Comic Review: Meet The Skrulls (2019) #1

Meet The Skrulls (2019) #1

Marvel Comics

Writer: Robbie Thompson

Artist: Niko Henrichon

Marvel’s new five-issue mini-series Meet The Skrulls presents us with a Skrull family on their day-to-day life as they go on about their business which is to conquer and transform planet Earth into a new Skrull colony in order to get the Empire back on its feet, which was hastened by the failed attack from the Secret Invasion event.

In this first chapter we get to know a little about the main characters, their family dynamic, what is the Skrulls’ plan for Earth and about Project Blossom, which appears to be a government operation to eradicate every remaining Skrull on the planet. We’re first introduced to Alice Warner, who is the most curious and introvert of the family since she was raised on Earth. The rest of the family utilizes their jobs in big corporations or public institutions to move the Skrull agenda onward. The father, Carl, works at Stark Industries trying to sabotage any anti-skrull tech. The mother, Gloria, works in Congress and leads her boss towards a Special Projects Committee. And the eldest daughter, Madison, who befriends teenagers which parents are in important positions in government, aiming to infiltrate their household.

Robbie Thompson conducts the story quite well considered the amount of information the reader gets. We get situation reports from the family members right at the beginning of the issue which serves both as character introduction and exposition on their operations among the regular humans, never interacting directly with any of the super people of Earth. Apart from that, Thompson manages to introduce a mysterious agent from Project Blossom as a scary foe and explore how much of a regular family the Warners really are even behind their disguises.

The art for this issue gets the job done spectacularly. Niko Henrichon’s work has been one of my favorites ever since his take on Doctor Strange. He manages to portray the varied facial expressions perfectly even for the Skrull characters. Speaking of Skrulls, Henrichon was able to draw them with tons of different features from one another making every member of the family recognizable even in their human forms. The color choice for this chapter is pretty good as well, maintaining a realistic mood throughout the issue fitting the spy theme and how everything is supposed to look normal.

Meet The Skrull promises to be an interesting read from the very start. Mixing the themes of both family drama and spy thriller stories organically making sure the fans of both genres can enjoy this comic.