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Loki and Lorelei hitch a ride on the wing of a plane and then drop into Asgardia floating above Broxton, Oklahoma. To distract Heimdall, guardian of the Rainbow Bridge, they have Thor do battle with the Technocracy in space above. [A flashback reminds us that Thor owed Loki a favor for saving him in issue #1.] Lorelei casts the Charm of Liquid Solids and the splash through all the way into Asgardia’s dungeon. They then enter the Room Full of Incredibly Deadly Traps, protected by illusions. Via cell phone, Verity Willis is able to guide them through the illusions and out the other side. They encounter Sigurd who has managed to free himself (this part of the plan was arranged while they were pretending to fight to the death in a dumpster last issue) and admits them to the most secure part of the dungeon. Now Sigurd’s and Lorelei’s roles in the plan are finished and they depart while Loki moves on to his real mission. He locates a magically shadowed cell and releases old Evil Loki (brought back by the All-Mother in issue #1). Young Loki is there to slay old Loki with the Sword of Truth—but it has no effect since the weapon was forged by Old Loki himself (as seen in issue #3). The God of Evil taunts his younger self with the knowledge that his destiny is inevitable. The All-Mother arrives and they demand an explanation from the Old Loki; he responds with the vision of Asgard a paradise ruled over by good King Thor with Loki as the recurring villain. Young Loki wants to know why she would not set him free from the chains of fate; they reply that knowing how the story ends gives all Asgard security and that the old Loki is therefore agent of the true Asgard….
A sulky young Loki returns to his New York apartment where his older self appears in a mirror to tell him that his sins will soon be uncovered….


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Good Sons Like You…
As Loki runs across the surface of the moon to escape a murderous Thor, his mind races back to how he got into this predicament….
He had joined the squad of inverted villains on a summons from Steve Rogers to fight the heroes gone bad in the AXIS event. They had some time to kill so the Enchantress persuaded him to help her sister Lorelei repent of her evil life. The two Asgardians appeared in the bank which was being robbed by Lorelei and Sigurd; the outlaws were soon wrapped up in Amora’s magic and delivered to Odin for judgment. Loki begins to wonder if their good qualities were also reversed, justice becoming self-righteousness. As for Lorelei and Sigurd, Odin had their hearts removed and buried on the Isle of Silence. The All-Father also had a word for Loki: Loki is in dire need of humility, without which he may change but never grow…
Loki and the Enchantress return to the ex-villains meeting and head with the others to the battle site where The bad Avengers are fighting the bad X-Men. Amora opens a portal to the moon and Loki lures Thor into it. The ex-Trickster plays a desperate gamble but it pays off—Loki is now worthy to lift Thor’s hammer and to use it against its former owner. Thor calls down lightning—and it is absorbed by Loki, strengthening him. As the newfound hero demands that Thor acknowledge that he is now the worthier brother, the inversion spell is lifted back on Earth by the Red Skull, Scarlet Witch and Doctor Doom, changing everything back to normal. Loki is now reminded of the “crime that will not be forgiven” and Thor refuses to believe anything the Prince of Lies is telling him about the inversion caused by Axis.


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Not Forgiven
In the wake of the AXIS event, Loki apologizes to his best friend Verity Willis for all he’d done while inverted. They then plan to rescue Lorelei and Sigurd, imprisoned separately from their hearts (last issue). He makes a half-hearted joke about Thor being unworthy because he pooped in the Sacred Toilet…but he can’t finish it—and is compelled to explain it was false—because the spell that makes him unable to lie counts any and every falsehood. Thor appears—but now unworthy of being named Thor and calling himself the Odinson—to apologize to Loki for his treatment of him on the moon (last issue) and elsewhere (ANGELA #2). Thor is wistful for the carefree young Loki he once knew and wonders what happened to him. Though Thor had no idea what would come of this casual remark, Loki is compelled to confess that he killed him—the Crime That Will Not Be Forgiven. He explains in detail (in a full page of text) how he, the ghostly copy of evil Loki, entered into the body of the raven Ikol as guide to the (mostly) innocent young Loki and then, when the boy had exonerated himself by his actions during the FEAR ITSELF event, Ikol stole his body and exiled the good Loki to Limbo. He has since been trying to escape his wicked past and redeem himself and that’s where they are. Thor, now knowing the truth, savagely beats his brother’s murderer and hurls him out of the window. Loki is forced to draw Gram, the Sword of Truth, but Thor snatches it from him and shatters it as it would be better off destroyed than wielded by a killer. Loki pleads for mercy and Thor recalls how he promised to never give up on Loki. Unable to kill him, Thor takes Loki to Asgard and publicly denounces him and walks away from the injured Trickster who is begging for forgiveness….


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I Cannot Tell a Lie!
The Death-Throws, a band of juggling criminals, have invaded a Las Vegas casino with robbery on their agenda. Bombshell tosses a small bomb at a crowd but it is snatched out of the air by the newly heroic Loki and hurled back at the villains—minus the fuse since Loki doesn’t want to hurt anyone. Oddball hurls a larger bomb at Loki who draws his sword and bats it, as in baseball, back at the baddies where it releases its charge of knockout gas. The villains are vanquished and Loki is a hero….
Going back a few hours, Loki and Amora the Enchantress were trying to explain to their friends Verity Willis, Lorelei (Amora’s sister), and Sigurd how their personalities had been inverted by the magic spell in AXIS #3. Where once they were evil, they are now good (with their "good" qualities being also reversed so that they are "good" in a smug, self-righteous manner). Loki especially can no longer tell a lie and considers himself absolved of all his crimes, even his betrayal of his younger self. The two newly-minted heroes invited their friends to join them in their quest. They declined so the heroes say goodbye to them, no longer interested in the affairs of mortals. Upset by her friend’s betrayal, Verity walked out accompanied by Lorelei and Sigurd. Learning that Thor was causing trouble in Las Vegas, Loki set out to save him from himself—while Evil Loki laughed….
Now back at the casino, Loki, having vanquished the Death-Throws, is thanked by the casino owner and departs in the form of a magic unicorn to find his wayward brother. At the next casino, the God of Heroism confronts the ex-God of Thunder and the look in Thor’s eyes signals that he has become the new God of Evil….
At home, Verity drowns her sorrows over her best friend’s betrayal in wine. She calls Lorelei to share her pain but interrupts the minx in the middle of a robbery….


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Decree Absolute
All through this issue we keep returning to a pair of workmen repairing damage in Latveria after the events of FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #1 (2014). One mocks the other’s loyalty to Doctor Doom until they almost come to blows. More later….
In the far future Doctor Doom walks the desolate steppe that had once been Latveria. Old Loki appears before him, mocking his dreams; then beetles emerge from Loki’s face and swarm all over Doom, he has Valeria Richards quickly return him to his own time. Knowing that Loki holds his future in his hand, Doom plans to destroy him….
Young charming Loki has returned to his Manhattan apartment after the events of ORIGINAL SIN 5.1-5 and is confronted by Verity Willis, who accuses him of having deceived her on their recent mission (issue #5 of this title). He tries to explain but he is pulled away. Pressing something into her hand he is teleported to Doom’s castle. Doom challenges him to a magic duel. Loki turns invisible but Valeria can still track him with the quantum computer. The mad monarch calls out an army of Doombots and lectures us on the meaning of magic and story while Loki battles his silent foes. [At this point we see one of the workmen attack the other and fall to his death, then all of the laborers begin fighting.] Doom seizes the opportunity and freezes Loki in stasis as one would pause a DVD. As he gloats, Verity Willis, unseen because of the Amulet of Invisibility Loki had given her, wonders what to do next….


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Fall Out
In Asgardia, Odin and Freyja talk over the many changes coming lately (Thor becoming unworthy and the discovery of Angela). Especially worrisome is Evil Loki, the future self of the familiar God of Mischief; Freyja explains how Evil Loki gives all of them security that a glorious future lies ahead—for all but Loki himself. This means that the optimistic young Loki is doomed to never change. Odin considers her scheme unwise….
In Latveria, Doctor Doom has trapped young Loki in a cube of solidified time. While Doom is supervising the removal of the cube to his art room, young Valeria Richards tells the invisible Verity Willis to come out of hiding (she has experience with detecting invisible people, you know). Valeria explains to Verity that Doom saw the future and it had been destroyed by Loki….
Doom learns that rioting and violence have swept his land and he commands his people to stop but he suddenly has visions of being mocked by the Fantastic Four. He detects the psychic wave of hate and sees the Red Skull behind it. A mysterious figure arrives at the castle door and with a wave of his hand destroys the Doombot guards….
Verity convinces Valeria to release Loki as there is no absolute future to prevent. A confused Loki is released but Verity doesn’t need him, just Gram, the Sword of Truth. The God of Mischief plunges the sword into a huge glowing ball and a truth wave goes out, destroying the hate wave. Doom is himself again and peace returns to his kingdom. Doom and Loki are now in a stalemate but the mysterious visitor reveals himself as Magneto, come to recruit the two of them to battle the Red Skull….


