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Iron Age Omega
The child Donald Birch sees a vision of an old man he does not recognize as his aged self and his mother doesn’t believe him….Tony Stark is trapped in the past by the destruction of the time machine (at the end of IRON AGE #3). He is living in a secluded house trying to recreate the device but things go wrong and it explodes, burning the house….In the present, just as Birch brings Phoenix back from the past before Tony’s eyes, another Iron Man, plus Cyclops, Human Torch, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Dazzler, and Captain Britain emerge from the time portal to battle Birch’s robots. Birch is surprised: this has happened multiple times but now one of them is missing….In the past, Tony gets in touch with Hank Pym, finally deciding he needs help. They reconstruct the machine and Tony heads through time to assemble all of the heroes he’s aided in the search whose pictures were displayed in Birch’s lab at the beginning. He hopes, by leaving Pym in the past to help run the machine, that Birch will be confused by the unexpected….Then Phoenix, enraged at being manipulated in time kills the Iron Man who came via the machine and Birch again commands his robots to fire on her and increase her power. Hank arrives as Yellowjacket as Phoenix destroys the robots. The heroes all fire on Phoenix and she collapses into unconsciousness. Birch dies from a combination of his cancer and his shock at the failure of his scheme. Tony thanks all of the heroes and they return to their own times….That night, by arrangement, they all meet for a reunion, to remember their one-time teaming and to drink to the memory of the absent Johnny Storm….


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What of Lazarus?
In #14 Korvac and Iron Man were both transmuted into gods by the Power Cosmic in Galactus' Worldship Taa II. Last issue we saw how Tony Stark evolved into the role and then confronted Korvac.But this issue begins with the broken fragments of the planet Draconius and a voiceover claiming to be its last survivor who escaped seriously wounded in a flight drone. Then we see him enter a bar on the planet Satania and begin to write an account of how his world was destroyed by Korvac and the Iron God. He claims the Wobbows were peaceful shapeshifters but ready to defend themselves when necessary. But their star was extinguished in the battle between those 2 cosmic beings who had been fighting across the galaxy for some time.We see the humongous Iron Man and Korvac accidentally bumping into planets (which as so often in comics space scenes are much closer together than they would be in reality) while they exchange blows and blasts and rhetoric. Stark disparages Korvac's plan for the universe (to bring peace to the whole place by making all life part of 1 thing called the Aggregate, as described in #7) and says he's already thought of millions of much better ideas. Korvac declares Tony's mind weak and small. Stark says he'd almost come to believe that himself but now he knows he's a genius. Korvac throws a planet at him ...... and that was the end of Draconius. The Wobbows had been starting an evacuation after the death of their sun but now only our guy made it out, carrying with him a copy of Wobbow history.The cosmic duo continue to fight. Korvac says the death of that civilisation was a necessary sacrifice to stop Stark's interference, but if Iron Man stands down no more need to die - except himself. The fleeing Wobbow sees the Iron God tear a hole into another universe. Stark sends Korvac through it and follows him (and it seems the Wobbow is dragged along with them). IM says the Power Cosmic allows him to view other realities, and he chose this 1 because it is completely dead. Korvac doesn't seem to have gained such abilities. Now Tony senses that this universe was destroyed by Dr Doom (see the recent Dr Doom #10). He points out that Korvac had wanted to make the universe into 1 living being, which of course would have been himself. So now he gets his wish, a universe all to himself. And IM blasts his foe away into the vastness of space.The Wobbow sees Cosmic Iron Man contemplate the dead Earth in this universe and vows to stop anything like that happening to his own version. More, with his new power he can keep the whole universe safe and make it a better place. At this point Korvac tries to sneak up on him but CIM's cosmic senses allow him to turn and smash the baddie once again.Then the Wobbow witnesses much more. The cosmic entities Eternity & Infinity, Lord Chaos & Master Order, Mistress Love & Sire Hate along with Death, the In-Betweener, the Living Tribunal and Oblivion all turn up to pass judgement on Korvac. But they say that even this dead universe isn't a safe enough prison for him so they intend to take him away with them. They then disagree over what to do with Cosmic Tony but in the end agree to watch him carefully while he does what he does. Stark leaves with Korvac's threat of vengeance ringing in his ears.The Wobbow in his drone ship manages to follow IM out of the dead universe to the Earth-616 version. He just makes it to Satania and has now been writing this tale in the end of the Wobbow history book. His task completed he dies.


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The man with the golden arms
Last issue Korvac, in his new android body as Fuller Teilhard, blasted Iron Man and Hellcat with lightning and left them for dead. We saw Tony Stark's heart restarted by his armour but Patsy Walker probably not so lucky.However the report of her death was exaggerated because we see her now sitting in a chair, but with a godly voice in her ear suggesting she pray to him. And we also see Stark outside harried by reporters asking him about his missing friend James Rhodes. This is the 1st we've heard about that, but we learn it happened after last issue when Tony joins Patsy. It turns out that they're hiding in a building opposite Tony's place, and Patsy's keeping watch for any activity by Korvac's super-minions. Tony figures the bad-guys kidnapped Rhodey to draw him out into the open, and that the usual hostage rules apply which means he can't call in anyone to help.Next we find out that the lightning has scarred 1 side of Patsy's face with a fractal crack which stings. Tony tries to reassure her that they can get Reed Richards or someone to heal it without a pewrmanent scar when all this is over. There's tension between them and he adds that he doesn't blame her for blaming him, but she replies that she's still having trouble getting over the attack.Tony wants to get a plan going but Patsy reminds him that Korvac killed most of the Avengers once (at the climax of the Korvac Saga in original Avengers #177). Tony reminds *her* that the Avengers aren't dead, but she counters correctly that it's only because Korvac brought them back to life (ibid). Tony counter-counters that Korvak was a cosmic being then, and now he's only an android with lightning powers. (Which Tony says he's learned from the Enclave, something else that must have happened between issues.)Patsy also thinks Tony has an ulterior motive for not involving anyone else, besides for Rhodey's sake. Stark financed Teilhard's lightning energy project which is what charged him up. Now she asks if Tony's keeping this super-menace secret because he doesn't want people to blame *him*. He's been worried lately that the public think badly of him.Then their argument ends with a kiss and falling onto a bed. (I told you there was some kind of tension between them.)Now we see that Rhodey is being held captive in a New York church by Teilhard/Korvac and the Controller who has slapped 3 control discs on Jim's neck and he's still resisting. Blizzard is there too admiring the ceiling, and Unicorn pops in to announce that they've located Galactus' worldship Taa II. Korvac tells the other 2 to keep watch for Iron Man while he and Blizzard go down to the basement for his transfiguration. When his minions question his wisdom of transforming *here* he says he *wants* Tony Stark here to witness it and spread the word of his power.Meanwhile Tony's having a post-coital chat with Patsy. She's convinced him he can't tackle Korvac without allies. But he can't go to the obvious targets like the Avengers, Fantastic Four or X-Men. At this point she confesses that she's been hearing Korvac whispering in her ear. Tony delicately brings up her previous mental problem (driven suicidally mad in the Hellstorm: Prince Of Lies series), but she's sure this is real.Back in the church Teilhard prepares to absorb all the energy from his lightning-charged battery sites all over the world, all channelled through the NY City grid. They may black out the City, but NY is used to it. Controller has arranged for anyone who comes near the place to be 'psionically neutralised'. Korvac gets attached to a metal plate on the wall in the shape of a cross, saying it's time for the final station. (He keeps making such biblical allusions.) Blizzard throws a switch and the electricity pours in.Tony and Patsy are going to see Halcyon, the guy who beat Tony in an illegal car race in the City streets. Apparently he's raced him again several times and never won. The man is deaf and uses sign language, so Tony devised special intelligent glasses to interpret the signs for him rather than learn sign language himself. Then Patsy gets a pain in the head and the lights go out. And she senses that Korvac wants to go to Taa II.They find the racers and Tony asks Halcyon to use his contacts to locate people on a list. They'll all be keeping well-hidden. But then Patsy gets taken over by Korvac, firing off electric bolts and speaking with Teilhard's voice telling Stark not to interfere. But it is Halcyon who calmly defuses the situation by using a hubcap to break open a fire hydrant and dousing Patsy with water. He explains that he's a mutant whose power is that his heart rate never exceeds 70bpm. Stark tells him to add himself to the list.


