Skrull Kill Krew
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The Skrull Kill Krew are a group from Marvel Comics with their own series published in 1995 and collected in one volume in 2006.
The characters were created by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Steve Yeowell.
Plot
The Fantastic Four, at the beginning of their superhero career defeated a group of Skrull spies. Reed Richards brainwashed them into becoming cows and retaining that form for life. The Skrull-cows at one point regained their memories leading to the death of one of them. The other three were turned over to the U.S. government and restored to cows in shape and mind.
The milk from these cows affected a small dairy town named King's Crossing. The Fantastic Four, via a girl Johnny Storm was dating, ended up investigating the town and neutralizing the threat.
They were then (apparently by accident) shipped to a slaughterhouse and butchered as beef. Some of the meat eaten by people transferred the Skrull's adaptable DNA code into the human's cells, resulting in a bizarre condition called Skrullovoria Induced Skrullophobia, in which these individuals not only gained shape-shifting powers equal to, or greater than, actual Skrulls, but also developed an intense fear or hatred of Skrulls. Only a small number of humans proved susceptible to this syndrome, and most did not survive the initial stages of infection. But several people who proved somewhat longer-lived (though still dying) were gathered together by a man known only as Ryder, who was himself a victim of the disease, to act out their increasingly irrational impulses to seek out and destroy the ones who did this to them (by "letting" themselves get turned into cows), usually by graphically "blowing away" the Skrulls with high-powered weapons.
Their desire to kill Skrulls not only stopped many plots which endangered humans, it also led them to fight other well known Marvel characters, such as Baron Von Strucker and Captain America.
Secret Invasion
The Skrulls are behind the Secret Invasion event and solicitations for Avengers: The Initiative #15[4] suggest 3-D Man will become the leading Skrull hunter and "gains a 'killer' new 'krew'"[5], however, Brian Michael Bendis has denied they will play a major role: "The Skrull Kill Krew won’t be around as much as people want. I know they want them to show up, but they’re not going to be there as much as people are hoping, I think."
Ryder and Riot have returned but the other three died earlier of their disease. They encounter the new 3-D Man in the New Mexico desert and save him from a Skrull posting as Sharon Ventura. 3-D Man joined them in rooting out the Blacksmith of the Desert Stars, another Skrull, and killing him as well.