New Avengers #44
The dark secret of the Illuminati. Marvel's most covert gathering of heroes has a secret so dark that they never speak of it, even to each other. And it could be what has brought about the Secret Invasion.
From Secret Invasion author Brian Michael Bendis and Uncanny X-Men's Billy Tan.
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: BILLY TAN
INKS: BILLY TAN
LETTERED BY: COMICRAFT
COVER BY: ALEKSI BRICLOT
Price: $2.99
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| zenman | 08/28/08 | Yes | Read Review |
| TehDave | 08/28/08 | Yes | Read Review |
| patio | 08/27/08 | No | Read Review |
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I totally do.
Posted by RaceMcCloud on 08/25/08 at 05:54 PM
Great, I said I dropped all the avenger stuff and this one is about the Illuminati....Must....not...pull....got to....fight...urge to.....help Secret Invasion....
Posted by TheNextChampion on 08/25/08 at 05:59 PM
Just give in, Champ, just give in.
Posted by RaceMcCloud on 08/25/08 at 06:07 PM
No I mustn't...It's bad enough I'm getting Black Panther and Thunderbolts.....I just cant do it, even if the previews show this will be good....Gah!!!!!
Posted by TheNextChampion on 08/25/08 at 06:09 PM
Illuminati... Illuminati... ILLUUUUMINATI!
Posted by RaceMcCloud on 08/25/08 at 06:21 PM
Is there a monkey cover?
Posted by BatStewie on 08/25/08 at 06:26 PM
where is this cover from?
Posted by cutty on 08/25/08 at 06:51 PM
@cutty . . . The New Avengers Illuminati (1 of 5), Feb 2007
Posted by PymSlap on 08/25/08 at 09:58 PM
they had the cover of #45 up there earlier, the one with Dr. Doom on the cover. Anyone know what that is a homage to?
Posted by cutty on 08/25/08 at 10:56 PM
@cutty - It was actually the original cover to #44, Marvel switched it to 45.
Posted by conor on 08/25/08 at 11:02 PM
I am totally calling it now... The Dark Secret is that they brainwashed doom into being a doofus after catching him rape Sue Storm when coming back from an iluminatai meeting. Wait, no, that would be totally out of character and just really make all of our older comics feel creepy, no way anyone would be stupid enough to try something like that in a comic book. PSHAW, :-)
Posted by Fractal514 on 08/26/08 at 02:00 AM
@cutty - New Avengers 45 appears to be an homage to this book from Stan Lee, "Bring On the Bad Guys - The Origins of the Marvel Comics Villains" . . . You can see it here, http://members.tripod.com/Adams_fan/fire2.jpg
The cover is attributed to my hero John Romita, Sr., here http://members.tripod.com/adams_fan/fireside.html
Posted by PymSlap on 08/26/08 at 06:22 AM
I'm really hoping this issue brings back the "magic" of New Avengers that has been missing since around the time Yu left the book.
Posted by goat77 on 08/26/08 at 10:15 AM
i dropped this with all the secret invasion shenanigans, but man...it IS illuminati. so think i'm going to think of it as an extension of that miniseries, and NOT a secret invasion crossover in my mind, and that'll allow me to buy it.
Posted by TehDave on 08/26/08 at 10:30 AM
What annoys me is the artist. I don't like Billy Tan. But Illuminati?? Hell yeah!
Posted by tittom on 08/26/08 at 11:31 AM
@ tittom I actually really like Billy Tan but i think Danny Miki ruins his work.
Posted by rift1128 on 08/26/08 at 02:15 PM
@rift1128 I think that it is actually a combo of both the inking and the coloring that ruins Tan's art. I once saw his raw pencils on his Uncanny run and they looked a lot better than the comic I actually got. Although, if I were him, i'd be screaming at Marvel for screwing with his pencils so dramatically.
Posted by ShowMeYourWits on 08/26/08 at 05:21 PM
Yeah? I don't know. I should check it.
Posted by tittom on 08/27/08 at 10:44 AM
I have to admit, his painted art looks great. But the inked and colored stuff, you're right guys, is bad.
Posted by tittom on 08/27/08 at 10:47 AM
@ShowMeYourWits i agree. i said the same thing in the comments for the Mighty avengers though and i just thingk that Miki is ruining Khoi's art too.
Posted by rift1128 on 08/28/08 at 10:54 AM
Bendis went hard-core, with how the Skrulls are totally pulling a Kenny from South Park with their Reed Richards clones. The art here has ben consistent, as well.
Posted by WilliamKScurryJr on 08/28/08 at 04:48 PM
I usually hate Billy Tan, but the art in this book was damn good
Posted by cutty on 08/29/08 at 04:25 PM
Am I the only one who didn't understand this issue ? The whole Secret Invasion is too confusing to me!
Posted by Spooky on 08/30/08 at 01:15 PM
@TehDave, Illuminati was really just a bridge from Civil War into Secret Invasion, so if you picked this up and thought of it as part of that series, then by proxy, it is still an SI tie-in. Add to that the obvious fact that it has the SI banner across the top, and its an SI tie-in twice!
Oh, and @Fractal514 - HA!
Posted by ActualButt on 09/01/08 at 10:36 PM
Man, I know it's lame but I can't help to buy into all of the Civil War tie-ins. In my defense, I read NA before that, but still.
I liked this issue, though. Nothing amazing about it, but nothing horrible either. I'll give it 3.5
Posted by kwisdumb on 09/02/08 at 10:29 AM
I just don't care anymore.
Posted by MisterBlank on 08/25/08 at 05:53 PM