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Pawns of Attuma
Continued from AVENGERS #154.

Attuma captured most of the Avengers in Av#154 and put slave collars on them. Now he's sending them to fight Sub-Mariner on Hydrobase.

Iron Man is towing Captain America through the air. He tries to resist the collar but it short-circuits his armour, and they crash on Hydrobase island. Also, even though his chest-plate has had a jury-rigged repair since Tyrak damaged it in Av#154, Tony Stark's heart is suffering. They're joined by Wasp and Yellowjacket on a flying ant. Wasp is recovering from an attempt to defy her collar. Vision carries Scarlet Witch (her arm in a sling after being shot in Av#153), unconscious for the same reason.

Confidant they won't be able to resist his orders to fight Namor, Attuma flies his battlecruiser off to another part of his plan. But he doesn't realise he's being followed by a surveillance craft.

But Sub-Mariner isn't on Hydrobase, he's with Shroud and the Circus of Crime in Latveria. In #7 Shroud apparently killed Dr Doom by pushing him off a cliff, freeing Namor from his oath of service to Doom (#5). But at the end of #8 Dr Doom reappeared in Latveria alive. (However readers of that issue know that the real Doom is alive and recovering on Hydrobase - confused yet?) Shroud KO'd Namor to stop him from obeying Doom again.

Shroud is disguised as a carny worker, but Ringmaster betrays him. 'Doom' tells Boris to escort the Circus out of the country. Boris obeys his master's robot duplicate. But when the Doombot is alone with Shroud and Namor it gives Shroud the temporary antidote to the ailment that's been plaguing Sub-Mariner since SM#67. (In #5 Dr Doom ruined the suit made by Mr Fantastic to protect Namor from the problem, and concocted this antidote to help control him.) And it then unmasks to reveal not a robot but Rudolfo, heir to the Latverian throne.

Rudolfo is leading a revolution, but he claims not to be seeking personal power this time. He learned humility after his earlier revolutionary defeat in Astonishing Tales #1-3. Now his new band just want to get rid of the tyrant Doom and his Doombots, and they're ready to seize their chance with Doom dead.

Shroud offers his services and dons his costume. But Namor is fed up with surface world games and flies back to Hydrobase, concerned about his comatose people. And all this has been watched by a spy who reports to the same master as the occupant of the craft following Attuma.

On Hydrobase island its amphibian occupants are being commanded by Namorita and Tamara Rahn. They are looking after Dr Doom who has promised to find a way to turn the amphibians back to humans and cure the Atlanteans in suspended animation. But Doom is more concerned with contacting 1 of his minions who is brokering a deal selling something to a mystery client. Until angry Namorita ruins his communicator.

Doom is about to attack the girl when the Avengers break into the room. Doom warns them that the US has signed a non-aggression pact with Latveria and its monarch, but it seems the Avengers have been too busy lately to hear about this. And anyway this is Hydrobase and they're after Sub-Mariner.

Then ensues a tragedy of errors. Cap, IM and Vision attack Dr Doom because they think he's hiding Namor. Doom defends himself with a forcefield. Tamara thinks Doom must have told the truth last issue when he claimed to be Namor's ally, so she attacks the wounded Wanda who blacks out from pain. Tamara is distracted by Vision's red skin, wondering if he is 1 of her lost race, allowing Wasp and Yellowjacket to get to her. Until the shrunken heroes are stunned by amphibian blaster-fire, which takes out Tamara as well.

Doom drops his forcefield to blast his attackers. Vision is unaffected and moves in to try phasing into Doom's armour and body. But the villain re-erects the forcefield through Vision's body, turning the tables. Cap recovers and attacks again, only to be felled by Namorita in defence of her brother Namor.

Now it's just Doom and Shellhead in armour vs armour combat. IM buries Doom in rubble, and is worried that he's killed him. Until Doom's armoured hand emerges and blasts him to sleep.

But there's another Avenger we haven't accounted for. In Av#154 we saw Beast leaving his teammates captured by Attuma's minion Tyrak and going to get reinforcements. Now he arrives at the hospital room where Wonder Man is sitting with Whizzer, who had a heart attack in Av Annual #6. Wondy joins him in a quinjet, and Bob Frank insists on coming too.

Meanwhile Sub-Mariner is challenged as he flies out of Latveria by some Soviet fighter planes on border patrol. He forces 1 of the pilots to tell him that they were on the lookout for Attuma's battleship, and that the villain is after a weapon developed by a Maryland research centre. So that's where Namor heads next.

This story is continued in AVENGERS #155.


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Daredevil vs Iron Man
Last issue Tony Stark gave away Extremis as a smartphone app to the whole of San Francisco, which turned people into perfect versions of themselves. Then when they had become addicted to it, he started charging them for it. Now Daredevil faces a city of people willing to commit any crime to afford it.He interrupts a teenage boy trying to rob a woman. When DD has subdued him, his intended victim uploads a film of the incident from her phone to the internet.DD now goes to Stark's new home/base, a towering structure built on Stark Island, which used to be Alcatraz. He confronts Tony, who uses his Extremis-enhanced strength to throw him off the building into the sea.Matt Murdock plunges deep into the water, but fights his natural fear of drowning to figure out which way is up and struggle to the surface.Meanwhile Tony goes back to his party and makes an announcement. He's aware that many can't afford his Extremis prices, so he will be giving out free 1-day doses to any smartphones near him on Castro St at midday the next day.Next day he arrives as Iron Man 150 minutes late - he had a hangover. But as his system automatically downloads the app into the nearby phones, he's interrupted by a man with a gun. This guy has had a lifelong fight with his addictive personality. And now Extremis has addicted his son. So he shoots Stark in the head.But to no avail. Although the way his helmet is configured makes it look as though his face is exposed, actually Tony has a transparent faceplate.IM's response is to take the man up into the sky away from the crowd. He doesn't care about the attempted murder. He's only bothered about the possible bad PR for his cash-cow app.His system identifies the man as David Bray, and his son Simon as the youth DD dealt with earlier whose image is now all over the net. So Tony offers David a deal - he'll expunge Simon from the internet and even from the woman's phone, and he won't drop David from midair or have him prosecuted. In return David is going to take his free Extremis dose, and tell people this was all just a publicity stunt. David caves in.Down on the ground Matt Murdock's superhearing picked up their conversation. And he decides to take extreme measures. That night Tony is passed out in the remains of another party, when Daredevil chloroforms him and kidnaps him.When Stark awakes DD blinds him with an intense light, and a small EMP disables his built-in electronics. Matt tells Tony they're in a deep shielded bunker, so his armour won't be able to track him here. Stark tries to attack Murdock, but blind DD is in his element in the dark.Matt says he's going to keep Tony down here until all the current Extremis doses have run out, and the population of SanFran has had time to go cold turkey. He doesn't believe egotistical Stark would have left the Extremis redelivery system on automatic.Stark responds by claiming that his armour detected Murdock in Castro St, and he figured that Daredevil would come after him again. More to the point, his Extremis-based armour is biological these days and is continuously in non-electronic contact with his Extremis-based body. So the EMP wasn't any use.The symbiotic liquid armour bursts in and encases its master. Iron Man repeats that he was expecting Daredevil. He zaps DD with Extremis. And when Matt awakes with IM waiting he finds that he's no longer blind.


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The choice
Tony Stark does a TV interview to explain the next stage of his Extremis makeover of San Francisco. It has divided the city into those who can afford to keep paying for it and those who can't. And those who can't are increasingly turning to crime. So he's going to flood the city with flying security drones collectively called Iron Sight. They can use data from the Internet to identify all the citizens, so there's nowhere to hide. They will also detect people entering the city from outside.Tony deflects criticism concerning those who can't afford Extremis doses by saying that he's given them more incentive to better their situation, so that they can afford it.Daredevil is making it his business to disable the IS drones whenever he detects 1. He's also thought back to #2 and the rally on Castro Street when Stark handed out free Extremis days. Matt remembers an almost inaudible sound as people downloaded Extremis to their mobile phones. He suddenly realises what Tony has really done.Stark has to cut short the interview to return to Stark Island as Iron Man where SHIELD, including Director Maria Hill, is trying to arrest Teen Abomination. Hill is really here because she doesn't like the whole way Tony is acting lately. But the excuse is that TA is a fugitive. He was arrested in #1 but escaped last issue, and Stark has given him sanctuary.But now it turns out that Stark's lawyers have got TA's outstanding warrant quashed. And Tony points out that he's not going to be a public nuisance while he's confined to Stark Island. SHIELD are forced to retreat.Tony's fed up of calling his guest Teen Abomination. But the youth's real name Jamie doesn't suit him either. So Tony will have to think up a better 1. He also reassures Jamie that he's trying to discover how he became the Abomination, so he can figure out how to reverse it. Then he brusquely sends the 'monster' away as he detects the entrance of Daredevil.Matt Murdock also repeats his refusal of a continuously free Extremis cure for his blindness, that he sampled last issue. And he tells Stark he's worked out how he's doing it. Extremis is a virus, and can't be transmitted by phone. Tony must have given everyone the virus some other way. When people think they're paying for a (repeat) dose, the phone is really just transmitting a trigger to (re)activate the virus.And the only way Stark could blanket the city was through the water supply (now that bottled water is banned in San Francisco). But putting a non-FDA-approved substance in the drinking water is a crime, and lawyer Murdock will see Stark goes down for it.Teen Abomination has been listening. He can't afford to see Stark arrested, so he bursts in to attack DD, who ends up falling through a window without his billy club to save him with its grappling hook line. Tony isn't wearing his armour, so he sends it out the window and remotely controls it to catch the falling hero and morph around him in a protective shell.The suit brings Daredevil back but doesn't let him go. Stark plans to make the action of the Extremis phone app truly inaudible from now on. And that just leaves dealing with the problem that Murdock already knows about it.Dismissing TA again, TS transports DD to a lab/operating theatre in the armour. There he gives him a controlled electroshock.A few days later Matt Murdock wakes in a hospital bed, to be greeted by his friend Kirsten and Tony Stark. His recent memories have been erased, and Tony tells him that he was hit in the head while fighting Teen Abomination. Matt will have to stay for a few weeks while doctors monitor his recovery. All at Tony's expense of course.


