Episode 11 - Kree-Skrull War pt2 - Skrulled Into a False Sense
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My recording sounds like it's in a tincan and we couldn't get it fixed in time to release. Sorry about that. -Jonathan
Episode 11: Skrulled into a False Sense Today we’ll be covering Avengers 92-94, the confrontation of the Kree-Skrull War
Dramatis Personae: PROTAGONISTS
- Anelle
- Captain Marvel - Mar-Vell
- Carol Danvers
Rick Jones Avengers
Captain America - Steve Rogers
- Goliath - Clint Barton
- Iron Man - Tony Stark
- Jarvis
- Quicksilver - Pietro Maximoff
- Scarlet Witch - Wanda Maximoff
- Thor - Thor Odinson
- Vision
- Wasp - Janet Van Dyne
Yellowjacket/Ant-Man - Hank Pym S.H.I.E.L.D.
Dum Dum Dugan
Nick Fury Rick’s Simpler Heroes
Captain America - Steve Rogers
- Human Torch - Jim Hammond)
- Namor the Sub-Mariner
- Cat-Man (from Holyoke Comics)
- The Heap (from Hillman Comics)
- The Green Lama (from Prize Comics)
- Fighting Yank (Bruce Carter III) (from Nedor Comics)
Fantoman (from Centaur Comics) Fantastic Four
Mr. Fantastic - Reed Richards
The Thing - Ben Grimm Inhumans
Triton
ANTAGONISTS
- H. Warren Craddock
Mandroids Skrull Empire
Emperor Dorrek VII
- Super-Skrull - Kl’rt
- Skrull Posing as a Cow & Human Torch
- Skrull Posing as a Cow & Mr. Fantastic
Skrull Posing as a Cow & The Thing Kree Empire
Ronan the Accuser
- Sentry 459
Preface:
- We’ve been covering this story in three parts, this is part two
- If you’re new, we recommend starting with the prior episode
- Empyre is coming up and all of that drama starts with the Kree-Skrull War
Avengers 92: “All Things Must End!”
- Wanda flirts with Vision by dressing like him
- Normal life at Avengers Mansion is interrupted when Jarvis bursts into the room. He announces that someone leaked the Kree plot to turn back Earth’s evolution (see last episode)
- Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are definitely Mutants
- Goliath and his fabulous outfit come in and they are a whole lot. He thought everyone had agreed to keep those events a secret.
- The Avengers turn on the TV and see that H. Warren Craddock has been appointed head of the Alien Activities Commission, a comic counterpart to Joseph McCarthy’s House Committee on Internal Security. Also, with modern history for context it’s even more uncomfortable
- Mar-Vell and Rick Jones walk in and Mar offers to give himself over to the authorities. No one agrees except CLINT FREAKING BARTON… freaking guy…
- Vision, however, is having none of it and rightly points out how wrongly detaining anyone injured everyone
- A helicopter flies in piloted by Carol Danvers, as she crashes first Captain Marvel then Vision breaks her fall.
- Basically this scene is a mess. Captain Marvel’s powers are wildly inconsistent. A lot is happening and none of it really works
- Carol is saved but Wanda is concerned about her boy-toy Vis. Vision, however, as after pausing for dramatic timing, he re-emerges unscathed.
- SHIELD planes buzz Avengers Mansion searching for Mar-Vell. Carol and Mar slip out and head to Upstate NY to hide out.
- Mar is concerned that running will only confirm his guilt but Vision points out that he’s already been found guilty in the court of public opinion
- SHIELD tries to pursue but the Quinjet is too fast.
- Craddock yells at Fury for letting them escape in a prescient call-out of President Bush Sr. after his appointment to UN Ambassador in 1971
- Fury chastises Craddock in the most important exchange in this issue
- Rick Jones has feelings about the complication of modern heroes. I find this really interesting having been through the 90’s emergence of Image comics and how the lack of this greyness was a large argument for the creation of Image.
- Clint sees a fight break out outside the mansion and heads out to break it up but it was staged to be able to serve a court summons.
- The Avengers head to court where Craddock is the worst…
- The testimony of Craddock’s witnesses is… slanted… to say the least.
- Reed Richards gives some good advise but BEN FREAKING GRIMM slags the Avengers hard
- Vision tries to testify but Craddock dismisses him out of hand for just being a robot… what a jerk
- Rick Jones gets a telepathic whammy from Mar-Vell, he’s under attack and Rick races off to help
- When they arrive at Avengers Mansion they find Jarvis distraught and the mansion trashed
- Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor show up and declare the current Avengers unfit, and disband them.
Avengers 93: “This Beachhead Earth”
- Vision staggers into the Mansion and collapses, begging for help before shutting off
- Ant-Man shows up and explains that Vision isn’t dead, just needing some help
- There is a great bit where Ant-Man faces off against Vision’s immune system, Adams is an artistic LEGEND for a reason!
- As Vision wakes up he chastises the founders for breaking up the team but they have no memory of doing that. A mystery is afoot
- Team Drama because Vision/Wanda/Pietro each being too dramatic
- Remember the cows from Episode 1? The Skrull Cows we swore would never show up again? THEY SHOW UP AGAIN! WE ARE LIARS YA’LL! Skrull-McDoubles pose as the F4 and attack
- Captain Marvel and Carol Danvers have been captured by some Skrull
- Mar tries to escape. He recognizes that even though he’s been banished he’s still got to report whats going on with the Skrull on Earth.
- Our heros demolish the Cow-Skrull like some Double Doubles and then fail to stop the Skrull ship from escaping as it flees the farmhouse.
Avengers 94: “More than Inhuman!”
- Super-Skrull nukes the Inhuman’s home but a forcefield protects it. He’s ticked
- Kl’rt decides to trade Mar-Vell for an end to his banishment
- Emperor Dorrek is afraid that Kl’rt is trying to usurp the throne…
- Anelle continues to be our favorite
- Emperor Dork tortures Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver to get Captain Marvel to fold which works, he’ll help build the Skrull a powerful weapon with Kree tech
- H. Warren Craddock is also the worst
- He unveils the Mandroids, basically people piloting armor suits to fight the Avengers. Iron Man uses his superior Roller-Derby tactics to demolish the Mandroids though, fear not.
- As all of this is going on, Triton climbs out of a manhole seeking help!
Creators of these issues: Roy Thomas, Sal Buscema, John Buscema, John Romita Sr. Neal Adams, George Roussos, Tom Palmer, Sam Rosen, and Stan Lee
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