it's not that this was bad ... it's just that it wasn't what i wanted. i dropped new avengers once it began dealing with all the skrull backstory - it just wasn't something i cared to spend my money on. but when i saw the cover and read the solicit - well, i loved the illuminati series! and here they were, back together again!
and so we get some nice drama going on in the first half of the book, with the illuminati talking in their familiar meeting room about undetectable skrulls, and gradually realizing that their powers weren't working, and that something was fishy...and then it turns out professor X is a skrull and kills them all!
whoa!
well, ok, not actually.
it turns out that it was a meeting of skrull-made clones that got killed, not the real things. the skrulls need to figure out the secret of making themselves undetectable from the smartest man in the universe, reed richards. but the can't trick him into telling them! and from here, it descends into skrulls talking and arguing about how to get this done.
so it turns out that the illuminati aren't REALLY in this issue - odd clones of them are. and it's really all about skrulls, not about the illluminati.
so...i got punked.
again, this wasn't a bad issue. i loved how they made me really believe reed is the smartest man alive. and the way the skrulls finally DID trick reed into figuring out their secret was pretty nice, pretty ingenious. but i wanted an illuminati book, and instead i got a skrull-copy-illuminati book.
it's like a veggie burger - it might taste good, but if you really want the real thing, it won't get the job done. alas.
Story: 2 - Average
Art: 4 - Very Good
bingo! You nailed it. It was the old bait-and-switch. Also, I object somewhat to this clone notion. The idea that their Richards clone would be every bit as intelligent as the real thing is suspect.
Posted by patio on 08/28/08 at 01:43 PM