Secret Invasion

I just got done reading #1 this morning. I rather enjoyed it, but I do have some complaints.

The writing at times seemed to be a mixture of "Im going to give you a piece of the plot" filled with a lot of testosterone driven useless small-talk that at times made me wonder what is going on.

Yu's art is okay to look at, but the more I seen of it, the more I loathed it. Its passable and its not bad, but its stylistic in a sloppy kind of bad way. It seems the inking and coloring tightened it up and kept it somewhat clean, but its easy to see that this artist is more sloppy than tight. But, it did tell the story and passed. I just would have preferred a tighter artist.

The few plot twists that were exposed was interesting. The "He Loves You" quote which ran rampant anytime something bad happens speaks of a higher power brainwashing. And, I want to see what happens next.

If the book had less clutter and fill ins, Id love it more. As it is, Id give it like a 3.5 out of 5. Im willing to give it some more time.

I just got done reading #2 and I have to say it blew chunks.

I thought Bendis was supposed to be this awesome writer??? He writes in this like he is appealing to little 12 year olds. Lame jokes and too much lame testosterone with an incredibly cluttered story. My mind kept wondering what the plot was? Kept wondering who was who? Why???

Well, try the fact that they had 2 sets of like heroes running around one set obviously a skrull and the other set real. Trouble is, there was no way to tell who was who throughout. There was no attempt to make you realize one set verses the other. The story telling was horrible.

And, for such a huge epic as this is supposed to be, I find Yu's art irritating. He reminds me of Dennis Cowan from the old Deathlok series. Except hes a bit better than that. But not much. His style is junky. He's a junky pose hound. Hows this for overkill....3...yes 3!!! 2 page layouts and all 3 sucked!!! 2 page layouts if you have any (I would suggest 1) are supposed to be dramatic. These were lame pose shots in the X-Men 100 cover tradition where one side looks at the other side in a grimacing way. Well, X-Men #100 was a cool cover. This is 2 sides looking pathetically unbelievable. One double spread has a dinosaur coming in and everybody poses in front of it. The thing is, I dont remember anything about the dinosaur after the 2 page spread.

#1 issue showed a bit of promise, but they fell off the wagon placing 2 sets of characters against each other for some fight that had no real reason to happen.

They have jumped the shark. In 2 issues I have lost any faith that this is a worthwhile comic.

I can write better than this. If Bendis is awesome, he must have been on drugs when he wrote this. This is bad enough to make me want to avoid anything with his name on it.

He should go talk to Brubaker about how to tell a damn good story.

Final tally? Pathetic

1/2 star out of 5.