounding on each [...]

Ummm… wow. Bendis has really polished up his “event” writing since House of M, taking more than a leaf out of Mark “Civil War” Millar’s book - instead of an issue of slow building setup, we’re instantly thrown into the action. Skrulls all over the place. The sense of shit hitting the fan is almost [...]