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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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