I love my Marvel books . . . well . . . as much as I love any of my books. But the things that really gets in to my craw is when they fall so far behind schedule. Now you can say, there comes a time in all books that they fall behind schedule to some degree. But, as is the case with this book, when they fall behind, they put the rest of the books in their family behind. Or, as in the New Avengers, we start getting filler stories to try to give the other book a chance to get caught up. I mean . . . really? This issue . . . . they're really just going to introduce the Symbiote invasion that took place months ago. That happened at the end of the New Avengers issue in October. It was in June of last year that the New Avengers, on their mission in Japan, killed Elektra and discovered that she was a Skrull. It took until this issue for Jessica to finally make it to Tony to show him what they had discovered. That's 7 months ago. They're just going to have to skip forward. I don't see how they have any other choice. Mark Bagley has taken over on pencils this issue, so maybe that'll help. I love Frank Cho's stuff . . but he's not the most "on-time" artist out there. Which is fine for his own books. But when it starts to impact this many titles . . . I think it's time to make a change. Which it looks like, that's what they've done. I mean, the purpose of this book, and the new launch, is to bring in new readers. Right? But how would you feel, being newly initiated to the Marvel Universe, only to find out that you're about half a year behind the stories in the rest of the books. We have to do something to get this back on track. The Symbiote Invasion literally just breaks out on the last page of this book. It happens when some kind of nodule falls from on of Stark's satellites that's being repaired. So, essentially, it happened because of Tony Stark. That gives us something to think about . . . huh? Please, just try to get these titles synchronized again.
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