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The Annihilation Wave is swarming at the edge of Skrull space ready to devour. With infighting amongst Skrull warlords, the only one who sees the oncoming threat is the Super Skrull. As the homeworld of his only offspring is in the immediate crosshairs of Annihilus, the warrior Skrull decides to take the battle to the Negative Zone.
Skrull's mission is to scour the Zone in search of a weapon powerful enough to cause the amount of damage that Annihilus is leveling in our universe. What Super Skrull finds is a Negative Zone penal colony full of misfit prisoners, used in weapons testing, ready to take their frustrations out on the allies of Annihilus. Now the race is one for Super Skrull to bust through to our universe again and save his only child before the Annihilation Wave can strike.
This was a gritty war story in the vein of the Dirty Dozen or the original Expendables movie. I loved the story's tone and thought that its deliberate lack of humor was a smart move. The Super Skrull has a personal stake in this war and to have him cracking jokes would be inappropriate. There is a side-kick to Super Skrull, a dwarf Skrull mechanic desperate to one day become a warrior. But he's more of the Jiminy Cricket to Super Skrull's Pinnochio and any humor he might postulate is balanced by the horrors of war that the diminutive sidekick experiences for the first time.
Worth Consuming with a final chapter that will leave you stunned.
Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.
Next Up: Annihilation: Ronan.
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