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Wasp narrates the battle between the
original Avengers—Iron Man, Thor, Giant-Man, and Wasp—against the
Masters of Evil—Black Knight, Enchantress, Executioner, and the
Melter—in the streets of New York City. By teamwork they defeat
their foes, to the acclaim of an adoring public....
Captain America returns from an
adventure in South America (seen in AVENGERS #15) to the startling
news that his teammates are leaving to deal with personal issues. But
they have left him with three replacements, all former
villains—Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver—who he does not
know....
Cap hurries to get to the press
conference Iron Man had already set up but he doesn't get there fast
enough before Hawkeye has the new Avengers give a demonstration of
their talents. Cap hurriedly introduces them to the crowd—as a
reporter asks about Quicksilver's and the Witch's former association
with the mutant terrorist Magneto and Hawkeye's past as a bad guy.
And Hawkeye doesn't help that he sounds like he is the team leader.
The hostile questioning causes Wanda to walk out on the event....
Meanwhile, watching on TV are the
Frightful Four—Wizard, Medusa, Sandman, Trapster—and the Wizard
decides to attack the Avengers before the Avengers come after
them....
Pietro suggests to a tearful Wanda that
they leave the team but she decides against it, they have to keep
their commitment. Cap finds Hawkeye packing but Clint changes his
mind when he learns they have a butler. At this point the Frightful
Four arrive and the Avengers go out to meet them. Within seconds,
Wizard shoots down Quicksilver, Medusa entangles Hawkeye in her hair,
Sandman clobbers Cap, and Trapster shoots paste in Scarlet Witch's
face. The Wasp sees this on TV and is stunned....


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The story opens with an exasperated
Jarvis slaving over Hawkeye's wardrobe and equipment; he takes his
revenge by pouring itching powder in the hero's costume. A sudden
scream attracts everyone's attention. Quicksilver, legs broken by Ox
of the Enforcers (last issue), has been brought to Avengers Mansion
by paramedics. New Avenger Cressida is able to amplify Pietro's
metabolism and accelerate his healing but he is depressed and wants
to give up running. A smart-mouthed comment by Hawkeye causes Pietro
to hurl a lamp at him so everybody leaves him alone with his sister
Wanda. Pietro accuses Wanda of faking her emotions for fame, and she
accuses him of wanting to keep her dependent—both ideas put into
their heads by Cressida....
Interlude: A masked figure hires the
Acrobat to impersonate Hawkeye, endowing him with the power to
recreate the archer's fabled deeds. And the transfer of power drains
the life from a nearby homeless man....
Reports that “Hawkeye” has robbed a
jewelry store sets Captain America and Hawkeye against each other and
the archer starts to walk out but Cap stops him. Cap asks the
Avengers plus Jarvis to gather in the meeting room. Cap announces
that the Avengers are in trouble. That they need to win back one
another's trust as well as the public's. He challenges the Frightful
Four, who had easily defeated the new Avengers team earlier (issue
1.1), to a rematch in public. With Cressida's support, the Avengers
(minus Quicksilver) are able to easily defeat their foes—until
Cressida secretly empowers Sandman who overcomes the heroes as only
Quicksilver could beat Sandman. Hawkeye fires an arrow at Wanda and
Pietro arrives immediately to deflect it—which was Hawkeye's intention. Quicksilver runs around the villain at such a speed as to
turn his sand into glass. Cap and the team then confront Cressida
about her betrayal. She tells them enigmatically about her grudge
against the Avengers, then she blasts them, draining them of their
life energies, leaving them aged husks....


