{"id":31931,"date":"2026-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=31931"},"modified":"2024-07-09T09:57:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T13:57:43","slug":"mighty-avengers-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/05\/16\/mighty-avengers-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Avengers 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a break from Avengers covers, this time we have Daredevil 168, the first appearance of Elektra. Which, I think you could guess by now, means we\u2019re getting the backstory of the Elektra Skrull. And it starts where you probably wouldn\u2019t expect, with a recreation of Electro negotiating for the Raft breakout from the opening pages of New Avengers 1<\/a>. And then, 4 years later, we see the other side of the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pham\u2019s art has this way of reading cool until you look for more than a second. To me. What face is Electro making in panel 2? Is he in one of those old \u201cWazzup?\u201d commercials? Well, we zap back in time \u201cseveral months\u201d to Elektra meditating in Japan when she senses someone approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Skrullektra wearing a black suit to make it easier for us to tell them apart is very polite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ghost Riderlektra! Well, they keep on fightin until, rather surprisingly, Elektra kills the Skrull. Does she do so by recreating the scene where Bullseye killed her in the 80s? You bet! People can\u2019t get enough of redoing that stupid panel! When her foe\u2019s corpse turns into a Skrull, she is confused and disgusted, and burns it immediately. But she doesn\u2019t get much of a break before a Daredevkrull and Skrullverine approach her. And the DD one has Cyclops\u2019 eyebeams and Nightcrawler\u2019s teleportation, and the Wolvie one has Mr. Fantastic\u2019s stretchy powers. And Elektra still manages to kill them both, but then she\u2019s taken down by a Skrull with Colossus and the Thing power. Brute force vs. ninja stuff. Then that one becomes Elektra. Which doesn\u2019t totally line up with what we\u2019ve been seeing, but whatever, because\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026this one\u2019s not really meant to fool people for too long, it seems. A week later, the new Skrullektra saunters into a meeting of the newly allied Hydra & the Hand, kills the Hydra rep, and says the Hand should be ashamed of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So the real Elektra was never the leader of the Hand. That probably made some people happy. I assume that development was not pleasing to Elektra-heads. But it didn\u2019t happen, so it\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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