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The great I-M
Iron Man and his gang have been involved in a spaceship chase with Korvac and his mob to Galactus' worldship Taa II where Korvac intends to regain the Cosmic Power he once stole from there. Shellhead got separated from the others but arrived at Taa II 1st with an ally he'd picked up, Avro-X. Korvac's ship arrived next and Avro-X got killed. And Tony Stark was damaged even worse than he had been already. Then IM's group turned up led by Hellcat, and joined the party by crashing their spaceship into the room hurting all the bad guys.Now Korvac recovers and persuades his followers to ignore their wounds and accompany him. He knows how the worldship's computer system works and he takes them through a portal. And Stark can do nothing to stop him.War Machine helps Tony up as Hellcat climbs out of the shattered spaceship. Scarlet Spider kicks a hatch open and Frog-Man, Gargoyle, Halcyon and Misty Knight follow him out. Patsy Walker finds Tony's detached faceplate, and also Avro-X's helmet (but Tony has no time to explain that). Dubbing his team the Space Friends he sets them to work. He tells his AI BOSS to wrest control of the portal system from Korvac. He sends Frog-Man, Halcyon and War Machine to look for a self-destruct system. Gargoyle, Hellcat, Misty and Spider will come with him to confront Korvac directly.As the trio search for the self-destruct Eugene Patilio asks the other 2 why Stark put him on this team because he knows nothing about machines. James Rhodes reckons it was because Tony wanted to keep him safely away from Korvac. Then Blizzard ambushes them and encases armoured Rhodey's legs in ice. Froggy and Halcyon keep the villain busy while WM thaws his legs and then zaps Blizzard. However while leaping around Frog-Man espies Korvac leading the other 3 villains through another portal, and he follows them ...... to find Korvac on a platform activating the stairway to the Transmutation Chamber where he will access the Power. But Patilio leaps to kick Korvac off the platform and they both fall a long way down. The android Human Torch flies down to rescue his 'Lord'. Controller tells Unicorn to keep watch on the portal they came through while he goes to guard the stairs to the Chamber.Iron Man flies through the portal and he and Unicorn duel. Until Misty Knight steps through and punches his face with her bionic arm (which Stark gave her a long time ago). Unicorn still isn't down so she shoots him in the kneecaps. BOSS reports that he's gained control of the portal system, and Tony tells him to redirect all portals to here. Gargoyle and Hellcat appear in the Chamber door behind Controller and Patsy uses her enhanced mental powers to knock him out of the way. So Scarlet Spider starts to retract the stairs and close the Chamber. But Torch flies up carrying Korvac into the Chamber before he can do it.As HT flew past Hellcat noticed 1 of the Controller's disc on the back of his neck, and realises that the hero is a puppet. Tony contacts Rhodey to tell him and Halcyon to take any portal to here and help the fallen Frog-Man. Then the other 5 follow Korvac to the Transmutation Chamber. Shellhead tells the others tackle Korvac but at the same time to keep Jim Hammond busy. BOSS informs him that his latest fight has caused brain-bleeds (that's on top of the earlier broken neck that his armour is keeping intact and pain meds are helping him ignore).Inside the Chamber Korvac is heading towards a confluence of 'light' beams which are creating whatever implements the Transformation, while Torch flies to attack the heroes. Hellcat asks Gargoyle to carry her up to HT. IM tells Misty it's no use shooting at the HT or Korvac androids but she could try shooting out the beam sources. Patsy lands on the flaming android and rips the control disc from his neck while Misty's aim is good. But mini 'bots start repairing the damaged beam sources so Gargoyle and Spider start destroying *them*.Misty fires her guns at Korvac anyway, joined by IM's repulsors and fire from the liberated Torch which do more damage. Korvac's underlying android body is uncovered and Iron Man smashes into him and punches through his chest. Something also chops his lower legs off.The battle appears to be won. Halcyon and War Machine join them supporting Frog-Man. But Tony Stark collapses after his efforts. And unnoticed Korvac drags himself towards the Transformation area. Iron Man forces himself to his feet but can't stop Korvac entering. So he steps forward and joins him.


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Let us now cross over
Korvac in a new android body is leading a band of villainous followers to Galactus' worldship Taa II to regain the cosmic power he once had. Iron Man was leading a band of heroes to stop him but got hijacked by Stilt-Man to a colony on a world of Ultimos. That situation got resolved by Tony Stark and an ally Avro-X last issue, and then the Living Tribunal popped up and sent the pair direct to Taa II. Galactus was not at home but his automatic defence system detected them.Iron Man's AI scans for a control centre but the place is bigger than its scanning range, and Avro-X's suit is much more primitive. The system starts shooting at them and Colin Richard is wounded. As they fly away to escape they see 1 of Big G's Punisher robots being auto-assembled and it attacks them. When it discovers there are 2 opponents it morphs into 2 copies. IM manages to wreck 1 of them and then jets through the body of the other menacing A-X. But the robots self-destruct, blowing the heroes away.When our duo recover they continue searching the huge spaceship. Along the way they chat about Manitoba, Colin's home Canadian Province. Colin recommends Churchill where you can see polar bears. Then a defence alarm tells them that a spaceship is approaching, but Stark doesn't know whether it's Korvac or *his* friends. He leaves Richard to hunt for the control centre while he heads for the docking bay, hitching a ride on a high-speed transport belt. Colin finds what looks like what he wants, but he can't understand the controls so just starts to wreck everything.We see that it is Korvac and co in the approaching ship.  While Korvac and Unicorn dodge enemy fire Controller gains access to Taa II's computers and opens a bay door. But when they crashland inside they find the Golden Avenger waiting for them. Tony is surprised to find the android Human Torch with the bad guys, but Jim Hammond is controlled by 1 of the Controller's discs and attacks with fire. Avro-X joins the fray and Blizzard hits *him* with ice. Then Korvac incinerates him.Angry Shellhead rips an android arm off Korvac and beats him with it, causing feedback. The minions attack. IM repulsor blasts HT and Blizzard but Unicorn's counter-blast knocks his faceplate off and the massive Controller punches Stark in the jaw. Tony, already with a broken neck bolstered by his armour and tanked up with morphine, is now out of the fight. Korvac orders them not to kill Stark because he wants his foe to witness his final success.Then the cavalry arrives in *their* spaceship. Pilot War Machine detects IM's armour inside the giant structure. Hellcat can't understand how Tony got there from the Ultimo planet but she tells Rhodey to ignore the flak being thrown at them and drive straight at their boss and blast a way in. They wind up in the same hangar bay as Tony and Korvac.


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Bravest of the Argives
As usual with this series there's a gap between the end of last issue and the beginning of this 1, and again the gap's not going to be filled with a flashback.Tony Stark has Patsy Walker confined with her permission because Korvac can take her over (as he did at the end of last issue). The villain isn't 'talking' to her in her head at them moment so he leaves her to meet his new gang (that Halcyon recruited during the gap). Ex-Defender Gargoyle (Isaac Christians) now runs an oyster bar, and would-be superhero Frog Man (Eugene Patilio) works for him. Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly) is a Spider-Man clone who works night security at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. And Misty Knight is part of the Knightwing Restorations Ltd detective agency. She doesn't like Stark and is billing him for this job.Tony summarises the situation. Korvac is a villain who killed all the Avengers (in their #177). At that time he had godlike powers that he got from Taa II, the spaceship of Galactus. Now he's been resurrected as an android and is intent on going back to Taa II to get those powers again. As a step on the way he's supercharged himself with about a 3rd of the energy of the Sun. He's also kidnapped James Rhodes as a hostage to stop Iron Man asking the Avengers for help. So Stark sent Halcyon out to recruit some under-the-radar help. He mentions that Halcyon has the mutant power of remaining calm in all circumstances, but Tony has made him a super-suit which will give him an artificial adrenaline boost so he can react to danger.In an overstock warehouse in the Bronx Korvac and his acolytes (Blizzard, Controller and Unicorn) are preparing to take their spaceship to where they have detected Taa II to be currently. They'll leave Rhodey behind (I think) and they have a plan to stop Iron Man from following them. But 1st there's something Korvac needs to do.Patsy hears his voice in her head again. She remembers being given electroshock therapy years ago when she suffered from voices before (in the Hellstorm: Prince Of Lies series). Now Korvac tells her to come to him and bring Stark with her. Somehow Hellcat finds herself outside in the rain with their foe as the self-proclaimed messiah promises to make all her troubles go away. But she jams her hand in an electricity supply box and the shock knocks her out.Iron Man is on the roof as he wonders if he should let Korvac win. Maybe the man *can* make the world better, as he tried to do the 1st time. But Tony remembers all the times *he*'s thought he knew what the world needed, and he was wrong every time.Inside the building Misty Knight has located a large energy and radiation spike in a warehouse in Port Morris in the Bronx. Gargoyle finds that it is an overflow warehouse for a home furnishings company. Deaf engineer Halcyon uses sign language (which luckily Frog Man can interpret) to tell them it has to be a large engine.Meanwhile Iron Man has spotted Hellcat's energy discharge and flies there to find her alone. He apologises for using her as bait to get to Korvac. But Patsy is getting flashbacks of being in Hell (after she committed suicide in that Hellstorm series). Tony holds her until she calms down. He gets a message to say that his team are heading to the warehouse, but he tells them to wait for him before going in. Then people rush out of a nearby building claiming there's a man with a bomb inside. Patsy begs him not to leave her but the hero has to go.He finds Korvac in a laundry room with no bomb. The would-be god continues to say that he can save the world. Stark continues not to believe him. Korvac suggests Tony thinks he could do a better job himself. Tony denies it. But then he gets another message from Misty to say that they've gone in without him and found a Shi'ar jumpship all powered up. But it's an empty shell. Tony urges them to get out fast, but there's an explosion and he loses contact.Korvac says that once again Stark has been outsmarted. Angry Iron Man responds with full-power repulsor blasts, but all they do is chip away some of the android's human disguise. And now his battered, power-depleted armour crashes to the ground. His enemy contacts his minions and asks them to congratulate Guardsman because the decoy ship worked beautifully. Now they'll leave on the real ship in 10 minutes. Then he stomps on Tony's neck and the armour's AI reports critical injuries and imminent death from lack of oxygen.


