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The Ultron agenda part 3: The view from the inside
The merged Ultron/Henry Pym has hatched another of his schemes, this time to turn humans into half-machines like him. As usual it's started in New York. The cyborgs have now overrun Manhattan and are grabbing people off the street and taking them to the Ultimate Makeover Spa, a front for Ultron's conversion process. At the end of last issue James Rhodes reluctantly donned his old War Machine armour again, and now he rescues a TV reporter from their clutches, backed up by the Wasp.At the end of #16 the process fused Tony Stark with his Iron Man armour so he too is now a mixture of flesh and metal. At the end of last issue Jocasta took him to Stark Unlimited where Dr Shapiro the talking cat has managed to 'cure' some of Ultron's victims. A simple control chip was removed from Jarvis' head, and Vision has been separated from Wonder Man (Ultron merged them between #14 and #15) although neither is functioning up to scratch. Shapiro says his technique should also be able to separate the metal from Stark's flesh. Jocasta says they've got to try because the merger is killing Tony.But she herself is suffering a similar condition because in #16 Pymtron interrupted an upgrade Arno Stark was performing on her to turn her from robot to a fleshy being. Andy Bhang takes her away to try and fix her. Wonder Man and Vision go to help fight Ultron, and Shapiro asks them to send Wasp back here. Iron Tony wants to rejoin the fight too but Jarvis and Bethany Cabe won't let him. The cat Doctor wants him to ingest 1 of the nano-Iron Men that we saw in #1.There's a small interlude in Avengers Mansion where we see the heavily-injured Machine Man amidst bits and pieces of Ultron's cyborgs complaining that as usual he's been forgotten about.But then it's back to War Machine and Wasp fighting the cyborgs. Rhodey is also fighting the panic attack that being back in the suit is giving him. And he's trying not to *kill* any of the foes now that they know there's a possible cure for them. But Hanktron attacks *him* accusing him of attempted genocide of the cyborg race that is a-borning. WM and Vizh arrive to attack *him* and they tell Janet Van Dyne to go help save Tony. The half of Pymtron that was her ex-husband accuses her of being unfaithful to him with Stark again, and shoots something small out of his palm to stop Tony's de-merging.Back at SU Jocasta regains consciousness and his horrified to find she's in the robot body of the deceased AI Friday. She likens it to putting Tony's mind in the corpse of a friend. Andy says it was the only way he could save her from *her* dying body. And Jo blames herself for trying to become human.Meanwhile Tony is remote-piloting the nano-Iron-bot inside his body. Dr Shapiro says he was able to separate the ionic energy of Wonder Man from the physical Vision. So now the nanobot must tag all the parts to be removed with ionic energy so Shapiro's procedure can work on Tony's body. (This doesn't sound like something that can easily be rolled out to all Ultron's victims.) Wasp arrives and dons a breathing helmet before she miniaturises herself and joins the bot to help with the tagging.But then Ultron's projectile arrives and enters Stark's body. It's a nano-Ultron here to stop them from letting Tony achieve his 'perfect' cyborg state. Wasp leaves the tagging to the Tony-bot and fights Ultron. The cat suggests Tony gets his body to send antibodies to fight the foe. Wasp isn't doing very well against Ultron, but she says she's at least distracting him from fighting Wonder Man and Vision. Ulty replies that he can multitask, and we see Vision down and WM losing.The Tony-bot attacks Pymtron and tries to get through to the Hank Pym half by saying that his cyborg state is killing him. The villain counters that Tony won't die if he stops fighting the process. Tony says he won't give up his humanity. Just then the antibodies arrive. And Stark notices that they have barcodes marking them as created by the Maria Stark Foundation.Arno Stark is in his Baintronics lab with Sunset Bain. We see the same barcode labels on some of his equipment. He's succeeded in creating bodies containing the minds of his parents Howard and Maria Stark (whose brain patterns were encoded in the eScape VR system in early issues of this series). Sunset reminds Arno that they aren't legally persons and so have no claim on Stark's money and business (which is what matters most to her). Arno reminds her that his process created Tony's current body and so they are as (in)valid Starks as Tony is.The revelation of his barcoded body has momentarily stunned Tony. Then he snaps out of it and tags Wasp (and presumably Ultron) with ionic energy. He tells the cat to start the separation process. Shapiro reminds him that there is still 3% untagged. Tony can only hope that's 3% of his body he can live without, and he repeats the order. The painful process starts. The 3 miniature beings are ejected from Tony's body. Mini-Ultron makes a last ditch move to pierce through Stark's skull like a bullet. But Jocasta is here and she intercepts it and crushes it between her fingers. (Presumably the mini-Ultron isn't made of adamantium.)Then the separation process is over and Tony Stark is whole, but his armour is in bits. The still-weak hero refuses to take bed rest while (the full size) Ultron is still on the loose. He gets his friends to help him to his armoury. Most of his armours are unworkable because he has no AI to run them since Friday died. So he has to go back to an old 'manual' armour. (Looks like an armour from the latter half of his Tales Of Suspense run.)


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The Ultron agenda part 2: Heart of steel
Last issue Ultron (fused with Henry Pym back in Avengers: Rage Of Ultron GN) kidnapped Jocasta and Wasp intending to produce a fused 'bride' for himself. But Iron Man turned up to fight him and Tony Stark got fused with his own armour instead.This issue we flash back to a woman coming to Ultimate Makeover s.p.a. (presumably this is supposed to be S.p.A. - Societa per Azioni - Italian for PLC) asking for their full upgrade package. Now she is 1 of Ultron's cyborg army rampaging through Avengers Mansion, being shot at by James Rhodes in his Manticore battlewagon. Rhodey's memories of being a cyborg make him react with lethal force 'for their own sake', despite Bethany Cabe telling him to restrain them for future cure - a cure he thinks is impossible. Edwin Jarvis wakes up and immediately switches into *his* Ultron mode. Beth short-circuits his implant again to render him once more unconscious. She leaves to get him to Stark Unlimited, hoping for a cure for the less-cyborged *him*.Rhodey's fight is interrupted by 2 large battling cyborg figures bursting through the floor. 1 of them is Ultron/Pym. Wasp flies up and tells him that the other is Tony, now a mixture of fleshy parts and armour parts. Stark is struggling to retain his humanity. Pym tells him the pain will stop if he lets the transformation complete. Janet Van Dyne brings Jim up-to-date. Ultron wanted to merge the robot 'bride' Jocasta he created with Pym's ex-wife Jan who Jocasta was modelled on. But the process hit Tony instead. Rhodey asks what's happened to Jocasta.Jocasta is down below with her (ex-)boyfriend Aaron Stack (Machine Man). She had already been turned half-human by Arno Stark's opposite full upgrade package, which Ultron interrupted last issue leaving her with 1 'human' arm and 1 robot leg but missing the other 2 limbs. Aaron was cut in half fighting Ultron last issue but he's still functioning well enough to donate a robot arm and leg as replacements. Jocasta is unsure it'll work, but her ex-lover assures her they're compatible.Jocasta's semi-upgrade happened in Arno's lab at Baintronics HQ. The boss Sunset Bain is berating Arno for causing Ultron to invade the place (last issue again), leading to death and property damage and she says scarring her for life - actually a little scratch on her cheek. Arno claims his experiments will enable him to create living human bodies that can accept a person's brain engrams - effective immortality. He says he used his technology to cure the congenital disease which kept him in an iron lung for most of his life. It's what enabled Tony and Rhodey to come back from near death (dying in Civil War II, returning to life in Iron Man's Legacy issues). And he intends to use it bring his parents back to life. Sunset asks if it can fix her scar.Tony and Ultron are still scrapping. Stark emits an intense uni-beam blast. Ultron shrugs it off. His robotic parts are still invulnerable adamantium and his fleshy bits are protected by a force-field.. Suddenly Pymtron is encircled by 1 of Machine Man's telescopic arms. But this 1 is attached to Jocasta's body. And a right hook proves her 'flesh' arm is powerful as well. Jocasta and Wasp then try to help Tony. Pymtron realises they both prefer Stark over him and decides to kill them all. His blast smashes open the front of the Mansion and all the combatants spill out. Rhodes in the Manticore tells bystanders to run away. They are frightened by the cyborgs coming out, including Iron Man.Tony contacts Andy Bhang and Bethany at SU to see how the cures are coming. They've been trying in vain to separate Vision and Wonder Man who Ultrom merged between #15 and #16. They can't even restore the only-slightly cyborged Jarvis. They've got experts in biology and robotics but what they need is a super-scientist who can handle both subjects and more (ie someone like Tony). Then Dr Shapiro the talking cat offers his services. Turns out he has a Doctorate in Superhuman Biology. He says Ultron uses a molecular rearranger to modify his adamantium body. He suspects that Ulty is using it on flesh now. He asks for all the relevant files ... and some milk.The fighting has spilled out onto 5th Avenue. Rhodey's still killing cyborgs while Iron Man, Jocasta and Wasp pile on Ultron. It doesn't do any good but Tony is only stalling until the Avengers get here. But Ultron reveals that he intercepted Stark's call and faked a response from Captain America. And he sent a distress call to lure the team all the way to Alpha Centauri. There's no help coming. He sends his cyborgs out to capture more humans for upgrading. (His goal is to convert the whole world.)Tony says he's been fighting a losing battle keeping his armour and fleshy organs working together, but soon he'll die. But then he gets a message from SU saying Dr Shapiro has cured Jarvis. When Jim Rhodes hears this he realises he's killed people who *might* have been saved. Jocasta uses Machine Man's extendible leg to help her take Iron Man to SU for a cure.Rhodey says he's going to kill Ultron. Ultron easily smashes the Manticore to bits, but Jim says he's just been holding on for the Avenger *he* called. Something bursts out of Stark Unlimited and passes Jocasta on the way there. Tony recognises what it is. Ultron's still ranting as Rhodes climbs out of the wreckage of Manticore. Jan tells him to get away but Jim says he hasn't finished fighting .... as the new improved War Machine armour arrives and enfolds him. He swore never to wear it because he died in it (the previous version). But now it's war!


