Well, yeah. I think you could sell that to the press: “Remember those Captain America comics you read as a kid? Maybe he was really an alien in disguise!” I think it would make people curious.

bare, bear - what the hell, it’s not like he writes for a living. Unless he’s going to have naked pictures published somewhere? Is that the “exposure” he is referring to?

There are people in today’s world who get on airplanes, look around at all the seats, and think, “Okay, who here might be a terrorist?”

I think we’ll see a few stories about how Secret Invasion is paralleling modern life.

It’s fitting that Bendis would misspell Brevoort’s name, isn’t it?

Hopefully, someone will keep a running total of the continuity errors and other mistakes within SECRET INVASION (SI). As an example, the promo for SI #1 has Stark say that “magic-based power sets” can’t detect Skrulls. Wrong. Bendis hasn’t had magic fail to detect actual Skrulls yet, as far as I know, and in NEW AVENGERS, he didn’t have anyone even suspect that “Elektra” was an imposter. There was no reason to. Any spell that probes the soul would reveal a Skrull imposter; there’s no plausible way of avoiding it. Finding that a person’s soul was masked, so to speak, by magic would be as much of a giveaway as plain exposure would be.

I don’t see how SI would garner much mainstream press attention. There’s no relationship to identity theft, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” was done decades ago, and alien invasions by little green men were what the “Weekly World News” was about for years. SI is something to laugh at.

SRS

Never underestimate the amount of people in the press who want to write about their own geeky obsessions by spinning some kind of political commentary around it. I can’t wait to see some bum blather on about how Secret Invasion and Skrulls is an allusion to terrorist paranoia. Hell, you can just dig up some brainy article on Battlestar Galactica and just change the names.

I have a google alert on “Marvel Comics” for work and I’ve seen a few articles about Secret Invasion come out from wire services like Scripps News and the like, so it’s not unimaginable that some local papers and other middle America type publications did a piece on Secret Invasion. Sure, it’s not at the level of a Death of Cap story, but throwing in a thanks isn’t out of place for Bendis at this point. Plus, I think a few more of these stories may be hitting once the book actually comes out.

Then again, most of the articles I have seen smack of fanboys who work for newspapers writing up a story on their pet fascination, so maybe no one is really noticing.

Arch 14: Yes, ILLUMINATI #5 had Dr. Strange say that his magic couldn’t detect the impersonation of Elektra, but that was wrong too, because he didn’t try to see whether Elektra was an impersonation. Spells are specific; it’s not as if Strange is subconsciously using magic continuously to warn him whether anything is out of place. I get the impression, from the dialogue in ILLUMINATI #5 and the SECRET INVASION #1 preview, that Bendis simply doesn’t want to deal with the use of magic, whether it’s the Eye of Agamotto or something else, to detect impersonation, so he’s trying to cover up the plot hole by having characters say magic can’t detect impersonation, even if that hasn’t actually been the case.

As for the claim by Iron Man in SI #1 that his armor and “technologies” can’t detect impersonations–what are those statements based on? What are his armor and those various technologies looking for? In “Star Trek,” when Spcck said that the ship’s sensors didn’t recognize something, the sensors were presumably comparing radiation against various wavelengths, particle types, etc. There were apparently no samples of psionic energy in the ship’s library. Saying that those “technologies” can’t detect Skrulls means nothing, unless those technologies are looking at things that the human eyes wouldn’t recognize. His armor and those technologies weren’t doing DNA tests.

It looks like Bendis wants the storyline to go in a certain direction, and to have each of the heroes fearful that the others could be imposters, so he’s making the claim that the imposters are undetectable, even though there’s no basis for doing so. He might not know enough about biology to realize that tests can be very specific.

SRS

I don’t think it is a stretch to think that Quesada might appear on The Colbert Show again. Quesada stepped up when Colbert needed guests badly, the two seem to have a good relationship with each other, and Colbert might bring him on to do further promotion.

Didn’t Quesada appear and show pics of Obama and McCain as Skrulls already? I remember seeing posts about it online. So…SI has already been getting mainstream press in advance of it hitting the stands. Kinda makes some of this discussion moot.