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I love Brian Michael Bendis’ writing.  If I ever have triplets, I may name them Brian, Michael, and Bendis.  (The third one kind of gets shafted on that deal.)  But today I’m going to pick apart one sniggly detail that has been bugging me since I read SI #5.

In Secret Invasion #3, Skrullingbird is able to tell Hawkeye a deeply personal secret that only he and the real Mockingbird would now.  Mock & Hawk were married in the 1980s, but it would probably be only 3 or 4 years ago in elastic comic book time, I would think. 

In New Avengers #44, we see the Skrulls playing with a Reed Richards clone and using a faux-Franklin Richards to get what they want from him.  It is common knowledge, even in the Skrull Empire, that the Reed & Sue have children.  Franklin is 8  or 10 years old now in comic age. 

So why, tell me, why would the InvisiSkrull Woman not know that Reed has children in Secret Invasion #5? 

Anybody? 

With most writers and in most comics, I would simply think that this was sloppy writing.  But this is Bendis, and this is Secret Invasion and I’m coming to expect great things from both.   

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