Silent Invasion was a star of the indie comics movement of the eighties. This volume is the long awaited collection of the follow up Secret Messages series from the beginning of this century. The story shifts focus from paranoid reporter Matt Sinklage to (maybe not paranoid enough) Private Detective Phil Housley as they explore, missing persons, mad scientists and alien abductions. This story line is missing the fifties red-scare element which did parallel nicely with the paranoia. There is a continuing reference to Canadian Football, the significance which I admit escapes me.

Once again we get a convoluted sci-fi tinged crime story here, with a detective forced into hunting down the guy he killed in the previous books, because – because aliens, is the answer. Once again the artwork has everyone look the same lunkhead type, so it's really hard to keep track of who is supposed to be who, but I did find more favour with this than on my first visit to this world.