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The origin of Teen Abomination
On Stark Island Tony Stark is examining Teen Abomination, restrained in a chair so that he doesn't instinctively lash out when Tony tries to take a blood sample. What Stark hasn't told him is that to get through his ultra-tough skin Tony's going to use to a special needle and an armour-assisted jab. And TA does react by breaking the chair and attacking his tormentor.Armoured Stark holds Teen A off until he calms down, and then explains that an automatic analysis of his DNA will show what's happened to his body. But while they wait for the results he asks the boy to describe how he got this way.TA says his mother was a scientist in Stark Industries, but now she's unemployed and dead. One day Katrina Carlson had to bring her 5 year old son Jamie to work because she couldn't get a babysitter. Her team was working with gamma rays and today was a critical experiment, even though they hadn't been allowed to install the extra shielding they needed. Katrina thinks this penny-pinching is indicative of Stark's attitude to his company. A view that is fuelled when Happy Hogan arrives to tell them that Tony won't be attending their demonstration - he's busy elsewhere. Katrina just asks what woman is he busy with.The experiment blows up in their faces.Tony remembers the accident, December 13th 8 years ago. The project was intended to find a new cancer treatment, like the gamma knife. In those days he was neglecting SI due to a combination of drinking and being Iron Man. At the time he was fighting Whiplash in a contest the insane Black Lama (Teen A thinks he's referring to a llama animal) was organising to find someone to be his champion and take over his other-dimensional kingdom. After whupping Whiplash Tony had to resist the Lama's psychic attack and send him back to his own universe. Battered Iron Man only just made it back to SI and Happy. And Tony can't remember what happened for the next 24 hours.Jamie was caught in the blast but didn't turn into Teen Abomination until 2 weeks ago. Katrina was fired and they have been poor since then. Jamie also got bullied at school. 1 day he got angry with his mom, became Teen A and wrecked his home, killing Katrina. Which his when he came to Tony Stark for help/revenge.Tony figures that it is Jamie's continued anger that keeps him from transforming back to human. The kid says he doesn't know who his father was, so Tony checks the DNA analysis which tells him that Happy Hogan was the dad. But he has tell the boy that Happy died (IM(2005)#14).Stark now admits that he had actually been studying TA with an eye to finding something about his condition to make a profit out of. He hadn't really cared about curing him. But now that he knows Jamie is the son of 1 of his few close friends, seeking a cure is raised to equal status with making money. He's going to get right on it tomorrow. (He doesn't have to waste time patrolling the city as Iron Man these days because the spy drone system he unveiled last issue reduces crime by itself, and will alert him to anything he needs to worry about.)But when he's alone Tony worries about something else. All recordings in his armour and SI files have been deleted for the day after the Black Lama incident - the day he can't remember. And he wants to know why.


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Nightmare scenario
This issue starts soon after the bit in Avengers & X-Men: Axis #4 where Iron Man downloaded Extremis 3.0 to everyone in San Francisco, giving them the option of using it to perfect themselves. Now he basks in their adulation.Then it jumps to 1 week later when the Axis Event is over. The previously page, title page and a text page at the back explain what has happened. The inversion in Axis #3 reverted Tony Stark's personality to the self-centred egotist he was before the event that made him Iron Man. Spoiler alert - at the end of Axis most character inversions get reversed, but Stark deliberately avoids it.Now Iron Man helps She-Hulk deal with a wannabe supervillain calling himself Teen Abomination - a cut-down version of Hulk's old (and dead) foe who is still able to punch out Shulkie and literally knock Shellhead's head off. Of course this IM is just a remote-controlled drone, which uses its own head to beat Teen-A to a pulp. Tony Stark then leaves Jennifer Walters to handle clean-up, and brings his attention back to where he's floating in a pool full of perfect people. And he's back to drinking alcohol.His idyll is interrupted by Pepper Potts (presumably still CEO of his company) who's flown all the way from New York to nag him. He shows her a part of his new silvery Endo-Sym armour - a liquid smart-metal based on a (Venom?) symbiote. But she really wants to question his idea of giving everyone Extremis - or at least those who have access to it.To exemplify her misgivings we see a group of the new beautiful people harassing a non-beautiful homeless person for spoiling the view. But we also see San Francisco's other new super-resident Daredevil intervening. However before he can do much something else happens.Tony's liquid armour has by now completely engulfed him except for his face, as he explains to Pepper that Extremis is going to make him a lot of money. Outside at the pool the perfect specimens of humanity have now reverted to their ordinary selves. And their phones advise them that the Extremis treatment can now be theirs again for $100 a day.Later Pepper reviews the situation with a silhouetted figure who could be Daredevil or Black Panther. She figures Tony's mind has been 'taken', so they need to activate the contingency plan. And her companion turns out to be an old Iron Man armour.


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Stark contrast
With the help of Pepper Potts an AI in an old Iron Man armour has trapped Tony Stark without his Superior Iron Man armour in a sub-subbasement of Resilient HQ. The unconscious Teen Abomination, Stark's bodyguard, is down there with them.Tony has remembered creating the AI 8 years ago after he almost went mad during the Black Lama affair. It is a backup of his mind in case something similar happened again. He asked Pepper and Happy Hogan to keep the secret and then erased it from his own brain with a mind-wipe, followed by going on a bender to explain the gap in his memory.Now Pepper has activated the backup because of what Axis did to Tony's conscience.The AI confirms that it's going to try to reverse the effect of Axis. And if it can't then it'll do what it was designed for - overwrite Tony's brain with its 8 years out-of-date version.But the sound of distant blows indicates that the Superior armour is smashing its way in to rescue its master.But the AI has a plan. It separates into pieces and reforms to encase Stark. Then it flies up the liftshaft (smashing through the lift roof) and meets the other armour on the way down. Repulsor blasts enable it to get past its foe, but the Superior suit soon recovers and gives chase.The AI armour heads towards outer space. Stark complains that this Mark II suit wasn't built to fly in space, but the AI says it's made some improvements. The AI gambles that the other suit has limited intelligence and doesn't realise that its boot jets will fail when the atmosphere runs out of oxygen to support their burning. That happens just as the pursuer grabs the AI's boot. The AI turns and blasts the pursuer into bits.Back on Earth Pepper is using a Iron Man glove to hold the awakened Teen Abomination in a forcefield. She calms Jamie down and sets him free. She says Tony has told her his story (being the son of her husband Happy [now dead], his mother dying and his transformation to TA). She assures him that they both want the best for Tony, which for her is getting the uncorrupted Tony back.Pepper contacts a Stark satellite where the AI has taken Tony. Stark is out of the armour and in a chair with electrodes attached to his head. Before they begin Pepper wants to know where Tony got the money to try to take over the media empire last issue. Stark readily admits to selling a dangerous weapon, but points out that it was 1 of many designed by the 8 years ago version of him. He also tries to unsettle her by adding that the old version of his mind will still have the thoughts and feelings he had for her back then. But the AI cuts the link.Stark continues his mind games with the AI. He refuses to say who he sold the weapon to, figuring out loud that this piece of information is the only thing keeping him alive. He guesses that the AI fully intends to copy itself into his brain and not tell Pepper - and the AI's stony reaction confirms it. But before that happens Tony suggests the AI enter his mind as it said was the plan, but to see what Superior Tony had planned for the benefit of the world.The AI links minds, but doesn't realise a bit of the liquid silver armour it destroyed is snaking up out of its boot.The AI sees the hedonistic lifestyle of the Superior Tony in San Francisco. But over that Tony explains how he's going to save humanity. Extremis 3.0 (I think) will give people the means to survive climate change (I think). He needs the media empire to spread his message to the world. Some will resist and many will die, but what-the-hey the world's overpopulated anyway.The AI protests that Stark hasn't the right to play god. But then its mind starts to break up. The liquid silver fragment has disrupted its functioning.The AI armour collapses and Tony is free. The liquid silver forms an armoured glove and blasts his bonds.Now Tony will go after Pepper.


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In his own image
Tony Stark offers the plans for a weapon of mass annihilation to the US military for 200 billion dollars, with the threat of  offering it to the Chinese or Russians instead. Someone pays the money. Pepper Potts and her companion, clad in a suit of old Iron Man armour (from #1 and #3), notice the transaction and are concerned about what the amoral (since Axis) Tony will do with the money.Stark goes to the board of a media empire owned by Gerald, a thinly-disguised Rupert Murdoch, to stage a hostile takeover. He wants the media outlets for PR purposes when he carries forward his sweeping plans to 'improve' the world. He takes with him Teen Abomination, not of course for intimidation purposes but because he's his legal guardian and couldn't get a babysitter. During the meeting the board members get messages from their shareholders urging them to take the extremely generous offer.Gerald calls in security, which angers TA. The guards shoot at Jamie Carlson with no effect. Stark calls his morphing Iron Man armour to him (through a window) and tries to calm the situation down. But the guards just fire at him. Until IM does get them all to stop shooting.But then Gerald claims that there is a simple reason why he can't sell his company to Stark. Pepper walks in and explains that she's already bought 54% of the company for Resilient.Tony regains a bit of tactical advantage by 'letting slip' that Pepper is Jamie's stepmother, and then suggests they discuss things at Resilient. Pepper meets Tony and Jamie at Resilient HQ (temporarily emptied of staff). She persuades Tony to discard the armour, and takes them down in a lift to a new deep basement. On the way down Stark explains that Jamie's father is Pepper's dead ex-husband Happy Hogan (as we learned last issue).When they reach the bottom the roof ceiling opens and Pepper flies away on high-heeled-shoe-jets. The lift door opens and the old Iron Man armour attacks. It knocks out Teen Abomination, but not before TA removes its faceplate. Then the armour turns on Tony and we see that it is empty.


