Avengers: the Initiative #18 - Marvel

This issue was just more of the Skrull Secret Invasion stuff. Basically, the Skrull Kill Crew is jumping around to the various Initiative groups . . in every state . . and finding out who the Skrull infiltrator is . . and killing him. They even turned poor little Cloud 9 into an Initiative sniper. I wonder if she ever once thought that would be her role on the team? But the creepiest part of the book was when we find out that the Kill Crew are carrying around the heads of the original Kill Crew with them. "Their bodies . . wasted away by the same Skrull disease that gave us our powers. We've been keeping their heads preserved in cryo-stasis." So, while they have developed a taste for eating the Skrull meat of their victims . . how disgusting is that . . they also blend some of it up, to feed the heads intravenously. They don't really say how the heads of Moonstomp, Catwalk and Dice help them, but apparently they do because they refer to this as their 'final mission'. It also appears that they've killed one of their own, Devil-slayer. He's been the one 'porting' them from team to team . . state to state . . while never giving thought to his own personal well being. At the end of the issue he collapses from the extreme effort. I think he's dead. Also it appears that this Kill Crew and Nick Fury's secret team are on a collision course. We get a glimpse of Fury's team, which now includes some of the Initiative cadets . . and I think eventually they're going to cross paths. But what's going to happen to the Skrull that's on his team? Granted he's decided to fight for the Earthlings, but . . 3-D Man is still going to see him as a Skrull. That should be an interesting meeting. I'm still enjoying this book, but . . I don't think it's going to be around much longer than the Secret Invasion storyline. I think when it ends . . the Initiative is through. Dan Slott and Christos Gage are the writers. Steve Kurth did the art. Overall, I thought it was an enjoyable book, and was a good effort by all involved. I'm just wondering how many issues we have left.