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Planet of pathogens
The affects of the attack by the Final Host of Celestials and the Horde is felt around the Earth and beyond. On the Moon the Unseen is worried (but we don't get to see *him*). We *do* see Man-Thing, the guardian of the Nexus Of Realities, howling a warning. We don't see the Starbrand, helpless without a host (killed by Ghost Rider in Marvel Legacy), but we do see Gladiator, ruler of the Shi'ar, watching helplessly from distant space. We are told that the boiling seas aren't good for the Atlanteans, and Jean Grey is affected by fiery visions. We see Iron Fist fighting Horde 'insects' in K'un-L'un. It is mentioned that Wakandans pray to their Panther God, in Egypt priests make bloody sacrifice to the Fist Of Khonshu, and Mephisto laughs in Hell, but we are shown Odin brooding in Asgard over the results of his actions 1 million years ago (when he and his 'Avengers' killed Zgreb the Celestial).Meanwhile in Russia the nascent Avengers battle the enemy. 4 of them are now giant-sized and tackle the Final Host directly:- She-Hulk and Thor ate the Blood Of Ymir to get that way, Tony Stark is inside his Godkiller robot with its atomic reactors pushed to the max, Ghost Rider inhabits the body of a dead Celestial which now has his flame power. Captain America, Black Panther and Captain Marvel fight the Horde beetles, their powers enhanced by the beetles' own blood. And Doctor Strange engages Loki in mystical battle.Stephen Strange taunts Loki by saying his scheme is failing just like his attempt to take over the role of Sorcerer Supreme did (Strange's Legacy issues #381-385). At that time Loki claimed he was only forcing Stephen to up his game in preparation for forthcoming threats (like this 1 and Infinity Wars?). Now he says that he wanted the mantle in order to reveal the truth that this event has uncovered - that the human race is an infection caused by the death of a Horde-contaminated Celestial.The battle rages and Ghost Rider comments that Iron Man, She-Hulk and Thor have just knocked down Obliteron (the 1 on last issue's cover). It turns out that inhabiting the Celestial body is giving him its knowledge. The 1 with the scythe that he's currently holding while the Godkiller punches is Callus the Void. The Final Host member encased in green flames is Valknar the Exhumer. Callus chops off 1 of the Godkiller's arms, which crushes loads of beetles as it falls. But loads more pour up out of a crevasse from their nest in the centre of the Earth.Meanwhile the Horde beetles continue to ravage other parts of the globe. We see Captain Britain fighting them in London. Others are scurrying over a fallen Celestial. (We learned earlier that the Horde, helped by Loki, had infested all the Celestials. A few survived to become the Final Host of Dark Celestials, but the rest died and fell to Earth. So these insects might be scurrying *out* of the Celestial.) More beetles attack Dr Strange, allowing Loki to escape.Obliteron is up again and takes on She-Hulk. Ghost Rider and Valknar trade flames as GR's mind is flooded with many of the things I mentioned at the start. Tony Stark/Godkiller plans to take Callus into space and self-destruct hoping to take the Celestial with him. But giant hands reach out and stop him - many dead Celestials have returned as zombies! (Maybe related to the beetles/Celestial in the previous paragraph.)The voiceover mentions:- Dinosaurs in the Savage Land wailing at their immanent extinction. The Hellfire Club going out with an orgy. Hand ninjas committing ritual suicide. Dracula afraid. Black Knight's Ebony Blade bleeds. And in a Gulag Ursa Major laughs.Captain Marvel despairs and orders Alpha Flight to prepare escape pods to evacuate the Earth (they're going to need a hell of a lot!). But Black Panther is sure there must be a solution. Thor starts to shrink, but She-Hulk seems to remain a giant for a bit longer. Tony Stark exits his Godkiller as Iron Man and leaves it to self-destruct amongst the zombies.Mind-blown Ghost Rider continues to babble about the Eternals being dead, and repeatedly saying "We are all god's vomit". This reminds Cap of Loki's claim that life on Earth is due to a dying Celestial, the 1st ever to be infested with the Horde. Panther conjectures that this explains superheroes. Thor and Iron Man wonder why the Celestials didn't destroy the Earth long ago if the Horde are so deadly to them. Carol Danvers thinks it was because they foresaw the chance that Earth beings would be capable of defeating the Horde for them. Dr Strange likens it to a live virus vaccine - we have evolved into a cure. Panther calls us a planet of living pathogens.Loki congratulates them on reaching the conclusion he's been shouting at them all this time - humans are bacteria living in rot. But he has the cure for *them*! However we don't learn what that would be because still-giant She-Hulk stomps on him and a bunch of beetles. (And a bit later she's joined Thor in being normal-sized.)T'Challa thinks the answer is to use the method he devised for himself and Captain Marvel to use the Horde's own energies to boost the pair's powers. But Tony Stark suddenly remembers what the dying Ikaris of the Eternals told him (#4) - "Only the Uni-Mind can stop them". He tells the others about the Eternals' method of combining their energies.Panther rigs up a machine. Marvel powers it. The Avengers' combined power is focused through the Celestial inhabited by Ghost Rider, whose hands seem wrapped in sorcery. He emits a powerful blast and all the bugs drop dead. Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider is no longer inside the dead Celestial. Strange has Loki wrapped up in chains.But the Horde inside the Final Host (and powering them) are still alive. The Avengers have to attack again, but this time they have the aid of the no longer zombie Celestials who have been somehow resurrected. Short work is made of the foe.The voiceover tells us that:- Black Bolt sighs in relief in Attilan. Man-Thing fades back into the swamp. Odin looks at a statue of the 1 million BC Avengers and says their 1st sin has been redeemed - but he hopes the new Avengers don't discover the rest of their sins. The Wakandans and priests of Khonshu give thanks to their gods. The Ebony Blade calms down.And Loki in chains laughs with pride! And says "Welcome back, Avengers".


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A fistful of blood
There's a vampire civil war. In #13 the rebel leader the Shadow Colonel allowed himself and his 'dog' Sarge to be captured by the Avengers so that they could turn Robbie Reyes' Ghost Rider into the more-typical Spirit Of Vengeance version. Then they escaped with him last issue and went to kill some vamps in Madripoor. But Robbie baulked at killing vampire children. Blade, Captain America, Captain Marvel and Thor intervened, and the Colonel set GR on *them*.Robbie feels trapped inside the new Ghost Rider. This manifests as him in his Hell Charger car stuck in a never-ending demonic freeway jam. He prays for help and a flaming figure drives up to him and warns him about who might answer his prayer.In Madripoor GR and Thor are locked in battle and Thor isn't holding back. Captain Marvel tries to rein him in because they don't want to harm Robbie. Thor points out he's not causing much damage so far, and has at it again. But it only makes Ghost Rider angrier, and Captain America has to defend the Thunder God with his shield.Shadow Colonel notes that the vampire kids have taken the opportunity to escape. He tells Baroness Blood to leave before the building goes up in flames. Blade shoots Sarge with silver bullets to get the Colonel to stay and face him. But it's the hellhound who fights back while the Colonel and Baroness flee. In another room the Carpathian and Snowsnake are fighting She-Hulk and Black Panther respectively.The main bout is still the Cap's and Thor vs GR. CA tangles Ghost Rider's flaming chain with his shield. Thor is busy fighting the flaming Hell Charger car! So it's up to CM to blast GR. But he uses his Penance Stare on her.Dracula, head of the other faction in the civil war, has taken asylum in Russia. But they are keeping him encased in a metal straight-jacket with a Hannibal Lector-style grill over his fanged mouth. Ursa Major and Vostok of the Winter Guard take him to see Red Widow to discuss a deal. At 1st the old-fashioned Count refuses to bargain with a woman, even though she's standing over vampire corpses. They let a load more vampires in who have also come seeking asylum and she adds them to her pile.Widow then asks Dracula why he deserves any better. He says he has the secrets of the rich and powerful who came to him seeking eternal life. He also says he can give her the Avengers, which her master(?) really wants. The Widow guesses in return he wants the Winter Guard to defeat Shadow Colonel and his Legion Of The Unliving, and himself restored as Lord Of The Vampires. Dracula says he's tired of that responsibility and only wants to live the rest of his life in peace.She ups the ante. More vampires are brought in, Dracula's consorts both female and male. She slashes 1 of them into pieces slowly. Then she asks him to tell her all the secrets now, and she'll give the rest quick deaths.Back in Madripoor as the other Legion vampires turn to mist and escape Blade is having a difficult time with Sarge who has eaten his sword. Panther offers to send She-Hulk to help but Blade attacks again with nunchuks (probably). Meanwhile Carol Danvers overcomes Ghost Rider's Penance Stare so instead he threatens the Penance Bomb (new to me!). It looks like he's going to blow up the whole place so the 2 Cap's pile on him and Thor lifts Hell Charger to throw at him. But then Blade just bites GR's neck and the foe collapse. Blade claims he's sucked the demonic infection out.Sarge the dog has gone. Hulk and Panther join the others. Ghost Rider is now Robbie Reynolds. Blade tells him that if he's got anyone he cares about he should quit being GR now.In the Sol-Iletsk prison, which apparently is not where Red Widow and Dracula are now, last issue's riot is over and Crimson Dynamo (with Darkstar and Vanguard) returns to Moscow. But that night the Legion Of The Unliving are watching the place, and the Rat Bomber sends his rats in armed with bombs containing vampire blood. The explosions kill many dangerous inmates and turn them into vamps, strong ones to replace the weak that have been culled. Black Panther gets a message from Tony Stark telling the team to meet him in Russia, because he's heard about this event.And we learn that the person who met with Robbie Reyes at the start of this issue was Johnny Blaze, the earlier Ghost Rider.


