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Of the thousands and thousands of heroes and humans affected by the Skrull invasion, one man’s horror and heartbreak rises above the rest. This is the story of Luke Cage!
Who’s a Skrull? Jessica or the baby? Neither? Who didn’t tell Jessica that Jarvis was a Skrull and therefore NOT an appropriate baby sitter? If the baby ISN’T a Skrull, what does Jarvis want with it?
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Is your enemy’s enemy really always your friend? Medusa seeks out the Kree to help take on the Skrulls in #3 of 4. This epic miniseries will not only decide the fate of Black Bolt but also lead into Marvel’s plans for the Inhumans in 2009.
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The Skrulls have issued a Press Release…
To all of Earth, we are the alien race you know as Skrulls. We wish to offer a few words to you about recent events. You have so much potential. You have so much to offer. Your future can be bright and without war, poverty, and fear. All you have to do is let us help. We come not as an alien armada. We are not invading your lands as conquerors. We are here to help you. We can cure all that is wasting this world. We bring with us a message, one that can be easily translated into any language. Please share this with your brothers and sisters, for it is a simple message that can help us all in the days to come: EMBRACE CHANGE.
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To learn more about our message, please visit our web site. There you will find the tools to help create a better tomorrow. You will find the path to Embrace Change.
Last night we made our appeal to you on ESPN2. Today, MTV embraces the change that we offer and have chosen to re-air our groundbreaking television commercial.
With those simple words, and the actions that they entail, all can be resolved. We can finally put an end to aggression, violence, and strife. Remember, He loves you all so very much.
The Skrulls are a displaced race of aliens, whose homeworld has been destroyed, and have come to Earth as part of their prophecy that the Earth is their planet by divine right. With the ability to mimic any human, language, or power, these shape-changers have resources of over 5,000 characteristics, and are focused on utilizing these to bring forward a message of change to those around the world. Areas of emphasis include containing disease, disarmament of all countries, elimination of international debts and poverty, food and shelter for all citizens, and cessation of bigotry and violence.
Rooted in their scriptures, theirs is a belief of change and the knowledge that “He” loves you. Their current advances into Earth have been chronicled by Eisner Award-Winning writer Brian Michael Bendis, and rendered by artists Leinil Francis Yu, Mark Morales, and Laura Martin and published by Marvel Comics. Although their actions seem skewed through these Earthlings’ lenses, the Skrulls’ strategy is to leverage its message of change in a growing array of opportunities around the world.
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According to their own tight-lipped precog, this team’s days are numbered. I hope they manage to prove her wrong. Paul Pelletier’s beautiful artwork seems to get better with ever title he touches and he was already brilliant when he did Superboy and the Ravers. But I want to see him stick around for 60 issues or so.
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Can the divided teams reunite and conquer the Skrulls? Can Hulking fulfill the prophecy and become a Skrull messiah? What will become of Xavin after the dust settles in this concluding chapter?
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Looks like the Thunderbolts (and the mysterious most likely Skrullified Andrea Strucker) are coming to the rescue as Skrulls attack Washington DC.
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This title has been another pleasant Secret Invasion surprise. If you told me months ago that I’d look forward to a title about Hercules and a whiz kid, leading D-list gods against the Skrull pantheon, I’d have been skeptical, but it kinda rocks.
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Captain Britain is back from the dead, AGAIN. It’s hard to keep a myth down. Now he’s gonna kick some magic Skrull ass. I stick by my statement that this title is the best thing to come out of Secret Invasion.
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Once again Front line shows up the man on the streets view of a current Marvel Universe crisis.
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Looks like Carol’s still kicking NYC Skrull ass. I know she wanted to step into being Earth’s Mightiest hero and all after M-Day etc, but I’ve never seen her quite this tough before. Then again I don’t know if I’ve ever read her at war…
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Johnny, Ben, Franklin, Valeria and Lyja have to stage a prison break to get some mad scientist level assistance to get themselves and the Baxter Building the hell outta the Negative Zone and back to the hot zone that is NYC. Frying pan, Fire.
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Newsarama has been running a feature that helps explain the Secret Invasion in issue-by-issue, play-by-play style… Here is the most recent column plus the three previous discussions. If you want to readthem in their entirety, please click the “read the rest of this entry link at the bottom of the post.
The Mighty Avengers #16: Holy crap, Elektra’s a Skrull! Oh wait . . . Anyway, this issue skips way back down the line to fill in some gaps. Elektra hired Electro to crack open The Raft? Check. One, no two, no three Skrulls went after Elektra before she was taken down? Check. And Skrullektra drawing the wrath of the New Avengers down upon her was intentional? Okay, that’s a little surprising. I’m guessing that the plan wasn’t actually for Skrullektra (Skrull name, Pagon) to die, or was it? Was the plan to replace Elektra and then sacrifice that piece to alert the heroes in order to sow dissention? It certainly made the New Avengers think that Stark was a Skrull. Then again, maybe that particular piece of paranoia would have played with their heads more if the Mighty Avengers had quit letting them go whenever they had them cornered.
