No two ways about it; this last issue felt
rushed.
Remember the good ol' days when
Marvel would make the last issue of a series "
Double-Sized?" Where have those days gone? The final installment of SECRET INVASION deserved a double-sized finale.
BMBendis (
who I really have to say has been a phenomenal bright star in Marvel's Bullpen) kinda tried to tie up too many loose plot threads for all these different subplots in various
Marvel books -
dedicating random panels in the middle of a scene to something that might effect a second-string character in another Marvel comic.
If you go back and read issue #7, which to me was nothing more than a
$3.99 pay-per-view,
#8 had twice the dialogue of that issue it seemed. This was nice, but almost too wordy.
Don't get me wrong.
Secret Invasion #8 had a better ending than
World War Hulk #5...but honestly...have you READ World War Hulk #5? The last 5 issues of STAR BRAND beats that ending out, hands down.
As a whole, I believe that newer fans of comic books will enjoy
Secret Invasion and remember it as their
'Secret Wars'. For older readers, *
yawns*, this series for me reads like a movie script. Characters pop in, characters pop out. They occasionally drop a one-liner or two, and make a dramatic entrance.
Now it's time to put on our "
Reign" ponchos.