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Lets You & Him Fight!
Sigurd the Ever-Glorious scales a mountain in Tibet to visit the guru Kaluu who sits medicating on a mat. Kaluu does not welcome the interruption but Sigurd shows him the hero’s blade Gram (hoping to astonish the mystic). Kaluu is not impressed and asks how Sigurd came by the sword. We flash back several days…
…Loki was entertaining a visiting Verity Willis who can see through any lie (introduced in issue #2). Sigurd enters stealthily with not one, not two, but three devices which render him invisible. As Loki describes a plot he’s hatching, Sigurd sneaks in and tries to filch the sword—but Verity can see him. He reveals that the sword is his and promises to return it when he’s done with it. Now we get a flashback within a flashback: Earlier that day, the All-Mother appeared to Loki on his video game screen (looks like Space invaders) and commanded him to bring Sigurd back to Asgard. Now Sigurd challenges him to battle and Loki draws his own sword Leavateinn ("Damage Twig?" as Sigurd asks); in the duel the visitor kicks the God of Mischief out of a window. But Loki is not harmed, with his seven-league boots he is standing on a clothesline. Sigurd joins him on that precarious platform and slices though the line dropping them both into a huge dumpster. In those close quarters, Sigurd bests Loki and departs, feeling so unheroic….
Back on the Tibetan mountaintop, Sigurd reveals what he wants: to enter the Wheel of Karma, hoping to be reincarnated as a non-Asgardian god and escape the clutches of the Disir (see NEW MUTANTS #43 on this very site!). They use the truth-sword to cut their palms and mingle their blood on the prayer mat—and the guru reveals himself as Mephisto and the mat a standard infernal pact, delivering the hero into the villain’s clutches. Then Loki appears (having used the invisibility belt he nabbed from Sigurd during their dumpster duel and he managed to switch contracts and Mephisto is now under Loki’s power. The demonic dastard reminds Loki of how he banished the real Kid Loki—but Loki commands Mephisto back to Hell and teleports Sigurd to Asgardia where the All-Mother awaits.
Later, Loki, fearing that he could just as easily be exiled to Asgard again, outlines his mission for his partners: Verity, Lorelei and Thor….


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Lord Pumpkin story: The last pumpkinWriter Dan Danko. Pencils Kyle Hotz. Inks Pav Kovacic. Colour Design Micky Rose. Colours Wolf Pack with Salvador Mancha.In the Godwheel mini-series certain Ultravillains led by Argus tried to combine the Crystal Crown, the Roc's Egg and the Windsword to relight the Crucible Of Life in the Gods' home Vahdala that would grant immortality, and certain Ultraheroes stopped them. Lord Pumpkin won the Egg for Argus but was killed for his treacherous thoughts. However a horde of little LPs was born from his seeds and joined the final battle. Argus and the Crown were sent through a portal to some other dimension by Marvel's Thor. And in an epilogue Marvel's Loki broke the Sword.Now we see another 6-inch Pumpkin figure approaching the smashed pumpkin head of LP which still contains the lighted candle that gives him power. He grabs it but has to fight a half-rat/half-pumpkin (it ate 1 of the seeds) for it. The rat claims to be the Pumpkin but but the pumpkin man lays claims to the title Lord Pumpkin, and proves it by using the power of the candle to breathe fire which burns his foe to a crisp.Carrying the candle he heads for the Crucible and the Roc's Egg that has the power of teleportation. He passes the broken Sword and now knows that only the Egg remains. he remembers beating Hardcase to get the Egg but then being killed by Argus. He also remembers the pumpkin army of which he was the only 1 with free will. So he sent them all on a kill spree and sat back to watch. But he saw them all die and the heroes win and return to their various homes.Now the Egg displays another of its properties by shrinking to a convenient size for mini-Pumpkin to handle, while Pumpkin is determined to regain his full size. But now he notices that Vahdala has been transformed into a hellscape and he asks the Egg to take him to the powerful being who did this because he should be able to grant his wish.That being is Loki who asks his servant Iago ('inherited' along with the otherwise deserted place) to refill his wine glass. Little Lord Pumpkin finally manages to get his attention and demonstrates his power with a flame blast, which of course does nothing to the Asgardian god. Loki picks him up, making him drop the candle, and thanks him for the entertainment. He's been bored since being trapped  in this place. He's discovered that in this universe he doesn't have the power to magic himself anywhere he wants.Pumpkin offers him a bargain which Loki promises to honour. He tells him of (Ultra-)Earth which is ripe for being ruled by they 2. But the little being says that if he will make him what he once was (ie full-size) then he will give him the Roc's Egg which will teleport him anywhere he wants. Loki agrees to the deal, takes the Egg and transforms it into a ring for his finger. LP is worried by this because the Egg should have been attuned only to him who found it (twice). But he now asks Loki for his side of the bargain. The trickster god laughs and does transform him into something he once was, a scarecrow hung up in a field, with his candle on the ground below him.Necromantra story: New girl in townWriter Mike Barr. Pencils Gabriel Gecko. Inks Stephanie Baskerville. Colour Design Micky Rose. Colours Gone Fishin' with Ruth & Sharleen.Evil male wizard/knight Thanasi had occupied the body of Mantra (Eden Blake) and renamed her Necromantra (in Mantra #17). 'She' was immediately caught up in the Godwheel mini-series where she aided and schemed against Argus. In #3 she abandoned Mantra's body when it was menaced by the energy vampire Rune. In Mantra #18 Eden was impregnated by her love Lucasz, and Thanasi caused the pregnancy to hyper-accelerate. They named the baby Marinna but Thanasi's spell made the child rapidly became adult at which time Thanasi possessed her as a new Necromantra. But Mantra managed to send her away (in #19).Now she awakes in a field back on the Godwheel with a young girl warning about a large snake about to strike. She's too weak to use magic but the girl leads the snake away until the woman makes a noise by tripping over a rock. The snake bites her leg and the girl stabs the snake. But it still menaces them both until it's peppered with arrows from a band of knights led by the girl's father Lord Tavon. They take NM back to their castle to be cured of the slithor's poison.When she awakes again she learns that they're amazed she survived. Tavon introduces the girl as his daughter Arielle and she asks them to call her Marinna. They invite her to stay for as long as she wants, and use this bedchamber which was his late wife's. She does, and over time Tavon falls in love with her (as she plans).When she deems the time is right 'Marinna' goes down to the dungeons and 'persuades' the lone guard to let her in by threatening to tell his Lord that he tried to molest her. She locates a cell with a wizard in it, who detects that she's not what she seems. He describes her abbreviated history for us:- (S)he was Thanasi, 1 of the male knights serving a great wizard named Archimage. But (s)he betrayed the mage in exchange for the ability to live in other bodies. And she took over the body of a powerful female mage (Mantra in her #17). But she was ousted from that body, however it gave birth to another female which is the body she wears now (Mantra #19).He tells her he can't make her a man again, but she says she prefers the form she has now which allows he to bend men to her will. But her magic is weak now and she wants to know how to make it strong again. He says her black magic needs deaths to power it - she must slay those she hates and those she loves. She thanks him for his help and 'promises' him his freedom.Next we see Marinna getting dolled up for her wedding to Tavon. Arielle pops in to wish her well and thank her for making daddy and herself happy again after mommy died. Her mother-to-be promises never to leave her. The wedding happens and Tavon awaits his wife in their bedchamber. She enters in a slinky garment and makes another promise, that this room shall be their private haven for as long as he lives. Then she pops back out supposedly to don a garter that the bridesmaids insisted on.But outside she switches to Necromantra and finds eggs in the nest of a slither (possibly the mate of the 1 that got killed earlier). Mummy snake objects and she fights it with her spiked 'belt' and then stabs it with 1 of its own fangs. It dies and the snake tattoo up her left leg reappears (she had it in her previous incarnation). And she flays some of the slither's skin to use as a facemask.Then she visits the wizard in his cell who recognises her growing power and tells her she must now kill *2* people she loves. She claims to love *him* for his advice and kills him. Then she returns to her waiting husband in her new form and kills *him* to make 2. (Could it be that she avoided killing young Arielle because she really *does* care for her?)


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Chapter 1: Smashing NecromantraScript: Dan Danko. Pencils: Jeff Lafferty. Inks: Pav Kovacic.Lord Pumpkin has returned to the Kingdom on the Godwheel where he was created and once ruled. He kills his way through some Palace Guards on duty, and accompanied by his sarcastic crow companion he makes his way to the Guard's Mess Hall where Capt Bjork is belabouring the servants and his minions. He announces his presence and many of the Guard swear to serve him because they remember how merciless he was. But many others want to fight for their freedom. Civil war erupts and Lord P warns Bjork what will happen to him if any of the freedom fighters survive the day.LP leaves them to confront Queen Marinna in her court. She sends her Guards and attendants away. Pumpkin tells her that won't help them because he'll kill them anyway. She tells him that it was so they wouldn't see what *she* does to *him*. And he's staggered by a blast of light ...Chapter 2: Pump it upScript: Mike W Barr. Pencils: Gabriel Gecko. Inks Stephen Baskerville.... and he's confronted by Marinna's true identity Necromantra. Both are surprised because both thought the other dead (both *did* die in the Godwheel mini-series). But now they exchange blasts. The Guards rush to help her even though some are uneasy that their Queen is revealed to be a sorceress. 2 are sent to get reinforcements but Pumpkin kills the rest with a blast of green fire from his mouth. The 2 pass young Arielle looking for her stepmother. She's seen her using sorcery before but now she sees Marinna gaining energy from the deaths of her Guards. LP spots Arielle and throws her at NM who saves her with a gust of wind. And another gust propels Pumpy towards a stone wall. He saves himself from going splat by blasting a hole in it to pass through (into what clues suggest is a lavatory).Meanwhile the 2 Guards have reached the Mess Hall where the other guards are fighting each other and they ask them to come to the Queen's aid. But the loyal troops are losing so Capt Bjork sends some of the rebels to kill the messengers.The crow now attacks Necromantra and forces *her* to fall back through the hole where she's hit by a thrown loo brush. Pumpkin now approaches her with flaming breath and she has no escape in the confined space. But she spots water leaking through a wooden door and blasts it open. Water gushes in which she uses her elemental control to direct at her enemy.Who suddenly dematerialises with his crow to find himself facing masked individuals who give him a purple jewel which they say can help him defeat Necromantra, and they want her handed over to *them*.Chapter 3: The return of the KingThe creative teams from chapters 1 & 2 take turns to illustrate parts of this.Lord Pumpkin recognises these guys and knows they can be trusted. They explain that the gem will increase the power of the candle in his pumpkin head, and thus the force of his blasts. He swallows it and exclaims that he's never felt so alive. He does a test blast and incinerates a stand of trees. And then they send him and his crow back to the castle. He blasts his way in and finds the Guards still fighting each other. LP  emboldens his side and a loyal Guard sends a servant to tell the Queen it's not going well for her supporters.Necromantra finds Arielle who wants to know why she didn't use her sorcery to save her father Lord Tavon. (We know that NM actually killed her husband to gain his throne.) Marinna reminds her step-daughter how weak she was then (until her sorcery was repowered by various deaths ending with her husband's). Ari asks whether Lord Pumpkin killed him, but before Marinna can decide what to say they get the news that the Pumpkin has returned again. Marinna gives Arielle for safekeeping the amulet that Tavon gave her at their wedding, and she assures her (truly) that she loves her.NM flies into battle intending to despatch her foe with 1 quick blow. But she finds him much more powerful than before and encased in magically-generated armour. And she can barely hold off his force blasts. But she cunningly casts a spell to make his armour too heavy to move in, but he daren't remove it. And she knows she's running out of power to maintain the spell.It is at this point that the mystery men turn up to claim their prize and say their bargain with Pumpkin is complete. But Arielle bursts in to offer herself instead of Marinna, which of course the captors deny. Marinna tells Ari to run because she is very weak and hungry. She manifests a demon (from #2) but it grabs the girl rather than her enemies. Arielle dies (I think) and her death partially revives Necromantra. But the mystery men take her away (and Ari's body at the request of Lord P).The Pump goes to where the 2 factions of the Palace Guards are still battling it out and tells them that the Queen is dead. This energises his side, and he promises the opposition that if they surrender he won't kill them or their families. But then someone appears behind him who knows what his promises are worth. It's the (dead) little girl from #2 who set him free from his fate as a scarecrow and then he killed her and her family. He tries to banish her with his new gem but it has no effect on her. She tells him that the 'horned man' has resurrected her (body without a soul) and protects her. LP realises she refers to Loki (from #1). She reaches into his head and pulls out the gem. She claims that the 'horned man' could have taken it from him at any time but this way was more fun. And they both disappear.The issue ends with a strange epilogue page echoing a scene in #2 where the girl has a childish picnic laid out at the feet of Pump the scarecrow, and she's reaching up to pretend to feed him. But this version also has Necromantra watching and she drops the amulet she gave Ari which the crow then investigates.