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The will of fire
It's a 2nd issue with no Iron Man in it. Last issue focused on Hellcat, this 1 on Korvac, especially his origin. The Golden Avenger was whisked off to an alien planet in #7.This issue begins in 2997 where a human resistance cell has been tortured by Badoon. Suddenly a 4th member Michael Korvac joins them, conspicuously unharmed, and kills them. He returns to his Badoon masters. The coward has betrayed the Earth in return for his life and a lowly position in the Badoon Empire. Now he resumes his job tending computer systems. But he's found slacking off and punished by having his top half permanently grafted to a computer module, and his left eye replaced by an implant.Korvac remembers this as his spaceship lands on the moon of Rivalis. He and his crew (Blizzard, Controller and Unicorn) go in search of someone who has deliberately buried himself to get away from everyone. It's the original android Human Torch, Jim Hammond. But Korvac calls him Adam I because he himself has been 'reborn' as an android called Adam IV based on HT's design. But Jim objects that he's no longer that android because that body was destroyed and Tony Stark gave him his current mechanical 1 (Invaders (2019) #6-7). But now we learn he hates this body, which is why he's fled the Solar System which gave it to him. But Korvac says he can have an android body again.Torch goes with them back to the ship. Korvac says he too had his body forcibly remade. But he solved the problem by accessing a power which made him a god, and he's going to regain that perfection. Jim says *he* doesn't want godhood, but Korvac explains that he only wants that power so he can remake the universe into a place of peace. He'll show him what he means, but 1st they'll restore Jim's body if he wants it. Hammond agrees.As they rebuild his old body, even better than before, Korvac reveals that he's doing this because he wants an ally, someone like him who will be able to understand the sublime truth of his vision. The rebuild includes aspects of Korvac's mind that will enable Jim to see the beautiful truth.Meanwhile we get more of Korvac's past. We see his half man/half computer form accessing the cosmic power (which previous issues have reminded us was obtained from Galactus' worldship Taa-II). But it turns out this was a memory/dream of humanoid Michael Korvac on 20th Century Earth with his wife Carina. It's Avengers #176 and the extended team arrive at the couple's door causing Korvac to kill them all (#177). And as *this* is a memory of the current Korvac he dwells particularly on killing Iron Man.Now JH has experienced Korvac's plan. But he has also seen Michael's memories including the death of the Avengers. Korvac protests that he immediately sacrificed his own life to restore the heroes. But Jim has also seen his 'work' with the Badoon and knows this is not a man to be trusted with the future.However Korvac had a backup plan for this eventuality. Controller sticks a special version of 1 of his discs on Hammond's neck. HT will now be a mindless automaton controlled by them. But Michael mourns the loss of a potential brother.


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Hello, darkness, my old friend
Tony Stark gained the Power Cosmic in order to defeat the similarly-enhanced Korvac. Then a bunch of cosmic entities led by the Living Tribunal took the defeated Korvac away to keep him from causing further trouble. Cosmic Iron Man returned to Earth determined to perfect the universe. He started by giving everyone in New York the equivalent of his own engineering genius (Reed Richards complained that he'd been dumbed down). Chaos ensued when everyone started created weird and wonderful gadgets. Tony's gang of 'Space Friends' led by Hellcat contacted Dr Doom and Silver Surfer to stop him before he went too far. Angered by their betrayal the Iron God killed them all last issue except for Patsy Walker who made him realise what he'd done.Now Tony takes the 2 of them in his mind back to the fields which his great-great-grandfather Isaac Stark harvested and invented a machine to make his work easier. He tells Patsy he can bring the others back to life and wipe their memories of their deaths. He complains that he always only wants to make things better but his friends keep opposing him (such as Captain America several times). Patsy gets him to admit that he's really trying to get past his father's judgement that he was worthless if he wasn't the best.Patsy comments that *her* mother always judged her against the perfect version in the comics she wrote. So she married a demon (Daimon Hellstrom in Defenders #125). Tony counters that she became a hero (Hellcat in Avengers #144), and Patsy says she still doesn't really know why she did that.Tony launches into a radical reinterpretation of the Jekyll And Hyde story, as we see images from his own life. Dr Jekyll was good but flawed, as are we all. He invents a potion to get rid of his vices so he can be perfect (as he becomes Iron Man). But his 'evil' side doesn't go away. Now the narration ceases to fit Jekyll And Hyde as it describes how 'Jekyll' still has his flaws and continues to make mistakes which harm his friends. He tries drinking more of the potion (Tony's alcoholism) but it makes things worse. And his mistakes get bigger, culminating in last issue.Patsy tells him to resurrect his friends and Doom and Surfer. But she advises him to let them remember, so that *he* won't be able to forget. They return to the real world and he works his magic (presumably de-geniusing New York as well). He apologises to them all and then relinquishes the Power Cosmic. Patsy jokingly chides him for not mending her wrecked courtyard 1st, and he promises to repair it personally.Then he goes for a night-time walk in Central Park alone. And he gets mugged but he just lets the mugger have his wallet. And then he collapses from morphine withdrawal (he got addicted when his armour was keeping him going despite serious injuries in #10-14).At this low point Korvac reappears. He claims to have 'decimated' Living Tribunal and In-Betweener (and other cosmic entities?) and now he's here to implement his plan to bring about universal harmony. But he's now decided the best way to do it is to just destroy everything, starting with Stark. And then he realises Tony isn't in a state to realise what's going to happen to him, which would ruin Korvac's revenge.


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Buy the four
Source Control are acquiring and selling high-tech weaponry including Mandarin's Rings. Tony Stark, James Rhodes and Carl Walker (better known as the wearer of the Force armour) teamed up to deal with them. Walker acts as front man to buy the weapons they put on sale. He uses Stark's money and a variety of dummy companies. Meanwhile Iron Man and War Machine fought SC's agent Titanium Man when they investigated the death of Vic Martinelli, and Tony pretended to have been put in a coma. But instead he donned his stealth armour to infiltrate SC's Macau base, with Rhodey as backup.Carl is pretending to be a high-stakes gambler in a Macau casino, but it's just to impress Source Control when he goes for a meeting to buy 4 time displacement blasters. But the villainous minions have sussed out that he's behind all the other buys and they use a time displacer on him. Rhodey's been keeping tabs on him and alerts Tony who busts in as stealth Iron Man and downs the baddies. They will be temporarily stashed in a rendition site Stark's done a deal with. And the blasters go to Bethany Cabe in a Long Island storage facility where Tony will reverse engineer everything (to prepare defences against any spares) before destroying it all. Tony promises Rhodey that they will rescue Carl from whenever he's been sent. But 1st there's 1 remaining item they must get out of Source Control's hands - the Rings.They have to wait, but eventually the Rings go on sale. This time Tony himself will have to be the buyer. But when he gets there with a briefcase he finds that SC is run by his old foe Spymaster. The villain is suspicious even after the money is electronically transferred. The briefcase contains the stealth armour in case things went wrong. When the Rings are handed over Stark doesn't let them know he sees that they are fakes. Spymaster demands the armour too - and that of stealth-mode War Machine they know is there too. So Rhodey decloaks and threatens them ...... until he's attacked by another armoured figure who turns out to be Walker in his Force suit. It turns out the baddies had only sent him a week in the past and then they picked him up and showed him how Stark was just using him as bait. So Carl joined the enemy. They take Tony's armour and then Spymaster reveals that he's already sold the Rings to the Cobalt Man, who steps into view.


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Last issue Cosmic-powered Iron Man defeated Korvac, and the Living Tribunal and other cosmic beings took him away. But now what will the Iron God do with the universe?Jim Hammond, James Rhodes, Patsy Walker and Frog-Man are waiting to try the oysters at Isaac Christians' restaurant. Froggie is the only 1 in costume to maintain his secret identity (though Gargoyle can't hide what he is), but he learns that Isaac has told the others who he is, a busboy at the restaurant. Eugene Patilio tries to parlay that into a better job. We learn that Reed Richards fixed the scar that Hellcat got in #4. Some of the other Space Friends are absent:- Halcyon's got his maths final, Misty Knight's off doing her own thing, and Scarlet Spider has the 'real' Spider-Man gig again (in Amazing SM).But what they really want to talk about is Cosmic Iron Man. Rhodey loves Tony Stark like family but getting cosmic powers could be the worst thing for Tony himself and the universe. Jim and Patsy agree that Tony has good intentions, but as the saying goes they pave the road to Hell. Patsy can't contact him telepathically since he and Korvac 'ascended'. So Rhodey has put the Avengers on alert. He's wondering if they should contact guys with greater range:- Guardians Of The Galaxy, Nova Corps, Silver Surfer.The question is taken out of their hands as the Iron God appears as a giant figure hovering Washington Square Park. As he shrinks down to just double-size and lands the team rush up (now all in costume) and War Machine asks him to stop frightening people. IM obliges by shrinking to almost normal and greets them. But before they can 'chat' ...... the Fantastic Four and some Avengers (Black Panther, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Phoenix (Echo), Thor and the Starchild) arrive to take things into their own hands. Tony tells them that Korvac is still alive but somewhere where he won't trouble them again. Steve Rogers wants to know if Tony is himself a threat now. Stark suggests he's just a god like Thor now, but the Asgardian doesn't take *that* kindly. Tony's next tack doesn't make them feel much better.The Silver Avenger claims that Korvac had the right idea in wanting to promote harmony in the universe but his method was bad. And it all stemmed from believing he was the only 1 who knew what was best for everyone. He would have taken away all free will, something which Tony never did even when he had the Infinity Gems. Tony has been thinking about the power he had even before he became Iron Man, the inventive power of his mind. So now he's going to share that with the world. Alarm bells ring in CapA's mind but Cosmic Tony angrily overrides his protests. And he tells them that he's done it already now - he's made everyone in New York City Stark-level geniuses.We witness several effects.Reed feels like he's just got *dumber*.A couple in Queens are arguing about the husband watching a ball game instead of helping with the dishes. Their style of argument evolves as the subject shifts through not being able to afford take-outs every day to them having fallen into stereotypical gender roles. And they wind up with a new marital dynamic.A car mechanic is telling a customer what needs fixing in his car. But then he proposes changing it to a hydrogen fuel system. They combine to hash out solutions to various side-problems. But when it turns out the whole thing would cost way too much the customer settles for an oil change.Some boys playing baseball start musing on the meaning of life.Jackson Weele (the Big Wheel) comes out of the coma he's been in (since Deadpool & Mercs For Money #4) and leaps out of his hospital bed with a great idea.On a rooftop Cosmic IM changes to Tony Stark for a chat with Patsy Walker who's trying to talk him out of what he's done. She claims that his 'gift' to everyone without them asking for it is abrogating their free will. He quotes "give the customer what they want, not what they ask for", but Patsy objects to being considered a customer. As usual such a conversation is cut short by some action ...... as Big Wheel goes past in his latest Big Wheel mode of transport. This 1 flies! And it shoots beams down to cars on the street below. Iron Man and Hellcat suit up to deal with him. They are both able to deduce that his beams are taking control of the traffic and discuss the method he's using. They assume this is a villainous plot. Hellcat makes a physical attack but Cosmic IM mentally separates them and then the Big Wheel into its components. Then Patsy reads Jackson Weele's mind and learns that he was connecting the cars into a supercomputing algorithm to avoid traffic jams. Tony is impressed but Patsy says that Weele's implementation was as high-handed as Tony's gift of genius. Tony gets angry and says he's going to fix the whole world. Patsy's parting remark is that he sounds like Korvac.Later she contacts the only man she thinks may be able to stop the Iron God - Dr Doom.