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A battle that was lost a million years ago
No sooner did all the will-be Avengers gather together in 1 place last issue than they split up again (in Captain America's case against his will) to find out more about the threat of the Final Host of Celestials.Thor took She-Hulk to Old Asgard to confront Odin about what happened a million years ago. The All-Father tells them about the super-team he was part of:- Agamotto the 1st Sorcerer Supreme; the 1st Stone-Age wielder of the Starbrand; the 1st Ghost Rider, a demon-possessed boy; the Panther, the 1st to harness some of the power of vibranium; an avatar of the Phoenix Force, who Odin will have a long relationship with; the 1st Iron Fist from K'un-Lun. Odin himself was still young and learning to control the hammer Mjolnir. He claims they saved Midgard many times before their clash with the Fallen Celestial.Thor wants to know how they defeated that Celestial. Odin says it won't be any help. That Celestial was dying of 'cosmic corruption'. The Final Host are much stronger and their armour is proof against the Odinsword (ineffective against normal Celestials in Thor #300) and Thor's enchanted axe Jarnbjorn (which killed the normal Celestial Exitar in Uncanny Avengers (2012) #21).Thor asks if there is *anything* in the Asgardian armoury that will be useful. His father replies that there *is* something which won't kill the Celestials but *will* make the battle more 'spectacular'. He leads his son and She-Hulk to a massive chained door, which Shulkie rips open. Inside is a chamber filled with ice which the duo have to smash their way through.But we leave them there for the moment and join Doctor Strange and Iron Man who have come to Olympia on a Greek mountain to consult the Eternals. This race was created by the Celestials 1 million years ago and are arguably the Earthly experts on them. However the Eternals appear to all be recently dead, possibly by group suicide (we see Sersi, Thena and many others).Tony Stark says that the Eternals were created to watch over the development of proto-humans (which is news to me), including the genetic potential for superhumans. Stephen Strange can't understand how this connects with the horde of huge insects hatching in the centre of the Earth from egg sacs which he somehow deduces have been there for *many* millions of years. He wonders if the Eternals committed suicide because they learnt something unbearable when their Celestial creators rained down dead upon the Earth in #1.Then they find Eternal Ikaris not yet quite dead who confirms that idea with his dying breath. He tells them that his people discovered that they weren't here as mankind's protectors. Instead they were to raise humanity as a pathogen useful to the Celestials. But of course he doesn't get round to telling us what that means. Instead he warns them not to let the Final Host unleash the Horde, and advises that only the Uni-Mind can stop them. As he dies he touches Stark's face (which makes Tony cry out in pain) and tells him "Only *you* can be the cure".Black Panther and Captain Marvel have taken a dead insect to the Alpha Flight Space Station for study. The galactic database identifies it as a member of the Horde, a cosmic swarm that devours solar systems - and an enemy of the Celestials. T'Challa comments that Tony Stark's readings on the Final Host in #2 suggested each was a colony of multiple beings. And a comparison of the readings indicates that they are similar to the Horde creature. Carol Danvers adds that Horde insects have been seen emerging from the bodies of the dead Celestials who fell to Earth (it seemed like that happened to Eson in #2).The Final Host themselves are at the North Pole. Loki and captive Captain America went with them, and the Asgardian took Cap down a hole to the centre of the Earth to see the giant body of the Progenitor. Loki claims that the story of the Celestials experimenting with proto-humans 1 million years ago is a lie (or since he's the God of Lies maybe not). This Progenitor Celestial came here to die 4 *billion* years ago (ie not long after the planet was formed). The Final Host is here to destroy the world as a 'mission of mercy'.Last issue the 'Avengers' left the current Ghost Rider behind as inconsequential. But Robbie Reyes took a fragment of Dark Celestial and used his Hell Charger car as a bloodhound to locate the Final Host at the Pole. The car suddenly goes into submarine mode in an attempt to sneak up on them.She-Hulk and Thor have finally broken through to the centre of the ice room where they find a floating, glowing egg/jewel that the Thunder God recognises as the Blood Of Ymir, the 1st Frost Giant. But now he succumbs to the cold and tells Shulk to take the gem. She-Hulk instead says "Hulk warmest 1 there is" and kisses him to share that warmth.Meanwhile alone in his throneroom Odin remembers more of the story we saw in #1. After defeating the Fallen Celestial in 1 million BC Odin's Avengers were faced with the 1st Host of Celestials who they assumed were here for revenge. The team fought that Host with no chance of success, just as the new Avengers will fail to stop the Final Host.Iron Man asks his AI about the GK II and is told it's just leaving Mars orbit. Panther and Danvers are about to try an experiment which might turn her into an insect. Loki tells Steve Rogers that humanity (or maybe just superhumans) were a mistake. Ghost Rider is still driving underwater. She-Hulk and Thor have returned with the Blood Of Ymir. And Odin remembers sitting exhausted at the feet of the space gods with the rest of his team dead around him.


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The strength and conviction of Phillip Coulson
The opening page has Phil Coulson ranting at someone he holds prisoner. He used to look up to superheroes but his view has changed since Deadpool killed him (DP(2016)#31 during Secret Empire). The somehow revived (did he go to Tahiti?) ex-SHIELD Agent is now ruthlessly committed to protecting the USA. Including being prepared to kill his captive.In Avengers Mountain HQ Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) is studying Avengers files and hoping for a crisis to get him out of it. Then he comes across the entry for Mephisto which his subconscious signals is important. Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) is studying his magic Hell Charger car while she explains where everyone else is. Black Panther is holding an important meeting. Blade is in the infirmary (after being rescued from Dracula's castle last issue). Captain America and Iron Man are doing their own things. She avoids telling him that She-Hulk and Thor are on a date. Meanwhile she herself has got to go take an intergalactic conference call.About that date. Thor has taken Jennifer Walters to the Savage Land for a picnic of turkey legs and mead. Ka-Zar has rounded up some dinosaurs for their amusement. But Jen is *not* amused.About that meeting. Amid the lush vegetation of the Eden Room Avengers' Chairman T'Challa has called together some representative international heroes to foster global cooperation against menaces like Sub-Mariner's simmering war against the surface world. Old Iron Man armours have been recruited to fill the role of waiters at the feast. He starts the negotiations by offering all his resources to those who join the alliance.Sunfire of Japan is pleased at the offer of Wakandan vibranium, Celestial tech from Avengers Mountain (the body of a dead Celestial) and the fruits of Panther's network of 'secret' agents that it seems everyone knows about. But he wonders what prospective allies will have to do in return. Panther responds that international superhero cooperation is needed now that SHIELD has been dismantled (as a result of Secret Empire). Captain Britain endorses the idea. Arabian Knight and Israel's Sabra surprise everyone by agreeing with each other and CB.But the spectre at the feast is Russia's representative Ursa Major who loudly and drunkenly declares that the Winter Guard will never participate in this alliance. T'Challa points out that it was antagonism between the Guard and the Avengers that made a mess of the Hydropolis situation (last issue). And he says that there has been another Atlantean incident 3 days ago in Alaska. Major Ursus immediately assumes that Panther has really called them here to find out what they know about that.Ignoring Shaman of Canada's attempts to calm him down the Russian asks why there is no-one from the USA here? Could it be because the Avengers and Captain America have fallen out of favour with the US Government? And he hints at a big problem there that the Avengers will need help with. (Sounds like he knows something about the creation of the Squadron Supreme Of America team - again last issue.)Things aren't going well on the date and an awkward silence has built up. Jennifer says she's going home (by teleport).Coulson is still talking, claiming that his prisoner is an agent of Black Panther sent to infiltrate his organisation. The other claims to be innocent, another ex-SHIELD Agent who Phil has known for ages, who like him was recruited by General Ross. He admits he's sceptical of some of the things Ross accuses Captain America and the Avengers of, but he denies being a spy.Back at the conference Ursa Major is getting angrier. This time it's the turn of China's Collective Man to stop him, but he launches an attack at Black Panther across the table. But Panther just tells the Iron Man waiters to teleport him to Siberia.Captain Britain suggests that Major Ursus wasn't really drunk, he was deliberately trying to provoke a fight. T'Challa says he'd hoped then Winter guard would send their leader Crimson Dynamo who would have been more agreeable. Collective Man thinks the real head of the Winter Guard is Red Widow, the latest product of the Red Room (which gave us the various Black Widow's). Sabra brings up the vampire troubles in Romania (connected to Blade and Dracula).CB thinks they should concentrate on the Atlantean problem. Sunfire asks what *did* happen in Alaska? BP tells them that Namor's forces attacked another Roxxon facility but were beaten off by an unknown agency that wasn't the Winter Guard or anyone else he knows about. But he suspects it has something to do with secret meetings in Washington DC.Back to the Savage Land where Thor is trying to salvage the date. Jen suggests he really wanted a date with She-Hulk but Thor assures her that it was the human inside the super-being that he wanted to get to know. His rare eloquence wins her over. But she turns into She-Hulk to kiss him.Phil Coulson shoots his victim in the leg to get him to confess. But he also says that he has telepaths on staff who have already told him the truth - that the spy wants to know what happened in Alaska. He says it was the 1st test run of the Squadron Supreme Of America (we see Hyperion defeating Orka, so presumably the opposition were the Defenders Of The Deep).The wounded guy tries to appeal to the old Phil he knew. Coulson says his victim worked for SHIELD International Review (whatever that is) and so knows exactly what he is (what he's always been or since his resurrection?). He suspects the other guy is stalling for time while he gets free of his bonds. The other guy replies that he did that 10 minutes ago and has been avoiding having to kill his old friend.Coulson tells the lights to go out. There's a fight in the dark and some shots. The lights come back on and Phil stands over a body with a gunshot hole in its chest.


