KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE AND YOUR SKRULLS CLOSER!
A familiar face from Maria's past is behind the Skrull incursion in New York-but are they acting alone? Who else is supporting them? And what is their endgame? Maria is about to find out... But as she learns that not everything-or everyone-are who they seem, Maria finds herself facing both betrayal...and a choice... And what she chooses will decide the fate of not just Earth, but of the entire Skrull race!
Rated T+
Secret Invasion #3 takes a hard left turn into the land of “No Common Sense” when it's revealed Tony Stark has a secret connection to the Skrulls that strains credibility on every level. If North is trying to construct a clever allegory about the value of immigrants, he missed the mark by a mile. Read Full Review
Even though it shares the same name, this new version of Secret Invasion isn't living up to its predecessor whatsoever so far. Read Full Review
I *loved* Ryan North's Squirrel Girl. To an unreasonable degree. But even I can see that this issue leans *way too hard* on USG's "fugitive Skrull" arc (#37-40).
Tony (and the author) also spend too much time justifying their scheme and not enough time justifying hiding it from Maria -- or explaining why Tony reveals the scheme in the worst possible way at the worst possible time.
As a result, the pace is off, the 2nd act loses a lot of tension and momentum, and (in contrast to #2, where I said everybody was smart) Tony looks pretty dang stupid.
The art is nice and the dialogue is solid, so I'm rating this at the upper edge of "average". It almost gets a green dot…but not quite.
Boy, did this go downhill fast. I hate when writers take an entire issue to write a single scene. What was so important about this scene that it couldn't be told in 3 pages? Then North does a two-page splash with Maria Hill jumping out of a plane. Right there I knew there wasn't enough story because he had to fill 2-pages with nothing. Her jumping out of the plane was not even important or cool enough to warrant it. He steals a Batman line word for word for one of Stark's balloons. It's so drawn out for no reason. All the information could have been told in 3 pages. What a let down.
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