Comments on: All You Need to Know – New Avengers #41 http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2008/05/29/all-you-need-to-know-new-avengers-41/ no, really, there are some comics you really should read Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:58:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Steven R. Stahl http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/2008/05/29/all-you-need-to-know-new-avengers-41/comment-page-1/#comment-211120 Steven R. Stahl Sat, 31 May 2008 21:32:33 +0000 http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/?p=338#comment-211120 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 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

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