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In the Cotati Garden in the Blue Area of the Moon Quoi prepares to undergo a purification rite that will test is worthiness to be the plant-universe's Celestial Messiah. His father, the Cotati who bears the form of the Swordsman, tells him it will burn away any sympathies for his mother's meat heritage. He drinks a sacred potion and 'Swordsman' leaves him to it.But from far away across the Galaxy his mother Mantis mentally intrudes and causes the surrounding vegetation to grow her a body. Her memories flood into it:- A childhood being trained in martial arts by the Priests Of Pama to suit her to be the Celestial Madonna. Joining the Avengers, and much later the Guardians Of The Galaxy. In between having a relationship with the original Swordsman, Jacques DuQuesne, who died saving her from Kang, and whose corpse was reanimated by the Prime Cotati to be her lover. And their son Sequoia/Quoi who was taken from her by the Cotati.The 2 begin to fight. But Mantis' post-Madonna human/plant hybrid status allows her to restrain Quoi with the Cotati's own plants. And she says they need to talk. But instead she shows him a vision of an incident in her past.She and Wanda Maximoff are discussing her and Jacque's application for Avengers membership. Wanda thinks Mantis should apply solo because the team will find it difficult accepting their foe Swordsman. When Mantis joins her lover he says the same thing, after all he made Captain America walk the plank (off a high building in #20 of the original Av series). He says he doesn't deserve her and she should leave him. She replies that she saved him from alcoholism and he saved her from her life as a bar-girl, and whatever they do they'll do together.Quoi breaks free and they fight again until he generates a spike from his elbow and stabs his mother in the heart. But she shows him another vision.It is Giant-Size Av #4 and she and the Cotati Swordsman are being married by Immortus (alongside Scarlet Witch and Vision). She says that the Celestial Messiah was meant to unify the plant and animal worlds, not turn plants against animals as that Swordsman has taught him. Mantis now says that becoming Swordsman twisted that Cotati's mind, as she started to discover during their honeymoon on the Cotati planet Tamal. There the local psychic conclave of Cotati refused to admit his mind, fearing pollution from his human memories. Swordsman is now condemned to being a lonely outsider.Now Mantis snaps off Quoi's spike and removes it from her 'heart'. Her son says that his father tried to be a bridge between the species and it lost him community with the green and left him with disgusting animal feelings. And Quoi watched his father's suffering after his mother abandoned him. Mantis protests that she never wanted to leave him with the plants. But her son mentally causes the phosphorus in her body to ignite. However mom reminds him this isn't actually her body, and she's still in mental contact with him to show him 1 of their combined memories.It's Willimantic, Connecticut and they're fitting in as a suburban family (minus a father), claiming to have just moved from New Jersey. Human-looking young Quoi tries to join a group of kids playing Avengers. He has a Captain America costume but is rejected because the leader Connor already has that role. So he makes himself a Swordsman costume. The group don't know who Swordsman is, but they are impressed by the home-made outfit.Quoi *does* remember how he was happy there and Connor became his good friend. And he does settle down to talk. His mother reminds him that the Cotati are planning to massacre people like Connor. But her son says he can't betray his father because Swordsman has no-one else left. Mantis says that if he calls a halt to the war then she can use her empathic power to help 'Jacques'. But this makes her son suspicious of how she's invading his mind, and he forces her to show him a particular memory of hers involving the formation of the Guardians.It was after the Phalanx invasion of the Kree homeworld Hala (the Annihilation: Conquest event). Star-Lord Peter Quill convinces Mantis to help him 'persuade' the others to form the initial GOTG team. She is loath to use her power to coerce the others into joining, but gives in. We see her talking individually to Adam Warlock, Drax, Gamora, Phyla-Vell (then Quasar) and Rocket Raccoon.Now Quoi is antagonistic again, and he forces his mother to remember yet 1 more thing, how their suburban life ended. 1 day his Cotati genes took over and Quoi sprouted branches and leaves, which understandably horrified his pals. But strangely they forgot about it afterwards, and Quoi now realises that was his mother's doing. Now he questions whether she mentally made Jacques DuQuesne want to become an Avenger. And if she made his father become Swordsman. And he turns her body to flowers and casts her out.On the outer edge of the Lamora system Mantis sends a message to the Avengers telling them that they must let the approaching Kree/Skrull armada defeat her son and the Cotati. And she heads to the Solar System in the insect-like spaceship we saw at the beginning of Empyre #2. (And this issue says it continues in #3 where Mantis arrives on Earth.)


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Profane the precious time
Many years ago on Tarnax 1V, capital of the Skrull Empire, Empress R'Klll awaits the end as Galactus consumes the planet (in Fantastic Four #257). Her daughter Princess Anelle confesses to her that she saved the bastard child she had with the Kree Captain Marvel (supposedly conceived in Avengers #94 during the Kree/Skrull War story arc but we and Teddy Altman only found out about it in Young Avengers v1 #11) when her father Emperor Dorrek VII tried to have the baby killed, and she sent him and his nanny to Earth for safety.That baby grew up to be Theodore Altman, the Young Avenger Hulkling, and fiancé to another YAer Billy Kaplan, Wiccan, who is currently a part of Blade's Strikeforce. Billy contacts him from a mission in that title, and Teddy pretends to have just had an adventure with Spider-Man. Then another YA couple, Tommy Shepherd (Billy's brother Speed) and David Alleyne (the ex-mutant Prodigy), invite him out for drinks ...... at Jumbo Carnation's gay club where Krystal M'Kraan is performing. Tommy as usual goes on about his brother Billy getting more glory than both of them, but David tries to boost Teddy's ego. But then they are interrupted by Raksor, a Skrull, and Bel-Dann, a Kree, who tell him that a 'long-dormant power' is cutting swathes through both Empires and heading for Earth's Moon. (We recognise that this is what we're being told about in Empyre #2.) They need someone to unite all the factions of both Empires into 1 grand alliance to combat this menace. And they remind him of his parentage which makes him the only choice.But then 'Jumbo Carnation' removes his helmet (modelled on that currently sported by Professor X) and reveals himself to be a Skrull copy (not having 4 arms should have been a giveaway), backed by several other armed (with weapons) Skrulls from a fanatical purist sect, the Children Of Tarnax. The Kree/Skrull pair and the 3 Earther super-heroes defend themselves, until Hulkling magically calls his magic Star-Sword (which he acquired in New Avengers (2015) #3-4) into his hand which convinces the attacking Skrulls he's worthy.Bel-Dann and Raksor leave Teddy to think about it, but he must decide tonight. He goes off to be by himself and remembers his 'mother' (who was actually his Skrull nanny) telling him to make peace not war. And he contacts the allies to tell them he'll do what they want, but promising himself he's doing it to bring peace. They'll beam him up in an hour, but meanwhile he sees a light in his apartment and finds Wiccan waiting for him. He tells Billy what he's got to do and they spend the hour together. (This last scene was also played out in the Incoming 1-shot)Hulkling arrives in the Kree/Skrull Imperial Flagship and is welcomed by Kree Tanalth The Pursuer as Dorrek VIII of the Skrulls or Emperor Dorrek-Vell I of the Kree/Skrull Alliance. He's brought Wiccan with him who Tanalth dismisses a his pet jester-ape. But Billy's not stopping. He magic chants "I want to keep Teddy safe" onto Teddy's engagement ring and says he can teleport to it whenever necessary. Then he leaves on Strikeforce business.Tanalth proposes that they cement Hulkling's authority by killing some rebel Utopian leaders or worlds but Teddy wants to offer them peace. So she introduces him to his royal guard Kree Captain Glory and Mur-G'nn, Kree/Skrull hybrid sorceress of the Knights Of The Infinite. Teddy recognises Mur-G'nn (from the aforementioned NAv#3-4 where the Knights previously tried to make Hulking the Kree/Skrull Emperor). And finally he meets Tanalth's co-leader the Super-Skrull. Teddy punches him in the creased jaw for killing his mother (YAv#9) (really his Skrull nanny).Tanalth announces that the combined Kree/Skrull fleet is passing Saturn, and Teddy insists on visiting his father Captain Marvel's grave on Titan (Mar-Vell died in Marvel's 1st graphic novel). He muses that he once thought he met CM (YAv Presents #2) but it was a fake (a Skrull named Khn'nr in the lead-up to Secret Invasion). But he knows that the real CM left the Kree to become a hero of Earth, and he now hopes to do as well in reverse.Hulkling hasn't noticed that behind him the flagship is under attack (that no sound in space thing). So when he teleports back it's into a firefight. Apparently some Kree Imperium fanatics aren't happy with his leniency towards the Utopians. Their female leader attacks Teddy directly and disarms him of his sword. But Wiccan teleports from Earth to his side and repels her (while the Earth duo swap Star Trek quotes). Then we see Tanalth telling the fanatic leader to retreat, and she does. Billy stops Super-Skrull from attacking the fleeing foes, and Kl'rt turns on him which causes Teddy to threaten him with the sword. This unsettles his followers, but Tanalth breaks the awkward moment by announcing that Bel-Dann and Raksor have been killed by their enemy (see Incoming).The Earth couple are given sumptuous double-bed quarters. But Teddy remembers when Captain America gave them a bedroom in Avengers Mansion (with 2 single beds) when he was worried about Wiccan's increasing powers (Av: Children's Crusade #1). And he thinks that this is as much a prison as the other 1 was. But at least they have the consolation of each other.Later they meet with the Kree/Skrull 4 again. Tanalth points out that by sparing Utopians Dorrek-Vell caused the recent fight and the deaths of many. To save the Alliance he must be stronger. Also his people won't accept a human consort in Billy, who Teddy supported against Kl'rt. So to be the leader of the Alliance he must dismiss Wiccan. Billy accepts this, so Teddy takes the throne and formally dissolves their engagement and banishes him. Billy teleports back to Earth.Later again Tanalth contacts the leader of the invaders who apologises for failing to kill Dorrek. But Tanalth says everything worked out as she wanted, but now she needs to get rid of loose ends. And she causes the other's ship to self-destruct.In another later Billy pops back to see Teddy again. Teddy says he didn't mean what he said, and Billy says he knows that. Billy says goodbye again, and tells Teddy to go save everybody.And the fleet approaches Earth and Empyre: Av#0.


