What is it about Brian Michael Bendis that is so compelling? Although I generally never trust anyone with three names, I am consistently suckered into buying his books. Usually it's about a fifty fifty shot at being halfway decent, but plenty of them have been true turds. It seems like the more he hypes his particular books (and believe me, he hypes the fuck out of his books) the more they suck. As if “House of M” wasn't blissfully stupid (and mundane) enough, along comes this stinky of a flusher.
Let's assume the basic jist of it all is familiar enough to everyone: the Skrulls have been secretly living amongst us, as several prominent individuals, unbenownst to all. You know; exactly like Battlestar Galactica. Except Battlestar Galactica took four seasons before it started suckimg; Secret Invasion claims that title in about three pages. And this, book eight of eight, was particularly abysmal. Nothing even happens; this is the aftermath. Bendis obviously worships at the altar of the 80's Marvel niche he's been mining for all these years, but he hasn't mastered this one simple concept: those comics were able to present an epilogue in one page. Sometimes, even, only one panel! Why should he offer up this final “chapter” for three or four bucks? What kind of bullshit is this, anyway? Write for the trade if you want to, but then just sell us the trade. Who's to expect an entire comic is just going to be people wiping the sweat off themselves and running around saying “Boy, glad that's over!” Total shit.
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