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Stark contrast
Last issue the AI/backup of Tony Stark's mind in the old Model 2 Iron Man armour abducted Tony, with the support of Pepper Potts, to the Resilient space station. The plan was to fix what Axis did to Stark's brain and turn the conscienceless Superior Iron Man back into moral Tony. But Stark destroyed the AI in the armour.At Resilient HQ Pepper has lost contact with the space station. Stark's 'bodyguard' the 13-year old orphan Teen Abomination is confused and doesn't know who to trust. The situation isn't helped because he's just been told that his father was Pepper's husband. Pepper assures Jamie she'll help him when this is all over.The comms screen comes alive and Pepper sees Tony Stark now in the M2 armour. But at the same time the Model 12 Silver Centurion armour walks in to join Pepper and Jamie. The AI wasn't destroyed, it's just transferred to the newer armour.Tony tries to sow discord by telling Pepper that the AI never intended to cure him. It was just going to overwrite his mind with itself and then pretend to be cured. The AI counters that Tony's incurable. And he saw inside Tony's mind last issue and knows what he has planned for the world. And Stark won't let anything stand in his way.Superior Tony actually agrees, and says he's on his way to remove them as obstacles. He flies the M2 armour out into space and finds his stranded (last issue) Superior armour and absorbs it.The AI is about to fly the M12 armour out to meet him when Teen Abomination gets a broadcast text from Tony inviting people to come to Stark Island for a party. The AI realises that they will form a human shield for him. So it decides to use the time in preparing for the upcoming fight.Tony's party lasts all day and into the night. But when everyone else is wasted he heads to a computer to carry out his strategy. Meanwhile the AI is messing with armour.Next morning the AI meets up with Pepper and Jamie again. Pepper answers Jamie's phone and Tony tells her to tell the AI he's activated Bio-Mark-One. This spurs the AI into action but it continues to keep in touch with Pepper, explaining Bio-Mark-One as it travels. This was an idea Stark had long ago but understandably never implemented - to electronically take over nearby minds and use people as drones. But the Superior Tony Stark has no moral qualms.The Iron Sight drones that Stark sowed all over San Francisco in #4 report the M12's approach. So Superior Tony takes over all his guests to form the human shield the AI was afraid of. But then Iron Sight reports all the other old Iron Man armours in the air as well. And these whisk all the civilians to safety. With some armours left over to help the M12 attack the Superior version.But then Stark accesses more of the liquid metal his suit is made from to create a bulked-up Hulkbuster-type armour, and fights back.


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Man of vision
At the end of last issue blind Daredevil woke up back in his own apartment able to see! And the 1st thing he sees is Iron Man, who tells him his cure is due to Extremis but is temporary. Tony Stark offers to keep supplying him with free doses, with the unspoken proviso that Matt Murdock stop hassling him about 'addicting' San Francisco's populace to the drug that makes them perfect.DD refuses the offer, and accuses the Axis-changed Stark of playing god. Tony says that compared with the rest of humanity he is god. He's just stopped playing human.Meanwhile in New York Pepper Potts is continuing her chat from #1 with 1 of IM's earliest suits of armour. The dialogue makes it sound as though this is an earlier Tony Stark who's been brought forward in time. And now he's busy absorbing all the changes in the world since his time. They mention the contingency plan again, but the armoured form says he'll have to update it to suit the altered circumstances.IM gets a call from She-Hulk to tell him that Teen Abomination (#1 again) has escaped and is heading to the Stark Island (ex-Alcatraz) base. Daredevil tries to stop him leaving, but the no-longer-Golden Avenger just punches him out.The base is being evacuated as a SHIELD helicopter shoots at the junior villain. But he just throws a motorbike at them. Iron Man rescues the crew from the falling chopper, and then takes the fight to TA.But Teen Abomination reveals that he's only 13. He came to TS for help in #1, but Iron Man just knocked him out. (Well he was smashing up SanFran to get attention.) He says he's tried Extremis but it didn't do any good.Tony tells him to start clearing up the damage. He'll see what he can do, and the Teen might be useful.Meanwhile (again) Matt Murcock goes to see his long-time friend and law partner Foggy Nelson. So that he can actually see his face for the 1st time, just before his blindness returns.


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Freedom
The conscience-free Superior Tony Stark is facing off against his mind-backup from 8 years ago. The backup has occupied all Tony's old armours. Tony has responded by getting his liquid smart-metal Endo-Sym armour to bulk up into a Hulkbuster-type suit.As Iron Man takes down his old armours 1-by-1 he says he's bound to win because the backup doesn't want to kill him. The backup considers current Stark a menace who must be stopped. But Tony knows it intends to accomplish this by taking over his mind and body. However Tony has no compunction wiping out the backup.His liquid metal invades the most vulnerable armour - the original bulky yellow suit. Inside that he discovers the backup's real location - Resilient HQ. His next move is to fly away from Stark Island, saying he doesn't want his property damaged in the fight. So the backup retaliates by deliberately attacking the structure. Plus it sends in the real Hulkbuster armour to deal with Stark.The pair of huge armours land on the Golden Gate Bridge. But Stark suggests they take it elsewhere - the location is just too cliche. He tries to fly off again but is faced with Pepper Potts in a rebuilt version of her Rescue armour. He takes out his anger at this fresh betrayal on the Hulkbuster armour that has caught up with him.With the Hulkbuster armour smashed (and landing back on the Bridge), Pepper reveals her armour's new power. Sonic waves cause the symbiote-based liquid armour to dissolve, and Tony collapses.Later at Resilient HQ captive Tony is surrounded by Pepper, Teen Abomination and the backup in its few remaining armours. They talk about finding a way to reverse the change wrought on Tony in the Axis event. The backup still wants to find a better life than occupying old IM armours. But it claims to not want Tony's body because  of the disgusting things 'Superior' Tony has done with it. Meanwhile they believe their sonic weapons will keep the symbiote armour away.But Tony's smile tells them their victory isn't as assured as they think. He plugs a USB stick containing a virus into their computer system. Pepper destroys the device but it's too late. The virus spreads through Resilient's system gradually wiping out all traces of the backup Tony. And the remaining armours start to fall.1 working armour tries to strangle Tony, but Pepper stops it. She says she wants them both to survive. Tony produces another USB stick. He says it contains enough memory to hold the backup, and it's immune to the virus. He plugs it in and says it's the backup's only chance. As the last armours explode the USB drive signals that it's been occupied.Tony takes the USB as hostage against further attacks by Pepper. He tells his ward Teen Abomination to come with him. But Jamie rebels, breaks Tony's arm and takes the drive.But Tony hasn't run out of options. The Endo-Sym armour blasts its way in - and the USB drive gets fried in the process. The armour reunites with its master.Angry TA makes to attack again, but Stark stops him by saying that his mother isn't dead. Jamie didn't accidentally kill her as he thought. Instead she's been in a coma from which she's just awakened. Tony says he didn't want to tell Jamie before in case she died without waking. Pepper thinks this is another example of Tony's ego - thinking he knows what's best for everyone.Stark intends to leave but Pepper uses her sonic blasts to disable his armour again. But it doesn't work. Tony says it never did. He may have developed it from a symbiote that was susceptible to sonic attack, but of course he solved that problem at the start. He only pretended that his armour failed in order to get inside Resilient HQ to get at the backup.Pepper accepts that her plan has failed - the plan that she and Tony set up 8 years ago in case his mind was ever subverted like this. But in #6 she bought 1 of the world's largest media corporations to stop him getting it. Now she'll use that corp to turn the world against him by exposing what he's been doing with Extremis (in this series).From now on he's on his own. The final image is of Tony finding consolation in a bottle.