The Incredible Hercules #119: Of all the Skrull betrayals, the revelation of Kirby the pup hurts the most. Because coyote puppies are cute. Especially those with cyborg enhancements. Skrullby creates confusion among the God Squad as they attempt to take the fight to Kly’bn, God of Skrulls. Snowbird is seemingly lost defending her allies in time for Kly’bn to appear. And that’s okay, because he loves you, man.
The New Avengers #43: Unlike many recent issues of the core Avengers titles, this one’s sort of happening in “real-time”, concurrent with the Secret Invasion mini. Captain America from the crashed ship confronts Spider-Man and the Marvel Legends SDCC-exclusive set of Ka-Zar, Shanna, and Zabu. The group clashes, and Cap punks Zabu twice. For a second, you wonder if it IS Cap, because if there’s a lower-powered guy in the 616 who could whip the ass of a sabretooth tiger, it’s Cap Classic. But no, a couple of well-placed native darts and Captain Skrullerica goes down frothing.
Ooops. Spoke too soon. We are now officially in the Flashback Zone (one zone over from the Negative Zone, the former home of Annihilus and current home of a few regular posters). The clock turns back to Skrull World Satriani . . . wait a second, Satriani? Does it have moons named Vai, Malmsteen and Eric Johnson? Anyway, we see the now familiar ritual as Skrull Pitto Nili becomes “Cap”. We also get a motivational breakdown for the invasion by the Queen that answers a lot of questions as to the “why” of the plan. Unfortunately, the Skrull Cap doesn’t answer enough questions for Shanna, as she spears him in the throat. (Interesting note: The sound that a spear makes is Chuck. Oh boy.) Shanna gets her anger at Spider-Man, but they’re interrupted by a Six Budda salute, no doubt courtesy of a nearby Black Widow.
So to wrap-up: Savage Land landing Classic Cap=now dead Skrull.
Avengers: The Initiative #15: The 3-D Man plot picks up as he confides to Confirmed Skrull Crusader that they may be the only two humans left on the base. Why? Because in a panic to remain undiscovered, Crusader had messed with 3-D’s goggles, a move that in turn makes 3-D see everyone but Crusader as a Skrull. In a hurry to get out and warn others, 3-D’s craft goes down in New Mexico.
For the rest of the issue, Crusader comes to the fore as we get a flashback about his origins and how he became a human sympathizer (via the usual channels: candy, movies, and women). He finds himself in the midst of the New York battle from SI #3 and winds up confronting an old comrade. After Crusader kills him in battle, he renounces his shape-changing and declares (albeit in narration) that he’s now and forever remaining in Crusader form.
Thunderbolts #122: This issue finally catches up to the scene of Mar-Vell bursting into the mountain HQ we saw in Secret Invasion #1. The first part of the book does something that seems pretty Skrully to me: they bring in a supposedly cloned Andrea Strucker, but man, is my Skrulldar singing. Soon after, Mar-Vell creates a new door and beats down the T-Bolts. As you’ve seen elsewhere, Norman forestalls him with an offer of a drink and a chance to “talk about it.” And that’s pretty much that.
New Warriors isn’t selling very well! Quick, add a red sky! Er… a single Super Skrull for a 2 page battle and a panel of the Skrull fleet, and we’ll call it a Secret Invasion tie-in! It’s the new hotness!
Yup, that’s all that happened in New Warriors #14 that’s Skrull related. Oh, and the old New Warriors are taking on the New New Warriors, cause they think Night Thrasher is a Skrull (he’s not). Mooooving right along…
X-Factor #33 kicked off a crossover, and a crossover. The team just moved to Detroit, and now they have to deal with Skrulls and She-Hulk. Darwin and Longshot have teamed up and are palling around together. Darwin is trying to get to Professor Xavier, and thought Longshot’s luck powers could get him there. X-F Investigations is hired to find the instantly-evolving lad by his father. Their paths cross, but not before She-Hulk’s partner (and Skrully daughter of Kl’rt the O.G. Super Skrull) Jazinda finds the duo. Why is she looking for them you ask? Well, hold your horses, I’m getting there! Turns out, Longshot is… drumroll please… A Skrull!
