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John Byrne
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From the original. . .
How many times have I read that issue, and I did not register that line!! I
feel like I just stepped thru the looking glass!
Perhaps the fourth Skrull was needed to pilot their shuttle up to the
mothership.
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Mikael Bergkvist
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It's saying something about the speed and ease of how these comics seem to have been made, for them to simply forget about a skrull until the last minute.
I get the impression they had a little to much fun in doing this, and just winged it there for a while, before realising that 'hey, this is selling.. maybe we should take it a bit more serious...'.
Edited by Mikael Bergkvist on 18 June 2008 at 8:32pm
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Ron Chevrier
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Holy heck! I totally missed that bit of dialogue! Damn, those Skrull bastards are sneaky! Uh, mystery solved, I guess.
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Hunter McFalls
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Wow! I thought the fourth one was
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Sen .C.
as well!
Edited by Hunter McFalls on 19 June 2008 at 1:02am
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Robert White
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I still literally "lol" (ok, nowadays it's a chuckle) every time I read the part were the FF fool the super-advanced Skrulls with pictures out of old monster comics! I mean...even in the Marvel Universe, wouldn't they still have clearly been DRAWINGS!!!
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John Byrne
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That one at least I was able to cover, Robert, when I revisited that storyline
during my tenure on FANTASTIC FOUR. I established that Skrull eyes work
differently than ours do.
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Greg McPhee
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Skrull Kill Krew was just awful. Worst thing Grant Morrison has ever written.
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That is saying something!
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Ian Penman
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I'm presuming that Reed's " ...with the rest of his fleet " comment is Stan getting out of Jack getting his number of Skrulls mixed up?
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Michael Andrew Gonoude
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It is actually a clever strategy of Reed's, to allow a member of the invading alien force to "escape" and report back to their waiting fleet that the advance party got their asses whupped by the native inhabitants, thus pre-empting a full-force invasion, and potentially saving millions of lives.
You're welcome, Stan; hope my check's in the mail...Ah, here comes Mr. Lumpkin, now...wait a minute -- isn't he retired? HEY! You're not Willie Lumpkin -- you're-you're -- A SKRUL-->*<
Edited by Michael Andrew Gonoude on 19 June 2008 at 3:46pm
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Bill Dowling
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From the first issue with the Super-Skrull that I ever read, I've always loved Skrulls.
Reed really does come up with a ruthless solution to the Skrull problem here. Reed wasn't always that nice of a guy in the early issues.
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John Byrne
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Curious thing about this -- the issue was done "Marvel Style", plot, pencils,
script, inks, so I wonder why Stan would cover the missing Skrull in the
dialog rather than just asking the inker to add a Skrull? It's not like they
planned ahead in those days, so the absent alien was not likely to have been
the seed of a future plotline.
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Ian Penman
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Maybe Stan only noticed very late on, and an add-on by the inker would be harder than re-jigging a word ballooon?
Or is Michael Andrew right, and it's not a mistake after all?
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