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Hammer’s Echo
Sigurd, the Man-God, a huge pink monster wielding a wooden hammer goes on a violent rampage in San Francisco to announce the coming of the true Ragnarok. Local security is powerless to stop him and he’s gathering a following of Thor cultists. John Eisenhart and Quirk are flying overhead in and aircar when it is downed by flying debris. Seeing that the monster is killing even the cultists who are attracted to him, John becomes the Hulk and attacks Sigurd with no effect. Suspecting the source of his powers lies in the medallion he wears, Hulk rips it off but again there is no effect on the monster. As Sigurd continues to take out his rage on the helpless Thorists, Hulk realizes he must make the monster see they are two of a kind, but Sigurd will have none of the Hulk’s “monster” talk: he is the perfect man. The fight goes against Hulk and just when things seem dark, Quirk crashes the aircar into Sigurd, distracting him long enough to show the crowd the medallion he wore: it is really a holodisc containing the proof that, far from being the perfect man, Sigurd is really the result of a failed genetics experiment. The monster goes wild, denying the truth, vowing to kill all who have heard his secret. Hulk attacks, beating Sigurd to the ground and killing him. As the Thorists carry off the body of the fallen monster, Hulk plans to investigate the genetics lab that created Sigurd, hoping to find a connection to the villains who are holding Gawain.


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Thirty Mile Mall
At the large and decayed giant shopping center known as the thirty Mile Mall, Hulk is engaged in battle with the trolls who inhabit this section of the complex. He is there with Quirk to track down Gawain, who is a prisoner of Sweet Dreams Security. John Eisenhart and Quirk had entered the north end, which is still in operation, to find a sports center called Sweat Tech, undercover as a model and her agent interested in an advertising deal. There they saw Gawain being held and the boy, spotting John, called him a murderer. Realizing he was a spy, the guards fire on John who becomes the Hulk and defeats security as Gawain is taken away in a van. Pursuing, Hulk and Quirk come to Reseda, a desolate and unsupervised area of the mall where they battle the mutant trolls and deadly robot mannequins. They discover the entrance to an underground lab where Gawain is being interrogated about the gamma ray experiments conducted by the Knights of the Banner. Hulk tries to rescue the boy but the mysterious Programmers who control the area trigger a bomb. Hulk has enough time to rescue Quirk and get out of the building. When the singer asks why Hulk chose to save her rather than the boy, he explains that, since the Programmers needed Gawain, they would have saved him themselves and let Quirk die. Hulk ends by voicing his suspicion that the bad guys are trying to create an army of Hulks.


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Hulk 2099
As the story opens, a huge fanged and clawed green monster—Hulk 2099—is running across the desert, heading toward Los Angeles. Entering a backyard on the outskirts, he surprises a woman who calls the Sweet Dreams Security Service. Guards arrive and open fire on Hulk who destroys their tank-like vehicle and, to avoid more confrontations, transforms into the human John Eisenhart. Returning to his workplace, Lotusland, a virtual reality entertainment company in Hollywood, he discovers he has been removed from the project he was working on, thanks to the backstabbing of his co-worker Keisha. Oddly unconcerned, he is confronted by studio psychiatrist Dr. Phil, who wants to know why he’s been gone for six days. John mentally reviews the events that led up to his predicament: a ruthless Hollywood executive, he went into the desert to find the Knights of the Banner, a warrior sect named after the original Hulk, which he thought he could exploit for entertainment purposes. When the group’s leader, Aeneas, refuses a deal, an angry John vows revenge. Finding a boy, Gawain, admiring his car, John gulls him with tales of Hollywood heroism and tricks the boy into revealing that Aeneas is experimenting with illegal gamma rays. He is awoken from his reveries by his boss Audra telling him of Sweet Dreams confrontation with the green savage earlier in the evening and ordering him to track down the monster for a story. Hacking into Sweet Dreams network, he sees that they are planning to murder a young female singer named Quirk, who has been threatening corporate profits by warning people of subliminal messages in music. Sweet Dreams’ armored killers arrive at Quirk’s home, kill her boyfriend and point their guns on her. Hulk breaks through they all, takes the bullets meant for her and clobbers the killers. He carries Quirk off—only to come face-to-face with a pair of tanks. The situation causes him to recall his previous confrontation with Sweet Dreams, when he betrayed the Knights of the Banner. The Sweet Dreams soldiers’ slaughter of the unarmed warriors prompted John Eisenhart to try to save Gawain, who, recognizing John as their betrayer, attempted to trigger Aeneas’ gamma weapon. The subsequent explosion bathed John in radiation… Back in the present, Hulk, enraged by the memory of their earlier brutality, tears into the tanks and armored killers. As he carries off Quirk, she asks, “What are you?” With a warped grin, Hulk replies, “I’m a man.”


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The Price of Perfection
On the trail of the geneticist Gold who has Gawain hostage, John Eisenhart and Quirk allow a pair of drunken reprobates to lead them to Gold’s secret lab. They manage to talk their way in but are quickly captured by Gold’s genetic freaks. John turns into the Hulk but the sheer numbers of the foes plus Vulx’s quick reflexes with a shock weapon knock the green giant unconscious. Hulk awakens in shackles in the lab of the Golden One, a “perfect human” whose goal is to create a race of “perfect humans” to replace the ordinary people he considers to be his inferiors. He has kidnapped Gawain to try to uncover the secrets of the genetic research the Knights of the Banner were using to recreate the Hulk. The Golden One’s seductive speech about the innate superiority of those like the Hulk and himself over the common rabble apparently persuades Hulk to join his cause. Hulk reveals that he can unlock the desired information from the boy’s mind. When released though, he springs his trap, plowing through the Golden One’s distorted minions and shorting out the power, freeing Quirk and Gawain. Rather than see his work polluted by the normals, the Golden One destroys the lab in a fiery explosion, from which Hulk carries Quirk and Gawain to safety. In a brief epilogue, we find the Golden One has also escaped the inferno.


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Never Let Go
After Dr. Phil, the studio’s attitude adjustment expert, makes a veiled threat to John Eisenhart to drop his secret activities, John decides to head off to protect Quirk, whom he suspects the threat was aimed at. Elsewhere, John’s sister Marian, a psychodrama prostitute who uses an image enhancer to fulfill men’s fantasies, has been hired to set a trap for her brother by pretending to be a hostage and luring him to a certain address. On his way to the rendezvous, John recalls their upbringing in a rough neighborhood and how they had promised to take care of one another…until John’s Hollywood career turned him into a cold and greedy opportunist. Now he has a chance to redeem himself and become a hero again: turning into the Hulk, he invades the criminal’s hideout and discovers that it was a set-up. He is attacked by Vulx, a genetically-engineered monster with tentacles and insect limbs. Hulk clobbers him and tries to capture one of the backup gang for information. But Vulx uses Marian as a real hostage. Hulk yells, “Let my sister go!” and throws himself at his mutant foe. Distracted he is gunned down by the gang. Realizing that the Hulk is her brother, Marian uses her image-caster to create the illusion that Hulk is dead, delay an attack long enough for Hulk to recover and beat Vulx, knocking down the building in the process. Hulk chooses to save Marian and let the gang get away. Brother and sister have a brief reunion, with Marian discovering her brother has changed, and not just in the obvious way. He explains his mission to rescue Gawain from the evil geneticists who are planning to create an army of monsters and regrets losing his leads. Meanwhile, back at his apartment, Quirk has arrived with the information John has been looking for.


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Water God
A nuclear accident in the western desert sends a hundred thousand refuges heading toward the canal that separates California from the rest of the United States. Attempting to swim the treacherous waters, they are fired upon by the automated border patrol but suddenly Hulk appears as the protector of the helpless, destroying some guards and aiding those fleeing to safety. In a shocking moment the Water God rises from the canal, the creation of eco-terrorists with but one mission—protect the water from the parasites who would defile it. Hulk battles the watery giant but finds his blows useless against his liquid foe. Hulk then has an idea, and turns and runs toward the mountains, the Water God in wet pursuit. Hulk is cornered on a high cliff when his monstrous nemesis is frozen by the icy temperatures at that altitude. Hulk smashes his foe into ice chips and goes down to lead the refugees to a chance of hope in the new land.