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Otto Octavius, the Superior Spider-Man, has elected himself defender of San Francisco. And now Frost Giants have invaded as part of War Of The Realms. Otto has a solution for the citizens of his city, and we see him zap a homeless man with 1 of his mechanical spider-arms. But then we see the Giants complaining that this city has no people for them to eat, and we learn that SSM has used his tech to make the populace temporarily out of phase with reality.But the effect is untested so he needs to defeat the menace quickly and get them back. He knows he could systematically disable or kill all the Giants in the city. But he also knows that wouldn't solve the problem. He needs to end the whole War, so he retires to his Horizon University lab (where he teaches as Elliot Tolliver since Amazing SM #800) to plan.Otto learns more about the War which is of course magic-based so he tries to contact Dr Strange who helped him against Master Pandemonium last issue. But he discovers that global communications are down (because of Roxxon's hacking in WOTR#2) so he can't get him or the Avengers. But he *can* pick up the West Coast Avengers reality TV transmission in Los Angeles.That team (without Hawkeye (Kate Bishop)) are also facing Frost Giants. Kid Omega (Quentin Quire) protects himself, Hawkeye (Clint Barton), Fuse (Johnny Watts) and new member Alloy (his sister Ramone Watts) while America Chavez and Gwenpool take the fight to the enemy. Gwen Poole (who comes from a reality where the Marvel Universe exists in comic books) comments that this is an Event tie-in and they just have to survive it and then go back to their own plotlines.Fuse, whose body can transform to any substance, borrows some fire from Hawkeye's flame-arrow and sets out to melt some Frosties. But their cold is too much for him. Alloy rushes to his side, but they are both rescued from a giant axe by the webline of our 'hero'.Quentin scans him mentally and informs the others that this is the Doc Ock Spidey from San Fran. Clint suggest they accept his aid, but arrogant SSM starts to take over as more Giants arrive. He tells Quire to hold them off for a bit with a TK force field while he does something more permanent. And it suddenly gets hot, and the Frost Giants run off because their Fimbulwinter is failing. (The extreme Fimbulwinter is caused by the Casket Of Ancient Winters which WOTR#6 will show that boss Frost Giant Ymir has.)Octavius explains that he used a satellite to focus the rays of the Sun. Hawkeye remembers that the old villainous Dr Octopus used a network of such satellites to threaten to burn the Earth (Spider-Man: Ends Of The Earth story-arc). Ock says he kept 1 of them, and now they should be glad he did. But he reckons it will burn out in a day. So they have until then to stop the whole invasion. Quire grudgingly admires a fellow egotist's chutzpah.Gwen objects that this isn't how Crossover Events work. The War can only be stopped in the main series. They can only do their small part and wait for it to be over. The only alternative ending for them is to die to show how high the stakes are, but that only happens to very new characters or failed legacy chars. She has to explain that last bit - legacy characters are new versions of old chars that make the fans long for the originals to come back. Then she looks around at the legacy SSM and the new Fuse and Alloy and thinks they may be doomed. (She should also figure in that the team's book has been cancelled and the WCA are guest-stars in someone else's title. Maybe she thinks Spidey is guesting with *them*.)The rest of the team are used to Gwen's 'madness', but Otto just refuses to play 2nd fiddle in any circumstance and claims that the War *needs* his genius to end it. He tells America to create a portal to the Asgardian Realms while LA (and SF) are safe. Gwen adds that their supporting chars (her pet land shark and the lady dragon) can watch out for any trouble. She figures Kate Bishop is busy in another tie-in (WOTR: Journey Into Mystery mini-series). Plus sometime flaunting comics conventions works too. But America finds that magic prevents her from teleporting to Asgard.Ramone suggests America take them to New York where Asgardian refugees have been living (after Asgardia was destroyed in Thor #705). They may be able to help. SSM tells America to make it so ...... but they wind up in Yancy Street where the Fantastic Four are fighting Frost Giants and Dark Elves, with a promise of a side order of Trolls. Octavius wants to combine brainpower with Reed Richards, but Mr. Fantastic says they must end the local problem 1st. So Otto leads his troops into the fray with the cry "The die is cast".


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Last issue Superior Spider-Man (Otto Octavius) gained reluctant recruits in the form of the West Coast Avengers (Alloy, America Chavez, Fuse, Gwenpool, Hawkeye (Clint Barton) and Kid Omega - but not Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) who's in the War Of The Realms: Journey Into Mystery mini-series) and they successfully (but temporarily) protected San Francisco and Los Angeles from Frost Giants. But Otto isn't satisfied, he wants to stop the whole WOTR. America Chavez couldn't create a portal to any Asgardian Realm so instead she took them to New York where they hooked up with the Fantastic Four.Superior (he won't mind me calling him that) thinks Reed Richards should join him in striking at the source of the invasion. Mr. Fantastic says that the Avengers have groups doing that, their own job is just to defend NY (or in fact just Yancy Street). Octavius can't accept that. He quickly zaps most of the Frost Giants and Dark Elves and they disappear. He explains that he has put them out of phase with reality but it won't last long. But now he and Richards can plan.Reed reminds his team how Dr Octopus helped them when Sue's 2nd pregnancy threatened to kill her and the baby. (In FF#267 - they saved Sue but the baby died.) So they owe him a chance. MrF explains about the damaged Bifrost bridge which the Avengers used to send their teams to the Asgardian Realms (see the 3 WOTR Strikeforce 1-shots), but it's out of commission now. However he shows Otto a recording of Bifrost's energy signature.With this SSM knows he can take the WCA to the heart of the conflict where he can win the battle. (Gwenpool makes 1 of her usual comics-literate comments about accepting one's place as a bit-player in a crossover event. As usual the others ignore it.) He creates a copy of the Bifrost energy and America uses it to create a portal. And they leave the FF to the defence of New York.Our lot end up in the swamps of Svartalfheim, home of the Dark Elves, fighting giant snakes and lizards. America says magic is affecting her aim, but she tries again and this time links them up with Captain America's team in Jotunheim, home of the Frost Giants. He, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and Wolverine are battling through FG's (strewn about them unconscious) looking for Thor (see WOTR SF: Land Of The Giants).Otto demands a conference with Steve Rogers, but everyone's too busy catching up with old comrades. Steve asks Clint who his team is, and Hawkeye is astonished Cap hasn't heard about the new WCA (especially as Steve phoned Kate about it in their #5). Quentin Quire thought Wolverine was dead. Spidey tells Superior Spidey about their quest to rescue Thor, but Octavius thinks that's a waste of time and they should be destroying Malekith's Black Bifrost (which Mr Fantastic mentioned). (No-one tells him that Freyja's team is on that.) (Gwen Poole comments that you have to have multiple quests to give everybody something to do, but this is obviously an Asgard-based event so Thor will probably be the key.)SM puts it a different way. He tells SSM that he's been in a lot of these big events and they win through as a grand team by everyone playing their part. Sometimes that part is fighting the big bad, but sometimes it's handling a detail. (During the conversation Otto paraphrases Spidey's personal dictum as "With superiority comes responsibility".) Predictably Octavius dismisses this and says he and his allies will *make* the Avengers see reason. But his 'allies' vote to return to defending LA.Gwenpool wades in again. She takes SupSM aside and says that everyone's the hero in their own story, but this applies to the background characters too. If you save just 1 person then you become the hero in that person's story too. America Chavez opens a portal back to Earth, and Otto reluctantly follows them.In Ventura, California a family drive through the blizzard caused by the Frost Giants. A Giant stops their car with his club and threatens to eat them. But our guys arrive. America KO's him and Superior Spidey webs him up. Otto helps the family out of their wrecked car. Then he leads the WCA against other approaching FG's.


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Men and Machines
An assassin called Beck is contacted by Emil Stein, leader of the terrorist cadre D.A.N.T.E. He offers Beck a job with his organization, with greater power as a reward. Elsewhere Captain America is engaged in battle with his acrobatic enemy Batroc; miles away at the same time, Iron Man is taking down the Fixer’s remote controlled gadgets. Their respective foes defeated, the heroes are approached separately by SHIELD leaders: Cap by Nick Fury and Iron Man by Dum-Dum Dugan. The SHIELD agents explain the threat posed by D.A.N.T.E. and the need to locate the group’s hideout and stop their assassination plot, adding an incentive: for Iron Man, the evidence that D.A.N.T.E. is using Stark armor technology, for Cap the revelation that the enemy leader is his old foe Stein, though SHIELD carefully conceals from each the fact that the other is working on the same case. Pursuing the trail separately leads the two heroes to a computer research facility in Texas under attack by D.A.N.T.E., where they discover each other and team up to fight D.A.N.T.E.’s armored agents. The villains escape with the tech data they came for with the one captured being blown up by a self-destruct program. Meanwhile in Paris, Beck steals Nazi Sleeper technology from a government computer and eludes the guards. As the heroes compare notes, we discover that each envies the other: Cap wishing he could escape the bonds of the past and harness futuristic technology like Tony, and Tony desiring Steve’s grace, daring, and idealism. Nick Fury contacts them to warn them that D.A.N.T.E. is planning a hit at the upcoming U.S.-Japan trade talks. In Washington, Iron Man advises canceling the trade talks but is told that the President will not allow them to give in to terrorists and he is introduced to Mr. Nishimura, the Japanese delegate. Nishimura speaks of honor and brings in his daughter to ask Iron Man for his protection, which he can not refuse. On the evening of the talks, Captain America disappears mysteriously and Nishimura is confined to his bed by a bout of food poisoning. The building where the talks are held is assaulted by an army of armored terrorists, outnumbering Iron Man. Cap wakes up as prisoner aboard Stein’s ship, as the terrorist leader explains that their plot is to disrupt the talks by murdering Nishimura. The assassin will be Beck, his body turned into the ultimate killing machine by the stolen Stark and Sleeper technology. Left alone, Cap manages to escape his bonds and don D.A.N.T.E. armor. Outside Iron Man conceives of a way to defeat the overwhelming numbers facing him: he rises into the air and magnetizes his armor, drawing his opponents to him, then downloads a virus which renders their armor useless, including his own. As he plummets, Captain America swoops down on a stolen jet cycle and plucks him from the sky. At Nishimura’s hotel the villains are plotting to murder the Japanese delegate and his daughter horribly. The heroes arrive and the armored Cap must battle the cyborg Beck, machine against machine, while Iron Man, his own armor useless, must strip most of it off to stop Stein, man-to-man. As Cap impales Beck on a spiked metal decoration, Iron Man turns the terrorist’s electrified stick against him, burning a hole in the ex-Nazi’s chest. Iron Man tells Steve, “You did it, you won.” Cap’s reply: “No, Tony, we won.”