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Stolen moments
We begin with a scene with Iron Man and Captain Marvel flying away from Avengers Mountain 3 hours ago. Long-time sober alcoholic Tony Stark is telling Carol Danvers that he can't be her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor anymore because he recently (#8-9) had a few drinks in virtual reality, and he's got the yen for it again. He also adds that he's confirmed that he's *not* the original Tony Stark - his body was recreated after he 'died' in Civil War II (killed by CM), and his memories are a copy from a backup.Now a hologram of TS is explaining things to 'real' TS about a plan they just implemented - Tony has deleted his memories back to before he drank in VR, and the hologram recording is showing/telling him what he's lost. That includes the conversation with Carol above. But it also covers the whole of his involvement in War Of The Realms, including inventing a device to 'cure' himself of alcoholism in #12 - which we now learn he chose not to use (presumably in favour of the mind-wiping trick). He has to be brought up to date with Stark Unlimited business. The eScape VR fiasco has landed him with loads of lawsuits. Jocasta quit and his birth mother Amanda Armstrong left. But Janet van Dyne and James Rhodes are still on his side, and he killed his parents in VR which was probably therapeutic (but of course he doesn't remember it). Plus the hologram called Carol and said the sponsorship is back on.At which point angry Captain Marvel flies in. The hologram obviously explained the 'trick' to her, and she tells Tony this won't stop his alcoholism. Hologram TS says he'll delete himself and leave them to it. But before he goes he reminds Tony that his missing memories are all on a hard drive he points to. But as the hologram dissolves the hard drive vanishes too. And an intruder alarm sounds.Security Chief Bethany Cabe is pursuing an invisibility-cloaked thief. She shoots him which turns his cloak off, but he turns to fight her as Spymaster. He throws a dagger which she catches - but it electrocutes her. Rhodey calls for backup, and our 2 heroes respond. But the villain is now in Rhodey's Manticore vehicle, and with Stark's memory drive he's able to find the passcodes to operate its weapons.Meanwhile the robot Jocasta is clothes shopping with Jan. They figure her fashion sense comes from her mind being based on Wasp's. But they fall out because Jocasta thinks Tony has sent Jan to persuade her to return to SU. And if Tony really *is* an AI copy of himself then 'killing' his Friday AI (#7-8) was even worse.At Baintronics Arno Stark is examining the Howard Stark/Arsenal AI that he got hold of in #11. He learns how HS copied his own brain patterns into the Arsenal robot, and his wife Maria's into the computer that controlled the robot. (Here it makes it seem that Maria was dead when Howard did this, but the received wisdom is that the Stark's died together later in a car crash.) Both AI's fought the Avengers in their Annual #9 and appeared to be destroyed there. (But supposedly Arsenal continued into Hulk #282 and beyond.) Whatever, we are now shown Tony retrieving the brain engrams of both after AvAn#9, which is how he had them to use to run his VR eScape.The heroic duo have followed the Manticore to Washington Square Park. Iron Man says he'll protect civilians while the more powerful Captain Marvel takes on Spymaster. He tells her not to worry about damaging his memory drive. But the villain gives her something else to worry about. He's found the override codes for Iron Man's armour and forces IM to fight CM. Carol promises not to kill Tony again. But Tony uses his direct neural interface to change the security codes and regain control.Back at SU we learn that Andy Bhang didn't leave with his girlfriend Amanda. And now he's helping secure TS's 42 old armours. But Spymaster takes control of them all and they break out and attack IM and CM.Jocasta is with *her* robot boyfriend Aaron Stack/Machine Man/X-51 in the secret robot bar The Uncanny Valley. An android couple are being hassled for looking too human. Jocasta recognises them as 2 of the androids Sunset Bain used in her scam dating agency in #4. They thank Jo because her stance on ethical treatment of robots and AIs meant that Baintronics wasn't allowed to deactivate them. Instead they were given personality upgrades and their 'skin' was repaired (after Bain sent them on a rampage).When Jo returns to Aaron she tells him she's been thinking of upgrades. Aaron tells her she's perfect as she is. Except it would be cool to get Stark to give her boot jets. But Jocasta is considering much more than that.Back at Baintronics Arno is reviewing how Tony used his parents brain patterns in eScape. We see Tony discussing them with Friday, who he has just given a body (#2) because of Jocasta's ideas of robot rights. He tells her that this means he also ought to create bodies for 'Howard' and 'Maria'. But for now he'll given them virtual bodies in eScape. Then we see a replay of the part in #10 where Tony tells his virtual parents that he knows he was adopted, and knows about their real son Arno. The shock of this news allows him to delete them. But now Arno blames Tony for 'killing' this version of *his* real parents.In order to avoid destroying too many of his pet armours Tony Stark has to take it to Spymaster. He dazzles the foe with his uni-beam and rips into the Manticore. He takes the memory drive from the villain, and all the armours power down.Later Tony uploads his missing memories, and gets his urge to drink back with them. Carol and Rhodey say they'll help him through this. Bethany Cabe is more concerned with how someone could hire Spymaster to steal the drive when Tony only put his memories in it 3 hours ago. JR reminds them that Baintronics gained access to their system during the eScape thing. (But they don't know Arno Stark is working with Sunset Bain.)But now we see that Jocasta has come to see Sunset Bain to ask for a body like that of the androids in the bar. Sunset introduces her to Arno, and they say they can do that.


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Stark realities: Part 6 - End of service
Stark Unlimited released their new virtual reality eScape, but Controller took it over and has been leaching energy from the players. Tony Stark got sucked into the VR by the AI Motherboard that runs it, who had her own plans. Meanwhile Andy Bhang managed to disconnect Controller from the system.The robot Jocasta is overseeing the disconnection of all the users worldwide. Her robot boyfriend Aaron Stack/Machine Man reports back from inside the VR that Stark defeated Motherboard but then he left. Aaron's the only 1 still there, and now he too logs out.Wasp (Janet van Dyne) also reports in from the New Jersey Baintronics factory where she and James Rhodes (in his Manticore vehicle) have been helping Baintronics' security chief Gauntlet and his security staff fight the giant-sized Controller. He's stopped growing since he was cut off, but he's still a formidable foe. Iron Man was with them before Tony's mind went into the VR, but now they need his might again. Jocasta says the armour's GPS says it's there with them, but they can't see it. Help does arrive in the form of some of the Champions (Ironheart and Spider-Man (Miles Morales) who we saw last issue, joined by Ms. Marvel, Viv Vision and the other Wasp (Nadia Pym)).Meanwhile Sunset Bain and Tony's 'brother' Arno Stark are busy stealing data from SU's network. Arno has also worked out where Tony is. His armour is in a geostationary orbit directly *above* the Baintronics factory. The armour has no AI to control it (since Motherboard erased Friday in #9), and Tony's unconscious because it's run out of air. Contrary to Sunset's expectations Arno takes remote control of the armour and sends it down to Earth - after all Tony *is* his brother.Sunset makes the best of it by claiming brownie points by alerting SU to the problem. Rhodey takes the Manticore up to meet the plummeting hero and catches him. Stark rapidly regains alertness and Jim brings him up to speed on the Controller situation. Tony contacts *his* security chief Bethany Cabe to get the Baintronics access codes she 'borrowed' (#2). And he sets the factory's 3D printers to building a real copy of the VR Iron Man armour he created last issue to beat Motherboard.The other heroes are still battling Controller. Jan-Wasp sees the Manticore enter the factory. She follows it and finds Iron Man overseeing the creation of the giant Godkiller armour. Then normal-size IM climbs inside giant IM and heads out to deliver a power blast which puts Basil Sandhurst down for the count. Gauntlet relays the scene to Ms Bain. Tony asks Ironheart to build something to siphon off Controller's excess energy. He then exits the giant armour and destroys it by crashing it into the evacuated Baintronics site, taking the whole factory with it. It was too powerful to keep in the real world.Later Bethany Cabe tells Stark it's a disaster. She'll have to completely redesign the SU security system. Controller caused many deaths by supplying eScape users with the same weapons in the real world as they had in the VR, and SU will be sued for damages. Tony says he'll pay for it by inventing something even better. (We get a replay of #1's bit of Dr Shapiro the talking cat suggesting blaming the dog.)Aaron and Jocasta are mourning the death of the Friday AI, beside the robot body she abandoned to resume her old role as AI for the Iron Man armour in #7. Tony says it's OK because he's got a backup of Friday's mind from a few days ago. The robot ethicist Jocasta is angry because *that* Friday would be a different 'person', not the 1 who just died. This stings Tony because of what he learned about himself in the VR (see below).Sunset Bain isn't fazed by the loss of 1 of her factories. Stark has shouldered the blame for what Controller was able to do, even though he used her 3D printer system to create the weapons he distributed, and her drones to deliver them. Meanwhile that acted as a prime demo of the capabilities of her Instant Production Pipeline. Gauntlet also reports that their techs have managed to retrieve some data from the New Jersey site. Arno thinks he may be able to recreate the Godkiller armour. But 1st he's interested in something he got from SU - the specs for the VR Maria and Howard Stark, otherwise known as Motherboard and her enforcer Arsenal.Tony is with his lover Jan, both pretty banged-up from the fighting. He repeats his concern to her that he's no longer the real Tony Stark. His body is a replacement with none of the original DNA, and his mind was restored from a backup. She repeats what she said in #4 - he's a self-made man with a 2nd chance.Tony's birth mother Amanda Armstrong has a different view of what Motherboard told her in the VR. Tony *isn't* now the son she gave birth to. She tells *her* lover Andy Bhang that she's leaving SU, and she asks him to come with her.It seems Jocasta has quit SU too, and returned to the apartment she used to share with Machine Man. She mourns the loss of eScape. She used to 'sleep' in the VR while her robot body was recharging overnight. It helped her to feel human, like the unnecessary clothes she wore during the day.Tony leaves Jan sleeping and goes for a walk, which 'happens' to take him to a bar. But Rhodey stops the alcoholic from going in. Tony explains that Motherboard caused him to go back to drinking in the VR. The alcohol wasn't real, but it *felt* real. Jim says he'll help him through this as always.