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3 young women have found themselves in a creepy castle with little idea how they got there and no phone signal. Kayla Kurasawa is taking her frustration out on Jasmine (we never learn her surname), while Alexis Miranda (not-so-fresh from a game of lacrosse) tells her not to be so mean. Then they're joined by a 4th who announces her self as Kate Bishop better known as Hawkeye. The general response is "Isn't Hawkeye a man?". Nobody remembers the younger female in the Young Avengers. She gets them to tell her who *they* are. The oldest Jasmine is a science teacher at Empire State University. Alexis is living with her abuela until she graduates from ESU. Kayla just wants to know how the 'superhero' is going to get them out of here.For answer Kate borrows a hairpin from Jasmine and starts to pick the lock on a door. Meanwhile she describes how she was heading home from a concert near ESU when her car broke down due to a ninja throwing star in her gas tank. The last thing she remembers is phoning for a ride ... and then she woke up here. Kayla is totally sceptical about her ability to pick the lock on an old castle door with a hairpin. But it works.They move out into a corridor lit by wall sconces. Kate takes 1 and leads them past gargoyle heads with glowing eyes. Alexis and Jasmine relate that their last memories too are of getting into a car. Alexis is sure they're going to die because they're a typical psycho movie group. Jasmine's the nerd, Kayla's the popular mean girl, she's the sporty 1 and Kate will be the survivor. Black Jasmine says that's obvious because she's the only white girl.At this point a mummy leaps out at Kate from a side passage and knocks her down. Alexis thinks they should help her but Kayla points out that she's the superhero here. Jasmine says she doesn't believe in magic stuff like walking mummies, but she advises Kate to go for the spinal cord. So Kate jams her fist into its mouth, grabs hold and punches through to the other side. She thinks that's that so she gets up and dusts herself off. She explains that she *is* a superhero but she doesn't have superpowers so she'll need their help. Kayla picks up the dropped torch and flings it at her ... and past her to hit the mummy that's risen again. It bursts into flames but keeps advancing, and now it's a mummy on fire.So they run away from it. But on the way Jasmine's foot steps on a metal plate which causes a section of the floor to give way and deposit them into a room below. Which luckily is a store of martial arts weapons. A light shows them what's available. But unfortunately that light is the flaming mummy falling in after them. Kate grabs a dagger and throws it to bury itself in the foe's forehead. Alexis chops at it with a big axe. Jasmine fancies the spiky ball on a handle and chain (a flail, or mace and chain). Kate is about to suggests the katana for Kayla but the Japanese girl doesn't want to be stereotyped and takes the bow and arrows. Kate protests that they are *her* speciality but Kayla says she's had archery lessons. Surely a superhero isn't limited to 1 weapon. So Kate reluctantly takes the sword (not wanting to emulate Clint Barton even further by copying his Ronin phase) (and seemingly forgetting that she started out in the Young Avengers with sword as well as bow).So they head off down another corridor until they reach a room with a pool and an altar. Jasmine asks Kate if *she* really believes in magic. Kate replies that her friend (Wiccan) summoned a trans-dimensional parasite which possessed their parents, and then a teenage Asgardian (Loki) tried to banish it with a makeshift pentagram. (That's all in Young Avengers vol 2.) Meanwhile Alexis reads an inscription which says "When the blood of an unsullied woman is drawn upon this altar, the unlightened 1 shall rise and pull her below". They immediately recognise it as the old virgin sacrifice thing. And then Alexis accidentally cuts herself on her axe and drops of her blood fall on the altar. Kate says that's OK as long as she's not a virgin. But Alexis admits that's she's done some stuff but not yet that ...... and there's a loud rumble and octopoid suckered limbs (not tentacles) reach out of the pool to grab Alexis and Kayla's legs. Alexis is lifted high and drops the axe, almost hitting Kate. Jasmine attacks a limb with her mace, while Kate slices through the 1 holding Alexis letting her go. But then more angry suckered limbs emerge. Kate's limb is trapped under the 1 Jasmine's pinning down but is still thrashing around with her in its coils. She lost most of the arrows out of her quiver but still grips hold of the bow. Then the thrashing brings her near to a fallen arrow and she scoops it up as a single large eye appears amidst the limbs. Kayla tells Jasmine to let her limb go which frees her own limb to lift her high again, and she uses the vantage to fire her arrow into the eye. And the monster drops her. Kate starts severing limbs with her sword and makes it through to slice the eye open. And the monster collapses dead.Kayla now swaps the bow and arrows with Kate for the sword. The 4 walk up a winding stone stairway and emerge in a control room where sits a man who turns slowly to face them and introduces himself as Count Griffon of House Walters. He welcomes them and congratulates them on all surviving, but he's taken aback when they start laughing because he's such a cliche. He recovers and explains that he is a vampire lord who has put them under his thrall to invite them to become his immortal brides. Kayla excuses herself because she's gay which makes him so not her type. Jasmine flashes her wedding ring and says being married and a Professor of Biology doesn't leave her much time to be part of a harem. And it doesn't fit well with Alexis' feminist principles.Griffon can't understand how they can all resist the allure of a vampire lord, the secret desire of all 20-something girls. However he doesn't want such 'disrespectful wenches' so he tells them they can leave. They turn to go but then he says next time he'll try teenagers. Kate turns back and start firing a volley of arrows at him. He fends off a few but soon they start peppering his body. Until he disappears into mist.The girls are glad to have got away unscathed until they discover they're in New Jersey.


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Spider-Man swings across the city, trying to remember the
items he needs to pick up from the store, when he hears gunshots coming from a
club. He crashes down through the skylight and discovers Psylocke surrounded by
sword-wielding men. He joins her in the battle but is shocked to find her
torturing a man, demanding “Where is she?” At this point a grenade explodes and
when the dust clears, Spidey finds Psylocke seriously injured. He tries to go
for help but she begs him to stay; otherwise what she is trying to tell him only
confuses him. Then some of the X-Men, Cyclops with Wolverine, Gambit, and Beast,
arrive and take her into their care, leaving Spidey to continue his errand but
no longer able to recall everything he was supposed to buy….
(No title given) 4/5Writer: Gerry Duggan. Pencils: David Yardin. Inks: David
Yardin, Cam Smith, Norman Lee, Terry Pallot. Colors: Andres Mossa. Letters: Joe
Sabino, Clayton Cowles.Synopsis: On a farm in South Dakota, the mutant Skrulls of
Cadre K are aware that their cover company, Bryson’s Bisons, has been exposed.
Then the team led by Captain America and Cyclops arrives and they do battle.
The Skrull psychic Z’Cann duels with Emma Frost and the Stepford Cuckoos; Emma
quickly tells the girls to stand down. The heroes and the Skrulls assemble and
Emma reveals that she learned from Z’Cann’s mind that Cadre K are not the bad
guys. They have moved to Earth for safety as they are regarded as deviants by
their own people. And they also learned that, Reed Richards having turned
Skrulls into cattle, Skrull-bovine hybrids have entered the farming stock and
they are evolving; Cadre K has made it their mission to rescue any such animals
that come on the market while raising bison for meat. Cap agrees to support
them in their bid to stay on Earth. And then the LMD breaks down, infected with
Dr. Doom’s nanobots, warning them that Doom is coming before it is completely destroyed.
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Captain America and Cyclops are snatched from their everyday
lives and immobilized aboard a Skrull spaceship. A Skull called K’thron
explains that Cadre K, a team of mutant Skrulls trained by Charles Xavier, is
now on Earth, plotting violence against Earth mutants out of revenge for the
Skrull secret invasion. He also mentions that the members of Cadre K may not show
up on Earth’s Skrull detectors. He then releases Cap and Cyke to deal with this
crisis and is amazed that they start fighting violently, Cap calling Cyke a
murderer, Cyke responding by calling Cap a hypocrite. He is even more astonished
to learn that Cyclops has killed Charles Xavier. The fight damages the
controls, sending the ship heading toward the ground; they manage to stop the
ship with only feet to spare. Cap arrests Cyclops and claps inescapable liquid
metal cuffs on him….
“Crash & Burn in Black & White” 5/5Writer: Howard Chaykin. Art: Howard Chaykin. Colors: Edgar
Delgado. Letters: Clayton Cowles.Synopsis: Emma Frost, who has lost her mutant powers, meets
with the Black Widow to ask a favor. A bad guy is blackmailing her over a sex
tape and she wants Natasha to recover it. They go out on a trail which mostly
involves Nat beating people up but the have no success. Then Nat gets a tip
from Maria Hill which leads them to Frank, a fired SHIELD agent with access to
the tech to copy the tape from the Hellfire Club server. They destroy the tape
and Emma musters enough of her power to leave Frank with a posthypnotic command
to vomit every time he sees a woman’s naked breasts. And yes, they test it
before they leave. Twice.


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Vision and Kitty Pryde suddenly awaken in a strange place that
they quickly recognize as Murderworld. And both realize they are without their
phasing powers. Kitty is attacked by ghastly versions of Professor X and other
friends. Vision helps her destroy these robots until he is assaulted by robot
Scarlet Witch and Ultron. They defeat all of the robot enemies and prepare to
murder Murderworld by releasing a techno-virus that Vision always carries into
the computer that runs the place. But Vision pauses when he sees someone. They discover
the ghosts of all the people who have ever died in Murderworld—and see themselves
wired into the machine. This adventure has been taking place inside their
heads. They look for Arcade but he is not there; the host is the computer which
has become sentient and wishes to die for all of the evil that has been committed
in that place. Vision was chosen because he is also a machine used to kill
against his will and Kitty because she understands computers and has seen the
future holocaust of her people. But the heroes talk the computer out of suicide
and advise it to learn from its guilt and go on with life, as humans do….
(No title given)Writer: Gerry Duggan. Pencils: David Yardin, Matteo Lolli. Inks:
Cam Smith. Colors: Andres Mossa. Letters: Clayton Cowles.Synopsis: The team led by Cyclops destroys Doctor Doom’s lab in
Latveria, as Emma Frost and the Stepford Cuckoos immobilize the guards
mentally, Ant-Man (Hank Pym) picks up and miniaturizes a Doombot head for
further study, and the Skrulls of Cadre K clear the way to the jet, accompanied
by the Skrull/Doombot prototype….
Back at the farm, Captain America has disarmed SHIELD Agent Scott
Adsit and is explaining that the mutant Skrulls just want to live in peace and
that he is prepared to vouch for them. Adsit takes off with his team. Cap
offers Cyclops the number of a DA to whom he can surrender for the murder of Charles
X. Then Tempus arrives to freeze Cap in time—but Cyclops is also frozen, thanks
to Doctor Strange, so he can’t escape according to his plan. Cap and Cyke argue
over the latter’s fugitive status while K’thron arrives to apologize to Z’Cann
and the other mutants. Strange and Tempus have a nice talk while everything settles
down.