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Everyone is talking about the new
Avengers lineup and it's all negative. As average citizens are being
interviewed in Manhattan to express disappointment over the new
heroes, foot-tall copies of the Awesome Android rain from the sky.
The figures are alive and reproducing. The Mad Thinker takes control
of the airwaves to demand one billion dollars of Vibranium or the
rapidly multiplying Androids will soon overrun the city. Captain
America and Scarlet Witch confront the Mad Thinker in his lair and
with their newly enhanced powers Wanda destroys the villain's
equipment and Cap punches out the full-size Android. Elsewhere in the
city, Daredevil “sees” Quicksilver rounding up the little
monsters at superspeed. Spider-Man watches Hawkeye fire several
arrows that spread nets, trapping the things and making cleanup much
easier....
Suddenly the Avengers are popular all
over the city and they owe it all to new member Cressida whose
special power increases the abilities of anyone around her (last
issue). Hero names of X-Factor or Avenger X are suggested for her. But elsewhere in the city, a sinister event has taken place:
all of the elderly residents of a nearby nursing home have
died—simultaneously and at the time the Avengers were fighting the
Thinker.…
The group begins to enjoy their sudden
stardom but later, Cressida approaches Steve alone in the gym and
asks if he can be sure Hawkeye is still not a criminal at heart and
whether he can be trusted.... Later she suggests to Wanda that Pietro
is trying to keep her dependent on him.... Then she suggests to
Pietro that sudden fame may be seducing Wanda away from him. In a fit
of anger, Quicksilver heads out to do some heroing. Cressida keeps
track of him via a television screen, watching as he encounters the
Enforcers beating a man who owes money to the Kingpin. When
Quicksilver intervenes, Cressida reaches through the TV screen and
boosts Ox's strength with a touch of her finger. (And elsewhere,
hospital patients are suddenly dying.) As she watches, Ox beats
Quicksilver and breaks his leg. Cressida says, “One down, three to
go.”


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Cressida—Avenger X—has been
revealed to be a bad guy, draining the life energies of the Avengers,
leaving them aged husks and gaining their powers. The original
Avengers—Iron Man, Thor, Wasp, Giant-Man—arrive to stop her. With
her new powers she is able to hold her foes off and escape....
Two days later, a public funeral is
held for the fallen heroes. A disguised Cressida is spotted watching
from a treetop and suddenly the dead Avengers—Captain America,
Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Hawkeye, revived by Hank Pym's
genius—spring out from hiding to trap her, the other Avengers
staying out of the fray and rushing the civilians to safety. Cressida
turns out to still have her powers but they can't figure out who she
has drained power from—until Hawkeye remembers Jarvis in the
Mansion. Quicksilver rushes the butler to the hospital while the
other three split up in the mansion to fight Cressida. They take
turns engaging her in battle so that her power winds down—then
Wanda amplifies Pietro's speed so that he creates a tornado around
her which hurls her far away into the woods. There Cressida
encounters Wizard, Trapster, and Sandman—three of the Frightful
Four—and they push her into the grave they had intended for the
traitorous Medusa. Trapster buries her under a load of glue and
Wizard drops a giant rock on top, inscribing it as her tombstone.
When the Avengers arrive moments later the baddies are gone and they
don't see the newly created tomb so they head back to the Mansion....
The next day they learn that Jarvis is
recovering and they set out on their next mission—to find the
Hulk....


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The new Avengers team (Captain America,
Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver) is at the beach, battling a huge
sea monster. As the beach crowd heckles them, they manage to defeat
the creature by having Wanda rile up the waters surrounding it,
presumably scaring it off. Pietro is exhausted and cannot carry them
all back to the mansion so they have to take a bus, another
embarrassing moment....
Tony Stark gives the new Avengers his
latest jet-stream cruiser, though it is short on weapons. That night,
both Pietro and Wanda have a nightmare that the Stranger is coming
for them. Pietro wants to leave but Wanda insists on staying with the
team. They fill in Cap and Hawkeye on the Stranger: he is a
near-omnipotent alien being who was able to defeat the X-Men easily.
Cap tells them all that it is their choice on whether to say and face
the villain, and everyone elects to stay out of guilt. They fly over
to consult the X-Men, resulting in an uneasy first meeting between
the two teams. Professor X tells Cap that the X-Men will take care of
the Stranger sometime soon but Cap insists on immediate action. The
peeved Xavier sends the Avengers off in a trance with the coordinates
of the Stranger's current location programmed into their jet. The
Stranger is in Northern Thailand, approaching a possibly mutant woman
named Cressida. The Avengers arrive and confront the villain who
easily keeps them at bay. Then Cressida lets loose with some power
and suddenly the four heroes are much more powerful than ever before.
They overwhelm the Stranger who, deciding that Cressida is not a
mutant, leaves. Cressida reveals she has the power to increase the
abilities of anyone around her. They offer to make her part of the
team and she flies off with the Avengers, intending to send word back
to her people. What they don't realize is that her people are all
dead, apparently the result of her use of her special ability....


