Review: Secret Invasion - Requiem
With the annual Big Event at Marvel coming to an end, it's time for the inevitable one-shots dealing with the clean up (as in World War Hulk) or the aftermath (as in Civil War). The first book to come out of Secret Invasion was a Dark Reign preview ... and by "preview" I mean four dollars worth of opening credits to some new books coming out in the next few months. Aces.
Secret Invasion - Requiem has been solicited as a good-bye to a fallen hero, one of the original Avengers who took a dirt nap during the Central Park throwdown with the Skrulls.
Is it a fitting memorial to one of the characters that launched the Marvel Age of comics?
Or is it mindless filler not worth your time?
Hit the jump to find out.
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DON'T BUY THIS BOOK.
This is a shameless grab for cash without giving us anything of merit. The book opens well enough with Jocasta (the Janet Van Dyne version of Ultron who turned good) going through Janet's belongings. All is fine and good. Then we go into a reprint from the 60s that's simply been recolored.
Okay, it's an important part of her history. Fine. But when we go back to Jocasta and now Hank Pym, we go BACK to another reprint. A couple pages of new material to end the book out (as well as a stupid reveal I'll get to) actually gives us eight pages of new material.
Eight! We don't even get double digits of new stuff for the $4 we just threw down on this book. There's a small cover gallery and a Wasp costume collage, but hardly worth it. This book is little more than a way to make a quick, fast buck by piggybacking onto the successful Secret Invasion storyline and Marvel should be better than that.
Oh, and that reveal I mentioned earlier - Hank Pym is now the new Wasp.
Ungh.
Goblin
Posted to Comics, Review on 8 January 2009
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If I didn't know what this was going in, I'd probably be mad too. However, I was fully aware of the only 8 pages of new stuff and bought it anyways. Why? Well because I had never read the two recolored stories... and honestly: Digitally colored Jack Kirby art? That's worth the price of admission. All this is a simple lesson to research every book that you buy.
There's plenty of better Kirby stuff out there, digitally-colored or not. Most of the younger fans who would have bought this would hate the old stories, and it was totally a cheap grab for cash. Thankfully, I read it in the store instead of buying it, or I would have been baying for blood.
Why is it in the book that should have celebrated the life of one of the most important Avengers do we get a reprint of her getting beat around by Hank Pym? Honestly, it's starting to seem like that's all Pym is known for... beating his ex-wife.
That makes me so glad he decided to pick up her mantle. It's the only way Marvel could disgrace the character any further without someone molesting her corpse.