Here's the second entry in my new Looking Back series. Click here for my look at Joss Whedon Wonder Woman movie that never was.
Originally created under the Marvel Edge imprint, the Skrull Kill Krew comic was written by Mark Millar and Batman scribe, Grant Morrison. The premise of the comic has roots all the way back to the 4 Skrulls introduced in 1961's Fantastic Four #2, (which had the creative team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby), who were defeated by Reed Richards, who brain-washed the shape-shifting aliens into believing they were cows. The original story ended with the FF just flying off.
Well in 1995, Millar and Morrison picked up where that story left off. Those 4 "cows" were naturally taken to a slaughter-house and butchered into hamburger. The townspeople who ate the burgers, had their DNA over-written and gained the Skrulls super powers but also gained an intense psychological hatred of the Skrulls. The story played on the Mad Cow Disease currently taking place in the UK. The team was around till '96 and then faded away into obscurity, only to return in 2009 to play a pivotal role in "Secret Invasion". The teams members were:
Back in 2006, Marvel released information to their stock-holders which amongst other things, listed all the properties in development for live-action adaptions. On the list was Spider-Man 3, Fantastic Four 2, Ant-Man, and to everyone's surprise, the Skrull Kill Krew.
Sadly, the series never got off the ground, with The Blade television series bombing so hard, all plans for live-action tv shows were put on ice.
Sounds like this might have been a cool tv show. You could've had a show of the Krew going around taking out Marvel heroes like Cap, Wolverine, Spidey, etc. and exposing them at the end as Skrulls. Oh well.