Secret Invasion #4

Well here we are 4 issues into yet another MEGA-CROSSOVER (tm). Yawn! Doesn't anyone remember the '90's? I mean really? Or have all the old farts moved on, and now a new generation is being taken for a ride. I sincerely hope so, and we all are not this fucking stupid.

So like I was saying, 4 issues in, the "story" has not advanced since issue #1. AT ALL. Avengers still in the Savage land fighting each other, Skrulls running amuck in New York, and was it just me or were big reveals promised a bunch of shit? So there were like, what, 6 "big" skrull reveals? Whoopty-fucking doo. And if you're not reading New and Mighty Avengers give it up. You are not going to know anything about who's who. And don't get me started on Marvel and Bendis' charity broject aka Brian Reed. He can't even be bothered to line up his crap with this shit. And hell, even Bendis can't line his crap up IN THE BOOKS HE HIMSELF writes.

If I had paid to read this I would kill myself, but standing and checking it out in my LCS was bad enough. That's 3 minutes I'll never get back. Yes, 3 minutes, there were FAR too many 2-page spreads. A quick read thankfuly.

Was there anything good about this shit? Well yeah two things; 1) It ended, and 2) Yu's art was actually pretty good, give this fool an inker ALL the time.

Final rating: The biggest WTF? I can issue. Maybe WTFF? I gotta stop before my head hurts.

WTF? For reals?

Yeah I pulled a vanishing act again, but here I am. Did you miss me? Been reading a lot of Classic material via Marvel Essentials and DC Showcase books. Look for a review of Essential Spider-Man vol. 2 and Showcase presents Shazam! vol. 1 in the next few days.

To clear out old business, Allen obviously declined to comment on the Gurumonkeys post. Why? Well I assume it's because it was all true and he couldn't argue with it. All I got was an angry e-mail thanking me for airing "dirty laundry". Oh well, even tho he's a flake, he's a talented flake. Check out his stuff here.

I also recently sat down and read all the Spider-Man: Brand New Day stuff, and although it's pretty good (Title averages a Huh? over all), I can't get past the tinkering that got us here. One More Day, will hang like a dark cloud over the Spider-Man mythos for quite some time. And I'm not the only one I guess, as sales have dropped to lower than pre-OMD sales levels. Oh well.

And is it just me or do the BND writers seem like they are drugged or being held hostage in interviews? They are all very defensive about OMD, and will talk in crazy circles to avoid it. "Never mind OMD, look we're writing Spider-Man!. Do not look at the captor, uh I mean man behind the curtain." I feel sorry for those boys as some of them are quite talented.

And as for Final Crisis and Secret Invasion? What do I think of them? Well, lets just say there's a reason I've been reading more classic stuff...