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Turning Point
Our story opens with Peter Parker moping at home,
pining over Betty Brant, who had left town the previous issue. Peter is snapped
out of his thoughts by a news bulletin on the radio, stating that
Doctor Octopus is being released from prison today.
Peter heads to the municipal prison as Spider-Man to try and convince
the warden not to release Doc Ock, but the warden says that Ock has served his
sentence, and they can’t hold him anymore. In his cell, Doctor Octopus awaits
his upcoming release and revels in his increased aptitude with his mechanical
arms, vowing not be captured again. Back at home, Peter constructs a small
tracking device (later dubbed spider-tracers), in order to keep tabs on Doc
Ock, and sets out to find him.
Spider-Man reaches the prison, right as Doc Ock is
being released and witnesses him get into a car with none other than
Betty Brant! Spider-Man manages to throw his new tracer onto the car and investigates
a road map that fell out of the car, for Philadelphia, concluding that that’s
where they must be headed. Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, a prolific criminal
named Blackie Gaxton meets in his cell with his lawyer, Betty’s brother
 Bennett Brant. Blackie promises to waive Bennett’s gambling debts owed him once Betty
brings Doctor Octopus to break him out of jail. Bennett feels ashamed in his
whole situation and returns home to find Doctor Octopus and Betty have arrived.
Bennett promises to make it up to Betty, but doesn’t yet have the courage to
leave.
Back in New York, Peter tells Aunt May that he’s going
on a trip to Philadelphia, and a short flight later, lands in the city of
brotherly love. Spidey swings around until he gets a ping from the tracer he
put on Betty’s car, and changes to Peter to confront her. Both of them feeling
how much they mean to each other, Betty explains her whole situation to Peter,
and Peter reassures her by telling her that he heard that Spider-Man is in
Philly, and he’ll certainly put a stop to things! Peter also makes the
decision, that once everything is taken care of, he’ll reveal to Betty that
he’s Spider-Man. That night, Doctor Octopus makes his way to Blackie’s holding
cell and breaks him out. Spider-Man arrives just too late and the guards think
Spider-Man is the one who helped Blackie escape, forcing Spider-Man to flee
himself.
Before Spider-Man can make it back to Betty, some of
Blackie’s goons take Betty and Bennett hostage aboard a steamboat, just before
Doc Ock and Blackie arrive as well. Spider-Man races there as well, still
following the tracer, but in his tunnel-visioned haste, accidentally sprains
his ankle as he lands on the boat. Blackie’s guys take the handicapped
Spider-Man to their boss, where Doctor Octopus reveals that he’s taking over,
and has no need of Blackie anymore. Spider-Man knocks some of Blackie’s guys
into Ock, sending them tumbling into another room, as Blackie grabs a nearby
gun. Spider-Man wrestles with Blackie, but an errant shot ends up hitting
Bennett, killing him. This causes Betty to lash out, blaming Spider-Man for her
brother’s death.
Furious, Spider-Man chases after Blackie, completely
barreling through all his guys and delivering an earth shattering blow to
Blackie. Doc Ock, equally furious, reappears, as Spider-Man tries to stay out
of his reach. Spider-Man briefly stuns and evades Ock and goes to try and find
Betty. Two of Blackie’s goons try to take Betty hostage to escape, but they’re
intercepted by Doc Ock, who escapes onto the launch boat, initially there to
pick up Blackie. Spider-Man realizes he’ll have less room to maneuver there,
but chases after Doc Ock anyway. They tussle until the boat careens into a
piling, knocking both Spidey and Ock into the sea! Ock makes his escape as
Blackie and his goons are rounded up by the police. We end with Peter
comforting Betty at Bennett’s funeral. Betty no longer blames Spider-Man, but
still wants nothing to do with him, as he would just be another reminder of
what she’s lost, with Peter realizing he can now never tell Betty the truth
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The Coming of the Scorpion!
Picking right up from last issue, Peter Parker notices
that a mysterious figure keeps following him around. Back at home, Peter waits
until the man leaves, presumably to report to his boss, before switching to
Spider-Man and in turn tail him! Spider-Man is unable to learn anything and is
forced to distract the man with a bat made out of webs, allowing Spidey to
swing back into his room without being seen. Peter accidentally bumps into the
wall, however, alerting Aunt May, who he gives a quick excuse to. The next day,
Peter heads to the Daily Bugle, while trying not to do anything to arouse his
follower’s suspicions. At the Bugle,
J. Jonah Jameson sees a report about a Dr. Farley Stillwell, a brilliant scientist
who has been able to successfully cause mutations in animals, and gets an idea
that this man can help him with his Spider-Man problem.
As Peter gets to the Bugle, the mysterious man
following him decides to go report to his boss, who is none other than Jameson
himself! Jameson had hired the man, named Mac Gargan, to find out how Peter
takes the amazing photos that he does, but tells Gargan that he has a better
use for him and they depart. Meanwhile, Peter runs into Betty Brant and
Ned Leeds and Betty tells Pete that Ned will be out of town for months on an
assignment, to Peter’s secret joy. We then cut to Dr. Stillwell’s laboratory,
where Jameson proposes the idea to run his experiments on Gargan, turning him
into a being capable of stopping Spider-Man. Though reluctant, Stillwell feels
he can’t turn down the money Jameson is offering him. He imbues Gargan with
energy, increasing his strength, and builds for him a mechanical tail and suit,
transforming Gargan into the Scorpion!
After Peter and Betty see Ned off at the airport,
Peter switches to Spider-Man to pay Jameson a visit, to see if he can find out
what Jameson’s connection to his follower is. Jameson seems too welcoming
though, secretly trying to stall Spider-Man until the Scorpion gets there,
causing Spider-Man to swing off. However, the Scorpion does arrive right at
that moment, and the two begin to fight, with Jameson spectating. Scorpion lays
into Spidey, as Spidey quickly realizes that Scorpion is likely even stronger than
he is. Spidey flips back, covering Scorpion in his webs, but Scorpion is able
to easily rip through them, throwing the remaining strands at Spider-Man,
tangling him up. Scorpion is able to use this opportunity to soundly defeat
Spider-Man, throwing him into an old water tower, as back at his office,
Stillwell discovers that Scorpion will become more evil and dangerous over
time, and rushes out with an antidote to try and cure him.
Scorpion realizes how powerful and free he feels,
abandoning Jameson’s mission for him, as he jumps down to rob an armored car.
Spider-Man awakens and heads off to go tackle Scorpion again. Meanwhile,
Stillwell catches up to Scorpion and tries to convince him to take the
antidote, which Scorpion refuses, climbing up a building to escape the man.
Stillwell foolishly tries climbing up after Scorpion but ends up falling to his
death, unable to hit Scorpion with the antidote. Spider-Man shows up too late
to save Stillwell and tackles Scorpion again, as Scorpion becomes more and more
unhinged. Back at the Bugle, Jameson hears of Stillwell’s death, wracked with
guilt over his involvement in all of this. Scorpion is able to stun Spider-Man
once again, as he heads off to take care of Jameson, the only one who still
knows who he is!
Spider-Man collects himself once more and rushes to
the Daily Bugle, to stop Scorpion from killing Jameson. Spidey swings in
through the window, dodging around Scorpion’s tail strikes. Spidey webs
Scorpion in the face, blinding him, before also webbing his feet to the floor,
restricting his movement. Spidey is then able to rip Scorpion’s mechanical tail
right off him. He then uses a combination of his spider sense and agility to
dodge Scorpion’s blows and lay into Scorpion, eventually defeating him. Spidey leaves
Jameson to stew in the irony of being saved from the one he created, by the one
he wanted to stop. After the battle, Flash Thompson chides Peter for his
roughed-up face, causing Peter to almost lose his temper against Flash. Our
story ends with Jameson doubling down on his self-imposed mission to stop
Spider-Man, as Peter takes on the arduous task of sewing up his damaged
costume, blissfully unaware of Jameson’s involvement in the whole affair!


