All You Need to Know – New Avengers #41
Normally, I drag my feet to the next issue of the Avengers. It's not going to be what I want and yet will probably contain some dynamic and exciting info that I'll kick myself later if I don't know.
Today, I have an exception.
THIS IS IT FOLKS!
Actual Avengers! Backstory I understand! Reasonable and understandable plot! Mind you, I have been reading New Avengers since it's start so I know the "Breakout" storyline and can see how this fits into that, once again causing me to pause and ponder a "Secret Invasion - Secret Files" supplimental title for the Big Event, not to mention the usual Bendis trope of "characters all sound the same" but hey. We're not looking for perfection here. I'm just happy to like an issue for once.
So, we start out in Secret Invasion #2, with the Skrull characters and Our Heroes fighting. There's a dinosaur, a lot of confusion and then HEY! Ka-Zar, Shanna and Zabu! The guys that live in the Savage Land show up to find out what the hell is going on in their backyard. Spider-Man is there to crack wise, play off the danger and accuse the Savage Land crew of being Skrulls, while Ka-Zar and Shanna are there to give a little backstory.
See, they knew about the Skrulls, oh say, since the New Avengers 'Breakout' storyline. They had done some pretty cool investigating, kicked a lot of butt and figured out that SHIELD and the Avengers had been infiltrated by the Skrulls and are starting some war prep. So they get a crew together, start to take it to the streets and then New Avengers #6 happens. We cut back to now where Spider-Man admits he has NO IDEA what was going on with all of that, but thinks there's a piece of the puzzle missing. Spider-Sense goes off, Zabu goes "RRRRRRRRRR!" and Captain America shows up to challenge Ka-Zar's honor.
All in all, nothing all that new, but interestingly told, easy to fit into the scheme of things and high on the action content. People kick, people punch and there are explosions and Avengers. I am pleased.
So all you need to know is that SHIELD had a base to mine for Vibranium way back when, Shanna and Ka-Zar are on it and the Avengers are still fighting in the Savage Land.
Wasn't that fun?
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May 31st, 2008 - 13:32
There are more errors in NA #41 than casual readers might think, with the chief one being that the type of vibranium Bendis has the Skrulls mining is located in Wakanda, not in the Savage Land. Bendis repeated the error from NA #6. Other comments:
The sequence of events Bendis chooses to revisit in NEW AVENGERS #41 is actually much more consistent with the idea that nefarious corporate interests, et al., were trying to corrupt and eventually take over S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA than it is with machinations by Skrulls.
Why, for example, should Skrulls be mining (Antarctic) vibranium on Earth when it’s a naturally occurring substance and they could mine it on other worlds without any subterfuge?
The role of Yelena Belova and her exchange with Spider-Woman in NA #6 regarding the people they “both” work for are incompatible with her being a Skrull, as are, of course, Belova’s burn scars and subsequent bodily modifications by A.I.M. (see NA ANNUAL #1). Then there is NA #23, in which Spider-Woman is kidnapped by a HYDRA faction which wants her to replace Madame Hydra.
The NA #23 story makes some sense as an attempt to finish off the original conspiracy storyline, which had been overtaken by events in “Civil War,” but makes no sense at all if anyone involved is a Skrull.
ILLUMINATI #1, retcon or not, provided a basis for a Skrull invasion led by multiple Super-Skrulls, but Bendis might have thought that, as long as his NA storyline had dealt with conspiracies, he could arbitrarily declare that “X,” “Q,” and “G” were actually Skrulls and have the changes work.
SRS