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I posted a few items earlier this week that I need to go back and comment on thanks to a couple of things that have come up in the last day or two…and here’s the first
Spider-Skrull Revisted!
Earlier this week I posted that I didn’t buy that Bendis had planned Spider-Woman as a Skrull from the start, and it was either a recent development or she was actually just ‘playing’ Skrull to see who she can flush out.
Well, in Secret Invasion #3 she certainly seems to be playing that role to a tee – zapping Echo in spite of the fact that she knows that she’s not a Skrull and trying to convince Tony that he is a Skrull…and if he is, I’ll eat my hat.
Thing is, I could still see this as ‘playing Skrull’ – she takes Echo out in case there’s a Skrull about watching her, and plays Tony to check he isn’t a Skrull himself.
Except…Bendis says in this interview that she is a Skrull, has been since the start of New Avengers, and it’s always been planned that way:
Now you know why the “Spider-Woman” series didn’t happen. We thought about doing it and having her revealed as a Skrull in the first issue of her series. Last year, we we’re going to do the series and at the end of the issue she’d do something wrong, go off somewhere private and revert to Skrull form. It would be like, “Woah! The lead character of the book isn’t who she thought she was!” I wrote it, but in the end I just thought it wasn’t selling somebody what they thought you were selling them. But if you did it as part of a team book it’s much less bullshitty. You expect things to happen in a team book but if you’re buying “Spider-Woman,” you want Spider-Woman.
And the whole time I was writing her I’d think those fans are going to fucking lose their shit because we’ve had this planned since “New Avengers” #1. You can go back to issue #1 and see hints. There’s not a segment of the readership that I haven’t felt worse about doing this to than the Spider-Woman fans. I want to express publicly that your love of the character will not be lost.
Apparently that last bit doesn’t apply if you’re buying Captain Marvel...Anyway, I still call shenanigans on this one, and not just because I like the word. Too much doesn’t make sense for her to be replaced by Skrulls, although in the comments on my previous post, reader The Line says:
i notice that in issue 2 jessica’s eyes were brown up until she fell into some water at the raft and wasent seen the rest of the issue. in issue 3 we didn’t even see how she got away but her eyes turned green and havent changed back to brown
If that’s right and it was indeed planned, then I think that instead of shenanigans, I call sloppy writing and plotting because there are just too many plot holes!
Shenanigans, sloppy writing or am I being too harsh? You decide!
I agree with you! I totally call shenanigans! There are too many questions that don’t add up. I think that either issue 5 or six we’re going to find out that she isn’t really a skrull and that she’s working both sides. Who better to work both sides than Spider Woman? That’s my two cents anyways…..