Again double delivery USA in the Spanish edition of Empire continues to take our breath away. Panini Comics brings us closer to the conflict of the year, with the permission of the Hickman mutants, in which we have brutal confrontations.
In Empire, R’Klll, former Empress of the Skrulls, is alive. Readers who grew up between the pages of Marvel comics during the 1980s saw her rise to power and die in the Fantastic Four collection, in exactly four years, which go from the publication of Fantastic Four # 209 (August 1979) to Fantastic Four # 257(August 1983). She rose to the highest position of the Skrull Empire ending the life of her husband Dorrek VII, which at the time was celebrated, as madness almost justified their elimination by assassination. A new world of possibilities was opening up that was not exploited by any author of La Casa de las Ideas. The next thing we saw of her, after her brief intervention in the resolution of the Dark Phoenix saga in X-Men #137, was her death.
Galactus reached Tarnax IV, the location of the Skrull Throne-World at that time, guided by his then herald, Nova, formerly known as the human Frankie Raye. In Fantastic Four # 257 the Eater of Worlds destroyed the planet and now, 37 years later, it turns out that R’Klll did not pass away, he managed to escape and has been in hiding until now. Although we still do not know its entire history, what is clear is that it has occupied the place of Tanalth the Persecutor, of the Kree, for quite some time. Hopefully, this return will have a longer journey as his recovery is most interesting, even more so because he is the grandmother of Teddy Altman, Hulkling, also known as the current Skrull Emperor, under the name Dorrek VIII.
This third issue of Empire begins to take leaps and bounds towards the resolution of the plot and continues to offer priceless moments that take advantage of the past history of The Avengers and The Fantastic Four. Surprises are found on the turn of each page, with brutal combats, mythical combinations on the side of the heroes and twists that show us the best characteristics of some of the protagonists, with the entry on the scene of the Hulkling’s better half, Billy Kaplan, also known as Wiccan. And when love enters the scene, with such purity, only the truth becomes a more powerful weapon.
The work of Ewing, Slott and Schiti works as a perfectly oiled mechanism, combining a classic spirit with a comic that is aware of its time, which has modern and detailed art, supported by a clean line that plays powerfully with light sources. surrounding the environment. The resulting set is offering us a very enjoyable comic full of multiple facets, some certainly brutal for characters who are not unaware of what it is to feel suffering, both physical and mental.
The orchestra is in tune, the instruments have been distributed around the stage, the audience is devoted and the music reaches its climax to resolve the end of a symphony that has gone “in crescendo”. Quoi and the Swordsman have launched their bet and the Kree-Skrull alliance has prepared a forceful response that can end with the destroyed Earth. The countdown has already begun.