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The Defenders Of The Deep
Last issue ended with the Avengers heading to the Antarctic to investigate a clash between Atlanteans and a Roxxon Corporation whaling ship.This issue is set 3 days later but has flashbacks to intervening stuff. There is also a continuous present-day voiceover by Namor the Sub-Mariner.We start in the present with another Roxxon ship, a cruise liner in the Bahamas, which is attacked by Tiger Shark who says they have to pay him a toll to use these waters. As it happens Stingray is vaccationing on the liner with his wife. The pair have history because Walter Newell's wife Diane is Todd Arliss' sister. As Tiger Shark tries to bite him Stingray tries to persuade his foe to let him attempt to reverse the genetic changes that drove him insane.Namor's voiceover reminds us of the 1st great surface civilisation Atlantis which was sunk by a great cataclysm. And this gave birth to the undersea Atlantean civilisation of Homo Mermanus, who are stronger and faster than the surface-dwellers.And Sub-Mariner interrupts the fight and asks the combatants to swear allegiance to him or leave the oceans forever. Walter uses his long friendship with Namor to try to talk him out of 1 of his typical futile attacks on the world above. But Subby beats him to a pulp and then sends in a pack of partially-armoured war sharks to finish him off. Tiger Shark thinks it prudent to say he'll join Sub-Mariner, and they head off to recruit more allies.The voiceover disputes the idea that Homo Mermanus arose only as an accidental bi-product of the sinking of Atlantis. He reminds us humans of our descent from sea-creatures and claims that the birth of his people corrected an evolutionary mistake. Atlanteans are the true masters of the world and they will soon claim their birthright.3 days earlier the Avengers (minus Black Panther) approach the site of Atlantis in the Mid-Atlantic. Captain America needs a breathing-mask and Iron Man's armour does the job for *him*. But Captain Marvel, Ghost Rider and Thor operate underwater without problems, and even She-Hulk doesn't seem to need to breath (I think she can hold her breath for a *very* long time). They are met by Atlantean troops and a fight ensues despite Cap saying they come in peace.Then an Atlantean blows the Horn Of Proteus which does its usual job of summoning a random sea monster. The beast swallows Ghost Rider and his Hell Charger car (which also works just fine underwater). But GR just increases his flames inside the animal's throat until it spews him out. Iron Man and Thor decide to punch the monster into submission.Back to Namor's voiceover. He himself was born of another seeming accident when his Atlantean Princess mother met his human father. The pink-skinned hybrid Prince was not initially accepted by his blue-skinned brethren. But it was his destiny to rule them, as he will now rule all.Meanwhile the other Avenger Black Panther (also needing a breathing mask) has been sneaking into the ruins of Atlantis. He has knocked out some guards but now he is discovered by Sub-Mariner. Namor has a personal beef with T'Challa for Wakanda's actions against Atlantis. But Captain Marvel, Iron Man and Thor break up the grudge match. IM and Thor attack with armoured fist and hammer, but Subby easily holds both back. Thor's current hammer isn't as powerful as Mjolnir, but still Namor is stronger than when they last fought (Thor (2018) #1). Namor puts it down to his righteous rage over the recent destruction of Atlantis. Carol Danvers joins in with a blast which has no effect. Then She-Hulk drops in (literally) and lands with a massive gamma explosion which scatters everyone but still doesn't down the King of Atlantis. Ghost Rider arrives in Hell Charger and slams into him, but Namor lifts the car over his head. Until Cap shows up and tells him to stop fighting.Because of their time together (in the WWII Invaders) Namor grants Steve Rogers an audience. Steve refers back to the end of last issue when the Roxxon sailors killed some Atlanteans. He says kidnapping the killers to face execution in Atlantis wasn't the right move to make - it could mean war with the surface world. Rogers wants the prisoners back and promises they will face US justice.But rather than give Sub-Mariner a chance to answer Cap asks why Atlantis is ruined and its people reduced to living in caves. We now learn that 1 of the dead Celestials landed on the city during the attack of the Final Host in our opening arc. Namor doesn't want to hear that the surface world suffered similar devastation, or the Avengers offer of help. He tells them to go and take the murderers with them, and never return. The Roxxon captives are handed over and the team leave.Subby's voiceover says the sinking of the original Atlantis was only the 1st upheaval in Atlantean history. The undersea city has been destroyed and rebuilt many times. But the Atlantean spirit has never been broken.But in the days ago scene when he invites some Atlantean children to leave their cave and come to the royal place where they will be looked after, the kids run away from him.We now rejoin King Namor in the present day where the voiceover mingles with his actual speech as he talks to his recruits. Yesterday those kids walked ashore in America looking for help. They died choking in the air while humans watched laughing. So now Sub-Mariner has declared war. His 1st act was to take revenge on the Roxxon murderers who had been placed in a New Mexico prison out of Atlantean reach - he caused polluted seawater to flood out of the toilet in their cell and drown them. But this time he's *not* going to invade the surface world - the humans can have that. The Atlanteans will claim the seas. And his shock troops will be the Defenders Of The Deep:- Tiger Shark plus Andromeda, Echidna, Orka, possibly Manowar, a white-haired zombie(?) and a crab-human hybrid.


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The man in the mountain
This issue has a voiceover by Ken Hale, Gorilla-Man. He locates the action in War Of The Realms by an opening scene of the Avengers (Black Panther, Blade, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes), Iron Man and She-Hulk plus Thor's dog Thori fighting Dark Elves and Frost Giants in New York (in WOTR#1). He comments that he's usually not involved in these big events because he's usually drunk. But this time he's part of the Avengers' crew, Black Panther's Agents Of Wakanda.But at the moment he's in an enclosure in Wundagore Zoo in Transia talking to Ursa Major of the Russian Winter Guard. Hale figured this would be an inconspicuous place for 2 animal-form super-characters to have a meeting. Apparently Major Ursus has been working undercover for the Avengers because he doesn't trust the Guard's latest leader Red Widow. (Being thrown out of an official meeting with the Avengers in #11 was meant to solidify his position with RW.) And on Panther's orders, via Gorilla-Man, he arranged for Dracula to be confined to Chernobyl (which suited the vampire lord as seen in #17). (If you didn't think BP planned this, read on.)The secret meeting is then broken up by fellow Wakanda Agent Ka-Zar in a SHIELD-type flying car who says communication has been lost with Avengers Mountain HQ (all comms networks are down due to Roxxon in WOTR#2). So they rush off to see what's up. (What's up is the invasion of the world by Malekith's forces in WOTR, which presumably hasn't reached Transia yet.)In the HQ Doctor Strange has just teleported (WOTR#2) the population of New York City to safety within the giant body of the dead Celestial. Agent Of Wakanda Wasp (Jan van Dyne) leads the people to accommodation in the rib cage. Spider-Man (Peter Parker) congratulates DrS, but Stephen Strange is worried about the Valkyries they left behind. (Rightly so because they all died in WOTR#2.)Gorilla-Man swings in and T'Challa tells him he wants him to harness the power of the Celestial's staff which supposedly reaches down to the Earth's core. Tony Stark has theorised that it could unleash incredible energy, with the downside that it might destroy the HQ. But Stark is busy doing something else (with Screwbeard the Dwarf creating weapons as seen in WOTR#3, and I suspect in Tony Stark: Iron Man #12 whenever that finally gets published), so it's up to Ken. As Hale heads off he mentions his meeting with Ursa Major saying there's still no clue where the Russians have hidden Dracula. (This doesn't sound like the meeting *we* saw? Read on.)There's a montage of other thing's happening in WOTR#3. Captain America plans to lead Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Spider-Man and Wolverine to Jotunheim to find Thor. Freyja will take Blade, Ghost Rider, Punisher and She-Hulk to Svartalfheim to destroy Malekith's Black Bifrost. Roz Solomon and Man-Wolf, more Agents Of Wakanda, are trying to find out where the Roxxon hackers are operating from. Captain Marvel and the Asgardian Sif are part of the War Avengers (who will go to London).But in this issue Dark Elves, Fire Demons and Frost Giants attack the Celestial body now known as Avengers Mountain. Atop the Celestial Black Panther and Thori survey the massed enemy as G-M charges up the Celestial staff. Dark Elves teleport in to stop him but Ken Hale kills them all, as BP and Thori fight off Fire Demons. Then the weapon fires and the enemy is routed.Ka-Zar finds Gorilla-Man severely injured by the explosion. But he says the dead Celestial spoke to him as he lay near death, and showed him that the Roxxon base they are seeking is in Antarctica. (And in WOTR#3 that's where the Agents Of Wakanda head.) He's taken to hospital in the bed next to Odin, recovering from wounds incurred in WOTR#2. Agent Of Wakanda Doctor Nemesis is looking after the injured.Later G-M is up and about and goes to see Sarge the Hellhound of the Legion Of The Unliving ((re)captured in #17). It turns out Ken Hale has made a deal with Dracula. (So Black Panther never told him to arrange for Dracula to be sent to Chernobyl, Dracula did. And Hale is keeping all this secret from BP.) Ken's voiceover has reminded us that he is condemned to his gorilla body forever unless someone kills him and takes the curse upon himself. Hale has tried to die, and now seemingly Dracula has offered to remove the curse.


