Fri Aug 22, 2008 — by Rick Marshall

Skrull-icide in "Secret Invasion"

The new Skrull Kill Crew?

Over at Metabunker, Matthis Wivel has posted an interesting analysis of the "only good skrull is a dead skrull" theme in Marvel Comics' Secret Invasion event. When presented with the rampant slaughter currently going on in Marvel's latest big event, Wivel wonders what ever happened to the whole "heroes don't kill" standard of yesterday's comics.

I’m not going to be all holier-than-thou about this — I know that the audience for these comics is largely adult geeks such as myself, and that a little killing won’t hurt our sensibilities much. But still, it’s gotta be some kind of landmark that the biggest superhero event this year so callously ignores what was once a central principle of the genre. And kind of auspicious too, that a series that at least superficially carries pretensions of political allegory most likely unintentionally lends to its heroes a borderline fascist groupthink outlook on their enemies.

And beyond all that, what is the big problem with the skrulls, anyways? I mean, Embrace Change sounds like a pretty nice guy... er, skrull.

(via Tom Spurgeon)

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