Secret Invasion #8 Moved to December 3rd

Marvel has announced that Secret Invasion #8 will arrive in stores on December 3rd (instead of the originally scheduled November 19th). A few related titles have been pushed back one week to reflect this new date. They are: Secret Invasion: Front Line #5 (Dec. 3), Secret Invasion: Dark Reign (Dec. 10), Invincible Iron Man #8, Mighty Avengers #20, Secret Invasion: Requiem (Dec. 17).

While no one likes delays, at least these are not terribly long. The delay for Secret Invasion #8 is related to extra pages in the issue (which is a good thing):

“The additional pages in #8 did both Leinil and the schedule in,” explained Executive Editor Tom Brevoort. “Anybody who pored over the artwork from #7 a week ago can easily see how he and Mark Morales have been putting their all (and then some) into every page and every panel, and that effort has finally caught up with us. Hopefully, retailers and fans will forgive us these extra two weeks as we make sure that everything is in the shape it should be in for the extra-sized climax—and from there, it’ll be smooth sailing straight into DARK REIGN.”

…and to get a little dig in at DC replacing J.G. Jones on Final Crisis #7, we have this quote:

David Gabriel, Marvel’s Senior Vice President of Sales, added, “In speaking with retailers, Marvel decided it was more important to preserve the creative integrity of the series, rather than rush out the final issue. This not only creates a stronger product for our loyal readers, but also for our retailer partners, whose support helped make Secret Invasion a huge success.”