Secret Invasion #2

[heartsways]

Comments

[mazway_75]

I'm amazed the writer openly said "Maria Hill is the epitome of competence" despite all evidence in the past to the contrary. And here, obviously the Skrulls ready for her.

[deh_tommy]

To be fair, that was Maria Hill talking about herself, not necessarily the author speaking through her.

[tcampbell1000]

TBH, I'd rather have a story where nobody seems to be holding the idiot ball, even if it's arguably inconsistent with prior portrayals. Honestly, Maria Hill's characterization history is just a mess anyway: she's been this competent and generally admirable and she's also been the one who kicked off the original superhero civil war by escalating to tranq-guns over a modest political disagreement with CAPTAIN FUCKING AMERICA. Although if that version of Maria Hill shows up in this as a Skrull--"I'm clearly the right Maria! Capture everyone who isn't me! TRANQUILIZERS! NOW!"--I might be amused enough to let it slide.

We can't just say "Well, obviously they'd be ready for that" just because we know that if they didn't have some kind of countermove, there'd be no story. Prior Skrull invasion plots were not ready for that. This approach would have been sufficient to handle those. So North is taking a story subgenre that usually has at least one faction acting like idiots and going, "Okay, but what if competence?" So I'm intrigued.

[super_fly]

Only going to say two words about this: Mark Millar.

[deh_tommy]

What’s your point?

[super_fly]

Mark Millar isn't a good writer

[deh_tommy]

What does that have to do with either Secret Invasion?

[cainofdreaming]

"Hey, what's your opinion about this proposed new law? Agree or disagree?"

"Oh, is it so? Tranq him and throw him in the stocks!"

-- Reasonable Argumentation, by Maria Hill