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In case you missed Marvel’s last major event — and by last I mean most recent event, and not final event — Secret Invasion is back in a slew of trade paperbacks so you can finally join in on all the talk around the water cooler about the series that lead to the current state of affairs in the Marvel universe with Norman Osborne in charge.
“We’re very appreciative of the unprecedented support from retailers, fans and the press for Secret Invasion,” said David Gabriel, Marvel Senior Vice President of Sales & Circulation. “With the recent announcement of Secret Invasion Black Panther and Runaways/Young Avengers making the New York Times Graphic Books Best Sellers List, we thought this would be a good time to remind fans of the affordable packages we have available for them to catch the stories they might have missed, while also alerting new fans of a way to discover what led to Dark Reign.”
Sixteen trades are already available, with fifteen more on the way between now and June. Take the jump for the complete list, so you have all the background you need (hint: the Earth wins).
And you thought Secret Invasion was over. Not with the release of this week’s Secret Invasion: War of Kings One-Shot from Marvel Comics. The company has sent Major Spoilers a massive sneak peek of the issue, that you can read after the jump.
In the comic world, the Earth is always being attacked from forces from outer space. Two of the big heavies are the Skrull (Marvel) and the Dominators (DC). Both have unsuccessfully attempted take overs, but if it weren’t for a well placed Deus Ex Machina, which alien race would be our new overlords?
FIGHT!
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The $3.99 issue should conclude everything, and set us up for the Dark Noir series coming next.
Who’s excited?
War Machine is mad as hell and packing heat. Not just because Terrance Howard is out of Iron Man 2: Electric Boogaloo, but because of those damn dirty Skrulls. It gets intense in Iron Man: Director of SHIELD #35, and Marvel has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek.
Marvel has just announced the final issue of Secret Invasion will now arrive in stores on December 3, 2008. Seems the extra pages and the hectic schedule were just too much for Leinel Yu.
“Anybody who pored over the artwork from #7 a week ago can easily see how he and Mark Morales have been putting their all (and then some) into every page and every panel, and that effort has finally caught up with us. Hopefully, retailers and fans will forgive us these extra two weeks as we make sure that everything is in the shape it should be in for the extra-sized climax—and from there, it’ll be smooth sailing straight into DARK REIGN,” said Executive Editor Tom Brevoort in a prepared statement.
Considering the size of the Secret Invasion event, spilling into almost every other Marvel title, I’m impressed Marvel was able to keep the schedule going for this long. Considering many Comic Wednesdays were flooded with Marvel titles (not necessarily a result of Secret Invasion), many local comic shops were overwhelmed, and I’m sure there were many fans who had to make a choice between what issues they could afford that particular week.
Or – “And We Still Have Almost NO Idea What’s Going On…”
The art of the big crossover event has changed over the years. The first one, (in my memory, anyway) Secret Wars, was done almost entirely outside of the regular titles’ continuity, with the individual heroes stories jumping forward a few weeks in time, while the miniseries played out separately for the rest of the year. Crisis on Infinite Earths took place everywhere at once, causing for weird moments where characters we expected to see in one place turned up in another. Civil War annoyed me with it’s tendency to put the home titles in low gear or idle while we waited to see what played out in the main title. Secret Invasion has done a little bit of all of these, in that the Avengers titles have been indefinitely suspended in favor of Skrully Flashback Theatre, whereas Spider-Man’s home books completely ignore that anything called Skrullapalooza even happened, except for that “Mary Jane vs. Sinister Six Super Skrull” miniseries, and both Fantastic Four and X-Men have done their crossover bits as separate from their regular minis. Last issue, our heroes rallied, banding together for the big fight… What happens this issue?
If you didn’t get a laugh, or at least appreciate what Marvel is doing with its Embrace Change commercial that ran this week on ESPN2, I’d encourage you to check out the video, or take a look at the still images from the spot. If you think Marvel is missing out by promoting the Secret Invasion story now, I have a feeling, the Skrulls aren’t going to be off Earth by the end of issue #8.
Last night during ESPN2’s Bricktown Showdown, Marvel debuted its new Embrace Change ad to promote Secret Invasion.
Marvel has announced that Black Panther #40 – a Secret Invasion tie-in – has sold out at the distributor level, and will be going back to press with a new cover featuring interior art by Jefte Palo.
Nick Fury is back and he’s kicking Skrull ass in Mighty Avengers #18. Marvel has sen Major Spoilers a sneak peek of ht eissue that arrives September 17, 2008.
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While we receive tons of sold out and back to print announcements from publishers, it was a surprise to see a similar announcement from WizKids, makers of the HeroClix line. Seems the Super Skrull: Illuminati figures have completely sold out, prompting the company to a first-ever brick figure reprint.
“After the Crisis ‘Buy it by the Brick’ program, we did some serious evaluation of it in anticipation for Secret Invasion and built in the possibility of a reprint”, said Justin Ziran, Managing Director of WizKids. “With this second sell out, we’re glad to see that we succeeded in continuing to deliver a premium program benefiting brick and mortar retailers and pleasing HeroClix consumers alike.”
WizKids currently needs 300 more unfulfilled brick figure orders before October 24th to issue an unumbered version of the Super Skrull: Illuminati figure.
For more information on this offer visit the WizKids Games website.
via WizKids Games
Marvel has announced the third issue of Secret Invasion has once again sold out at the distributor level, prompting the company to send the issue back for a third printing. The new printing will feature a black and white Spider-Woman cover by Leinil Yu.
While you may be able to find the original printings at your LCS, Marvel has announced that several of its Secrect Invasion tie-ins have sold out at the distributor level, and are going back to press – each with variant covers.
With the Skrull invasion spilling over into all the Marvel titles, the invasion of Wakanda has enough readers sitting up to watch the action that Black Panther #39 sold out at the distributor level, prompting Marvel to go back to print with a new issue, featuring a variant cover by Jefte Palo.