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The Infinity Watch part 2
In his previous mini-series Thanos trapped Death inside a gem. In his Annual he revealed it to be a new Infinity Stone called the Death Stone but it refused to kill for him. So he sought out other Infinity Stones because their powers amplified each other. He found the Space Stone and the Reality Stone but discovered they had merged with humans and given them powers as Quantum and Star. And the Time Stone Bearer Overtime came back from the future to help. After the obligatory battle the Death Stone *was* roused to action but it abandoned Thanos.Before going back to the future Overtime suggested the duo go find the current Overtime in Queens. Which leads to this issue.Spider-Man (Peter Parker)'s guilt-complex makes him return to the site where he was involved in a man's death the previous day. And now he sees someone holding up an armoured car. The villain seems solicitous of the 2 guards he has in cuffs, and when Spidey accosts him he introduces himself as Hector or Overtime and and demonstrates his time-jumping ability. SM jokingly asks if he was bitten by a radioactive clock, but OT claims he has an Infinity Stone inside him. Peter's immediate response is "Like Star?" but Hector's never heard of her.Overtime then starts time-jumping around, sometimes appearing in 2 places at once, and trying to attack Spidey whose Spider-Sense always alerts him in time. But on the other hand SM can't lay a hand or web on OT either. But eventually he gets lucky and a punch connects, and he follows it up with more. But he realises that without his power Overtime is just a regular Joe so he has to pull the punches. Which is a pity because he was in the mood to take out his frustrations on a punchbag. And he explains while hitting about the newbie villain who died here yesterday when he confronted him.Now we see Hector's thoughts. He could just freeze time and escape, but Spider-Man's story strikes a chord. He too wishes he could go back 3 years, 2 months and 8 days and stop himself from pulling a trigger and save the lives of an elderly couple. He's been practising with the Time Stone but he's never managed to go back more than 24 hours. But that might be enough to relieve Spidey's guilt. So he does that ...... and sees SM talking in the heavy rain to an armoured man wrapped up and suspended in webbing. He's desperately trying to persuade him to power his suit down because it's going to explode, but the enraged villain is too busy threatening the hero. And then he blows up.Overtime was too late to help so he pops back to the present to reorient himself and try to go back a bit further. Spidey notes that he's wet before he time-jumps away again.This time he's a little bit earlier but the villain, who calls himself Fission, is still already trussed up. He's complaining that it's not fair because he wasn't ready. And his attempts to break out of the webbing are overloading his suit. And all too soon he explodes again.Overtime pops back to the present again and then further back in the past. But SM managed to tag him with a webline, causing him to fall on his back as he time-jumps and arrive winded. This time he sees jetbooted Fission crashing out through a window but landing chin-1st on the pavement. Passing Spider-Man stops to help but the bad guy thinks he's making fun of him and fires blasts at him from his gauntlets. He claims to be Fission with a nuclear reactor for a heart. Overtime is still struggling to get up as Spidey webs up his foe, but he manages to get out a warning ... too late.He's blown back by the blast as he jumps again and winds up in the present hurtling through a restaurant window. Spidey follows him to see if anyone's hurt. Hector asks him how he would have stopped Fission's suit blowing up, and Peter tells him the coolant system was loose and he'd have have just pushed it back into place. SM realises that he's going to go back to change history and warns him it's a risky thing to do. But OT just asks him what quip he would have used if he'd managed to KO him, and Spidey thinks up "Gone fission". Then Hector pops off.But the blast had supercharged him and he finds himself 3 months in the past. He panics and jumps forward to the fight before Fission gets webbed up. He shouts to Spidey about the loose coolant system and Peter strategically webs it securely in place. And then OT punches the bad guy in the face, shouting "Gone fission". And the foe turns out to have a glass jaw. But Spidey doesn't get the joke because the villain  was defeated before he had a chance to say who he was. Now OT returns to the present. But before he goes he asks Spidey to meet him here the next day. And it's still raining.Peter makes the date and finds the new guy sitting in a pool of rainwater. He deduces that the fellow's a time-traveller, and Overtime introduces himself. Spidey's about to use the 'bitten by a radioactive clock' joke but OT beats him to it. Peter guesses that this is a Groundhog Day scenario and OT admits that Spidey used the joke on the previous go round. SM claims that it's his sacred duty to use all the good jokes in the universe. OT says previous-Spidey gave him the 'gone fission' line and Spidey responds that they can't all be zingers.Hector explains more about the original scenario. Spidey thinks he's a superhero but last time they met he was robbing an armoured car. He went back to save Fission to stop SM feeling guilty, because *he* wants to undo something he's guilty of and he wanted the money to finance his experiments in going far enough back to do that. Peter of course tells him that *he* has something he let happen in his past that he wishes he could change (the death of Uncle Ben). But that mistake also made him who he is. But Spidey then swings off because it's a decision only OT can make for himself.2 people approach Overtime and he senses that they are like him. They reveal themselves as Star and Quantum. Their presence boosts his power and he can 'see' time rippling around them, and deduces that they met a future version of him who sent them here. Star claims that getting all the Stone Bearers together will give them immense power to meet their destiny. Hector reads that as he'll be able to change his past and so he agrees to join them.Story 2: The Death Stone Saga chapter 2Writer Derek Landy as above. Artist Sara Pichelli. Colours Mattia Iacono, letters Travis Lanham.Nick Fury Jr is in bed (with a wife/girlfriend I don't think we knew existed) when he wakes from a recurring nightmare of his SHIELD partner Phil Coulson dying on various of their old missions, but this time he dreamt that the actually-dead Coulson is alive.In a Wisconsin cemetery Nighthawk has just seen (in part 1 in the Thanos Annual) the Death Stone resurrect Coulson and merge with him. This version of Kyle Richmond was part of the simulacrum Squadron Supreme created by Mephisto and led by a previously-resurrected Coulson. Mephisto changed the world into a parallel version where they were the equivalent of the Avengers and Coulson was President. Richmond expects Coulson and the Death Stone to help him bring that world back.But Coulson claims not to have met Nighthawk before, and doesn't remember anything about Mephisto and his world. The last thing he remembers is being killed by Deadpool during the Secret Empire event. (Which of course suggests that Mephisto's Coulson was just as much his own creation as the Squadron were.) Phil wants to talk to his buddy Fury to sort out what's going on, and asks Kyle for a phone. But single-minded Richmond figures that if Coulson won't help him then he'll just have to 'improvise'. He attacks (maybe intending to rip the Death Stone out of Phil's body).


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Power play part 1: The Stark contrast
Peter Parker is hosting a charity fund-raiser for the Uncle Ben Foundation at Bryant Park. Harry Osborn (using his mother's maiden name as Harry Lyman since #3) is his plus 1 (because his last girlfriend Lian Tang was a corporate mole who tried to kill him with the Spider-Mobile in #8). Pete tells Harry how Mary Jane Watson popped up unexpectedly here at Aunt May's wedding to J J Jameson Sr in ASM#600. And now she does it again. She's here as a guest of her new boss Tony Stark.Tony claims not to remember that Peter and MJ once lived at Avengers Tower and Pete helped him create the Iron Spider costume for Spider-Man in the lead-up to (the Marvel original) Civil War. But he offers Peter advice about not wasting so much of his Parker Industries money funding Spider-Man (pot, kettle, black).Stark and MJ move on and meet Augustus Roman, CEO of Empire Unlimited. MJ finds him familiar but Roman denies meeting her.Harry runs into his ex-wife (it's not a happy divorce) Liz Allan, now CEO of Alchemax, with associate Ty Stone. They are expecting the proceedings to be interrupted by someone arranged by Stone. As Parker starts his speech badly he is attacked by the Ghost. But the real target is Augustus Roman. Who seems strangely blast-proof.Peter figures MJ is safe with Stark so he ducks out of sight to change to Spider-Man. MJ tells Tony she can take care of herself so he openly changes to Iron Man. In both cases their armoured costumes expand from storage to cover them.The 2 heroes get in each other's way, and argue about whose villain Ghost normally is. Meanwhile MJ and Harry help battered Roman get away.The battle becomes 1 of hi-tech gadgets. Ghost's intangibility shrugs off the Golden Avenger's multi-vibrational blasts and Spidey's z-metal web coils. But then SM fires a coil through the bad guy and IM uses it to transmit his blasts inside Ghost. The villain collapses. (The heroes note that the action outside the Manhattan Library replays the opening scene from Ghostbusters.)Later Peter is miffed at Stark hiring his ex-girlfriend. So he offers a job to Pepper Potts. But she turns him down flat.Finally we see Betty Brant interviewing Augustus Roman on Ryker's Island in the supervillain prison now called the Cellar. We see Ghost brought in alongside Tombstone. They are separated, and Roman explains that the superpowered like Tombstone are housed separately from those whose powers are tech-based. Ghost's equipment has been taken to another site for study.Betty talks to Roman about his past, where he lost his family during the battle between the Avengers and the Masters of Evil in Av#273-277. Since then he's vowed to bring these forces under control.Betty doesn't see that Tombstone is placed in a containment tank that appears to kill him by drowning. There are already loads of other tanks already occupied. Dr Stillwell gives Augustus his costume, and his face morphs into that of Regent. She says that their supply of tanks is full. Regent says it's time to take on some superheroes - and he's got his sights on the All-New All-Different Avengers.


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Power play conclusion: Suit yourself
In the abandoned hangar that is the HQ of the ANAD Avengers Edwin Jarvis and Mary Jane Watson have viewed Regent defeat Iron Man and Spider-Man. And the ANAD Avengers are missing and they can't contact any other superteams (it seems Regent may have captured them all). Jarvis can't send IM's other armours in auto-mode because only Tony Stark can do so, as a security measure. Besides which there aren't any handy.But this makes MJ think of something else. Hunting through the crates that have been sent from Avengers Tower she finds the armoured Iron Spider costume Tony created for Spider-Man before Civil War (the 1st 1). She says she wore an Iron Man armour once (during the Other story arc) and had spider-powers during the Spider Island event, so she figures she can handle it.Regent is carrying his 2 captives in force bubbles to the Cellar prison that he runs as Augustus Roman. Inside his assistant Dr Stillwell doesn't notice that their latest prisoner Harry Lyman/Osborn hasn't yet been sedated by the liquid rising in his tube. He uses a new app in his Webware wrist-phone to emit a sound pulse which shatters his container.As he escapes he uses it again to call Spider-Man. This is enough to wake Spidey so that he tries to fight his way out of his bubble. But he's really only distracting Regent so he doesn't sense the attack of the Iron Spider. And the villain loses control of the mentally-created bubbles.SM joins IS in the attack. Her use of the pet name 'Tiger' clues him in that MJ is in the suit. And all 3 combatants get a feeling of deja vu.Then the Golden Avenger takes a hand. He and Iron Spider tell Spider-Man to go save Harry. SM hands MJ some fresh web-cartridges because the ones in the IS armour will be well-past their use by date. He leaves the other 2 battling Regent while discussing Roman's desire to save the world from super-battles by locking all super-characters away.In the Cellar Spidey saves Harry from some guards. Then they find and free the other Spider-Man, Miles Morales. As they break open more tubes Regent loses the relevant transmitted powers. And by the time Miles zaps Stillwell there's a lot of angry people on the march. And Harry looks after his fellow civilian prisoner Betty Brant.Regent says that he still has enough personal power to deal with Shellhead and Iron Spider. But loads of other heroes come out to play ........ and Roman winds up incarcerated in his own jail.Tony Stark worries about supervillains being freed because Regent used them as a powers source too. SM promises to 'tell' Peter Parker to pay attention to his personal life, and TS promises to treat Mary Jane better than his last assistant Pepper Potts. MJ unmasks and assures Betty and Harry that this was a 1-off appearance.The next evening Tony, MJ and Jarvis have a private celebration while Peter hosts a party in the Coffee Bean for all his friends and family. But Jay Jameson starts coughing blood and collapses.


