The horrible thing about comic books (aside from the smellier denizens of  cons and shops) is filing them. If you’re going to buy a comic, it’s incredibly unlikely you will throw it away, even if you hated it. Something about ink addiction, I imagine, or just sheer pack rattitude.

all hail the conquering skrull puncher

Event titles that come out after the arc is complete, even one-shot epilogues like Secret Invasion: War of Kings, tend to bug me for that very reason. The idea of dragging out a moth-balled long box just to stuff one more comic inside causes my head to wobble from side to side, strained animal noises to emit from my throat, and my arms to flail around like a nine-year-old on his long, tortured pathway to an early bedtime.

In fact, I think that’s the point, really. We readers, many of us who even enjoyed Secret Invasion, have put it to bed. Why haven’t you, Marvel?

Oh, it’s because writing team Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning are having a really awesome party in space and you are invited to come along. Let’s go!

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