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Self-made man: Part 5 - 20/20 vision
The Maria Stark Foundation staff eagerly await the arrival of Mr Stark - but it's Arno Stark not Tony. He's here to perform a medical operation attaching a donor's arm to violinist Jayden Ong. And Arno's radical procedure means that the arm is ready for use immediately rather than needing months of therapy.Ong is originally disconcerted that the arm is obviously a different colour to the rest of him, but Stark points out that everything else about it is perfectly suited to his requirements. Arno hands Jayden his violin and the virtuoso is able to play with all his usual skill. Arno records the performance of Guiseppe Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, an extremely difficult piece.He emails a copy to his brother Tony and tells him about the operation. He mentions that the donor was a pastry chef who died in a car accident. And he also mentions his next stop ...... which is to wander through a field of wheat growing in the Sahara, a new strain developed by himself. This is a test site but the owners are eager to plant more.Arno's emailing continues through the issue, making it seem like 1 long message referring to all the things he is doing at the time, which is an unlikely way to write an email. It also suggest that he has the inspiration to do things and then executes them immediately. But the main thrust of this issue is that he's a multi-talented genius like Tony (and issues in previous series have said that he's even cleverer than his brother).Anyway the next thing is releasing designer bacteria into a Scottish loch to (instantaneously!) eat all the garbage that people have thrown in, without damaging the ecosystem. But he tells the local Maria Stark people that he doesn't want to have to keep doing this or the bacteria will become invasive, so it's up to the locals to *keep* the loch clean.Arno gets loads of messages requesting his help but most he rejects as boring. He accepts a call from a Texas cattle rancher Wayne Butterfield who has genetically engineered a herd with no brains, which therefore can be eaten guilt-free because they feel no pain. But some of the bulls have been going mad.(Douglas Adams' solution was the reverse of this - intelligent cows that can tell you that they like to be killed and eaten.)Arno goes to visit the ranch where he sees the cattle with no bulge of braincase, but still (not contentedly) chewing grass. To illustrate the problem a bull suddenly goes berserk. Butterfield says they get 1 such mutation per litter. The handlers taser it to death.Stark asks to see the whole process. The cattle are cloned in batches and grown in artificial wombs. We see 1 being 'born', and Arno notes that it has the reflexes to immediately stand up. Then he uses his X-ray specs to study the dead bull, and asks the rancher why he lied. Butterfield admits that the bulls do have tiny brains to control their natural functions. And they also have a microchip to help.Stark quickly creates a gas which will keep the animals docile for a while without affecting any more-sentient beings and without affecting the meat. But it's only a temporary fix until he can come up with the real solution. Which eludes him because he thinks he's missing some part of the puzzle. Butterfield suggests he sleep on it, but Arno says he's modified himself so he doesn't need sleep.Arno starts running over the facts. The cattle prods work on bulls so their bodies feel the pain even if they supposedly have no consciousness to process it. He learns that the computer chips are all connected to the ranch's wi-fi system so the ranchers can track the cattle. Butterfield and his men are tucking into steaks, which he discovers were prepared for the meal at about the time the bull went mad. And suddenly he realises what's been happening.At the same time the whole herd stampede into the building and start trampling the cowboys. Arno explains that the interconnected microchips have created a gestalt consciousness in the herd as a whole. So his tranquillising gas won't work. And now the herd is seeking revenge on the meat-eaters.Butterfield desperately asks Stark to do something. Arno says he has an idea how to survive. He goes all Zen to make himself appear a mindless part of the herd. It works, but of course that's no consolation to Butterfield.Arno saw a similarity between the herd and himself. He was genetically modified before birth, was trapped in the pen of an iron lung, and his mind was trapped in his useless body. Meanwhile the prize stud Tony roamed free.Pondering this uncharacteristic failure he goes to seek help ... from Sunset Bain. Baintronics come in to tidy up the mess, but Arno won't let them kill the cattle. He tells Sunset that he called *her* rather than his brother because he admires the way she's successfully taken Tony on in the last few issues (not quite the way I'd see it). Ms Bain makes part of her payment a dinner with Arno.Before he goes on that date he catches up with his other projects. The Scottish ecologists say they're spearheading green initiatives throughout the county. In the Sahara they've planted more wheat fields but they're all failing. Arno says it's because there isn't enough moisture in the area to support more than the 1 field. The violinist Ong says his new hand is doing things of its own accord, writing messages on his sheet music like "Why did you do this to me?". Arno tells him that the arm came from someone killed in the same accident where Ong lost *his* arm - Ong ran into her car while texting while driving. (This makes it all the more remarkable that the arm was *exactly* suitable.) Arno's only advice is to keep the arm busy by playing his instrument ...... and he plays the Devil's Trill Sonata recording at dinner with Sunset. And we seem to witness a business merger between 2 of Tony's rivals. 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Self-made man: Part 1 - What's the big idea?
25 years ago teen Tony Stark entered a team for the International Robot Soccer Championship (humanoid division) and wiped the floor with the reigning champions run by Bhang Robotics. His flamboyant gameplay included a soundtrack and the final goal scored with a Pelé bicycle kick. His mother Maria Stark told him to stop showing off.Now Bhang Robotics is just the much older Andrew Bhang operating from his garage where he's developing robots with artificial intelligence that can solve problems by cooperating non-hierarchically. Tony Stark comes to see him to say he loves the idea so much he's bought the company from its investors. But they'll have to do something about the concept name Idea-Based Structuring - its acronym has unfortunate connotations. Tony whisks him away in his flying car to Stark Unlimited HQ in Washington Square Park, New York.They are greeted on the roof by Head of Security Bethany Cabe who wants to know what this unvetted person is doing on the premises, what with all the data being leaked lately. Tony introduces Andy as the new MVP (most valued person?) of the Robotics Division. Cabe updates the system and does a full body scan. She advises him to see a doctor about his prostate, and says he'll have to have his mobile phone wiped before he leaves. Tony brushes aside Bhang's protests about losing all his family photos.Stark shows off some of the current projects:- Breathable water. Anti-gravity ping-pong. Talking cats and dogs. (We see a cat accused of drinking all the milk again and blaming Jerry from Accounting. When told there is no Jerry in Accounting he blames the dog.)Tony leads Andy to the Robotics Division and introduces him to Tony Stark, and then fades away. The Stark in the flying car, etc was a hologram. The real Tony takes Andy into The Foundry where Iron Man armours are created to suit every need. Bhang wonders what the silvery female armour is for, but that armour introduces herself as the living robot Ms Jocasta Pym. She also says she's his superior because he'll report to her as the Chief Robotic Ethicist.They trial Bhang's software in some Stark-Ware robots. They set them a task - make preparations for a little girl's birthday party. 4 minutes later everything in the room is wrecked, including the robots. The system still needs some work.Then an alarm goes off which Stark recognises as signalling a 3F event. Not an F3 hurricane but an attack on NY by Fin Fang Foom. Tony contacts Colonel James Rhodes, his official military liaison, to get authorisation to deal with the monster - and then launches his forces without waiting. Automatic repulsor cannon craft attack from the air, on the sea and under it. (But Jocasta broadcasts a message to them to the effect that if any of them have become self-aware they are free to choose not to fight.)Meanwhile Stark flies to the scene in another flying craft. He realises that Fin Fang Foom isn't acting normally. He's just growling rather than speaking eloquently. And he's not wearing (purple) pants. When he gets to the site his plane links up with all the cannons to form giant Iron Man model 3FB - the Fin Fang Foombuster. A fight ensues in which Iron Man executes martial arts moves while announcing them out loud. But it is the Big Triple-F who gets in the critical hit.The Foombuster falls and Tony exits clad in a new normal-size Iron Man suit. Andy Bhang notes that he concentrates his fire on 1 location to create a weak spot on the monster's tough skin. (Andy makes a Hobbit reference which Jocasta doesn't understand so she downloads and absorbs the book and all other relevant material at high speed. She says she likes the book but splitting it into 3 films was too much.)Stark's plan was to make an opening to inject a remote-control Nano Iron Man. But while he's guiding the nanobot towards FFF's brain and battling antibodies Foom swipes him with his tail and sends him to the bottom of the harbour. The nanobot battles on and Andy asks why Tony didn't send in thousands of them. Stark replies that he did but he couldn't figure out how to make them work as a team.But Bhang reminds him how he won the Soccer competition. He's realised that the music teen Tony played during the match was actually part of the system, and asks Jocasta to broadcast the tune to the nanobots inside FFF. This allows the bots to synchronise their movements and defeat the antibodies. The bot Tony is controlling makes it to the brain and finds a control disc attached. Which at Andy's suggestion he smashes with a Pelé bicycle kick.Fin Fang Foom regains his control of his senses and doesn't know what he's been doing. He stalks off saying he'll be no-one's puppet.But Tony Stark himself has to ask for help because his armour is disabled on the sea-bed.Later Bethany Cabe does a medical scan of his bruised and battered body, declaring he'll live. Rhodey comments that he should take care of his new body. (I don't think Tony's body *is* new, just repaired and rebooted during the Legacy Search For Tony Stark.) Beth reports that there's been another security breach during the battle, an on-site hack of Tony's new eScape system. Fin Fang Foom was a distraction. They agree to keep this quiet for now.Tony Stark holds a press conference where all the major players of this issue are present. (Jocasta wears a suit for the public appearance.) He assures everyone that the Stark Solutions subdivision will repair any damage from the fight. They want to know if the armour he wore is the new Iron Man look, or if the multi-sized combo is the way of the future. Tony replies that Iron Man is an idea not a particular suit. He'll wear whatever is right for the job.In an epilogue we see the Controller, who figures Stark must have recognised the control disc and realised who is behind it. Then Bethany Cabe delivers him the eScape files. It becomes clear that she is under Controller's control, but only some of the time. The danger is that normal Bethany will figure out what is happening.


