Cover of the Month: Skrull Skulls

I've noticed his covers before without knowing who the artist was, but browsing through today's Marvel Solicits for July this cover to Secret Invasion: Frontline #1 by Juan Doe made me sit up and take notice. The glowing eye and wisps of green haze emanating from the Skrull skulls (try that five time fast) take me back to the SF paperback covers of the 60s and 70s that so deftly synthesized SF with horror. Creepy creepy creepy. Check out some of his other Marvel work here.

Skrull Appreciation

A couple of weeks ago, ComicMix put up a nice little reminder of just how lame previous Skrull invasions have actually been. But that's not the whole story. "Skrull Takes a Slave" in Fantastic Four #90 from 1968 (reprinted in World's Greatest Comics #72) is a great Skrull story, even if it does end in Tommy guns and fedoras. I lost my issue of World's Greatest a long time ago, but darned if Kirby's grotesque images of the Skrull slaver lurking in a spooky wood straight out of "Young Goodman Brown," preparing to ensnare Ben Grimm for servitude on a gladiatorial prison world aren't permanently etched in my grey matter. Skrulls should be spooky, not silly, as Bendis clearly understands, judging from the last three panels of Secret Invasion #1. I got chills!

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