In Marvel’s Secret Invasion series, Skrulls infiltrate the Avengers
Ryan North will soon take the reins on Marvel’s First Family when he and artist Jesus Aburtov kick off their Fantastic Four, but in the meantime, he’s tackling the second-oldest villains in Fantastic Four history: Skrulls. North has promised a self-contained, five-issue alien spy thriller with his and artist Francesco Mobili’s Secret InvasionThe first issue is here.
But it also delights, or at least it does me specifically, by showing us the sign on the door to the Avengers’ unisex bathroom.
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OK OK OK so I know that the reason this is so clearly marked as a unisex bathroom is that if it wasn’t, then it would be a big clue to the reader as to which of the Avengers has been secretly replaced by a shapeshifting Skrull. It’s amazing! It’s got the silhouettes of the Hulk and She-Hulk on it. It’s perfect.
I’m so, so glad Poison Ivy will continue for an extra six issues, so that I can get more of the comic in which Pamela Isley defeats her plant-based antagonist, Jason Woodrue — the scientist was the source of her trauma and superpowers — and then devours his form, handful by mycelial handful, to keep him from returning to life.
Who’s it for? The Sword of AzraelFor, who else than me? I have no idea, I’m just thanking my lucky stars for this EvangelionJean-Paul Valley, a comic that is Catholic-inflected about Jean-Paul Valley’s sadness at the Catholic Church’s most absurd and worst version. He lives in his head so that he makes Jean-Paul Valley do violence.
[Ed. note: Content warning for suicide.]
I’m so sad Shazam’s New Champion issues 4 and 5. Josie Campbell wrote a great story and Doc Shaner… Shaner’s work is amazing, that is what I meant. In every one of his drawings, however, it is clear that he loves Mary Bromfield (nee Marvel). The sequence where she fights against a villain, who basically uses what you say online about yourself, is beautiful and effective.
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