Emilia Clarke, Meet The Skrulls

In 2018, Bleeding Cool was first to report that Marvel Comics had been promising a Skrull occasion comedian for February 2019. It regarded as if it had been a sequel to Secret Invasion. And timed for the discharge of the upcoming Captain Marvel film, together with Skrulls a-plenty.

Later that yr, Bleeding Cool was additionally first to report it a brand new mini-series from Marvel, known as Meet The Skrulls, written by Robbie Thompson and drawn by Niko Henrichon. As we had been advised to fulfill the Warners… “The Warners are your typical family. Dad works at Stark. Mom works in a Senator’s office. Jennifer and Alice are students at Stamford High School. The only thing that makes them different is that they’re shape-shifting Skrulls and have infiltrated our society to pave the way for a Skrull invasion.”

Basically, it is the Marvel model of The Americans. It featured a bunch of sleeper Skrull brokers embedded as a nuclear household dwelling and dealing within the USA, participating in governmental and industrial espionage however slipped below the radar considerably. And new Kree/Skrull antics had been roughed up in Secret Empire, Bleeding Cool tagged it for comedian ebook speculators.

Back then copies of the unique sequence had been promoting briskly on eBay however usually for below cowl value – $2.59 to $4 for situation 1, $10 for #1-5.  Tiered variants have been doing effectively. Declan Shalvey‘s 1:25 #1 cowl variant leaping from $7 to $20, Nico Henrichon‘s 1:50 variant for $40.

In 2020, Bleeding Cool scooped the information that there could be a Secret Invasion TV present from Marvel and Disney+. We famous the Marvel sequence Secret Invasion may additionally be speculator-worthy as copies of #1 had been promoting for $10 apiece.

In 2021, we famous that Meet The Skrulls was to play a significant position within the Secret Invasion TV sequence, after noting some specifics in a casting name. famous that the return to comics of the Skrull Queen Veranke, after which that the gathering of the sequence had been renamed Secret Invasion: Meet The Skrulls even although the unique printing remains to be accessible from Marvel.

Now we get the information from Variety that Emilia Clarke will probably be taking part in Skrull G’iah (pronounced “Guy-ah”). And that this will probably be revealed to be the younger daughter of Talos from Captain Marvel. “Growing up amidst constant war makes it hard to ever stop fighting. Living in the shadow of a powerful parent makes the situation even more dire—especially when it’s a leader who is seen to have failed. In G’iah’s case, resistance was virtually inevitable.”

And within the comics, G’iah’s first look? Meet The Skrulls #1, she is the matriarchal determine of the Warners household, often called Gloria Warner, a specialised agent who was picked by the Skrull Homeworld to breed with fellow agent Klrr, anticipated to offer start to a Warskrull and elevating their three daughters on Earth forward of a future Skrull invasion.

Lots of copies of Meet The Family #1 have been promoting on eBay as we speak for $15 to $20, the second printing for $35, a CGC 9.8 copy promoting for $135, and CGC 9.8 copies of the 1:50 variant for $300. There have been plenty of gross sales as we speak and plenty of extra to return.