FROM THE CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS: TOGETHER AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME

It had been nearly four years since Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, were disassembled after the breakdown of one of their won. While Captain America and Iron Man went on to form a new team several months later, the Mighty Thor was removed from our plane of existnece after the Ragnarok. As the superhero Civil War erupted throughout the Marvel Universe with the passing of the Superhuman Registration Act, friend turned against friend in a pitched battle in New York City that ultimately resulted in one team of former Avengers being relegated to a fugitive strike force, the promotion of Iron Man to the Director of SHIELD and the assassination of Steve Rogers, the legendary Captain America.
   Since then, while Iron Man has continued to run SHIELD and enforce the registration act, a reborn Thor has emerged in Oklahoma, and Steve Rogers' one-time partner, Bucky, has assumed the role of Captain America. In Secret Invasion #6, the old, the reborn and the new will join forces to battle the Skrull invasion of the Earth as Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America meet up again for the first time. With so much happening to the three of them since the Civil War -- Iron Man's participation in the creation of a Thor clone that killed longime hero, Goliath; Bucky's mission to assassinate Iron Man before finally accepting his new role as Captain America; Thor's own personal battles as he tries to balance his godly and earthly duties -- the tension is sure to be high.
  The Earth has a slim chance at best to repel the alien forces and with the heroes of the planet still unsure who to trust thanks to the shape shifting subterfuge of the Skrulls, there has never been a greater need for unity and leadership from these three icons. They may not be the same heroes they once were -- some in more than one way -- but their meeting is sure to provide the forces of good with a surge of hope, something to rally behind in these most dire times.
   How will Bucky handle working alongside the man who he blames for the death of Steve Rogers? Can Thor put aside his feelings of betrayal at the use of his clone that was responsible for Goliath's demise in the Civil War? After all that has happened, can Iron Man regain the trust of his fellow heroes enough to follow his lead? And will even the reuniting of three of the earth's most prominent heroes be enough to turn the tide against a Skrull invasion that has been so thorough and so well planned over the years? Be sure to see how the new Captain America, Thor and Iron Man, the person perhaps most responsible for the schism of and distrust within the superhero community, react to one another and assemble the scattered remnants of earth's defenders in Secret Invasion #6, written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Lenil Yu, on sale beginning September 10th.
   -- Charles J. Baserap