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In the Secret Wars domain Technopolis everybody needs to wear armour to survive. This futuristic city seems to owe its technology to Tony Stark's father Howard, and the Stark Tower dominates the skyline with a statue of what looks like Iron Man's original yellow armour atop.In this zone the armoured Spyder-Man is Peter Urich, who has the usual Spidey troubles like missing a date with girlfriend Kiri. Currently he's being chased by Guardsmen-lookalikes who are after him because of something he's discovered about Fisk Industries. Of course he defeats them, but then somebody else catches up with him.Armoured Tony Stark is chatting with armoured Pepper Potts. He dreamed about a happy childhood running free with his brother Arno. But in reality he can't remember a time when he wasn't Baron Stark, Dr Doom's appointed ruler of this realm, and involved in an armour war with Arno. In fact he and Pepper find it strange that neither of them can remember a time when anyone could live without protective armour.But for now Tony leaves on 'family' business. But we look elsewhere.In the Technopolis Hall of Order and Law a load of Thors are having a party. 1 of them, heavily armoured and carrying a very big hammer, turns out to be James Rhodes - the Grand Marshall of this zone. His overly-familar deputy is Happy Hogan. And they've got a crime to go investigate.Iron Man has gone to see Kiri Oshiro, young owner of Mobairu Yosai Mechanics. He wants to buy her company to keep it out of Arno's clutches. It's a friendly proposal (they reminisce about her mother Rumiko, and Kiri calls Tony uncle) and Stark promises her a sweet deal. But Kiri wants to stay small and independent, at least for now.Their talk covers the fact that Stark and Rhodes could close Arno and Fisk down if they wanted to - Doom's authority lets them do what they want. But Tony promised his dad when he succeeded him as Baron that he'd allow Arno free reign as long as he stayed within the law. And he promised to not turn his Baron-hood into a dictatorship, so Fisk remains free too while he manages to hide any criminal activities. And this still stands even though Tony suspects Arno and Fisk are in cahoots.Arno has been secretly monitoring their conversation.Jim Rhodes contacts Kiri just after Tony leaves. But he's not looking for him, or someone named Lila. Instead he wants to talk to her .... about Peter. We see him standing over Urich's body ripped open.


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Chapter V: Armor war
Kiri Oshiro and Lila Rhodes have come in their giant armoured Moving Fortresses for vengeeance for the murders of Lila's uncle Jim Rhodes (Marshall of Technopolis and the local represenative of Dr Doom's Thor Corps) and Kiri's parents (and also Spyder-Man and his uncle). They face Baron Tony Stark and his brother Arno and the armoured troops who used to work for the now-dead Wilson Fisk. Fisk's men are nearly all downed when Arno brings in reinforcements - an army of Machine Men.While the battle rages we concentrate on a war of words between Kiri and Tony. She wants to know why he did all this. We flashback to #3 where business rivals Tony and Arno met for a chat, and we learn what Tony told him then to form an alliance. Tony warned Arno off making any more attacks on Kiri (like #2's Stingray) because it's important to keep her and Lila alive. Not because of the giant mecha they are building but because of some aspect of it that threatens the Stark family secret.Tony now explains further to Kiri. His father Howard Stark created the disease that forces the inhabitants of Technopolis to live in armour - armour mainly suppled by his firm. To help keep this secret Howard fitted his suits with a neural inhibitor which prevented the wearers from trying to discover the source of the plague.Later Tony used Kingpin Fisk's criminal organisation to keep an eye on things. Including getting Fisk to pretend to work with Arno. He also allowed Arno to 'steal' some of his secrets so that the the armours his company produced had the neural inhibitor too.Kiri's parents developed a firewall that accidentally bypassed the inhibitor. They began to ask questions, and took their suspicions to reporter Ben Urich who uncovered the truth. They all had to be disposed off. Kiri's boyfriend Peter Urich, Spyder-Man, had an armour infected by a Spyder Virus which messed up the inhibitor. So when he investigated his uncle's death he was able to discover the secret too.(To complete the picture, cops Rhodes and Amadeus Cho were investigating Peter's murder and the trail led them to the answer and their deaths last issue.)Now Tony needs Kiri and Lila's Moving Fortress armours because they include the firewall that stops the inhibitor working. But he can't get to it from outside because the firewall itself is too good at its job.But now Lila chips in to tell Tony and Arno that the battle has been a misdirection. While they fought, the girls were infecting the men's armours with a virus that weakened their systems. And the Starks fall.Later the Thors come to take the Starks away. Jim Rhodes' deputy Harold Hogan becomes the new Marshall, Kiri becomes the new Baron and Lila is appointed as the new local Thor. Ex-Baroness Pepper Stark (who we haven't seen before in this series), who knew nothing of her husband's perfidy, stays to help an orderly handover. The disease remains uncurable, but Kiri and Lila devote themselves to at least improving the armour everyone has to wear.


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Chapter III: Fight night
Baron Tony Stark has decided it's time to have words with his brother Arno. As Iron Man approaches Arno Stark's HQ he dodges (laser?) blasts and is met by an army of Machine Men.Meanwhile Kiri Oshiro visits the new grave of her boyfriend Peter Urich with her friend Lila Rhodes. Her grief at his murder is mixed with anger that he never told her he was Spyder-Man. Lila trots out the standard explanation that Spydey kept his identity secret to protect his loved ones like Kiri from his enemies.They are interrupted by Lila's uncle James, Marshal Rhodes the local representative of Dr Doom's Thor Corps. He wants to ask about the recent attack on Kiri's tech facility (by Stingray last issue). But Kiri demands to know who killed Peter. The recording system in the Spyder armour was damaged, but the cops are working on retrieving as much data as they can. What they do know so far (as we learned last issue) is that Peter discovered who was responsible for the sickness that condemns the inhabitants of Technopolis to live permanently in armour.Extra to last issue is that Peter believed his uncle, reporter Ben Urich, found out the same thing - and he was killed for it. And that Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime, was involved. Rhodey says that rumour has Arno Stark in cahoots with Fisk. And Stingray's armour was based on ArnoWare tech. So the Marshal thinks it's all connected. (And this is why Baron Stark is 'visiting' his brother.)Iron Man destroys all the Machine Men. Next up is a flight of missiles. Shellhead counters with an equal number of mini-missiles which take them out. Then he smashes through a window into his brother's top-floor office. The armoured figures collide, and exit through the opposite side of the building. Tony tells Arno to keep his 'hands' off Kiri. They fight as they plummet crashing to the ground. Then they share a laugh and agree to talk.Kiri, with Lila's help, resumes work on her big project - a new suit of armour which she can now use to deal with Peter's murderer. We learn that her company's name Mobairu Yosai is Japanese for Moving Fortress. And her project is a giant armour.Marshal Rhodes drops in on Wilson Fisk to arrest him. Fisk's guy Turk ducks out of the way as Kingpin unleashes an armoured army. The Marshal responds with a load of War Machines.


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Chapter IV: If you're reading this, it's too late
We begin with a video message from Marshall James Rhodes to his niece Lila saying that if she receives this it means he's dead. Then we go back 3 hours.Rhodes' War Machines are fighting Wilson Fisk's armoured army above Technopolis. The Marshall is here to arrest Kingpin for the murder of Spyder-Man. But Fisk is genuinely surprised when he hears this. The battle is going against the law but Rhodey is also a member of Dr Doom's Thor Corps. He triggers his technological 'hammer' and strikes his foes with lightning.Meanwhile brothers and corporate rivals Arno and Tony Stark have made up after their armoured fight last issue. Tony wants Arno to leave Kiri Oshiro and her company alone. To persuade him he confesses something.As Kingpin lies dying he insists that he didn't kill Spyder-Man, and Rhodey believes him. Leaving Deputy Happy Hogan to clear up he heads back to the Hall of Justice where Amadeus Cho is retrieving data from Spydey's broken armour's recordings. They'd already established that Fisk was with Peter Urich a few minutes before his death.But now Cho has found that Peter left Fisk. And the Marshall views the recording to see the person who killed Spyder-Man. Behind him Iron Man kills Amadeus as Rhodey turns to face the murderer.It all makes sense now. Reporter Peter died because he found out that the disease that forces the inhabitants of Technopolis all to wear armour was spread deliberately - and he knew who did it. And of course Tony Stark's company makes most of that armour.Marshall Rhodes declares Stark under arrest. But Tony points out that he's the Baron of this Zone of Battleworld, and he makes the laws that Rhodey enforces. Jim counters that 1 of those laws forbids murder.Stark changes tack. He built the Marshall's armour - and now he transmits a command to freeze it. But it turns out that Tony was on Rhodey's suspect list all along, and he's just sent a summons to all his men. However a quick call to Arno confirms that they're all frozen too.Tony now takes the time to explain what's been going on. It was father Howard Stark who unleashed the disease. Now Tony and Arno are united in protecting the family name. Tony killed Peter Urich, and also his reporter uncle Ben Urich who uncovered the truth earlier. And he adds that he also murdered Kiri Oshiro's parents for the same reason. Then he blasts Marshall Rhodes through his armour.But suddenly Iron Man detects that Rhodes had a recorder/transmitter added to his armour, not connected to the suit controls because of his suspicions of Stark. Tony thinks it's of no consequence - he controls Technopolis, and God-Emperor Doom won't care what he does as long as he remains loyal. But dying Rhodey says he's sent the message it to someone smart who'll get revenge.That of course is Lila Rhodes at Mobairu Yosai Mechanics. She and Kiri have both now learned they have reason to hate Baron Stark. They activate their latest project, a pair of giant armoured suits they call Moving Fortresses.


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Chapter II: The tell-tale heart
In Technopolis we follow the investigation into the death of Peter Urich who was secretly Spyder-Man. This is 1 of the zones of Battleworld, where alternate versions of Marvel characters live out different lives. In this 1 everyone has to wear armour to protect them from a dangerous disease.James Rhodes, the local Thor and Grand Marshall of Technopolis' lawmen, has brought the body to Dr Druid for an autopsy. There's a large blast-hole in his chest, but this might only disguise what really killed him. To find out more Druid removes Spidey's armour. And the dead body immediately succumbs to the rotting effects of the disease.Rhodey puts in a call to his neice Lila who's with Peter's girlfriend Kiri Oshiro. Kiri has reacted to the death and the news that Peter was Spyder-Man by burying herself in work. The 2 girls are designing a revolutionary new type of armour.Tony Stark's brother and rival Arno is in cahoots with Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin. Both know that they only operate under sufference from Baron Tony. Arno sees Kiri's work as a way to gain dominance over his brother. So he's given his own new Stingray armour to Walter Newell and sent him to Oshiro labs as a spy.Stingray glides down to his target. The ultra-thin suit with special inhibitors can evade any surveillance/detection devices. (But what Newell doesn't know is that the thin armour will only protect him from the disease for an hour.) But once Stingray is in, Arno remotely switches of the inhibitors. This mission wasn't really corporate spying, but to test Oshiro's defenses and the suit's capabilities.Loads of big guns shoot at Stingray, and he ducks and dives and shoots back. 1 wild blast topples the platform where Kiri is working. But Stingray attacks Lila with his electrified cape/wings. Kiri does something computer-y and a giant hand with a palm blaster engulfs Stingray.Kiri at last breaks down over Peter.Jim Rhodes reports to Tony Stark. Dr Druid has discovered that Peter Urich got his powers from his armour, which was infected with a virus that created a symbiotic link between man and suit. That suit also recorded Peter's death, but the blast damaged the memory bank - Rhodes thinks that was deliberate. However he and Druid are salvaging what they can - and they have learnt that the infection that blights the zone was also deliberate.


