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Swipe File: Harley Quinn #1 Rebirth And The Skrull Kill Krew

Published Wed, 03 Aug 2016 07:30:56 -0500

Last updated Mon, 08 Jul 2019 03:20:14 -0500

Back in Fantastic Four #3, the Fantastic Four met the Skrulls. Shape shifting aliens who they degfeated and then hypnotised and turned into cows.

That's how Stan Lee and Jack Kirby did it back in the day. Later on the Fantastic Four, John Byrne would have a town who had been transformed by Skrull cow "milk".

But it's a version from Mark Millar, Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell that would hit on this with Skrull Kill Krew.

With contaminated Skrull beef treated like a disease, transforming certain people DNA into Skrull-powered abilities – until they died, a BSE-parallel.

Well in today, Harley Quinn #1, the Rebirth relaunch that is basically the same as any other issue, from Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Chad Hardin has Harley Quinn not only tying in with the Loot Crate version – the first time any comic has referenced a Loot Crate exclusive…

But gives us an alien visiting Earth who has to disguise himself, Ford Prefect style. And who is green, yes.

You know, I think the Transformers made a similar error. But, just as with the Skrull Kill Krew, the alien meets a sticky end.

The horror, the horror…

Of course you realise this means war. Or at least a couple of extremely suggestive sexual scenes suggesting both a threesome and bestiality.Well this is Harley Quinn after all. Although rather than creating a new team of superheroes looking to take down Skrulls, we get alien zombies instead.

And another Fantastic Four character Willy Lumpkin! Is there nothing Harley Quinn won't pinch?

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