| Secret Invasion | 
 enlarge | Author: Brian Michael Bendis
Creator: Leinil Francis Yu
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 16149
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
ISBN: 078513297X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780785132974
ASIN: 078513297X
Publication Date: February 4, 2009 (In 27 Days)
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Product Description
SECRET INVASION IS HERE! The shape-shifting alien race known as the Skrulls has secretly infiltrated every super-powered organization on Earth with one goal - full-scale invasion! In this collected edition, page-after-page unveils reveal-after-reveal and shocking moment-after-shocking-moment! Brian Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu leap off the pages of mega-hit New Avengers and deliver a story that will change the Marvel Universe forever! Collects Secret Invasion #1-8.
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Great payoff, if you've read the build-up December 31, 2008
Ever since Brian Michael Bendis first took the reigns on the Avengers franchise, he's been building to this story. The Skrulls, a race of shape-shifting aliens, have among them a religious sect that believes the Earth was created for them by their god. They have slowly infiltrated Earth, replacing a relatively small number of key individuals using new technology and techniques that render them undetectable to humans. The infiltration was revealed to the heroes before this series started, and they didn't take the news well. As of the first page of this collected edition, the two Avengers teams have very little trust for their teammates, and even less for the other teams. Spider-Woman is the only Avenger who trusts people on both teams, and even that trust is limited. (This could be due, in some degree, to the fact that it's usually Reed Richards and the rest of the Fantastic Four that have deterred Skrull operations in the past.)
This collection is almost devoid of the set-up. Rather, the eight issue "Secret Invasion" miniseries it collects serves as the culmination of five years of planning and plotting. If you want answers to the whys and hows of the invasion, you'll need to pick up the tie-ins collected in New Avengers, Vol. 8: Secret Invasion, Book 1 (v. 8, Bk. 1), Secret Invasion, Book 2 (New Avengers, Vol. 9) (v. 9, Bk. 2), Mighty Avengers, Vol. 3: Secret Invasion, Book 1 (v. 3) and Mighty Avengers Vol. 4: Secret Invasion, Book 2 (v. 4, Bk. 2). What you'll find here is the fight that settles the matter with as much finality as battles can settle anything.
Your opinion of this volume will likely depend on your familiarity with recent Avengers history and what you're looking for. If you want to see the developments that led to the invasion, you'll need to pick up all volumes of New Avengers and Mighty Avengers, as well as the Avengers Disassembled, House of M (Marvel Comics), Secret War (New Avengers) (singular, not plural) and Civil War volumes. If you want to know how the invasion and infiltration was accomplished, you'll need the New and Mighty Avengers volumes I have already linked to. If you're looking for a great big fight, including a huge number of Marvel heroes and villains, then you're in the right place. Bendis' scripts are adeptly illustrated by Leinil Yu (pencils), Mark Morales (inks) and Laura Martin (colours), but that's as far as this goes. The fight is very well done, and there are a few surprises and thoroughly enjoyable moments scattered within, but without the buildup, it's a whole lot of meaningless combat. It never promised to be more, which is good, because that's not what it delivers.
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