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The final host
This issue opens in 1,000,000 BC (approx) where Odin suggests his compatriots drink to their forthcoming heroic deaths. They are Agamotto the 1st Sorcerer Supreme, the 1st Black Panther, Ghost Rider and (female) Iron Fist, an apeman marked with the Starbrand and a woman possessed by the Phoenix Force referred to as Lady Phoenix. We met them in the Marvel Legacy #1  (one-shot, also by Jason Aaron) where they brought down a mad Celestial (known as the Fallen). Now the 1st Host of Celestials has come for revenge. Agamotto thinks they have no chance of defending Earth against the Host. But he also wonders if they should try - he has a feeling the proto-humans around them may become a great danger in the future.
In the present Steve Rogers (no longer in the thrall of Hydra in Secret Empire),  Thor (Odinson) with his replacement for Mjolnir (destroyed in the last adventure of Thor (Jane Foster)) and Tony Stark (no longer in a coma since loads of people Searched for him) have met in a bar (Tony's drink is non-alcoholic of course). Steve wants to restart the Avengers. Tony thinks they should leave it to the newer heroes. But Thor says that after all they've been through recently they must regain their destiny.Tony sarcastically asks if they should just wait for a big threat to turn up that will gather a new team around them. At which point his Motherboard AI announces multiple massive energy fluctuations 200 miles up.Black Panther has brought Doctor Strange to see the contents of a deep cave below South Africa where archaeologists have been killed by radiation. There are markings on a wall including a panther head and a shape like Strange's Eye of Agomotto. Stephen Strange detects that this place had been sealed and protected by Agamotto's spells and he reasons that the spells failed when the Empirikul destroyed all Earth's magic in the 2015 DrS series. And whatever large thing was kept here has now gone. Meanwhile there are very deep holes leading further down which T'Challa wants to investigate.(This also harks back to Legacy where we saw this cave unearthed. The wall there also had symbols for the Phoenix, Starbrand and Iron Fist, Ghost Rider's head and Thor's hammer Mjolnir which Odin wielded at the time. And the archaeologists were killed by the Fallen Celestial who summoned the Final Host. And later in the issue Loki came and found the Celestial who obviously isn't there now.)In Hillrock Heights in East Los Angeles where the latest Ghost Rider (since the 2014 All-New series) Robbie Reyes is still trying to come to terms with the latest twist. Unlike previous GR's he wasn't possessed by the Spirit of Vengeance but by an evil ghost. However in Legacy he unleashed to SoV's Penance Stare when he fought the current Starbrand when they were both drawn to the South African cave area. Starbrand wanted to stop the freeing of the Celestial.In Manhattan Jennifer Walters gets rid of unwanted attention by showing her She-Hulk face, but is desperately trying to keep her alter-ego under control. (She-Hulk is green again not grey since her Legacy issues #159-163, but still big and angry.)Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) flies out from Alpha Flight space station to investigate the energy anomalies and finds a giant Celestial hand emerging from 1 of them. At the same time Motherboard detects the spike in energy as the Avenger trio fly around in a quinjet. Thor wants to go up to investigate but Stark says the thing is coming down to them.Strange and Panther find a cavern full of pods which start to open. Robbie Reyes sees large alien beetles emerge in LA and starts to fight them as Ghost Rider. And in the South African cave more of the beetles hatch out.
The Celestial that Captain Marvel saw turned out to be dead and fell towards Manhattan. She just manages to steer it away from Times Square and into the Hudson River.
The Avengers join her in time to hear that more dead Celestials are raining down on Earth. (We see 1 next to the Pyramids and 1 across London Bridge amongst others.)Stark wonders what could kill Celestials. The answer arrives in the form of some alive giant figures which are editorially labelled the Final Host. Tony suits up as Iron Man and Steve pulls on his Captain America costume and declares "Avengers assemble!".


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The battle for the right to be called Earth's Mightiest
We open in the last (and secret) Gulag in Siberia with a prisoner Major Mikhail Ursus, the superhero Ursa Major who seems to remain a bear full time now as he drinks cheap vodka. A messenger arrives to tell him the State needs him and he's been pardoned for his crimes. Ursus counters that most of his 'crimes' were missions for the previous State. He wants them expunged from his record - all except the 1 where he killed 5 of his commanding officers. It's not true that he ate them, he just tore them apart with his jaws. But leave the killings in - he's proud of *them*.Some of his other old Winter Guard comrades are also being recruited. Darkstar and Vanguard are already in and they're trying to persuade Dmitri Bukharin to lead them. He has been offered a cabinet post as Minister Of Superhuman Defence but he'd still prefer to stay resigned. Especially as the team comes with a mysterious imposed member Red Widow, an assassin from the same Red Room training program that produced Black Widow. And he knows what the Government really wants is the armour of the Crimson Dynamo.Their target this time will be whoever destroyed Russian submarines in the Black Sea. The cover story is that it was Romanian rebels, but we can guess that it was Sub-Mariner and his followers.Namor and his Defenders Of The Deep are currently raising Hydropolis the undersea research station. King Namor has declared the oceans off-limits to surface-folk. This triggers an alert at Avengers Mountain which is answered by Gorilla-Man who resents the computer calling him the butler (apparently a joke programmed in by Tony Stark). He doesn't quite get to tell us he's an Agent Of Wakanda before he calls in the actual Avengers.Tony and Ghost Rider are engaged in a car race. GR's magic Hell Charger vs Stark's latest design. They each promise to honour their bets even if they win:- Stark to provide a repulsor-powered wheelchair for Robbie Reyes brother, and GR to pass on a message to Tony's deceased father Howard. They abandon the race to race to the North Pole to answer the summons.Captain Marvel and Thor are on the ocean bed getting rid of the remains of sunken helicarriers. (They may be cleaning up the sea but I'm sure Subby would still attack them if he found them.) CM crushes debris into a ball. Thor hits that into space with his hammer. Carol Danvers shepherds the result into a collision with the sun. But while they work Carol asks Thor about his relationship with She-Hulk (or just Hulk as they call her these days). Thor denies that they've ever been on a proper date (although things have gotten pretty steamy between them a couple of times in recent issues). It turns out Thor's shy and wants Carol to find out if Jennifer Walters would say yes.Jennifer herself is in Wakanda undergoing therapy to deal with her Hulk side. When asked what she sees when she closes her eyes she lies and doesn't say she sees glowing red eyes in a menacing green face. To test that she's in control T'Challa takes her to handle an Avengers Press Conference without Hulking out. But she's saved by the Avengers alert.Meanwhile Captain America is in Washington DC meeting General Thunderbolt Ross. The US Government isn't happy that Cap has made the Wakandan King Black Panther the head of the Avengers, who they always thought of as *their* team. Steve Rogers says the Avengers work for the Earth, not for *any* individual country - not even Wakanda. As Cap leaves to answer the alert, Ross sends for the Agent to put their alternative plan into operation.The Avengers assemble at Hydropolis to face Sub-Mariner and his team. (A brief résumé of last issue includes the news that Stingray isn't dead just severely Piranha'd.) They want to be allowed to safely evacuate the scientists. But before Namor can agree 2 of his giant Piranhas menace some people and Cap's shield and Thor's hammer take them down. So of course the rest of the Defenders Of The Deep leap to the attack. While Namor and Panther spar, Orka takes on (She-)Hulk while King Crab makes do with Thor and Tiger Shark battles Cap. Echidna, mother of monsters, wraps Iron Man in her tail, Captain Marvel fights the jellyfish tentacles of Manowar whilst trying to talk sense into ex-heroine (and ex-Defender (not of the deep)) Andromeda. Ghost Rider faces Bloodtide who was a little Atlantean girl until surface pollutants mutated her into a Water Witch. And more giant Piranhas chase more people. Panther blinds Sub-Mariner with a flash-bomb and Cap hits him with his flung shield which also takes out Tiger Shark on the rebound.Then things get more complicated with the arrival of the Winter Guard to arrest Namor. As well as Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar, Red Widow, Ursa Major and Vanguard we see Chernobog, Perun and Vostok. Chernobog and Perun, Slavic Gods of Darkness and the Storm, move in to make the arrest while Panther looks on. (Overlaying the following fight we get Red Widow's report on it to her masters.) Widow herself stays out of the fight to watch Ursa Major 'save' Thor from King Crab. Darkstar deals with Bloodtide leaving Ghost Rider free to zap some zombie sharks. Similarly Crimson Dynamo draws Manowar's attention freeing Captain Marvel to trade blows with Andromeda, and Vanguard bops Echidna just freeing Iron Man. Meanwhile Vostok engages Orka. (Widow's report ends by saying the team isn't ready for action yet but she could whip them into shape if she was allowed to kill 1 or 2 of them as an example.)Chernobog and Perun's 'arrest' falls apart when they start squabbling until Hulk breaks them apart. At which point the Winter Guard turn on the Avengers:- Ursa Major vs Thor. Cap-alike Vanguard vs the original. Dynamo blasts Hulk to stop her beating up his team's Gods, so Iron Man starts a hand-blast battle with *him*. Android Vostok sings the Soviet anthem as he fights Black Panther. Ghost Rider finds Red Widow in her observation point so she stabs him with an energy(?) blade. Darkstar and Captain Marvel  fight over who gets to save 2 people from the Piranhas until Subby kills his giant fish because they don't follow orders. Then he and the Defenders leave.The Avengers and Winter Guard pull stern faces at each other until Red Widow says her team's going home. Bukharin tells her off for usurping his authority, but she threatens to detonate his armour. And they go. The Avengers take Hydropolis and its personnel somewhere (Wakanda or Avengers Mountain?). And General Ross welcomes Agent Phil Coulson with the US's new super-team - the Squadron Supreme of America (Doctor Spectrum, Hyperion, Nighthawk, Power Princess and Blur).There are then 3 postscripts by different art teams:-Robbie's brother Gabe Reyes tries out his new repulsor-powered wheelchair. Robbie pops out to the garage where he's suddenly attacked by drunken Odin with his spear Gungnir, who blames him for killing their old ally Starbrand (in Marvel Legacy #1). Robbie survives the stabbing by turning into Ghost Rider. He remembers killing Starbrand but doesn't understand all this talk about them all being allies. And anyway it was self-defence. The insane Starbrand attacked him and GR used the Penance Stare on him (which he didn't know he could do). And suddenly repentant Odin realises it was all *his* fault for burying the Fallen Celestial a million years ago, and thus causing the recent attack by the Final Host of Celestials.We then skip past Odin explaining about his old gang which included the 1st Ghost Rider and the 1st Starbrand (see our earlier issues). Robbie doesn't believe he was possessed by the Spirit Of Vengeance like other Ghost Riders (but that Penance Stare suggests he may be wrong). And he didn't make a deal with the devil when he became the latest GR. But Odin suggests he *did* make a deal, whether he remembers it or not, and sooner or later the devil will come to collect. Odin doesn't want to go into details of what happened to the 1st GR, but we see a montage of Odin's Avengers and some fearsome foes (including what looks like a gorilla army with an Infinity Stone, and a Deathlok!).Odin predicts that the Starbrand will pick a new bearer soon. And sometimes its bearers have gone bad, so Ghost Rider may have to kill another 1. Then he asks Robbie to take him for a high-speed drive in the Hell-Charger.In the far reaches of space Loki is in the clutches of the Celestials (since a flashback in #8). He continues to claim they should thank him for unleashing the Final Host. In the end it rid them of the menace of the Horde and recreated the Avengers in time for the War To End All Realms (that's been escalating in loads of recent Thor issues) and the rise of ... but  he gets cut off by the sudden appearance of Wolverine who says things will be worse than even Loki realises. Loki hasn't forgiven him for stopping him collecting the Infinity Stones (in Infinity Countdown Prime).Logan says he's here to help Loki escape. He's promised to help the Celestials cure the Final Host of the Horde infection in exchange for Loki, but really he doesn't intend to do it. At this point we realise this is the future Phoenix/Wolverine from Jason Aaron's current Thor series, and he uses his Phoenix power to attack the Space-Gods. and also show us a vision of some of the things in the near future:- Sub-Mariner and his warsharks. Iron Fist fighting Hand ninjas. Punisher looking like an armoured knight with a sword. Man-Thing holding Thor's hammer and Iron Man's helmet. Moon Knight at the head of a horde of mummies. Malekith gloating over a burning Earth. Hyperion and Ursa Major. And scattered through it all many hands bearing the Starbrand. He sends Loki back to Earth with a message for the Avengers that they need to recruit more members.Wasp (Janet Van Dyne), another Agent Of Wakanda, is invading Dracula's castle in Romania. She was only supposed to be doing reconnaissance for their target, but she's spotted and has to fight off bats and vampires so she decides to go for the rescue. Inside she finds captive Blade and invites him to join the Avengers.