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This whole issue takes place well before Empyre, sometime after Avengers: Celestial Quest.Back in Giant-Size Av #4 the Prime Cotati occupied the form of the dead Swordsman (Jacques DuQuesne) in order to marry Mantis and conceive Quoi, the Celestial Messiah. In Lords Of Empyre: Celestial Messiah we learned that becoming Swordsman corrupted him with humanness and so he was denied access to the Cotati plant psychic Conclave on their planet Tamal, although we see here that they accept the prophesied plant/human hybrid Messiah. And cut of from his kind, his human and plant sides have become fused and he has become increasingly bitter.Now he has a mission for himself and his son, which the Conclave also disapprove of, but Quoi will follow his father. In West Coast Av #39 the Cotati Swordsman gave the Avenger DuQuesne's sword to Hawkeye. Now he wants to retrieve it and return it to Jacque's grave where it belongs. He changes them both to look more human as a disguise because they're not going to ask for the sword, they're going to steal it.Hawkeye kept the sword in a display case in Avengers HQ, which now is in Stark Tower. We see Captain America and Iron Man who have discovered it gone, the case broken open by vines. (At this time they obviously don't suspect the Cotati. They presumably think the culprit is someone like Plantman.)The next scene is the Temple of the Priests Of Pama in Vietnam (where Mantis was raised, DuQuesne was buried and the Prime Cotati lived before he and Mantis were married). Suddenly rapid plant growth starts to wreck the place. Leonora Yoon, Alchemax Asia Pacific VP in Seoul, contacts Robert Chandler, Alchemax Genetics Director in New York, to tell him about it and that she's sent a team in. The company already had its eye on the trees there as a biomedical source.Meanwhile Swordsman and Quoi have landed some way away from the Temple so as not to draw attention to it, and the Cotati grove it hides. Quoi thinks he's worrying unnecessarily because humans are their allies (as in Av: Celestial Quest). But the human memories and feelings within Swordsman tell him they aren't to be trusted. And when they reach the Temple they find that the grove has bloomed 'in celebration of Quoi's arrival', and that Alchemax troops have got there before them.Naive Quoi walks in to reason with the soldiers, who tell him they're here to cut down the trees. When he protests they restrain him and his father. But Swordsman fights back, and Quoi joins in to prevent gunfire. However he is bitten by a guard dog and hit by a bullet, which enrages 'Jacques'. When Quoi quickly recovers and his father threatens to turn plants against them the soldiers assume they are mutants. But Quoi takes Swordsman's sword and uses it to cut through a vine. He energises it with his powers and hands it to a scientist, saying it will yield fabulous medicines. Strangely the opposition agree to leave.The duo enter the Temple which Jacques declares to be 3rd Empire Kree, millennia old, yet they find a frescos depicting Mantis, Swordsman and the birth of the Celestial Messiah. SM leads the way to a huge tree which he says was his original form. His son realises that they aren't here just to return the sword. Daddy confirms that this grove has given him permission to rejoin them and he wants to do it because it will get rid of the human in him. Unhappy Quoi won't stay and watch.But Swordsman follows him outside and they share a sunrise. He offers his son the sword as a keepsake. Quoi takes it and *does* stay to watch through days and nights as his father's body is slowly absorbed into the tree trunk. When it's finished he leaves the sword there and goes away.Robert Chandler has analysed the vine specimen and deduced that it is sentient. He tells Leonora Yoon that when it is full-grown they should be able to map its neural architecture and develop cures for degenerative neurological conditions. But that would take 30 years so he wants the existing trees cut down and shipped over.The Alchemax gang return and start work. The Prime Cotati reforms as Swordsman (but with various bits still missing) and exits from his tree to see the rest of the grove butchered. He finds his sword and angrily attacks the workers. The soldiers respond but he slaughters them all as Quoi watches. He likens humans to Galactus, the Devourer Of Worlds, and suggests that his why they fear *him* above all others - because they recognise themselves in him. Now because of them he has lost the peace he finally found in the Conclave. He breaks the sword in 2 and the duo leave Earth.Back on Tamal Quoi says he's at last seen what humans are capable of. They destroyed the Cotati grove that was older than their entire civilisation. The Celestial Messiah was meant to be the saviour of both plants and animals, but now he will dedicate himself only to plant-life. His 1st action is to grow a new golden sword for his father out of his own being (which Swordsman has been brandishing throughout the main series). Then he forces the grove to accept his father. And they start the journey to Empyre.


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In the Canoga Park Zoo in Los Angeles a blue gemstone meteorite scorches a patch of grass near a monkey cage. A monkey reaches out and grabs it, eats it and is convulsed by a shock. His playthings include a bunch of blocks with letters on, and when an attendant arrives with a bucket of bananas he's surprised to see that the monkey has spelled out "Im really tired of bananas". It makes the newspapers and gets people talking ...... including at the coffee machine in the shadowy government agency Aladdin where Eden Blake works. She takes her coffee back to her office and calls home to check with young daughter Evie what movie she and her brother Gus want to see. But Evie just wants to go see the monkey that can spell. Later Eden turns down drinks with the crowd and heads home.Her inner monologue (scattered through the issue) brings us up to date with her situation. She's really the male knight/wizard Lukasz. He and Eden used to share her body and its magic potential as Mantra, and strangely fell in love. But the events surrounding Godwheel changed that. Lukasz created a body for himself and moved out, but his enemy male knight/wizard Thanasi moved in before Eden could take control of her body, and became Necromantra. Later Thanasi was driven out and now exists as a separate female Necromantra (but it's more complicated than that). But in the process Eden died and Lukasz took over her body again to look after her kids.'Eden' and the 2 kids do go to the Zoo to see the amazing Bobo. Evie knows her mother is Mantra, and even that Eden's dead and the man Lucasz is in her body, but Gus doesn't, and Eden has to keep stopping her from blurting it out.Meanwhile Marvel's Loki, stuck in the Ultraverse since Godwheel #3, has detected that Bobo has the Mind Gem. Marvel's Infinity Gems have also found there way here and he's already acquired the Time Gem (Hardcase #23). But he also now senses power in Eden Blake. He decides to send a pawn to harvest this Gem and chooses the simpleminded Primevil, a discarded skin of the hero Prime who was animated by Necromantra in the Godwheel series.It's arrival in the Zoo causes panic, and Lucasz recognises it from Godwheel. She tells the kids to run back to the car. Gus wants to stay to see what happens but Evie drags him with her and says their mom's got to stay to do important stuff. She intones her mantra "Change, growth, power" to transform to Mantra. Primevil had a crush on this body when it was Necromantra so she figures he'll do what she says. She's right but Loki mentally takes over and makes him punch her through a wall of the lion enclosure, freeing some lions.The kids haven't in fact run far and watch from behind a wastebin as Primevil pushes wide the bars of the monkeyhouse, steps through and grabs Bobo. Loki makes him reluctantly kill the chimp and take the Gem from inside it and flies off with it. But the kids are menaced by a lion until Mantra encloses it in a forcefield and moves it away. Then she reverts to Eden and Gus is confused even as she tells him that the Ultraheroine flew away. They go home.Loki and Primevil are in mental contact. PE complains that Loki made him hurt Mantra but the Norse God just tells him to shut up and bring him the Gem. However his pawn likes the pretty Gem almost as much as he likes the pretty lady so he decides to keep it. He puts it on his brow and also gets a shock.At home Eden puts the kids to bed. Evie asks if Bobo's gone to heaven. If she'd known what was going to happen she'd have asked him to tell mommy she loves her. Lucasz assures her that Eden knows. Gus tries to hide the fact that he's scared Primevil will come after them. She assures him that won't happen.But when she returns to the living room she finds now-intelligent Primevil waiting for her. She changes to Mantra but he says he doesn't want to fight but suggests they go outside so as not to disturb the children. They fly away together. PE apologises for attacking her earlier but he was under another's control. But now he's gained intelligence he's free, and his crush on her has blossomed to true love. She says he's inherited Prime's memories including Kevin Green's crush on her and where she lives. He protests that Kevin is just a boy in a man's body, but he's a man with a man's feelings as he plucks some roses from a bush. And he prefers now to be called Byron not Primevil.Then Loki locates them and appears as a giant head floating in the sky demanding the Mind Gem. Mantra protects herself from his blast and PE just shrugs it off before flying to the attack. Loki causes a stone hand to rise from the ground to crush him, and Mantra manifests the Sword Of Fangs to hack at the hand. Byron breaks free and is glad to see she cares for his welfare. Loki opens the ground beneath their feet and closes it up to swallow them. Mantra escapes by going phantasmal but PE just forces his way out. They decide that Loki must die (but she has a cunning plan).Loki himself is in the Godyacht spaceship hovering next to the Gods' home Vahdala above the disc-planet Godwheel. He asks the ship's AI to provide him with a powerful and ironic weapon. Meanwhile Mantra uses her powers to trace his mystic emanations and creates a portal for her and Byron to step through which takes them to Vahdala. Lukasz isn't happy to be back here but Byron is because this is where Mantra gave him life. He ignores her reminding him that *that* was Necromantra/Thanasi. Byron comments that *she* hasn't yet reciprocated his declaration of love. He hopes that it's not his appearance that puts her off, because he believes she's not that shallow. She temporises by saying this isn't the time to discuss such things.Then Loki leans in from a portal to hit her with a golden hammer crackling with energy. She parries with her sword and breaks the other weapon, but he hits her with a sorcerous blast. Then Primevil grabs him and starts to absorb his power, but it's too much for him. Mantra throws her sword to knock the Gem off Byron's brow. Loki takes it and thanks her but she says she did it to save Byron's life, but not his mind. PE has forgotten everything but in anguish *knows* that he has forgotten something important.