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Wolverine has brought rest of the Avengers (Captain America (Bucky), Hawkeye, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Thor and their leader Maria Hill) to meet Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr), who will be able to help them see the future, and build a time-machine to travel there. They find him taking down an old Iron Man foe Titanium Man.Noh-Varr explains that he no longer goes by the name Marvel Boy, but Protector because his job is to protect the Earth.They take him back to Avengers Tower, where Tony Stark provides him with loads of equipment. Noh-Varr builds a space-time viewer with advanced Kree knowledge, helped by Stark and Spider-Man with Thor doing heavy lifting. Tony wants to hire Noh-Varr to bring his Kree science to Stark Resilient. But the alien follows something like the Star Trek Prime Directive.Maria Hill thinks the warning Kang gave them last issue is a trap. Cap/Bucky agrees, but expects that Stark has a plan up his sleeve.The time viewer shows them several alternate futures, one of which contains the Next Avengers and their version of Maestro (future Hulk), which is the one Kang warned them about last time. They focus in on that and see the scene from last issue with the Next Avengers confronting Immortus, and Immortus being struck by lightning. Unfortunately there is no sound, only vision.Then the vision implodes into into a black hole. With the bearded Hulk/Maestro's face in the middle.Protector says something's wrong, and Stark claims that the timestream is broken. And it could affect all times and all alternities. The Avengers speculate as to whether Kang broke it, or their children the Next Avengers. And they obviously wonder how much they can trust Kang. Noh-Varr says he can take them to that future.But before he can do it the Tower is invaded by Wonder Man. Last issue he warned Steve Rogers not to reform the Avengers. And now he's here to stop them personally.Thor and Tony try to calm him down. But he attacks Thor and Wolverine until Protector blasts him out the window. Wonder Man attacks again, but then vanishes. (He's made of ionic energy, so he could do that.)Tony is determined to help Wonder Man. He doesn't want another Avenger cracking up under pressure, like Scarlet Witch in Avengers Disassembled (and House of M), and Sentry in Siege. (Or like himself giving in to alcoholism.) Maria Hill contacts Steve to find out why Simon Williams has turned against them.But for now the time problem is more important. Simon's attack has broken the time viewer. Tony and Noh-Varr plan to build a time machine somewhere else. But then they're interrupted again.This time it's Apocalypse and one version of his Four Horsemen from an alternate future.


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Avengers universe 1
The previously page shows events from Infinity #1. It has become clear that a Builder fleet is cutting a swathe through the nearby galactic empires, heading for Earth. Captain America leads most of the Avengers into space to join the defence forces of the Galactic Council. Iron Man stays on Earth to organise a last-ditch defence.The Council meets on neutral planet Nomad. A bunch of Skrull warlords led by Kl'rt come to offer their forces and ask for a seat on the Council. Gladiator of the Shi'ar points out that the former Skrull empire is now a group of squabbling factions. He asks how much of the Skrull race does Kl'rt represent.A flashback to 2 days ago reveals Kl'rt getting the warlords of the vying factions to meet, in the face of the Builder attack. Kl'rt proposed they bury their differences and go to join forces with the Galactic Council. Most of the other proud Skrulls would prefer to go down fighting without asking for help. But Kl'rt persuaded them with news that the Builder fleet they see is but the advance guard of a much bigger one.However 1 warlord, a general of the old empire named Dm'yr, offered to use his forces in a holding action while the others go to the council. Dm'yr led the Builders into a trap by luring them near a sun, which he then detonated into a nova whch destroyed Builders and Skrulls alike.So now when asked if all the Skrull warlords are with him, Kl'rt replies "All but one".J-son of Spartax accepts the Skrulls into the Council, which includes the Kree Supreme Intelligence (along with Ronan the Accuser), Annihilus and a Brood queen. However many other races have sent representatives, and Earth has the Avengers. (Avenger Smasher is currently sitting with her fellows in the Shi'ar Imperial Guard.) (Spider-Woman is uneasy about allying with Skrulls.)Kl'rt describes Dm'yr's successful trap which destroyed the Builders' advance fleet. J-son wants to set another trap for the following fleet. The Kree Intelligence remembers the Konn-Dar Encounter from an earlier Kree/Shi'ar war, which Gladiator knows as 'The Corridor'. And the Builders are due to pass through it.3 days later the Council forces are hidden in the debris belt circling a black hole. The plan is to trap the Builders between themselves and the singularity. The Avengers are in 2 space-quincruisers. Captain America leading Black Widow, Bruce Banner, Manifold, Shang-Chi and Spider-Woman in #1. Captain Marvel leading Abyss and Hawkeye in #2. Ex Nihilo, space-armoured Falcon, Hyperion, Smasher and Thor are in open space.The battle rages until the Council decides which is the Builder command vessel. Most of our forces converge on that target and destroy it. Then they turn to mopping up the individual Builder craft.But victory quickly turns to defeat. The 'command vessel' was a decoy, and this was only a small portion of the Builder fleet. The rest has been cloaked. These now reveal themselves and fall on the scattered Council forces. A 3rd of the Council fleet are destroyed, and the rest are ordered to retreat.Quincruiser #1 is badly damaged, and Captain America is going to get Manifold to teleport the whole vessel to safety. Quincruiser #2 is near the black hole when a Shi'ar craft explodes next to them, leaving them unconscious and adrift.


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Star bound
The 'previously' page reminds us that Adam was created by Ex Nihilo to be a superior human, as part of his Builder system plan to transform Earth. But then the White Event coopted Adam as a Nightmask in another Builder system to shepherd Earthpeople into a more advanced society. And the White Event also turned teenage Kevin Connor into a Starbrand to help him. To sort these conflicting systems out, Adam is taking Kevin to Mars to meet his alien father.Ex Nihilo and his sister Abyss are in the garden they created on Mars, where the Avengers asked them to stay. They spot that something has happened to Adam since he went to Earth with the Avengers. Adam says he and Kevin have both been changed, and Abyss (strangely) chooses to  use her tendrils of darkness to examine Kevin rather than Adam. Frightened Kevin objects, and his Starbrand cuts Abyss in half.Adam and Ex Nihilo just put Abyss back together again, and this time she (wisely) examines Adam, who she is more familiar with. She detects the effects of the 2nd Builder system. But says the conflict lies not in Adam but in the Earth.Ex Nihilo admits that he exceeded the remit given by the Builders, to judge a planet's inhabitants and either destroy them or encourage their evolution. The origin bombs he sent to Earth weren't meant to evolve humanity, but to evolve the Earth into a sentient planet. Each bomb would stimulate an aspect of sentient life:- self-awareness in Croatia, self-sustinence in the Savage Land, self-repair in India, reproduction in Japan, communication in Australia, evolution in Canada and self-defence in the one taken to AIM Island.In Avengers Tower Tony Stark has been tracking Nightmask and Starbrand, and now he tells his fellow Avengers that they've moved from Mars to the bomb zone in Croatia.In Croatia Adam and Kevin find a beach covered in alien armoured slugs connected by fleshy ropes. Suddenly the shells split open releasing the slugs, all saying the same Builder code word (which the transliteration table in the back of the comic reveals means 'join'). And join they do, all these simple 'neurones' combining to form a brain.Nightmask talks to the brain in Builder code, and it tells him it is the Earth. But then it echoes Captain Universe's refrain that 'the system is broken'. And tries to drag Adam inside it. Kevin tries to stop it, and as usual goes over the top. He destroys the brain in an explosion that rivals the one when he became Starbrand. And Adam comments that he's just lobotomised the world.The whole current Avengers team has arrived and watched the unfolding battle. Captain America asks Kevin to surrender. Adam pleads for more time to train him. He asks Captain Universe for help, but she reminds him what she had told him last issue, that his course of action would end with him in a box.Nightmask says he and Starbrand are leaving. Cap tells the Avengers to stop them. there follows a 5-page fight with a voiceover that echoes and expands on the voiceover in parts of #1 and #3. By the end it is clear to me that the voice is Adam's (from a future perspective), as a final combined attack by Hulk, Hyperion and Thor brings Starbrand down.Kevin tells them to stop. He didn't mean for any of this to happen. He was holding back all the time. Iron Man says that they know, but that means it's even more important that they put him where he can't hurt people.We finish with a shot of Adam and Kevin imprisoned in a cell in Stark's partially-built Dyson sphere.


