Comics: New Avengers #43

Captain Skrull? - Get this book.

Wow.

In a word: Wow.  The whole Secret Invasion is so well executed over at Marvel right now I don’t know how they are gonna top this in the future.  The original idea was not that original, but they way Marvel is able to execute both the main story, the individual on-shots, and all the tie-in books is phenominal.  In my opinion, it just blows away last years Civil War, World War Hulk, and the prior M-day events.  The idividual talents of the writers and artists is to be highly commended because everything just seems to fit so much better than anything DC is putting out now in Final Crisis.

This issue is a great tie-in issue which further explores and explains how some of the Skrulls infiltrated the Marvel universe and took over some of the top heros and impersonated them.  Whil much of the book takes place in the Savage Land during current storyline arc, there is just enough great background and origin information in flashback sequences (ala LOST) you can really understand the motivation and depth of the Skrull Queen’s plans and mindset.  You see and understand just how much the Skrulls are willing to sacrifice and what they are willing to do to achieve their goals.  And it’s actually scary and fascinating at the same time.

There is some excellent dialogue moments with Spiderman and how he reacts to seeing Captain America (whom everyone thinks is dead) in the Savage Land.  The resoultion of these events is shocking, all the way laced with Peter’s wit and sensibilities.  I’d react the same way which just makes Peter Parker that so much more believable and acceptable to the reader.

And what was great as this was a fabulous story all contained within the Savage Land, leaving the other books to deal with the larger story.  I guess you could say this was a complimentary book in every definition of the term, but not needed, but greatly appreciated to the Secret Invasion.