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Farewell, my space friends
Last issue Iron Man came back to Earth from his Power Cosmic-infused battle with Korvac. Now he's the cosmic-powered Iron God. He began his plan for improving the universe by giving everyone in New York City his genius-level intellect. Things started going wrong straight away, and Hellcat (Patsy Walker) called on Dr Doom to help resolve the situation.A news reporter describes some of the results of a city full of geniuses. Doctors have found cures for 34 diseases (4 of them terminal), and 11 other diseases have been wiped out by laymen. A guy has invented a process to turn rubbish into a renewable fuel source, and 3 more new fuels have also been invented. High School students are maxing their test results but also quitting school because it's become redundant. Many new financial wizards have destabilised the stock market, and ingenious bank robberies aren't helping. Not to mention the people who've tried to take over the world.Tony Stark has built a special prison for criminal geniuses, but they still keep escaping. So he's reduced all the prisoners' IQs to 'dull normal'. Meanwhile for some reason most of the NYPD have quit to form a private space program called Blue Moon. And the newsreader herself quits and vanishes after announcing that she's invented a new TP method and founded an intergalactic shipping corporation.Patsy and Victor Von Doom are watching this in her large apartment (afforded by inheritance from her author mother). Frog-Man, Gargoyle, Halcyon, Human Torch (Jim Hammond) and War Machine of IM's anti-Korvac 'Space Friends' team are on the roof garden but they're not happy when Patsy introduces Dr Doom along with pizza. She explains that because they've all got Tony's type of genius he'll be able to second-guess them. Even Reed Richards has been reduced to this level, so Doom is the only option and he's already come up with a plan.The team immediately split between those who agree Tony needs to be stopped and those who think he's doing good. Deaf Halcyon has now created a device which translates his sign language into speech. Gargoyle is impressed, and Frog-Man thinks the positives outweigh the negatives. Hammond and James Rhodes side with Patsy. Victor demands that they stop bickering and do what he says. Then Silver Surfer drops in having answered Hellcat's mental call from across the universe.The Iron God has reduced himself to his human form and is holding a meeting with representatives from all over. Most of them are complaining about what he's done but some of them want him to spread his genius to other places (eg Washington). He can't take any more and with as snap of his fingers he turns everyone in the city into fawning sycophants. Then he leaves to visit Patsy and co to experience *them* being nice to him for a change.Dr Doom has unveiled his plan. He's built a special bomb to be powered by the Surfer. Then they hear Tony calling out that he smells pizza. Doom and Norrin Radd fly off and Patsy warns the other to pretend to like him (because Doom has magically protected them from his influence). They all greet him as a buddy, even as he apologises for forcing them to act like this. He just needs time to get everything working smoothly. But eventually Patsy can't keep up the pretence and calls him out as an egomaniac.Tony powers up to punish them so SS intervenes, but Stark has the Power Cosmic too and easily blasts him back. Scientist/sorcerer Doom is more of a challenge but Tony can take time out to destroy the bomb and berate Doom for destroying a whole universe himself (in Dr Doom #10 but discovered by Stark in our #15). Doom eventually falls and Surfer interrupts again so Stark turns him into a silver puddle.Tony then easily kills Frog-Man and turns Gargoyle into a pile of rubble. HT and Halcyon are next. But he has to turn into the Iron God to face War Machine. His old friend tries to talk him down while Tony tries to justify his actions. But eventually the IG just punches Rhodey's head off.Iron Man realises what he's done to his greatest friend, and surveys the other dead bodies surrounding him. Hellcat awaits her fate as calmly as she can. But then Tony unmasks weeping.


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Last issue Tony Stark discovered Source Control, an online black market for super-weapons. He decided to shut it down by using his family fortune to buy all the weapons (a dubious tactic I'd think). He enlisted the aid of his pal James Rhodes who told him that their old colleague Vic Martinelli, whose calls they'd both been ignoring, had got mixed up in it and been murdered.Iron Man and War Machine are investigating Vic's trashed apartment. Rhodey's thoughts give us a potted history of the man. Vic was Stark International's Security Chief (seen from Iron Man v1 #132). In #146-147 we learned that he was in witness protection from the mob. Vic stayed with Stark International when Obadiah Stane took it over in #172. He disappeared from the comic (after #199) when Stark took his company back, and was seen still working for Stane International in #234. In Punisher: The Prize graphic novel he lost an IM armour in Mexico and destroyed it with help from Punisher. Jim also adds new-to-us information. Vic used to work in Military Intelligence and lately he'd used those skills as a courier transporting stuff for whoever would pay him the most, eventually working for Source Control. But we see that his latest consignment was Mandarin's Rings, which prompted him to try to contact Tony or Rhodey. But they both ignored his calls until it was too late.They take traces from the scene back to Tony's lab to analyse. Already there is Carl Walker (who uses the Force armour) who is going to be front-man for the weapons buying. The results of the analysis indicate that Vic's killer was Titanium Man. But it also shows that Mandarin's Rings were there. IM's AI BOSS detects TM inbound. Tony and Rhodey suit up to meet him. They don't want Carl to join them as Force because he's got to pretend to have relapsed to his criminal past. To that end Stark has reported him to the State Department as an arms dealer so he'd better get out of the US fast and head to Macau where Source Control is based.The duo leave Tony's house to avoid T-Man damaging it. The foe arrives and all 3 trade blows with their upgraded-since-last-they-met weaponry, plus plain armoured fists. Titanium Man is down but he shoots IM with the nerve gas Compound 13 and then escapes. IM's filtration system doesn't keep it all out and Rhodey rips Tony's helmet off. Tony's still alive but in a bad way.Rhodey abandons their plan in favour of rushing Tony to hospital. Patsy Walker joins him at the bedside. Captain America turns up and asks if War Machine would sub for Stark in the Avengers for the duration. Jim Rhodes of course has to decline, and also refrain from telling Cap what's going on.In the next scene Rhodey is flying a plane over Macau where Walker is already buying weapons from Source Control via shell companies. Jim's making a recording for Cap in case it all goes very wrong. And Tony claims to be fully recovered as he leaves the plane in his stealth armour intending to steal the Rings.


