The main series has been rather good. Occasionally Lenil Yu's artwork suffers from what it usually suffers from (making some people look hideous and also crazy boobs). Also, due to all the different tie-ins that spout off every month, by the time the next ACTUAL Secret Invasion issue comes out, I've damn near forgotten what in the hell happened.
In terms of the main tie-ins with Mighty and New Avengers, these started off rather good, and have now moved into the realm of being mediocre and repetitive. Really, I think alot of these could have been done with more than one in each issue. Additionally, Avengers: The Initiative has been well done as always, bringing in the Skrull Kill Krew. But hardly up to the snuff that Initiative has previously been.
Just this past week, Secret Invasion: Inhumans came out. Not only dealing Black Bolt's skrull reveal in Illuminati, but also the end of Silent War. What Pokaski (of Heroes fame) seems to have done is FORGET that most of the main Inhumans royal family were kind of hypnotized by Black Bolt's brother Maximus. Fantastic Four explains what happens with the Baxter Building, and returns Lyja... and there the excitement ends. Whatever, Baxter Building is back. Nothing to see here. As much as I like Gage, it doesn't seem like there is alot of promise in his Thunderbolts tie-in, even though it is well written. It more seems just like the same thing we saw in the main series. But, there's still more issues to go, so maybe that will change.
Secret Invasion: Thor I think further proves that Matt Fraction should be doing stuff with Thor regularly, like the one-shots that he has been doing already. I just think they should continue is all. Jason Aaron's Black Panther tie-in (or which we only have one issue so far) looks to be quite promising, to the point that I would suggest he be writing the series instead of Reggie Hudlin. Captain Britain & the MI:13? The awesome cannot be contained. Basically think of the brilliance that Cornell brought to the Wisdom mini, add in a well written Captain Britain and lots of really neat concepts involving those characters, and you have the beginnings of an amazing series. As always, Mike Carey writes the X-Men brilliantly in their tie-in mini, and it appears he will do a bit more focus on Nightcrawler for this. Probably the most surprising to me was the Secret Invasion: Front Line book. Personally, I have not been a fan of the Front Line books (or their usual writer, Paul Jenkins). But here, Brian Reed has given us a very interesting and well worked story of the involving the average people on the streets of New York during the first part of the Invasion.
Still alot of stuff to go, and I'll do one of these for Final Crisis once it gets done with its one month gap.
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