As Jaz clashes with Skrull-shot (Long-skrull was too porn-y/pirate-y sounding) and She-Hulk clashes with our favorite Detroit-resident Mutants, we move directly into She-Hulk #31. Despite Monet’s pleas (and later Madrox’s) to forego the super-hero team-up cliché of fighting before realizing they have a common goal, She-Hulk decides to just duke it out a bit. As she does, readers find out the backstory behind the events of this issue. Skrull-shot is actually Nogor, a “talisman” of the gods. Essentially, in order for the Skrulls to go to war and have the blessings of the gods behind them, Nogor must be present first. Every Skrull can feel this presence, hence Jazinda’s sudden awakening in #30. Jaz also reveals to Jennifer that she’s known about the invasion for years, but didn’t think it would actually happen. She says if they can take out (or kill) the Talisman, the invasion can’t go further, as the troops will be so demoralized. Back in the present moment, She-Hulk continues to fight when she should be (and knows she should be) talking it out. She recognizes this, and likes feeling a bit more, shall we say, Savage? Anyway, as Jazinda tries to convince Darwin that Longshot’s a Skrull, he mentions casually that if Longshot WAS a Skrull, Darwin would just evolve an ability to drop the Skrull’s disguise and reveal his true nature. Which, of course, then actually happens the moment Darwin touches Nogor. With that, we pause until X-Factor #34, where the story concludes.
SKRULLS! is the most obvious name for a tie-in one-shot award winner this year (congratulations, Marvel!), and is essentially a Skrull-y Handbook. As such, it doesn’t contain any information that helps the story along at all. It’s a nice introduction (and an extremely thorough one at that) to the Skrulls for new readers, or for people that just want to know more about their previous appearances.
Whew! That’s a lot of Skrulls. Remember, Kly’Bn loves you, baby.
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Captain Britain’s new team MI-13 has a new addition as of issue #5… Eric Brooks, who is much better known in the Marvel Universe and as Blade the Vampire Hunter. Blade has heard about the trouble that the Skrulls were bringing to his native homeland, England (who knew) and signed up to join Pete Wisdom’s merry band. Looking forward to how he and Spitfire get along now that she’s looking somewhat vampy.
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One of the best things to come out of Secret Invasion is Captain Britain and MI-13, the new hit series stars a team that is spontaneously forming to defend the shores of the British Isles and nothing less than the fate of all magic from them damned dirty Skrulls.
In “The Guns of Avalon” the latest chapter in the dramatic saga, all looks lost as the Skrulls have laid siege to Avalon and stolen the power of many important mystic relics. But it is always handy to have a speedster around. Spitfire can get the gang to safety and it looks like Pete has a plan. Well SOMEONE has to resurrect Captain Britain (Its not called Pete Wisdom and MI-13).
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And, oh yeah, Its not just you. Spitfire is a freaking vampire (well what do you expect with vampiric Baron Bloods for an uncle AND a son). But I’m guessing she’s a good one or she and the new member won’t be getting along. More on that later today…
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We know at some point the King of the Inhumans, Black Bolt, was replaced with a Super Skrull. We’ve seen (in New and Mighty Avengers) how Yellowjacket and Spiderwoman were replaced by Skrulls, but no explanation has been given yet as to what happened to the man who can decimate cities with a whisper.
In the coming August released Secret Invasion: Inhumans #1 we see Tony Stark turn over the Skrull Black Bolt to the Inhumans. Lets just say Medusa is NOT pleased. The art looks amazing.
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I’m loving these backstories revealing how people were replaced and this week we get to findout when the PymSkrull took out Hank. looks like it may take the dangers of rebound sex to a new level.
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Captain Britain and MI: 13 #1 by Paul Cornell and Leonad Kirk, on sale May 14. It figures that an invasion by a diabolical shapeshifting race from across the galaxy would be international (we did find the dead Elektraskrull in Japan didn’t we?). So in this title we see what everyone’s least favorite avocado aliens are up to in merry olde England. Captain Britain is backed up by team of fellow brits, including…Spitfire, Pete Wisdom, the Black Knight, John the Skrull from the Wisdom miniseries (a Skrull who’s spent the last four decades on Earth looking like John Lennon) and a doctor named Faisa Hussein who gains super powers in the first issue. I was skeptical at first, but am warming up to the idea enough to give it a few issues.
Full interview with Paul Cornell from Comics Bulletin
Preview images from CBR
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This weeks Mighty Avengers was a drastic improvement on what we’ve seen recently. Hopefully the timing snafus between the Avengers titles (Ultron, and the Venom Virus were supposed to cross over but just didn’t quite manage to make the schedule). Inquiring minds have been wondering what Nick Fury has been up to , and now we know that he was onto the Skrulls months ago. Th pane last panel seems to insinuate that Fury suspects one or more of the following of being Skrull agents… Spiderman, Wolverine, Daredevil, Hulkling, Dr. Strange, Namor, Sentry, Lockjaw and Stature. I noticed all the Young Avengers among his photos, but didn’t see any Runaways, so Xavin may be under his radar.
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