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Disaster Tourism
Winter Soldier makes it out of the
building ahead of the explosion, pulling Hawkeye along with him. The
two men, Hawkeye believing Black Widow is still alive, Winter Soldier
believing she's dead but someone is trying to make it look as though
she were alive, decide to team up, despite the incompatibility of
their personalities....
In Manhattan they meet with ex-SHIELD
Agent Sally Blevins, the former Skids of the New Mutants, to learn if
she has any leads on who is killing former Hydra operatives. She
slips them a paper with a name on it and drives away. Minutes later
her car explodes, crashing into the river. Later, they watch the
attempts to recover Sally's body. Clint believes Sally was killed by
Natasha; Bucky doesn't agree. Clint spots a familiar figure in the
crowd and they give chase, the mystery woman leaping a fence and
scaling the bridge. She races across traffic, shooting out a car's
tires to delay her pursuers and gets away....
That night Clint and Bucky visit the
house of the man whose name Sally gave them. As they watch from a
distance, the figure who seems to be Natasha takes down the rooftop
guards and enters the house. They also enter, trying to protect the
occupant, and they catch the Black Widow who, without  her red wig,
is revealed to be Yelena Belova, the second Black Widow, terrified
that the Winter Soldier is there to kill her....


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Every Thought a Thought of You
Having captured Yelena Belova, the
second Black Widow, Hawkeye and Winter Soldier take her back to her
apartment for questioning. To Clint's surprise, Bucky only asks a
routine question about whether she has been to Russia and they leave.
They wait across the street until she exits and follow her down into
the subway. There's the sound of a gunshot, Bucky is knocked down and
his gun stolen, and after the crowd clears they see Belova dead on
the tracks, their only lead gone. Clint has someone else in mind
though....
At the Vault, high-security prison for
dangerous criminals, Clint interviews former Red Room operative
Rodion Steshenko and shows him Bucky waiting outside the building.
Fearing that the Winter Soldier is after him, Steshenko gives up a
name: Alexander Cady, New York contact. The two head to Cady's home
to find him dead, shot with Bucky's gun and the calling card of
Winter Soldier at the scene. They get away from the police and hole
up in a cheap motel. Studying a ledger found at Cady's house, Winter
Soldier gets another clue and they head to a  Red Room safe house.
Watching from across the street they are caught by dagger-wielding
assassin Orphan Maker (a new female one named Anya). After a brief
scuffle, Anya tells them that a new Red Room faction is killing
former agents, led by... And then she is shot in the head...by the
real Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff....


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[Red Ledger]
Clint “Hawkeye” Barton goes
undercover at the funeral of an ex-Hydra official. His snarky
attitude and boorish manners lead the top man, Peter Antone,
Ambassador to Chernaya, to question his presence. A fight breaks out,
leading to the funeral home burning to the ground. And so Hawkeye
heads to Chernaya. His objective: to learn if Natasha Romanoff, the
Black Widow, is still alive and killing former Hydra operatives....
Arriving in the troubled nation, Clint
is caught up in a crowd heading to stage a protest at the US Embassy.
Once there, he attacks the guards and is arrested; as they go to put
him in a van, he escapes, thinking he sees Natasha on the building's
roof. Entering the Embassy he makes his way to Peter Antone's office,
offering protection. They come under fire and Hawkeye fires (arrows)
back and discovers his opponent is the Winter Soldier. They puzzle
out that they are both there to prevent the murders of Hydra
officials and both see the killings as pointing to their former
lover, Black Widow. Bucky finds Natasha's calling card (an hourglass)
indicating she had killed someone on that site. And then Antone
discovers the bomb—which detonates....


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The Cure for Pain
The Black Widow returns to the Red Room
bearing Winter Soldier's cyborg arm and Hawkeye's broken bow to prove
she has killed them. She is promoted to Commander and put to training
young ballerinas in the ways of assassins. Meanwhile, Clint and Bucky
are trapped in the panic room of the building Natasha destroyed to
fake their deaths. After a lot of hard work they finally make their
way out to be met by firefighters. Clint reveals he has a tracking
device in his bow and they follow the signal to a secret house set up
by Natasha where they find Sally "Skids" Blevins (hidden since her apparent
death) and Ursa Major. When Bucky, Clint and the bear arrive at the
Red Room HQ, Natasha springs her trap and starts killing the Red Room
operatives. Clint and Bucky go through the building, the latter
shooting all of the guards while Clint tries his best not to be
beaten by a room full of ballerinas. They finally reach a room where
Black Widow is fighting a small army of clones of herself and she
tells the guys to help her kill them all, putting an end to the Red
Room program for replacing its agents. The last of the Red Room
forces arrive and fire upon the heroes; Natasha opens the door that
admits Ursa Major and the ballerinas and the enemy is wiped out.
Natasha takes clones of Yelena Belova and Anya/Orphan Maker and has
Epsilon Red give them all of their memories back and then she sets the
psychic free by killing him. The two guys carry the clones out; Black
Widow goes back inside to blow the place up, keeping the secrets out
of everyone's hands and vanishes....
As the firefighters try to bring the
mess under control, Sally tells the two guys they are idiots. A
fireman brings the guys letters he has found addressed to them.
Clint's is an apology from Natasha and a tearful farewell, asking him
not to follow her. Bucky's is a note asking him to meet with her if
he wants to join her for her next mission. The guys do not reveal the
contents to one another....


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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
The Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff,
recalls being killed by Captain America and then she awakens on a
beach, a bear (actually Soviet hero Ursa Major) explaining that it is
to calm her after her trauma. She drops into the real world where
Alexander Cady brings her to the Red Room leaders who have a mission
for her: killing off their enemies, SHIELD, Hydra, and former Red
Room personnel....
Returning secretly to the Red Room HQ,
Natasha enters a secret lab where she discovers bodies are being
grown in vats, Yelena's, Anya's, and her own. Nearby, psychic agent
Epsilon Red is waiting to give back an edited version of their
memories and Cady explains this is the Red Room of the future. Later,
Ursa Major tells Natasha that he bribed Epsilon Red into giving her
back her full memory because he wants her to destroy all of this
madness....
When the Black Widow is given orders to
kill the Winter Soldier and Hawkeye plus former SHIELD Agent Sally
“Skids” Blevins, she takes a mindless duplicate of Yelena Belova
and substitutes it for Sally in her car just before it is blown up.
When she discovers that Clint and Bucky had spotted her on the
bridge, she outfits another Belova clone to take her place and be
caught by the two men, later killing the Belova duplicate and
Alexander Cady. When her handlers panic, she assures them she can
take care of the Winter Soldier. And now here she is on a rooftop
with Bucky and Clint: there is a fast battle, she breaks Hawkeye's
bow and flees, They follow her through a darkened building until they
reach a panic room; the door closes, breaking Bucky's metal arm off
and then the building explodes....


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Blockbuster
A
battle in Queens between the Silver Surfer and Tyros the Destroyer destroys an
apartment building on Ocean Avenue, killing many. Among the survivors are Joan
Weis who saw the Surfer through her telescope, a burglar named Clyde Comeaux,
and Dr. Ronald Burns whose mistress is killed. Private investigator Roman
Stewart, hired to discover Dr. Burns’ infidelity, witnessed the disaster and lost
his elderly parents who also lived in the building. Clyde decides he is lucky
and commits himself to being the best thief there is. Dr. Burns was heavily
disfigured in the fire and his angry wife sues for divorce, intending to take
everything he has. A lawyer approaches Joan about joining a class action suit against
the Fantastic Four as the instigators of the battle; Joan doesn’t believe they
are responsible and turns the lawyer away. Jay Nathan forms the Ocean Ave.
Survivor’s Group and applies for government aid through FEMA and other
government agencies but is turned down. The class action suit is delayed. Roman
and Joan meet and he is interested in her theory that alien beings can be
tracked by their energy signatures….
Two
years later: Clyde is hijacking trucks belonging to the Kingpin, reasoning that
he is too small a target for the gang boss to notice—and then he learns he has
cancer. Dr. Burns is homeless, approaching former colleagues for money or drugs
to help a group of homeless and destitute people he is associated with. Joan
earns a doctorate in astrophysics and Roman comes back into her life and they
start a relationship; he still wants to confront the Silver Surfer over his
part in the disaster. She shows him her experiments in tracing the energy
signatures of cosmic beings, identifying Quasar and Super-Skrull. Joan also
mentions that Stark has invented a hand-held particle beam projector which
could theoretically kill the Surfer but she believes he is a friend to the
human race….
Months
later, Kingpin gives orders to kill Clyde, Burns is in despair over the homeless
needing more than he can give, the survivors group has been turned away by the
Supreme Court and decide to take their case to the media, Joan detects a
signature that may be the Silver Surfer on his way to Earth, Roman breaks into
Stark international and steals the particle beam projector.
The
next day, five years after the disaster, survivors arrive at the site, a new building having been erected in its place. Kingpin’s henchman
Maltese is there to murder Clyde and destroy the new building but Clyde doesn’t
care, he has only months to live. And then the Silver Surfer arrives. He knows
each of the people who survived the disaster, having saved as many as he could
during the incident, and presents the group with a huge blue diamond that will
fund homes and a new life for all the survivors. Clyde and Maltese fall out of
a window together and the Surfer catches them, sending the hitman back to his
boss with a warning and healing Clyde by withdrawing the bit of the power
cosmic which has poisoned him. The Surfer gives Burns encouragement to build a
clinic to help his destitute friends. Roman steps forward, intending to kill
the Surfer but Joan interposes her body to protect him. Roman realizes his live
for Joan outweighs the hatred he has carried for years and everything is oaky.
The Silver Surfer departs.


