onceandfuturelaura's review
2.0
So there were cows. Super cows. And Hank Pym being a dick. Also Iron Man being a bit of a dick. Captain Mar-Vell being noble. Nick Fury being more charming than I expected.
This story is a trip. Super cows and a cosmic battle where Ronin the Accuser decides to take a beat to destroy the earth. The Kree, it seems, are worried about us rising up against them. Not sure the need to worry - in this tale, we were perfectly happy to HUAC it up against each other. Earth is saved because the regular guy who got pulled along on this adventure manages to manifest golden-age superheroes at a critical moment and then levels up to Grant Morrisonesque meta-textualism. (and, okay, he was hello-manipulated by the Kree Supreme Intelligence to get there).
The presence of Black Bolt and Namor just seems like a glitter bomb.
I can't say I liked it. The treatment of women was execrable. The human chauvinism took me right out of the story. But Nick Fury has a moral moment of horror at HUAC and the Japanese internment that did my heart good. Nick Fury realized the analogy to the time. We need more of those insights.
Lots of seeds they'll harvest later.
This story is a trip. Super cows and a cosmic battle where Ronin the Accuser decides to take a beat to destroy the earth. The Kree, it seems, are worried about us rising up against them. Not sure the need to worry - in this tale, we were perfectly happy to HUAC it up against each other. Earth is saved because the regular guy who got pulled along on this adventure manages to manifest golden-age superheroes at a critical moment and then levels up to Grant Morrisonesque meta-textualism. (and, okay, he was hello-manipulated by the Kree Supreme Intelligence to get there).
The presence of Black Bolt and Namor just seems like a glitter bomb.
I can't say I liked it. The treatment of women was execrable. The human chauvinism took me right out of the story. But Nick Fury has a moral moment of horror at HUAC and the Japanese internment that did my heart good. Nick Fury realized the analogy to the time. We need more of those insights.
Lots of seeds they'll harvest later.
thecommonswings's review
5.0
The so called golden age of Marvel Comics was really only going to last as much as people like Ditko and Kirby could allow it to, with their contributions minimised and Stan Lee - for good and bad - promoting himself as the living embodiment of the Marvel mindset. Thankfully, there was not so much a drastic falling off point as those creators were replaced, but instead the beginnings of a very different kind of storytelling. And reading Kree Skrull War kind of feels like seeing that new way happen in front of you
Roy Thomas and particularly Neal Adams (the Buscema’s work is good but feels like a pastiche; Adams feels sinewy and full of life and finds new ways to make old stuff work - especially during his first issue on this storyline where he dramatically breaks up the narrative into little chunks) take the ten years of Marvel world building and gleefully start throwing ideas around. The Inhumans? Why not. Those cows from the original Skrull story in Fantastic Four issue two? Most definitely? And by the end, as Rick Jones literally summons up the heritage of Marvel Comics to beat the alien foes, it feels like a celebration. Hell, even Clark Kent gets a mention. The plotting would get more sophisticated but it lacks so much of the joyous glee of the House of Ideas realising that they can start playing with their already pretty packed history
Roy Thomas and particularly Neal Adams (the Buscema’s work is good but feels like a pastiche; Adams feels sinewy and full of life and finds new ways to make old stuff work - especially during his first issue on this storyline where he dramatically breaks up the narrative into little chunks) take the ten years of Marvel world building and gleefully start throwing ideas around. The Inhumans? Why not. Those cows from the original Skrull story in Fantastic Four issue two? Most definitely? And by the end, as Rick Jones literally summons up the heritage of Marvel Comics to beat the alien foes, it feels like a celebration. Hell, even Clark Kent gets a mention. The plotting would get more sophisticated but it lacks so much of the joyous glee of the House of Ideas realising that they can start playing with their already pretty packed history
captwinghead's review
1.0
I’m so f*cking glad I didn’t buy this.
*sighs* Even trying to get past the numerous times our male "heroes" smacked their female teammates (one of which smacked his love interest, by the way) none of this worked for me.
Admittedly, Galactic Marvel has never been my cup of tea. That being said, I still found the Infinity Gauntlet to be a great, compelling arc so some of these stories can interest me. This one just didn't. I didn't find Captain Marvel's plight particularly moving. None of the heroes gave me anyone to root for because, as mentioned above, they were all either smacking the very few women here or being dismissive and awful to them (Vision).
Who am I supposed to like here?
The villains were all sort of blobs so no real interest conflict there for me, either.
This was such a bummer and the only benefit to reading it was being able to add Thomas to my "Do Not Read" list.
Jesus fricking Christ.
*sighs* Even trying to get past the numerous times our male "heroes" smacked their female teammates (one of which smacked his love interest, by the way) none of this worked for me.
Admittedly, Galactic Marvel has never been my cup of tea. That being said, I still found the Infinity Gauntlet to be a great, compelling arc so some of these stories can interest me. This one just didn't. I didn't find Captain Marvel's plight particularly moving. None of the heroes gave me anyone to root for because, as mentioned above, they were all either smacking the very few women here or being dismissive and awful to them (Vision).
Who am I supposed to like here?
The villains were all sort of blobs so no real interest conflict there for me, either.
This was such a bummer and the only benefit to reading it was being able to add Thomas to my "Do Not Read" list.
Jesus fricking Christ.
depreydeprey's review
2.0
Maybe this was the wrong book to read on election night but if Skrulls were voting on mass for Trump disguised as older, rural, under-educated Americans I wouldn't be all that surprised this morning. Roy Thomas has written a hot mess for himself that just hasn't aged that well. There isn't much war in this war as mostly the Avengers are transitioning from their new-ish team back to their original lineup minus Antman. It just doesn't work all that well as characters and story lines are picked up and dropped haphazardly and you never get a feeling that this is a story that spans the universe or that there are more than fifty Kree and thirty Skrulls in the entire universe.
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