Post by jensaltmann on Sept 14, 2008 5:38:57 GMT -8
Secret Invasion being almost over, I sit and bang my head on my desk for Teh Stupid.
Why Teh Stupid?
From a writing standpoint:
- You have seven issues to tell the story of a worldwide alien invasion. Do you really want to spend five of the seven detailing a minor skirmish in a remote, strategically unimportant place? As much as I detest Mark Millar's work, and especially Civil War, as vapid and braindead as CW was, it was a better approach than the one Bendis took here.
From a story standpoint:
- You have an armada full of enemies who can shapeshift, who can be anyone and be undetectable. Do you use them to show off your badass powers, or do you use them in a sly, crafty way to let the enemy destroy themselves?
- In other words: do you use them as an army of Giant-Men, or do you have them assume the identities of super-heroes to sow confusion, dissent and distrust in the ranks. Granted, they're kind of doing both, but the latter would be more efficient.
- The Skrulls don't think far enough. They have men inside the SHRA. They could've pulled all those files on all the superheroes to find their weaknesses and use those against them, in order to replace as many of them as possible. Those that you cannot replace, you duplicate. Let's face it, if Power Man and Iron Fist suddenly attack each other, each screaming, "He's a Skrull," what do you do? You have no choice but to contain both. Here is where the Empire's superior numbers would have worked in their favor, as they could more easily afford lose some agents to this ploy than the Earth superheroes could.
- When one of your agent is a king who has de facto command of a veritable army of superbeings, do you blow his cover to attack those among the Earth's superheroes, hoping that he will do at least some damage before he's captured, or do you tell him to maintain cover and use that army of Inhumans to strike at an opportune moment?
Why Teh Stupid?
From a writing standpoint:
- You have seven issues to tell the story of a worldwide alien invasion. Do you really want to spend five of the seven detailing a minor skirmish in a remote, strategically unimportant place? As much as I detest Mark Millar's work, and especially Civil War, as vapid and braindead as CW was, it was a better approach than the one Bendis took here.
From a story standpoint:
- You have an armada full of enemies who can shapeshift, who can be anyone and be undetectable. Do you use them to show off your badass powers, or do you use them in a sly, crafty way to let the enemy destroy themselves?
- In other words: do you use them as an army of Giant-Men, or do you have them assume the identities of super-heroes to sow confusion, dissent and distrust in the ranks. Granted, they're kind of doing both, but the latter would be more efficient.
- The Skrulls don't think far enough. They have men inside the SHRA. They could've pulled all those files on all the superheroes to find their weaknesses and use those against them, in order to replace as many of them as possible. Those that you cannot replace, you duplicate. Let's face it, if Power Man and Iron Fist suddenly attack each other, each screaming, "He's a Skrull," what do you do? You have no choice but to contain both. Here is where the Empire's superior numbers would have worked in their favor, as they could more easily afford lose some agents to this ploy than the Earth superheroes could.
- When one of your agent is a king who has de facto command of a veritable army of superbeings, do you blow his cover to attack those among the Earth's superheroes, hoping that he will do at least some damage before he's captured, or do you tell him to maintain cover and use that army of Inhumans to strike at an opportune moment?