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The land wherein thou art a stranger
In #1 Iron Man fought Unicorn, amongst other things, and the villain claimed to be serving a god. Last issue ended with Tony Stark in hospital after fighting some more villains. Unicorn was in the same hospital and his god sent him after Stark again.But this issue opens with Unicorn in costume (as opposed to a hospital gown) in the rain in Oklahoman countryside. He calls to his god and gets hit by lightning.We then get a lot of scenes with a voiceover. We see Iron Man hovering over New York. Breaking a robot opponent in half. Getting hassled as Tony Stark because his AI rights stance (the Iron Man 2020 event) is causing parts of the Internet to refuse to work. Then IM fights Gladiator (not the Shi'ar 1) followed by Night Phantom and then Madame Masque. He drops in on a junior school in costume at break time but gets told off by teachers for disrupting their routine. Then he finds Melter who's melted his car. He casually KO's the villain and carries him up into the sky and drops him. (This is possibly where he was in the 1st scene, and the others are flashbacks.) He jets down and saves him at the last second.The next thing we know he's at a Burger Hut, unshaven and dishevelled and wearing bunny slippers. The voiceover was apparently him talking to himself at the counter saying he doesn't know what people want him to be and do. No-one ever gives him any thanks, and he doesn't know why he doesn't just stop worrying about everyone else and just do whatever he wants. Then the burger-guy brings him back to reality and he orders something. But he has to make it takeout as he realises it's 3:45 in the morning and he's supposed to be catching a plane.Next he's on the plane with Patsy Walker. He's travelling coach to see how ordinary people live. (He's still rich and probably still has his own plane but he's not using it.) Their conversation lets us know that the Melter incident was 2 days ago. And Unicorn wasn't after Tony last issue (I misread the scene). He just escaped from hospital, dived into the East River and hasn't been seen since. Stark is going to see Fuller Teilhard (#1) who wants to use lightning as a clean energy source, and he invited Patsy to accompany him. Tony's financed him because he thinks it might work, but in his current mood he still thinks the public will find a way to question his motives. Patsy wonders why he cares about public opinion and Tony says it's because he's much more famous than she is.Patsy Walker blows up at him. (She's famous for being the inspiration for a load of teen comics, and later for being Hellcat.) She says since coming back from the dead she's more concerned about things that really matter to her. Tony tries to steer the conversation back to himself by reminding her he's been dead too. But she points out *he* didn't commit suicide (Hellstrom: Prince Of Lies #14). Now he actually listens as she says you don't recover from something like that, and she is constantly aware of a dark side of herself in her head. Then she puts on her headphones to ignore him until they get to Oklahoma.Some hours later Iron Man descends to meet Teilhard in 10,000 acres of high-tech lightning rods. And Fuller tells him there are 57 other sites around the globe (and it's months since #1). After a technical explanation of how it works, IM remarks that the Stark label has been taken off all the equipment. Fuller says he didn't want anyone to trace the ownership of the sites. And a very large lightning strike incapacitates the armoured hero.Now we see Teilhard backed by old IM-foes Blizzard and Controller as well as Unicorn. the master-villain says he's going to use the lightning sites to gain the power of a demigod. But this is only a step towards becoming *the* God. And Iron Man found him once before (original Avengers #176) so he won't let that happen again.But then Hellcat slams into the villains with a truck. She helps Shellhead up and they start fighting the 3 disciples, who spout about having been chosen by their god. However Teilhard ends the battle with a lightning blast from his hand, and names himself Korvac as he leaves the 2 heroes dying on the ground.Tony's armour restarts his heart with its built-in defibrillator. But it seems Patsy may not be so lucky.


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Korvac has returned as an android and intends to regain his old godlike powers from Galactus' worldship Taa II, which is where he obtained them last time. He's already gained *some* power and some faithful followers and they're heading out into space. Iron Man and Hellcat gathered some other under-the-radar help and are following. But in #5 Korvac broke Tony Stark's neck and now only his boosted armour is enabling him to function.New char Halcyon is a whiz with racing cars and is enjoying the heck out of driving his 1st FTL starship. James Rhodes is worried about helping Tony beef up the power of his armour even more, but Stark says he knows the imperfection of Korvac's android body and 1 crack in his shell will be enough. Then it's Rhodey's turn to have his War Machine armour upgraded. Misty Knight has sent out an interstellar call for help. Young Frog-Man is thinking up names for the team. Misty wonders what kind of 'god' they are facing. Scarlet Spider opines that Korvac is just like them, a collection of atoms that thinks it's a person. But Froggie thinks that's what a test-tube clone like him *would* think. Gargoyle caps the conversation with his view that god is balance and we worship him by maintaining balance in ourselves and the universe.Tony is chatting with the remaining member of the team Hellcat. Patsy Walker is worried that Korvac knows they're after him because of the connection he has in her head, like when he gave her a glimpse of his future utopia (last issue). Stark suggests they could use the connection to get inside the foe's head. She used to have mental abilities so maybe she can reach out to him.Korvac is in the control room of *his* spaceship, with Blizzard and Unicorn piloting. Unicorn points out that Stark's ship is gaining on them. Blizzard comments that Stark has obviously built a better spaceship than Korvac. 'God' takes this as a sign of wavering faith and angrily almost gouges Donnie Gill's eyes out. He orders Unicorn to slow down and they'll destroy the enemy ship. But then he's distracted ...... and finds himself with Hellcat in the 2-mooned mind-scene from last issue. And Iron Man joins them, asking Korvac to tell them more about the future paradise of universal harmony. The would-be god explains that everything in the universe will become 1 entity he calls the Aggregate. Stark guesses that Korvac will be that entity, but his opponent says that he will be just 1 more seamless part of the whole. He shows them a future of crystalline animal-like bodies which he says are extensions of the Aggregate, the same all over the universe. Patsy and Tony both think the idea sucks, but Korvac just says they are too limited to appreciate his vision. Tony describes it as just a big vanity project ...... and then he disappears from the mindscape. Hellcat assumes Korvac got rid of him, but the villain claims it's nothing to do with *him* - Stark just ran away. And then he turns Patsy into 1 of the crystalline beasts so she can experience the future 1st-hand.Back on the chasing ship Misty Knight checks on Patsy and Tony. She reports to the others that Hellcat is just lying on the floor. And Iron Man was there too but then he vanished. Korvac is mentally back in *his* ship and orders Blizzard to man the aft cannons and Controller to ready the missile chambers. And he tells Unicorn to turn the ship to face the foe. Rhodey is at the control's of *our* ship with Halcyon. They start a dogfight.Meanwhile Iron Man is in some place where many of his armour's systems don't work, and his AI can't figure out where they are. He too thinks Korvac sent him here. And then he's accosted by a bunch of various aliens who call themselves the Colony Patrol and want to take him into custody as an unauthorised presence here.


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Through the mirror
Korvac and his gang went to Galactus' worldship Taa II so the he could regain the Power Cosmic. Iron Man and his allies followed to stop him. Last issue Korvac dived into the transmutation chamber and Tony Stark followed him.Now Tony is experiencing a 'dream'. He's tucked up in bed in his armour, and the bed is floating in outer space. He imagines that the suit's AI BOSS is recording his thoughts. He knows that the Power Cosmic is actually changing his body, but now he imagines himself floating away as an 'astral' form to jet off and confront an ornate mirror also floating in space. He passes through the mirror into an equally palatial building.This is Stark Mansion and he sees himself as a lonely young boy crying on the hall floor. And also as a teen on the stairs mourning the death of his parents in a car accident. He remembers always being starved of attention and doing *anything* to get noticed. In this case his armoured form grows huge enough to burst through the roof of the building. Then Iron Giant-Man flies up until he suddenly shrinks and crashlands back in the (now Avengers) Mansion as Iron Ant-Man. Captain America hands him a phone that's bigger than he is and his father's voice asks why he hasn't changed the world yet. Tiny Tony walks away but is flicked away by Iron Giant-Man's fingers and lands in a pile of old Shellhead armours.Now we supposedly see giant Korvac sitting on a moon attended by the equally-large obsequious Unicorn. Korvac notices Iron Man and brandishes a sword commanding him to leave the universe. The still logically small Golden Avenger finds a needle for a weapon. But then the dream-sizes equalise allowing Korvac and IM to have a sword/needle fight which our hero wins and banishes the foe into a black hole/quicksand.Tony knows that this is all coming from his subconscious:- the childhood problems, his father issues and a phallic duel. He thought he'd put all that behind him (in this series) and stripped himself down to a basic hero. But now with the Power Cosmic he can *really* change the world. (But he demonstrates that by destroying the moon that 'Korvac' had been sitting on.) However he imagines his superhero friends getting worried about his new power-level and trying to stop him. But now *he* can stop *them*.He reigns himself in and promises himself it won't come to that. He has so many ideas on how to fix everything. He'll start by fixing his broken body. (In the last few issues he's gotten a broken neck among other injuries, and a morphine addiction.) He flies out through the mirror to rejoin his 'real' self in the bed in space. He plans to rematerialise in the real world in front of his team and assure them he's still himself, just a little better.Now we join the real Korvac. He too had been in a bad way, his battered android body had lost several limbs. But now the Power Cosmic knits him back together in a human body and he is the god Michael once more. He puts aside the doubts that had assailed him in the last minutes and prepares to remake the universe (in the way he described in #7). But then Iron Man confronts him in a shiny new silver armour/body.


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The last midnight
When Iron Man and Korvac were both turned into gods by the Power Cosmic, the Golden Avenger defeated his foe who was then taken away by the Living Tribunal and other cosmic beings. Tony Stark tried to use his god-powers to improve the Earth, but when Patsy Walker and other friends pointed out how out of control he was he killed them all except Patsy. Filled with remorse he restored them to life and then relinquished the Cosmic Power. But earlier in the series Tony had become addicted to morphine while his broken neck mended(!). Now he's hit by withdrawal symptoms. And at this point an escaped still Cosmic Powered Korvac comes for revenge.Korvac tries to get collapsed Stark to respond to him while he relates he escaped from the LT and the In-Betweener. Now he'll kill Tony and then destroy the universe, thus achieving the universal harmony and peace that he always claimed was his goal. Tony pukes and then admits it's an elegantly simple plan.Then he asks Korvac if he can remember being a normal human, before he became a cyborg, then an android and then a cosmic god. Michael Korvac casts his mind back (or forward) to the 31st Century where the Solar System has been occupied by the Badoon. They slaughtered billions but not *him*. Tony asks what deal Michael made to survive, but that of course angers the god and he starts to strangle his foe.But he stops when Stark gasps out that this is the only way Korvac could beat him. Now he diagnoses that Michael was smart but always needed an edge to win - protective alien masters, an android body, all the electricity in the world, the Power Cosmic (the last 3 all in this series). And he's always been scared to lose. Tony says he's similar. He needs Iron Man's armour to feel OK, but it was never enough. Then he got the cosmic power and went on a crusade just like Korvac. And it still didn't fix himself. He suggests Michael stop hiding behind props and be a man for once.Amazingly it works. Korvac gives himself a human body and throws away the Power Cosmic. Then he beats up wasted Stark with his human fists. He seems to derive some satisfaction from it. But then he finally realises Stark can't fight back. Tony admits that the drugs he'd been taking lately to keep going were now taking their toll and he's dying. Michael considers everything he's learned in his life. And then he picks up the now unconscious Tony and carries him to a hospital. Then he climbs to the top of a tall building and jumps off.A week later Patsy picks Tony up from his brownstone and drives him to Sagehen Shore Rehabilitation Centre. He can get booked in for 28 days at a time, but he's going to stay for as long as it takes to get clean. He declines her offer to accompany him in, because he's long been familiar with rehab. But he asks her to come fetch him when he's done. They hug goodbye. In his room he finds a short note from 1 of his recent allies Eugene Patillio/Frog-Man.