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Avengers world
This issue begins with cryptic hints which I shall report as well as I can. I'll go into a lot of detail because I don't know what's not important.They say you should start with a bang, and this issue starts with a big one. The opening page grandiosely depicts the Big Bang and the evolution of the universe under the heading 'Previously in Avengers'. But it also points to something in the future called the 'Light'.The title page then lists 6 Avengers:- Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man and Thor. It has a diagram with 6 symbols in a circle around the Avengers A-symbol, each one representing one of the above. I recognise/deduce them to be Widow's spider, Cap's shield, Iron Man's chest implant, Thor's hammer and a target for Hawkeye, which leaves the H for Hulk. (Or possibly the H is Hawkeye and the 'target' symbol is a stylised hydrogen atom for the atomic-origined Hulk?)The attribution of symbols has extra relevance because 4 of them (not Black Widow and Hulk (or Hawkeye)) have strings of other (currently blank) symbols attached to them. And some of the blanks will be filled in by the end of the issue. Cap and IM have the largest symbols in the inner circle, and their trailing symbols mostly occupy the next layer out. This establishes 3 tiers in the inner circle. Black Widow and Hulk (or Hawkeye) are on the bottom layer, with no add-ons. Thor and Hawkeye (or Hulk) are in the middle. Their attached strings of symbols are in a 3rd concentric circle. But Cap and IM's satellites end in an extra, large symbol each, placed outside all the others in a 4th 'circle' (and neither of these 2 are revealed this issue).The next 3 pages continue with captions narrated from a future post-Light perspective. The narrator ponders when it all began. Was it when Hyperion was rescued from a dying universe (by AIM it appears)? Was it when the Shi'ar Imperial Guard were 'broken on the dead moon'? Or was it when Ex Nihilo terraformed Mars? The narrator thinks it's none of the above. Before the Light (shown blinding Hawkeye and Thor), before the War (lots of spaceships), before the Fall (lots of Iron Men lying broken, at least one of them looking like Iron Man 2020) there were 2 men and an idea (Tony Stark, Steve Rogers and the Avengers organisation in this series).Now at last we leave the narrator and enter the story.Tony wakes Steve from a dream about the Illuminati. He reminds Steve of their conversation at the end of the last issue of the previous series. How threats were getting bigger, and how Steve suggested the Avengers get bigger in response.One month later we get to the Mars bit of the preamble. 3 new characters, a new female Abyss, a mechanoid Aleph and their leader(?) who is called Ex Nihilo (but has an Omega symbol on his chest) have turned part of Mars green with vegetation. They have launched a (3rd) 'origin bomb' to Earth to transform the planet. Ex Nihilo is creating a new Adam to populate the result. But Aleph wants to destroy Earth instead. Abyss agrees - humans are too dangerous to be allowed to live, even as an improved successor.They detect an approaching spacecraft containing the 6 Avengers, who destroy to missile. The Avengers are here in response to the previous 2 bombs, which have transformed Perth and Regina via accelerated evolution. They land near the green area, and Bruce Banner turns into the Hulk to lead the charge.But Abyss encloses him in a dark globe. And Ex Nihilo invades Iron Man's armour with vegetation, shutting it down. Black Widow and Hawkeye assault the alien with venom blasts and arrows, but he downs them with his own blast like a dragon's fiery breath. Inside the dark cage Abyss convinces Hulk that Thor is his enemy, and then releases him so they can fight. Cap takes out Abyss and Ex Nihilo with his shield, but Aleph pummels him into unconsciousness.They send Cap back to Earth in the Avengers' craft as a message. But he awakes just before the spaceship is about to crash in New York. He leaps from the plummeting craft and just about survives the fall.He comes to again 3 days later in a hospital bed in Avengers Tower. (The other 5 Avengers are now captives of the aliens.) He remembers Tony suggesting that they recruit a backup army of Avengers with specific skills for specific situations, but keep them in the background. Steve operates a console with the layout of Avengers symbols on it, and some of the sleepers are awoken. (We see Hyperion in chains and 2 females who are probably the new Captain Universe and Smasher.)Steve now dons his new Captain America uniform, with the hard helmet and chinstrap (a la the movies and his Ultimate incarnation). He is joined by the troops he called for. Along with the 3 from the last paragraph there are Cannonball, the current Captain Marvel, Eden Fesi, Falcon, Shang-Chi, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Sunspot and Wolverine.The book ends with the Avengers symbol diagram again, with the 5 captive Avengers greyed out, and Cap and his new team lit up. There are also the words Wake The World, which may be next issue's title.The whole of Cap and Iron Man's squads have been activated, except the big symbols at the end of the chains. If I decipher the symbols correctly, Cap's team is Falcon, Ms Marvel, Shang-Chi and Spider-Woman. Iron Man's is Cannonball, Spider-Man, Sunspot and Wolverine. Thor is represented by 3 of his 4:- Captain Universe, Hyperion and Smasher. 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Validator
In the 'previously' page we see Ex Nihilo's 1st 2 origin bombs hitting Earth in #1, and Omega Flight going to investigate the one in Regina in Saskatchewan a month ago.This Omega Flight was a set of new characters working for Canada's Department H. The female Validator fired hand blasts. Kingdom had eye-blasts, controlled some floating hi-tech balls, and seemed to generate multiple bodies (or more specifically possibly generated a new body whenever the old one got killed). Boxx seemed to be a robot, not necessarily related to the original Box. And there was a Wendigo, who may have been the same one from Alpha Strike in Alpha Flight v4.The origin bomb was building a dome, which the team entered to find the population of Regina gone, or maybe transmuted into strange new inhabitants. After 2 hours the dome was complete, and Boxx and the Wendigo had been taken out. After 4 hours Kingdom ran out of bodies, and Validator used one of his tech-balls to send a message to the outside world:- don't come in, just destroy the place.Since then Department H has tried everything to break into the dome, including teleporters, all to no avail. Now they have called in SHIELD, and Maria Hill has called in the Avengers. Captain America answers the call, bringing Falcon, Hulk (as Bruce Banner), Manifold, Smasher and Wolverine. Manifold says he can get them inside the dome. Dept H Agent Michaud insists on accompanying them.Manifold is as good as his word. Inside the dome the Avengers find the city completely overrun with vegetation. They are greeted by little yellow beings who lead them to a glowing pool. And Validator rises out of it.She speaks a builder code phrase (which if translated would give away the ending). Then there is blackness. Then she is whispering to Michaud. Then blackness again. Then the Avengers and Michaud are outside the dome.Michaud and Cap seem to be agreeing that no-one should tell what they experienced inside the dome. But Michaud says he's got a video-only recording implant which Dept H is sure to access. So as SHIELD and Dept H come to pick them up, Michaud blows his own brains out. And we pull back to see that a pattern surrounds them in the dirt.The Avengers only tell about the overgrown city and then leave. Maria Hill admits to her Dept H liaison Agent Porter that the Avengers and SHIELD don't currently have a good relationship. Dept H did manage to retrieve Michaud's implant, but it only showed the same thing (presumably nothing about the yellow men and definitely nothing about Validator).But then Agent Porter reveals that technicians have found extra data in the implant that doesn't correspond to the short time the team were in the dome. Some of it has been inserted in old recordings, and some is date-stamped in the future. He plays Hill the extracted video.It shows Validator rising out of the pool, which we now see has the same glowing pattern as we saw in the dirt afterwards. Significantly Ex Nihilo dubbed this the 'evolution' site last issue. And we see each Avenger undergoing some sort of evolution. Hulk becomes Maestro. Falcon's arm turns into a real wing. Cap just seems to change costume a couple of times. Smasher is bracketed by an earlier bearer of the title, and a possibly future Kymellian one. Wolverine and Manifold share a panel. At first sight they only appear to change their costumes. But then I noticed that future Manifold's hair and sideburns look more like Logan's. And both future versions have a similar stance.Meanwhile Agent Michaud just appears to die and crumble to a skeleton. Then we see Validator whispering to him.On board the Avengers quinjet Manifold and Smasher want to know why they're keeping it all secret from SHIELD. No-one actually explains. But Wolverine says that Michaud died to keep it secret because Validator was his daughter. (The Builder code phrase she greeted them with was "Hello Father".)We are then party to what Validator whispered:- "Father, something amazing has happened here. It's happened to me. We've made something, and I'm supposed to protect it. It's bigger than any of us ever imagined, Father. The system is now online."


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The signal
The previously page shows Ex Nihilo launching his origin bombs from Mars to Earth in #1-2 to make the Earth sentient. Each was programmed to create a different aspect of life. Starbrand and Nightmask destroyed the self-awareness site in Croatia in #9. The Avengers investigated the evolution site in #10, where Canada's Omega Flight went missing. And we saw the Avengers raising the children in the self-sustenance site in the Savage Land over the past 2 issue.Now the strange inhabitants of the self-repair zone in India (looking like the Mad Thinker's Awesome Android, but bigger with a face on each side of his boxy head) have torn down a temple to build a stone design which looks not dissimilar to a pattern seen in the Canadian site. When it is finished they let out a shout that sends a light signal into the sky.The insect inhabitants of the communication site in Australia have spun a colossal web structure which now shakes with a 'message in progress'. But both these sites are failing in their tasks. In both cases we are given the cryptic phrase 'world terminal', plus in this 2nd case 'multiversal fracture point'.At the SHIELD Observation Station known as The Hub Bruce Banner is trying to investigate a signal which happens every 6 minutes, each time disrupting electrical systems worldwide. The Avengers are helping to deal with individual problems such a thing causes. But Captain America is with Banner hoping he can track the source so they can stop it. But unfortunately every time it happens his tracking systems are affected too.Iron Man and Captain Marvel are dealing with a falling satellite. They intend to break it up and let the pieces burn up on re-entry. But 1st CM must remove the atomic core and throw it into the Sun.At London's Heathrow Airport Smasher is holding a stricken passenger airliner aloft while Manifold teleports the passengers out. Then she dumps it in the sea because the runways are already full of planes. Spider-Woman is in air traffic control which has its system down. She is in touch with Falcon who is using birds to locate planes still in the air.Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hyperion and Thor are in South Korea, too late to prevent a nuclear power plant from melting down. Captain Universe is with them as she transforms from her confused alter-ego Tamara Devoux. She is able to confine the fallout. She also makes one of her cryptic utterances which Hawkeye thinks indicates the signal is coming from one of the origin bomb sites.Captain A gets this message and relays it to Banner, who concentrates his search on the 5 known sites (the self-awareness site is dead). He also puts a watch on Ex Nihilo's garden on Mars. And he looks at AIM Island because Sunspot had said there was something relevant there.The loudest signal yet then occurs. The communication site is transmitting it, and this time it gets through to the other sites. Validator rejects the signal in the Canadian site. The Savage Land kids are unable to respond. There's no response from the Japanese reproduction site held by the Hand. But the 4-faced creatures in the Indian site accept the signal, and pass through a portal to the Australian site.Banner has located the source of the signal in the Australian site. Manifold takes CA, Cannonball, Shang-Chi, Spider-Man, Sunspot and Wolverine there, then goes to fetch the team from South Korea (minus CU). The combined bunch battle the 4-faced giants and the large bugs.Meanwhile Banner notices a spike in the energy readings from AIM Island. AIM noticed a small reaction from their captured 'pod' (created by the self-defence origin bomb) to the signal. They have recorded the signal and are playing it back to the alien pod on a repeating loop. Their boss Superia isn't too happy about that. And she's right because the pod starts to crack open.