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Black Widow + Fantomex
Black Widow has discovered that a
Russian ghost town hides a secret facility that may have the digitalized DNA of
every state-sponsored Russian superhero. She is trying to quietly infiltrate
the building when the master thief Fantomex comes crashing out, guns blazing,
pursued by a smaller version of Ursa Major. Fantomex uses his powers of
misdirection to send the bear-man off on a tangent but Natasha is attacked by
two more powered people, with the abilities of Darkstar and Sibercat. Fantomex
has the DNA drive and takes off in his escape ship while Nat is pursued by a
new Crimson Dynamo. Nat takes five minutes to beat down her three opponents and
then races by bike to meet up again with Fantomex. The master thief explains
that he was hired to steal the DNA drive but he doesn’t trust his client and
gives it to Natasha, having pulled off the theft for the challenge.
“Scarlet Witch + Domino”
Writer: Adam Warren. Art: Adam Warren. Colors: Guru eFx.
Synopsis: A Celestials’
Extermination Drone has gone rogue and is about to trigger the dormant
supervolcano in Yellowstone Park, setting off and extinction-level event to destroy
Earth. Scarlet Witch and Domino descend on the drone to try to stop it; Wanda
can’t come into contact with the drone lest her probability powers create a
feedback loop and unravel the universe. She uses her powers to boost Domino’s
own luck powers as she enters the drone and discovers dozens, if not hundreds,
of her own corpse, having failed at multiple attempts before. Domino locates
the core and is killed.
Five minutes earlier, Domino,
realizing she can’t get close enough to the core to destroy it, tases Wanda who
falls to the surface of the drone, triggering a feedback loop, unravelling and
reravelling the universe—minus the drone. Wanda is outraged but Domino was just
taking her chances.


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Spider-Woman + Kitty Pride (& Lockheed)
A courier for the Russian Mafia has a rare space rock which
he is auctioning off to the highest bidder. Spider-Woman has been dispatched to
locate the rock for S.W.O.R.D. and she enlists Kitty Pryde because Lockheed can
sniff out the rock. They trace it to a huge room off the New York subway where Crusher
Creel, the Absorbing Man, is fighting Hydra and A.I.M. agents for the rock. While
Spider-Woman battles the assembled agents, Kitty snaps it up and places it in
the middle of a concrete pillar but Creel can smash into it anyway. After a few
attempts at keeping it away from him, Kitty lets Creel have the rock and he
turns into a glowing figure of space metal. She then sticks her fingers into his
brain and disturbs the blood flow, knocking him out. The two women make A.I.M.
watch over Creel and Hydra clean up the mess. And Lockheed has fallen in love
with Jessica.
Characters: Spider-Woman, Kitty Pryde, Lockheed, Absorbing
Man, Hydra, A.I.M.
“Hawkeye + Deadpool”Writer: Christopher Hastings. Art: Reilly Brown. Colors: Brad
Armstrong.Synopsis: Hawkeye and Deadpool race a car through Grand
Central Station, down onto the tracks and out into an underwater cave where a
submarine is waiting. Both guys use bows and arrows to fight their way onto the
ship where they face Captain Barracuda who has kidnapped famous chef Hector
Herrera to be cook on his pirate ship. Hawkeye and Deadpool clobber the bad guy
and rescue Hector, Clint telling Wade to make himself scarce because he doesn’t
want Steve and Tony to know that Deadpool was involved. The next night Clint
takes Jessica Drew to Hector’s restaurant and they find a disguised Deadpool
scarfing down multiple chimichangas.


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Epic Matryoshka
Iron Fist agrees to help Doop rescue
his pal Fangu who is being held prisoner in a Mafia den fronted by the Zippy Pie
pizza joint. The two heroes dash in, take down the assault weapon-wielding clerk,
and crash into the back room, interrupting a Halloween poker tournament. In the
melee, the golden orb containing Fangu is swallowed by Iron Fist. A baddie
hurls a grenade at them so Doop swallows Iron Fist who is able to get rid of
the grenade, losing it in the madhouse that is Goop’s insides. Doop hides
inside Shaman’s stolen bag which he puts inside a pizza box to be delivered to
Avengers Mansion. The delivery guy drops it off and is annoyed that there is no
answer and therefore no tip. Once he is gone, Goop vomits up Iron Fist who
vomits up the golden orb. Doop accidentally lights a belch, terrifying Fangu.
They calm him down and sit down to rest.
“Loki + Mister Sinister” 3.5/5Writer: Kieron Gillen. Pencils: Joe Bennett. Inks: Mark Morales. Colors: Jim Charalampidis. Letters: Clayton
Cowles.Synopsis: Mister Sinister is in
Latveria, standing outside Doctor Doom’s castle; he uses a device to teleport
himself into the lab, takes a specific sample, and departs silently. Outside,
he is greeted by Loki who reveals he has tricked Sinister into stealing the
sample for him. As he is about to depart, Sinister hits him with a gem-shaped
weapon cloned from Dazzler, which converts Loki’s speech into light, preventing
him from casting a spell to get away. Sinister threatens him with a sword and
Loki casts bright lights into the air, summoning Doom’s guards, a bunch of
grotesque distortions of humanity. As they face the monsters, Sinister clamps a
mantrap on Loki’s arm which will cause a nuclear explosion if Sinister doesn’t
defuse it in five seconds. Sinister then fires at the monsters with a gun that disintegrates
its victims; he asks Loki for more ammo which turns out to be cloned eyeballs
of Scott “Cyclops” Summers. Loki holds up a card reading “Trust me” and
Sinister restores his voice; Loki casts a spell that teleports them to
Symkaria. Sinister demands the sample; Loki asks why he wants it; Sinister
replies that he is the only person who could create a clone from it; Loki hands
it over cheerfully, along with he defused mantrap. Loki vanishes; we learn the
sample was of Loki’s DNA; he notes that, with his knowledge of sorcery, over
time, Dr. Doom could have succeeded but Sinister, bound to his determinism,
will never succeed.


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Black Panther + Storm
A rogue faction of A.I.M. thought it
would be a good idea to loot Wakanda but now they are all on the run from the Black Panther.
The last one reaches the ship and sneers that maybe Africa should get
more than one superhero—and then he is taken down by lightning….
An outing at the royal school is
about to be cancelled because of heavy rain when the sun suddenly comes out….
As T’Challa sits on his throne, he
greets several princesses sent as potential new wives, which he doesn’t want.
Suddenly the sky opens and heavy rains drench the visiting princesses. He rides
his sky-bike out to meet with his ex-wife Storm a/k/a Ororo Munroe. They quarrel
over their recent annulment, T’Challa insisting the matter was forced upon him
though he did fight for her. They have returned to their separate lives but for
old times’ sake, she challenges him to a race to a mountain and he accepts.
They start….
“Hawkeye + Gambit”Writer: James Asmus. Art: Billy Tan.
Colors: Jim Charalampidis. Letters: Clayton Cowles.Synopsis: At a performance of The
Tempest in Central Park, a clawed multi-eyed monster erupts from the ground,
seizes the lead actress, and makes off with her. Gambit, who was in the
audience with his friend Fence, takes action and pursues. He lifts a fruit from
a nearby shop and charges it but an arrow fired by Hawkeye snatches it out of
his hand and sends it into the monster where it detonates. The two heroes begin
arguing over who is best equipped to rescue the lady so they don’t notice that the
monster has revived until the actress yells at them. They pursue while
bickering and fighting. Eventually, Hawkeye shoots the monster with an arrow to
the leg, causing it to fall and Gambit is there to catch the lady. While he is
comforting her, the monster revives and Hawkeye reaches for another arrow but
finds his quiver empty. But Gambit is holding the electric arrow and tosses it
into the monster’s mouth, finally taking it down. The actress gives Clint her
number and dashes back to the theater for the next act. Clint smiles and heads
after her, unaware that Gambit has stolen his wallet with her number inside.


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Black Widow + Rogue
Black Widow is relaxing at her
favorite beauty parlor, bragging about her new Alpha Romeo when a Sentinel crashes
in, destroying the car on the way. She dons her outfit and starts shooting the
Sentinel when Rogue (with Captain Marvel’s powers temporarily) enters and destroys
the robotic monster—and then it disappears while they are distracted, which is
a problem since it has a power grid disruptor attached which could black out
the city. They find the two high school guys who created the disruptor and trace
the Sentinel to the top of the Chrysler Building. Nat has a sniper rifle but
she has injured her hand and can’t shoot; Nat kisses Rogue, transferring her
marksman prowess to her and she shoots the thing down.
Later, the two women are at the newly
rebuilt beauty parlor, where Rogue explains that the guys had built the disruptor
as a science project but A.I.M. got their hands on it to use for evil. Their
phones ring with a summons from the Avengers and they both refuse to answer.
“Shadowcat + Iron Man”Writer: Peter David. Art: Mike del Mundo x 3.Synopsis: Kitty Pryde (with Lockheed) has been invited to
Stark Resilient by Pepper Potts with a possible job offer; Tony Stark shows up
and takes over the interview, interested in her computer expertise. While Tony
is showing her an experiment to repurpose Pym Particles into a weight-loss
method, Kitty sneezes, releasing the Brood, which had been trapped in her head
for months. The monsters begin to grow and terrorize the place; Iron Man joins
Kitty in fighting them but Kitty leads the Brood back to the armor room. The
Brood creatures take control of the armors—and then Kitty phases through them, short-circuiting
them and trapping the Brood inside. Tony decides that having someone with that
ability around could only be a problem.


