Comments on: Secret Invasion #2 (of 8) – Review http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/2008/05/07/secret-invasion-2-of-8-review/ Weekly Comic Book Review is an online magazine dedicated to providing readers comic book and graphic novel reviews, and commentary on the comic book culture. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:42:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Deamentia http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/2008/05/07/secret-invasion-2-of-8-review/#comment-574 Fri, 09 May 2008 06:22:13 +0000 http://wcbr.wordpress.com/?p=491#comment-574 Stranger things have happened in the Marvel Universe. Sounds like you hated it.

]]> By: Steven R. Stahl http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/2008/05/07/secret-invasion-2-of-8-review/#comment-565 Thu, 08 May 2008 13:53:49 +0000 http://wcbr.wordpress.com/?p=491#comment-565 Plenty of fighting? Have you ever seen Marvel comics from the ‘70s and ‘80s, when some fans and critics complained about issue-length fights? SI #2 is typical for Bendis, in that there are splash pages setting up a fight, but little-to-no actual conflict, and tactics are nonexistent. The fake Hawkeye and fake Spider-Man are both killed off-panel. Characters trade quips and talk.

The two biggest problems with the content are the treatments of Mockingbird and Stark’s lament that his technology has been ruined.

Mockingbird indisputably and irrefutably died in AVENGERS WEST COAST #100, so the Mockingbird in SI #2 can’t be real. The miscarriage that Bendis had Hawkeye use as a memory test was fabricated, but the use of it is problematic, whether Mockingbird is “real” or an impersonator. How would a Skrull have had access to the dead Mockingbird’s memories? Mockingbird was anything but maternal. The use of the miscarriage is an indication that Bendis doesn’t understand the character.

By having Stark say that his “tech is damaged” and he’ll have to rebuild from “scratch,” Bendis shows that he doesn’t know how viruses work. A virus is software and can corrupt files, cause files to be erased, etc., but wouldn’t damage hardware–and is one to think that Stark, off all people, didn’t have files backed up off-site for any of his installations? Bendis appears to be practically computer-illiterate.

SRS

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