SECRET INVASION #2Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Art by Leinil Francis Yu
Again, we get a whole bunch of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The big standoff from last issue with our heroes vs. the 70's Skrull versions? Uh, it happens, sort of. Add some random "who's a Skrull?" innuendo and that's all folks.
Let's start with the big brawl we were promised. Our Luke Cage gets skittish and throws the first punch for no real reason other than to start a super-hero fight, but that's fine, everyone loves those, right? Well, not so fast. This fight consists of a splash page and then a focus on the freaking Vision Skrull telling Sentry he's the Void and he caused all this, making Bob run off like a crying little girl, just like every other goddamn Sentry appearance ever.
After this, we get some random pages showing one or two punches, Ms. Marvel flying Tony off to that delapatated building they were once held captive in, where he builds stuff from scrap, and then a dinosaur breaks up the party, ending the so-called "fight".
Thankfully, the T-rex squashed Spider-Man and Hawkeye, revealing both to be Skrulls, but Mockingbird sticks around to cry over it and insists she's the real deal. Ronin, who's Hawkeye, in case you've been living under a rock, asks her about October 12th and she's shocked he knows about it until he reveals who he is. She tells him it's the expected birthdate of a baby they both would have had if it hadn't been miscarried.
Okay, this automatically proves, without a shadow of a doubt, she's the real deal, as neither one has told anyone about this before. Ever. Seeing as there are no telepaths in the Marvel Universe, I could see how this would be impossible information for the Skrulls to gather. Oh wait, there's telepaths EVERYWHERE and the Skrulls even have their own. My guess? Both are Skrulls and it's a cover story to try and prove they both aren't and cause more confusion.
Anyways, Mockingbird tells them all Cap is the real deal, too, because he's the one that got them all back home. Righttttt. Cap got them all back home and the Skrull invasion just happened to start as soon as they landed. No way he's a Skrull.
Finally, we see why the heroes were lured to the Savage Land as the Skrull armada arrives in New York and goes all Independance Day on a bunch of buildings as everyone watches the Baxter Building blowing up for the 20th time. This is followed up by an army of Super Skrulls version 2.0 being teleported down to start, I don't know, killing people or something. They look pretty badass though and are nothing like the Skrullektra or Blackbolt versions or even the recent one that tried to replace Echo. I loved Mr Fantastic Strangebolt, as I call that amalgamated Skrull. The One-Eyed Wolverlossus (that would be a great porn name) was neat as well. Cudos to Yu for the great designs all around on these guys.
Verdict - Check It. I was a little disappointed at the cop out T-rex fight stopper in the Savage Land and not much else happened, but I'm actually a bit excited by the final splash page with the Skrulls.
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