Marvel's mess

Marvel’s ‘Secret Invasion’ series – all £250 of it. I wish the Big Two would just give it rest with the whole annual cross-title ‘event’. As with Civil War and 52, it’s just a long drawn out way of making very little happen, diluting the essence of all of the characters by sticking them in the same room together for months at a time.

If you want superheroes to look super, you have to surround them with regular folk, not each other. This problem applies to Heroes as well – but at least they aren’t doing a crossover with every other program produced by NBC.