Secret Invasion #4 (OF 8)

I really thought this would be the issue where Bendis turned around this book, but boy was I wrong. Secret Invasion #4 was a complete and utter disappointment. What is the point of spending half the book giving us information we already know. Just because it is coming from "Spider-Woman" doesn't make it new or interesting. Wow, the heroes of the Marvel Universe can't trust each other. Someone should remind Bendis that everybody knew this before the event even started! What about last issue's big reveal, Nick Fury, what does he do in this issue? Barely anything. Don't have such a big reveal and then have the character stand put with a huge obnoxious gun that takes up almost half the page in the next issue. Also, I really didn't need more scenes of characters I don't care about fighting Skrulls in Manhattan. The scenes with Tony Stark and "Spider-Woman" in the Savage Land cover pretty much the same ground they did last issue, but the Tony Stark strand of this story is about the only thing I'm even remotely interested in at this point in the event. Perhaps Bendis has taken on too large of a work load because obviously he is capable of much better stories than this. I don't even think the trio featured on the cover for Issue #6 can save this event. What a disappointment.