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The death and resurrection of major titans
This issue begins with the now usual 1-page mash-up of images from the preceding issues and words usually taken from other panels. The gist of the recap is that the aliens on Mars sent 'origin bombs' to various places on Earth. Each place was genetically evolved in different ways.SHIELD has sealed 5 of the areas off, in Australia, Canada, Croatia, India and Japan. But they think there may have been a 6th bomb. All the zones appear to be almost lifeless. We hear that the criminal Hand have infiltrated the zone around Kobe in Japan, Canada has sent Omega Flight to investigate their area, and Australia won't let SHIELD into the Perth area because it is miffed about a previously-secret SHIELD facility there called Project: Perseus.Captain America and Maria Hill are on a SHIELD helicarrier, with Falcon and Wolverine, communicating with Ms Marvel and Black Widow in Avengers Tower. Hawkeye, Hyperion, Spider-Woman and Thor are with the 2 women, and the group is trying to establish where the 6th bomb landed. Hyperion uses his superior intellect to massage a computer into tracking it to the Savage Land.Scattered through the rest of the tale are sections of Hyperion's origin, which I will collect together here.Hyperion comes from an alternate timeline. In it he was sent as a baby from his dying world, and his spacecraft wound up on the parallel Earth. He was given the name Marcus, and brought up by a man just called Father to be believe in Truth and Justice (and the Way of whatever country he was in).Marcus had super-powers and became Hyperion. He joined other 'children' of Father in a super-team who turned their Earth into a marvellous place (and who looked like the Squadron Supreme).The public Hyperion was an honoured and loved hero who followed Father's ideals. But he could see so much more than others. He could see electrons orbiting nuclei. He could see the individuals within society. This produced a cynical(?) inner Hyperion he kept hidden.Came the day when the skies turned red and a 2nd Earth from another timeline appeared, threatening to collide with Hyperion's home. The other heroes died, and Hyperion was left trying to hold the worlds apart. But then the 2 timelines mutually destructed, and Hyperion was left alone in a void.Until AIM extracted him to the main Marvel Earth. They held him prisoner for study. Until he was rescued by the Avengers, specifically Cap, Iron Man and Thor.Now back to the plot.The 6 Avengers in the Tower take a quinjet to the affected zone in the Savage Land. They detect no movement, but plenty of heartbeats.Thor tries to bond with Hyperion by offering him some Asgardian booze. But Hyperion only consumes sunlight. And anyway he thinks alcohol is bad.Hyperion's super-vision detects AIM at work 6 miles away. They inject one of their interns with a virus extracted from a zone cocoon, but he drops dead.The Avengers turn up to investigate, in time to see tentacles burst from the intern's body and attack the AIM members. A lightning strike from Thor's hammer and a heat-blast from Hyperion's eyes destroy the attacker.Hyperion sees a cocoon opening, giving birth to zebra-striped humanoid children. They speak the Builder machine code we saw last issue. But a bond forms between them and Hyperion.The Avengers arrest the AIM troops, even though they have diplomatic immunity from AIM's island state. But one of them, Dr Jema, is obscurely pleased that the Avengers think this is the last 'origin bomb' site they have to worry about.That's because AIM have found a 7th site in Norway, with a figure encased in ice.


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To the light
The previously page again summarises last issue. Captain Universe got Manifold to take her to Galador and leave her there. She sent him back to tell the Avengers to expand. On the SHIELD Hub Bruce Banner couldn't help becoming the Hulk. On AIM Island Superia and the Scientist Supreme plan to retrieve the escaped alien being from Perth where it has defeated a load of Avengers.Superia is 'translocated' to Perth where she talks to the confused alien. She explains that he was one of a bunch of different beings seeded on Earth from Mars (by Ex Nihilo in #1-2). They were all supposed to work together but not all survived (the 'self-awareness' element was destroyed in #9). Now the 'defense' element doesn't know what its purpose is. Superia calms him down, but only so that AIM can translocate him back to the Island.There he is immediately pushed by a device called the Auger into a space between 2 dead universes. (AIM previously used the Auger to pull Hyperion from this same place, as related in #4.) They intend to park him there until they have a use for him.Meanwhile AIM troopers in Perth start harvesting samples from the unconscious Avengers. But they are interrupted by the teleporting arrival of Manifold. Eden Fesi uses his ability aggressively to 'port Superia and her minions away to random locations.Eden finds Captain America awakening. Cap contacts Dr Banner on the Hub to see if he knows what happened. But Banner is just waking up too, back from being Hulk in an empty Hub with a large hole in the side showing it to be sitting in the middle of a desert.Later the whole Avengers team is assembled in Avengers Tower (except for Captain Universe still on Galador). Manifold tells them that he saw Galador about to be overwhelmed by alien invasion (although that isn't really what was depicted last issue). CU said the Avengers needed to get bigger to withstand the oncoming force.The other Avengers leave the meeting, and Cap, Banner and Iron Man exchange cryptic comments and agree on a plan.Manifold takes Captain America and Captain Marvel to Mars to recruit the aliens Abyss and Ex Nihilo. They agree when Manifold tells them it is Captain Universe's wish. (The aliens believe CU is the mother goddess of the universe worshipped by the Builders who sent them on their ages-long mission.)Iron Man takes Bruce to the partial Dyson sphere he's having built (by the Shi'ar) to protect the Solar System. This is where Nightmask and Starbrand were imprisoned in #9. As we learned last issue they could easily have escaped, but they've been waiting. They too agree to become Avengers.


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Superguardian
The now-usual 'previously' page of recycled images this time just summarises Tony Stark and Steve Rogers' expansion of the Avengers. This issue concerns the origin of new member Smasher, and there is very little about the ongoing plotline.A proper flashback shows Empress Lilandra and some of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard losing a battle. As Guardsman Immundra dies, Lilandra sends the original Smasher to warn Earth. He lands in a field in Iowa, and a bit of a lens from his mask falls out.The lens fragment was later found by Isabel Dare, who lives on the Iowa farm with her father and grandfather (Dan). She studied Astronomy and 'other space stuff', but came home to help out when her mother died.Later the lens fragment used Izzy's telescope to access Shi'ar transmissions via a cloaked stargate the Shi'ar have in the Sol system. It created a complete pair of exospecs, and then the rest of a Smasher uniform for Izzy. Then it downloaded lots of Shi'ar tech.Izzy flew via the stargate to the Shi'ar homeworld Chandilar, where Gladiator of the Imperial Guard was now Emperor (since the end of War of Kings). While there she was inducted into the Guard as a Subguardian. (It turns out there are lots of Smashers in the Guard. Only one of them gets to be the Smasher, member of the elite Superguardians.)A month later she returned home, to find her grandpa dying. He told her she had a special 'birthright'. And gave her an Avengers card, with a message from Steve Rogers promising Dan help whenever he needed it. We are to take this as leading to Izzy's Avengers membership.Now, in Avengers Tower, Cannonball and Sunspot come to Tony Stark to find out where the rest of the team have gone. Stark has been learning the language of 'Adam' (from #3), and has found that his name is really Blackveil.Smasher has been called to the aid of the Imperial Guard, and has taken some of the Avengers (Captain America, Falcon, Hulk, Manifold and Wolverine) with her. It is the scene from the preamble to #1, with (some of) the Guard (Manta, Oracle, Warstar and the current Superguardian Smasher) being 'broken on a dead moon'. They and some Shi'ar warships are vastly outnumbered by an attacking force. Warstar is down and Smasher is dead.Cap sends out his troops. Hulk and our Smasher go smashing spaceships. Manifold joins them by teleporting one ship into another. Cap and Wolverine (and Oracle) take on the ground troops, with Falcon (and Manta) as air support. They hold the line until joined by Majestor Gladiator and other Imperial Guardsmen arrive.After the battle is over, our Smasher is promoted to being Smasher of the Superguardians, the 1st human member of the Imperial Guard, to replace the dead one.Later, back on Chandilar, interrogation of the enemy reveals that they weren't actually invading the Shi'ar Empire. In fact they were fleeing from someone else.


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We were Avengers
This issue has flashbacks to Steve Rogers and Tony Stark creating the new Avengers team interspersed with the current action. I'm going to separate them out.The flashbacks repeat the scene of Tony convincing Steve that the Avengers needs to be bigger, to meet bigger threats. Steve can inspire them to greatness, but Tony will design the Avengers to be effective. Stark also proposes a small core group, with extra members that can be called on as needed.Captain America and Iron Man are obvious core members along with Thor. They also quickly agree on Hawkeye and Black Widow. And Tony insists on Hulk. The rest will be the backups. They also agree there should be a mix of old and new members in the backups, to help the new ones bed in.The totally new Captain Universe, Hyperion and Smasher we met last issue are already on the list (maybe even already contacted?). Stark mentions that Luke Cage turned them down, and Dr Strange is busy. We see the pair getting other recruits on board, each for their own reasons (some possibly facetious). Wolverine's here for the beer, Spider-Man for the money. Falcon accepts because Cap asks him. Shang-Chi just accepts, but Stark suggests he could create some weapons to enhance his martial arts. Cannonball and Sunspot are tired of being outlaw X-Men, but fancy the Avengers spotlight. Manifold isn't sure he's up to it, but he'll try. Spider-Woman's in because she's an Avenger, Captain Marvel because she's a soldier. That completes the roster that's been brought in for this crisis. (Although there are still icons on the Avengers team board we've don't know anything about yet.)The current plot opens on Mars, where Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man and Thor are captives of the aliens Abyss, Aleph and Ex Nihilo. Last issue these guys sent 2 'origin bombs' to transform parts of Earth. The Avengers came to stop a 3rd bomb, and found the aliens on an area of Mars they'd turned green with vegetation. After defeating Earth's champions the alien 3 sent Captain America back in the Avengers' quincraft as a message. Cap survived the crash, and activated a large group of backup Avengers.Now Abyss has been studying the prisoners, and is intrigued by Thor. She deduces he is a god. Ex Nihilo asks Thor about his pantheon's creation myth. Then he enquires about their fate - is it a final end, or is there a resurrection to a new cycle. Thor doesn't answer this last question, probably because it's a sore point.Instead Ex Nihilo explains the true story of the universe. A long time ago (probably in a galaxy far far away) the Builders were the 1st sentient race in the universe. After outgrowing the worship of the Universe as a Mother, they sent out mechanoid Alephs as gardeners of the cosmos. Mostly their gardening consisted of pruning, destroying races deemed unfit. But eventually one Aleph (the one in this issue) found one race worthy.On that planet Aleph released 2 seeds he carried with him, which grew into Abyss and Ex Nihilo. Since then the trio have travelled countless other worlds. When they find a sentient species they either destroy it or help it evolve. And evolution is what the origin bombs are about.On Earth Captain America is overseeing the modification of a quinjet to take the whole new team to Mars. Then 5 more origin bombs hit, and start evolving other parts of the Earth. On Mars Ex Nihilo explains that each one is different, evolving Earth-life in different ways. If none of them are fruitful, Aleph will destroy the world.Back on Earth Cap can't wait any longer, even though Wolverine thinks the new team isn't ready. There also isn't time to wait for the quinjet to be finished. Cap calls on Manifold to use his power to transport them all to Mars.


