Secret Invasion By Brian Michael Bendis: Omnibus...
The final stand took place in Central Park. It was a sea of green skin against spandex. In the heat of the mud and blood, the heroes finally found their footing. But it wasn't a hero who ended the war.
A Skrull ship touched down in the Savage Land, and out stepped a roster of heroes from the past—classic suits, old faces, people who had been dead for years. They claimed to be the real ones. They claimed the heroes on Earth were the imposters. Chaos erupted across the globe: was sucked into the Negative Zone. The S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier was crippled by a virus. Thunderbolts Mountain was breached from within. Secret Invasion by Brian Michael Bendis Omnibus...
It started with Elektra. When the leader of The Hand fell in battle, her body shimmered and shifted, revealing the green, chin-furrowed corpse of a Skrull. The Avengers stood over her body in a silence that felt like a death knell. The realization was a poison: Anyone could be a fake. The final stand took place in Central Park
This collection ties together years of "seeds" planted by Bendis. But it wasn't a hero who ended the war
Iron Man looked at Captain America. Spider-Woman looked at Wolverine. The questions became a heartbeat. Are you you? Have I been sleeping next to the enemy? The Skrulls had spent years kidnapping heroes and replacing them with sleeper agents so perfect they didn't even know they were spies until a psychic "trigger" word was spoken. Then, the sky cracked open.
As New York turned into a war zone, the disparate factions of the Marvel Universe—the New Avengers, the Mighty Avengers, the Hood’s villain army, and Nick Fury’s Secret Warriors—had to make a choice. They couldn't trust each other, but they had to fight together, or there would be no world left to argue over.