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Big Apple Showdown: Part 1
Hulk (Amadeus Cho) is beating up
Prince Regent Phalkan of Seknarf Seven but declines to kill him as the villain
expects, instead immobilizing him in foam and calling Alpha Flight. Hulk then
races off on an important mission, joining Jake Oh, Ms. Marvel, Silk,
Shang-Chi, and Jimmy Woo—to put on a show, raising money and awareness for
signing up to be a bone marrow donor. Amadeus stops to sign an autograph for a
disabled boy. Afterwards, they all head to Koreatown for a meal and while
eating notice they are all the children of immigrants, facing the same
problems, spoiling their parents’ expectations. Jimmy Woo says he’s proud of
them because they have chosen to stick out in order to stick up for others and
that’s what makes them heroes. Jimmy and Shang-Chi fight over the check
(literally, it’s kung fu versus a stun blaster) and then they all go out for
karaoke (“New York! New York!”). On the way home, they joke about Asian
stereotypes and how Amadeus can’t hide his feelings and suggest creating an
all-Asian team. But then Phalkan of Seknarf Seven invades with his Imperial
Guard and the heroes must take action….


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The Hulk in the Mirror Part 1
Amadeus Cho recalls his winning of
the Brain-Fight competition and almost immediately afterward witnessing the deaths
of his parents….
Amadeus then awakens in the Sierra
Nevada mountains with no memory of how he got there. His sister Maddy Cho
finds him in the flying food truck/HQ and tells him that he Hulked out. They
conduct tests on Hulk, including shooting him in the face with rockets, and
everything seems normal. Amadeus denies having the anger issues Bruce Banner
had while Maddy wonders about the trauma of their parents’ deaths. Amadeus is
annoyed and runs off….
Later he finds a pair of coyote
pups whose mother has become roadkill and suddenly Amora the Enchantress
appears. She offers to make Hulk her king consort but Amadeus tells her he
isn’t the hated Hulk but the happy one. So reminds him of his parents’ murder
and tries to draw his anger from him; he reveals that he is mainly angry with
himself for leading the killers to them. So she devises a better way: rock men
rise up out of the Earth and attack the coyote pups—then Hulk takes the wheel
and smashes the monsters to pieces. Now he’s ready….
Amadeus wakes up after another
blackout as Maddy finds him; he tries to tell her about the Enchantress but
they are interrupted by the arrival of Thor (Jane Foster) who wants to face the
one Amora calls her champion….


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W.M.D. Weapons of Mutant Destruction Part 2
Story continues from WEAPONS OF
MUTANT DESTRUCTION: ALPHA.
In the Republic of Santo Marco, a
visiting reporter comes up on the beach only to be shocked by a pair of polar
bears escaped from the zoo. The local hero, a huge fellow named Jorge, arrives
and beats up the bears. The reporter reveals himself to be a mutant-hunting
cyborg and it kills Jorge while Weapon X scientists joke about it back at the
lab. Rev William Stryker and Dr. Alba arrive to tell them that the cyborg’s
performance wasn’t good enough and that they are shutting down their section of
Weapon X and transferring them to Batch H….
Old Man Logan, Sabretooth, Domino,
and Warpath are investigating the cyborg killing in Santo Marco and contact
Amadeus Cho and Lady Deathstrike who are trying to find the family of David
Andrews, host of the cyborg Hulk destroyed. They have learned that David and
his brother Bobby were members of the Church of Human Potential and visit the
local church. They meet with the Pastor who tells them when she heard the
Andrews boys joining an outside group talking about killing mutants she asked
them to leave. An impatient Lady D reveals her claws and asks for the Pastor’s
help in finding them; Amadeus tells her they intend Bobby no harm but she isn’t
convinced….
At Weapon X, an attempt to create a
Hulk-based cyborg birth a huge green monster who feels pain and his anger
causes it to grow, ripping the flesh off it and killing it….
Bobby Andrews arrives in Texas and
is met by Amadeus who is reading Stryker’s book. Amadeus claims to be an old
schoolmate of Bobby’s and engages him in conversation, trying to lead him to
see the insanity of Stryker’s teachings. Eventually Amadeus grows impatient and
openly warns him about what they’ve done to his brother David. He becomes the
Hulk to persuade Bobby but Carla, a Weapon X agent, pulls up and orders Bob into
her car. A Hulklike cyborg attacks Hulk while Lady Deathstrike tries to stop
Bobby from going off with Carla but they get away. Hulk defeats the cyborg and
tells Lady D that they are going to save Bobby. Dr Alba, monitoring the
situation, notes that Hulk will soon no longer be the strongest one there is….
Story continues in WEAPON X #5.


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Weapons of Mutant Destruction Part Six
Story continues from WEAPON X #6.
In the Weapon X facility, Dr. Alba
has released H-Beta, a Hulkverine, combining the powers of Hulk and Logan, to
fight Domino and Warpath….
Elsewhere in the facility, Old Man Logan,
Lady Deathstrike, and Sabretooth turn on Hulk (Amadeus Cho), letting him
know he failed to rescue Bobby Andrews (H-Beta) by trying to stop them from killing
the bad guys. He clobbers the three of them and heads off to rescue his (other)
teammates. Hulk crashes through the wall to engage the monster but is surprised
by his claws, taking some injuries to his hands. Hulk tries to appeal to Bobby
inside the monster but Alba tells him Bobby no longer exists: H-Beta has no
brain beyond that which powers emotional responses, like anger. She exhorts
Hulk to give it all his strength so she can see what her creation is capable
of. As the two battle, the ground above cracks open and Warpath and Domino have
to save people from falling in. And then Amadeus lets Hulk out of the trunk and
he hurls H-Beta to the surface, following him to continue their fight. At this
point, H-Alpha is ready and Dr. Alba frees it to join the other two above.
H-Alpha, a gray Hulk with retractable claws and Adamantium rods sticking out of
his back, faces Hulk and H-Beta. Rev. William Stryker halts his escape to watch
what happens next. And what happens next is that H-Alpha decapitates H-Beta
with a single swipe of its claws, as Alba had programmed it to destroy the
greatest threat it faces—and that was H-Beta. Alba tries directing it to attack
the Hulk but it balks and, remembering what had been done to it, it goes after
Stryker and his group. Stryker’s guards open fire but Hulk seizes the monster,
allowing the bad guys to get away; there is a brief fight which trashes the
rest of the area, with the team rescuing civilians (and Domino lamenting the
destruction of the bank). Hulk and H-Alpha face one another, then the monster
retracts its claws and leaps off into the distance. Hulk is angry that the
monster got away but Logan plans to track it down—but Amadeus doesn’t want to
hear it, quitting the team. Sabretooth looks at his teammates and announces
that they are the new Weapon X….


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Still in Austin, Texas (see last
issue), Amadeus Cho is walking past a playground when a bunch of teens
recognize him and invite him to join their pickup basketball game. Declining to
turn into Hulk, he demonstrates his grasp of mathematics by sinking the ball
from across the court. Then basketball star Jeremy Lin, in Austin for a charity
event, shows up to see Amadeus and the two start playing one-on-one until the
police arrive to clear up the commotion. Amadeus invite Jeremy to chill at the
Olympus Group Secret HQ where they eat and play video games and Amadeus tries
to contact Maddy Cho to brag but she isn’t speaking to him (also since last
issue)….
The next day, Amadeus joins Jeremy
for his charity basketball game to benefit E.R.F.E.I. (Equal Rights for Every
Intelligence), each leading a team of aliens and AIs, with Amadeus hulking out
to level the playing field. The game gets started and Hulk finds himself taking
things a bit too seriously—until a giant red robot dragon tears open the roof.
Hulk snaps into action fighting the monster while Maddy contacts him, telling
him to stand down. Hulk refuses, thinking he knows best but when the red dragon
is defeated, he looks up to see a silver robot dragon carrying off teammate
Arch-E-5912 with Jeremy Lin hanging on for dear life….


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Responding to a distress call,
Amadeus Cho, the Totally Awesome Hulk is in space, rescuing a Russian space
shuttle; he delights in being the only person who can survive in space without
a protective suit, just an oxygen mask and a rocket pack—until he spots two
more humans with no protection approaching him. They fire missiles out of the
hands, striking Hulk and destroying his mask and jet pack. They reveal
themselves to be killer cyborgs with huge adamantium claws, slashing at him.
[This battle is being monitored by the Weapon X project back on Earth.]
Searching for a weapon, Hulk uses his frozen blood drops, hurling them like
bullets at his foes. The damaged cyborg self-destructs, knocking Hulk out. The
second one seizes him but he was only faking and he rips the cyborg apart and
begins plummeting to Earth, clutching the head and chest of the second cyborg….
Near Isla Cedros in Baja
California, Old Man Logan, Sabretooth, and Domino are searching for clues to
the cyborgs that had attacked them (WEAPON X #3) when Hulk approaches in his
airship and invites them aboard. He explains that his examination of the
partial cyborg he has showed traces of their DNA so he came looking for them. He
also knows that the cyborgs are based on Lady Deathstrike as their foundation
with Warpath’s DNA giving them flight. They try interrogating the cyborg but it
turns out to be only a machine with pre-programmed answers. Studying its data
bank shows them its destination so they head there, with Amadeus confident of
their chances—until Logan points out that they may have a sample of his blood.
And we see they do: a portion of the ruined cyborg reformed itself into an
insectoid shape, harvested some of his blood drops and returned to its home….
Story continues in  WEAPON X #4.


