Episode 12: Kree-Skrull War pt3: All’s Fair in Kree and Skrull

Today we’ll be covering Avengers 95-97, the conclusion to the Kree-Skrull War

Dramatis Personae:

PROTAGONISTSAnelleCaptain Marvel - Mar-VellCarol DanversRick Jones

Avengers:

Captain America - Steve RogersGoliath - Clint BartonIron Man - Tony StarkJarvisQuicksilver - Pietro MaximoffScarlet Witch - Wanda MaximoffThor - Thor OdinsonVisionWasp - Janet Van DyneYellowjacket/Ant-Man - Hank Pym

S.H.I.E.L.D.:

Dum Dum DuganNick Fury

Rick’s Simpler Heroes:

Captain America - Steve RogersHuman Torch - Jim HammondNamor the Sub-MarinerBlazing Skull - Mark ToddThe Vision - AarkusFin - Peter NobleAngel - Thomas HallowayPatriot - Jeffrey Mace

Inhumans:

Black BoltTriton

Kree Empire:

Supreme Intelligence

ANTAGONISTS

H. Warren CraddockMandroids

Skrull Empire:

Emperor Dorrek VIISuper-Skrull - Kl’rt

Kree Empire:

Ronan the AccuserSentry 459

Inhumans:

Maximus the Mad

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 95: “Something Inhuman This Way Comes”

• Best opening splash page in a long time, Triton looks EXCELLENT
• Unfortunately, he gets chased by a mob
• Triton arrives at Avengers Mansion as they are fighting the Mandroids
• Vision has conflicting emotions
• Flashback of Blackagar and Maximus parents being accidentally killed because MAXIMUS IS EVIL and this, somehow, is how we ended up with Mad Max
• Vision’s group rejoins the rest of the Avengers to rescue Black Bolt
• Black Bolt regains the crown
• Rick Jones is abducted by the Kree

Avengers 96: “The Andromeda Swarm”

• The Avengers, fully reunited, land at a S.H.I.E.L.D. Space Base where Nick Fury gives them a ship to intercept the Skrull Armada
• Tony tries to gossip about Vision and Wanda but nobody has time for that
• The Avengers use a trick where their ship visually looks like a whole armada but it ends up only showing as a single ship on radar, so a single Skrull ship investigates
• Iron Man thirst poses aggressively at the Skrull
• Thor, Vision, and Iron Man take on the lone ship
• Meanwhile, Captain Marvel has agreed to work on the Omni-Wave Projector for the King Dorrek VII in order to save Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch
• Mar is tricksy and instead made a holographic projector, and ambushes the guards. Dorrek panics and orders “Execute Plan Delta”
• Vision has a TNG: Data moment and nearly beats a guard to death, but Iron Man and Thor pull him off
• Leather Daddy Clint is the sole Avenger left in a fightercraft so he boards the ship, but runs out of ideas
• Ronan villain monologues to Rick Jones but Rick is teleported to the Supreme Intelligence
• Supreme Intelligence explains that it’s been behind everything the whole time…
• Supreme Intelligence then shunts Rick back to the Negative Zone

Avengers 97: “Godhood’s End!”

• Rick ponders life in the Negative Zone, visually excellent
• Annihilus attacks
• Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch buy Captain Marvel time to use the Omni-Wave
• Anelle tries to convince Dorrek to chill, but he’s never been chill about anything
• Mar destroys the Omni-Wave
• Rick escapes the Negative Zone through a portal, the Supreme Intelligence informs that it’s now time for Rick to glow up
• Ronan, Public Accuser tries to murder Rick and the Supreme Intelligence but Rick summons a ton of old Marvel heroes to fight for him
• Rick then deus ex machina’s all Kree and Skrull by freezing them all in place
• G.W. Craddock was a skrull all along and when that is revealed the crowd vents their rage, tearing him limb from limb
• Supreme Intelligence tells Rick that Rick isn’t important, any ol’ human would have done
• Captain Marvel thinks about Anelle. This brief moment is the entire basis for Empyre… one sentence… that’s it
• Supreme Intelligence teleports everyone home, real Craddock clears the Avengers of all charges and… that’s it

Creators of these issues:

Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, John Buscema, Tom Palmer, Sam Rosen, Alan Weiss, Gil Kane, Bill Everett, Stan Lee

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