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Iron Man and his friends are following Korvac and his minions through space towards Taa II, the worldship of Galactus, where Korvac intends to regain the godly power he once had. They are now in the middle of a spaceship dogfight while Tony Stark and Hellcat confronted the villain on the mental plane. But in the middle of it all Iron Man was suddenly whisked off to an alien planet, and Korvac wasn't the cause.Iron Man himself won't appear in this issue. Instead his current co-star Hellcat takes centre-stage.In the space battle Korvac's ship is now behind the other 1 and shooting at them. Tail-gunners Misty Knight and Scarlet Spider give answering fire. Frog-Man is sitting around feeling helpless. A shot from the foe disables War Machine's flight control system, but co-pilot Halcyon takes them into a tight loop-the-loop and then he fires missiles at the foe. Meanwhile Gargoyle is holding Hellcat's limp body, trying to call her back from mindspace.But instead Patsy Walker is mentally contacted by her old friend and mentor Moondragon, interested to find that Hellcat has reawoken the mental powers she once gave her but then removed in Defenders #77. Heather Douglas is physically a long way away with the Guardians Of The Galaxy but she has detected the major threat of Korvac and intends to *boost* Patsy's power, not take it away again. Patsy is worried about losing her mind again but Heather says she can make her stronger, and takes her on a magical mystery tour through her life ...... starting with Centerville High School. She sees her sweetheart Buzz Baxter (who she later married and then divorced before he became super-villain Mad Dog). Then they switch to a classroom where the students are sitting a test. Patsy says hi to her frenemy Hedy Wolfe. (We see Hellcat in costume but everyone else presumably sees her as teenage Patsy. And nobody sees Moondragon.) Patsy can't remember the answers to any of the questions but Heather tells her to read the teacher's mind. And then to telekinetically move the apple on his desk, which then splatters against the blackboard. The teacher later collars Patsy because Hedy told him she threw the apple. He sends her to the Principal who turns out to be ...... her other ex-husband Daimon Hellstrom, Son Of Satan. But being with him had led to her mental breakdown and suicide which sent her to Hell. Now he says he wants her back but she daren't go back there so she mentally throws chairs at him. And the scene changes again ...... to an even less real version of the past. She's in a coma which Hedy describes as a psychotic break and being trapped in Hell. Mrs Walker comments that it'll make a great plot for her comic strip. And Buzz or Daimon has brought Patsy a straight razor which Mrs W hopes she'll use to kill herself and put everyone out of her misery.The next scene is Patsy in a straight jacket in a padded cell. She whimpers that she's better now and calls out for Moondragon or Tony Stark to get her out, and then curls into a foetal ball. But then we see Hellcat and Moondragon in the room with her. Heather says that the other Patsy represents her fear of her own mind. Hellcat embraces the fear, frees it from the straightjacket and accepts it. Moondragon says Korvac is afraid, but now Patsy isn't so she can beat him ...... and she wakes on the spaceship with alarms going off. Everything's going to Hell and Rhodey plans to complete the mission by ramming the other ship. But Hellcat takes over (by throwing Halcyon out of the co-pilot seat) and tells Jim to do what she says. At the same time Korvac is about to tell Unicorn to destroy our guys when  his ship seems to be invaded by several Badoon who call him traitor, coward and slave. He realises they're illusions but not before his crew have seen him cowering in fear, and then lash out at them with his accumulated power. The result disables their ship, and Patsy tells Rhodey to run for it. (Gargoyle has repaired some of the ship's systems.)Then Patsy realises that Tony Stark isn't around.


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Last issue the Korvac saga which has dominated this series was finally over but Tony Stark was left addicted to morphine (since he started using it to deal with the severe injuries he sustained in the middle of that run). Patsy Walker delivered him to the Sagehen Shores rehab centre.Now 3 months later she's come back to pick him up (though when he had 3 months off from the Avengers I just don't know). She tells him that the Space Friends (the gang he drew together to help him fight Korvac) disbanded but most of them started a Fantasy Football League. James Rhodes, Jim Hammond, Halcyon, Gargoyle and Frog-Man are co-managing, Ben Reilly and Misty Knight are involved and she claims (probably joking) that she invited Silver Surfer but he rarely has an Internet connection. She herself is also involved and is currently League Leader (but Rhodey and Jim are doing well too).Tony gets a call from Vic Martinelli but ignores it. Patsy takes him to a chicken wings place to watch a Mets game on TV which features some of their players. She says a lot of detailed stuff about (American) football which goes way over the head of English me. Tony hands her a letter he wrote for her while in rehab. We don't get to see or hear what it says but we can gather it includes a proposal of marriage. She tells him "I love you but ..." She reminds him of her previous marriage to Daimon Hellstrom (Son Of Satan) which ended with her spending a long time dead with demons in Hell. (She doesn't mention her 1st marriage to Buzz Baxter which also ended in divorce, with her becoming Hellcat and him becoming very minor bad guy Mad Dog.)Later Stark holds a rooftop press conference to unveil Stark Unlimited's latest (quite large) supercomputer, the Exascale 5150. He ignores another call from Martinelli. While doing loads of other stuff simultaneously the computer will (as a publicity stunt) play a master-level timed chess game. But the press are more interested in Tony. They want to know if he's back in an active role in the company (no), how was rehab (good, but he'll always have an addictive personality), does he miss having the power of a god (while fighting Korvac and after) (no, but some of the post-Korvac stuff turned out to be useful), why did Korvac save his life last issue (he has no answer).But at last he's able to introduce the computer's opponent Chet the super-intelligent gorilla from Empire State U's advanced zoological cognition program. Chet takes Tony aside and asks if he could get a job at SU. Stark says he's not running the company these days but he'll pass on the request. However Chet takes this as a species-ist brush off, particularly annoying as they have Dr Shapiro the cat running a whole department. But he takes his seat opposite a hologram avatar of the 5150.Meanwhile Patsy is mulling over Tony's proposal. On the 1 hand he's not a demon, but on the other he did kill the Space Friends when they tried to reign him in (#17) (but he did bring them back to life and apologise). Does she love him or does she just love trying to fix him?Back at the chess match the 5150 is winning, and Stark predicts a 9-move ending. Chet moves his piece but removes the bishop he's captured with his other hand, which is a rookie illegal manoeuvre. 5150 is awarded 2 extra minutes of playing time but 'he' protests that the gorilla did it to gain 'himself' more time to rethink his strategy, and so he should be declared winner now. They start to argue, Tony tries to calm them down but Chet tips over the board and goes on a rampage. He knocks Stark off the roof but Tony's armour is automatically assembled by its AI BOSS and sent to save him. (He is forced to ignore another call from Vic.)However Chet logs in to Stark's laptop and infiltrates BOSS to shut down most of Iron Man's systems. He can't fire his repulsor rays and his boot jets stop working. Chet leaps on him and they both go over the edge of the roof (it turns out to be only a 5-floor tenement building). IM gets away when they land and starts to run away through the traffic. Chet is closing in while Tony reviews what armour options do still work, and he activates the roller-skates in his boots to zoom off. So Chet appropriates a passing moped and gives chase. (Patsy concludes that she loves Tony more than she ever loved her 2 previous husbands, and unlike them he's a grown-up.) But she can't see Chet grab a sword from a statue of Daredevil (commemorating his activity in War Of The Realms) to which the Golden Avenger grabs a flagpole to use as a jousting lance to knock his opponent of his scooter. Iron Man declares himself a winner, but still advises Chet to send his CV to SU.Later Tony lets Patsy into his apartment (missing yet another call from Vic) and she shows him the Daily Bugle's unflattering version of the fight. She tells him she does love him even more than she thought, but she can't accept his proposal right now. And we see Vic Martinelli still desperately trying to get hold of his old boss. And he seems to have Mandarin's 10 Rings (not to be confused with the 10 Rings that Shang-Chi now has in both his Comics Universe and Cinematic Universe versions).


