Back-to-press and fully restored by popular demand! Caught in the crossfire, Earth has become the staging ground for a conflict of star-spanning proportions! For those eternal intergalactic enemies, the merciless Kree and the shape-changing Skrulls, have gone to war, and our planet is situated on the front lines! Can Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, bring about an end to the fighting before humanity becomes a casualty of war? And what good are even a dozen super-powered champions against the vast military machines of two of the great empires of the cosmos? The key to victory lies with the expatriate Kree Captain Mar-Vell and his human host, honorary Avenger Rick Jones! Featuring the trend-setting artwork of Neal Adams, the Kree/Skrull War is universally acknowledged as one of the finest and most important sagas in the Marvel canon.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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I became a Marvel zombie in the mid-70's. While I had heard of the Kree-Skrull War many times in the following years, I never had the opportunity to read the epic story that had been originally printed in Avengers #89-97. When Marvel announced some months ago that they were finally going to collect these issues in a trade paperback I pre-ordered the book right away.
Like many 60's and 70's comic book stories, this one's fairly dated. The concerns of the age show through and the overwhelming use of "pseudoscience" by writer Roy Thomas can sometimes be a bit much to take. But all in all, this epic lives up to its billing. It's a starspanning adventure featuring dozens of characters and events that affected the Marvel Universe to this day.
Captain Marvel, the Super Skrull, the Supreme Intelligence, Ronan the Accuser, Rick Jones and many other supporting characters bring this tale to life along with the regular cast members, Captain America, Iron Man, the Vision, Scarlet Witch, Goliath, Quicksilver and Thor. Praise be to editor Tom Brevoort for keeping the original coloring. While it ain't beautiful like the computer-aided coloring that appears in today's comics, it IS part of the original comics and I'm glad they kept it pure.
The Neal Adams-drawn issues of the series are by far the best (#93-96), but the Buscema brothers (Sal and John) fill out the series admirably.
Avengers: Kree Skrull War makes a fine addition to any comic fan's bookshelf.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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In the early 1970's there was perhaps no finer comicbook writer than Roy Thomas and no finer artist than Neal Adams. When the pair teamed up on a run of Avengers from #89 to #97, they created one of the most legendary stories in Avenger's history that continues to be powerful more than 30 years later.
At the start of the story we learn about the alien races of the Kree and Skrulls. The Kree are a paternalistic, arrogant race of highly advanced beings who jump-started the early men who would become the Inhumans and now consider Earth to be a threat to their dominance. The Skrulls are a race of shape-shifters who receive far less respect than the Kree, although they`re really no more evil. The two races hate one another, and each is now under the leadership of an usurper who urges war.
Earth finds itself in the wrong place caught in the middle between the two warring races. And the Avengers are taken to the Andromeda galaxy where they aid their ally, the Kree-born Captain Marvel. This ends up being a story well ahead of it's time. By the time the late 1980's and 90's came around these kind of multi-issue, cosmic reaching storylines were all the norm with thigs like Secret Wars, Infinty Gauntlet, and countless others, but this story took place back in 1971 and 1972. The run would display some classic Neal Adams Covers including #96 with the Vision pummelling an alien nearly to death.
While a bit dated today, particularly in regard to the overly dramatic speech of the characters, it nevertheless was a complex storyline that foreshadowed many storylines 20 years down the road and remains a classic.
At the start of the story we learn about the alien races of the Kree and Skrulls. The Kree are a paternalistic, arrogant race of highly advanced beings who jump-started the early men who would become the Inhumans and now consider Earth to be a threat to their dominance. The Skrulls are a race of shape-shifters who receive far less respect than the Kree, although they`re really no more evil. The two races hate one another, and each is now under the leadership of an usurper who urges war.
Earth finds itself in the wrong place caught in the middle between the two warring races. And the Avengers are taken to the Andromeda galaxy where they aid their ally, the Kree-born Captain Marvel. This ends up being a story well ahead of it's time. By the time the late 1980's and 90's came around these kind of multi-issue, cosmic reaching storylines were all the norm with thigs like Secret Wars, Infinty Gauntlet, and countless others, but this story took place back in 1971 and 1972. The run would display some classic Neal Adams Covers including #96 with the Vision pummelling an alien nearly to death.
While a bit dated today, particularly in regard to the overly dramatic speech of the characters, it nevertheless was a complex storyline that foreshadowed many storylines 20 years down the road and remains a classic.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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With the exception of the much more recent "Avengers Forever" by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco, this yarn is the pinnacle of Avengers "big" storylines. Marvel's most popular -- and infamous -- interstellar races, the Kree and the Skrulls, are going at it yet again, and this time Earth is caught square in the middle (literally -- it's at the midway point between both empires, although astronomy buffs know this is actually silly!)
The Kree Supreme Intelligence, even though a captive of the malevolent Kree Ronan the Accuser, has used his mental might to maneuver one Rick Jones into his possession. He unlocks Jones' "Destiny Force" (whose effects are played to much greater detail in "Avengers Forever") to ultimately quell the cosmic war and become the rightful Kree ruler again.
Featuring guest stars out the wazoo (Captain Marvel, The Inhumans, Super Skrull), this compilation also showcases one of the greatest artists of all time, Neal Adams, as well as one of the premier scripters, Roy Thomas. This is easily in the top three Avengers stories of all time, if not THE best.
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Super the 2nd time around
Read the originally series the 1st time - in the seventies. It was amazing. Beautiful art, great covers, a super star line-up. Read more
Published 11 months ago by T. Gilligan
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Published on February 9, 2010 by Thomas A. Cavaliere
Over rated
The title is misleading. There isn't much of a war. In fact there are literally only two panels of hot kree on skrull action. But its the story that matters right? Read more
Published on December 10, 2009 by Monica Iluyomade
A Milestone in Marvel History Worth Revisiting
In the aftermath of the Skrulls' "Secret Invasion", the "Kree-Skrull War" bears a second look. Compared to the "Secret Invasion," this book's story is a little compressed--how... Read more
Published on February 13, 2009 by Andrew Shaffer
Graphic SF Reader
The Avengers are caught in the middle of two warlike alien races that have been going at it a long time, the Kree, and the shapeshifting Skrulls. Read more
Published on September 2, 2007 by Blue Tyson
Great art, weak story
As a kid, I always recognized Neal Adams as "that good drawer." I was immediately drawn to the realism and dramatic flair of his artwork. Read more
Published on May 23, 2007 by M. Fuller
The definition of a superhero epic
Before every superhero was at each other's throat, and before the Avengers were disassembled, reassembled, and misassembled; legendary creators Roy Thomas and Neal Adams crafted... Read more
Published on May 10, 2007 by N. Durham
The best story line about one of the best teams in comics!!
If the great cover of this book doesn't grab you, then the story will!
Roy Thomas, one of Marvel's best writers ever & arguably most famed for his superlative Conan... Read more
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