Monday, July 14, 2008

the Mighty Avengers #15 - Marvel


Obviously, the whole Secret Invasion thing is still going on. But, the theme for this month seems to be . . taking us back to the initial replacements. The theme through all the Avengers book, this month, seems to be to show us just how long the Skrulls have been in place, and where and when they took over certain people. This issue of the Avengers, is pretty much a Hank Pym solo book. We find out from here that Hank was taken over when he was overseas doing a guest lecture. It was back before the New Avengers got together. The part I liked about it was seeing the falling apart of his and Janet's marriage again. After she left him, he falls into the arms of an adoring student. A young, pretty student . . but hey, who can blame him? Well, you see this coming from a mile away, but of course the student is a Skrull. She waits to catch him in a vulnerable position . . and then she knocks him out and takes over. We then see how he's endeared himself to the super-hero community, since then, and with SHIELD. He's been there for everyone, every time they needed him, and has been an incredible rock. He's also the one who gave Janet the improvement in her powers. He gave her a new growth formula that he's been working on. Which leaves us with a couple of questions. First of all, how, or what, did Hank do to this formula? I'm sure there's something planned for Janet, but how was Hank attacking her from the inside with this formula? I'm sure we're going to find out the repercussions of that soon. Secondly, when the Skrulls take over these people, the only thing we know for sure is that they don't kill them. They consider them valuable assets. But, we don't find out what they do with them, or where they take them. Do we have an empty warehouse someplace with all these heroes sitting in it, or is there some underground bunker someplace with 100's of solitary cells? To me, after showing how and when they're taken, that's the next part of the story. Again, we have the brilliant writing of Brian Bendis on this book. John Romita Jr. does the artwork this issue. I thought it was a fantastic issue. Keep up the good work, guys.

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