What a mess
Review for Secret Invasion: Dark Reign 1-A

Comic Book by Marvel, Feb 01 2009
     
 
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What a mess

I didn't read the main Secret Invasion mini cause I can't stand Bendis' writing ticks, but I decided to pick up this one-shot.

With that said, I was shocked when the writing was the least of this issue's problems. The art was terrible. Maleev used to be such a great artist (pre-Daredevil), but his Namor looked like Namor and Charlie Brown had an odd-nosed kid, Osborne looked like a completely generic business man, Emma was well drawn but looked nothing like Emma, The Hood was generic and Loki was a mess. Doom was cool looking though.

The story? Well, there wasn't much of one as far as I could tell. Osborne is still crazy (we knew that during Civil War) and he's made a generic, goal-less, rambling offer to other "leaders."

The only Secret Invasion spin-off book I was planning on picking up was War Machine (love Manco's art) but I was hoping this would peak my interest in something else. Sadly, it just made me want to avoid it.
     

SwiftMann
December 12, 2008

Comments

Capekiller
Doom did look good. His backgrounds are alright too.
The_Valiant_One
Yup. I feel your pain on this book.

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