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Captain America + Wolverine: Animal Cruelty
Doctor Strange has vanished after
heading into another country to rescue a shaman friend. Captain America and
Wolverine arrive in this misty land to find a village full of dead people, villagers
and soldiers both; they end up fighting a giant snake and giant ants. Strange’s
voice leads them to a cave where they encounter a chimp using a magic staff to fight
them off. Once disarmed, the chimp goes back to normal and Strange appears to
explain that the shaman was killed and the chimp found his magic staff, using
it to create the giant animals to defeat the militia that killed him.
Unfortunately, the chimp couldn’t tell the difference between the militia, the peaceful
villagers, and the heroes. Strange surveys the carnage and regrets there is no
spell to undo the damage done that day.
“Doctor Strange + Quentin Quire/Pixie/Eye-Boy”
Writer: David Lapham. Art: David Lapham. Color: Lee
Loughridge..
Synopsis: Quentin Quire and Pixie,
in their ongoing competition, arrive at Dr. Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum with
Eye Boy as the impartial observer, to ensure no one cheats. This round will be
determined by who steals the best artifact from Strange. While the two
competitors search the building, Eye Boy discovers Strange in a hypnotic
trance, his soul being sucked out by D’Spayre. The young mutants battle the
demon but their attacks are ineffectual, though they do give Strange enough
time to recover and banish D’Spayre. Strange thanks Eye Boy for his heroism and
good intentions and rewards him with a special scope that enhances his already
impressive vision powers. And then Pixie realizes Eye is using the scope to see
through her clothes….


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Fight for the Future

1943: The Nazis, headed by scientist Atticus Trask, are burying a sleeper weapon in the French countryside and Captain America and Bucky are assigned to put a stop to it. At the excavation, the heroes see that the weapon is a giant robot (that readers will recognize as a Sentinel). Trask is a surprisingly modern looking youth. As they make their plans, suddenly a time tunnel opens up and Cable leaps though firing on the bad guys; Cap and Bucky join in, not believing the newcomer when he claims to be from the future. Trask sorts through computer punch cards of all the X-Men and programs the mutant-hunting Sentinel to destroy Cable. Cap and Cable distract the monster while Bucky tosses a bomb in its works. Trask is captured, his toys destroyed, and Cable takes him back to the future with a grateful farewell to Cap. Meanwhile, Bucky is left wishing he had a robot arm like Cable’s….

2. “The Incredible Hulk + Wolverine”

Writer: Jeph Loeb. Pencils: Dale Keown. Inks: Danny Miki. Colors: Frank D’Armata.

Synopsis: Late one night in Avengers Tower, Wolverine and Hulk are bickering over the last piece of cake in the fridge when a time portal opens and the Maestro and an older Logan leap out and attack their counterparts. They are there to kill the Hulk—but evidently not this Hulk but another one whose existence jeopardizes the future. Hulk thunderclaps the two out the window but they teleport away before hitting the ground. Wolverine is confused by the time-paradoxes involved while Hulk seizes the opportunity to grab the cake. In an alternate future, Maestro and old Logan go to the Oval Office in the White House and report their failure to their boss—an older Red Hulk….


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Iron Man + The Beast
Iron Man is summoned to SHIELD HQ where he is set to work on a problem; there Tony finds Hank McCoy—the Beast—already at work. Seems that their new anti-Hulk armor has been infected with a virus. The two heroes bicker for a while about who is the better scientist, then Tony goes to work—and fails as the virus spreads throughout the armor. It comes to life and attacks them; they have a hard time of it until the Hulk arrives suddenly and smashes it to pieces. The SHIELD Agent calms Hulk down with pictures of puppies until he turns back into Bruce Banner. The Avenger and the X-Man takes their leave. Then Bruce removes the memory stick which introduced the virus, having reminded himself that "Banner is the smartest one there is."


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Captain Marvel + Wolverine
It is growing late at Avengers Mansion,
Hawkeye and Spider-Woman excuse themselves to retire for the night, leaving a
pair of teammates still competing. Wolverine and Captain Marvel are playing
poker while debating who would win a fight, cavemen or astronauts? The argument—and
the game—grow very heated until a huge armored monster smashes through the
wall, introducing itself as “The End.” Carol asks the interloper “Cavemen or Astronauts?”
The monster replies, “Astronauts” citing PLANET OF THE APES….
Summoned by the crash, Hawkeye and
Spider-Woman come running to discover their teammates playing poker with The
End….
“The Thing + Gambit” 4/5Writer: Mike Costa. Art: Stefano Castelli. Colors: Andres Mossa. Letters: Clayton Cowles.Synopsis: Thing is playing poker
with three members of the Yancy Street Gang when their other teammate arrives:
Gambit. The two heroes recall a recent incident during Mardi Gras when Gambit
was being chased by a shopkeeper he had robbed and Thing sought to stop him.
The Yancy guys are surprised at the revelation of bad blood between the two.
Thing warns Gambit about cheating; Gambit keeps needling Thing until Ben orders
him outside to settle things like men. Outside we learn that in the previous
incident, Gambit had been caught cheating a cheater and they made plans to work
together in New York. And then the Yancy Street guys notice all the money is
missing….


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Baddies
Searching for a child kidnapped by A.I.M., the Superior
Spider-Man (Doctor Octopus) comes to a Nevada ghost town where the deserted
saloon is the entrance to a secret A.I.M. lair. He enters and discovers that
Magneto is already there and has defeated a mob of baddies. Magneto explains
that the kidnapped boy is a mutant whose parents were killed and is now being
tortured by MODOK to make him pliable enough to aid the villain’s schemes. As
the two descend into the A.I.M. base, defeating increasingly more powerful
baddies, Magento lectures “Spidey” on the absurdity of the idea of a
supervillain. At the bottom, MODOK shows himself and Magneto uses his powers to
bash the giant headed Big Bad against the wall. He frees the kidnapped boy and
tries to assure him that there is a place where mutants like him can be safe.
The boy, having seen his parents murdered because he was a mutant, blames the
mutants and vows revenge against them before flying off. Magneto takes the loss
philosophically.
(No title given)Writer: Gerry Duggan. Art: David Yardin. Colors: Andres
Mossa. Letters: Clayton Cowles.
Synopsis: Cyclops escapes from the escape-proof cuffs
Captain America put him in last issue and joins him at a SHIELD safe house in a
Las Vegas casino. Cap agrees to hold off on arresting Cyke until the mission is
over. They meet a Steve Rogers LMD who manages the site; the LMD aids Cap in a
search for Latverian black ops sites as it is known that Latveria has a living
Skrull prisoner of war. Cap also borrows a Skrull detector and he and Cyclops
fly to Latveria….
On arrival, they use the detector to find the site where the
Skrull is being held. They sneak into a castle, only to be caught by a band of
Doombots—and then it is discovered that Cyke’s laser eyes do not always work
properly. Cap fights the Doombots while Cyke releases the Skrull from its cell.
And then they are confronted by the real Doctor Doom, who is angry, as usual.
Cap tells him there may be another Skrull invasion underway and they need the
captive, as Doom would also suffer under another invasion. Doom acquiesces—but with
a catch. He kills the Skrull with a shot from his armored finger and orders them
to go….


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Planet of the Beasts!
Spider-Man and Beast suddenly find themselves in a future New York of decayed and overgrown building. They are set upon by zombies but a squad of soldiers comes to their rescue and escort them to a walled city. Inside they discover everyone looks like Beast! He is hailed as the Origin Maker, the hero who led the revolt against mankind in the name of the oppressed animals of Earth and who punished the humans by turning them into zombies. Queen Talia desires to mate with him to produce elite warriors; meanwhile, Spider-Man, as a hated human, is tossed in an arena with a giant cat-like monster. Beast fends off the Queen’s advances and when he learns where Spidey is, he hurries to the rescue. The Queen is insulted that he would choose a man over her; Beast replies that despite his appearance he has never stopped being a man. They are sent back to their own time wondering what would cause Hank to snap and lead a beast revolution….

2. “The New Deal?”

Writer: Jason Latour. Pencils: David Lopez. Inks: Alvaro Lopex. Colors: Jim Charalampidis.

Synopsis: Captain America visits a quiet suburban neighborhood to search for an underground A.I.M. weapons cache. He is accompanied by Quentin “Kid Omega” Quire, recommended by Wolverine to guard against any psychic defenses. The young telepath is openly contemptuous of Cap and refuses to accompany him into the tunnel. Cap triggers a mental trap and calls out to Quentin who enters Cap’s mind and helps fight off a swarm of M.O.G.O.D.s (Microscopic Oddities Generated Only for Disintegrations) with psychic military weaponry. After the battle, Quentin realizes that the rumors about Cap’s origin are true and Cap defends his choices; Quentin’s concern is that teaming up with Cap will cost him credibility in the eyes of his peers. So Cap returns him to the school, bound like a prisoner, to maintain his rebel image.


