Secret Invasion Tie-Ins

Along the lines of what I was saying earlier, Don MacPherson illustrates nicely the problem with Brian Michael Bendis’s tie-ins to Secret Invasion in New Avengers and Mighty Avengers:

You know, I’m really getting bored of these Avengers flashback issues that fill the readership in on what was really going on in these titles right from the start. […] It’s Elektra… does anyone really care when she went from being a human ninja warrior to an alien ninja warrior?

Exactly. We already know what happens. The backstory has to be very compelling to overcome the fact that its narrative tension has already been broken.

Secret Invasion Preview

Marvel has a short prologue to its Secret Invasion story up on its website. You might need to log in to see it, but Bug Me Not can help you there. This is the exact right way to use the internet to promote their publications. They could have gone even further by doing a series of these, one each week, like some TV shows have done with webisodes.