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Hank Pym still has recurring nightmares of the murder of his
wife Maria when they were on their honeymoon in Budapest….
He applies for additional funding for his experiments in
shrinking matter but he is turned down as he has nothing to show for all his
work. Outside he meets Janet Van Dyne, daughter of a noted scientist. She invites
him to dinner but he declines, having work to do….
That night, he tests his new particles on himself, shrinking
down to mere centimeters high. He flees a mouse out onto his lawn where he
falls into an anthill and finds he can communicate with the ants in a
rudimentary way. An ant takes him back to his lab where he enlarges both of
them—and has to brush off Janet once again, hoping to keep the human-sized ant
undercover….
Eventually he does date Janet while secretly devising a
protective costume and a helmet that allows him to speak with ants. He shrinks
again and heads for the anthill where he is able to converse with the ants—and
when a hostile ant attacks, he learns he retains his full strength. Soon he is
fighting crime as Ant-Man and he takes Janet out to celebrate his new hobby but
declines to mention what it is, which upsets Janet. He mentions his late wife
but that doesn’t make a difference….
Then Janet’s father is killed by something he unleashed and
she wants to avenge his death; she turns out to already know he’s Ant-Man and
he recruits her as the Wasp, after implanting specialized cells that enable her
to grow wings and antennae when she shrinks. The giant monster is attacking the
George Washington Bridge and Wasp takes the neutralizing agent Hank created and
the enlarging serum and smashing them together over the monster’s head, causing
the chemical rain to dissolve it. Back home the two share the losses of their
lives and fall in love….


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Prisoner Carl Lucas, locked in the sweat box, reviews the
events that led to his being a convict in Seagate Prison. In Harlem, he and his
pal Willis Stryker led a gang called the Bloods; after a while, Carl started to
long for a normal life and the two men drifted apart. Stryker started dating
Reva Conners, a friend of Carl’s but she discovered his dark side and went to
Carl for help. Stryker responded by planting drugs in Carl’s apartment and so
Carl was sentenced to fifteen years in Seagate. Carl quickly made an enemy of
brutal guard Rachman who delighted in telling Carl that Reva had been killed in
an attempt on Willis Stryker’s life….
Carl is approached by Dr Burnstein who offers him a chance
to volunteer for a risky medical experiment. Carl enters the large device intended
to stimulate human cell regeneration but Rachman, seeking to further torment
Carl, turns up the power on the machine and it explodes but Carl is apparently
unharmed and he beats up Rachman though Dr Burnstein stops him from killing the
man. More guards arrive and shoot Carl down—but, to everyone’s surprise, Carl
isn’t injured. So he busts out of the prison and takes off into the swamps,
killing a stray alligator on the way….
Carl arrives back in Harlem seeking revenge against Stryker.
Needing cash, he teams up with a couple of crooks to rob a bank. Carl’s
newfound strength enables him to rip the vault door off but they are confronted
by an elderly guard; Carl discovers he doesn’t have the heart to be a criminal.
One of the other guys shoots the guard and Carl knocks them both out and
escapes. Later, Carl stops a hood robbing a local store and when the proprietor
offers him a reward, Carl knows what he can do with his powers. He adopts a new
identity: Luke Cage, Hero for Hire. His first big job has him beating down the
Rhino and after that jobs come his way. Luke then targets Stryker’s operations,
finally revealing himself to his enemy. Stryker overcomes Luke with knives
emitting a shrill sonic signal and the hero awakens to find himself chained to
four trucks and the villain has them pull in opposite directions. Cage tears
the trucks apart, igniting a fire and bursting free and pursues Stryker over
rooftops, denouncing him for Reva’s death though the baddie never cared about
her. Stryker falls through a skylight and is killed by his own exploding knife.
Cage finds that revenge just leaves him empty….
Epilogue: Years later we find that Cage has been sending
most of his Hero for Hire money to support the bank guard who was crippled in
the robbery. This year he finally meets the man face-to-face and the old man
tells him he isn’t to blame for what happened to him and assures Cage that
seeing a man of color alongside the Avengers and Defenders is an inspiration
and the old man put Luke’s money into improving the neighborhood. He assures
Luke Cage that, despite any mistakes he has made, he really is a hero.


