VERY FINE/NEAR MINT Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Penciled by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Cover by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO
Variant cover by STEVE MCNIVEN
SECRET INVASION IS HERE!! Years in the making, months in the teasing...and it all STARTS HERE!!
The shape-shifting alien race known as the Skrulls has secretly infiltrated every super-powered organization on Earth with one goal...full-scale invasion! In this DOUBLE-SIZED first issue, page after page unveils reveal after reveal and shocking moment after shocking moment! Brian Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu leap off the pages of mega-hit New Avengers and deliver a story that will change the Marvel Universe forever.
THE MARVEL UNIVERSE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!
REVIEW by Brian Fisher
It's here! And to be honest I'm a little torn over this issue. This may be the single most important issue of any Marvel comic in years (if we're to believe that this was planned and plotted since before Avengers: Disassembled). But the first half of the issue is annoying "Bendis-babble," with not much action and some rediculous story contrivances to create "drama." The second half, however is one payoff after another after another. Many characters, most of whom you'd never think could be Skrulls, are revealed as such (and, sure they appear at first to be odd choices, but once they're revealed it actually makes a lot of sense). Many a catastrophy follows and you find yourself actually asking yourself how the hell the heroes are going to get out of this mess. Despite a slow start to the issue, there actually is payoff, which is odd for a first issue nowadays.
