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Well, sales-wise anyway.
Newsarama have put up Diamond’s end-of-year sales figures, which show that Marvel, and specifically Secret Invasion really handed out kickings all round, with 8 of the top ten sellers being the Secret Invasion issues.
I suppose this shouldn’t really be a surprise.  Secret Invasion was hugely popular, and despite sagging in the middle (IMO) [...]

Well, this week saw the finale to Secret Invasion. While Final Crisis is struggling to get past the halfway point (I love the story a lot, but really, the delays aren’t doing the series any favours) one thing Marvel have done a great job of is getting this 8 part series on the shelves. [...]

Its event week this week, with Final Crisis #4 from DC and the penultimate part of Secret Invasion from Marvel.
Following on from last month’s issue, this part is effectively one giant fight scene between the humans and the Skrulls. There’s some great moments though, best of which is probably Hawkeye’s revenge for the fake [...]

Unusual comics post from me this week, since its been largely Marvel stuff that’s been catching my eye over the last couple of weeks. However with GL and GLC due later in the month, not to mention Final Crisis kicking back in at the end of the month, I don’t imagine it’ll be long [...]

Last week brought us issue 6 of Secret Invasion. I’ll say this for Secret Invasion, they seem to be doing a good job of keeping the momentum going with releases.
To be honest, I found issue 6 a bit disposable. Whereas issue 5 felt like everything was back on track again finally, this issue [...]

The fact that I enjoyed Secret Invasion #5 has obviously given this series a shot in the arm for me, as while I doubt I’d have enjoyed these tie-ins a couple of weeks ago, I definitely did enjoy the background this week.
New Avengers revisits the Skrull Throneworld after the Illuminati’s disasterous retaliation. Here we [...]

Now this is more like it.
Its a good week for people picking up Secret Invasion. Admittedly there was about 8 million tie-ins this week, but I avoided most of them (Captain Britain being a must-buy). However, after the last 3 issues picking up increasing complaints about padding, issue 5 pulled out all [...]

Is it just me, or are the main Avengers titles tie ins to Secret Invasion becoming more missable? Or am I just starting to hit crossover burnout?
After the missable Hank Pym issue of Might Avengers, I decided to just skip the Elektra-focussed issue of Mighty this month, as I’m more interested in the ongoing [...]

Well, this week saw us hit the midway point with Marvel’s Secret Invasion event.
I must admit, despite a strong start, I feel the main series is really starting to struggle.   For the last 3 issues, its really felt like precious little has happened to move the story forward.  This is underlined by last month’s cliffhanger, [...]

Well, its been a busy couple of weeks, with a tonne of Secret Invasion stuff.
First up was Mighty Avengers, which filled in some of the backstory as to how and when Hank Pym was replaced. To be honest, this was the first MA issue I felt was a bit missable, although I can [...]