What's Not to Love?
Extremely well-researched, well-detailed depiction of the Skrull empire and the absolute nastiness they are capable of. Before Secret Invasion, the Skrulls were funny green men with reptilian chins that transforms into weaker doppelgangers of Earth's heroes who stumbles their way into defeat time and time again in the hands of the Fantastic Four. Their weakness was hampered by the fact that the shape-shifting was flawed and limited, which doesn't fully make sense since their technology was vastly superior and they were able to snatch Reed Richard's DNA in one of their very early meetings.
So eventually Skrulls obviously has gotten sick and tired of the Avengers and FF making a joke of their boundless empire so now in return the Skrulls are holding weekly forums, congregations, summits, parties, and now even developing ruthless plans to take over the Earth. But are they really taking over the Earth or are they just escaping from the annihilation wave? And of course they just had to pick Earth as their refugee spot and not any other planet in the galaxy. I guess they were thinking of killing a flock of birds with an asteroid sized slingshot at the same time. Starting with the elongated ostrich Reed Richards of course.
And it was downright disturbing, shape-shifting malfunctions after malfunction, hundreds of dead Reed Richards doppelgangers piled up in the stockroom, this is just wonderful, amazing, and astounding at the same time. They cover themselves up in some DNA goo, and they become their shape-shifting target for the remainder of their lives. That's an insane and elaborate concept that I hoped they would delve into more, I wanted to get a grasp of their fear and the complexity of their emotions once they fully become a Hank Pym or Jessica Jones.
You can definitely feel the urgency and desperation in these Skrulls to take out the Earth's heroes. Just writing that paragraph gets me excited about reading these tie-in issues again. They are deviously written, seeing the Skrulls as a true threat and not merely as minions who would get easily snuffed out by a Ms.Marvel or Spider-Man. These were the days, Marvel, when it was hopeless, dark and wonderfully dramatic on every level. What's not to love about a Skrull?
