Editor's Note: Mighty Avengers #19 arrives in stores tomorrow, October 15.

What a complete waste of time and effort. The only thing that happens in this issue that we haven't already seen in numerous other places is Captain Skrull-Vell fights two super Skrulls: one with the powers of The Champions, and the other with the powers of Power Pack.

Seriously. The Champions and Power Pack.

And they put up a good fight. So good, in fact, that a large portion of the comic is devoted to it.

The rest of the book covers, and contradicts, Marvel Boy's appearance in the Who Do You Trust? special from a few months ago. No Skrulls or murder of the warden in Bendis' version. Marvel Boy just looks bored when the Stark Tech goes down, so he flies off.

The rest of the issue is Captain Skrull-Vell arguing with himself, fighting the Champions and Power Pack Skrulls, attacking the Skrull fleet, which we saw in Secret Invasion #5, and then his fall to earth into the waiting arms of a confused Marvel Boy, which we saw in Secret Invasion #6.

The End.

I shit thee not.

I'll give it a bullet for Koi Pham's art, but only one bullet, because it's really not anywhere near as good as his work on Incredible Hercules was. I'd go into more detail but why bother? It's just stuff that other artists have already drawn, anyway.

There's really just no excuse for this. An entire issue wasted. And we don't even get any real insight or twists on what we've seen before. Nothing. Except for the Champions and Power Pack Skrulls.

Here's what the Marvel ad copy said about this issue: "Before the Skrulls invaded the human race, they battled the noble Kree in a bloodwar that has lasted centuries. And in this special Secret Invasion tie-in, the lives of two of the most famous Kree, Captain Mar-Vell and Marvel Boy, will alter the events of the Invasion forever. This special issue will have very serious consequences for the future of Mighty Avengers."

You could have fooled me. Skrull-Vell already did everything in other books and Marvel Boy does nothing.

Nothing.

I'm only finishing this Secret Invasion storyline because I am mentally ill. There's no reason anyone else should waste their money on this.

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