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To the end
The previously page covers mainly just the last issue again, but this time the pictures tell more than the words. Bruce Banner tracked the signal that was causing worldwide electromagnetic havoc to the 'communication' origin bomb site in Perth, Australia. The Avengers stopped the signal, but not before it was picked up in deep space. And it also triggered the birth of an armoured being in the 'defence' origin site on AIM Island. That being is now heading their way. Meanwhile a horde of alien refugee ships have arrived in Earth space. And Captain Universe has gone with Manifold to a distant planet.That planet is Galador, home of the Spaceknights. There is a giant spaceship hovering overhead, which I assume is an invader. CU sends Manifold back to Earth to warn the Avengers how great the threat is. They must get bigger, and gain the power to destroy a world. She herself remains on Galador, as Spaceknights come to meet her.We have an interlude with Nightmask and Starbrand in their prison on the partial Dyson sphere Iron Man's been building (see #9 and New Avengers #4). Some weeks ago Adam found Kevin experimenting with his Starbrand power, and started to teach him what he could do with it now that his brain was evolving to handle it. 1 week ago Kevin realised that the Dyson sphere wasn't powerful enough to hold him prisoner, and Adam said that either of them could escape any time they wanted. Nightmask showed him how to use the Superflow to go to any planet they want (until the degenerating Superflow fails - see #7). But they will wait until Kevin fully understands the Starbrand.Back in the present the defence being arrives at the communication site and stuns all the Avengers there. But without orders via the communication site it doesn't really know what to do next. And on the SHIELD orbiting Hub Banner starts turning uncontrollably into the Hulk, causing SHIELD to evacuate.As the Avengers recover, the defence being decides its best course is to defend the (wrecked last issue) communication site against them. It defeats waves of Avengers as they attack, upgrading its capabilities to handle tougher opponents, culminating in Hyperion and Thor.Back on AIM Island Superia and the Scientist Supreme Andrew Forson plan to snatch success from the shambles the defence being left them in last issue. They activate the Auger, a device they used to retrieve Hyperion from his dying universe in #4. This time they intend to use it to bring the defence being back.


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Building towards collapse
The previously page reminds us of the space-epic side of Infinity so far. Most of the Avengers went into space to join the Galactic Council in defending against the invading Builders (with the ulterior motive of stopping them before they reach Earth). The Builders' fleet turned out to be like an iceberg, with most of it hidden, and the Council forces were defeated. 1 Avengers quincruiser made it back to the Shi'ar rendezvous point, but the other, commanded by Captain Marvel, is missing.In Captain Marvel #15 we saw her craft crippled. She ejected the rest of her team in escape capsules, and then unexpectedly regained her long-lost Binary powers. We get a recap of this, and then see CM fighting off hordes of the Builders' Aleph robots. But to no avail.CM wakes up to find herself, Cannonball, Hawkeye and Sunspot captured. A Builder Gardener called Ex Nihila takes her for interrogation, where she sees the rest of her crew in stasis tubes. The Builders want to know how she came to be 'in possession' of some of their creations. Nightmask and Starbrand, the result of the White Event in #7, and Abyss (Ex Nihilo's sister) who they refer to as 1 of the long-lost Abyssii. But they are most concerned by Captain Universe, who they recognise as the goddess they used to worship.The Builders break off their interrogation as they detect a defenceless vessel approaching.Meanwhile the other Avengers have made it to the central Council staging post, the Behemoth Ringworld. Manifold, Shang-Chi and Spider-Woman are helping with the refugees from the Builder advance, including some from worlds afflicted with the plague like the one they saw a Gardener infect in Infinity #2. Gardener Ex Nihilo has created lots of fertile areas within the ringworld to feed the masses. His type were sent out by the Builders to seed the galaxy, and he can't understand why his makers and his fellow-Gardeners are now destroying so much. (This significantly ignores the fact that the Gardeners were sent out to prune as well as nurture.)The Galactic Council meets to discuss tactics now they know how big their enemy is (including lots of side-fleets attacking individual worlds). J-son of Spartax suggests surrender. Gladiator of the Shi-ar wonders if they could find out more about the Builders, to find a weakness to defeat them with. Captain America, flanked by Thor, suggests they ask the new Avenger Ex Nihilo. J-son is rabidly against listening to lowly Earth-types. But wiser heads prevail.The Gardener can't explain the Builders' motives. But he does point out that their main fleet is on a straight-line path. Ronan works out that they will pass through the Kree capital Hala. But the holographic projection of the Supreme Intelligence that he is carrying adds that the path will then hit Earth. J-son immediately accuses the Avengers of selfish motives, which Cap counters by pointing out that all the Council are here to protect their own races.J-son is called away from the meeting and dons a communication helmet. The occupant of the ship that went to the Builder fleet is a walking remote terminal, and J-son tries to bargain with them. They say they want to destroy Earth to save the universe. J-son offers to give them Earth. But they have been tracking his signal, and now know where the Council HQ is. They tell him they've sent something at .2 light speed to destroy the ringworld.Cap has proposed a plan which the Council has accepted. As usual we aren't told what it is, but it seems to involve getting the Builders to accept a poisoned bait. Ronan's Accuser Corps will sacrifice themselves to make the bait seem attractive. But just then J-son rushes in to warn the Council about the approaching 'bomb', but too late.


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Sent and received
Last issue the giant bugs of the Australian origin bomb site started sending out a signal every 6 minutes that as a side effect disrupted electronics worldwide. A team of Avengers went to stop them, and found themselves also facing the 4-faced giants from the Indian site. Meanwhile on AIM Island the signal woke up the 'self-defence' inhabitant of the 7th site.Captain America leads Black Widow, Hawkeye, Shang-Chi, Spider-Man and Wolverine on the ground against the proliferating 'communications' bugs. While Cannonball, Hyperion, Sunspot and Thor attack the 'self-repair' giants from the air. Meanwhile in the Hub observation station Bruce Banner leads a SHIELD team trying to solve the problem. He's also wondering what the signal is and who it's aimed at. Indeed the signal has, by relativity-defying alien super-science, spread out into the galaxy and beyond and been picked up by an intended recipient.On AIM Island the occupant of the cocoon AIM retrieved from the origin site in Norway in #4 has broken out. The AIM troops are fleeing, and even their leader Superia is staggering away from area. Another leader Andrew Forson arrives demanding to know what's happening. But the being has gone.Meanwhile back in Perth Cap has an idea. He contacts Thor and asks him to hit the giant transmitting antenna the bugs built with a lightning blast. When he does so it fries the bugs, and the disoriented 4-faced giants are easier to subdue.The team gather together. Manifold is also with them, and the mysterious Captain Universe joins them now it's all over. She gets Manifold to accompany her to a planet somewhere in deep space. She tells him this place is guarded by knights, and this place will be the 1st to fall.Back near Earth Abigail Brand and SWORD in their Peak orbital HQ detect loads of different spaceships approaching the planet. They capture most of them but a Skrull vessel gets through.And Banner's SHIELD team are tracking an armoured form heading from AIM Island to Perth.


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Strong
The previously page just shows bits from last issue, where Iron Man noted that the alien children grown by the Savage Land origin bomb were self-sustaining, not reliant on air or food. Captain Universe and Hyperion suggested to them that, being creatures without needs, they should strive to build a world where no-one need go without. But they were interrupted by High Evolutionary's mutated beasts, while HE himself spirited some of the kids away.Herbert Wyndham had his own hand in shaping the Savage Land, and he sees the zebra-striped children as a new element to add to the mix. He now has them in his hidden base, and he's incorporating them into some machinery.The base is invisible to Iron Man's sensors. But Captain Universe contacts Garokk the Petrified Man. He has been watching all that occurred, and can lead the Avengers there (except CU who stays behind). The target appears just to be a giant rock, but Spider-Man walks through it because it's a hologram. The other Avengers follow.The Avengers battle HE's mutated creatures, until a giant armoured form erupts from the ground. It's the (or a) Terminus robot, and he swiftly crushes Iron Man (but that's OK because we learned last issue that this IM is only a suit of armour operated remotely by Tony Stark, who's out in space with the Guardians of the Galaxy). Thor prepares to tackle the giant, while he sends Hyperion to find the children. Hawkeye, Spider-Man (Otto Octavius) and Spider-Woman continue to fight the beasts.Hyperion confronts High Evolutionary and rips an arm off. But HE's armoured body turns out to be artificial, and he turns the stump of his arm into a hi-tech gun with which he blasts Hyperion. But the fight ends when Hyperion realises that Wyndham has used the self-sustaining children as a power source for Terminus.Thor isn't doing too well against his large foe. But he prepares to unleash a terrific lightning storm on the robot. However, as the storm hits, Hyperion rockets from Evolutionary's base and punches his way through the giant head, emerging on the other side pushing a set of containers wherein lie the abducted children.Evolutionary obviously accepts his defeat and leaves, taking his monstrous beasts with him, but leaving Terminus frozen like a statue with a shattered head. Because the next scene we see is Hyperion and Thor sharing a drink and chatting.As last time, Thor predicts that something big and menacing is on the horizon. Hyperion reflects that now he will face anything to protect the children.


