This issue is set up, kind of, as a prelude to the Secret Invasion story-line. We go back a few months to when Nick Fury gathered a group of heroes, and sent them in to Latervia. The how's and whys aren't important. Suffice it to say, Nick used it as his swan-song. When everything was said and done, Nick was supposedly killed, but it was actually a LMD. He wanted the world to think he was dead. He told the heroes that they'd never see him again. Then he took his now jaded self into seclusion. Everything was fine until the Countess found him and came for a visit. She was actually a Skrull trying to get his pass-codes. He ended up killing her, and then he went to SHIELD for some information. That was his first run-in with Maria Hill. He then contacted Jessica Drew. This was shortly after SHIELD found out that Nick had set her up as a double-agent with HYDRA. Obviously, she was fired. Now, Nick wanted her to grovel for her job back, and then report to him anything that she found "off". "So now I'll be a triple-agent. HYDRA, SHIELD, and I'm reporting back to you, who works for no one." Basically, this issue was set up to show us that Nick has been working in the background, on this Skrull thing, for several months now. Actually, even before the Avengers found the Elektra Skrull in Japan. So now that everything's caught up and in place, we can move on with this Secret Invasion story-line, and Nick can swoop in at some time . . and save the day. Thereby, acclimating himself back in to the Marvel Universe. I wonder how Tony's going to take all of that. I'm kind of guessing too, at the end of this whole thing, we're going to have a Skrull super-hero fighting on our side. One of them's going to switch. It's just a feeling I have. This one was brought to us by the usual scripter, Brian Bendis. But, Alex Maleev filled in on the art for this one. It was actually a pretty amazing looking book. I'm not a big fan, but I liked this one. It seems like this book is back on track now, so . . that's a good thing.
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