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Challenge of the Ghost Riders Part 1: The exorcism at Avengers Mountain
Robbie Reyes is driving his young brother Gabe Reyes to school. Gabe complains that Robbie is always away on his new job (which we know is the Avengers). Robbie says he's thinking of quitting. Then his car (the Hell Charger) starts acting up, and little bro urges him to go faster. The car catches fire, speeds up and drives over other vehicles, all the while demanding blood as fuel. Robbie finally gets control back at the school, and Gabe doesn't seem to have noticed anything odd. Robbie swears to get the car fixed.He takes it out into the desert, smashes it up, sets fire to it and buries the remains. But when he gets home the car's waiting for him good as new.So he takes it to the Avengers Mountain HQ and asks the help of Black Panther, Blade (with Boy-Thing on his shoulder), Captain America and Captain Marvel. He wants to get rid of the car and stop being Ghost Rider. T'Challa says he and the car are molecularly bonded, and the attempt might kill him. Robbie says it already has.He gives them a quick origin story. His parents disappeared years ago (earlier the car said they were dead) and he's been looking after Gabe ever since. He was street racing for money when he was killed by drug dealers, but the car brought him back to life as Ghost Rider. The car was possessed by his dead serial killer Uncle Eli Morrow. Robbie became a vigilante as GR, with Eli prompting him to be more brutal. But he hasn't heard from Eli in months. However since vampires turned him into a more vicious GR (#14) the car has had a different voice.Blade the Vampire Slayer whispers to Panther that they should just kill the monster Reyes, but BP wants to save him. Blade offers Robbie his experience with the Spirit Of Vengeance that possessed (or maybe not) all previous Ghost Riders. He says GRs have been around for all human history, but still no-one knows their true purpose - do they work for God or the Devil? Robbie denies having made a deal with any devil, but Blade suggest maybe Eli did.Blade has his Hellfire Shotgun and he's tried calling previous GRs for help. But Danny Ketch is now a drunk, and Johnny Blaze is missing. Robbie says he dreamed of Blaze recently (#16-17), who now seemed to be the King of Hell. T'Challa says he's sent for another expert.But meanwhile BP wants to study what happens when Robbie transforms. However this time it all goes wrong, and the car ensnares Reyes in magic chains like the 1 that GR wields. CapA tries to hold Robbie's burning body back while CapM punches holes in the Hell Charger and Blade joins in with his Hellfire Shotgun. Robbie completes his transformation, and Ghost Rider tells them to leave it to *him*.But another voice interrupts, chiding them for starting without him. It's Daimon Hellstrom, the Son Of Satan, who Panther contacted as an expert in exorcism.But now we break off for an interlude in Turkey where Captain Marvel's War Avengers defeated some of Sindr's Fire Goblins in War Of The Realms (but not recorded in any comic I know of). Okoye of the Agents Of Wakanda is showing Iron Man and Thor around, and explaining they've found a leftover cache of Muspelheim Grub Mines. We see She-Hulk 'disarming' them with extreme prejudice.But Okoye really called the pair here because of what they found in a cave. Thor detects great evil, and Okoye tells them that miners sent in to explore the cavern were driven mad. She herself went in and retrieved an object which she now shows them. It is  a facemask of fossilised metal dating from 1 million BC, and there was the remains of a skull inside it. Iron Man recognises it as 1 of *his* helmets. He says he's never been here before, but he suspects he *will* be.Back at the Mountain the Hell Charger has calmed down and Robbie Reyes has reverted to human. Steve Rogers burned his hands and Hellstrom strongly recommends dousing them with holy water. T'Challa contacts Gorilla-Man to bring all the bottles they have down here.Daimon hands Blade a mystical Breathing Gun. He tells him it will hiss if things go very badly. If that happens Blade must shoot Ghost Rider and Hellstrom and then empty the clip into the car. He tells anyone who isn't already deeply stained by Hell to leave, and by this he only means Steve Rogers. But CapA elects to stay.Robbie gets in the car and Daimon starts an incantation. The car bursts into flames ...... and Reyes finds himself in the traffic jam in Hell that he experienced as a 'dream' in #16-17. The Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider appears again and tells him the exorcism won't get rid of the Spirit Of Vengeance. But he offers to race him for it.This issue also includes a 1-page Part 10 of the Everyone Is A Target build-up to the Absolute Carnage event.Writer Clay McLeod Chapman. Artist Alberto Alburquerque. Colurs Jay David Ramos. Letters Cory Petit.The 2 Hawkeyes Clint Barton and Kate Bishop are playing table tennis in the West Coast Avengers HQ, unaware that a crowd of symbiote-infected homeless people are after Clint.(The infected are supposed to be tracking down everyone who was ever bonded to a symbiote. I don't remember when this happened to Barton. Possibly when he and Agent Venom were both part of the Secret Avengers.)


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Challenge of the Ghost Riders Part 4: Spirit of Avengeance
Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) is in Hell with Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze), now King of the place, in a vehicular race to see who will absorb whose power and take the throne. But Robbie's ride, his Hell Charger car, has been smashed flat by the giant fist of dead Dark Celestial Void  who is possessed by Robbie's uncle Eli Morrow who used to inhabit the car. Watching are Robbie's dead parents.Eli now tries to smash *Robbie* flat too, But Robbie pushes back and halts the fist. Then he sends his Ghost Rider chains to wrap the arm and pull it from the Celestial body. Eli can't understand where his nephew gets the strength from, but Robbie says he may be the worst Ghost Rider ever but he's an Avenger now. And uses the severed arm to punch Eli in his Celestial face as he swears to win the race. Eli says he doesn't have a car to ride ...... but then the Avengers (Black Panther, Blade, Captain America, Captain Marvel, She-Hulk and Thor) turn up in Thor's flying ship Skidbladnir (suitably enhanced with Wakandan/Stark engines) and offer him a lift to the finish line. They're accompanied by the Cosmic Ghost Rider on his space-going version of a Hell-Cycle.Johnny Blaze nears the finish on *his* Hell-Cycle trying to justify to himself taking Robbie's power. He needs it to successfully keep control in Hell but believes he's not a bad person like the previous incumbent Mephisto. But he puts the lie to that by ordering the surrounding sinners/demons to bow down to him on pain of Penance Stare.Then Thor drops in with Blade on tow. And Blade's sword slices through the Hell-Cycle. Thor then pushes through Blaze's Hellfire with his metal arm and pins him to the ground with Mjolnir. But GR sinks into the ground of Hell and reappears to turn his broken bike into a Hellfire-wrapped metal hammer bigger than Thor's. And as demons converge on Blade (who appears to be still using the Breathing Gun) the hammers clash.Now Black Panther and Captain America jump down from the Asgardian ship to join the fight as the ship continues on towards the finish line. Captain Marvel is driving as She-Hulk provides an extra boost of gamma power and Skidbladnir surges forward. Blaze wonders why Eli Morrow didn't stop them with the power of the Celestial body he gave him. Then Cosmic Ghost Rider provides the answer by arriving carrying the Celestial's head, which he throws away before diving his Cycle down to attack the ordinary GR.But Blaze sends demons to block Frank Castle's path as other demons carry *him* towards the goal. And yet more demons attack the flying ship. Johnny reconstitutes his bike and rides towards the waiting throne of Hell. But Robbie Reyes has added his Hellfire to the ship's engine and it leaps ahead to crashland on the throne before Blaze can reach it.Winner Robbie takes out his anger by punching out Johnny. He claims that cooperation was what won him the race, and he offers the hand of cooperation to his rival. He then repeats what he said in #23 that he doesn't want the throne or Johnny's power. Panther suggests Blaze leave the throne too and return to Earth with them. But he ignores that offer and just complains that Robbie has left him as King without the extra power he needed among demons who now know that he is vulnerable. CGR joins them ready to beat Blaze up but instead hands reach out from the ground to drag Johnny down into Hell.Thor and CGR scour the place but can't find Blaze. Thor does return with Robbie's car. BP will get Hellstorm to check it is truly free of Eli's spirit. Robbie says goodbye to his parents who are proud that he did all this to protect his young brother Gabe. They leave with the assembly of other Ghost Riders (from the last 2 issue). And Robbie is now more comfortably resigned to being a GR.Epilog 1 - Robbie takes Gabe Reyes for a ride in his car out in the desert. He says he's decided to stay in his job (which Gabe doesn't know is as an Avenger and a Ghost Rider). And he shows Gabe just how fast this car can go.Epilog 2 - Cosmic Ghost Rider decides to leave Earth for space again.Epilog 3 - Iron Man is still exploring the Turkish cave where a fossilised IM helmet was found from 1 Million BC (#22). Suddenly the helmet lights up and says "Rege Mephisto" and there's an energy surge. When next we see Tony Stark he's in that deep past in an Ice Age where 6 months have passed for him. His armour has gradually stopped working, but he keeps having to fight off 'the devil' (Mephisto?).