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Multiverse madness
Last issue Moon Knight joined loads of other superheroes at Fantastic Four's Four Freedoms Plaza HQ where they were attacked by their evil Doppelgangers (sent by Magus as part of his general Infinity War plot). MK followed his Dop and that of Franklin Richards to where the FR-Dop used a Psi-Phon to drain sleeping Franklin of much of his life essence and superpower, intending to use it to challenge Magus. But then the MK-Dop double-crossed his partner and absorbed all the FR-Dop's own power as well as that which he had stolen. With that combination he was able to absorb the power of most of the Moon Knight variants across the multiverse, leaving only our MK and a few others who were strong enough to resist. Now the self-styled Moon Shade will seek the few out.Moon Shade attacks Moon Knight and they crash through a window to find themselves in an alternate reality. A handy TV news report tells us this is Skyline City, the Bad Apple, and they've just exited the Four Freedoms Retirement Home For Crime-Fighters which is undergoing its own raging battle. As they fall MK reminds us that his foe doesn't like his adamantium weapons. The TV report continues to describe their fight in a style reminiscent of The Dark Knight Returns which prepares us for the intervention of the bat-caped Lunar Avenger Darkmoon, this reality's Moon Knight. But MS uses the Psi-Phon to absorb Darkmoon. MK grabs the device and smashes it but MS says he no longer needs it ...... and they're instantly transported to a different reality where the local MK is the vampire Moonfang. But MK uses his silver crescent darts (so not *all* his weapons have been converted to adamantium) to help MS take the monster down, with of course the unfortunate side-effect that the villain adds another variant to his belt.The next reality features a religious conflict for the Manhatican between the forces of the female Crescent Moon and those of the Man-Bat-ish Greywing. MS attacks both leaders, but CM is the 1 he needs so he drops GW from a great height. MK saves the falling GW but is unable to prevent the absorption of CM.We're then taken through cameos of 3 more Moon Knights (Mr Spector & Ivory, Moon Ghost & his 2 young pals & monkey, and a Wild West dinosaur MK calls Dino-Knight) before winding up in an underwater New York protected by the mermaid Moon-Maid.Then there's only 1 Moon Knight variant left (apart from MK himself). Cosmopolis is protected by Moonman and Moonboy who don't fare too well against MS. MK explains what's going on but can't stop MS draining Moonman's essence. However MK destroys the foe by expanding his adamantium truncheon into a bo-stick inside him and then triggering an electric shock. Moonman (and Moonboy) is still alive but powerless, leaving our MK the only Moon Knight in the multiverse.And then he slips back into his own reality.


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Black sheep
In this long-running storyline (on and off since #43) Seth Phalkon has been sending his fellow Hellbent semi-demon minions on a secret mission. Opposing them has been Chloe Tan, last of the Knights Templar, and her young Hellbent wards the Cadre. Chloe was an associate of Marc Spector's but Moon Knight was busy with other villains, even as another associate Donna Kraft and his ex-lover Marlene Alraune also got dragged into it. But from #52 the Hellbent became the main antagonists in this series. Phalkon runs PhalkonCorp and after she left SpectorCorp Marlene went to work for them, and recommended her old college friend Donna as her replacement. Meanwhile the Hellbent were also after MK's associate Frenchie because he was the Bloodline, heir to all his ancestors' powers and a secret that Phalkon needed. And Phalkon also claimed that Marc Spector is his descendant, but also discovered that he is Moon Knight.At the end of last issue Seth visited Marlene and told her he knew she was actually a mole for Spector. Moon Knight came to her rescue and severely beat Phalkon. But MK got recruited by Goddess for her Infinity Crusade. And Hellbent Hook rescued Phalkon, and in the process knocked Marlene off the terrace of her penthouse apartment along with large chunks of the masonry.But now as Marlene Alraune falls she's saved by Donna Kraft, who'd been investigating whose side Marlene is actually on.But we have to follow Moon Knight to Paradise Omega, a planet created by Goddess on the far side of the Sun, populated by plant life and a large cathedral filled with the heroes and heroines of her flock. However Goddess has doubts whether MK is really worthy.However we switch to another subplot with Frenchie (his legs crippled by an accident in #35). Last issue Jean-Paul Duchamp drugged Hellbent Agony to reveal the location of the Hellbent base. Now he's flying her there in a SpectorCorp jet. But her needling activates his Bloodline power and he transforms into his ancestor Henri Remont who doesn't know how to control the craft. Agony triggers her ejector seat and parachutes to safety as the plane crashes.And another scene change to a nearby long-hidden Mesoamerican pyramid which is the Hellbent base. Hook has brought the severely-wounded Seth Phalkon there. He now offers his life-force to restore his lord to health. But Agony joins them and offers *her* life instead, to atone for her failure in being captured and betraying the site of the base. Phalkon accepts her sacrifice. Later Seth discovers that his links to SpectorCorp have been severed, and says that Spector's dual identity as Moon Knight messes up his plans. So he and Hook prepare to ensure his main goal is achieved by going through the last gate to Hellhole.Back on Paradise Omega the Goddess has descended in her cosmic egg into the ground beneath her cathedral (near the end of Infinity Crusade #2). She's left telepathic Moondragon in charge, who now calls on Archangel, Gamora, Invisible Woman, Multiple Man, Quicksilver, Sasquatch, Scarlet Witch & Thor to deal with someone who has doubts. As the troops wait to be teleported into action MK decides to prove his loyalty by joining them. And their target is Spider-Man. Moondragon mentally tells them to stop Spidey reaching the cathedral. She holds Moon Knight and Multiple Man back to form the last line of defence. The main part of the gauntlet is shown in Web Of Spider-Man #105, as is Spidey's version of the following bit. Spider-Man heads towards them supported by a web glider. (It's supposed to be there and MK refers to it, but it's not depicted very clearly.) Moondragon tells Moon Knight to kill him with his crescent darts. But instead the Multiple Men anchor MK (again mentioned but not actually shown) as he snags the hero with a truncheon line. However SM goes on the offensive so Knight is forced to fire his darts. But Spidey dodges them and lands on his opponents calling them Venom and Carnage. And then SM gets away and MK is teleported away by Goddess.Back in the ongoing plot Manx, a Hellbent who hunts other Hellbent, attacks the young Cadre (Dementia, Shard, Vortex) until Templar Chloe Tan intervenes.Back in the IC plot Goddess questions Moon Knight's commitment again. And asks him whether he is human or 1 of the Hellbent. And then he finds himself in the middle of a fight between Storm and Wonder Man (followers of Goddess) and Havoc and Spider-Woman (not).


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The dark doppelgangers descend
This issue starts with a scene-setting recap of some events in IW#1-2. Mr Fantastic called a meeting of all available heroes at the Fantastic Four HQ in Four Freedoms Plaza. When it convened in IW#2 he, Iron Man and Wolverine described how they had individually fought and beaten their evil Doppelgangers (in IW#1 and other places). But Logan claimed that the other 2 were lying and *they* were Dops (which we know is true). IM countered by suggesting the mutants might be to blame. Moon Knight tried to calm things down but Daredevil attacked MrF because his acute senses told him Wolvie was right. This brings us to the non-mutants vs mutants melee in the latter pages of IW#2.Marc Spector has reason to suspect that DD has enhanced senses and so tends to trust his judgement here. So he tries to dodge and weave his way through and over the battle to get to Reed Richards' podium to learn the truth. But no-one will believe he's not attacking them and they hit back. Psylocke invades his brain and sees horrific images from his mercenary past. But she also detects that he's dying (which he already knows) and there's a demon inside him (which I think he also knows). The IM-Dop tries to stop him reaching the podium but the confusion works in MK's favour this time. He gets to the battling DD and MF-Dop in time to see Reed hyper-extend an arm to push a button which raises into view a gamma bomb which goes off at the end of IW#2.We then see the beginning of IW#3 where Invisible Woman (who had already worked out her 'husband' was a fake or mind-controlled and was ready for him) uses her forcefield to direct the blast upwards, taking the top off FF HQ but saving all the lives. Then Magus and his Thanos-Dop portal in and rescue the IM and MrF Dops. But the heroes think they were Adam Warlock and the real Thanos.Psylocke wants to tell MK he's dying but Gambit says now's not the time. Captain America wants to talk to him after this is over about his illegal confrontation with Dr Doom. Later Psylocke goes off with the expeditionary force to track Thanos and Warlock through other dimensions, but before she goes she tasks Gambit with giving the bad news to MK. He tries but Marc Spector has other things on his mind.While the FF are away in the expeditionary force Alicia Masters is looking after the building and young Franklin Richards. MK asks her for Internet access and then contacts members of his Shadow Cabinet via special software. A member called Junior Birdman seems to be in control of their comms system. Scout relays news about heroes and their evil Doppelgangers throughout the New York tri-state area. JB suggests this is a merging of 2 worlds. MK asks Sheriff for info on Alicia and Franklin. And he books his 1st session with psychotherapist Sigmund.Then an alarm goes off signalling the invasion of FF HQ by Dops near the end of IW#3, and then we're into IW#4. MK dispatches a Gambit-Dop as Gambit tries again to talk to him. But then he sees his own Dop sneaking off with another, and overhears them plotting against their master. The MK-Dop delays MK but he seems vulnerable to his recent adamantium weapons. Marc follows them to Franklin's room where he finds his Dop silencing Alicia and the other bending over the sleeping boy.The other is Franklin's Dop and he has put a Psi-Phon device on the kid to drain his powerful dream-power. The MK-Dop holds MK off as the other Dop dons the Psi-Phon to absorb Franklin's power. MK KO's the Franklin-Dop and ushers Alicia out carrying the child. But the MK-Dop grabs the Psi-Phon and executes *his* secret plan to take Franklin's power *and* that of his Dop. And with that combined power he rips open the walls of reality to absorb versions of Moon Knight from all over the multiverse and declares himself now the supremely powerful Moon Shade.