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Inner Demons
John
Mahoney is an alcoholic on New York’s Skid Row, freaking out when he sees the
Fantastic Four battling the Monster from Mars. He is aided by his friend, a
bearded fellow everyone calls “the Old Man” despite his looking quite young.
Old Man tells him the crazy scene was real, but advising him to give up
alcohol, which has been responsible for losing his job and his family. At
Malone’s flophouse, Montana and Fancy Dan of the Enforcers, hired by
Norman Osborn to drive out the residents so he can buy the property cheaply, arrive to
cause trouble. The Old Man tries to put up a fight but John drags him outside,
he assumes to safety but they run into the third Enforcer, Ox. The Old Man rips
a massive water heater out of the ground and hurls it at Ox while the terrified
John persuades him to run away. They meet up with others from the flophouse
gathered under a bridge; John is now scared of the Old Man, who can’t remember
his past and so cannot answer any questions but again he takes away John’s
liquor bottle….
Later,
John goes to a pawn shop to hock the huge ring the Old Man gave him but the
place is closed; he discovers an old comic book in the trash and recognizes the
Sub-Mariner as the Old Man. When he meets the Old Man again, the Old Man gives
John a bottle, apologizing for having taken his earlier. John recognizes that
the Old Man was right and destroys the bottle himself. They return to the
flophouse to find Osborn there with a construction crew; they also learn that
one of the other residents has been murdered on Osborn’s orders though no one
will ever prove it. Late at night, John encourages the Old Man to destroy all
the construction equipment, bringing the project to a halt. Later, John
realizes that the Old Man’s fingerprints are on the ruined machinery and goes
back to try to wipe off the hardware but he is caught by Osborn who has the
Enforcers beat John to make him tell what he knows….
Meanwhile,
at the flophouse, Johnny Storm, hiding from his family, has shown up and,
recognizing the Old Man as the Sub-Mariner, burns his beard off and dumps him
in the river, restoring his memory. When the badly injured John shows up and
learns what has happened, he is determined to help his friend. Namor comes
looking for him to demands his ruing back; John thanks his friend, ignoring
Namor’s arrogant and hostile tone. Namor returns the pin John had given him,
which John interprets has Namor having some humanity….
When
we last see John, he is addressing the men at the flophouse about how he no
longer needs alcohol to deal with his inner demons….


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Wonder Years [Part 2]
In
the days following the apparent death of Wonder Man, Cindy Knutz slowly
convinces herself he’s coming back…for her. Looking out of the window, the
curtain holing her rips and she falls—but Simon Williams is there to catch
her…and confess his love for her. They kiss…and Cindy wakes up….
Cindy
attends a meeting of the Wonder Man Fan Club and, as Bernie isn’t there, she is
sked to describe the battle with the Kree where Wonder Man lost his life. She
does so but reveals she is certain he is coming back, an attitude that confuses
the other fans….
The
media covers the hero’s death: sometime girlfriend Ginger Beach refuses to
comment, Beast honors his good friend, fans gather at Simon’s home,
Scarlet Witch addresses his fans. Cindy visits Bernie, who is wearing her red contacts
permanently and wallowing in food and reruns of Simon’s movies. Cindy brings
the news that two members of the Fan Club have been invited to Simon’s memorial
and the Club decided it should be Cindy and Bernie. Cindy predicts that Simon
will make a dramatic return at the service; Bernie gives Cindy her prized
possession, an autographed lobby card and says, “All I wanna be is where he
is….”
Cindy
arrives at the memorial service and, walking in, she is stunned at all of the
superheroes in attendance. Iron Man welcomes her and shows her to a seat beside
Nick Fury. She sees Wanda arrive in mourning as though she doesn’t know Simon
is about to make his comeback…and then she puts together Bernie’s absence and
her last words…. Cindy dashes out of the service and takes a cab to Bernie’s apartment,
arriving just in time to rush her to the hospital after her suicide attempt….
Cindy
visits Bernie in the hospital, assuring her she didn’t miss anything at the
memorial service. Later at night, Cindy goes to the cemetery and sits by the
monument placed in Simon’s memory; she tells Simon they should see so much of
one another, she has to get on with her life so she leaves Simon’s red shades
on the stone and departs….


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Wonder Years
Cindy
Knutz, the newest member of the Wonder Man Fan Club—L.A. Chapter, holds the
group spellbound as she tells how Wonder Man once saved her life: When the
giant robot Red Ronin was terrorizing New York, she was about to be stepped on
when Wondy swooped down and snatched her away. He told her to “Be brave” and
took off again. She followed the trail of destruction and found Simon lying in
a vacant lot; she helped him up, thanked her, and left and then she realized
she was holding onto his red shades, which she shows the club.
Later,
talking to Bernie Sedaka, the Club President, she tells how she believes she is
meant to meet Wonder Man again, because of the bond between them. Cindy recalls
how, when the West Coast Avengers were formed and Wonder Man joined the team,
she told her parents in New Jersey she wanted to move to LA to be near him and
they refused so she ran away to California. Once there, she took a job at
Starsigns, a company that specializes in celebrity autographs; one day, Simon
Williams’ girlfriend, Ginger Beach, came in and Cindy saw Simon sitting in his
car outside; she tried to muster the courage to go out and talk to him but he
and Ginger left before that could happen.
Then
Simon Williams arranges to address the Club and Bernie buys red contact lenses
to mimic his eyes—and then news comes that the West Coast Avengers are
disbanding. Cindy and Bernie go out to their ruined compound to look for
souvenirs when first, Vision and Black Widow arrive and then Wonder Man with
the Scarlet Witch, his current romantic partner, come. Cindy again tries to approach
Simon—but a Kree landing craft alights and there is a battle and Wonder Man is
killed….


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At
Avengers Mansion, Diablo has used the Ichor of Ish’izog to seize control of the
minds of Avengers Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and Scarlet Witch and had
them subdue the Defenders. But Thor is fighting the mind control and deliberately
left Valkyrie free. The villain has Hulk fight Thor and Val while he brings the
other Defenders (Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer, Sub-Mariner) under his control
along with Val and Thor. With all the heroes his slaves, he desires coffee and
sends Surfer to fetch his favorite from a café in Punta Secca, Sicily….
Spider-Man
and Daredevil see the Surfer zoom by and suspect something is wrong at Avengers
Mansion….
Meanwhile,
Hulk has reverted to Bruce Banner who is not under Diablo’s control and he
seeks out Vision whose android brain is immune to the villain’s magic. The
damaged Vision asks Bruce to take him to Pym’s lab….
Silver
Surfer returns with the coffee, passing the Baxter Building where the Fantastic Four
notice. Invisible Woman is curious but Reed Richards claims they are busy,
with Thing and Human Torch trying to contain the Negative Zone, and besides,
the Avengers can handle whatever’s going on….
It
turns out the coffee is cold so Diablo orders Hulk to punch SS in the face—but he
can’t detect Hulk under his control. He sends out a mental signal which starts
to force the change on Bruce but the villain is interrupted by the arrival of
Kang the Conqueror, warning them that Diablo’s action will result in the end of
reality. Diablo has the captive heroes fight Kang, who shrugs and departs. And
then Diablo notices the Watcher watching him before he leaves too. Then
Yellowjacket arrives to fight the heroes while a six-foot Ant-Man smashes the
villain’s mirror, breaking his control. The heroes realize that Yellowjacket is
Vision and Ant-Man is Bruce Banner and when Diablo forces Banner to become
Hulk, Hulk is very angry with him, scaring Diablo into opening a portal and
fleeing. Doctor Strange sees that the portal has ruptured the Beyond and destroys
it, trapping himself on the other side. The Avengers and Defenders then notice
that things are different: there is no sign of damage to any of the heroes or
to the Mansion. Cap now remembers the strange Hulk incident from the War (see
issue #1) and it is in their database. And they don’t know what to make of it….
Meanwhile,
Strange is hurtling into another dimension, hitting his head on an object and
clinging to it for safety: a Silver Surfboard in the farthest reaches of the
galaxy….


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In
WW2 France, the Invaders (Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Human Torch) come upon the
scene of an allied defeat near a cemetery. Suddenly, Oberfuhrer Okkulte, Hitler’s
chief wizard, appears and he makes the statues in the cemetery come to life and
attack the heroes. The Invaders are nearly overcome by the stony enemies when
Cap suddenly transforms into the Hulk, smashing all the statues to bits and
causing Okkulte to flee in terror. When the ruckus is over, the Hulk returns to
his Cap form (who is unaware of what just happened), leaving Torch and Namor in
shock…
…and
the incident is now remembered by Namor in modern day Arizona where the
Defenders are preparing for action; Namor is confused by the sudden appearance
of a new memory but he must keep his mind on the mission. The evil wizard
Cyrus Black has enslaved a multitude of innocent citizens and is marching them into a
narrow canyon so they can witness his triumph over the captive Doctor Strange.
Strange springs his trap, showing he was never truly a captive and at his cue, Namor,
Hulk, Valkyrie, and Silver Surfer leap into action, holding the possessed crowd
at bay while Strange blasts the baddie in a magic duel. The people collapse and
the evil pours out of them and Strange is able to catch all of the Infernal
Ichor of Ish’izog in a cask of Cytorrak. Strange notes that not all the Ichor
has been collected and mentally traces the remainder to Avengers Mansion. The
Defenders step through a portal…
…and
arrive at the Mansion to see Vision and Iron Man locked in battle. Captain
America tells them to stay back while the Avengers handle the problem. With
great pain, the Scarlet Witch casts a spell that shuts down the berserk
android. Strange asks Wanda if the Ichor could have something to do with Vision’s
breakdown, the Surfer helps Iron Man bring Vision in for repairs, and Thor asks
Hulk and Valkyrie to help him shore up the damaged façade of the Mansion. Namor
talks to Cap and finds that Cap doesn’t remember any such incident from the war
and a database search yields no relevant information. Strange and Wanda trace
the Ichor’s emanations and run into Diablo, the villainous alchemist, who
reveals that he was unable to exert full control over Vision but his magic
cards have allowed him to capture the minds of the Avengers and they have now caught
the Defenders unaware and subdued them…and then he plays his last card: Dr.
Strange himself….


