You're standing in Glenbrook. You're in the happiest small town America ever knew. So what makes you think you're on Earth? 
Kral X was a Skrull Empire colony in the artistic Kral system. It was dominated by Glenbrook, a large-scale reenactment of the Earth American cartoon called the Ritchie Redwood Show.
History
Origins[]
When a Skrull Slave-Master from the Kral system abducted the mobster John "Machine-Gun" Martin from Earth in the 1930s, they were fascinated by his mannerisms and style,[2] and began to take a keen interest in the movies of his home planet. Because Skrulls were not intimately familiar with moving images and art in general, they set aside the whole Kral system as an exploration of replicating the Earth culture. Most interesting to the Skrulls were gangster films and other media from Martin's time period, and Kral X came to be ruled by a "King" calling himself Don Scarpone.
Scarpone had two sons; one son acted as his consigliere or second-in-command, and went on deep-space missions in search of more TV signals from Earth to add to their experiment. When he discovered the Ritchie Redwood Show, the son was instantly obsessed, and began to rework the Kral X colony as a recreation of the cartoon. While he took up the role of Ritchie Redwood himself, his brother became Bugface Brown. Ritchie's two Power Skrull enforcers, who took on the roles of Biff Bison and Mr. Waspwind, gave him enough firepower to defeat his father and force him and his forces into exile.
Bugface unwittingly planted the first seeds of conflict with his brother when he found more recent transmissions of the show, which had been brought back several times after its original cancellation, giving Kral X access to hundreds of new episodes and decades of new stories. Bugface convinced Ritchie to give the new material a try, but he became overwhelmed by the different changes the show had undergone, as he wanted to keep things simple and classic. Tensions escalated into a civil war after Bugface pushed for the inclusion of new elements outside the established continuity of the show. He additionally decided to ditch his human disguise, and suggested giving his character a completely different backstory which involved him being an alien from the future. The Super-Skrulls at Ritchie's disposal proved an advantage once again, and he crushed all opposition easily. He then imprisoned Bugface and all the other subversives in a dungeon with no sustenance.[3] Following Bughead's incarceration, Ritchie became a tyrant who imposed his views with an iron fist, threatening anybody that would go off-script with the same punishment, and censoring all episodes of the show that weren't from the original series to keep the setting unchanged.[3]
The U.S.Avengers[]
Howard Mason bought MIA U.S.Avenger Cannonball from slavers with the intent to add a genuine American citizen to Glenbrook. Ritchie introduced him to the town and its citizens and attempted to force him to play a part in his fantasy town, but was unaware of Cannonball's powers, which he immediately used to attempt an escape. The Super-Skrull Biff took him down, and Cannonball was thrown into the same dungeon as Bugface and his friends.[4]
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Cannonball flying through Glenbrook
While Cannonball helped Bugface and his friend escape from captivity, the U.S.Avengers arrived to Kral X looking for their teammate. Following the defeat of his Super-Skrulls, Ritchie attempted to take on the heroes himself by assuming his battleform. However, Cannonball and the subersives arrived, and Bugface used the devices that were preventing them from changing shapes on Ritchie himself. Ritchie lashed out at his fellow Skrulls until Bugface hit him with the truth that despite all of his talk about staying in character, it was ironic that Ritchie ended up acting in a way the fictional Ritchie Redwood would never behave. The Shi'ar soldiers that assisted the U.S.Avengers in rescuing Cannonball then arrested Ritchie and his Super-Skrulls, so they could face justice on the planet where Don Scarpone and his followers had been exiled.[3]
Destruction[]
When the plant-based Cotati set out to wage war against the Kree and the Skrulls, they used the Kral System as a testing ground for their Death Blossom, an amplifier of their power to control plants which allowed them to infect many of Kral's planets,[5] including Glenbrook. In an attempt to stop the spread of the Cotati, Skrull emperor Kl'rt the Super-Skrull ordered the deployment of the Pyre, an astronuclear weapon that detonated the star Kral and destroyed every planet in the system.[6] Nova would later estimate that around ten thousand Krallians survived, including Bugface Brown.[7]Points of Interest
- Glenbrook High
- Ye Olde Malt Shoppe
- Sabine the Teen Sorceress' haunted castle
- Pappy Guggenheim's Malt Shoppe
Notes
- The Ritchie Redwood Show is inspired by the setting and characters of Archie Comics. Chiefly, the town of Glenbrook is named for Archie's hometown of Riverdale, while Ritchie Redwood and Bugface Brown themselves are named after the protagonists Archie Andrews and Jughead Jones.