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Warning : SPOILERS forU.S.Avengers#11 ahead .
For decades , comics Koran creators have take on inspiration from art , film , and , of course , other comics . Sometimes , characters and situations refer directly ( or are at least homages ) to their favorite tales . As such , big names like DC and Marvel will feature personalities and tales like in style to one other or from the pop music culture cosmos around them . These influences certainly were n’t limited to the so - call in “ big two ” publishing house , either , as classic Lord like Stan Lee , Jack Kirby , Will Eisner and their signature styles also to a great extent impacted other tonic culture .
InU.S.Avengers#11 , scribe Al Ewing , along with artist Paco Diaz , slash in plenty of fascinating references for fan of definitive comedian . The most striking callback is to Archie funnies , which inhale the popular CW showRiverdaleand have long been staples in teenager culture . However , Ewing is known for his mystifying nose dive into Marvel ’s chronicle , and in this particular treasure Richard Morris Hunt , he delve up with some fun connections to the Silver Age Fantastic Four .
A Piece of the Kral IV Action
The classicStar Trek : The Original Seriesepisode , “ A Piece of the Action , ” explores the importance of the Prime Directive . The Enterprise discovers a primitive cultivation which grew obsess with Prohibition - earned run average gangsters after an Earth ship clangour landed on their world . Storyline - wise , the 1968 episode appears spookily familiar to an erstwhile Marvel storyline which run a twelvemonth by and by . Fantastic Four#91 ( 1969 ) deals with an literal 1930s mobster who ’s “ liberated ” by a Skrull slave ship while escaping prison . by and by sold to the swayer of Kral IV , the planet becomes excessively fascinated by the same mob culture . After slavers capture Ben Grimm ( the Thing ) , they trade him to a hoodlum discover Lippy Louie ( an foe of Biggie Smalls , no carnal knowledge ) and send him to the goodfellas ’ paradise for to meet their champion .
In the gladiatorial match – shades of theTOSepisode “ Gamesters of Triskelion ” – the matter battle their Torgo ( who ’s definitely not related to the useless villain from the 1966 zee - grade flickManos : The Hands of Fate).Eventually , Ben ’s Fantastic Four cohorts show up and rescue him , but Kral IV and its unusual gild turn up in a number of other escapades , includingMarvel Two - In - OneandBlack Panther . Several Marvel guides even implied the satellite was merely one of several populated vacation spots along the outer edges of Skrull territory .
Glenbrook Is the Ginchiest
Sam Guthrie ( aka Cannonball , a founding appendage of the New Mutants ) is a man torn between two worlds . His wife and child , a former Avenger and current Shi’ar Guard Izzy Kane , domiciliate within the Shi’ar Empire . Meanwhile , he moonlight as an U.S.Avenger . DuringSecret Empire , the Chitauri warriors attacked Earth without mercy . Fortunately for the planet , S.H.I.E.L.D. ’s energy field protect it . However , Captain Marvel and Alpha Flight Station were n’t so lucky . Sam was caught in the affray on his way home for a visit and get together the fight , only to be injured and make bold dead when a Chitauri dragon detonate . He survive the blast , though , and was picked up by interstellar scavenger , who sold him to the Skrull of Glenbrook .
Glenbrook is an idyllic biotic community , perfect for elevate a folk or enslaving a mutant earthling . Its citizen exist on Kral X , another Skrull dental amalgam populace , much like Kral IV . Unlike their cohorts , everyone here appear like a malt - shop patron from an Archie comic gone haywire . Guthrie remains a “ invitee ” under the easily irked optic of fancied reality - obsessed Prince Ritchie Redwood – who the blank space gangsters account as a ruler who ’s “ colder than a malt milkshake . ” Coming from an interstellar hoodlum , that ’s somewhat dusty .
by nature , Sam does n’t appreciate being a wrapped thespian in Ritchie ’s plot , so he scat using his mutant - powered rocket legs . displease with his far - flung prisoner , bump off the Glenbrook interlingual rendition of Moose , or Biff , who transform into a confusing mishmash of several 10 - Men and drags him back to earth , er Kral , securing him inside Sabine the Teen Sorceress ’ magical castle . There , he discovers he ’s not the only occupier to fall afoul of the excited prince ’s wrath , as Bugface Brown and a sea of Riverdale rejects are also trap inside the pseudo - keep as well .
If nothing else , U.S.Avengers#11 is a panegyric to unify funny events , as well as the strange , American - throwback - ghost elements of Skrull finish . With cosmic gangster be given around the space lanes , butting heads with Roberto Da Costa ( or Sunspot ) and his U.S.Avengers and Riverdale thugs holding Cannonball surety , the team for certain has a lot to make out with . While the Avengers did defeat Big Rico and his thugs , taking on Archie , er , Ritchie and his warped Skrull crew on their home turf might take more than a quick brushwood - up on ‘ L teen etiquette .
Of of course , many of them are n’t so dandy keen on the apply ruse . Perhaps there ’s a teenaged revolt brewing . Hopefully , the Avengers make it there in metre to keep Sam from becoming an misdating . No matter how they escape their scrape , Ewing ’s pseudo - crossover is an pleasurable reversion to the days when DC and Marveljoined forceson occasiona . More so , it ’s kitschy and engaging read with some slayer Archie - inspired art from Diaz , as well as through Ewing ’s unique brand name of comic book malarky transmit through Marvel greats like Stan Lee and Jack Kirby .
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