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Tony Stark is hard at work on a project at Avengers Mansion
when Beast stops by to drop off Broo, reminding Tony that he had agreed to let
the young student shadow him for the day. He tries to ignore the kid as he is
trying to build a Shi’ar cosmic wormhole generator—and then Broo makes one in a
couple of minutes. Tony uses the report of a minor criminal disturbance as a
pretext to change into Iron Man and escape. He comes upon some of the Chessmen
attempting to rob a farmers’ market. Broo jury rigs a glider and follows him
out there in time to see the third-rate villains take Shellhead down with an
EMP. Broo gets him working again in seconds and Iron Man clobbers the baddies.
Grateful, Tony has the kid shadow him throughout the day, trying on armors,
gambling at a casino, fighting alongside Thor, meeting Broo’s idol Nova, and traveling
out into space to marvel….
(No title given)Writer: Gerry Duggan. Pencils: David Yardin. Inks: Cam Smith,
Terry Pallot. Colors: Andres Mossa. Letters: Clayton Cowles.Synopsis: Doctor Doom lands on the South Dakota farm
demanding the mutant Skrulls; he is met by a team of Avengers and X-Men and the
battle begins. Doom crushes Wasp between his hands then electrocutes Iron Man.
He breaks Hulk’s arm, forcing a change back to Bruce Banner and then Doom
breaks Banner’s neck. Doom decapitates Wolverine and seizes Mjolnir from Thor
and clobbers him—and then Doom realizes something isn’t right. This has been an
illusion placed in Doom’s head by the Skrull telepath Z’Cann. Captain America
explains that Doom’s armor was immobilized by a EMP device while the others have
gone back to Latveria…
…where Cyclops leads the mutant Skrulls of Cadre K plus Ant-Man,
Emma Frost, and the Stepford Cuckoos in destroying Doom’s lab where he was studying
the captive Skrull. They discover a huge Skrull/Doombot prototype which fights
them….
Back on the farm, Doom teleports out of his armor and sets
it to self-destruct; the explosion hurls Cap and Z’Cann through the air but she
is able to stop them telepathically. Then a SHIELD team led by Agent Scott
Adsit arrives. Cap tries to explain that Z’Cann is no threat, which only leads
Adsit to assume that Cap is really a disguised Skrull and he shoots at him….


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SHIELD summons Dr. Henry McCoy, the Beast, to the scene of a
bizarre incident at a yoga studio in Greenwich Village. They arrive to discover
Doctor Strange is already there. They enter to discover the students in some
sort of levitating trance, which Strange identifies as magic but Beast claims is
alien. They find a yoga spell book written in Shi’ar directing them to the Dark
Dimension. They head to that dimension separately and encounter Doctor McCoy,
Sorcerer Supreme, and Professor S of the Strange Men who are seeking Dormammu’s
Crown to stop the yoga singularity threatening all universes—except that they
have to destroy Earth-616 to do so. Strange and Beast seize the crown and
teleport back to their own world separately. Comparing notes they conclude that
the culprit behind it all must be the Impossible Man. They confront Impy in his
own dimension and demand that he close the portal and free the humans—or they
will sic on him the Stranges and McCoys of all the parallel worlds. It is done
and they journey back home, still arguing about magic versus alien technology.
(No title given)Writer: Gerry Duggan. Pencils: David Yardin. Inks: Cam
Smith. Colors: Andres Mossa. Letters: Clayton Cowles.
Synopsis: Captain America and Cyclops return to the secret
SHIELD safe house in the Las Vegas casino, bearing the dead Skrull. The Steve
Rogers LMD informs them that their battle with Doctor Doom (last issue) has
been posted to the internet. As the heroes despair over their dead
investigation, the LMD informs them that the Skrull is still alive, having
moved his heart before Doom shot him. The Skrull, K’Tan, tells them he can take
them to a Skrull safe house where they can get a lead on Cadre K but first he
wants a Bison Burger. Cap and Cyke decide to call in some help….
At Bryson’s Bisons, Cap and Cyke sit with K’Tan, disguised as the
Vision, as he enjoys a Bison Burger. Cyclops’ help arrives: Emma Frost and the
Stepford Cuckoos, who gush over Cap while making fun of his age. Bryson, the
restaurant’s owner, greets them and Emma reveals that the restaurant is
the Skrull safe house and all of the employees Skrulls with K’tav was hoping
they would rescue him from the heroes. A battle breaks out with the Skrulls
unleashing a huge laser gun which is sabotaged by Cap’s secret ally Ant-Man. Emma
immobilizes all of the Skrulls and Cap asks politely if she would stay for the
rest of the mission as a Skrull psychic is involved and she agrees. Ant-Man
(Hank Pym) examines the bison burgers and discovers that they contain mutated Skrull
DNA. Cap suspects a biological attack on America by Cadre K and suggests they
investigate the farm where the cattle were grown….


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Thor + Magik
Thor visits the armory in Asgard looking for Volstagg who turns
out to not be there. He spies a horned skull from Limbo and picks it up against
the Armorer’s warning and he is teleported away….
Magik is assisting Cyclops with new trainees in the Danger
Room when she feels a disturbance in her dimension. She zaps over and finds
Thor battling demons. Thor vows to take vengeance against her once he is
through with the monstrous minions even though she denies being responsible for
his coming there. She offers to rescue him but, in his pride, the God of
Thunder declines. He lays the beatdown on the enemy, making a crater in the
ground and hurls Mjolnir at Magik who blinks out before it arrives and
reappears behind Thor. A giant serpent rises from the ground via the crater, accompanied
by more demons. The two heroes fight together and when Magik offers to take
them out of there, Thor again refuses; she does so anyway, telling him to stay
out of her realm. He ends up wondering where in Midgard she has left him….
“The Superior Spider-Man + Cyclops”Writer: Jim Kreuger. Art: Ron Lim. Colors: Chris Sotomayor.Synopsis: Cyclops pursues an old woman down into the subway
as she calls for help; Scott knows she is really Malice inhabiting a human body
but the crowd goes to defend her. By this time, Malice has moved to the body of
a young woman and boarded a train. Cyclops realizes this, fights off the crowd
and smashes his way aboard. He locates Malice and challenges her—and then
Spider-Man arrives, the Superior Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus in Peter Parker’s
body. “Spidey” attacks Cyclops who tries to explain how he was framed for the
murder of Professor X, reminding Spidey of the time he was framed for the
murder of George Stacy by “that idiot Doctor Octopus.” For some reason, this
enrages Spider-Man and he tries to kill Cyc who doesn’t understand why Spidey doesn’t
recognize him as a former ally and isn’t making his usual wisecracks. Malice tries
to enter Spider-Man’s body to kill Cyc herself but finds she can’t, Doc Ock’s
will is too strong; instead, he uses his head to knock her in the face. She
uses the crowd to pass from one person to another until she reaches and
possesses Cyclops himself but he recognizes this trick and avoids her. So she
threatens to throw her current host to his death from the train. Cyc leaps
forward to prevent this and is possessed by the villain. But Malice can’t
control Cyc’s eye beams so Spider-Man has to knock the X-Man out….
Cyclops wakes up in a lab where Spider-Man lectures him on
deception being a part of the hero business and hands him a vial containing
Malice, as Dr. Octopus had a means of separating Cyclops and the villain.
Cyclops departs, glad the Spider-Man is one of the good guys….


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Wonder Man + Beast: People Change
On a visit to Avengers Mansion, Beast meets Wonder Man and
they reminisce about the old days when they went out drinking together and each
wonders why the other changed. After a few drinks in a bar they decide to
recreate those happier times. They battle the Circus of Crime. Beast takes on
Pink Pearl in the wrestling ring. They shave half of a sleeping Wolverine’s
head then escape when he wakes up. They encounter a violent Absorbing Man and recognize
there’s something wrong with him so they invite him to a bar where he talks
about his marital problems. They have him reconcile with Titania and try to
make time with her pals Letha and Poundcakes and barely escape. And at the end
of the night, they are satisfied.
“Captain America + Jubilee”Writer: Justin Jordan. Art: Angel Unzueta. Colors: Thomas
Mason.
Captain America takes Jubilee on a mission to
investigate a Nazi sub sunken off the Louisiana coast during the War and only
recently rediscovered. They dive down and enter, encountering a band of Nazi
vampires; they keep up some comical banter while killing off all of the vampires.
After it is over, Jubilee asks Cap why he brought her along, since he could have
taken care of them himself. Cap replies that he wanted the undead Nazis to see
that, like her, they could choose not to be monsters.


