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Secret Invasion: Who Do You Trust?

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Secret Invasion: Who Do You Trust? collects four individual comic books: the Secret Invasion: Who Do You Trust? one-shot, Secret Invasion Saga, Skrulls!, and Marvel Spotlight: Secret Invasion (a collection of interviews and promotional material), all originally published in 2009. The graphic novel is competently produced with thin, medium-gloss paper and a solid binding. Extras are limited: two unremarkable variant covers of the original Secret Invasion: Who Do You Trust?

As for the graphic novel's content, there is very little story on offer here. The original Who Do You Trust? contains five extremely short Secret Invasion-related tales (each is 8 pages long): one featuring Captain Marvel, one with Marvel Boy, one focusing on Wonder Man and the Beast, one about the Agents of Atlas, and one (the best one, in this reviewer's opinion) following the recent activities of Abigail Brand, Agent of S.W.O.R.D. All of these stories are entertaining--and feature good art (especially the Abigail Brand piece)--but there's not much to them; most readers will be disappointed by their brevity. Unfortunately, the rest of the graphic novel--Saga, Skrulls!, and Spotlight--offers merely well-polished editorial material. Saga is a narration (in fairly confusing form) of the Skrulls' history in the Marvel Universe. Skrulls! is an encyclopedia of Skrull-related characters written from a Skrull perspective. And Saga, as noted above, is simply a collection of light interviews and promotional material. For what they are, these three issues are not terrible, but most readers will probably not want to read them.

Ultimately, unless you're a die-hard Secret Invasion completist, you're better off skipping the Who Do You Trust? graphic novel. It offers far too little story.