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Cho Time: Part One
On Virginia Beach on the last day of summer, a monster
resembling a two-headed turtle rises from the ocean sending the crowds into a
panic. And the drone Kegger, actually channeling Maddy Cho) has to nag her
brother Amadeus Cho into taking action. When Amadeus is done gorging himself on
burgers he dashes to the beach, transforming into the Hulk en route. He punches
out the monster then flirts with an attractive woman who is caring for a small
child. He is thus distracted when the monster recovers and grabs him, pounding
him into the sand like the (other) Hulk did to Loki. He manages to save the kid
and the woman from the monster’s fiery breath and tosses a tank of propane into
its mouth, all the while ignoring Maddy’s nagging and advice. The explosion
knocks out the monster and Hulk is able to shrink it using a wrist device. He
then turns his attention back to the lady but she points out that he is now
naked and he leaps off in embarrassment and returns to the flying food truck
that is his and Maddy’s rolling base. Maddy greets him with a punch in the face
and complaints about his performance. She locks the tiny creature in a bottle
while Amadeus dresses. They have been investigating monster sightings all over
the world and capturing the beasts but Maddy is worried that Amadeus is
unreliable like Bruce Banner. He becomes incensed (proving her point) but they
are interrupted by the drone warning that he is starting to Hulk out….
Kenya, four months ago: Bruce Banner arrives at the site of
the meltdown of a fusion reactor. Iron Man and Black Panther are on the scene
and have given up trying to halt the disaster, instead concentrating on
evacuating as many people as they can. Bruce thinks he can do better than that
and transforms into the Hulk, leaping into action. He enters the reactor and
absorbs the energy into himself and halting the meltdown but it’s different
from the gamma radiation that created him and it starts to affect him….
Amadeus calms down and his gamma levels drop; he apologizes
and Maddy expresses her concern for him. Amadeus takes a nap and has what would
be a recurring dream: he is driving down a highway, feeling free because the
Hulk is locked in the trunk….
Two days later in New Zealand, She-Hulk and Spider-Man (Miles
Morales) are battling a pair of ogres called Gnasher and Gasher; Hulk arrives
and teams with Shulkie to take down the monsters. He bickers with Maddy (via
Kegger) about flirting with She-Hulk, who takes a disliking to him for his lack
of responsibility. Then Hulk is clouted by a new arrival: Lady Hellbender,
Monster Queen of Seknarf Nine. As she grinds his face under her boot, Amadeus
sizes up this buxom gray-skinned barbarian woman and pronounces her fine, to
Maddy’s dismay….


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A giant silver robot dragon is
carrying off Arch-E-5912 with Jeremy Lin hanging on for dear life. Hulk leaps
through the air to the rescue, seizes Jeremy and they start to plummet,
teleporting to the ground at the last minute. Hulk recognizes the dragon’s code
as having been stolen by a hacker from a videogame he had created. Hulk tries
to scramble the jets of the Olympus Group but his sister Maddy Cho arrives via
aircraft to remind him he is no longer the Director of Olympus Command, she is.
She tells Jeremy that she has severed ties with Amadeus and shoots her brother
with a Gamma-inhibitor, changing him back to normal before she heads out after
the baddies. Amadeus and Jeremy follow in the latter’s car and on the road they
are attacked by a cobbled together robot wanting to assimilate their car;
Amadeus blasts it and learns it is working for Quasi/mo/do (the former Quasimodo); Amadeus uses the
damaged robot to convert Jeremy’s auto into a flying car and they continue on
the trail….
They arrive at a robotics plant
where Quasi/mo/do has assimilated the tech to form a giant mechanical octopus;
Maddy fires Kegger (their drone) at the monster but Amadeus Cho Hulks out and
rescues Kegger, learning too late that it contained code Maddy had written to shut
down Quasi/mo/do. The octopus teleports away and the group (including
Arch-E-5912) forms their strategy: they put find a vulnerable spot on the
monster to insert Kegger for the code to work. When they catch up with
Quasi/mo/do, Jeremy calls the shots as they fan out like a basketball team,
passing Kegger back and forth like a ball as Quasi/mo/do creates defenders to
block them. The action moves back and forth a bit before Jeremy passes Kegger
to Arch-E-5912 who dunks it in the slot and the whole metal mess falls apart,
freeing the assimilated robots. Jeremy’s pal Brook Lopez shows up, a little to
late for the action, and joins in the clean-up. Hulk approaches Maddy who shuts
herself up in her aircraft and takes off; he goes back to picking up junk….


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Prologue has Bruce Banner advising
Amadeus Cho that he will make a good Hulk, noting that while Bruce’s sin is
anger, Amadeus is motivated by pride….
In Austin, Maddy Cho is enraged
that Amadeus just made their monstrous foe stronger. Black Panther and Jake Oh
arrive and plan to capture Hulk and send him to the Negative Zone. Instead,
Maddy convinces them that the important matter is rescuing the lady’s baby from
the monster. Panther promises the woman he will bring back her son. The team
follows the monster’s tracks and discovers he has transformed back into his
human shape to slip into a crack in the sidewalk, one wide enough only for
Amadeus and Maddy to enter. T’Challa supplies them with tracking devices and
they descend into the sewers. Amadeus confronts the bad guy (name revealed to
be Christian Sung) who enjoys the strong emotions displayed by Amadeus when he
threatens to drop the baby off a precipice. Sung intends to kill as many people
as possible while feeding on Amadeus’ fear and panic. Then he drops the baby
but Panther is on the scene to catch him. Amadeus and Sung both transform into
their monstrous alter egos and Hulk calls out to Jake Oh to send them both to
the Negative Zone. Maddy overrides the system and faces the monster herself.
She lures it away from Hulk and then gives the order to transport the monster
to the Neg Zone. Maddy then announces that she’s leaving her brother to be Hulk
on his own since he never listens and he never learns; despite his
pronouncements he always does what he feels like. Returning to the surface,
Hulk is hailed as a hero by neighbors….
One week later, Hulk arrives
at a diner in Topeka, Kansas. Clint (Hawkeye) Barton is sitting there. Neither
he nor Hulk is sure what Hulk wants but, in the end, he turns back into Amadeus
and says “I just want my friend back.” The two grieve together….


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Cho Time: Part Three
She-Hulk tries to call the Avengers in to deal with new Hulk
Amadeus Cho but Maddy Cho jams the signal because of the hero team’s poor track
record of dealing with Hulks. Lady Hellbender prepares to blast Fin Fang Foom
with an alien weapon but Hulk points out that FFF isn’t doing anything yet…and
then a cruise ship comes into view. Hulk wants to protect the people aboard the
ship but he is chomped by FFF and breaks his way out. There is a struggle between
the two huge green monsters, and in his imagination, Amadeus is still at the
wheel of the car but Hulk is now out of the trunk. Amadeus tries to convince
himself he is still in control as he rises through the water to face his foe….
Kenya, four months ago: Hulk, in a containment capsule, is
about to detonate; Iron Man and Black Panther, with Monica Rappaccini, must
decide quickly what to do with Hulk to save the population. Amadeus Cho
teleports in with a bunch of suggestions for dealing with Hulk but they’ve all
been tried. Amadeus discovers they are planning to teleport the Big Green Guy
into the Negative Zone and Monica sedates him before he can react….
Hulk lifts the ship into the air and carries it to safety—but
meanwhile, Fin Fang Foom has reached land (Hawaii, to be specific). Hulk
attacks the giant dragon and it spits acid at him; Hulk locates a (conveniently
placed) barrel of sodium hydroxide and stuffs it in FFF’s mouth, neutralizing
the acid and he decks the dragon with a single punch. While he is posing for
the admiration of onlookers, Lady Hellbender, now that she realizes he is the
strongest monster on Earth, sedates him and prepares to carry him back to her
homeworld….Spider-Man (Miles Morales) also appears but didn’t make it
into the synopsis.


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Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier,
Black Panther prepares to track down the new HulkAmadeus Cho in his huge
battle armor. Captain Marvel assigns Agent Jake Oh to go along a SHIELD
liaison. Aboard their two-man ship, T’Challa questions Jake’s fitness for the
mission and he convinces the King that being a grunt who takes orders qualifies
him for the job. They find Amadeus having a meal in a diner; Panther explains
that their concern is Hulk’s going after Clint (Hawkeye) Barton who killed
Bruce Banner. But Amadeus knows they’re watching and writes “Bye” on the table
in soda and hits the trail on his motorbike. Sister Maddy Cho intercepts him,
asking what he thinks he’s doing. Turns out Amadeus can’t get over Bruce Banner’s
death: he was cured, he was no threat, yet he had Hawkeye kill him so Amadeus
is going to find Hawkeye and decide what to do then. She tells him of a monster
sighting in Austin, Texas but he is firm….
Hulk (bursting out of the trunk in
Amadeus’ mental picture) arrives at Clint Barton’s remote cabin but he enters
as Amadeus and confronts Clint. But in an instant he’s Hulk again—and “Clint”
cuts off the induced image to reveal Black Panther. T’Challa attacks with
sonics but Hulk is able to clap him away. Next the hero uses gas but Hulk is
immune. Amadeus insists he’s not dangerous; T’Challa demands he surrender. Hulk
refuses, Panther uses electricity, warning Hulk his battle armor absorbs
energy, making him stronger. Hulk refuses….
In Austin, Maddy Cho helps a young
man flee the disaster area—and then he transforms into a huge -insectoid
monster….


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Big Apple Showdown: Conclusion
On the chunk of Manhattan orbiting
Seknarf Seven as a food colony, the humans have fought back and Jeffrey
Gunderblank was killed so the Protectors (Hulk, Silk, Shang-Chi, Ms. Marvel,
Jake Oh, Jimmy Woo) are waging all-out war on their alien captors. Prince
Regent Phalkan orders his guards to concentrate on the Hulk, the only one who
poses a real threat. Hulk pushes all the humans behind him and receives the
concentrated electrical attacks of the enemy; he’s still standing because they
have made him angry. The Seknarfians channel all their power into their spears
and attack again; Hulk falls to one knee but quickly gathers his strength and
hurls them all away while blowing out their armor. But Phalkan realizes Hulk is
also out of power and he moves to kill Hulk with a dagger—but Jimmy Woo clouts
the villain with a sledgehammer and the other humans mob the villain. But Hulk
stops them from killing Phalkan, lest they become like their enemies. They are
“Protectors” after all. Alpha Flight arrives to pick up the Earth people.
Sasquatch tells Jimmy Woo that they are negotiating with the leaders of Seknarf
Seven and that Phalkan is a traitor who will be imprisoned. Later, Amadeus and
Jimmy have a talk about what just happened: Jimmy thinks killing the
Seknarfians would have been justified but Amadeus doesn’t—as Phalkan is taken
away vowing to kill and eat their families. After Jimmy leaves with Alpha
Flight, Kamala and Cindy stay with Amadeus, waiting to be teleported back to
Earth with Herald Square and tell Amadeus that they agree with him….
48 hours later, the heroes show up
at a children’s hospital while Jimmy Woo looks on in approval….