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Doctor Strange
is missing so the Defenders (Hulk, Sub-Mariner, Valkyrie, Silver Surfer) and the Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Scarlet Witch,
Vision) take the one clue, the Ichor of Ish’izog, to the Fantastic Four (Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing, Human Torch) to see if the FF can uncover
any info. Reed analyzes the Ichor and discovers…nothing…literally….
Meanwhile,
Dr Strange’s astral form uses the Silver Surfboard to transport his comatose
body to Galactus’ ship and the World Devourer wants to know where his herald is….
Back
on Earth, Scarlet Witch, Vision, and the Surfer go to Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum
where they are admitted by Wong. Wanda consults the Orb of Agamotto to locate
Strange and even she is surprised that the Orb obeys her. The Orb bursts open
and Mephisto emerges, ready to exact his revenge against the Silver Surfer,
first banishing his board and then enwrapping them all in his tentacles….
In
Asgard, Thor and Valkyrie arrive at the Rainbow Bridge to be greeted by the Warriors Three.
Their plan is to ask the all-seeing Heimdall if he can locate Dr.
Strange; instead, Heimdall accuses Thor of being an impostor and attacks him….
At
Avengers Mansion, Iron Man sets up a unit to detect the dimensional rift, with
Hulk on hand to smash any monsters that may come through. Instead, a trio of
wacky racecars burst through, shattering reality….
At
the Baxter Building, Daredevil enters carrying the unconscious Spider-Man who
has been knocked out by the intensity of his Spider-Sense. The wacky racecars
smash through into this reality, pulling with them Hulk, Thor and Valkyrie,
Wanda, Vision, and Silver Surfer. Cap loses the container of Ichor, Thor brings
the race to a halt in a cartoon land where they face a hero team called the
Unbelievables (Mighty Martian, Devil Dawg, Vampire Vixen, Sun Wukong, Sha
Wujing). Hulk insults the tiny Devil Dawg, who grows into a huge demon and
clobbers him, touching off a battle between the three teams. In the confusion,
Val discovers Diablo hiding and he insists he isn’t controlling any of this,
handing her his Tarot cards, which she slices in half…
…while
Dr. Strange discovers Galactus has never heard of Earth, indicating he has gone
back in time. Reality breaks again and the heroes find their identities
bizarrely scrambled, making them Doc Surf, Major Gamma, The Hulkoid, Scarlet
Strange, Sturm Meister, Reaper, Eiserne Jungfrau, Imperius Hex, Gadget, and
Captain Cosmos. Doc Surf uses the Eye of Agamotto to see into Diablo’s mind but
there is an interruption: the Unbelievables crash through, intending to save
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Reality
has broken down and the Avengers and the Defenders find their identities
bizarrely scrambled, making them Doc Surf, Major Gamma, The Hulkoid, Scarlet
Strange, Sturm Meister, Reaper, Eiserne Jungfrau, Imperius Hex, Gadget, and
Captain Cosmos. They are fighting for their lives against the Unbelievables, a
band of cartoon-based superheroes introduced last issue. Major Gamma (an
amalgam of Captain America and Hulk) warns against killing their foes—but then
he is overwhelmed by the enemy and transforms into Hulk, at the same time
appearing in the World War 2 cemetery and fighting living statues, as seen in
the opening of issue #1, witnessed by the other Invaders, and returning to
normal back in the present. Stone letters fall from the sky spelling out, “I’m
bored! Too much talking, I want more fighting!”
Then
they are confronted by Black Panther leading a team to prevent the scrambled
heroes from invading Wakanda. Major Gamma insists
they are innocent but Panther merely points him back to show him the scrambled
heroes are coming from a Nazi-controlled USA. Major Gamma is able for a second to pierce the
veil but then the team is attacked by the Unbelievables with a number of
familiar allies. Doc Surf (a hippie version of Doctor Strange) learns that it’s
all in the mixed-up Tarot deck which in in the hands of couple of children.
Then the Nameless One appears to fight them but Doc also sees that he is the distraction;
instead, Doc dispatches Gadget (Winter Soldier and Thor?) to get the cards from
the kids. So, Gadget visits the other reality and trades the kids his tablet
with hologram capabilities for the deck of “old cards.” Once the cards are
pulled through to this reality, everything goes back to normal, the Avengers (Captain
America, Thor, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Vision) and the Defenders (Doctor
Strange, Hulk, Sub-Mariner, Valkyrie, Silver Surfer) are themselves again at
Avengers Mansion; Diablo was pulled through with them but he is nowhere to be
seen….
Epilogue:
In WW2 France, the Invaders (Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Human Torch) come
upon a camp of American soldiers. The GIs report that there has been no action,
save the capture of a Nazi deserter named Okkulte who sounds crazy, muttering
about magic. The heroes join the soldiers for some relaxation: “A day without
fighting is cause for celebration.”


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Zero Sanctuary: Part 4 of 6
This time we open with an intro with Gamora in the present landing the Lachesis on Halfworld. And we see that the person she's telling her life story to is a child (but hidden in a hooded cloak). For the rest of the issue we're back to her story in flashback.Thanos' crew are losing faith in their leader because he keeps talking to people they can't see (Death and the Magus), he occasionally kills a crew member, and he's gone soft on young teen Gamora. Ebony Maw of Butcher Squadron persuaded the 2 Blood Brothers and the 3 pilots of the Fates to kidnap Gamora and hold her for ransom in the Fate craft Lachesis. But Thanos caught Gh'Ree Blood and beat him senseless ...... and now threatens to destroy the 3 Fate scoutships. Smiling Death just watches but Magus urges him on. He says he knows that Thanos is slowly crafting the girl into a weapon to kill him, even if the Titan doesn't know that yet. Thanos tries to kill him *now* but Magus is only a projection in his mind. Which Magus says he is only able to do because Thanos is distracted by worry about Gamora.The pilots of Atropos, Clotho and Lachesis are sure Thanos won't fire at them because he doesn't know which ship Gamora is on. But the Titan is waiting for her to give him a sign. She uses a bit of metal to switch on her new robotic arm and attacks the pilot, causing the Lachesis to veer wildly, simultaneously kicking R'Hos Blood with her cybernetic leg. Thanos spots what's happening and fires at the other 2 ships.Ballista Grim, Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight of Butcher Squad hear the guns firing. Maw of course knows what's going on and tells the other 2 that their boss is scared of what might happen to Gamora. Ballista guesses that Ebony is behind it, and admits that plotting is what he does best. And now he's going to tell the rest of the crew what their leader is doing.Meanwhile Gamora opens Lachesis' airlock and throws the pilot out. As she closes it again she sees the other 2 ships explode. Then she contacts Sanctuary and asks for a tractor beam to bring the Lachesis home. And she tells the Blood Brother he's now *her* prisoner. (Later we'll learn that R'Hos was weakened by her kick and temporary lack of oxygen, but mostly because he's separated from his brother.)When they dock Thanos asks what she's going to do with her prisoner. She disappoints him by saying she doesn't want R'Hos killed, because she's not like *him*. But she wants the Lachesis for her own. Butcher Squad arrive and are confused when Thanos just tells them to put the Blood Brother in a cell, but on the opposite side of the giant space station from his brother to keep them both weak.Gamora tags along as they take R'Hos to jail and she hears Ebony Maw convincing the other 2 that they should use the girl to stage a mutiny and take over Sanctuary Proxima is in, and Ballista agrees because she thinks Thanos has lost it. Afterwards the go to the cantina where we see lots of different alien crew. Gamora runs away threatening to tell Thanos their whole plan.When she reaches Thanos she's being pursued by many aliens (but conspicuously not the Butcher 3). Thanos commences a slaughter. Butcher Squad arrives and Maw suggests they switch to the winning side, so they start shooting the mutineers.Then Thanos says it's time he settled things with Magus. So he takes the shuttle Sepulcher ...... but he leaves Gamora behind with a lot of angry crew.


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Zero Sanctuary: Part 5 of 6
Thanos' method of bringing up young Gamora has resulted in 1 prosthetic arm and leg. His obsession with her has helped fuel his crew's dissatisfaction with his rule, and Ebony Maw has fomented a mutiny on Zero Sanctuary. But the Titan chooses this time to take the base's shuttle Sepulcher alone to confront his adversary Magus, leaving the girl alone with the mutineers. All this has been described by present-day Gamora in flashbacks.But we start this issue with present-day Gamora on Halfworld leading the youngster who she's telling her story to towards her friend's house.Next we see Thanos in Sepulcher checking that no-one is leaving Zero Sanctuary to follow him. He's nearly out of range for that, and can only receive comms not send any. The last image he sees is Gamora hiding somewhere with a knife.On Sanctuary Butcher Squadron (Ballista Grim, Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight and the Blood Brothers - Gh'Ree and R'Hos) are searching for Gamora. They find her but she escapes through a vent. She makes her way to Thanos' records room and sees the last-played image which is of the Kyln, a structure of spheres at the Crunch - the edge of the expanding universe. The Blood Brothers start to force open the locked door.Thanos is awoken by Death to receive comms from Gamora which shows her fighting the BBs. She tells him she's going to follow him in her ship Lachesis. She also says she's worked out his plan to lure Magus to the edge of the universe where they'll both die. The Titan agrees she should leave Sanctuary but orders her not to follow him. He won't help her and he won't take any more messages.Gamora finds BG, EM & PM waiting for her at her ship. She tries to get past them but Grim shoots her bionic arm off. Maw tries to hypnotise her to sleep but she fights him off. Midnight throws her 'pitchfork' at her which lodges in the side of Lachesis. The agile girl grabs her lost arm, gets in the cockpit and seals herself in. Ballista leaps on top and clings on to the fork as the ship exits Sanctuary. And she seems to die in space.Thanos has reached the Kyln but he's not alone. Death and Magus are with him in Sepulcher, or at least in his mind. Magus wants to know why Thanos doesn't kill Gamora when she disrespects him. Death agrees and Thanos attacks, seemingly jealous that his love Death sides with his enemy. But Magus has the upper hand powered by the worship of his followers. He then gives the usual choice - convert to his Church Of Universal Truth or die. And he underlines the choice by steering the shuttle into collision with the Kyln.Maw and Midnight have found the Kyln info in the records room and now know where Thanos has gone. Ebony figures that with Gamora gone Thanos won't come back. But he wouldn't just leave Sanctuary for others to use so he must have a plan for it.Gamora's Lachesis closes with Sepulcher as *it* closes with the Kyln. They crashland together. Thanos exits Sepulcher and then destroys it to kill or severely harm his foe (but surely he was only some sort of remote projection). He confronts the girl and tells her that he's been training her to kill the Magus. She counters that she's been using *him* to survive and get trained. Then she attacks him with Proxima's pitchfork.In the present Gamora's lone audience complains that he already knows the end of the story. Gamora killed Thanos much later. She explains that it's important to know about the connections between the 3 of them - herself, Thanos and the boy before her who is revealed to be a young Magus.