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Save the last dance for me
Tony Stark discovered that an organisation called Source Council was auctioning powerful weaponry online including Mandarin's Rings. He used his fortune to buy most of what they had via frontman Carl Walker/Clayton Wilson/Force and now only the Rings are left. But the bad guys sussed Carl out and convinced him that Stark was only using him. When Stark and stealth-cloaked War Machine came after the Rings they found that the Council was headed by Iron Man's old foe Spymaster, and Force was backing him up. They defeated James Rhodes and confiscated Tony's briefcase containing *his* armour. And then they revealed that they've already sold the Rings to Cobalt Man who joined the baddies with them.But now Stark tells his armour's AI BOSS to assemble the (stealth) armour around him. Which amazingly happens faster than the villains can react. But Stark still feels Force's blast damage his spleen through his iron suit. However Tony reckons that after fighting with a broken neck (earlier this series), a dodgy heart or a drink problem this is nothing.Clayton is given 1st crack at him. But Rhodey has recovered and now War Machine joins in. But it is IM who rips Force's helmet off while lecturing him about doing the right thing. He has to admit that this sometimes causes damage, but he strives to repair that when it happens.So now Spymaster sends in Cobalt Man with Mandarin's Rings on his armoured fingers. Tony and Jim prepare to die. The 3rd foe uses the Black Light Ring. But the ray passes between the heroes to hit the 2 villains who vanish ...... and Cobalt Man removes 'his' helmet to reveal the head of Riri Williams (Ironheart). It turns out that she too had heard about Source Control selling the Rings and she too went undercover to buy them. Tony asks why she didn't contact him for help. She replies that he was (pretending to be) in a coma, and anyway he didn't ask for *her* help,The young science whiz had also been researching the Rings (for a long time) and had worked out hitherto unrealised properties. Such as the Black Light Ring's ability to create a portal to the Darkforce Dimension which is where she sent the bad guys.The 3 return to Stark's New York apartment. Rhodey and Riri want Tony to get his spleen seen to but he's more concerned about Mandarin's Rings. Riri wants to keep them but Tony's worried about the affect such power will have on her mind and wants to destroy them like he's done to the other weapons he bought. But the young heroine is sure she can work out how to use them as more than weapons and do so much good with them.Tony changes tack and suggests they divide the Rings between them and they'll collaborate on investigating their potential. She counters by asking why he doesn't trust her. *He* created the Iron Man armour and improved it over the years without anyone monitoring *him*. He suggests that if *he* kept the Rings the Avengers would be keeping close tabs on *him*.Tony gives in as long as she keeps him updated with her progress. She sort-of agrees. Then she armours up as Ironheart and flies off.


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Gods and complexes
Tony Stark was reborn/rebuilt/restored in the Iron Man 2020 mini-series. Last issue he disengaged from Stark Unlimited, created a simpler, old-fashioned Iron Man armour and partnered-up with Hellcat (Patsy Walker) (continuing his penchant for redheads). They fought Unicorn who seemed to be a puppet of someone else.But this issue begins with a flashback to 1 year ago (to the end of Marvel Comics #1000) where we see Carlo Zota completing the 'cybernetic amalgamation' Adam IV to serve the Enclave in creating a better Earth. But the android says his name is Korvac and he has a greater vision of a better universe with himself as its god. Watching in the background appears to be the Masked Raider.Now we enter the current time in media res with Iron Man having been somehow trapped in Arcade's Murderworld in a boxing ring with Absorbing Man/Carl 'Crusher' Creel for a pay-per-view audience with gambling. Apologetic Creel says he's equally confused but killing IM is the only way to get home to his wife Titania. He absorbs the strength and power of Shellhead's armour and slams Stark to the floor. IM fights back but somehow knows that all the big bets are against him. Then he rips the referee's 'face' off revealing Arcade underneath.We now find that bandaged Tony is telling the story to Patsy Walker. He finishes it by saying that he then quit the fight before Creel got a chance to beat him. Patsy asks why it matters, and Tony's protest that it doesn't rings false. She's teaching him Zen meditation to clear his mind of thoughts, but he can't stop thinking that *he* could've won the bout. But Patsy says he was losing. And she also accuses him of *letting* Arcade capture him, and figures he wanted the punishment of being beaten up on live TV. He says he wanted to prove that he was still a hero, but she asks him who he was trying to prove it to?As usual with such conversations he's saved by a call to arms. Cardiac the medical vigilante has kidnapped some SU pharmaceutical scientists because of Tony's investments in Big Pharma. As he heads out Stark does his usual these days introspection about the result of Iron Man 2020 event. He died, his consciousness was stored in VR, and a new body was grown for him. Is he still really Tony Stark? The destination is a large metal ball with the scientists trapped inside, running out of oxygen. Cardiac wants them to die to represent what US private medicine is doing to people.Shellhead's repulsor blasts don't make a dent in the adamantium/vibranium metal. Hellcat has been following on her claw-line and now distracts the villain with a kick in the spine. IM retreats to get a run-up for a high speed collision with the ball. His AI BOSS tells him he's far enough to attain maximum velocity, but also warns him of the likely damage to his body. Tony ignores that and achieves a high-speed punch through the wall of the ball restoring oxygen to the prisoners.Later the scientists are freed, Cardiac is under arrest and Hellcat is visiting Stark in traction in hospital. It seems no-one will give him health insurance, but his fortune can afford the costs. Patsy points out that's part of his privileged life. Even becoming the hero Iron Man just gave him more power than he already had. He's just a white guy with a god complex. And now he's trying to die a hero to erase all his past mistakes. And Tony can't deny it.Then it's interruption time again. Unicorn is in the same hospital after losing last issue's fight. Now his puppet master sends him to have another go at killing Stark.


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Walking away from Omelas
The main conflict in this series so far remains with Korvac, but Iron Man has been sidetracked onto an unknown planet populated by Ultimo robots where Stilt-Man leads a small community of 'abducted' people, mostly aliens, in an attempt at an utopia. Tony Stark is helping them survive but his armour is the only thing keeping him alive with a broken neck, and he's getting addicted to the morphine that keeps the pain at bay.This issue begins with the funeral of Yar and others who died in the latest Ultimo attack. Tony discusses with Colin Richard/Avro-X, another armoured hero from Earth, the possibility of taking the fight *to* the Ultimos instead of just defending against them. He suggests examining the wrecked robot. But Colin protests that the colony needs all its resources just to survive, and the Ultimo is being melted down for scrap.Wilbur Day/Stilt-Man overhears the conversation and visits Stark in his quarters. Tony tries to convince *him* of his plan but Wilbur points out that they, Avro-X and the deceased Yar were the only real fighters in the place and he's not going to send the civilians out to the deaths. Iron Man suggests a sneak attack but Wilbur claims that the automated source of the Ultimos is on the other side of the planet. And he also suggests that the robot threat is what binds the community together. Moreover Wilbur reveals that he's been working on a way to get a signal out to get them rescued. He asks fellow engineer Stark to help him get it done quicker.Tony then gets Patsy Walker/Hellcat talking in his head (since Moondragon boosted her mental powers) to remind him that they still have Korvac to deal with, whose plans for the universe will affect even this planet wherever it is. She suggests that 1 of the reasons that he's not doing all he can to return to that fight is that he's turned off the governor that was controlling his morphine dosage, which Tony admits. Then she tells him that the team have decided to face Korvac without him. They'll come find him if they survive.We then touch base with her, Frog Man, Gargoyle, Halcyon, Misty Knight, Scarlet Spider and War Machine. Their spaceship has reached Taa II, Galactus' worldship, ahead of Korvac and his gang. Hellcat tells them they're going to have to go in without Iron Man.Iron Man can't sleep and sneaks out of his tent to look at the wrecked Ultimo. But Avro-X follows him and tells him it's a waste of time. Wilbur has examined half a dozen of the things and there's nothing of interest apart from the power storage battery that the colony cannibalises. When IM doesn't stop Avro-X attacks him saying that Wilbur doesn't want anything to upset the fragile balance of the colony.But Shellhead beats him off and does get a look inside the Ultimo and finds a simple infrared remote control circuit recently attached to it that could have come from RadioShack. And then the pair of them confront Wilbur Day in his lab and accuse him of controlling the Ultimos himself. Wilbur immediately confirms his guilt by going Stilt-Man on them claiming they're going to ruin his grand experiment.During the ensuing fight he admits that he created this colony and only pretended to have been abducted here when he used an interference beam to bring the others here 1 by 1. He was tired of being repeatedly defeated by superheroes on Earth and wanted to prove that he could create and lead a perfect community. Just like Tony and Colin the others could build a better life once they'd shaken off the shackles of their past. The Ultimos really were here already, created by the planet's previous inhabitants as he claimed last issue. But he used them to keep the community small enough to control, and their threat kept the people united. (But he just couldn't resist bringing Iron Man here to show off in front of 1 of his old enemies.)Then we see that a crowd has arrived to investigate the commotion, and they heard his confession. They grab their leader and drag him away. Tony and Colin intend to stop them from killing him but then the Living Tribunal appears and tells Stark that the universal balance needs him on Taa II. Tony interprets this as meaning that his friends won't be able to stop Korvac without him. LT then cryptically says Stark has misunderstood, but Tony agrees to go if the Tribunal will send everyone else in the colony home. However Colin says he wants to accompany Tony.LT agrees to it all and the duo are immediately transported to the worldship. They find it deserted but an intruder alert sounds.


