Yes, that sound you heard as you got your comics today was our much-beleaguered Internet being cracked in half yet again by Brian “The Shockmaster” Bendis, thanks to the latest issue of New Avengers.
Ever corner of the web is already abuzz with the far-reaching implications here, but I’ve got to say, I really don’t get what’s so surprising here.
I mean…
(Click For a Larger, Presumably More Shocking Image)
…everybody does it!
Man, I was way over on the other side of town, and I could still hearing the internet breaking.
It sounded not unlike millions of brain cells crying out in unison…
Damn, Chris, that’s profoundly metatextual. ‘Cause the baby, it represents the author, right? And it’s talking about the actual last page. That’s even deeper than the time Morrison had tea with Animal Man! :)
Honestly I’d rather that the baby pic was what they meant by MOST SHOCKING THING EVER rather than the page right before it. Which was fucking stupid…
Who is the baby and why are his eyes yellow?! Does he suffer from neonatal jaundice?! And who is the mother?! And why should I care?!
>>Brian “The Shockmaster†Bendis
Bendis is going to try walk through a wall wearing a glitter spray-painted Stormtrooper helmet and fall flat on his face?
Luke, I’d *so* pay to see that.
Are it’s eyes supposed to be yellow? they look normal. What an awful last page “shocker”.
“Bendis is going to try walk through a wall wearing a glitter spray-painted Stormtrooper helmet and fall flat on his face?”
I think he already did that.
…for the benefit of anyone who hasn’t got a clue what this is about, can someone please fill us in? Because this is, you know, confusing :(
That kid’s a little young to be talking. I’m quite a long ways from being an expert on child development, but I don’t think children speak before they’re weaned. so I think the ‘shock’ is that Reed Richards has been reincarnated as a yellow-eyed black infant.
I agree with stogoe — the kid’s what, 1.5 years old? (I only read New Avengers in the trades, so maybe I’m behind.)
I don’t think he’s channelling the spirit of Mr. Fantastic, though.
Maybe Von Doom? Can you say “Made a poopie!” in a threatening and imperious tone?
I think the most shocking thing about that page is that it includes a joke about how there are a lot of Starbucks coffee places around these days. I mean, is this, like, 2002?
I’m all for Skrulls, but. They are rubbish.
Damn you, Luke! I was gonna say that!
I might be alone here, but I liked it.
spoiler alert!!!
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Elektra Skrull leading into either Jessica being Skrull because she doesn’t breast feed, or the baby being Skrull fathered by some Skrull who resembled Luke, or Jessica and the baby both being Skrull.
It was refreshing to be taken by surprise. it was even more refreshing to be taken by a surprise that didn’t suck.
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end spolier alert!!!
I think the shock is that there is no shock. Like if at the end of Sixth Sense, Bruce Willis WASN’T a ghost.
I think they just meant “ending” and not really “last page.” Because if that baby’s supposed to be a Skrull, I sure as hell didn’t see it. It’s not like it cast a Skrull shadow, or we got a thought baloon saying “The time to strike is now.”
The question now is if Luke and/or Jessica are Skrulls, how long have they been Skrulls? Was it a Skrull that had anal sex with Jessica back in ALIAS? Was it a Skrull that asked Luck to have anal sex with her back in ALIAS?
Whatever happened to content?
Bendis is going to try walk through a wall wearing a glitter spray-painted Stormtrooper helmet and fall flat on his face?
Shh! Don’t spoil the plans for San Diego!
Whatever happened to content?
Content has been temporarily replaced by deadlines and con preparation. So nyah nyah nyah.
Whatever happened to content?
I have seven words: How much do you pay for this blog?
Dick.
wow…lame
Caleb said:“I sure as hell didn’t see it. It’s not like it cast a Skrull shadow, or we got a thought balloon saying ‘The time to strike is now.'”
Man, every baby is thinking, ‘The time to strike is now.’
I hope it turns out everyone in the MU that’s come back from the dead, or been “inserted” into continuity, is actually a Skrull.
This includes, but is not limited to; Elektra, Jessica Jones, Sentry, Norman Osborn, Gauntlet and Tony Stark.
It’ll close the revolving door on death and thin the herd for new characters.
Like others have already stated, that baby’s too young to be making full sentences (unless their operating on soap opera-time, in which case, next year it’ll be away at college).
Maybe they’re cribbing Miracleman, and the baby will take a powder to the stars.
Even better would have been if the baby WAS breastfeeding, and WAS a Skrull.
[thoughtballoon]Mmmmmm…. Earthmilk….[/thoughtballoon]
Also: Didn’t Bendis already have a press conference on the whole “Anal Alias” bit? His official statement was “Uhhh… you guys know that you can have non-anal from behind, too… right? It says a lot about our readers that seeing a close up of a face in-coitus immediately makes them think ‘ANAL!!'”
Of course, if she or Luke were a Skrull, they could pretty much do anal in ANY position… even while having non-anal. But, that is a tale for another story (Heroes for Hire).
If it turns out that current Luke Cage is a Skrull, and somewhere all along my beloved yellow shirt/chain belt/tiara wearing/afro rockin’ Luke Cage was in a vat of jello on Skrullworld, and he comes back, and he’s mad, and we have WORLD WAR POWER MAN?
Then they will be making comics just for me…
All fine and good but if it comes out that Captain America was a skrull… I’m switching to collecting baseball cards.
I notice a lot of people talking about how a baby that young can’t talk.
Um… you guys know Chris added that bit, right?
It’s what’s known in the biz as a “joke”. Chris does those from time to time on this site. Stick around, you might notice some more.
A few comments:
(1) The “made a poopie” comment was added by Chris for comedic effect. So we can stop the debate about whether or not it’s old enough to speak here.
(2) Bendis has already explicitly stated in an interview at Newsarama that Captain America was in fact NOT a skrull, and implied pretty strongly that neither was Iron Man.
(3) The baby is meant to be a skrull (or at least implied that it is a skrull). I totally did not get that either so don’t feel bad.
Even better would have been if the baby WAS breastfeeding, and WAS a Skrull.
[thoughtballoon]Mmmmmm…. Earthmilk….[/thoughtballoon]
You’d think that milk would be kind of anathema to Skrulls after that whole cow thing with the FF.
Also, does this mean a return of the Skrull Kill Krew? Will we finally be able to sell those trades?
Steve,
My memories are foggy. I recall him saying that it was anal sex back around when it happened, although I’ve seen plenty of Newsarama.com conversations about which hole it went into, but man, that’s just way too much talk about superhero sex. Even for me.
The best thing about the “surprise ending?”
That damned never-ending ninja battle is FINALLY over. Is it just me, or did that thing last 42 months?
Talk about a book adrift….
I’m with Phil. I would put up with any lame continuity wrenching justification for the return of disco blaxploitation Power Man.
The fact that a few of us missed the joke on Chris subbing in his own dialogue probably speaks volumes about our opinion of Bendis as a writer.
Did that baby ever get a name, or is still just “Luke and Jessica’s baby?”