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The battle for the throne of the damned
There's Civil War amongst the vampires and Dracula's side is losing heavily. The contenders are the Shadow Colonel and his Legion Of The Unliving. The Colonel and his Hellhound Sarge allowed themselves to be captured by the Avengers and taken to Avengers Mountain. But this was only so that Sarge, who can walk through walls, could get to Ghost Rider Robbie Reyes and with a magical incantation turn him into the kind of Spirit Of Vengeance that previous GR's have been.So now Sarge's master doesn't have to pretend anymore. The armoured Colonel beats up Blade and turns to mist to avoid Captain Marvel's attack, causing Carol Danvers to fly headfirst into a wall. Black Panther and Captain America join them but Cap is set upon by the blazing Sarge. But the villains are only delaying things until Ghost Rider drives his Hell Charger car through various walls to reach them. The large spiky GR is hardly recognisable, and a blast of Hellfire gives the bad guys time to escape. All the while we've had a voiceover from Robbie trapped helplessly inside GR.Iron Man and Thor get there when it's all over, and She-Hulk even later. The Avengers lose track of the demonic car, but Blade opines that they'll go after Dracula to sic the Rider on him. T'Challa says he's received reports that Dracula has surrendered himself to the Russians.Later Iron Man uses his stealth armour and hacking skills to get into Russian Federal Penal Colony 9 in Sol-Iletsk (which according to Wikipedia in our reality houses FPC 6, known as the Black Dolphin Prison) and talk to Dracula who's in serious confinement. There follows some verbal sparing as the vampire tries to get under Tony Stark's skin by telling him things about his father Howard. He then says that people like Howard Stark told him secrets in the hope of gaining eternal life (as vampires). And he's bartering those secrets to the Russians for protection. Tony offers the Avengers' protection instead, but Dracula doesn't trust any team that has Blade the Vampire Hunter in its ranks. Iron Man says he could just *take* Dracula away by force. But the vampire lord says he'll be too busy dealing with the riot. And alarms go off.Elsewhere in the prison Crimson Dynamo is trying to deal with rampaging prisoners who are acting like rabid animals. He asks if anyone has checked on Dracula and is surprised to find Iron Man fighting by his side and telling him Drac is still in his cell. CD tells Stark he's under arrest, but Tony suggests to Dmitri Bukharin that they concentrate on the problem at hand 1st. He also tells him that Dracula is behind this but doesn't seem to *want* to escape.We switch our POV now to Madripoor where Shadow Colonel and his Legion have some more vampires at their mercy. These vamps plead that they keep a low profile and only "feed on the blood of the wicked", but the Legion kill them all anyway. And now we get properly introduced to the members. The armoured Rat Bomber has an army of trained rats bearing sunburst grenades. The Japanese Snowsnake and the giant bat-thing called the Carpathian have allegedly been active since prehistoric times, and they forebear from killing the Colonel as long as he gives them a plentiful supply of other victims. Baroness Blood, Lily Cromwell, is expecting the War to give rise to the 4th Reich.When the slaughter is over Blood points out that their victims fought hardest in front of a vault at the rear of the room. We now find out why the Colonel has a small Man-Thing on his shoulder. He tells them/us that he grew the Boy-Thing from a piece of the original. SC carries a Gatling Gun that we saw fire wooden stakes last issue. Boy-Thing provides the wood for the stakes. Now the Colonel uses the gun to blast open the vault. Inside they find vampire children. The Colonel calls in Ghost Rider to prove his loyalty by burning them all.In Russia the riot has been quelled and IM and CD check on Dracula along with 2 others of the Winter Guard, Darkstar and Vanguard. They still wonder why Drac did this - just to prove he *doesn't* want to escape? Dmitri agrees not to arrest Tony. But punches his armoured fist into Stark's armoured gut anyway. Iron Man leaves and reports back to Panther that they're not going to get Dracula without a fight.In Madripoor Ghost Rider unleashes the flames that have been building up inside him, but deliberately misses the children. The Colonel orders him to wipe them out, and Robbie Reyes says "No". So SC utters a spell which causes GR great pain and prepares to kill the kids himself. Except that the 2 Cap's, Blade and Thor bust there way in. And the Colonel tells GR to kill *them* instead.


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Fire and bone
This issue takes place about 1 million BC and tells the story of the 1st Ghost Rider.He was a cave boy in a pack surviving on the edge of a permanent snowfield he calls the Big White. (Of course he can't have used words like that because as he says his people didn't have language.) Our boy knows he's smarter than the others but hides it, because it's dangerous to be different. He can make more complex sounds than the others.The people never go into the Big White but 1 day a large stranger comes out of it. He has better weapons than theirs and kills their pack leader to take over. Our boy knows this is going to be trouble even though the pack accepts him.Later the new guy comes over to him and speaks to him. The boy's astonished to hear someone else making such sounds. But they have a conversation. (I'm not going to say *anything* about this!) Big guy says there are a few others special like them scattered through the packs. They are the masters of the world.He says the pack he was born in were all killed by something stronger and hungry. He bares his long fangs and turns into something even larger and animal-like, and slaughters the rest of the pack. Our boy grabs some weapons and tries to kill him, but the monster easily stops him. He calls the boy Ghost because he doesn't know he's dead. And then leaves him.Ghost wraps himself in a fur and sets out across the Big White for vengeance. But all too soon he collapses. However he is visited by a large white snake who also talks to him and promises him vengeance and warmth. All Ghost has to do to seal the deal is say the snake's name. And somehow Ghost knows to call him Mephisto.At this word Ghost painfully bursts into flame. The snake laughs and then is squelched by the foot of a mammoth.5 years later the boy has earned another name, Rider. (People call him that, so lots of them must have learned to talk in the  5 years.) The big killer detects the scent of the boy approaching, and turns to see a skeleton-headed man riding a mammoth, both wreathed in flames. The mammoth picks the killer up with its trunk and the Ghost Rider and demands to know his name. The killer turns feral again a names himself Wendigo.The Wendigo frees himself from the trunk and prepares to attack. The mammoth snorts flames at him, but the Wendigo leaps and pulls the Rider down from his perch. As they fight the monster admits to being a cannibal, but accuses the Rider of feeding on souls. Ghost says they're both monsters but there isn't room in the world for both of them. The Wendigo says there are *more* monsters out there.GR is knocked into the Wendigo's den, littered with bones of his victims. But he forms a magic chain out of the bones and sends it to loop round his foe's throat. However it's not enough and Wendigo soon has Ghost Rider at his mercy. Which is when the faithful mammoth spears him with his tusk. However even that is not enough as Wendigo  breaks the tusk and pushes the mammoth over a cliff, soon to follow it down.Ghost grieves at being left alone. But then he hears a female voice in his head saying not all the different are monsters. She is Lady Phoenix (a cave girl possessed by the Phoenix Force) and her companion is Odin (who thinks the Wendigo would have been a better ally). Phoenix says they have a world to save.


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The girl who punched the dragon
We break off the current Avengers storyline for another Avengers 1,000,000 BC origin, this time of the 1st Iron Fist.15-year old Fan Fei was born in the mystical city of K'un-Lun which even then only appeared on Earth in the Himalayas every 10 years. Like every child of that city she learned martial arts, and in the 3 months of this visit she has been out in the world teaching Kung Fu to cavemen. This went against the most sacred rule to keep their secrets secret, so the Thunderer now sentences her to death in the cave of the dragon Shou-Lao.But 1st her pupils are thrown in to be burnt and clawed by the dragon. The enraged girl snaps the chain around her wrists, defeats her guards and leaps into the cave after them, but they are already dead. She faces Shou-Lao and leaps with a double-fisted strike into its mouth and out the back of its head. The dragon dies and the dragon symbol is burned into her hands.Now for *that* crime she is exiled to Earth before the city vanishes again. There she learns to use her martial skills and her Iron Fists to defend herself against predators. In the following years she travels the world. She visits a hidden valley of surviving dinosaurs (the Savage Land). She meets the Deviants in their underground cities and they learn to hate her.Fan Fei no longer teaches her skills to the cave people, but she does protect them from danger and in return they worship her as a goddess. 1 of their enemies was the Gorgilla man-apes of the Great Dead Forest.1 night as Iron Fist sits by her lonely fire she is visited by Mephisto in the form of a serpent emerging from the flames, who mentions that even the Mother Of The Undead fears her power. He 'commends' her for protecting the weak cavemen, but tempts her by suggesting that the only way to *really* save them is to force them to become strong. And the only way to do that is by ruling them (with an iron fist). She rejects him and abandons the use of fire.However Mephisto teaches the Gorgillas to use fire, and this intensifies their danger. And their alpha-male leader, who may be named Gorgunga, now has a very large diamond club. Which Fan Fei shatters with her Iron Fist. So Mephisto ups the ante by leading the ape king to the Power Stone of the Infinity Stones. He is now transformed so that his right arm is diamond with the Power Stone embedded in the fist. Even the Iron Fist can't break this and so she gets beaten up.10 years are up and K'un Lun reappears, and the Thunderer welcomes Fan Fei back. The dragon died but was reborn as Shou-Lao The Undying and the ruling Dragon Kings now realise that the Iron Fist power is a gift from him. Fan Fei can take her place as the greatest defender of the city.But the young woman declines this offer too. She will stay on Earth as defender of the cave people. And we see an image of the rest of the Avengers 1,000,000 BC that she will join.