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The Celestial Progenitor (who when he was dead was the Avengers HQ at the North Pole) has been declaring judgement on each individual human and by the end of A.X.E.: Judgment Day #4 had done enough to pass judgement on humanity as a whole. His conclusion was negative and he started to destroy the world. But at the end of #5 a small group of superheroes managed to break into his body intending to push his self-destruct button.Inside Progenitor Iron Man comments that he's the only Avenger present. (The rest of the team is X-Men Jean Grey, Mister Sinister and Wolverine and Eternals Ajak, Makkari and Sersi.) Sersi and Wolverine point out that they both *used to be* Avengers, and Mr Sinister offers to join. Tony Stark isn't happy about him making jokes when the Celestial has already killed Captain Marvel and Thor amongst others, and Captain America is trying to hold things together. MrS reminds him that they 2 plus others reanimated the Celestial so they are jointly responsible for the deaths.They agree to push on towards the destruct node. But the Eternal Priestess Ajak raises a problem that the Celestial 'god' is so full of power that it's warping reality and changing its own innards. Marvel Girl agrees that she's having to keep the psychic weight from crushing them all.At that point they are attacked by what MrS describes as vicious Celestial antibodies. He pulls out a jar of pheromones which he claims helped him invade the Dreaming Celestial. But it doesn't work this time so it's up to the others. Wolverine slashes with his claws and Jean mentally overrides (with their prior permission in AXE:JD#5) the Eternals' compulsion to not harm Celestials. She tells Tony that Sinister really is a genius, the flippant remarks are just a front - and Tony realises she's comparing Nathaniel Essex to *him*. So he jokingly warns her that he has a thing for feisty redheads.Eventually Priestess Makkari signals that she's found the way to the node and they all follow her. Then Iron Man is set upon by hexagonal 'platelets' which adhere to his armour. Makkari rips his helmet off but Tony still can't breathe ...... and he falls into a dream vision. The 1st thing he encounters there is the body of Prof Yinsen who died helping Stark in Iron Man's origin (Tales Of Suspense #39 and later updates). But this body has been killed by a repulsor blast indicating Tony's sense of responsibility for the death. He's then confronted by all versions of his armour who point out that despite the improvements people keep dying on his watch. And now he's created this giant god armour which is killing *everyone*.Next up is the body of Captain America as IM and the Avengers found it way back in Av#4. Steve Rogers says that the Celestial could possibly have already killed him (again) out there because of Tony's latest mistake. James Rhodes pops up as War Machine to remind him that Tony broke his neck when he was the Iron God (in the recent Iron Man #17). Tony tries to fix it like he did then, but this time the head comes off. Then the android Thor he created in Civil War is there to remind him of another mistake. But also that if he hadn't given up his Iron Godhood he would have been able to defeat the Celestial and bring everyone back to life. Bruce Banner joins them and accuses Stark of being addicted to saving the world, only this time he's failed. Then he turns into Hulk and he and the Thordroid beat on him.We next segue into a parade of the women in his life. Wasp, Black Widow, Pepper Potts and Hellcat castigate him for working on his armours when he should have been fixing his personal failings. Patsy Walker ends by pointing out that he's chosen women (Whitney Frost excepted) who could be parental figures to provide him the moral compass he lacks. And then he finds himself in the car with his parents as it crashes and kills them.At last it becomes clear that this is all the Celestial judging him. Tony desperately digs into his surroundings to get at the underlying mechanism which he can fix, but Progenitor says this might just be psychic reality control so he's wasting his time. However Stark refuses to give up as long as there's a chance it *might* work. The Celestial's last guise is now Howard Stark who admits to being a bad father but he's proud of his son now. And the Celestial passes a positive judgement on him.He returns to reality and the platelets have stopped trying to kill him. He's crying but he tells them it's because his dad praised him. But he also points out that the 'god' was testing him, and this means it's still testing them all. And so there must still be a chance they can win and save the world.


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A small group of Avengers/Eternals/X-Men revived the dead Celestial Progenitor in order to stop the war between Eternals and mutants. That worked but Progenitor then started to judge the human race. At the end of A.X.E.: Judgment Day #5 a slightly different small group entered the body of the Celestial to find and push its self-destruct button. We have followed their slow progress in AXE: Avengers 1-shot (where Iron Man was judged) and AXE: X-Men 1-shot (where the same happened to Jean Grey). The rest of the team are Eternals Ajak, Makkari and Sersi and mutants Mister Sinister and Wolverine.Now the trek continues as angry Jean Grey blasts her way through the immense body. Priestess Ajak comments that she believes they're making good progress but more large antibodies attack them and Jean has to psychically suppress the Eternals' inbuilt prohibition against harming Celestials to allow them to fight back.Tony Stark asks Sersi why she agreed to come on this mission. She says it's because she doesn't trust Ajak and Makkari, as priestesses of the Celestial gods, to do the necessary thing. Tony asks why they should trust *her* because Progenitor has already found her unworthy, and she won't tell them why. Sersi remembers (off-panel in Eternals #6) when she failed to persuade Ikaris not to tell humanity how 1 of them (or possibly a Deviant) has to die every time an Eternal gets resurrected, and then she sent Jack Of Knives to threaten to kill anyone he *did* tell. And that's why she failed the Celestial's test. But she deflects his question by suggesting that Stark only passed because the rebuilt Celestial was partly based on *his* nervous system. She also points out that the Eternals' actions are determined by principles built in to them by their Celestial creators so Progenitor shouldn't really judge *them*. But Makkari says that *she* was judged negatively because of the way she interpreted the 'scriptures'.The other priestess Ajak says her own judgment was suspended ... but then it recommences. The Celestial sends her on a journey to face all the beings who died for *her* resurrections. 1st is the Deviant who died for her after she was killed by the 1M BC Avengers (as described in the Eternals: Celestia 1-shot). The vision of him tells her that in order to progress she must kill him (again). After she does that she meets a human (who in passing explains the he was alive in 1M BC because his grandmother and some others fell through a chronal rift). She kills *him* and the Celestial tells her she'll have to kill all the others who died to keep her alive.But we skip over the rest of them until she finishes and then asks her god if she has passed. But appearing as the deaf/dumb Makkari the Celestial signs that she negatively judged Sersi for keeping the deadly cost secret form humans, and she asks the priestess what *her* excuse was. Ajak says telling them wouldn't change anything, and she tried not to die unnecessarily. Progenitor then accuses her of being unfaithful to her gods because, before she helped revive him she tortured his 'ghost' to learn Celestial secrets (Et#11). She counters that the Celestials failed *her* when they stopped communicating with their priests, and later when it was revealed that the Eternals weren't created to protect humanity but to nurture its potential for superhumans/mutants, and that the Deviants were more important than them in that respect. She helped create Progenitor as a better god who could free them from the curse of deadly resurrection. Only then can they try to make amends with humanity.Progenitor points out that her actions created this version of him that is now killing humanity. She replies that it's not too late for him to be a better god and she still has faith in that. He condemns her for too much faith. But she believes this is as much a test of *him* as of her, and she has faith that in the end they both will not fail. So he gives her another test by stopping Jean Grey from being able to affect her mind. Now the Celestial 1st Principle will prevent her from attacking Progenitor, but she will have the freedom to ignore it by her own will when the final conflict occurs.Ajak's consciousness now returns to her companions and no time has passed. She leads them down a shaft which she believes will lead to their destination.


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The Great Machine that is the Earth greets the reader on a rare peaceful day on the planet. The Avengers and the X-Men are both relaxing. But in the hidden Eternals' capital Olympia Druig is not resting easy on his newly-won Eternal Prime throne. As seen in Eternals #12 and Free Comic Book Day 2022: Judgment Day he sought to cement his rule by finding a cause he could unite his people behind. And he found it in the mutants who had recently discovered how to make themselves effectively immortal by a rebirth method similar to that of the Eternals. This smacked of Excess Deviancy which the Eternals are compelled to root out as part of the way the Celestials created them.He goes to see chief scientist Domo and asks how to kill all mutants. Domo considers it purely as a scientific problem and shows him the giant anti-matter bomb he just happens to have lying around. The Machine could teleport it to 1 of its nodes beneath the mutant island nation Krakoa. It is general technology that couldn't be specifically traced back to the Eternals. With Krakoa gone the other mutants on Mars will probably disintegrate in a civil war. But even if not they can be dealt with later. Druig tells him to do it quickly so they can have a celebratory drink this evening.The title pages now give us a political breakdown of the 100 Eternals. Those in Olympia, Polaria, the Exclusion, the Oceanic Watch, the Damocles Foundation and the Hex all (supposedly) support Druig. The Tricks do too because he pays them. Others are independent:- the Celestian Priests, the Titanos Hermits, the Lemurian 'mission', the Gaian Sisters, the Forgotten and 3 whose location is unknown.The Lemurian 'mission' is actually the group who left Olympia for the Deviant capital Lemuria after discovering (Et#6) that every time an Eternal died and was resurrected it cost the life of a human. They wanted to learn how to live as mortals. But their presence brought destruction on Lemuria when Thanos attacked the place (Et#8-9) seeking the Eternal Phastos to make him completely Eternal. Now we see Ikaris and Sersi helping to repair the place. But many Deviants blame them and 1, an enhanced Deviant named Crimson Karlau, now attacks the pair. They subdue her rather than injure or kill her, but it reminds Ikaris of his regretted past including killing many Deviants in war. Sersi also feels regret that she sent Jack Of Knives (1 of the Tricks) to 'persuade' him (Et#7) to keep the the resurrection secret a secret, but it was necessary.In Olympia Druig is heading for the Exclusion. the Eternals' prison. The Machine takes a moment to mention Excluded E who it says is being held because of what the unscrupulous might use him to do. And also because he only recently fell into the Eternals' grasp and they don't want to let him go. It also points out that with the Delphan Brothers counting as 2 there are actually 101 names on the list described earlier, not the 100 immortals originally created by the Celestials.Druig is actually going to visit Phastos. He suggests that he should wipe from Phastos' mind the memory of the resurrection problem (which is traditionally what was done to any with a conscience who found out). But Celestian priests Ajak and Makkari are here because they want Phastos to help them, and Druig is graciously letting him go. (Of course they all suspect Druig has a devious motive for this, and Druig's thoughts tell us that it would be useless to mindwipe Phastos because the other rebels would just tell him. Better to wait until he can wipe them all. Besides he doesn't think the priests can do anything he should be worried about.)The 2 priests take Phastos to their base city Celestia where he learns that they intend to create a new Celestial god to replace the ones that have forsaken them. (Presumably using knowledge they gained from the mind of the dead Celestial that is now Avengers Mountain HQ, as seen in Et#11-12.) He examines their plans and says it *could* work with the help of a mutant expert they propose to kidnap from Krakoa. But this would risk war with the mutants. And the resulting Celestial might turn out not to be what the priests hope for. So on balance he's out. But Ajak says they only wanted his expert opinion on whether it was *possible*, and he's given them that. But he reminds them that he (in Et#1-6) tried to stop the Great Machine's resurrection system killing humans, and wound up causing more deaths. Their project might have unintended consequences too. And he leaves them. Makkari says it's a good job they didn't let him know they'd already captured the mutant. And we see that it's Mr Sinister.Phastos returns to Lemuria to join in the reconstruction work. Sprite is keeping a child amused. Kingo Sunen is just standing around looking martial. Thena is talking to the Deviant leader Warlord Kro. They contemplate the remains of the statue Thena's now-dead Deviant ex-lover Tolau created of the Eternal/Deviant pair. Thanos melted it (#9) but she and Kro agree that it has been improved by that. Tolau tried to show the best in both species but now it shows their shared monstrousness. Kro remembers how they 2 were once lovers, but she brushes him off by reminding him that he's now dallying with Sersi. Sersi herself joins them at this point and she and Kro exchange banter.More seriously she reminds them that the info Ajak got from the dead Celestial included data on the Deviants. They may be able to create a cure (for Excess Deviancy?). But also that the Deviants were the true purpose of the Celestials' prehistoric meddling. (They were the source of superhumans who were able to defeat the Celestials' foes the Horde - see the early issues of the current Avengers series.) The Eternals were just there to keep the Earth and Deviants safe. Kro hasn't yet told his people. He's worried that extreme factions would use it as a cause for war with the Eternals. On the other hand the sense of self-worth might *stop* that vicious cycle of envy.Druig is snooping on peaceful Krakoa as Domo finishes his preparations. Out of curiosity the scientist asks *why* Druig wants the mutants exterminated. He says the mutants have got so much of the superhumanity derived from the Deviants that they are really Deviants themselves. And now that they're immortal and have spread to Mars this counts as Excess Deviancy. And by Celestial decree the Eternals are bound to eliminate it. (He doesn't add that this act will elevate him to the status of great man and great leader.) Domo sends the anti-matter bomb on its way ...... and the pair suddenly feel great pain and chant 1 of the Celestials' built-in edicts "Protect the Machine". Domo quickly recalls the bomb and deactivates it. He rationalises that the sentient island Krakoa must be a vital part of the Great Machine that is the Earth. (The Machine tells us he's correct.) Domo offers to think of another method of killing mutants without harming Krakoa. But Druig has a different plan ...... He goes back to the Exclusion to see the expert on genocide his 'grandfather' Uranos.


