Drax The Destroyer (2005 series) #1

The Prison Transport Vessel Dredge 01, en route to the intergalactic Kyln prison at the Crunch, has a problem and drops out of hyperspace near Earth. Cloaking and silent running is initiated because Earth is 'off limits'. Inmates Lunatik and 1 of the Blood Brothers are uneasy about this and sublimate their feelings by arguing with each other. Fellow prisoner Drax The Destroyer tries to ignore them, but then tells them to shut up. Lunatik of course doesn't take kindly to this but Drax tells them to listen to the tiny 'pops'. Paibok the Power Skrull joins in to say that it means the singularity drive is about to blow and this old spaceship can't stop it. And blow it does.

But we now pop in to the elementary school in Coot's Bluff, Alaska where 10-year-old Camille Benally is arguing in class with bully Doug Brenner, but they're keeping their voices down to avoid the attention of the teacher. He's trying to get at her over her friendship with dorky Dex but she threatens him by suggesting she killed and ate her (non-existent) older brother. This shocks Doug so much that he reacts out loud and earns detention.

Cammi meets up with Dex outside and suggests they both make themselves scarce before Doug gets out. She also suggests he enroll in the aikido class his sister teaches so he doesn't need her protection. They see a shooting star (the Dredge) and Dex tells her to make a wish.

Lunatik makes it out of the wreckage of the crashed ship and encounters the (2) Blood Brothers. He tells them this is the worst planet to be dumped on and leads them away from the wreck before the locals find them. They are observed by a squirrel that turns out to be the disguised shapeshifting Skrull who explains that this is Earth, Terra, Gaia, Asylum 8. He also tells them that Drax has also survived and points him out.

Cammi's gone home and finds her mother Mavis passed out drunk as usual. She heats up a TV dinner and goes up to her room. Flicking through TV channels she finds footage of the crashed ship on Public Access Channel 23 and phones Dex to alert him to it. He suggests it's somebody making an amateur movie but eventually comes round to thinking it's live footage from a crashed UFO and it was their shooting star. It ends and they agree to check it out tomorrow (Saturday)

A flying robot from the downed ship is tracking the escapees when it comes across Drax punching a Blood Brother who apparently started the fight. The robot gets broken. The others had been trying to persuade the Destroyer to keep hidden by warning him about the Fantastic Four, the Avengers and even the possibility of the Silver Surfer turning up, but the simple-minded Drax didn't seem to understand. The other Brother feels that their reputation demands that he join the fight as well. Lunatik and Paibok stay out of it. The Skrull comments that he once had an 'unpredictable' partner but she was nowhere near as bad as this lot. He adds that when he found Drax after the crash he was trying to drink singularity-drive plasma which would have killed anyone else. Lunatik isn't surprised since the Destroyer was designed to kill Thanos. Paibok suggests they leave them to fight while they go to a nearby house he's spotted. As the other 3 continue the repeated blows to Drax's head seem to have increased his intelligence.

That morning Cammi and Dex are out searching the woods. He's back to doubting the UFO but she's hoping for something to relieve the boredom. And then they're spotted by Lunatik and Paibok.