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Multiple maniacs
Last issue Moon Knight took time out from Infinity War #4 to chase his Doppelganger Moon Shade through the multiverse and finally kill him. But not before the bad guy absorbed all the other variants of MK in other timelines. So Marc Spector is now the only Moon Knight in the multiverse. Now he returns to his own timeline at the foot of Four Freedoms Plaza and remote-calls his Angelwing plane to take him back up to the destroyed top floor of the Fantastic Four's HQ where many other heroes are fighting a never-ending stream of *their* Dops.But we'd rather look in on Frenchie in MK's Shadowkeep HQ, who's worried about the illness that is taking over his boss's body. He consults Mercy, the Shadow Council's medical consultant, who has determined that the infection came from a wound inflicted (sometime within #31-33) by Hobgoblin (who himself had been possessed by a demon during the Inferno event). The disease affected his skin but is now attacking his nervous system. She gives him a week to live. Frenchie then contacts other members of the Shadow Council to discuss how to get hold of Hobgoblin.Moon Knight fights Dops of Black Knight and Beast.Then we have another interlude in an ancient monastery in a remote Scottish village, which has been upgraded with modern defences and hosts a meeting of 5 Knights Templar. They face an attack from within, and 1 of their number insists that they must seek the help of Jean Paul DuChamp (ie Frenchie).Moon Knight continues fighting Dops of Darkhawk and Daredevil. Then he gets surrounded by multiple Dops.Back to Frenchie and the Shadow Cabinet. Since his encounter with MK Hobgoblin split into 2 beings, himself and the demonic Demogoblin (in Web Of Spider-Man #86). Hobgoblin has gone to ground (mainly because he's now powerless), but Demogoblin's in jail. So they plan to bust him out. Afterwards Jean Paul contemplates Marc Spector's instructions in the event of his death.Finally we see all the Doppelgangers drop dead and no more replacements arrive. (This is due to an action by Galactus in IW#4.) In #41 Psylocke discovered something in MK's head and once again Gambit tries to tell him about it. But then they all go into stasis. (This is caused by Magus in IW#4 again.)


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The Odyssey
Toby
has fallen through the portal into the Marvel Universe in search of the
Avengers. Trapster follows and chases Toby but he is hit by a car. Toby jumps
into a taxi and asks to go to Avengers Mansion. On arrival he meets Jarvis and
explains the situation but the butler refers him to the Fantastic Four for
parallel worlds and gives him an honorary Avengers pin, assuming he’s just
another fan. Toby heads to the Baxter Building and meets Roberta the automated
receptionist. He tries to explain but Roberta asks him to fill out a form and
places him on a waiting list. Toby heads to the Daily Bugle and tells Robbie Robertson
 he is Harry Osborn’s brother and to have Peter Parker meet him on the
roof. Peter heads up where Toby reveals he knows Pete is Spider-Man which Peter
denies. Then Toby falls off the roof and Spider-Man has to catch him but he
finally has someone willing to listen….
Back
home, Jerry Goodman heads to his ex-wife Julie’s house which she refuses to
leave until Toby gets home. Jerry kicks in the door and they have to avoid
Wendigo who is prowling outside. The town is overrun with villains and we see
Werewolf (by Night) slaughtering people at the mental hospital while Clyde
Wyncham watches television as the Sentinels stalk the streets. Julie has little
confidence in Jerry’s ability to do anything but Jerry insists that having read
all of the comics, he has an advantage which Julie scoffs at. Then they see pieces
of machinery flying through the air and Jerry spies the biggest bad of all
time: Galactus is on Earth again….


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Visitors
1964:
Jerry Goodman and Clyde Wyncham bonded over comic books to cope with family
sorrows….
1971:
Jerry met his future wife who has impressed with his musical and artistic
abilities so long as he didn’t talk about Clyde Wyncham….
1985:
Jerry is now dating Deputy Sheriff Patrice and it’s going well. Patrice goes to
work investigating the previous night’s double murder and the Sheriff theorizes
that Edgar killed Dolores and was accidentally struck by lightning—even though
there hasn’t been a storm in weeks….
Jerry
picks up Toby in his new vehicle, a former ice cream truck; Toby tells Dad
about the possibility of moving to England. Dad tries to frame it as an
advantage but Toby won’t allow it. Then they see a bunch of people walking
through the woods in single-file. A closer looks shows they are walking into
the river, singing, at the behest of MODOK. Jerry and Toby get out of there….
The
kids at the playground are attacked by Moloids and dragged underground into the
realm of the Mole Man….
An
older couple see a lot of people lying in the street and follow the trail to
face Ultron….
The
Sheriff and his deputies gun down Leap-Frog but are then called to a rampaging
Fin Fang Foom….
Dad
and Toby drive back into town, past the newly arriving National Guard and
fleeing citizens, to see if Mom is alright but then something lands on the
truck roof: the Lizard….


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Clyde Wyncham
1985: Toby Goodman has run into the Hulk in the woods but the big green guy
assures him that he is under the control of Bruce Banner’s intellect. Hulk
explains that an unknown force brought him and the Juggernaut to their world
and he wants to find the bad guy before he does anything bad. Then Juggie shows
up and the two superbeings battle. Toby runs away….
The
next day, Jerry Goodman visits his childhood friend Clyde Wyncham at the psychiatric
hospital he has been living in since an accident left him with the mind of a
child. Jerry apologizes to Clyde for letting the new guy keeps Clyde’s comic
books. Toby finds Dad and tells him about meeting the Hulk, huge and smelly,
and shows Dad the ruined forest. Dad tells him it was probably a storm and he
shouldn’t tell anyone. Meanwhile, they are watched from the mansion by
Doctor Doom and others….
Toby
goes through his daily life, knowing his Dad believed him but won’t talk about
it. Then his Mom and her husband Hart tell Toby that Hart is interviewing for a
job in England and that if he gets it they will all be moving overseas. Toby
hates Hart and runs up to hide in his room….
That
night, Stilt-Man walks through the town. Dolores, the nurse from Clyde’s
hospital, is at home with her boyfriend Edgar when there is a knock at the
door. It’s Sandman who oozes under the locked door and smothers Dolores. Edgar
panics and flees down the street only to run into Electro….


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Nuff Said!
1985:
Jerry and Julie spy Galactus who is building his elemental converter to feed on
Earth. Then the van is surrounded by several villains, including Lizard, Mole Man,
Doctor Octopus, Mandarin, and Mr. Hyde. Doc Ock grasps Jerry by the throat—and
then a red, white, and blue shield severs his metal tentacle. The heroes have
arrived, led by Toby. The boy calls out, “Avengers assemble!” then apologizes
to Captain America for stealing his line. Jerry brings Toby into the van as
they head off to finish the matter….
1964:
As the townspeople led by the reanimated corpse of Clyde’s father surround the
family home, Mrs. Wyncham accuses young Jerry of using some sort of power to
bring them; Clyde reveals that he is the one with the power but he doesn’t know
how to control them. Mom hits him over the head with a candlestick, breaking
the spell and sending Clyde to a psychiatric hospital for the rest of his
life….
Jerry
returns to the Wyncham house, bringing Clyde the comic books that were stolen
from him and pleading with him to calm the anger which led him to call out the
comic book baddies to take his revenge on the town. Red Skull shoots Jerry and
Clyde mentally hurls him out of the window. He tells everybody to go home now
and the villains all depart in an orderly fashion. Julie begs Clyde to bring
Jerry back to life but Clyde says that he promised his mother he would never do
that again….
2008
: Toby Goodman writes about the events of that time, explaining how the
authorities covered everything up and the guy at the comic book store threw a
fit over the cache of valuable comics being stolen while the town was
evacuated. The Avengers agreed to take Clyde back with them where he could be
cared for properly. Toby went to England with his Mom and stepfather and it
opened up a whole new successful life for him. And as for his Dad? The heroes
took him back with them too, Dr. Don Blake saved his life and Jerry began a
romance with his first crush Jane Foster, finally living in the only place he
could ever call home. Excelsior!


