Annihilation: Super-Skrull #2

History

The Annihilation event was architected by editor Andy Schmidt, who structured it as a prologue, four concurrent four-issue tie-in miniseries, and a central six-issue series — with Joe Quesada providing final approval despite initial reservations about the commercial viability of cosmic titles. Grillo-Marxuach, a television writer who had worked on Lost, was assigned the Super-Skrull miniseries; he collaborated throughout with penciler and inker Gregory Titus and colorist Chris Sotomayor, with Gabriele Dell'Otto providing the painted covers for the entire run. Issue #2 was released on May 10, 2006, with a July 2006 cover date, situating it as Week 19 of the event's carefully coordinated publication schedule.

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• First appearance of Praxagora (Earth-616), a sentient Ataraxian android powered by a stellar containment core in her chest, who later becomes Kl'rt's lover and a member of the United Front against the Annihilation Wave.
• First appearance of Preak, a supporting ally of Super-Skrull who survives to appear in subsequent issues of the miniseries.
• First appearance of the villain Hawal, the sadistic scientist imprisoned on the UX-73 prison planetoid who designed the Annihilation Wave's planet-devouring superweapon, the Harvester of Sorrows.
• First appearance of three alien species native to the Negative Zone: the Ataraxians, Nicanthans, and Panspermians.
• Written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, drawn (pencils and inks) by Gregory Titus, colored by Chris Sotomayor, lettered by Joe Caramagna, with a painted cover by Gabriele Dell'Otto.
• The issue is set entirely within the Negative Zone — specifically at the UX-73 prison planetoid and the Nexus of Igoa — as Kl'rt ventures behind enemy lines to find allies and a means to destroy the Harvester of Sorrows threatening the Skrull world of Zaragz'na.
• The issue and the full Super-Skrull miniseries have been reprinted multiple times, including in the Annihilation Omnibus (first published 2014, with new printings in 2019 and 2022) and Annihilation: The Complete Collection Vol. 1 (2018), as well as in international editions from Panini Brasil and Panini España.
• Praxagora went on to play a significant role in Annihilation: Conquest, ultimately dying when Ultron took control of her body and detonated her internal fusion core; the Marvel Universe's Official Handbook documented her in its A-to-Z volumes.

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