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: 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 Blazing Skull - Mark Todd The Vision - Aarkus Fin - Peter Noble Angel - Thomas Halloway Patriot - Jeffrey Mace

Inhumans: Black Bolt Triton

Kree Empire: Supreme Intelligence

ANTAGONISTS H. Warren Craddock Mandroids

Skrull Empire: Emperor Dorrek VII Super-Skrull - Kl’rt

Kree Empire: Ronan the Accuser Sentry 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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