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Druig's Eternals attacked Krakoa (the mutant island) and Arakko (the transformed Mars) because the mutants were examples of Excess Deviation. The 'good' Eternals and the Avengers with mutant Mister Sinister brought the Avengers HQ (the body of the dead Celestial named Progenitor) back to life. It stopped the war but then decided to judge everyone on Earth in the next 24 hours. Last issue MrS secretly told the X-Men how to destroy the Celestial but they failed. But then Sersi implemented her own plan by releasing Eros/Starfox from his Exclusion prison.Faced with the end of the world humanity reacts by turning on itself. Captain America (already judged a failure) tries to stop mutant-haters storming the Krakoan embassy in New York. But he's overwhelmed by numbers.Meanwhile in their bunker outside the transformed HQ the conspirators (Mr Sinister, Iron Man of the Avengers, and the Eternals Ajak, Makkari and Phastos) who created the new Celestial god meet with Sersi and Starfox to hear the plan. The Titanian is enough of an Eternal that the Great Machine accepts him. Sersi proposes that Eros uses the Machine to broadcast peace and love throughout the world. This will fool Progenitor into letting the majority pass his test, and that means *everyone* gets saved. But Starfox thinks that fakery will just make everyone *fail*. The voiceover of the Celestial, who knows everything that's going on, tells us he agrees with him. So SF has another plan.We see Progenitor, while his physical body remains at the North Pole, appear in various guises to judge various people all over the world, including the 6 humans the voiceover introduced to us in #2. Bigoted Tom in London is a judged negatively because he failed to see the irony of being beaten up by 2 men who thought he was a foreigner. Katrina in Vancouver also gets the thumbs-down, from the image of her dead Aunt, because she's in too much of a hurry to leave a tip. Arjun in Mumbai died so the Celestial takes pity on his widow and doesn't judge her. Daniela in Sao Paulo rushes home to comfort her mother and she passes. Jada in New York despairs of the hatred all around even as she understands it, and she passes too. Young Kenta in Yokohama is still refusing to do his homework, but Progenitor doesn't judge children.In between these we see the judgement on some superchars. Disguised as a reporter the Celestial asks the Mayor of New York Luke Cage how he rates his performance. The politician doges the question and so fails. As Thor fights Themex of the giant Eternals known as the Hex, Progenitor reads the inscription on Mjolnir and figures this means the Asgardian *must* be worthy of passing. He appears to Ms Marvel as her idol Captain Marvel and offers her and her family a chance to escape Earth with the elite of heroes. Kamala Khan knows this isn't what the real Carol Danvers would say and so passes. Charles Xavier is too busy psychically defending Krakoa when the judge appears as his son Legion and wants to talk to him, and so Prof X is condemned. Brandy Selby, the new young Starbrand, has her mettle tested against what seems to be a Dungeon God in a Dimension Of Shredded Tears. She does OK and passes. Dr Doom is offered a pass if he'll admit that Reed Richards is smarter than him. Doom laughs and passes himself. The judge agrees. Daredevil has violated his own moral code many times in the process of fighting evil. Progenitor appears as Christ to condemn him, and Matt Murdock accepts the judgement. He appears as Spider-Man (Peter Parker) to Spider-Man (Miles Morales) doing good at street-level. They exchange thumbs up.And in between everything we sees Starfox touring the world to meet with the great and not-so-good. (His meeting in New York with Sebastian Shaw of the mutant Quiet Council was shown in Immortal X-Men #6.) He goes to Wakanda to confer with Black Panther. We see him in the Rose Garden of the White House. And at the end he addresses the United Nations to persuade them, without using his emotion-control power, to agree to his plan. If the world will agree to a package of universal human rights and environmental action then they can have access to more mutant tech, the secret tech of the Eternals and even that of the Celestials. They applaud him roundly. Afterwards Shaw approaches him and congratulates him on getting the mutants and 'good' Eternals to agree to it, but he questions whether he *really* speaks for all Eternals.Then he returns to the bunker to discuss with Ajak, Mr Sinister, Sersi and Tony Stark what they can do about Druig, the current Prime Eternal. Ajak the Eternals' Priest still believes this is all just a test by her god and he won't really destroy the world. Iron Man and Mr Sinister want to launch an attack on him, but Sersi points out that non-Eternals can't get into the Eternals' hidden realms, at least not without someone sabotaging the Great Machine. Stark shows them footage of what Uranos and his sentient weapons did to Mars/Arakko (and the weapons are still there). Druig has Uranos locked up again in the Exclusion but he *could* let him do that Earth too. Starfox says Druig isn't desperate enough for that yet, but Sersi says he *will* be if he keeps losing. He only became Prime Eternal as a compromise, and the Uni-Mind can de-select him. She just hopes that Druig will make a mistake that will topple him before he can make the *big* mistake of letting Uranos out again.Druig is consulting his confined 'grandfather' Uranos again, but still isn't ready to unleash *him*. He only has the remains of a day (but the Celestial hasn't judged *him* yet). His loyalists have sent messages suggesting he should send the Uni-Mind against the mutants again. This time including all Eternals even the Hex, which would enable him to use 1 of the Uni-Mind's warforms. So he sends out the mental summons, even to his opponents the 'good' Eternals.We see the Uni-Mind approaching Krakoa in a menacing giant insectoid form. Mr Sinister has gone there to tell the mutants what's going on. Ajak, Kingo Sunen, Phastos, Sersi, Starfox and Thena join the combine, and Druig gloats that once he's used their power he'll use 1 of the Uni-Mind's functions to mind-wipe them. But Sersi lets him know that it was *they* who sent him this suggestion, and Eros calls for a vote on the Prime Eternal. Druig is still confidant his votes will outnumber theirs ...... but then Sersi mentally contacts Ikaris and Gilgamesh who disable the Uni-Mind firewalls in the Great Machine, letting the X-Men and other mutants in. And they and the 'good' Eternals all vote overwhelmingly for Eros as Prime Eternal. (Well, his Titanian brother Thanos was PE before Druig.)Now Druig knows he's going to lose so he orders the Machine to release Uranos so he can join the Uni-Mind and use his 'elder' status to take over so that he and Druig can rule together. But of course as soon as he's free Uranos just does what *he* wants to, which is to unleash weapons from the Eternals' armoury through portals all over Earth. And Druig realises he may have made a mistake. Uranos also seals the Machine even from access by other Eternals, and defeats the 2 who are inside it. So Sersi calls in their backup plan from Mars ...... which Iron Man has organised. Uranos had previously used such portals to send his weapons to Mars. Now Tony Stark reopens 1 of *those* portals to send Magneto and Storm through from Arakko to Uranos in the armoury, and they blast him with their combined power. Then Stark gives them control of all of the portals which now all funnel blasts (from the Sun?) onto Uranos. But Magneto, who has been functioning without a heart (since Uranos ripped it out in X-Men Red #5), dies in Storm's arms. (And apparently he can't be resurrected because he deleted himself from the backup database as a political statement.)In the aftermath Uranos is back in his cell. Ikaris and Sersi discuss making amends to the mutants. The Celestial chooses this moment to judge them, Ikaris yes, Sersi no. As the day of judgement nears its end Eros speaks to Progenitor about the deal he made and tells him they need more than this day to implement it. But their judge says that humanity won't change, and he's seen enough to know that they don't deserve to live. And he kills everyone? (So what's the next issue going to be about?)


