Released on January 10th, 1972
Did you think that this "Kree/Skrull War" story line wasn't confusing enough? That it didn't have enough characters to keep track of? Well you're fucking wrong. Bring on the Inhumans! It's funny, but The Inhumans royally suck but, fifty years later, they're still around in Marvel and fairly prominent (Ms. Marvel is an Inhuman and has her own book these days, there was actually an ABC Inhumans TV show that came out a year or two ago, and Black Bolt just had his own series). I didn't even realize that Black Bolt was a character from the 60's. Go figure. Well the Inhumans are in this issue. Apparently, they had a falling out with the Kree awhile back. Don't even ask me to explain it because it's complicated as hell. So in this issue we get the Inhuman fish mutant, Triton, showing up while the Avengers are fighting the Mandroids. Captain Marvel, the Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver are still captured in space by the Skrulls...but there's so much story we never even get to them. All you pretty much need to know is that the Avengers help the Inhumans defeat one of the Kree warriors on the Inhumans original planet. Okay. I'm trying to imagine children reading comic books back in the '70's and actually being into this story line and actually knowing what the hell is going on. It's not that it's awful or bad or anything, it's just all over the map. I suppose I just expected a regular, comic book fight between two alien races and the Avengers. I didn't expect all of this. It's convoluted as hell. Maybe that's why it's so famous...because it took years and years for comic book readers to grasp what was going on. The best aspect of this story so far is still the love that The Vision has for the Scarlet Witch. I'm assuming they get together eventually because in the Avengers movies these days they're a couple (there's also a Wanda/Vision show coming out next year on Disney+). When the Avengers split up to go fight the Kree and/or help the Inhumans...The Vision picks all of the best Avengers for his team. This eats him up inside: "Has he abandoned an entire race to bitter servitude--because of his unvoiced love for the Scarlet Witch?" Maybe they finally make out at the end of this story line. That'd be a hell of a climax. **
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