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Mighty deals with more of the Skrullowjackets.
This time, he's in a diner in the middle of
upstate Oregon enjoying his favorite Earth-bound
dish, and just about to reveal the
Skrullmageddon to the head diner cook, when Dum
Dum Skrullgan invades his time there and they
have a conversation.
New shows how the Skrulls got inside the heroes
heads. They created a massive elaborate plot
that had the heroes talking to clones of the
others and being forced to reveal their secrets
around each other, only this didn't work as the
heroes always saw through it. It also shows how
the Skrulls learned how to properly hide
themselves.
Initiative has 3-D Man and the Skrull Kill Krew
gathering up new team members while visiting the
other teams. It also shows a couple of Skrull-reveals
as well.
In the entirety of these issues, we learn that
the Skrulls have had to duplicate numerous Pyms
as they almost always attempt to feel heroic and
change the outcome of the oncoming battle, we
learn that it's Reed Richards fault that the
Skrulls can hide in plain sight, and
Skrullowjacket gives the Initiative base its new
plans and its new method of existence as the
Skrull homebase while Ant-Man watches, War
Machine gets a top secret mission and has to go
AWOL, and the Skrull Kill Krew kill Sharon
Skrulltura the female She-Thing and another
Skrull impersonator.
You see, New and Mighty are still good books.
There isn't much to say about them. They are
filling in the cracks and giving us hints and
bits and pieces related to the ongoing invasion
and peeling back the layers.
But the true gem of the bunch is Initiative. The
little book that keeps on ticking. Yes we learn
how the Skrulls do what they do and why in the
other books, but Initiative is constantly moving
forward. Initiative sees 3-D Man crash landing
in the desert and immediately being found by the
She-Skring and the Kill Krew finding him and
laying waste to her. That leads the 3-D Man to
join up with the Skrull-phuckers and take them
to the only other people he knows who ever
fought Skrulls, the original 3-D Man and the Man
trapped in the glasses. This leads them to go
hunting for Skrulls through the team and also to
reveal that the reason they can see who are
Skrulls is because they eat them. Yum.
Now, this leads the team to Komodo's team the
Desert Stars and whooping ass on another Skrull
who nearly takes out that whole team. Of course,
they didn't plan on 3-D Man being a hardass and
shooting right through Komodo to take down the
Super-Skrull, which he does.
Badass.
Seriously. Initiative constantly takes the book
in new ways and new things are always being
thrown against the wall. We see a new evil plan
for Camp Hammond and the inhabitants could be
screwed, especially since it looks like Ant-Man
might be their only hope. Crusader will never
turn back as Nick Fury and his Howling
Caterpillars come to NYC to kick ass and take
Skrull names and Nick mentions that Captain
America mentioned what a true warrior Crusader
is.
So the issue takes place and the new Skrull Kill
Krew are on their way to liberate Hardball's
team and kick more Skrull ass.
Caselli owns on art. Pure and simple. From this
month's Avengers books, this one takes the cake
of the best of the bunch. I will continue this
method of reviewing until the Invasion has
ended, mainly because there isn't much story
here to begin with, and buying all three issues
and writing reviews on each can be a little
tiring. So go team Avengers. Keep on kicking
ass.
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