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Small-Town Mutie
1985:
The Lizard has dropped upon the truck driven by Jerry Goodman and the villain
tears through the roof trying to grab Toby. Dad crashes through a billboard,
knocking Lizard off but also wrecking the truck. Toby and Dad run for it but
Lizard seizes Toby and taunts Jerry, daring him to fight for his son…but Jerry
can’t. Soldiers arrive and shoot the Lizard who gets away….
1984:
The Wyncham home is surrounded by half the people from town. Mrs. Wyncham
accuses Jerry of having some sort of mutant power to bring them; Jerry denies
it. Clyde recognizes the leader of the group as his recently deceased father;
Mrs. W. threatens to kill Jerry….
1985:
Jerry tries to tell the National Guard that the enemy are comic book villains
but no one listens. Then he learns that his ex, Toby’s mom Julie, has refused to
leave her home until Toby comes, so Jerry rushes to the rescue. Toby tries to
gather the other comic book fans to fight the villains but no one wants to put
themselves in danger so Toby goes out himself. Blob, Molten Man, Sauron,
Hate-Monger, Wendigo, Mandarin, Abomination, and Bullseye are terrorizing the
town. Toby goes to the Wyncham house where he finds Sandman and the Absorbing Man,
with Melter using his nasty powers to melt a soldier. Toby sneaks into the
house and down to the basement where he finds a huge double door with “Private”
painted on it. He opens the doors and finds a glow—then he is caught by the
Trapster who shoots at him; Toby jumps and falls through space until he lands
on a New York street in the Marvel Universe and asks someone to call the
Avengers….


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Our doom
Reed Richards left behind the Multisect, a device to enable Human Torch and Thing to travel the multiverse. Ben Grimm lied when he told Johnny Storm it was designed to help them find the missing Reed and Sue Richards (and their children and the Future Foundation kids). The lie was to buck Johnny up, who was losing his flaming power. Thing's strength was waning too.Scientist Rachna Koul deduced that it was the separation of the original team into different universes (or maybe death) that was causing it. She promised to help restore their powers if they took her with them cruising the multiverse. (She seems to have a secret agenda of her own.) And Iron Doom (Victor von Doom converted to the side of good in his Iron Man armour) secretly hitched a ride with them (to study the Multisect).They have found themselves on an Earth where the Fantastic Four failed to stop Galactus so Dr Doom did it by swapping minds with the Devourer. But their Ben Grimm died and something unspecified happened to their Johnny Storm. Their Sue Richards now leads all the other superheroes in SHIELD, and their Reed Richards has retreated into his science.But Doomlactus has now consumed the rest of the universe, and his hunger has led him back to Earth.Their Reed and our Victor are now collaborating on a machine to deal with Doomlactus. Reed wonders what they could have done if they'd worked together for all those years (seemingly forgetting that he hadn't *had* a Doom to work with). Thing pops his head in to say that everyone's ready to go.Storm leads the X-Squadron spaceships against the foe. Susan Richards coordinates with Reed, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Hawkeye and Rachna Koul by her side. The space-suited F-Squad (our Doom, Thing and Torch) approach fending off Silver Dooms (Doombots on Silver Surfer Boards). Ben Grimm triggers an injection of improved Pym particles which make him Galactus-sized, and he attacks partly-protected by Sue's force-field.Reed directs Iron Doom and Torch to  protect something called M-Squad from Silver Dooms. Victor chafes at being ordered around by *any* Reed Richards. But he uses his magic to dispose of the Doombots.Giant Doom thought Thing was this universe's Ben Grimm come back to life. But now he realises he's from an alternate universe - another universe for Doomlactus to eat. Reed Richards communicates by giant space-hologram. Doom says he hasn't seen him since he 'sacrificed' himself for the planet. Reed doesn't think Doom consuming the universe was self-sacrifice, not like their Johnny Storm's.When Doom left the Earth unscathed as he promised, he ate the Sun and the rest of the Solar System. The world is now lit by an artificial sun attached to a ring encircling the Earth. It transpires that this sun is Human Torch empowered by the Silver Surfer's Power Cosmic (which is why Norrin Radd was human last issue). Johnny has been living like that in isolation ever since. Last issue Reed was working on something called the Luminet. Rachna now activates it and the Torch-Sun blazes up producing a flare which feeds energy into Doomlactus.Our Doom and Johnny are supposed to still be protecting M-Squad. But Doom has destroyed all the Silver Dooms so he drags our Torch inside M-Squad's craft. And M-Squad turns out to be only Norrin Radd and Emma Frost (who we saw living with Norrin on a farm last issue). Emma is waiting for their Torch to run out of power and then *she* will swap minds with Doomlactus. But our Victor forcibly takes her place in the transfer machine because he says only *he* can match a version of himself.The result of the flare-up is that Doomlactus' hunger is temporarily sated. Now is the time for the mind-switch. But our Johnny is arguing with our Victor telling him not to take on such power now he's given up his power craze in favour of Iron heroism. He must learn teamwork and to trust others to succeed.Doomlactus' hunger is returning and Susan Richards is getting frantic. At the last second the M-Squad ship fires its special ray. And it is Emma Frost who takes Doom's place inside Galactus. Dr Doom surfaces in Emma's body and dies in our Doom's arms. But his last words are that Doom is always destined to be the foe of the Fantastic Four.We now learn that Emma Frost's mind contains a code virus created by Reed which transforms Galactus (into a golden form reminiscent of his current Lifebringer state in the main universe). The energy Galactus consumed from the universe contains all the information to recreate it. And Emmalactus begins to spew out stars from her body.We end with an epilogue at the grave of Galen, the original Galactus, in Doom's old body. He couldn't stand the knowledge of the planets that he himself had devoured. Their Johnny Storm retained a fraction of the Power Cosmic and now returns it to Norrin Radd so he can once more become Silver Surfer and act as Emmalactus' Herald as she rebuilds the cosmos.Rachna Koul tells her companions she's got a Multisect reading on another universe where their Reed and Sue might be. But this Reed takes Ben Grimm aside and warns him not to trust Rachna. He's examined the Mutisect and the readings for Ben's Fantastic Four comrades should be unique, with no misreadings leading to false trails. He also scanned the multiverse for *that* Reed and Sue and found them nowhere. He thinks they must be dead.


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Our first adventure
Ben Grimm visits ex-fiancée Alicia Masters for a sympathetic ear (and to bring us up-to-date with the plot). He tells her that Johnny Storm was despondent with Reed, Sue and family missing (since Secret Wars III). So he said he had info that they were alive in another universe, and they should go look for them. But he now has the problem that Johnny will hate him when he finds out it was a lie.Alicia says they always get over their fallings out. Like the time Ben stayed on a distant planet for months (after Secret Wars I) and when he came back (Fantastic Four #277) Alicia had married Johnny - except *that* Alicia was a Skrull replacement. And anyway, how are they going to explore other universes *without* Reed Richards?Which brings us to more of last issue's plot. 2 days later Thing and Human Torch are flying in the Fantasti-Car. (Along the way we learn that Johnny doesn't need to brush his teeth or wash because he just burns off dirt.) Johnny recalls Ben telling him that Dr Doom 'found' a device of Richards' which contained a message addressed to Ben. He couldn't access it so he gave it to Grimm. And the message told Ben there was another device called the Multisect which would let him and Johnny explore the multiverse. It was hidden in the location of their 1st adventure, so the duo are heading to Monster Island (from FF#1). (Ben got left a message, Johnny was heir to Fantastic Four Inc (see #28 of the last Uncanny Avengers series).)Ben doesn't know where exactly the device is hidden, but Reed would know that so he guesses they should do the obvious - and they walk into the large mouth-like cave mouth in the hill that occupies most of the isle. Johnny probes for more details of the message and Ben has to make stuff up. But Johnny guesses Reed created the Multisect in case of his death, so the others could keep doing the FF exploring stuff. Ben is uncomfortable because that's *exactly* what the message said. So he changes the subject ...... and gets Johnny to flame on to give them some light. Revealing that they're surrounded by Moloids, Mole Man, Giganto (from FF#1) and Googam son of Goom. Mole Man explains that after the Monsters Unleashed event some chars from there came to live in Moley's domain of Monster Isle and Subterrania. But now Googam wants to *rule* the Isle. He wants an election and he's got lots of Moloids on his side. But Harvey Elder says the monster way is a display of power - so he suggests they all attack Thing and Torch and the side that defeats them gets the Island.Torch is enjoying the old-style team-up and fight. But then his flame dies, as it has been doing recently. Things look dark for the duo until ...... Victor Von Doom in his current Iron Man role blasts the Moloids away, and Torch with them. Thing immediately assumes correctly that Doom followed them to get the Multisect for himself, and attacks. As Victor blasts *him* away he claims that he could do much more good with it than the FF remnant. Recovering Torch says they *need* it to go save the Richards clan. Doom looks at Thing because he realises Ben has lied to his partner.Before Victor can expose the lie the Moloids interrupt by proclaiming Doom their new ruler - after all *he* beat the 2 heroes. Googam and Mole Man protest, but Doom tells the Moloids to take them away and they obey.Victor says he detects no high-tech device here, and so prepares to leave. Grimm tries to stop him but Doom suggests that there *is* no Multisect - Reed Richards was just boasting. But the pair can go on searching for something that isn't there if they want. And Ben knows what he *really* means, so he lets Doom go.But now Ben remembers something from his and Reed's past at university together, along with Victor. Von Doom won a theoretical physics prize which Reed should have done, but largely because he sucked up to the examiners. Victor had the trophy displayed for all to see. But the college roommates defaced it overnight, changing the name on it from Von Doom to Von Doof. And Reed always called *that* their 1st adventure.Now Thing and Torch go to that college and find the maguffin hidden inside that trophy.


