AVENGERS BOOKS
Momar Van Der Camp

 

 

Published by Marvel Comics
Written by Brian Michael Bendis, Dan Slott, and Christos Gage
Art by Billy Tan, Khoi Pham, and Stefano Caselli

Skrullmageddon's on the half-shell. This past week saw the release of 3 more Avengers books, New, Mighty, and Initiative. And they all deal with the Skrullpocalypse.

Commentary:
Taken as a whole, these books always taste better. They add a big swatch to the Skrulltastic Voyage and allow the reader to gain something new about what is going on behind the scenes of the Skrullvasion.
 

Mighty deals with more of the Skrullowjackets. This time, he's in a diner in the middle of upstate Oregon enjoying his favorite Earth-bound dish, and just about to reveal the Skrullmageddon to the head diner cook, when Dum Dum Skrullgan invades his time there and they have a conversation.

New shows how the Skrulls got inside the heroes heads. They created a massive elaborate plot that had the heroes talking to clones of the others and being forced to reveal their secrets around each other, only this didn't work as the heroes always saw through it. It also shows how the Skrulls learned how to properly hide themselves.

Initiative has 3-D Man and the Skrull Kill Krew gathering up new team members while visiting the other teams. It also shows a couple of Skrull-reveals as well.

In the entirety of these issues, we learn that the Skrulls have had to duplicate numerous Pyms as they almost always attempt to feel heroic and change the outcome of the oncoming battle, we learn that it's Reed Richards fault that the Skrulls can hide in plain sight, and Skrullowjacket gives the Initiative base its new plans and its new method of existence as the Skrull homebase while Ant-Man watches, War Machine gets a top secret mission and has to go AWOL, and the Skrull Kill Krew kill Sharon Skrulltura the female She-Thing and another Skrull impersonator.

You see, New and Mighty are still good books. There isn't much to say about them. They are filling in the cracks and giving us hints and bits and pieces related to the ongoing invasion and peeling back the layers.

But the true gem of the bunch is Initiative. The little book that keeps on ticking. Yes we learn how the Skrulls do what they do and why in the other books, but Initiative is constantly moving forward. Initiative sees 3-D Man crash landing in the desert and immediately being found by the She-Skring and the Kill Krew finding him and laying waste to her. That leads the 3-D Man to join up with the Skrull-phuckers and take them to the only other people he knows who ever fought Skrulls, the original 3-D Man and the Man trapped in the glasses. This leads them to go hunting for Skrulls through the team and also to reveal that the reason they can see who are Skrulls is because they eat them. Yum.

Now, this leads the team to Komodo's team the Desert Stars and whooping ass on another Skrull who nearly takes out that whole team. Of course, they didn't plan on 3-D Man being a hardass and shooting right through Komodo to take down the Super-Skrull, which he does.

Badass.

Seriously. Initiative constantly takes the book in new ways and new things are always being thrown against the wall. We see a new evil plan for Camp Hammond and the inhabitants could be screwed, especially since it looks like Ant-Man might be their only hope. Crusader will never turn back as Nick Fury and his Howling Caterpillars come to NYC to kick ass and take Skrull names and Nick mentions that Captain America mentioned what a true warrior Crusader is.

So the issue takes place and the new Skrull Kill Krew are on their way to liberate Hardball's team and kick more Skrull ass.

Caselli owns on art. Pure and simple. From this month's Avengers books, this one takes the cake of the best of the bunch. I will continue this method of reviewing until the Invasion has ended, mainly because there isn't much story here to begin with, and buying all three issues and writing reviews on each can be a little tiring. So go team Avengers. Keep on kicking ass.
 

 

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