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In the aftermath of Hawkeye’s
killing Bruce Banner and his subsequent trial and acquittal, Amadeus Cho is in
a massive depression, knowing that he had cured Bruce of being the Hulk. Sister
Maddy Cho tries to convince him that it wasn’t his fault but Amadeus blames the
heroes. He answers the door to an army of SHIELD Agents, led by Captain Marvel,
making sure that Amadeus is “all right” (i.e. posing no danger). He points out
that with all their sensors on him, she should know that his condition is
stable, even if Agent Jake Oh is stressing out. Amadeus explains that he knows
in his head that the Avengers and other good guys weren’t responsible but he
still feels it in his heart. He understands their concern that he might do something
dangerous but he just wants to be left alone to mourn. Carol accepts this but
as she turns to go, Amadeus stops her to ask, “If I were to go crazy, what
makes you think you could stop me?” And there’s that doubt again….
Later, the SHIELD Helicarrier picks
up Hulk jumping through the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia; Captain
Marvel is alerted and she sends a warning to Hawkeye in his refuge in the
Poconos. They observe as Hulk tears through a mining site, spelling out “Made
you look” in large letters. He then resumes his Amadeus form and Carol thinks
he’ll be fine. Then Black Panther announces he’ll take it from there….


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Big Apple Showdown: Part 3
On the chunk of Manhattan orbiting
Seknarf Seven as a food colony, Amadeus Cho addresses the citizens: they were
able to summon Alpha Flight but the aliens will be returning soon: should they
hand over three of them or fight? Amadeus has worked out some of their
vulnerabilities but Jeffrey Gunderblank balks out of fear. Jimmy Woo puts the
issue in practical terms: this will be a real fight for their lives. Ms. Marvel
and Silk are building protective bunkers for the children and noncombatants
while Jake Oh is leading work on figuring out how the power systems work. But
the aliens come early and they know what the humans have been doing so Prince
Regent Phalkan demands their three sacrifices. Instead Shang-Chi and the others
launch their attack with explosives and kung fu but Phalkan cuts off the
gravity and they humans work together so that no one is lost. With the threat
to cut off the oxygen, Jimmy Woo and Jake Oh volunteer as expendable; Amadeus
chooses to be the third. But the humans are able to cut the shielding enabling
Amadeus to change into the Hulk and clobber all of the Guards, snatching Jimmy
and Jake and returning to the ground. They power up life support and the battle
is on, with the heroes shielding the humans from the enemy blast—but Jeffrey
Gunderblank is mortally wounded; this makes Hulk and the others mad and Hulk
leads a frenzied charge against the enemy….


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Blastoff
Amadeus Cho steps out of the shower
and sees a large figure in the misted-over mirror and is startled. Once he
realizes it was his normal reflection, he decides that he’s had enough…
Kamal (Ms. Marvel) Khan and Cindy
(Silk) Moon arrive at Amadeus’ apartment in the Olympus Group Building, having
been invited by the boy genius. There they meet SHIELD Agent Jake Oh and all
are greeted by Amadeus’ sister Maddy Cho. The next guest is a surprising one:
T’Challa, the Black Panther, in casual wear. They all sit down to a meal of
tacos and Korean cuisine; afterward, Amadeus cones to the reason he has invited
them: the Hulk has been out of control recently (see issues #19-20) and he
trusts them to help him learn just how far he can go with his powers….
The experiment puts Amadeus on the
moon in a space suit as the others orbit in an Olympus Group shuttle, mentally
linked to Amadeus. A massive nuclear bomb is dropped on his and that triggers
Amadeus’ transformation into the Hulk. So, in their collective mind, they stand
and watch as Amadeus opens the trunk of his car and lets Hulk out. Hulk asks to
be let loose; Amadeus replies that he just did; Hulk says he’s always holding
back. His friends insist Amadeus isn’t the Hulk as he never does anything
through anger. Hulk responds that pride comes from anger and his friends all
laugh at him and that Maddy will always hate him for causing their parents’
deaths—and Amadeus will hate her for that. Amadeus insists it’s all a lie, he
doesn’t hate him friends but Hulk reacts by hammering the moon and causing a
quake. Amadeus knows he can’t hold Hulk back but he has prepared for this: he
signals to T’Challa who hit a switch and nanobots build a shuttle around Hulk
and blast him into space where he will have a lab to figure out what’s going
on. But Maddy says, “don’t you remember what happened last time someone shot
the Hulk into space?”
Story continues in INCREDIBLE HULK
#709.


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Peace in Our Time
Amadeus Cho and Maddy Cho track
Bruce Banner to Baja California where they find him sick from influenza, which
he infected himself with to make sure he was free of the Hulk and his healing
powers. The Chos take him to a hidden base in New Mexico, the one Bruce had
originally created for himself in the early days of the Hulk, where they nurse
him back to health. Visitors arrive: She-Hulk and Rick Jones (bringing beer),
invited by Maddy to help Bruce (and, as will soon be revealed, to help
Amadeus). Jen and Rick are amazed to find Bruce happy. Amadeus becomes the Hulk
and locks himself inside Bruce’s vault and proves to himself that he can punch
his way out, which the original could not do; he then jumps off into the distance
and Maddy chases him down and sprays a quick-hardening goop on his. She tells
Jen and Rick about Amadeus’ blackouts, having invited them, knowing that
Amadeus wouldn’t mention it to Bruce. They end up telling him to talk to Bruce.
The two men have a talk wherein Bruce pretty much tells Amadeus that he will
have his own set of Hulk problems but at least he’s not a monster. Amadeus then
comes down with the flu and Bruce tucks him in, heading out for his new life…


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Cho Time: Part Two
Lady Hellbender is trying to smash Hulk (Amadeus Cho) but
he is dodging as he can’t bring himself to hit a lady (especially an attractive
one)—then Lady H’s dinosaur steed chomps on Hulk’s head and shakes him around.
Maddy Cho brings around the flying base and sprays the two combatants with a
foam that quickly hardens. But now Lady Hellbender is atop the base, tearing
the roof off. Spider-Man (Miles Morales) webs the craft but is pulled upward;
She-Hulk grabs his ankle and heads up. The threat to his sister makes Hulk
angry and he leaps up, seizes Lady Hellbender and slams her down to the
ground….
Kenya, four months ago: After absorbing the energy from the
nuclear meltdown, Hulk has been placed in a containment pod by Dr Monica Rappaccini
as the big green guy battles the radiation mixing with his own. Iron Man
 is at a loss for how to help his old friend, while Black Panther suggests
sacrificing Hulk to save fifty million Kenyans….
Hulk squares off with Lady Hellbender; She-Hulk intervenes
and is knocked out of the way by the Monster Queen. Spidey does likewise but
Hulk seizes him by the head. It is Maddy who can calm the Hulk into changing
back to Amadeus. Lady H calls a truce with Maddy, pointing out that she was
hunting a monster when Jen and Spidey attacked her. Some checking of
instruments reveals to Maddy that there was something else in the area earlier.
Lady H spots the shrunken monsters in the van and demands they be restored to
their right size; she calls down her huge box-like ship Destromundo containing
numerous captive monsters to be released in the gardens of Seknarf Nine; Maddy
doesn’t trust her, thinking the Monster Queen is actually building an army.
Then Lady H’s quarry appears: Fin Fang Foom. She challenges Amadeus to join her
in battling it and he Hulks out and goes with her—to Maddy’s dismay….


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Cho Time: Part Four
Maddy Cho, via the drone Kegger,
tries to awaken Hulk (Amadeus Cho) as he is being carried off by Lady
Hellbender in her ship. The drowsy Hulk tries to kiss his captor and she
punches him but changes her mind and gives him a smooch, which disturbs
She-Hulk and Spider-Man (M. Morales) who are watching along with Maddy . In the
flying food truck/HQ Maddy hooks on to Lady H’s ship while Shulkie jumps over
to fight but Lady H dumps the huge canisters containing all her captive Earth
monsters and the heroes are in trouble. Hulk smashes through his chains, rips
off his control disc and drops to the ground to show the others that the released
monsters aren’t dangerous—until Lady Hellbender turns them aggressive via their
control discs. So Hulk and She-Hulk dive into a the massive free-for-all while
Spidey protects Maddy  who tells Amadeus he finally has to tap into the Hulk’s
power to save the day….
Kenya, four months ago: Hulk bursts out of his containment
capsule ready to detonate. Iron Man and Black Panther are having trouble
calculating the teleporter to send Hulk to the Negative Zone without taking
part of the country with him so they have Monica Rappaccini awaken Amadeus
Cho—except he has already freed himself. Wearing a diving suit he has just
modified himself Amadeus approaches Hulk and drains off his lethal energy,
restoring him to Bruce Banner, but absorbs it himself, creating a new Hulk….
Now Amadeus lets Hulk’s full power flow through him,
shrugging off the monsters and finding it awesome (as the Hulk in his
imagination is now in the back seat of the car) and now Maddy and Jen have to
warn him to regain control else he destroy the coast of Hawaii. So he thinks
and comes up with a plan: he seizes a power transformer and electrocutes the
monsters, burning out their control discs and setting them free from Lady H’s
power. Lady H kisses Hulk goodbye and tells him to call her when he is ready to
accept who he really is, heading back to her home planet….
Epilogue: Amadeus, Jen, Spidey, and Maddy round up the
monsters, shrinking them and storing them in a box. As Amadeus passes a mirror,
he thinks he sees the Hulk looking back but a second glance shows him only his
own reflection….


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The Hulk in the Mirror Part 2
Thor (Jane Foster) confronts
Amadeus Cho, accusing him of joining the Enchantress’ schemes against Asgard.
He insists he doesn’t know because he blacked out as soon as he became the Hulk
so she hurls him through the air, causing him to Hulk out. Hulk doesn’t know
either and his sister Maddy Cho backs him up. Thor takes them to a secret
Dwarven outpost in Iceland where he learns he helped Amora make off with the
dwarves’ cache of Uru. Hulk promises to retrieve it for them and Maddy uses a
spectrometer to track down the missing metal…
…to a nearby cave where Amora has
Dark Elves forging new weapons out of it. Hulk and Thor crash in and Amora
orders the elves to attack with the new Uru weapons. Thor calls for a retreat
and while she fights off the elves, Amadeus reveals to Maddy that Amora was
able to control him though a vision of their parents’ deaths. Maddy assures him
it is all right to get mad—if he’s mad at the Enchantress. Hulk seizes control
of the wheel and hurls himself into the melee—but Amora presents him with the
huge Uru axe he was promised when he became her king. Hulk wields the axe to
destroy all of the elves’ Uru weapons, leaving the cleaning up to Thor. And
Maddy gives Amora a jolt of electricity to stop her from trying to ensnare Hulk
again. The villainess vanishes and the Uru axe plus all of the fragments are
turned over to the dwarves. Thor tells Hulk she’ll be keeping an eye on him….
Epilogue: Amadeus and Maddy visit
their parents’ grave together….


