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[Forrest]

After seeing this image online, I am so very comfortable with my decision to drop New Avengers long ago:



So, the Clone Saga in Spider-man was such a big hit that they decided to carry that idea through the entire Marvel universe?

I am a little worried on how this might affect Daredevil. Part of why I love the DD ongoing so much is because it is very immune to the hiccups other major comics have had over the years. E.g. DD is extremely low on resurrections, time travel, secret wars, heroes reborn, skrulls, etc. I hope that this trend in DD continues. I.e. I hope that years from now I don't have to read some big sci fi skrull story to understand what is happening with a blind lawyer superhero in Hell's Kitchen.
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[rgj]

OMG! For the love of all that's good, please free Paris Hil . . . oh, wait, that's not . . . that's Elektra, or, Skrulelktra if you will.

Oh, Marvel. What has become of you.

Anyway, I do believe that I'm going to take Forrest's advice. I've added a bunch of Bat titles this year and dropped all Spidey. I'm about to read some Vertigo stuff. I could very well see myself dropping everything Marvel (except DD, of course).

Do you all recall Bendis saying how he'd never do anything so cliche as to have a Skrull get Matt out of the mess he was in with the outing? C'mon, Brain, cliche is a poor writer's crutch. Sorry about your leg, Brian.

rgj

[Forrest]

[Born Again]

And I was gonna start buying the New New Avengers too...

[Francesco]

Nice chest job for a shape-shifter, I must say.

[james castle]

Holy crap. Just. You know. I mean. What the hell? What. The. Hell. Okay, one rant and then that's it okay? It's getting ridiculous. I'm actually starting to feel bad because I feel like one of those nerds who demands too much out of comics. Like I feel like I'm trying to apply reason and good story telling to comics that are designed to be pop-filler crap. I feel like if me and Bendis were friends he would take me aside and say "look, I know it's crap. It's supposed to be crap". Marvel is the Britney Spears of the comic industry. All that said, I'll let myself rant a little.

1. Elektra is alive. Okay? Even the crazies (I'm looking at you rgj) have to admit that at the very least Elektra is alive on the mountain where Miller left her. If you don't want to accept post-Saga Elektra, fine but at the end of the saga she's on the mountain. So what the hell has she been doing while this Skrull has been running around? Just sitting there? You can't say she wouldn't know because as we've seen the Elektra thing has been running around with the Chaste. So the Chaste would know. Surely at some pointed they'd be like "hey aren't you on the mountain?". Unless the Skrull showed up right when Elektra "died" and Stone took the body or soemthing or what?

2. There's a scene in Mission Impossible that always pissed me off. See, at one point in the movie character X is revealed to be a villian. This is surprising because earlier in the movie character X appears to die (when he is "killed" by people who end up to be working with him). The problem with the whole thing is that there's a scene right before the "killing" where character X is alone in a room looking scared. The problem is that, if the character were evil that scene would never take place. He's about to fake his own death and he's alone. Why would he be acting in a room all by himself? It's silly.

This problem hits the whole Skrull thing in spades. As rgj pointed out, what would possess the Skrull to take up crappy dancing or show up and silently start at Matt for a while? But it's worse than that. I assume that her solo books are riddled with scenes where she's all by herself thinking. If she was a Skrull none of these scene would ever have taken place. Any scene in which Elektra was "thinking" in an Elektra type way no makes no sense. She wouldn't be thinking about Matt, she'd be like "I'm a Skrully, Skrull Skrull".

3. Why would a Skrull even bother going into deep cover? I mean really?

Whatever, so Bendis has jumped the shark like crazy now. It's over, over, over. The interview over at IGN is just pathetic. He mentions how now people know who the "shadowy figures" in issue 1 of NA are. Comon. Bendis didn't even know who Ronin was when he started NA. He obviously threw in some "shadowy figures" so he could tie them in later. Now he's trying to pretend that this nonsense is part of a big plan.

Pathetic.

Just as an example of how ridiculous he's gotten, he says this in the interview:

[Blind Alley]

In some interviews, it's hinted that Elektra could have been replaced by a skrull in the Wolverine arc "Enemy of the state".
Thus, the previous series would be still ok, starring the real Elektra.
Anyway, the skrull-thing is just a convenient plot device and Marvel is trying to sell it as something really special or new.
It seems they spend more time for the hyping than for the writing.
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[hekate32]

Agree entirely with Mr Castle. I can't think of any time 'Elektra' could've been skrulled that wouldn't collapse under scrutiny other than immediately prior to her appearance in New Avengers. And considering this is a character who has made only a handful of appearances over the last few years, how much more flimsy would the cases be for replacing more prominent figures in the Marvel Universe?

A sneaky Skrull infiltration in the wake of their worlds being recently destroyed and confined to Avengers titles - sure; mass revisionism - no, no, no, you silly men.

Hype's done it again though, one image, a few very similar interviews and rampant Skrull speculation abounds.

Anyone recommend some good indies?

[Gloria]

[james castle]

[Francesco]

Wait a minute.
I didn't read the issue, but as much as the "Elektra is a Skrull" idea sucks, it's a bit premature to say that the Elektra was a Skrull all the time.

I mean, maybe the impersonation happened only very recently.

[Dimetre]

Kind of weird how much the skrull looks like the Green Goblin.

[james castle]

[Forrest]

[Gloria]