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Zero Sanctuary: Part 1 of 6
In the present Gamora in her starship Lachesis relates her origin to someone. Who that is will become clear later in the series. For now we are only told that she wants to tell him now rather than later when he'll be dangerous. She doesn't expect him to understand her tale now so she'll record it and he'll be able to make more sense of it later on.She tells him of the massive starship where she grew up, Alpha Prototype 0: Base Ship Sanctuary or Zero Sanctuary for short. The warlord Thanos had been building it for years while he gathered his galactic army, and it has grown rather haphazardly. At the beginning of the story she herself is not yet there.She tells instead of part of its crew, the elite Butcher Squadron consisting of Ballista Grim (an assassin), Ebony Maw (a neophyte), Ferox (a fool), Infesti Macera (a living hive) and Proxima Midnight (a joyful killer). (I must say the squad doesn't sound very elite.) Things have been boring for the last 2 weeks. Ferox leaves their card game to relieve himself and Proxima warns him not to become 1 of those crew members who somehow disappears. He gets lost in the confusing corridors which seem to change from day to day, and then gets dragged off by the captain who slices him open as an offering to Death who we see behind him, but no-one else but him can.Next day Thanos calls the troops to action. Proxima Midnight remembers hearing a scream last night. Ebony Maw comments to the remains of Butcher Squad that Ferox hasn't been seen, and he remembers the 5 previous consecutive occasions when the boss led a raid immediately after a crewman vanished. Then the Mad Titan takes them down to a planet to kill all the pacifist Dorcaernir which they do efficiently.Back on Sanctuary newbie Ebony Maw expands on his theory. Thanos' bloodlust wanes. Then a crewman goes missing and the boss orders genocide on the nearest available planet. He agrees with Ballista Grim that it's not very satisfying killing people who only run away. Thanos overhears and accuses them of questioning his orders. Sly Ebony suggests that it's better to have their informed consent rather than blind obedience, but Thanos says blind obedience is all he needs. Ballista and Proxima ask why the pacifists had to die, and he replies that they could still be spies for his enemies. But he assures them of more challenging prey next time.He returns to his quarters and asks his computer what his greatest current threat is. It reminds him of Magus, leader of the Universal Church Of Truth who roam the universe converting alien races or destroying ones that refuse. Thanos comments that the Dorcaernir were targets of the Church (but presumably Thanos destroyed them before the Church could get there), and he asks who's next. The AI tells him it's the planet Lazareen. Thanos already razed it but the population have regenerated from larvae. The Titan doesn't relish ordering his troops to stomp eggs before they hatch, and wants to attack Magus directly. But the AI reminds him that Sanctuary needs lots of repairs, and suggests that they would lose an open war. Thanos decides to continue taunting his opponent.Butcher Squad are playing cards again with another guy Snare. He too excuses himself, to go get some more booze, and he too is accosted by the boss. But this time Thanos gives his victim a drink and discusses strategy with him. He says that the fervour of the Magus' zealots makes him an even match now, but he will only grow in power as he gets more converts. So the tactic is to kill Magus' targets before they can *become* converts. The next race will be the peaceful Zen-Whoberis. Snare agrees with everything. Magus thanks him for his input and kills him for his lady Death, because it makes her appear more clearly to him. Butcher Squad here a scream and prepare for action tomorrow.The troops approach Zen-Whoberi (which Gamora reminds us is her home) in Sanctuary's shuttle the Sepulcher. Thanos detects Magus' ships approaching as he drops bombs on the planet. We see young Gamora's family fleeing their home but her parents and brother die in front of her. Death watches her, and Thanos spies his love down there. Proxima informs him that Magus' himself is on Zen-Whoberi, and the Titan leads Aphaxia, Butcher and Crypt Squadrons down there.After much bloodshed Magus confronts Thanos with his Black Knights. He has worked out Thanos' strategy but suggests that's not the only reason the Titan kills - but because it's the only thing that brings him peace. The Squadrons and Black Knights clash. Thanos remains in the thick of it but Magus stays out of the fighting. (I'm not sure he isn't just a hologram.) Thanos also eventually leaves the fight to go find Death.He arrives at Gamora's house and finds the little girl hiding in a cupboard. She threatens him with a kitchen knife. He's about to kill her when he notices Lady Death is there, and Gamora pleads to her for help. But Death leaves them both. Thanos is shocked that someone else can see his love. (But Gamora's narration says that as the only survivor of her planet the little girl was bound to die soon, so *of course* she could see Death.)


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Zero Sanctuary: Part 2 of 6
The early life of Gamora continues, with occasional voiceover by her present self telling her history to someone as yet unknown.Last issue the troops of both Thanos and the Magus wiped out all the Zen-Whoberis except a young girl. The Titan has taken notice of her because she like him could see his love Death who then vanished away. He tells Ballista Grim of Butcher Squad to bring her onboard the shuttle Sepulcher which will carry them back to the starbase Zero Sanctuary. The Squad wonder what he wants her for. Infesti Macera thinks he might want to eat her but Proxima Midnight says he only kills people. They shut up when the boss joins them and tells Ebony Maw to keep the girl quiet.Later on Sanctuary Maw visits the girl in her jail cell and offers her food in exchange for information. She tells him she's Gamora, 13, and starts to talk about her dead family. But Maw wants to know why Thanos is interested in her so he tries to hypnotise her. But she throws the food in his face and stabs him in the leg with a fork and then presses a button on his belt which opens her cage. She runs away and Maw recruits the rest of his Squad to help find her.Thanos consults his computer which informs him that although they killed all the other Zen-Whoberis the Magus still managed to covert to his Universal Church Of Truth 14,000 non-Whoberis who were on the planet at the time. The AI has no info on the insignificant girl so the Titan asks about the Zen-Whoberis' beliefs about Death (who now appears behind him). Apparently death is just seen as a transformation, and a peaceful death is to be desired. This is no help, but before he can think any more about it he hears the voice of the Magus taunting him and causing him pain.The 2 Blood Brothers (R'Hos and Gh'Ree) are now replacements in Butcher Squad for Ferox who disappeared last issue (killed by Thanos as an offering to Death). Scheming Ebony Maw claims that he deliberately let Gamora escape to gain her trust. But now they'll find her and return her to Thanos who will realise how easily she could be taken away from him again. And the crew will see that the boss isn't infallible. The others don't think much of this plan.Meanwhile Thanos can't believe that Magus can invade his sanctum and asks the computer to analyse the voice. The AI says "What voice?". But the girl happens to stumble into the room and it turns out she heard the voice too, and it hurt *her*. She introduces herself as Gamora, and she's learned he's Captain Thanos. She asks where they're going but he says this isn't a spaceship it's a space station. He tells her he built it (or at least oversaw its building) and she tells him it's ramshackle and falling apart (which is true). He wants to know how she saw Death and how she escaped her cell.Butcher Squad have split into 2 search teams. Ebony Maw thinks he heard something in a vent and tells the Blood Bothers to open it. So 1 of them just rips the grill off, but there's nothing there. Proxima Midnight takes command via a comm link and tells R'Hos and Gh'Ree to watch the corridors near the Mess Hall. She sends Ballista and Infesti to search the storage lockers and lock each 1. She'll meet Maw by the Common Room. But Thanos broadcasts a command for them all to report to his quarters.The Blood Brothers don't seem to get the message but the other 4 find Gamora there with the boss. He wants someone to confess to letting the girl out. But *she* claims to have escaped on her own. Ebony Maw suggest they sedate her until they find out how to keep her secure. Thanos says he now knows who did it but still wants Gamora to name the culprit. She sticks to her story until he threatens to kill her if she refuses. So she grabs a knife from Infesti Macera and threatens Thanos with it. Everyone else aims their guns at her but Thanos just laughs. He decides to let her live because she amuses him. He tells the Squad to take her back to her, feed her and give her a book to read to pass the time.But then he turns to Infesti and blames him for letting Gamora get his knife. He also says he's overheard everything they've said about him and so he confirms what they suspected that he needs to kill from time to time. And he kills Macera. He gave them the chance to sacrifice the most ambitious among them but they left it up to him to choose. Now as they suspected he will have a new genocide for them tomorrow. And we see Death with him again.Gamora's voiceover says that at this point she knew she was safe in Thanos' hands.