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Evolve
The previously page shows Ex Nihilo explaining that each of his origin bombs was designed around a specific trait of life. The one in the Savage Land embodied self-sustenance. It generated zebra-striped humanoid children who fixated on Hyperion as their father-figure in #4.We start off with a scene which the time-reference indicates is at least before #10.The Avengers have set up a base to study the children. Thor is musing how recent events (Ex Nihilo's universe-wide mission to create or destroy life, another Builder system generating Starbrand, and I would add the presence of Captain Universe) have shown the Earth mortals how insignificant they are. He is interrupted by a suit of Iron Man armour. Tony Stark is operating it by hyperspatial telepresence while he's off in space with the Guardians of the Galaxy.Stark tells Thor some of the things he's documented about the children. They've only been alive for 2 weeks and they're already the equivalent of 7 year-olds. They don't sleep, neither do they eat or breathe or take in energy in any other way. He suggests that they may be similar to Thor.Hyperion joins them and they agree that the children need teaching values. If they are truly self-sufficient then they will have no natural reason to learn the virtues of society. Hyperion is driven by having witnessed the destruction of his own Earth (as seen in #4) to do whatever he can to make things better in this Earth.Now Hyperion is showing Iron Man the training program. He has given individual groups of the children to specific Avengers to teach them different things. He hopes that the children will then share this knowledge with other groups, and that the desire for this knowledge will help them learn about wants and needs, and the value of society.Spider-Man is supposed to be teaching his group about trust. But being secretly the Otto Octavius version he is actually teaching not to trust.Thor wants to teach his bunch to do great deeds for glory rather than for gain, and for the sake of others. He marks a rock and hurls it to the top of a mountain. He splits his group into 3 teams of 3 and sends them to retrieve the rock. He promises to look with favour on the worthy.Meanwhile Hawkeye and Spider-Woman have been tasked with teaching their group accountability. Clint figured that having he and Jessica put sunscreen on each other's backs was a good-enough demonstration. Now the duo are sun-bathing while the kids play.Garokk the Petrified Man stands next to Thor's rock. It has landed on the mountain that contains the tomb he guards. He's happy to let the children swarm over his mountain. But he's distinctly unhappy about the large craft which has just landed and is disgorging monsters.Thor is chatting with Hyperion and doesn't seem to be keeping an eye on his wards. They are both long-lived with powers beyond most of their fellow heroes. Hyperion has seen his world destroyed and Thor has been through Ragnarok and 'death'. But Thor fears what he senses is approaching.Meanwhile 1 team of 3 got ahead by riding a stegosaurus and now they are nearing the rock. Conveniently for us they each have a different colour loin cloth. Blue is in the lead, but behind him green accidentally(?) dislodges a stone which causes red to fall a short way and hang precariously by his fingers. Blue goes back and helps red, letting green win.All the children bring the rock back, with green loin cloth the triumphant winner. But Thor declares blue the worthy winner. Green can't understand why.No-one actually tells green why blue 'beat' him. But Captain Universe points out to them that they are unlike the other creatures on Earth in that they have no external needs. So how will they fit in the 'ecosystem'? Hyperion proposes that their purpose, having no needs, is to give to those that do need. Spider-Man pooh-pooh's that - raise them to be messiahs and they'll end up martyrs. They may not need to prey on others, but predators can still prey on them.As if to underscore his message they are attacked by one of the creatures from the ship - a saber-tooth cat with the horns and bony frill of a triceratops. Hawkeye kills it with a single arrow (saying accountability means being there when it counts). As the Avengers study the strange body, Spider-Man alerts them to the fact that winged monsters are flying off with some of the children.They kids are taken to the ship and greeted by the High Evolutionary.


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The last white event
Having dealt with the origin stories of the 3 new characters, we're back with the ongoing plot. The previously page has the by-now-usual mixture of panels and dialogue from previous issues, but often with the dialogue attached to 'wrong' panels. But this time everything comes from last issue, where Captain Universe allowed the other Avengers to understand what Adam is saying, we learnt his real name is Nightmask, and he announced that the White Event is fast approaching.We start off in Universe 7109, seeing a Communication/Ascension Station being destroyed by what appear to be tentacles of space. Somewhere else 2 beings calling themselves Caretaker and Curator monitor this, and the demise of Stations in many other universes. It appears that there is 1 such Station in each universe, and they are part of a network called the Superflow. The early race called the Builders, who we heard about in #2, created this system a million years ago.Stations are falling at an alarming rate, and it will not be long before they are all gone. The 2 aliens move their spacecraft into Dreamspace, the Nexus of all Superflows, the Cental Web. But they find the tentacles attacking here as well. The whole Superflow structure is collapsing, and the aliens can't escape. Before they are themselves destroyed, the Caretaker orders all remaining Stations to fire something. We see some Stations overwhelmed before they can fully fire whatever it is. But then in Universe 616 (the main Marvel timeline) the Station succeeds in firing.In Avengers Tower Captain Universe, Iron Man, Shang-Chi and the Superior Spider-Man witness Nightmask announcing the White Event. On the roof Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor and Wolverine see a blinding white glow in the sky. Nightmask says that this isn't just a White Event, it's the last White Event. Then he starts mentally disassembling machinery and reassembling it into new configurations.Captain Universe says Adam was made to be one thing (by Ex Nihilo in #2), but became Nightmask. He is now looking for others who were transformed like him. Adam tells them that a White Event indicates that a world is ready to 'ascend'. The White Event creates beings to assist the ascension. First a Nightmask, but then a Justice, a Cipher, a Starbrand and sometimes a Spitfire. But CU and Adam also say that this White Event hasn't worked properly.Nightmask's machinery has located something. An area of devastation at a college, marked with a giant symbol called a Starbrand. Tony Stark scrambles a bunch of Avengers:- Captain's America, Marvel and Universe, Hulk, Hyperion, Iron Man and Thor along with Adam/Nightmask.While this has been going on we have seen flashbacks to the college before the explosion. We saw several people who we of course thought might be going to get superpowers. But the youth in the centre of the ruins is someone who was in the background of all those flashbacks. Someone who is used to being ignored.


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The garden
This issue opens with a page of scenes from the previous 2 issues, establishing the expanded Avengers team and the core team captive on Mars, facing the alien trio who will either transform or destroy the Earth.On Mars (in the area they bio-transformed) the aliens are awaiting the birth of their humanoid Adam, whom Ex Nihilo wants to inherit the Earth. The mechanoid Aleph on the other hand will destroy the Earth if Ex Nihilo's plan fails. Meanwhile Ex Nihilo's sister Abyss proposes to the captive Thor that they abandon both courses and start their own pantheon of gods. Thor's only response is to offer to save Abyss when the Avengers defeat the aliens.Adam chooses this moment to burst forth fully-formed from his cocoon of bubbles. Unexpectedly he starts babbling in what Ex Nihilo recognises as Builder machine code, before falling unconscious. (In #2 we learned that the Builders were the 1st sentient race in the universe, who built a swarm of Aleph mechanoids to spread through the cosmos passing judgement on other sentient races.)The next interruption is Hyperion eye-blasting Ex Nihilo. He has arrived with Captain America and Smasher. Cap takes on Aleph, in revenge for the pounding he got in #1. But eventually a blast sends him reeling. Abyss meanwhile sets her hypnotised lackey Hulk on Hyperion. Smasher is standing ready to attack Aleph or the downed Ex Nihilo, when suddenly other bubble-pods burst open, unleashing wolf-like and pterodactyl-like creatures.Cap finds himself next to the captive Iron Man. Tony Stark asks him why he didn't bring all the new Avengers team. Steve Rogers' response is to signal Manifold to teleport in the rest of them.Captain Marvel disperses the squad into an attack formation. But Captain Universe is disoriented by the teleportation, and her human(?) personality starts to resurface. The rest of the team (including Cannonball, Spider-Woman and Sunspot) attack the horde of creatures, as Hyperion continues to fight Hulk. Smasher demonstrates some of her Imperial Guard tech, as the beam from her Exo-Specs ricochets around taking out several wolves at once.Meanwhile Cap and Spider-Man attempt to free the captives (Black Widow and Hawkeye as well as Iron Man and Thor) from the ultra-tough vegetation that holds them. They don't get very far until they're joined by Wolverine's claws.Falcon has held strangely apart from the conflict. He has been communicating with the bird-like creatures, and they have communed with their wolf brothers. Now all the animals abandon the fight.Sensing defeat, Abyss and Ex Nihilo give way to Aleph's desire for extermination. But Wolverine has freed Thor, who gains repossession of his hammer. A lightning strike hits the 3 aliens. Abyss loses control of Hulk, who transforms back to Bruce Banner. Aleph has started growing to giant-size. But a strike from Shang-Chi cuts him off at the knees.Aleph and Ex Nihilo continue blasting at the Avengers, from under a defensive shield probably formed by Abyss. But Captain Universe has been talking with Adam. Suddenly she appears in front of the 3 aliens, who bow down to her as the Mother Goddess (the Universe) of the Builders. She tells them to stop judging worlds (not just Earth).But the mechanoid Aleph refuses to believe her divinity. (We were told last issue that the Builders had stopped believing in the Goddess before they sent the Aleph's out.) (Or maybe it's because Captain Universe keeps slipping back into her confused alter ego.) Aleph questions her orders, then tries to attack her. But the Captain reduces it to its components.The Avengers leave Mars to Abyss and Ex Nihilo, as long as they stop attacking Earth. They take Adam back to Earth with them.We end with some lines echoing #1, but over different visuals, saying that Steve and Tony started a legend when they created the new Avengers lineup. But a new bit claims that Cap represents life, while Iron Man is death.