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The kingdom of the vampires
Dracula is at his lowest point (apart from the times when he's been dead). He's a prisoner of the most hard-line faction of Winter Guard (Red Widow, Ursa Major and Vostok) and he's just surrendered his only bargaining chip, the secrets of the important people who have come to him for the promise of eternal life. He did this because Red Widow promised to kill his vampire favourites quickly rather than excruciatingly slowly. And she was true to her word.All Vlad Tepes says he wants now is to be left alone somewhere to live out the rest of his life in peace. The Widow and the bear know just the place. And Dracula is escorted to the Chernobyl exclusion zone.Meanwhile in the Russian Sol-Iletsk prison Dracula's opposition in the Vampire Civil War have turned all the inmates to vampires. As the authorities call on the Winter Guard for aid they get Captain Marvel and Thor of the Avengers instead.The Winter Guard (including the other members Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar and Vanguard) have their own problem. They've been attacked by that opposition, Shadow Colonel and his Legion Of The Unliving (Baroness Blood, Carpathian, Rat Bomber, Sarge and Snowsnake). And now apart from Red Widow they are down, possibly dead. Their attackers want Dracula.As Widow prepares to make a deal more Avengers drop in. Black Panther has a sword fight with Snowsnake, Captain America squares off against the Nazi Baroness Blood, Iron Man blasts the Carpathian and She-Hulk is assailed by Rat Bomber's exploding rats and the Hellhound Sarge. But her troubles are halved when Thor's Hel-hound Thori sinks his teeth in Sarge.Meanwhile Blade slices Shadow Colonel's wooden-stake-firing Gatling gun in 2. Armoured SC throws that away and resorts to eye-blasts and sharpened stakes projecting from his wrists. (Like the stakes in his gun the wrist-stakes are provided by Boy-Thing, the baby Man-Thing, draped across his shoulders.) The Colonel punches a stake through Blade's palm. In reply Blade chops a foot off.Interlude:- Dracula surveys his irradiated prison and is content as he grabs a raven (to eat?). The Russians think they have put him in his coffin, but vampires like coffins.Carol Danvers and Thor continue their fight against the vampiric prison inmates. The other Avengers also find themselves fighting ordinary vampires as well as the Legion. T'Challa continues his non-lethal stance by extruding hypodermic needles from his fingertips to inject Snowsnake with possible cures for vampirism. He tells her that he has researched her history and knows that before she was turned 300 years ago she faithfully served the Japanese Yagyu clan. He hopes to restore her honour.But Blade and the Shadow Colonel continue to show each other no quarter. Blade rips Boy-Thing from SC, and the wrist-stakes come away with him because they are part of him. Swinging Boy-Thing causes 1 of the stakes to chop the Colonel's arm off. But like Monty Python's Black Knight the villain keeps on boasting and fighting. However now Ghost Rider joins in and smashes SC's helmet open, dislodging the air hose that is presumably helping keep him 'alive'. Boy-Thing has adopted Blade as his new master, providing *him* with wrist-stakes. Which he uses to sever the Colonel's head.Thori has defeated Sarge. The others of the Legion have gone, but She-Hulk is still covered in rats. She loses her temper and goes up in a Gamma explosion. But the Avengers all get out OK.Back in Avengers Mountain HQ we gather that (at least some of) the Winter Guard are alive. They still have Dracula and won't tell our team where. The Sol-Iletsk vampires are back in prison. And the Avengers just have Sarge in a cell to show for their efforts. Blade (and Boy-Thing) are staying with the team until all the vampire problems are over. Robbie Reyes asks him to teach him to control the Spirit Of Vengeance and exorcise his Hellcharger car. And in Hell Johnny Blaze laughs.Meanwhile the Legion Of The Unliving surprise us by joining Dracula in Chernobyl. They have brought the Shadow Colonel's head (which is still talking) to him. Dracula, looking much better and better-dressed, lets us know that SC is his son Xarus. Drac congratulates him, but then throws the head away. It seems the supposed Civil War was all a plot to get the vampires a new kingdom here in Chernobyl (and purge the wimpier vampires).


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Where space gods go to die
The Final Host of Celestials has arrived and various people who will be the next group of Avengers are battling the results. And Loki seems to be behind it all.Reluctant allies Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) and She-Hulk have just destroyed an infestation of large alien beetles in Los Angeles. The dead Celestial Eson teleported Shulk here from New York and continues to talk in her head. It tells her to smash her way deep underground. GR gets in his demon car and follows her down.Back in NYC Loki confronts his brother Thor along with Captain Marvel and Iron Man. He denies responsibility for what's happening - the Final Host is going to destroy the Earth but it's all Odin's fault for what he did in prehistoric times. Loki just arranged for it to happen now.Captain Marvel has some warp grenades which she was going to use to send the Final Host into the heart of the Sun. Loki magics them out of her hands and up to where he floats in front of the Host. Their seems-to-be leader holds Eson's head in 1 hand and Captain America encased in a force globe in the other. Steve Rogers manages to throw his shield through the globe to hit the grenades, setting them off. The Host disappear, and Carol Danvers fears they and CA are now inside the Sun.In the centre of the Earth (surely not really the centre) Black Panther and Doctor Strange are fighting more of the alien beetles. Their foes are gaining in power - they seem to be feeding on something. Then She-Hulk and Ghost Rider join them.Captain America has survived his trip to the Sun because Loki is keeping the heat at bay. The Host survive also because they can. Cap sends a comms message out to tell his allies what's happened. Then he throws his shield at Loki despite the fact it's only the Trickster God keeping him alive. The Asgardian catches the shield and says the Avengers fight against the Host is futile. And they all prepare to leave.Captain Marvel is in contact with the Alpha Flight satellite and learns that Steve is alive, but also that the Dark Celestials have have exited the Sun unharmed and teleported to an unknown destination. Meanwhile it seems that the rain of dead (not Dark) Celestials has stopped.Tony Stark complains that Carol's Alpha Flight aren't doing their job in countering alien threats. Incensed Danvers says they'll do it if Stark stops interfering. Stark asks if she's going to put him in a coma again (snarky Civil War II reference). Thor tells them to stop bickering - that's not what Avengers do. CM and IM vehemently agree with each other that they're *not* Avengers.The argument is interrupted by the arrival of Panther and Strange with GR in his car, with Shulk in the boot. T'Challa tells Carol and Tony that the Avengers are needed. We're spared the response.The Host and Loki are at the North Pole with CA in chains. More of the beetles crawl up out of a hole. Steve tries to appeal to Loki's good side which has manifested occasionally. The Asgardian God says his perspective is so far above Cap's, and from that perspective he *is* the good guy here. He points to the Fallen Celestial who is also here, and reminds us of stuff we learnt in the Marvel Legacy 1-shot. That Celestial was ill when he came to Earth a million years ago, but instead of helping him Odin and friends buried him in South Africa. Loki found him and revived him. Now the God takes Cap in their bubble down the beetle hole to the centre of the Earth - to the root of the infection.The not-Avengers compare notes to get the bigger picture. Carol is disturbed to see a large green angry semi-articulate She-Hulk. She thought Jennifer Walters had got over the effects of Civil War. Tony thinks they have enough complications and doesn't trust the unfamiliar Ghost Rider. Panther thinks the giant insects are the immediate threat because other heroes (he mentions Captain Britain and China's People's Defence Force) are dealing with the destruction caused by falling Celestials, and they can't locate the Dark Celestials. Dr Strange thinks they need an expert on Celestials.Captain Marvel and Black Panther will head to the Alpha Flight station with a dead bug to find out what they are. Iron Man intends to take Dr Strange to consult the Eternals (who Strange seems never to have heard of!). Thor disappears in a flash of lightning with She-Hulk. We see them in Old Asgard seeking answers from Odin. Ghost Rider is left alone next to Eson's body. He has a small piece of 'Dark Celestial tech' from somewhere and he's going to use his Hell-Charger like a bloodhound to find them. They drive off across the ocean.Deep underground (presumably the centre of the Earth again) Loki shows Steve Rogers a dead(?) humanoid form that he says is the root of the problem - and the father of all Avengers (and presumably of all other superhumans) - the Progenitor.


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No fun
This War Of The Realms tie-in focuses on She-Hulk.It begins with a psychodrama playing out in Jennifer Walters' head. It's a courtroom scene with Jen as judge and the earlier slightly oversized gorgeous fun-loving lawyer She-Hulk prosecuting the current brutish Hulk-sized She-Hulk. The jury is other past variations of the character. The charge is that current She-Hulk is deliberately keeping herself in the Hulk form that she was mutated into by a Celestial in #3. Current SHulk gets angry and lawyer SHulk says that proves her point and she'll just have to kill her to get herself back. Judge Jenny calls for order.It turns out this is a weekly psychoactive calisthenics session overseen by Black Panther to increase Jennifer's control over She-Hulk. But her gamma emission was still way too high. They want to avoid her gamma explosions like the 1 in #17 against the vampires in Russia. (But Jen wonders if *she* really wants to *keep* that power level.) This was a flashback, and now ...... She-Hulk is beating up Asgardian Trolls in Australia. But inside she's still raking over her internal conflict. She really liked being the glamorous lawyer She-Hulk, and everybody liked *her*. But she also likes the sheer respect she gets in her current persona.During a lull in the fighting Jennifer Walters is on a helicarrier where Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) is telling her about Trolls (but she's just been fighting them) and especially their Thor-level king Ulik. Carol is going off to deal with the Queen of the Fire Goblins and she wants Jen to fight her way through the Trolls and take down Ulik. Jen says fighting trolls is her new favourite pastime. Carol says she shouldn't worry about blowing up, as Thor is currently blowing up a giant worldwide thunderstorm. She-Hulk heads to the armoury to suit up for the occasion.(There's a continuity problem here. We're going to see She-Hulk fighting Ulik which also occurs in WOTR#5. But Thor's world-storm more likely refers to WOTR#6. Jen says she recently left Freyja in Svartalfheim, which is OK continuity-wise because that happened in WOTR#4.)Anyway the next scene is She-Hulk vs Ulik, and she's wearing a fur-lined cloak and an Asgardian helmet - but more-significantly wielding 1 of Thor's collection of hammers. But Ulik disrespects her seemingly by calling her a wannabe Thor, which makes her very angry and she beats him so furiously that the hammer is reduced to nothing. Which makes enough of an impression that Ulik asks her to marry him. She-Hulk roars over his comatose body. And a voice in her head says "The defence rests". [I think it would be more appropriate to say "The prosecution rests",]Now we have a gratuitous Deadpool cameo. He says he's a big fan but wants to know why she stopped being funny - something she did way before he came along. SHulk says she'd rather be free to be ugly. As she leaps away DP asks if someone can't be both. He's only asking for a friend of course.Now we catch up with some other Avengers and Agents of Wakanda. Blade, Gorilla-Man and Ka-Zar are in Antarctica fighting Roxxon Super-Soldier BERSERKERS. Black Panther has provided them with a serum that will de-Hulk them. Their skin is too tough to penetrate with a hypodermic, but that's where Blade comes in. His vampire fangs seem to deliver the potion. They get a message from T'Challa saying that Roxxon's hackers have been defeated (by other members of the Antarctica squad like Roz Solomon?), so now the Avengers Mountain teleportation system is back online. And She-Hulk ports in to help them with the Berserkers.Later Jennifer returns to New York where Daredevil still has Heimdall's sword and omniscient power. He tells her the Celestials empowered her for a War. Not this War, nor coming ones like the Hell Race, the Drawing Of The Heralds, the Sea Trials, the Fury Of Khonshu and the Red Rise Of America's Mightiest Heroes. She will recognise her time to explode in the War Beyond Whens, "the war you've already lost".Jen shrugs it off and Hulks out to go beat up some Frost Giants.


