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Secret Invasion #6

By Hervé St-Louis
Nov 12, 2008 - 20:36
Now that the heroes are fully aware of the Skrulls’ presence on Earth and how to spot them even when they where their disguises, they go after the main gathering of Skrulls in New York City, lead by Queen Veranke. It’s a total slugfest that ends in a cliffhanger. Who will win this ultimate fight?

That the main point of the Secret Invasion is one big fight in one city, while the rest of the world is being invaded is not a solid plot point. Are the heroes going to repeat the same fight in all the places where there are Skrulls. If they do, Bendis will continue to reap ridicule over his writing skill and his handling of this series. What will one fight change, when it seems that there are plenty of Skrulls to go around, although they are decimated at every turn? Moreover, how can the heroes continue to win every fight without sustaining any losses? This stretches the suspension of disbelief that he has worked hard to establish in this series and various other comic books.

This issue, Yu uses wide frames to tell the story visually. It’s always a good crutch for artists that are not expert storytellers. It’s hard to do wrong with the cinemascope frame. And that’s his saving grace, because I continue to believe that he’s not an expert storyteller and that all his characters have the same face and expressions.

Rating: 5/10
Last Updated: Jan 7, 2012 - 7:41
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Shocking!

I'm actually quite surprised you were willing to review this after your review for #5.

#1 - Eli Green - 11/12/2008 - 22:21

The build up and flashbacks to this whole thing were for the most part really well done, even if they have seemed to go on forever, but the rest of this run hasn't been that well thought out it seems. At every turn it seems that the skrulls are being butchered wholesale were ever they go. The black panther killed all that came to his country, so too all skrulls that invaded my sacred isle of britain, Thor also killed them all and so to did the inhumans and the avengers in the savage land and brand and war machine up in space. The x-men are still at it but i doubt they are going to get into any trouble. With the exception of the sentry, stark and his little Initiative the skrulls have just been butchered time after time. They started so well, with surprise, a weakened and scattered enemy and an army of super skrulls and the only reason they have managed to conquer anything it seems is that its just taking some time for someone to get round to killing them all yet.

Back story: pretty good.
Main story: pretty bad.

#2 - Chris - 11/13/2008 - 07:38