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The Celestial Progenitor, reawakened in his body that was Avengers North Pole HQ, stopped the Eternals attack on mutants but then proceeded to judge humanity and found them wanting. It's killed many people including superheroes and is now trying to destroy the Eternals' Great Machine which will in turn destroy the Earth. The X-Men used the Krakoan resurrection protocols to bring back Captain America to lead a last ditch attempt to save the world. A small group of Avengers, Eternals and mutants has infiltrated the Celestial's body trying to reach its self-destruct button (we've followed their progress in the A.X.E.: Avengers, X-Men and Eternals 1-shots). Meanwhile in A.X.E.: Death To The Mutants #3 the Eternal Phastos reset the Machine to its default settings to cut off all outside access including that of Progenitor, and in the A.X.E.: Starfox 1-shot we saw Eros persuade Prime Eternal Zuras to let all surviving humans take refuge in the Machine's fractal dimensions.Jada is sitting in Central Park where Captain America left her last issue watching the world end around her. Then Cap appears through an Eternals portal and beckons her in to join all the other people they're managing to save. She is 1 of the 6 'representative' humans we've been watching through this series. We now see Tom persuade his family not to trust the portals, and they die in a fire. Katrina sees a portal but prefers to spend her time rescuing others from a (different) burning building - she gets 5 of them but dies trying for a 6th. Komali thinks of her dead husband as she dies. Daniela persuades her mother to accompany her through a portal but regrets leaving her bicycle behind. Jada sees young Kenta lost and alone in the refuge and befriends him.Starfox walks through the adoring crowd and then rendezvous with Nightcrawler who reports that his AI 'colleagues' are preventing Progenitor re-establishing contact with the Machine. (Immortal X-Men #7 suggests to me that these colleagues are Moira MacTaggert and Nimrod of the X-Men's enemies Orchis.) Cap joins them to predict that the Celestial will just change tactics. He's right - Progenitor knows that the Reality Loom lies at the centre of the Earth so he decides to just physically dig down to reach it.Meanwhile the gang infiltrating the Celestial (Avenger Iron Man, Eternals Ajak, Makkari and Sersi and mutants Jean Grey, Mister Sinister and Wolverine) are getting close to their target.The Eternals were all created by the Celestials with certain in-built protocols, 1 of them never to harm a Celestial. But for this mission they allowed Jean psychic access so that she could override that prohibition and 'force' them to fight against Progenitor. But now Ajak tells Makkari and Sersi that when the Celestial judged her (in A.X.E.: Eternals) it shut the mutant out of their minds but also temporarily deactivated the protocols so that they will now have complete free will for the 1st time in their lives.They all reach the core and find a representation of the Celestial itself. Tony Stark tells Logan, Makkari and Sinister to keep 'antibodies' out. Jean decides on a killing strike with psychic knives, but Ajak stops her with a blast from her mace.Meanwhile Progenitor has reached an Eternals' city at the centre of the Earth. Starfox calls for the Armouries of Uranos to be opened and the humans to be armed with the weapons within. So they join the fight to delay the Celestial. And then Nightcrawler unleashes a surprise - the Eternal Syne of the Hex merged with the mutant Exodus (as foreshadowed in AXE:DTTM#3). Syne channels the power of the Armouries and Exodus channels the power of mutants, and they stagger the Celestial. All this to give IM's team more time.Progenitor is actually aware of the invaders within him but is interested to see how it will play out. Ajak and Tony tell Jean that they want to find a way to bring back all the humans that the Celestial has killed, so they can't just kill it. Ajak is convinced that this is all still part of Progenitor's testing of humanity, and as she told the Celestial (in AXE:Et) she believes *it* is being tested too. The Celestial considers her words as it recovers from the Syne/Exodus attack. Just in time to face an assault by MacTaggert, Nimrod, Sentinels and Orchis troops.But Jean Grey has had enough - she thinks it's more important to save what's left of humanity rather than rely on vague hopes. She mentally signals Sinister to shoot Ajak and tries again to attack the Progenitor simulacrum. But it responds for the 1st time by deflecting her attack and saying this *was* a further test, which she and humanity have now failed. These latest minutes have only increased its conviction that humanity must die because they can't change. Even the Eternals when given free will still act the same.But the Eternal Sersi decides to make a bold move. She asks the Machine to broadcast her message to the world. And she tells them the Eternals' dark secret. Every time an Eternal resurrects a human dies before his time. This has been happening for millions of years. They can't stop it happening but they chose not to tell humanity about it. And she personally has lied and manipulated to keep the secret, which caused her to fail the Celestial's test. Now it is up to humanity to judge the Eternals. Progenitor witnesses the angry reaction of humanity and disintegrates her, supposedly permanently.The Celestial is even more sure that humans and Eternals deserve to be destroyed. Ajak responds that this may be true but does *Progenitor* have the right to kill them. The priestess helped create this new version of him to be a better god and this is a test of his quality which he is failing. Sinister urges Jean to have another go at the foe while he's distracted but she says she's beginning to understand him. She reminds Progenitor that she failed his judgement because as Dark Phoenix she destroyed a populated planet (the D'Bari in X-Men #135). But she adds that when that happened she wasn't herself (in several ways), but now Progenitor is committing genocide in full possession of his senses. Can he live with that afterwards?The Celestial is starting to relent, but points out that he's already killed most of humanity. Tony Stark butts in to say that Progenitor's consciousness was partly based on his own. And the 'god' judged *him* worthy because he always tried to make amends for his mistakes. So surely Progenitor can do the same? The Celestial says there *is* a possible solution but it might destroy him. Tony replies that as a superhero that's the risk he takes all the time.We've been following the Celestial's musings all through this issue (and indeed the series). Now he thinks to himself that as a god he *is* omniscient and remembers exactly how everything and everybody was before he destroyed them. And he's omnipotent so he *could* put everything back. So to make amends that's what he'll do. As he does so he asks Ajak if he's worthy now. But she gives him the thumbs down and he concurs. His last act is to connect with her and ask her to be a better god.Most of the team now find themselves in the Arctic waste in front of the Celestial who has reverted to being the dead Avengers HQ at the North Pole. Iron Man gets info from all over the globe which tells him that everyone and everything that Progenitor destroyed is back as it was (except Sersi). The damage caused earlier by the Eternals and Uranos in their war against mutants is still there. Then Ajak joins them and says Sersi is still dead because Progenitor saw that humanity wished it. The others now notice that the Eternal priestess has changed. She tells her fellow priestess Makkari she is now her new goddess Ajak Celestia, merged with Progenitor's consciousness.We take a peek at the 6 'special' humans. Tom and his family are alive but his son is regretting having confessed a secret when he thought they were going to die. Katrina is now a live heroine for the rescues that killed her. Syne apologises for having killed Komali's husband. Daniele is now closer to her mother (and she's got her bike back). Jada celebrates by having a day in bed but is contacted by her estranged family (I think). Young Kenta tells his parents about the people who looked after him and they don't tell him that they died.Starfox persuades Zuras to apologise for the Eternals attacking the mutants and offers Storm a treaty of alliance. He also offers the mutants on Arakko (Mars) an hour to do what they like to Uranos (who destroyed their civilisation in an hour). Starfox reminds Storm why Uranos mustn't die and that only the Eternals can keep him permanently secure. She asks about Druig who set Uranos on them - the Arakkii want him to personally bury the bones of every mutant killed. Zuras says maybe later, but in the meantime we see that his current punishment is to be put in the same Exclusion cell as Uranos (who is angry that Druig wouldn't let him out for more than 1 hour). Zuras also says that he doesn't hold with Druig's excuse for the war, that mutants have Deviant DNA and so are automatically guilty of Excess Deviation. After Zuras leaves Nightcrawler notes that humans now hate the Eternals who protect them, just like the X-Men.They are also party to an idea that Jean Grey now announces to the world. She says that that the mutant nation hasn't the resources to give everyone the benefits of their resurrection system, especially now that it will take them years to revive all the mutants killed by the Eternals (especially Uranos). But the Phoenix Foundation has been set up to resurrect priority cases such as terminally sick children (this was apparently Sebastian Shaw's cynical idea). This will boost the X-Men's popularity but Cyclops notes that their enemies Orchis have also reaped such rewards for their part in fighting the Celestial.The Avengers have moved back into the Celestial's body with mixed feelings. Tony Stark can't resisting gloating that Progenitor found him worthy but failed Steve Rogers. Cap points out that the Celestial was based on Tony and that it tried to destroy the Earth so its opinion is questionable at least. Steve heads back to the still-wrecked Central Park to bring Jada a coffee he owes her.Ajak Celestia kneels before a statue of her new church's 1st martyr Sersi. The voice of Progenitor tells us that Ajak will strive to be worthy of her new godly status, and her followers will serve humanity in penance. But she will continue to judge the world.