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Inside Avengers Mountain
Robbie Reyes drives his demonic Hell Charger across an ocean while having a phone conversation with his little brother Gabe, who he's left safely in Black Panther's after-school program. Robbie has told Gabe he's going to a new job for a trial period, but he hasn't told Gabe the job is as an Avenger because his brother doesn't know he's Ghost Rider.The new Avengers HQ turns out to be Avengers Mountain at the North Pole, which is mainly a Celestial. The security system lets him inside through a canal tunnel and he drives his car ashore next to a boat and a submarine(?) to be greeted by Captain America who checks he did his High School homework (on the way here while the car drove itself). Cap builds up the teen's confidence by reminding Robbie that he controlled a dead Celestial to help defeat the Final Host of Celestials (#6). But then he takes him down a peg with a blow from his shield, and thus commences a training duel between Steve Rogers and the Ghost Rider.A flashback to several days ago takes us to the end of #6. The dead Celestials are alive again and the Final Host are defeated. Thor confronts his brother Loki in chains. But Loki is laughing and claims that he caused the conflict with the Host to bring the new Avengers team together. (Like he triggered the founding of the original Avengers, and (disguised as Scarlet Witch) created Henry Pym's Mighty Avengers during Dark Reign (MAv#21).) And he showed the superheroes their true origin as a 'cosmic infection', and now warns them of a greater threat from outside the multiverse(?) that will lay them low ... and mankind will thank the enemy for it. Thor is just interested in taking his brother to justice in Asgard. But the Celestials take Loki out of his hands.Then the space-gods prepare to do something else. And Robbie Reyes, who was melded with a Celestial earlier, can tell what they intend. They raise the body of the Progenitor, the Celestial whose death gave birth to life on Earth, from beneath the polar ice cap. They set him on his feet, encrusted in ice, and leave the body to be the new home for the Avengers.Now Tony Stark and T'Challa survey what Wakandan architects and Alpha Flight technicians have done with the place. There is a central 'spinal lift'. At the top is a penthouse which Black Panther has claimed for his own. But he challenges Tony to take it from him by defeating the security system.She-Hulk reverted to Jennifer Walters after the Final Host affair, but she feels different than before. Doctor Strange has examined her and tells her the diagnosis. As a Hulk she has always been full of gamma radiation, but now her gamma content is *much* greater, and she can release it in blasts of energy. She also appeared less intelligent as She-Hulk, although Jennifer claims she was still in control. (This all seems to be since her contact with the dying Celestial Eson in #2)Stephen Strange recommends more tests before she goes on active duty. Jen gets angry and says she worked too hard recently to regain control (ie over her post Civil War grey version) to give in now. She views her enhanced power as a plus, but Strange notices that her grip as melted her fingermarks into a table.Just at that moment Thor passes by on a quest to find a lavatory in this maze of a 'building'. Jennifer invites him to use the bathroom in her quarters. They exit left. Stephen meets up with T'Challa and they comment on the relationship between She-Hulk and Thor. (They kissed in #4 and again in #6.) Strange prepares to leave on his own business but offers to be on call if the Avengers need him. Panther says they've used Celestial tech to set up a network of global teleport links, and they'll put 1 in his Sanctum Sanctorum if Stephen wishes.Carol Danvers and Tony Stark are down in a subsea level, with whales swimming outside the window. There's still tension between them over Civil War II and Captain Marvel wants to get back to Alpha Flight. But Tony asks her to stay in the Avengers. They can keep each other in line. She agrees but only if the team's a democracy - the Big 3 (Cap, Iron Man and Thor) don't run it. Stark agrees to that, but then spoils it by bringing up the sexual tension he claims exists between them. CM punches him through a wall.Meanwhile in the Antarctic a Roxxon Corporation whaling vessel is boarded by Atlanteans. The Roxxon troops respond with instant gunfire.Back in the Arctic the Big 3 tell T'Challa that he's been elected chairperson. Black Panther wonders whether it's politically wise to have the King of Wakanda leading a US/international team. But anyway they hold the 1st official team meeting with an empty 8th chair. BP announces Dr Strange's reserve status and says they'll use the opportunity to add a temporary 8th member for specific missions. They have a global trouble-tracking system which at that moment alerts them to the Antarctic situation. They head out in quinjet and Hell Charger.On the Roxxon ship they have the dead Atlanteans strung up, but they've lost contact with their whaling submarines. Suddenly a giant tentacle pulls 1 of the troopers off the deck. And King Namor the Sub-Mariner boards the vessel bent on revenge.


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Still Avenging after all these years
Loki provides a voiceover for this issue. He shows us Captain America, Iron Man and Thor (Odinson) reunited and charging into battle in an Avengers quinjet last issue. His comments suggest that he deliberately provoked the Final Host of the Celestials (by waking the Fallen Celestial in the Marvel Legacy 1-shot) in order to stimulate the creation of a new Avengers because he needed them to save what he describes as "this ailing reality".Again from last issue he shows Black Panther and Doctor Strange fighting large alien beetles underground (hatching near where the Fallen Celestial had been sleeping), and Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) fighting similar beetles above ground. And Captain Marvel stopping a (normal) Celestial, Eson the Searcher, from falling on Manhattan. (The arrival of the Final Host was preceded by a rain of dead or dying ordinary Celestials.)In East LA Ghost Rider tells Robbie's brother Gabriel Reyes to stay safe inside and then races off in his Hell Charger (Robbie's transformed car). Loki muses that it is fitting that the current GR be involved (since the 1st such was with Odin in 1 million BC when they 'killed' the mad Fallen Celestial (Marvel Legacy again)). It's a pity the current Starbrand is dead (killed by GR in ML - the 1st SB was also in Odin's gang in 1M BC).Meanwhile Eson has landed in the Hudson River with his head near jogging Jennifer Walters. More of the alien beetles emerge from or over the body and their attack causes her to transform into She-Hulk. This version is bulky and green, inarticulate and savage. And she stamps on the bugs with the appropriate cry "Hulk squish!".Cap is flying the quinjet shooting at 1 of the Final Host standing in the River while Shellhead and Thor are flying independently. Tony Stark's onboard AI can't find any chinks in its armour so Thor just attacks its head and gets swatted away for his trouble. Stark says the Celestial reads like a colony of thousands of different lifeforms. Loki hints that superheroes, or maybe all mankind, have inherited the madness of the mad Fallen Celestial, or maybe of the Celestials. (Maybe. We're running in cryptic mode here.) And the Final Host are the cure.She-Hulk is fighting the alien bugs when Eson shows he's not dead yet by squashing them. Then he speaks to her in her mind, also talking about a cure. And he teleports her away. Ghost Rider's car usually talks to him (the spirit which makes him GR actually inhabits the car) but now it's clammed up. Suddenly She-Hulk is ported in front of him and the car hits her.Cap and Iron Man are attacking another of the Final Host, with equivalent lack of success to the 1st 1. Steve Rogers thinks they need to find a way to get the Celestials into space and then the world can lob nuclear missiles at them. Tony Stark thinks they should get hold of Jean Grey or the Eternals and try to communicate with them. Maybe they aren't actually hostile.Captain Marvel flies in bringing a stunned Thor back from wherever the 1st Celestial's blow sent him. She also signals the Alpha Flight Space Station to teleport down some Omega-Level Warp Grenades set with the Sun as destination.Enraged She-Hulk starts to tear the Hell Charger apart but Robbie knows it will just regenerate. And it blasts her with hellfire. So she turns on the Ghost Rider instead.CM and IM gain some height to use the grenades. Carol Danvers explains that her team managed to siphon of some hyperspace energy from the warp holes the Celestials came through. These grenades will use that energy to send them into the Sun. But FH2 grabs Captain America's quinjet and does something which causes Cap great pain. Thor heads in to get Steve Rogers out of the way before they use the Warp Grenades. And Eson is up and punching FH1.In LA Ghost Rider and She-Hulk are duking it out when the Hell Charger grapples Shulk with some chains and hauls her away. Robbie tries to persuade her he's not an enemy but Shulk replies that *everyone* is her enemy. But Robbie suggests she rethink that as the ground bursts open and they're surrounded by more alien beetles. (These bugs all glow green. Does this mean gamma radiation?)Eson is flagging against the 1st of the Final Host, who is suddenly wielding a scythe. CA tells CM to ignore him and use the grenades. But Carol, Tony and Thor are all wracked by punishing energy.The voiceover wonders exactly what the Avengers have to avenge. Unlike him who has been ostracised by his family and hunted all his life. And if it wasn't for him the Avengers wouldn't even exist. And that's when we finally see that the voiceover guy is Loki. FH1 has Eson's decapitated head. And Loki's working with the Host to avenge a great wrong and correct the mistake the Celestials made 1 million years ago. And this involves global extinction.