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Megiddo
Back in #7 Iron Man was whisked away from his team to an unknown planet where he was accosted by a bunch of armed chars. So in the last 2 issues we've been following Hellcat and the rest of his band as they raced Korvac and his mob towards Taa II, Galactus' worldship, in search of power.Now we rejoin the main man who's been stuck on that planet for 6 days in a small colony of beings of multiple species who've been somehow individually brought here as well over a long time. They live in a ramshackle village in the ruins of an ancient civilisation that died off. At least 1 of the others is also human and named the place Megiddo, after the ancient city in Israel also called by the Greeks Armageddon.Tony Stark has settled in, apart from the fact that he can't remove his helmet and upper chestplate because it's the only thing allowing him to function with a broken neck. Yar, the woman who runs the place, used to be a Kree Colonel. The group who found him are the local militia. 1 of them turned out to be someone Tony knew before, Colin Richard aka Avro-X (see Marvel Fanfare #44), who's been here for at least a year. Colin now tells him that Yar only manages the day-to-day stuff. There's someone higher who likes to keep out of sight, like the Wizard Of Oz, who'll call him in for an audience sometime.Meanwhile Tony has been finding out what they know about the planet, trying to come up with an escape plan. He's also worrying about the morphine drip built into his current armour to manage the pain of his broken neck. Halcyon and James Rhodes installed it with safeguards against him getting addicted. He's not so much concerned about the fact that it will run out in 3 months as he is about his addictive genius personality hacking the system and using it up *much* faster than that.Stark has also found the nearby ruins of a giant statue which he now discovers contains a live power source which he uses to recharge his armour. It's a different kind of energy, somewhat biological. Yar joins him and explains that *they* use this power in the village. She speculates that the previous inhabitants discovered this energy and built these machines, and this was part of what wiped them out. And she tells him that big boss will see him now.She leads him to a place built inside a mountain where he is astonished to find Wilbur Day/Stilt-Man. Iron Man is immediately suspicious. He accuses the villain of abducting everyone else, but Wilbur says he was just 1 of the earliest people brought here. Then Stark wants to know how Day keeps himself in power over the others. Wilbur says he just uses his scientific know-how to help people and he and Yar protect them from what he calls the Elements, something monstrous that they have to keep at bay. Yar is the public face and Wilbur stays in the background because a lot of them know of his previous villainous deeds. (There must be a *lot* of them from Earth then! Or maybe he started out doing bad stuff when he got here?)Outside the mainly-aliens are playing Earth's baseball. Iron Man joins in.Later Tony is visited by an image of Hellcat. Patsy Walker explains how Moondragon increased her mental abilities (#8) and she's managed to mentally contact him although she can't tell where he is. She tells him that they are only about a day away from Taa II, so she really needs him to find a way back to her. Tony admits that he's beginning to like it here and understand why the others do too. It's a chance to reinvent himself, to shed the baggage of the past.Then a loud explosion calls him outside. Iron Man and Avro-X are confronted by an attack by Ultimo. The militia, Yar and Stilt-Man are already responding. Colin Richard explains that it's *an* Ultimo, and this is the planet that IM's old foe probably originated on. (Stark didn't recognise the  broken 'statue' as an Ultimo, but then he probably didn't see this issue's cover.) Wilbur says they only have to scare it off, it's only attacking because it sees the colony as a threat to the local environment. But this 1 seems more than usually angry. (Maybe because of the amount of power IM absorbed from the fallen Ultimo?)Yar tells all the civilians to go hide in (Stilt-Man's) caverns. But the Ultimo grabs her up and stuffs her in it's mouth. Stark now realises where the biological energy comes from. However the robot also ate her Kree rifle which now explodes in it's mouth. And Iron Man blows a hole through it's chest with the 'stolen' bio-energy via *his* chest uni-beam. And the robot is done for.Colin and Wilbur admit that they've never managed to kill and Ultimo before. But there are a lot more of them out there. Tony agrees to take Yar's place and help run the colony.


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I don't know ... maybe it was Utah
Tony Stark is recovering from his addiction to morphine (during the conflict with Korvac) and so is travelling in a commercial airliner rather than his private jet because it's better for him not to be alone. His seat partner recognises him as Iron Man. She commends him on not harming the intelligent gorilla he fought last issue. She also remembers back to when she taught at Empire State University where 2 of her students were geniuses and 1 of them scarred his face in an accident. Tony realises she's talking about Reed Richards and Dr Doom. Meanwhile he ignores another call from Vic Martinelli (see also last issue).But then the plane is menaced by a man who has just stolen a secure briefcase from its guard. Stark suits up as Iron Man before the villain unleashes a hail of bullets, which of course damage the plane.  The foe fires a different weapon which blasts Shellhead backwards before blowing open a hatch and diving out into the sky. Tony makes sure the plane is under control before following the bad guy who has taken some top secret weapon plans. He quickly catches up with the thief's parachute but the baddie fires adamantium shells, 1 of which pierces an ankle and damages the boot jet.The Golden Avenger lands in a stream and limps out. He fashions a tourniquet which the armour holds in place. Then his AI BOSS summarises his situation. He daren't use his damaged boot jets for flight. His airconditioning is failing. His GPS system is out so he doesn't know where he is, but his compass is still working. But on the way down he recorded his opponent's biosignature and can tell where *he* is.The villain sees IM approaching and prepares some traps. 1st a suspended log with a spiked metal tip slams into him. The bad guy approaches demanding Stark surrender his armour. He declares himself Switchback, a product of the Weapon X program. Our hero repulsor blasts him away, but then falls down a disguised hole in the ground where Switchback leaves him.Tony is trapped because he can't fly or climb out. He detects Switchback still nearby, probably waiting until he can steal the armour. He's down there until night falls, and then it starts to rain threatening to drown him. Switchback returns and offers to help him up if he abandons the armour. But Stark is actually behind him and kicks him into the hole where the armour grabs him. Tony explains that he just climbed on top of his armour from where he could get out of the hole.They 'chat'. Tony says he's been in the cave Switchback is sheltering in and discovered the plans for a Madbomb. SB says he sells weapons via a group called Source Control. He's a survivalist and uses the money to prepare for the hard times that are coming. Chat over the armour breaks apart and reassembles around its owner. Iron Man leaves telling Switchback he's sure to survive.Days later on crutches in his New York apartment Tony has called his pal James Rhodes who still hasn't *completely* forgiven him for killing and resurrecting him when he was a mad god (#17-18). He explains about Source Control selling powerful weapons on the black market (he includes the Madbomb, but surely he stopped them getting the plans?). He intends to use his wealth to buy everything they're selling before taking them down. Rhodey is in, but Tony says they need a front man. He thinks of Vic Martinelli who's been trying to reach him. Jim says Vic called him too and apparently he'd got something Source Control want. But now he's dead.


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Dreams of deicide
Korvac has been resurrected as an android and intends to regain his former 'god'-powers from their original source, Galactus' worldship Taa II. He has recruited a small army of worshippers to help him and now they're about to leave for space. But 1st they dealt with Iron Man and his gang. Korvac himself smashed IM and Hellcat while a bomb took out the rest.Tony Stark lies in his armour with a broken neck which he's determined to overcome. The attack on Patsy Walker had been mental, stirring up her previous insanity and memories of Hell. But she drags herself out of it to help Tony up. However the armour's too heavy so he has to force himself to his feet, with the armour holding his neck in place.Hellcat finds a shopping trolley and Iron Man slumps into it. She pushes him outside into the traffic and forces a taxi to stop. Somehow she gets him into the cab but Tony doesn't want to go to hospital. He tells her to get him to Halcyon who can upgrade his armour to keep him functional.But Halcyon is 1 of the group who got bombed. However he, Frog-Man, Misty Knight and Scarlet Spider awaken in a protective bubble. It turns out that it is bio-mystical energy from their 5th member Gargoyle who is outside it with 1 of his wings blown off and dying from lack of the life-energy he used to create the dome. As he collapses so does the force-field, and the others rush to help him.Meanwhile the villains are charging up their Shi'ar spacecraft. Blizzard, Controller and Unicorn are already inside. Korvac goes out to check on their hostage James Rhodes. Guardsman, who set last issue's bomb, has joined them in the warehouse. But Rhodey breaks the old water pipe he's shackled to and removes the Controller's discs from his forehead. Guardsman and Korvac blast at him but Jim escapes. Guardsman elects to go after him rather than accompanying Korvac into space. So his boss promises to remember his loyalty when he ascends to godhood.Hellcat has got Iron Man to the others. Misty injects him with steroids and hydromorphone, especially dangerous to addiction-prone Tony, while Halcyon fuses the armour's collar rigid and increases its strength. This will limit his head's mobility but at least keep it upright, and the drugs will keep the pain at bay and keep him conscious. He'll stop at nothing to stop Korvac.Gargoyle is slowly regenerating. But Shellhead makes the command decision that if he's not ready in 2 hours then they'll leave him behind.Patsy is facing Hell in her head. Korvac is also in her mind promising to save her from that if she follows him to his future Paradise (which for some reason has 2 Moons in the sky). Tony finds her to see how she's doing. She asks if maybe Korvac is right and they should let him create his perfect world. Tony replies that the villain can't create a perfect universe, even *he* could do better. Patsy only half-jokingly finds that even scarier.Meanwhile practical Misty is pointing out to the others that they're going on a suicide mission. Scarlet Spider says it would be even more suicidal for the damaged Hellcat and Iron Man to go alone. Naively heroic Frog-Man opines that they've *got* to do it. Spidey wants to call in the Avengers but Misty says there's no time. Froggie interprets Halcyon's sign language as a suggestion that they contact some outer space allies on the way, and Misty agrees.But then Rhodey arrives in his War Machine armour to say *he*'s taking control. And *he*'s sent out the call to all the heroes he can. Tony and Patsy join the crowd and Tony insists it's *his* fight. Rhodey quite rightly points out he's in no fit state and tells him to stand down. But then Guardsman interrupts the macho confrontation only to be surprised that the others are all still alive. Iron Man faces him him and takes him out with 1 blow.Tony asks Rhodey to be his space pilot. Jim still wants Tony to sit it out but knows he can't persuade him. So he agrees so he'll be there to protect him. Stark tells him to go get the most advanced spacecraft he (or presumably his old company Stark Unlimited) owns.