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Fast burn
Johnny Storm is taking part in a car race. He passes 2 contenders but doesn't make it past the leader. (They are named (Jay) Underwood, (Chris) Evans and (Michael) Jordan which Marvel Wiki reminds me are actors who've played him on film.) He overheats his engine and crashes. Of course the Human Torch survives.Thing is in New York attending the founding ceremony for the Fantastic Four Award, a grant for scientific exploration. (This is probably 1 of the things set up by Johnny in Uncanny Avengers #30 (out the same week) after he inherited Reed Richards' considerable money in UAv#28. He was supposed to be here tonight but he's dumped it on Ben Grimm.)Someone gives a speech briefly recounting the FF's origin and how they explored other worlds and universes. We see them in 3 different variations of their uniforms, and Sue has 3 different hairstyles. Then the 4th panel of Reed and Sue Richards at home with their children Franklin and Valeria underlies a comment that that family is now lost. The speaker then calls on Ben who describes how Reed was the brains, Johnny sought adventure, Sue was their protector and wide-angle thinker. And *he* was just the pilot.After the speech Ben tries to avoid well-meaning comments from the audience. And then the party is interrupted by Spider-Man (Peter Parker) fighting Piledriver who he just stopped from robbing a jewellery store. Thing KO's the villain with 1 punch. The he notices Spidey has a tuxedo over his super-suit - he was here for the do.He also wanted to talk to Ben about Johnny who's been taking unnecessary risks lately. He suggests Thing take the Fantasticar and go find out what's up. Spidey gives him the keys to a warehouse where his 'boss' Parker has put the FF's stuff from the Baxter Building since he lost the building (and his company) during Secret Empire.Ben finds his old comfy armchair in storage and sits down to remember the past. But then we see his last memory of the family which seems to be a transmission from a spacecraft where Reed, Sue, Franklin and Valeria (although it looks to me more like Johnny and F not F and V) are with Black Panther, and they are about to die. Sue asks him to look after Johnny. (But if BP disappeared with the Richards family how come *he*'s still around?)[The images are reminiscent of Secret Wars III #1 - Sue is in a SHIELD uniform and Reed has a beard, and Black Panther *was* with the family quartet. But in that issue Reed and T'Challa put Sue, Franklin and Valeria in an escape craft, and it was *that* which was destroyed - Mr Fantastic and Panther survived into Dr Doom's Battleworld. And Ben and Johnny were in the doomed escape craft too.]Ben's reverie is interrupted by Victor Von Doom in his current heroic Iron Man guise - which Grimm continues not to believe in (see various issues of Infamous Iron Man). Doom also recalls the 'incursion' where Thing failed to save his friends.[But Victor is 1 of the few people who knows *exactly* what happened in SW3 following the incursions (see most issues of the 2013 Avengers and New Avengers series for those), so is he lying here? He also knows he had 'some' version of Sue, Franklin and Valeria and the Future Foundation kids who were with them in the escape craft on Battleworld with him. And they later helped Reed and Molecule Man recreate a new version of the destroyed multiverse, and went off to explore it at the end of SW3. Doom also therefore knows that Ben and Johnny are new recreated copies.][Some say Sue & co were the real versions, and Doom saved them from the destroyed craft. But in that case presumably the real Johnny and Ben were the versions he turned into Battleworld's sun and the wall that kept out the undesirables from the south. But this pair don't remember any of that.][I could also read the end of SW3#9 as saying that Reed and Molecule Man went back in time at *that* point and saved Sue & co, so that's who went exploring with Reed - but then what happened to Doom's versions. Reed also says there that Ben and Johnny have their own lives to lead, which would mean he saved them and inserted them into the current Marvel reality - with their memories modified.][Whatever, it's a complicated mess. Maybe it'll be sorted out in upcoming issues.]Anyway, Victor says after Reed & Co went missing he broke into the Baxter Building looking for clues as to where Richards had gone. He didn't want to believe that Richards' death had been caused by something other than *him*. (So Doom turning good didn't happen *immediately* after SW3 then?) He didn't find any, but he did find a recording device he couldn't unlock which was addressed to Ben. Which he hands over to him now.Ben is angry that Doom has kept this from him. Ignoring Victor's claims that he expected to be able to do more good with the information on it than Grimm, Ben attacks him. Doom easily erects a force shield and then fights back. He starts to slip back into imperious ranting mode, but then recalls he's now good. Victor holds Thing at bay and then apologises to him. He leaves him with the device.As soon as Ben picks it up it displays a holographic message from Reed. The device detects that Reed, Sue and the kids are gone (at least from this universe) and plays the appropriate message. He believes Ben and especially Johnny still need a life of exploration and adventure. So he's left something he calls the Multisect which will enable the pair to access the Multiplane and travel the multiverse. But it must stay in safe hands so he's hidden it in the location of their 1st adventure (vs Mole Man in FF#1).We now return to Human Torch who it seems is repeatedly flying up into airless space where his flame is snuffed out and he falls unconscious back to Earth, just managing to flame on in time to save himself. Thing arrives in the Fantasticar. Johnny is angry because (in InfIM#9) he told Ben he didn't want to see him because of the painful memories he stirred up. He lashes out with flames, but Ben and the 'car are both fireproof.Ben says he *can't* lose Johnny as well as the rest, so what's he doing trying to kill himself. Johnny says he's testing his power because it's been getting weaker. If he loses that as well he'll have nothing left. Ben makes a decision to give his pal something to live for. He tells him he's found new information that Doom hid from them that indicates the family may still be alive.But Doom has a tracking device transmitting the conversation, and he knows that's a lie.(So next issue it seems they go to Monster Island to look for the Multisect, and Doom follows them, so I'll be covering that. And then in later issues they'll go looking for Mr Fantastic & co.)This issue ends with a Marvel Legacy 3-page primer which recaps the FF's origin (again). It goes on to say that after Reed and Sue 'left', Human Torch joined the Inhumans (it doesn't mention him also being part of the latest Uncanny Avengers) and Thing joined the Guardians Of The Galaxy (it doesn't mention him leaving them and working for SHIELD in InfIM).


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Mad company
We open with Dr Doom/Iron Man visiting Mad Thinker who is obsessing about Reed Richards being missing. Victor Von Doom mentions their last encounter (Infamous Iron Man #2), but then we leave them ...... to join the stars of the show Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm in Brooklyn. They found Reed's Multisect last issue and Johnny wants to know why they aren't using it to search the multiverse for Reed and Sue (and their children Franklin and Valeria). Ben reminds him that his Human Torch powers are failing and they need to get them fixed before setting off.They meet Hercules in a bar, who seems drunk even though he's imbibing non-alcoholic beer (he's sworn off the booze). Thing reminds the Greek demi-god that he once lost his powers (actually more than once but I think they're referring to the 2011 Herc series - somewhere between there and the 2016 Hercules series he got his powers back without explanation). Ben asks how he did it, and Herc says he'll take them to the source.They fly in the Fantasti-Car to Jack Pine, Wyoming. They land some distance away and Hercules leads them the rest of the way on foot because the woman they're going to see values her privacy and would have shot the Car down. They approach a modernist building in the woods and a woman wearing an Ant-Man-ish helmet 'greets' them at the door. When she removes the helmet Ben recognises her as a woman he met at the Fantastic Four Award ceremony in #1. There we only got her 1st name Rachna, but now we add the surname Koul.Ben tells her they want her to restore Johnny's waning power. Rachna explains she's an expert in something she calls imperiumology, the study of superpowers. Hercules says she 'cured' him by revealing his power was within him. Rachna gets annoyed because he *still* doesn't understand the truth. She tries to explain again that his body can't hold that much power. Instead he has a link to a power source but he overloaded that link (restoring the universe at the end of Chaos War). She 'just' repaired the link.Rachna says she'll take Torch's case on after she finishes with her current client. But she charges between $250,000 and $750,000. Johnny exclaims that he doesn't have that kind of money. (He inherited Reed's dough, but used it to set up charitable foundations (like the FF Award) and fund the Avengers.) Ben says they'll figure something out.Then they see Ms Koul's current client in a water-filled tube - it's the villain Hydro-Man. Johnny wants to shut Koul's business down. But Morris Bench breaks out of his container and accuses the scientist of selling him out to the heroes. He turns to water and starts to drown Thing. But Torch flames on and boils him off Ben - who isn't *too* happy about that solution.Hydro-Man swallows Herc and attacks Rachna. Who reveals a zeptoparticle-enhanced artificial hand which she uses in her work. But it also defends her against Bench and enables her to reach a button which zaps him back to human. She says he's got his power back (but he seemed to have it OK in his last apps culminating in Occupy Avengers #1-2) and insists he leave now. And she makes him exit via the toilet.Johnny berates Rachna for helping villains. She's obviously a genius so she could make loads of money like Reed did by inventing stuff, and she could afford to help superheroes for free. She hits back by accusing him of being addicted to being special, like all the others who come to her for help when they're reduced to being normal. And she's worth the fees she charges.Johnny tries to appeal to her sympathy by telling her that he needs his power at full strength to go find his family who are lost in the multiverse. Rachna says multiversal travel is impossible, so if his family tried to do that they're probably dead. But Ben shows her the Multisect which Reed left for them to use for such trips. And Johnny adds that Reed sent them a message *from* the multiverse. (Ben is still trapped in that lie.) (Strangely no-one says that *they*, and many other heroes, have themselves been to alternate universes.)Ms Koul offers them a deal - she'll tell Torch what's wrong with him if they take her with them to the multiverse. She's been getting readings on him all the while and has discovered that the FF's common origin means that the 4 are connected. As long as they were in the same universe as each other this wasn't a problem. But Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman being in another universe for a long time has had an increasing effect. Torch's power is down to 73%. But Thing is also down, to 81%. Ben says that must be why he's not been able to defeat Doom so easily lately.Talking of Victor, he's noted that Thinker appears to have invented some good stuff lately - well beyond his normal capabilities. So he accuses Julius of stealing things from Reed Richards' storage units (which he himself has looked through). Thinker stutters something about nature abhorring a void - someone needs to fill the hole left by Richards. Von Doom finds the idea of Thinker taking that role laughable. But he's more interested in whether Julius has a *particular* piece of Richards' tech. (So *he*'s still looking for the Multisect.)But Thinker has manoeuvred Doom into position to be zapped by a ray. Victor vanishes and Julius wishes him well in Antarctica. Then he cuts his hair to resemble Reed's. And says that if Doom can replace Iron Man then *he* can form a new Fantastic Four.There's a 'where's Wolverine' button on the cover, and a 1-page addendum to this issue where Hydro-Man resurfaces and tries to intimidate a camper into giving him his food and stuff. Unfortunately for him the camper is Logan.Pencilled by Carlos Pacheco and inked by Jose Rafael Fonteriz.