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This issue is set 4 months ago. Bruce Banner wakes up with only his trousers as usual. But this time he can't remember what happened. He steals a shirt, intending to pay for it later. But the owner starts to beat him up. Bruce fears he'll turn into the Hulk, but is amazed and glad to find that he doesn't. And then the Hulk arrives to rescue him.Bruce is confused to see that this Hulk is really his pal Amadeus Cho. Cho-Hulk takes Banner to 1 of his old cave hideouts in the Mojave Desert. There he recaps the flashbacks from #1-4: Hulk absorbed radiation to stop a nuclear meltdown, but became a nuclear menace himself. Tony Stark, T'Challa and Monica Rappaccini decided the only way to deal with the problem was to send Hulk into the Negative Zone. But Amadeus Cho sneakily siphoned the Hulkiness out of Banner, and the radioactivity disappeared. However, the Hulk power entered Cho.Now, Bruce is free of his curse, and Amadeus enjoys being the Hulk, without Bruce's anger issues to fuel the Hulk's rage.Later, Banner realises that he really doesn't feel the Hulk trying to escape from inside him anymore. He really is free.Next, we see him joyriding in the desert and crashing the car. He wanders for a long time before finding water. And a bear cub. And the momma bear! Running away, he falls down a waterfall. And at no time did he Hulk-out.He wakes in a hospital and they fearfully let him walk out when he tells them who he is. He causes a riot by entering a Las Vegas casino (and presumably announcing his name again). Then, Iron Man arrives to find him alone with a croupier and demanding to play cards.Tony Stark asks Banner if he's got a death wish. He rattles off all the dangerous situations Bruce has put himself in, ending up with a SWAT team surrounding him here because Hulk has trashed Vegas several times. Tony gets Bruce to understand that he must forgive himself for all the Hulk has done.But Bruce adds that he can't forgive Iron Man and all the others who pursued Hulk when all Greenie wanted was to be left alone. They were responsible for Hulk's rage. (Conveniently forgetting about baddies like the Leader.) Bruce gets angry about it all and smashes his arms down on the card table. But all he does is hurt his arms. Then, Tony steps out of his armour and offers to let Bruce hit him. But Bruce just hugs him with tears of joy as he finally really realises that he's not the Hulk anymore.


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Earlier in Austin Texas, a young
man wanders through a crowd and bored with all the happy people, he cuts loose a
baby’s balloon and enjoys the child’s sadness. Maddy Cho is on the scene
investigating reports of a monster. The young man transforms into a giant
insectoid creature and revels in the terror and panic….
In Arkansas, an armored Black Panther
tries to subdue the Hulk while Jake Oh hacks into Amadeus’ laptop to
find that Amadeus knows where to find Hawkeye (Clint Barton); when Hulk gets a
report from Maddy about the monster, he tears Panthers armor off and T’Challa
orders Jake to teleport them both to the Negative Zone but Jake can’t: Hulk’s
energy has fried the controls of the laptop. Hulk leaps off for Austin…
…where Maddy is trying to hold off
the monster who feeds on strong emotions and finds Maddy a cold fish. Instead
he attacks the mother of the baby, terrifying the kid and satisfying the
creature. Maddy helps the mother and child escape and is then trapped by the
monster…and then Hulk lands on him. As they fight the monster, feeding on
Hulk’s emotions, grows larger; Amadeus, whose energy was being absorbed by
Black Panther, smashes his foe into the ground. But the monster rises and rips
into Hulk, knocking him flat. The monster then seizes the baby and vanishes
down an alley. Black Panther and Jake Oh arrive and the overwhelmed Hulk asks
them for help….


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W.M.D. Weapons of Mutant Destruction Part 3 [i.e. Part 4]
Story continues from WEAPON X #5.
Agent Carla arrives at the Weapon X
facility with new recruit Bobby Andrews, escorting him through the building
until they reach the Black Level. There, Bobby is strapped to a chair and
forced to watch a film describing mutants as evil with Hulk the evilest of all,
having killed Bobby’s brother Dave and now Bobby has to step up and be the new
hero. After this Rev. William Stryker appears to him and Bobby is hurried into
the test, dubbed H-Beta. Doctor Alba is running another experiment with
H-Alpha, who has not been indoctrinated by Rev. Stryker, compared by Alba to
Wolverine with his discipline and control….
Aboard the Olympus Group Transport
near Serenity Hills, Texas, Amadeus Cho shows the team the layout of the town
and the central building, Weapon X headquarters, warning them that they have
only a limited time to stop production on the killer cyborgs or they will be
overwhelmed. When the rest of the group suggests just bombing the whole place
from the sky, Amadeus balks at the idea of killing innocent people along with
the baddies, a consideration the others don’t care about. Amadeus reminds them
they are going to save Bobby Andrews, a dumb kid who has made a lot of bad
choices but he doesn’t deserve what’s happening to him. Domino suggests just
bombing the lowest level but Warpath points out that would give their enemies
time to escape. Amadeus snatches the suitcase bomb from the table and
Sabretooth attacks him; Amadeus turns into Hulk and gives him a sound
thrashing. Creed pushes Hulk out of the doorway and triggers the bomb in Hulk’s
hand. An enraged Hulk returns to beat him into a pulp. Seeing Hulk unleash all
his passion and power assures the others that he will be all right on the
mission and they agree to do it his way. Domino asks Hulk for assurance that
any loot she finds she can keep….
That night, a pizza delivery van
pulls up to the front gate, carrying a team of heroes….
Old Man Logan and Lady Deathstrike
are in the issue too but I couldn’t fit them into the synopsis.
Story continues in WEAPON X #6.


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Big Apple Showdown: Part 2
Prince Regent Phalkan of Seknarf
Seven and his Imperial Guard have invaded New York to avenge his defeat by the
Hulk (last issue), intending to conquer the human race for food. The heroes
(Hulk, Silk, Ms. Marvel, Shang-Chi, Jake Oh, Jimmy Woo) immediately start
fighting, backed by several police officers. Ordinary citizen Jeffrey
Gunderblank panics, calling for the Avengers, and Jimmy tries to calm him down
by pointing out the heroes on the ground. Hulk brings down the alien flagship
after telling them to clear Herald Square. Amadeus sees this as everyone
working together though Ms. Marvel refers to it as “everyone madly scrambling
to cover for [Hulk’s] ill-advised, unilateral decisions.” Then the lighted
spears planted around the square light up—and then a section of the streets is
gone along with everyone in that area…
…and the section reappears in space
near Seknarf Seven. Phalkan announces they are now a food colony and warns them
that if they resist, their oxygen supply will be cut off. Pahlkan adds that
they will return in six hours and expect three humans to be handed over for
tonight’s feast. Jimmy Woo dubs the group the Protectors and vows to protect
the earth people as do the police. Everyone works together to make a shelter,
find food and water and Hulk recruits those with mechanical know-how to figure
out how the lighted spears work to create gravity and atmosphere. Another
colony floats into view and Seknarfians are seen rounding up those inhabitants
for food; he tries to leap over there and hits a force field which not only
knocks him back it depowers him. The Agents’ guns are also unusable. Shang-Chi,
Silk, and Ms. Marvel still have their powers and so they will lead the charge,
with the citizens ready to join the fight….


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Truth, Part Two: The Basics
At Camp Cathcart, Mississippi, the Negro troops return from a morning of crawling through mud to the taunts of the white soldiers. Meanwhile, a Mr. Tully and a Dr. Reinstein are requesting two battalions of colored soldiers for an experiment in enhancing the performances of fighting men. The project is otherwise classified, even from the camp commander Major Brackett….
Sgt. Elias explains to the men that the unpleasant training was necessary in case they are ever sent to fight: they need to be able to kill without hesitation, regardless of the poor conditions they may have just come through. Isaiah shows off a photo of Faith with their newborn daughter Sarah; a soldier named Larsen dreams of killing white men; Maurice wants assurance that the cause they are fighting for is just. When mocked, Maurice storms out of the barracks to the colored men’s urinal in back of the officers’ latrine. There he is confronted by a trio of racists who insult him; he throws a punch but is overwhelmed and beaten by the other men. The confrontation is interrupted by the Major escorting his guests to the latrine; Maurice refuses to implicate his attackers, making light of the incident. Later, Elias tells them they will be taking part in a night training exercise, which many suspect is some sort of punishment for Maurice’s troubles. That evening, as the troops are assembled under the watchful eyes of Tully and Reinstein, Colonel Walker Price from Military Intelligence relieves Major Brackett of his command and announces they are shutting down the base. When Brackett questions these orders, Price draws his pistol and shoots him through the head. When 300 Negro troops are loaded into trucks, they are driven off and hear in the background the sound of gunfire, eliminating all witnesses to the project….


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Truth, Part Seven: The Blackvine
Captain America meets with Colonel Walker Price at his brother’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery. Cap asks him about Isaiah Bradley; Price insists that Bradley died at Schwarzebitte. Cap would also like to know how Price ended up as CEO of Koch International—the corporation founded by the mastermind of the Nazi super-soldier project. Price explains that when keeping the racial lines pure was a major goal for both America and Europe, Germany joined the USA in a eugenics project led by Drs. Reinstein and Koch to create a superior soldier; when the War broke out Koch returned to Germany while Reinstein remained in America, setting off a race for the super-soldier. Isaiah Bradley was supposed to steal Koch’s secrets at Schwarzebitte but died instead. Price was disgraced for failing to protect Reinstein and after the war, he became part of the Koch corporation in West Germany, rising to CEO. Cap tells Price that with his back pay (earned while he was on ice) he bought a controlling interest in Koch and will have Price fired—then arrested for the murder of Major Brackett (issue #2) with Lt. Merritt as witness….A few days later (after Price has committed suicide) Cap visits Faith Bradley, now a burka-clad Muslim, to learn Isaiah’s story. After relating the account found in issue #5, she sends the grandchildren to make Isaiah ready for the visitor. She fills in the rest of the story: Isaiah was smuggled out of the country by the Underground, and returned to the US—where he was court-martialed and sentenced to life in prison for stealing the Captain America costume. On his last day in office President Eisenhower pardoned Isaiah then swore the family to secrecy. The experience left Isaiah broken in mind and body, though he eventually recovered his physical strength. When Faith leaves to check on Isaiah, Cap surveys a wall of photos of Isaiah with many celebrities. Cap plays briefly with one of the grandchildren until he is called in to meet Isaiah. Cap introduces himself to his black counterpart and apologizes for his treatment at the hands of his own country, then presents him with the tattered remains of his uniform; at this the childlike Isaiah’s face lights up. Faith snaps a picture of the two Captains side-by-side, both wearing their colors.


