The Pop Culture of Gus Lequerica

Secret Invasion is probably one of the most interesting works from writer Brian Michael Bendis, because behind the fantastic iconography of the Marvel lies a hidden meaning that contextualizes actual international events and the philosophy that is taken during war periods.

At first I was a little hesitant to buy the comics because I am not a fan of Brian Michael Bendis, I decided to buy only monthly issue of this new saga but not the tie-ins’ due the reason I didn’t wanted to spend my money on something I probably wouldn’t like at all, but still I wanted to collect it. To make a little recap about who is Brian Michael Bendis, probably the best way to make a relation is with comic book cross-over House of M and the Ultimate Spider Man series. Brian is one of the most high profile comic book writers in the industry and along with Mark Millar had launched several of the most contemporary works in the marvel company such as the Ultimate comics; his writing style is often irreverent, includes allusions to contemporary events and avant-garde in terms of storyline.

As many of his works, with Secret Invasion, Brian shows an allusion about how war can take the worst of people, such as religious fanatics (i.e. The Church of Hala or the Skrulls claiming that the planet earth is of them by religious right, also not religious right can interpreted but also as the concept of destroy and conquer), conquer and destroy any culture of civilization due political or economic interests (I am not going to say any specific example about this, because they are far too many to tell), the violation of the privacy and security (it is seen when the skrulls infiltrate to spy on the Earth population such as many governments use the spying techniques to have an advantage over their enemies; but also you can see one positive point of view that no matter the situation everyone should fight to defend their beliefs and freedom.

It’s to know that comics are not aimed at children at all as many popular beliefs say, in reality when you really read in a deep matter a comic book and analyze the background and possible interpretations about the subjects, even if they are mixed with heavy sci-fi, many of today comics portrait the multiple realities that are seen in the actual world.

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