Skrull Kill Krew
| Skrull Kill Krew | |
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Cover of the 1st issue
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| Group publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Edge (Marvel Comics) |
| First appearance | Skrull Kill Krew #1 (September 1995) |
| Created by |
Grant Morrison Mark Millar Brendan McCarthy Steve Yeowell |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organization | Team |
| Agent(s) |
Ryder 3-D Man Riot II Catwalk Dice Moonstomp |
| Skrull Kill Krew | |
| Series publication information | |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date |
(vol. 1) September 1995 – January 1996 (vol. 2) June – December 2009 |
| Number of issues |
(vol. 1) 5 (vol. 2) 5 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
(vol. 1) Grant Morrison Mark Millar (vol. 2) Adam Felber |
| Penciller(s) |
(vol. 1) Steve Yeowell (vol. 2) Mark Robinson |
| Inker(s) |
(vol. 1) Chris Ivy (vol. 2) Mike Getty |
| Letterer(s) |
(vol. 1) Richard Starkings Comicraft (vol. 2) Joe Caramagna |
| Colorist(s) |
(vol. 1) Chia-Chi Wang (vol. 2) Andres Mossa |
| Creator(s) |
Grant Morrison Mark Millar Steve Yeowell |
| Editor(s) |
(vol. 1) Tom Brevoort (vol. 2) Thomas Brennan Joe Quesada Stephen Wacker |
| Collected editions | |
| Skrull Kill Krew | ISBN |
| Dark Reign | ISBN |
The Skrull Kill Krew are a fictional group from Marvel Comics who first appeared in their own limited series published in 1995. They were created by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Steve Yeowell.
The group are humans modified by eating Skrull-infected beef. Some of the team returned during the Skrull Secret Invasion, which led to another mini-series.
The team first appeared in their own eponymous series written by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar, published in 1995. It was one of Tom Brevoort's first projects and came about when Morrison and Millar faxed the Marvel offices looking for work:
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This was the period when the Mad Cow Disease scares were taking place in the UK, so it was a short leap for Grant and Mark to hit on the notion that those Skrull cows had been slaughtered, their meat entered the food chain, and that those who wound up eating it developed Skrull-like abilities, which they would use to hunt down the secret Skrull infiltrators that were living among us. It was a very 2000 AD sort of an idea: part parody, part over-the-top action/adventure comic. Grant was also looking around for new paradigms onto which to paint the super hero team structure, and in this case the model would be a motorcycle gang. Believe me, for the Marvel of 1994, this was some pretty off-the-wall thinking.
The original idea for the team name was Skrull Kill Kult, based on the band Thrill Kill Kult, but Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Tom DeFalco objected to the use of "Kult" because "he felt that it made the series seem like too much of an endorsement of murder cults".Brendan McCarthy designed the characters and Steve Yeowell was brought on board to provide the pencils, the same division of labor on Morrison's Zenith, because of "a lukewarm reception to Steve's initial visualizations".
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