Paradox Factor
04/18/2008, 20:56
So, after reading Secret Invasion 1, I got the hankering to re-read NA, to see if I could pick up on any of the clues Bendis had dropped. It was an interesting reread given what we know now. Here's some things I picked up on.
Pre NA - Ok, here's something I didn't see the first time I read Avengers 503. Go take a peak back at it. In the battle with the Kree, on the page where Hawkeye gets shot and his quiver set on fire, there's a Skrull in the first two panels. Suposivly, this was on purpose. What's it mean? Was someone swapped out in the battle at the mansion?
NA 1 - So we have the mystery man talking with Elektro. Obviously the fact we can't see who it is hampers any guesses as to what the ultimate plan is. But I was struck by one random though. The silhouette of the man doesn't give alot of details. Short hair and jacket, maybe a trenchcoat. It struck me that it looks alot like Nick Fury. Then again, it looks alot like many characters.
Something else to note. In the Director's cut of NA 1, they havethe script for the issue. For the script on page 5, where Cage, Murdock, Nelson all meat Jessica Drew, 4 lines are blotted out. Might have just been a revision that was struck. Or maybe something else.
Finally, and this will come up again later, some of the prisoners in the group shot at the Raft were dead as of when this issue came out. With no explination given onhow they came back. These include the Mandrill, Centurious, Doctor Demonicus, Graviton, and Cutthroat. NA 6 says 21 of them total were dead.The entries for Centurious and the Mandrill in the NA: Director's Cut even mention that they had died. What's it mean? Could some of the prisoners have beem skrulls? Or is it something involving SHIELD?
NA 3 - Interesting. I just caught that Jarvis has green eyes. According to his OHotMU entry they shoulod be blue. When Cap says he tried to contact him, he says he was on holiday. Odds are that's when he got replaced. Also worth noting, Spider-Woman does too. But, her eyes are listed as green in the OHotMU. Might not mean anything for her. But, there was the whole thing with the baby and Jarvis, it's worth noting.
NA 4 - Another green eye allert. Mia Salem (Man that sounds like an anagram or something. Too bad I suck at those), the woman Electro has been calling. Again, might be nothing. But, I'm pointing out any green eyes I see at this point :laugh:
And the reveal of Carl Lykos, AKA Sauron. Whoever locked his file has top level SHIELD access. Since Dum Dum wasn't replaced yet (From a comic on Marvel.com, we find he's replaced shortly after Cap dies), it's not him. Other suspects include Maria Hill and good old Nick Fury.
NA 5 - And now we come to Wolverine. After rereading this issue, I'm really starting to suspect that the Wolverine in NA might be a Skrull. He complanes about the Savage land scfrewing up his sense of smell, something that's never been brought up before. He says he flew in the Blackbird, solo. They never verify this. At all. And theirs never a mention in the X books of the Blackbird being crashed. He also has the wrong eye color. His eyes are shown as grey. The OHotMU says their black. Only problem with this is in House of M, the X-Men and the New Avengers all get together. So maybe not. Then again he did jump Lykos, letting him turn into Sauron, which was really stupid. And Sauron did have a few extra abilities after he fed off him. He's never stold mutant powers before and somehow he gets Wolvie's healing factor. What if Sauron reacted diffrently feeding of a Super-Skrull in disgise?
A bigger note is what Brainchild and Sauron say to each other.
Sauron - Well, you had to know they were going to come after us for it (He's refering to the jailbreak)
Brainchild - Actually we were told no one would. That was the deal. Seems we were lied to. Again.
Sauron - This is bad.
Brainchild - What are they going to do to us that they haven't already done? Rape our land? Enslave you?
Getting right to the core of the jailbreak, this sounds like a direct reffrence to the SHIELD mining opperation in the savage land. But the one thing I always wondered is why was Sauron sprung? Why is he so importand that the Mutates broke him out?
NA 7-10 - The Sentry. Right off the bat, I got to wonder, if the Sentry made everyone on earth forget he existed, did he make the Skrulls forget? and the whole thing about killing his wife, then she shows up, allong with the creator of the Sentry comic. Could it be the Skrulls trying to keep one of the most powerful beings on the planet an emotional basket case?
