Secret Invasion #1

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Comments

[beyondthefringe]

Oh please, like the Avengers don't have a way to tell if a Skrull has secretly replaced someone on the team, ever since the last Secret Invasion, where a Skrull replaced someone on almost every team, including Spider-Woman, Hank Pym, and Jarvis.

So who's it gonna be? Steve? Tony? Natasha? Carol? Maya? T'Challa?

I dunno, it would be kind of funny for it to be Maya. Just imagine Skrull imitating Phoenix. Or Skull empowered by Phoenix.

Loved the "1,2,4" joke as it's such a classic example of evoking paranoia in a pranked target.

[mazway_75]

See, you'd think they'd be ready for a Skrull, but then how many times have the X-Men fallen for Mystique posing as one of them for days on end?

[cainofdreaming]

How many times have they fallen for Mystique posing as Mystique and "This time I surely won't stab you in the back, face and your little pinky toes too"?

[goattoucher]

The best part about the X-Men always falling for Mystique is that you can't swing a dead cat on Krakoa without hitting an Omega-level telepath, but her vaguely defined "resistance (not immunity) to telepathy" protects her.

Superman can find someone in a city of millions by listening for their specific heartbeat until the story requires that he... not... do that. If comics made sense, nobody would ever fall for a Skrull ever again, and the Joker would never get out of jail.

But here we are: slaves to the storyline. Reed Richards is only useless until you realize that him actually changing the world with his delicious brains would... you know: change the world, and nobody really wants that.

[arilou_skiff]

Didn't the original Secret Invasion basically say there's a cosntant arms-race between skrull shapechanging/camouflage and various heroes coming up with ways of detecting them?

[dan_ingram]

Nope!

They were just really inspired because the Illuminati nearly spanked them once.

Then Reed disabling their super duper better than ever shapeshifting, because that's what Reed does.

Bendis never bothers with internal logic...

Though after fighting with the Kree for millions of years, you'd think that they had something like that...

[super_fly]

So do non-Avengers get their own unisex bathroom or what's the deal there

[phantomfo]

Non-Avengers can use the normal bathrooms. This is the only one with Vibranium toilets strong enough for a Hulk.

Or do you want to be the one to tell Bruce he has to hold it?

[super_fly]

I don't want to be the one to tell everyone else going in after that Bruce has just done a gamma strength number 2

[goattoucher]

Imagine the stream!

[shakalooloo]

Is Maria Hill really that stupid to think that a bunch of Skrulls all pretending to be Nick Fury at the same time aren't WANTING to be 'caught'?

[mazway_75]

...Is this a serious question?

[lordultimus]

You know Nick Jr. is bad at his job when he makes Maria Hill look competent in comparison.

[blues32]

Secreter Invasion.

[shadowseeking]

Yeah, I'd like to know how this got past Hulkling too. And why the Avengers' first course of action isn't to send a call out his way asking what the hell's up.

Between this and the nonsense over in X-men Red...getting real annoying when there's these space stories involving Skrulls and Kree that should get more than a brief namedrop for Hulkling yet we get nothing...except a bad Infinity comic in a few months.

[laughing_tree]

The Skrulls are an entire species. Why does Hulkling need to be taken into account whenever some of them do something bad? It'd be like asking the American President about every time some American supervillain acts up. Except even more so because we're talking species, not nationality.

[shadowseeking]

Because he's the emperor of the kree and skrulls and it makes more sense to have him in these stories than to have him excluded AGAIN.

[laughing_tree]

Asking writers to include a character they have no place or room in the story for usually does not go well.

[shadowseeking]

If they can't work a character as important as the leader of the Skrulls into a story that's supposed to decide "the fate of the entire Skrull race" then maybe they shouldn't be telling it. Books that get pushed just for bad synergy don't go well either.

[laughing_tree]

It's the Marvel universe. Stuff that decides the fate of an entire race happen every Wednesday.

[windleopard2]

Maybe that's part of the problem.

[laughing_tree]

True, but cameos for the sake of cameos, that don’t serve the story, won’t help it any.

[windleopard2]

I don't think that's what the other user was asking for.

[thehood]

Yeah, it's odd they haven't informed Hulkling of this.

[scorntx]

There are words that spring to mind when one thinks of Maria Hill.
Competence isn't one of them.
Unless there's an "in-" attached to it.
Possibly also joined with the words "gross" and "blundering".

And "friend"? Uh... no.
Iron Man might like her, and Cap at least probably thinks she isn't a colossal screw-up (depending on whether we're now supposedly to completely forget Secret Empire or not). But that's it.

Wondering if these Skrulls were a bunch of idiots sent off by their mysterious boss to get captured on purpose, just to get rid of them.
Because how stupid do you have to be when Maria Hill can catch you in the first act?

[windleopard2]

I'm guessing this is trying to make her more like the MCU version who does have friends and is fairly competent.

[cainofdreaming]

Celestials must be extatic about the Earthlings installing toilets in their dead brethren.

[blues32]

The toilets are just part of it. This implies there is a plumbing system installed. Water is being gathered from somewhere and runs through the body of a god. There's a water heater somewhere for after training showers. Then the toilets suggest that there is a septic tank somewhere, hopefully outside of the Celestial, but let's not kid ourselves.

Speaking of heat, it's pretty damn cold where that thing is, so there has to be a heating system inside. I mean, it's dead, so there's no heat being produced by it naturally.

[cyberghostface]

Are they doing this because of the show?

[shadowseeking]

Seems like it. Just a synergy comic.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Wait, this is a new Secret Invasion?! And they didn't even do anything with the title to distinguish it?!

I came in here thinking this was the original.

[mazway_75]

Ryan North: "Maria Hill is competency personified and she's ready now."

Insert your hysterical laughter gif here.