Skrull Kill Krew

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caption=Cover art for "Avengers: The Initiative" #16.
Art by Mark Brooks.
team_name=Skrull Kill Krew
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Skrull Kill Krew" #1 (1995)
creators=Grant Morrison
Mark Millar
Steve Yeowell
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members=Ryder
Riot
3-D Man
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The Skrull Kill Krew are a fictional group from Marvel Comics with their own series published in 1995 and collected in one volume in 2006.

The characters were created by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Steve Yeowell.

Publication history

The team first appeared in their own eponymous series written by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar, with art by Steve Yeowell, published in 1995. The series was originally announced as an ongoing series. For unspecified reasons, it was changed around issue #2 to be a mini-series, ending with issue #5.

They then made an appearance in "" #16 as part of the Secret Invasion tie-in and writer Dan Slott announced at the 2008 Baltimore Comic-Con that they would be getting a new mini-series featuring the new line-up. [ [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18245 Baltimore: Cup of B Panel] , Comic Book Resources, September 27, 2008]

Fictional team biography

The Fantastic Four, at the beginning of their superhero career ["Fantastic Four" #2] defeated a group of Skrull spies. Reed Richards brainwashed them into becoming cows and retaining that form for life. The Skrull-cows at one point regained their memories ["Avengers" #89-97] leading to the death of one of them. The other three were turned over to the U.S. government and restored to cows in shape and mind.

The milk from these cows affected a small dairy town named King's Crossing. The Fantastic Four, via a girl Johnny Storm was dating, ended up investigating the town and neutralizing the threat. ["Fantastic Four Annual" #17]

They were then (apparently by accident) shipped to a slaughterhouse and butchered as beef. Some of the meat eaten by people transferred the Skrull's adaptable DNA code into the human's cells, resulting in a bizarre condition called "Skrullovoria Induced Skrullophobia", in which these individuals not only gained shape-shifting powers equal to, or greater than, actual Skrulls, but also developed an intense fear or hatred of Skrulls. Only a small number of humans proved susceptible to this syndrome, and most did not survive the initial stages of infection. But several people who proved somewhat longer-lived (though still dying) were gathered together by a man known only as Ryder, who was himself a victim of the disease, to act out their increasingly irrational impulses to seek out and destroy the ones who did this to them (by "letting" themselves get turned into cows), usually by graphically "blowing away" the Skrulls with high-powered weapons.

Their desire to kill Skrulls not only stopped many plots which endangered humans, it also led them to fight other well known Marvel characters, such as Baron Von Strucker and Captain America.

ecret Invasion

Ryder and Riot return but the other three have died earlier of their disease. They encounter the new 3-D Man in the New Mexico desert and save him from a Skrull posing as Sharon Ventura. 3-D Man joins them in rooting out Blacksmith of the Desert Stars, another Skrull, and killing him as well. ["Avengers: The Initiative" #16] They were next seen helping Nevada's Fifty State Initiative team, The Heavy Hitters deal with a Skrull posing as an unnamed team member. ["Avengers: the Initiative" #17]

Membership

Current

*Ryder - Leader and founder. In addition to shapeshifting, he can teleport, has enhanced strength and reflexes, and carries lots of firearms. He prefers to animate his hair into snakelike tentacles.

*Riot - Punk rocker. Turns into an armored insectoid form. In this form she has great strength and sharp spines. Now stuck in that form.

*3-D Man - Delroy Garrett, African American who inherited his powers from the original 3-D Man, a 1950s anti-Skrull hero. Able to recognise Skrulls with his special goggles.

Former

*Catwalk - Former fashion model who transforms into a feline humanoid form. In this shape she has enhanced athletic abilities, with claws and fangs. Dead.

*Dice - Former surfer. He can breathe underwater and transform his limbs into weapons which project explosive blasts. Dead.

*Moonstomp - British Neo-Nazi skinhead. Hates Skrulls so much that he's willing to work with Ryder (a black man) even though he feels like he's compromising his "values" in doing so. He has some shapeshifting powers, but prefers to bash his foes with a normal claw hammer. During the series, his degenerative condition worsens, causing him to develop patches of dark skin, which displeases him immensely. Dead.

Collected editions

The intial series has been collected as a trade paperback:

*"Skrull Kill Krew" (2006 ISBN 0-7851-2120-X)

Adaptation

In 2006, the series was considered for a TV series. [ [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=90143 Marvel Reports 3Q Eearnings] ] , Newsarama, November 6, 2006]

Notes

References

*comicbookdb|type=team|id=1274|title=Skrull Kill Krew
* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/skrlkk.htm Skrull Kill Krew] at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe

External links

* [http://www.skrullkillkrew.com SkrullKillKrew.com]

Reviews

* [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/114969794928745.htm Review of trade paperback] and [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/115390520767480.htm another] , Comics Bulletin