Pre NA - Ok, here's something I didn't see the first time I read Avengers 503. Go take a peak back at it. In the battle with the Kree, on the page where Hawkeye gets shot and his quiver set on fire, there's a Skrull in the first two panels. Suposivly, this was on purpose. What's it mean? Was someone swapped out in the battle at the mansion?
NA 1 - So we have the mystery man talking with Elektro. Obviously the fact we can't see who it is hampers any guesses as to what the ultimate plan is. But I was struck by one random though. The silhouette of the man doesn't give alot of details. Short hair and jacket, maybe a trenchcoat. It struck me that it looks alot like Nick Fury. Then again, it looks alot like many characters.
Something else to note. In the Director's cut of NA 1, they havethe script for the issue. For the script on page 5, where Cage, Murdock, Nelson all meat Jessica Drew, 4 lines are blotted out. Might have just been a revision that was struck. Or maybe something else.
Finally, and this will come up again later, some of the prisoners in the group shot at the Raft were dead as of when this issue came out. With no explination given onhow they came back. These include the Mandrill, Centurious, Doctor Demonicus, Graviton, and Cutthroat. NA 6 says 21 of them total were dead.The entries for Centurious and the Mandrill in the NA: Director's Cut even mention that they had died. What's it mean? Could some of the prisoners have beem skrulls? Or is it something involving SHIELD?
NA 3 - Interesting. I just caught that Jarvis has green eyes. According to his OHotMU entry they shoulod be blue. When Cap says he tried to contact him, he says he was on holiday. Odds are that's when he got replaced. Also worth noting, Spider-Woman does too. But, her eyes are listed as green in the OHotMU. Might not mean anything for her. But, there was the whole thing with the baby and Jarvis, it's worth noting.
NA 4 - Another green eye allert. Mia Salem (Man that sounds like an anagram or something. Too bad I suck at those), the woman Electro has been calling. Again, might be nothing. But, I'm pointing out any green eyes I see at this point :laugh:
And the reveal of Carl Lykos, AKA Sauron. Whoever locked his file has top level SHIELD access. Since Dum Dum wasn't replaced yet (From a comic on Marvel.com, we find he's replaced shortly after Cap dies), it's not him. Other suspects include Maria Hill and good old Nick Fury.
NA 5 - And now we come to Wolverine. After rereading this issue, I'm really starting to suspect that the Wolverine in NA might be a Skrull. He complanes about the Savage land scfrewing up his sense of smell, something that's never been brought up before. He says he flew in the Blackbird, solo. They never verify this. At all. And theirs never a mention in the X books of the Blackbird being crashed. He also has the wrong eye color. His eyes are shown as grey. The OHotMU says their black. Only problem with this is in House of M, the X-Men and the New Avengers all get together. So maybe not. Then again he did jump Lykos, letting him turn into Sauron, which was really stupid. And Sauron did have a few extra abilities after he fed off him. He's never stold mutant powers before and somehow he gets Wolvie's healing factor. What if Sauron reacted diffrently feeding of a Super-Skrull in disgise?
A bigger note is what Brainchild and Sauron say to each other.
Sauron - Well, you had to know they were going to come after us for it (He's refering to the jailbreak)
Brainchild - Actually we were told no one would. That was the deal. Seems we were lied to. Again.
Sauron - This is bad.
Brainchild - What are they going to do to us that they haven't already done? Rape our land? Enslave you?
Getting right to the core of the jailbreak, this sounds like a direct reffrence to the SHIELD mining opperation in the savage land. But the one thing I always wondered is why was Sauron sprung? Why is he so importand that the Mutates broke him out?
NA 7-10 - The Sentry. Right off the bat, I got to wonder, if the Sentry made everyone on earth forget he existed, did he make the Skrulls forget? and the whole thing about killing his wife, then she shows up, allong with the creator of the Sentry comic. Could it be the Skrulls trying to keep one of the most powerful beings on the planet an emotional basket case?