[Post-Lollards] SKRULL UPDATE!
(This post contains spoilers for SECRET INVASION#1, but not the spoilers about who is or isn’t a SKRULL, just general ones about the tone of the comic)
Listeners to Lollards will be aware that the nefarious shapechanging alium Skrulls are invading the pages of Marvel Comics, in a series called SECRET INVASION, which actually started this week and goes on sale in UK comics shops today! Is it any good?
Yes! It is pretty good! Here’s why!
1. It should probably have been called OBVIOUS INVASION since it includes a big space station designed to defend Earth against aliens being BLOWN UP and then a HUGE BIG ARMADA appearing.
2. The Armada is a really nice touch actually – the Skrulls’ homeworld got eaten by Galactus aaaaages ago and their empire decimated a year or two back, so their invasion force is a ragtag of different crafts, D-Day style “little ships” and big space cruisers. Some of them have big sharky FACES painted on!
3. In their original appearance, the Skrulls were notoriously driven off by being faked out by old comics. Their plan to confuse Earth’s heroes in this issue appears to work on exactly the same principle!
4. There is a dodgy political subtext in that the Skrulls are religiously motivated fanatics who believe that Earth has always been part of their homeland. Where could all this be going!!
5. The reveals of who is or isn’t a Skrull all pretty much make sense so far.
In conclusion: go Skrulls go!
Tom in FT /The Brown Wedge • Comics • 298 views
My understanding of the significance of the final splashpage notwithstanding (my knowledge of marvel lore doesn’t go back that far), I really enjoyed this too. Listeners to the Slug Of Time (you all should) will be pleased to see that the shapeshifting baddie Skrull invasion force will, somewhere along the line, involve shapeshifted Skrulls who don’t know that they are Skrulls. Indeed fans of Battlestar Galactica cannot help but notice the impossibility of detection of the Skrull duplicates mixed up with fact that the Skrull homeworld has been destroyed (come in ragtag fleet!)
Actually Slug Of Time fans will also be pleased to see that much of the action of this comic takes place in the Savage Land, a Hyperborian jungle hidden in the MIDDLE OF ANTARCTICA.
Everything connects.
Oh, we need to get a photo of Mr Fantastic on the final page. That is some terrific art.
ha, i was thinking “BUT THIS IS JUST BSG!!!” all through tom’s description too…
i love the “beyond this impenetrable ring of ice it must be LOVELY AND WARM” meme, in antarctic science FACT as well as fiction
That awesome panel in full. Well not quite in full, i have blanked out the shooters ID for spoiler purposes.
It’s the eye that makes it.