Aside from the extremely slow pace, there's some very poor writing going on. Some of the lead characters are so horrible (and unbelievable) that you'd rather see the aliens take over. The Japanese storyline at least gives some insight as to what is happening and some effort to do something. The UK storyline highlights the isolation of a group of children in a Lord of the Flies like internal struggle. The US and Afghanistan plotlines' lead characters are the worst. Irrational, 2-dimensional caricatures of human beings moving through surreal situations. In the US nobody seems to talk to eachother about what's happening and both the population and authorities are running around like headless chickens. In Afghanistan the main character is a psycho mistreating the locals who are more in danger from him than any aliens.
Review of Invasion
