Secret Invasion #1

                                                        

    Well, the wait’s finally over and I’m sitting here with the first issue in my hands and WOW! In the past few weeks leading up to this I must admit that my anticipation was hitting all-time lows as everywhere I turned it was “Skrull, Skrull, Skrull”. I was on Skrull overload!! But by the time I turned the last page of this ish, I was more than hooked again.I’m not going to play spoiler (besides below), go pick up the issue if you want to know the details, but suffice it to say, you’ll probably be picking up you jaw off the floor a time or two.

Skrull Watch: Let’s Update the list of Known Skrulls (SI #1 Spoilers ahead)

• Elektra – revealed in New Avengers #31
• Black Bolt – revealed in New Avengers: Illuminati #5
• The Revolutionary – revealed in Avengers: The Initiative Annual #1
• Cobalt Man – revealed in Captain Marvel #3
• Valentina Allegra de Fontaine – revealed in Secret Invasion Prologue
• Dum Dum Dugan – revealed in Secret Invasion Prologue
• Edwin Jarvis – revealed in Secret Invasion #1
• Henry Pym – revealed in Secret Invasion #1
• There have also been Susan Storm and Carol Danvers Skrulls, though the real ones are still around

Writer: Brian Bendis             Pencils: Leinil Yu          Publisher: Marvel Comics

THE CORNER RATING: 9 out of 10

The Daily Chuckle! 4-4-08

Man Wakes Up Inside a Garbage Truck

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) – A man nearly crushed inside a garbage truck told police he can’t recall how he ended up inside a trash bin – and then the truck – after a night of drinking with friends.

William M. Bowen, 27, awoke about 6:30 a.m. Thursday to find that he was inside a commercial trash-collection truck filled with waste.

A Rumpke garbage truck driver had emptied a bin behind the Muncie Eye Center into his truck and was about to activate its trash compressor when he heard someone screaming.

“He looked up and this gentleman was standing out the top of our truck,” said Larry Green, market safety supervisor for Rumpke.

Green said the only thing Bowen said to the driver who found him was that he was cold.

“This gentleman was extremely intoxicated,” he said.

Bowen told police the last thing he remembers before waking up in the truck was drinking with buddies about 3 a.m. Thursday at a Muncie bar.

Bowen, who wouldn’t tell police who his drinking pals were, was treated and released with minor injuries from Ball Memorial Hospital.

Green said Bowen was lucky that wasn’t seriously injured or killed in the trash compressor.

“I’m just glad it turned out the way it did,” Green said. “We didn’t have a body that was dead. We had a body that was talking.”

There was no telephone listing for Bowen in the Muncie area.