Mighty Avengers 19: Starring Captain Marskrull and Marvel Boy? Nothing happened. Period. Good art from Khoi.
 
New Avengers 45: showed the Hood's crew dealing with the invasion and a possible Skrull in their midst. Showed that the Hood's hood comes from Dormammu.

The only book that went somewhere, again, was Initiative. Still a top notch book. Issue 18 shows more of the invasion as Ant-Man is a wimp who has hitched a ride with the invading forces and it shows the Kill Krew going on the offensive, using Devil-Slayer until he's all used up to jump from base to base, attacking city after city and killing the Skrulls. Cloud9 comes off as a major badass here with her sniping skills, and we learn that Thor Girl is the skrull. Yup.
 
Beyond that, there is a lot of tension between the groups as they don't know who is who. Only 3-D Man knows, and the fact that this book reveals the Skrull plan (each base and their jump-gate is attached to an EMP that will flip their world into the Negative Zone) is awesome. It's nice that this book gets the big reveal that was shown at the end of SI 7.
 
The artwork across the line on these three books was pretty stellar. Billy and Khoi do great work as usual, and Steve Kurth joins them this month with a very strong showing. His first page was a kind of huh moment, when you expect the exaggerated awesomeness of Caselli or the manga-influenced Uy and instead are treated to something more Guice/Epting influenced. It was an immediate jolt but it worked.
 
I don't want to discount Bendis' strong showing in the Avengers books. He is still peeling the layers of the onion to show how deep the invasion has gone. Which works to a degree. But I'm not certain it was necessary to ever include the Mighty Avengers in this event as their book has been event after event after event and there isn't even a team member shown in that issue. Or in New Avengers for that matter.
 
So Initiative wins the game again. One more month of this and then I have to decide what of these three gets dropped.