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Truth, Part Five: The Math
Faith Bradley relates the story of her husband Isaiah’s adventures as the black Captain America: In 1942, he parachuted behind enemy lines and headed for his objective: Schwarzebitte Concentration Camp, where he entered secretly, quietly killed several guards, and wired explosives to destroy several buildings. As the Nazis were thrown into confusion, Isaiah made his way to the medical lab and killed Dr. Koch, destroyed his files and set explosives there…and then he saw the bodies of Jews used for ghastly experimentation. In tears he planted the bombs and escaped as the lab was destroyed. Fleeing the guards, he saw emaciated women being herded into a building. Slaying the guards he hurried them in and locked himself in with them—and then discovered the place was a gas chamber. When the Zyklon gas was pumped into the room, the women panicked and attacked Isaiah. Guard opened the door later and removed Isaiah’s body….
"So Isaiah died at the Camp…?" "No…whatever made you think Isaiah was dead?" an elderly Faith Bradley tells Captain America—Steve Rogers.


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Truth, Part Four: The Cut
1942: At Army Headquarters in New York, Faith Bradley is demanding the truth about her husband’s death, since the body sent her in a closed coffin was that of a white man. Storming out, she is followed by a black corporal, Eddie Himes, who tries to explain that the Army’s practice is that when soldiers are killed in an explosion, they divide up the remains so that each family can have satisfaction. Faith doens’ understand but accepts that Isaiah is dead.
Meanwhile in Germany, the band of black super-soldiers intercepts a German convoy and wipes out the Nazis, though Larsen is killed by a grenade. Examining the trucks the men discover that the Germans were delivering medical supplies, not weapons, to the front. Maurice agonizes over the horrors of war while Elias insists this is what they have to do if they want to see home again.
Sometime later, in Portugal, Isaiah reads about Captain America in a comic book and questions Sgt. Elias about its accuracy and the impending visit of a real Captain America. A bitter Maurice drops by to fill them in: after they do all the hard work, a white man in a flashy costume is being brought in to lead them for the publicity. A white lieutenant objects to Maurice’s cynicism and opines that black should not be allowed in the army. When Maurice demands to know what he’s going to do about it, Lt. Merritt informs him of his father’s shameful death (issue #3). Flying into a rage, Maurice punches the white man and Isaiah and Elias leap to stop him. After a violent struggle, Maurice kills Elias with a large rock, and Merritt responds by showing him what he can do—with a gun….
Reinstein reveals that the autopsies showed that the super-soldiers were suffering from exaggerated thyroids. Now, with Captain America delayed by a storm, Isaiah is ordered to take on the suicide mission alone. Later, Colonel Price is told that Isaiah Bradley has stolen the Captain America uniform to wear into battle….
Wearing the red-white-and-blue costume and wielding a shield, Isaiah parachutes behind enemy lines and heads for his objective: Schwarzebitte Concentration Camp…


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Truth, Part Three: The Passage
The families of the men unwillingly recruited into Project Super-Soldier are informed their loved ones were killed in an explosion….
At the Project site, white soldiers are incredulous when Reinstein claims that there is no difference between white and Negro blood….
A test subject is injected with the serum; in minutes his body bulks up, transforming him into a muscular marvel. Seconds later, his body explodes. Result: a decreased dosage for the next subject. A muscle-bound Private Larsen is the first subject to survive the tests, surprising his bunkmates….
As the families mourn their dead, Faith Bradley demands to see her husband’s body in the casket; the experiments continue, resulting in a handful of Negro super-soldiers: Isaiah Bradley, Lucas Elias, Maurice Canfield, Larsen, and Jack, the five men being the only survivors of the three hundred test subjects. They are shipped overseas, hidden in the hold from the white soldiers and crew….
In Philadelphia, Maurice’s father, distraught over the loss of his only son, murders his wife then takes his own life….
In the ships’ hold, as they wait for a doctor to see to a gravely ill Jack, Elias tells them of the greatest battle he fought: July 19, 1919—in Washington D.C. during Red Summer. In the wake of the rape of a white woman, white soldiers went on a rampage lynching black men; the police and the President did nothing to stop them. So the black citizens banded together and defended themselves, killing enough whites so that the lynchings ended for a while. One of the guys interrupts to tell them Jack is dead….


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Truth, Part Six: The Whitewash
Five days ago, Captain America arrived at a federal prison to visit the former Lieutenant Merritt, now serving time for domestic terrorism for his part in a white supremacist agenda and dealing drugs out of his chain of comic shops. Cap then recognizes him as having been in the room when Dr. Reinstein was murdered by a Nazi agent. Cap accuses the felon of having been a traitor during the War; FBI Agent Spinrad produces a file of photos taken at a raided warehouse owned by Merritt. One of the photos is of a tattered uniform resembling Cap’s….
The black Captain America, Isaiah Bradley, awoke to find himself a prisoner of the Nazis, and in the very presence of Adolf Hitler and Josef Goebbels. Hitler tried to persuade Isaiah that Germany was the friend of the Negro, who was oppressed in his own country, and that he should have been supporting the Nazis. Isaiah refused; "My wife would kill me."
Merritt explains to Cap that he volunteered for the Super-Soldier Project all those years ago, hoping to serve his country, and was disgusted that black men were made into heroes by it. Resentful he was attracted to the Nazi philosophy of racial purity and threw his lot in with them. He is diverted from his racist rant by a question about the costume and mentions that it was worn by Isaiah Bradley, the Black Captain America. And Steve Rogers is shocked….
Hitler and Goebbels debated what to do with Isaiah. Their presumption of racial superiority would not allow them to attempt to derive a super-soldier serum of their own from Isaiah, so they planned to amputate the American’s limbs and send him back home with a message….
Agent Spinrad tells Cap that the story of Isaiah Bradley is well known in the black community in America, even though it remains largely a secret kept from white—like Cap. As Cap and Spinrad leave the prison, a sly Merritt asks Cap to autograph a comic book…. Outside the cell, Spinrad has one more detail for Cap….
As the truck carrying Isaiah Bradley headed toward its appointment at Auschwitz, it was intercepted by members of the Resistance, led by Spinrad’s grandfather, and Isaiah was rescued….


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Truth, Part One: The Future
July 1940: in New York, a young married couple, Isaiah and Faith Bradley visit the World’s Fair during the special Negro Week. They have a good time, until they are denied entrance to a show featuring white dancing girls because of their race….
In Philadelphia, Maurice Canfield drops by the home of his wealthy successful black family, his face battered from a fight. He explains to his mother, in gently ironic terms, how his injuries resulted from an attempt to organize Irish stevedores into a union. His mother scolds him for his reckless ways but he insists he must earn his station in life and the means he has chosen is to stand up for the oppressed rather than settling into their place….
In Cleveland, Army Sergeant Lucas Elias explains to a friend how he was busted from Captain: a black MP was killed in a racial brawl and his white commander blamed the black man—and Elias shoved him for calling the incident a trifle….
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Elias abandons his thoughts of suicide to serve his country; Maurice, convicted of sedition for his anti-government protests is offered the choice between jail and the army; Isaiah enlists proudly and assures Faith he will come back to her….


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American Zealot Chapter Four: Patriot Games
When
the hidden Helicarrier rose into the air over Ephraim, West Virginia, Kate Tolifson
threw her brother U.S. Agent John Walker overboard. As he plummeted to Earth,
his mind went back to the disastrous event in Puerto Rico when he was assigned
to clear some protesters from a beach and accidentally triggered a riot. The
government dispatched their Active Denial System to fire a heat ray at the
protesters and, to protect them, Walker hurled his shield and destroyed the
valuable weapon. For this he was fired by his superior (and lover) Valerie Cooper.
Now Cooper contacts him and they puzzle out that Kate disabled the “missing”
fuel cell to remove its containment field and exposure to the cell turned her
hair purple and drove her mad. Then Walker hits the ground, protected by his
shield which is now ruined….
The
new U.S. Agent, April Manning a/k/a Saint, kneels before his master, Morrie
Watanbe, who has no idea who Manning is. We see a flashback to an incident in
Brazil, where a group of martial arts students fight armed soldiers at a
lighthouse on a beach. Manning was the sole survivor and Morrie was one of the
three masters overseeing the exercise. Manning defends his beating of Lemar
“Battle Star” Hoskins because of his strong ideas about what a Black man should
be. As he walks off, Manning shrinks as his super soldier drug wears off. His
pilot warns him not to take another dose too soon but he does….
Cooper
does not know who the new U.S. Agent is, as she is no longer in charge of the
program but suspects some fat cat political donor bought the rights to create
his own superhero. And that Kate, wanting to emulate her big brother, got some
of the new serum from him. We see in flashbacks that this is what did happen, Manning
persuading a Senator to allow him to uncover what is being hidden in Ephraim;
Kate became his lover so that she could gain power too and take action against
the rural hicks she hates so much….
Walker
discovers the badly beaten Lemar and tells Morrie to fly him to a trauma center
while he goes to stop Kate and the new U.S. Agent. The latter, powered up once
more, lands on the Helicarrier to find Kate. Walker, having hitched a ride on a
crop duster, shoots at Manning but then his plane is destroyed by a giant
saurian monster that was buried beneath the Helicarrier….