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On the run in Eastern Europe, the displaced siblings Wanda
and Pietro Maximoff accept a ride into town and an offer of lodging from a
local village couple. One day when Pietro is in town, the husband tries to rape
Wanda; defending herself she sets the barn on fire and a mob gathers to burn
her for a witch. Pietro rushes to her side and then Magneto appears to take
them under his protection. At home, Magneto explains to them the concept of
Homo Superior and the need to wage war against those who would destroy them….
Soon they are in the conquered city of Santo Marco, a safe
haven for mutants but Pietro’s cynicism and Wanda’s naivete about Magneto’s
motives divide them. Pietro picks a fight with Toad and Mastermind over their
lusting after Wanda. Then Pietro discovers that Magneto may be their father and
the siblings confront him but before there are any answers, the X-Men (Cyclops,
Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Angel) arrive looking for a fight. When both Wanda
and Pietro refuse to kill in Magneto’s cause, they are locked up but manage to
escape and without anywhere else to go they travel to New York. They feel
safest around the Avengers and meet with them and are accepted onto the team as Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.


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Thor grows up in Asgard with his half-brother Loki and his
pal Sif. Even at an early age, Thor was seen as noble and compassionate while
Loki was a trouble-maker. While Sif is asleep in Odin’s throne room, Loki
creeps up on her and cuts off a braid; when Thor catches him, he threatens
mayhem but then they are all found by Odin himself. The All-Father scolds Loki
while dispatching Thor on a mission to the rock trolls, Brokk and Eitri,
commanding them in Odin’s name to create three surpassing treasures. So Thor
visits the trolls with his commission. They create Gullinbursti, a living
golden boar, Draupnir, a golden armband that multiplies endlessly, and Mjolnir,
a mighty enchanted hammer. But Loki, disguised as an insect, interferes in the
forging of this last, causing the handle to come out too short. Returning to
Asgard, Thor presents the gifts to Odin, who adds his own enchantment to
Mjolnir, ensuring that it can be lifted only by him who is worthy (and implying
it is Thor’s destiny)….
Over the years, Thor comes each day to try the hammer,
testing whether he is worthy. It drives Sif to despair and Loki to mockery but
Odin assures him that Midgard is in the hammer and as Thor is a scion of
Midgard, it is only a matter of time….
Some time after this, Thor returns to Asgard to find the
place a shambles, invaded by the Storm Giants who also carried off Sif. So Thor
picks up Mjolnir, heads out and defeats the giants, beginning a series of
adventures that include battling Hela, Surtur, Ulik and many other enemies of
Asgard. And Odin is displeased: Thor keeps creating conflict where there is
none solely though his arrogant use of power. Odin hurls him to Midgard until
he can learn humility. And as Dr. Donald Blake, disabled physician with no
memory of his life as Thor, he learns what it means to be humble and to serve
instead of being served. And then one day, on a trip to Norway, Don Blake finds
a staff that he strikes upon the ground and he is transformed into Thor, God of
Thunder….


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Ultron-5 creates an android which will remain nameless to
carry out its wishes. Ultron spends much time training the creation in the use
of its powers and then moves on to the next lesson. Ultron gives the creation a
crash course in the history and development of life on Earth, which creation is
told that they are going to replace. Ultron then tells the creation of the
Avengers and commands creation to kill them….
Creation enters Avengers Mansion while Janet Pym is fighting
with her husband Hank over his neglecting her for his work. She storms off and
sees the invader; turning into the Wasp but it grabs her and tries to strangle
her. Hank becomes Goliath and swats the interloper. Hawkeye and Black Panther
arrive and there is a massive battle, four against one. Panther realizes that
the killer isn’t human so Jan shrinks and flies into its nose and wreaks havoc.
Creation extracts her from his head and realizes that any one of the Avengers
would sacrifice his life for the others and winders if they really are trying
to destroy Ultron, or just trying to survive. Ultron arrives to finish the job
and the creation turns against its creator, as he has just seen Ultron do with
Hank Pym. The creation destroys the creator which dies saying that the creation
will never be “one of them.”…
The next day, Wasp speaks with the creation and asks why it
did what it did. Creation responds that it was seeking Ultron’s approval and
love and now it is alone. Jan invites it to come live with the Avengers, all it
needs is a vision of what it wants to be and strive after that. “A Vision” it
asks and she leaves the creation to give itself a name….


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Hawkeye
and Mockingbird apparently go on a crime spree in Denver, Colorado, robbing
banks and jewelry stores. When Hawkeye and Mockingbird back in Avengers Mansion
learn about this, they fly out to Denver to investigate—and are immediately
held by the police at the airport. There is a tense standoff which ends when a
report comes over police radio that Hawkeye and Mockingbird are in the act of
robbing a bank. The heroes accompany police to the crime scene where everyone
sees exact doubles of the heroes—everyone except Hawkeye, that is. He sees them
for who they really are: Angar the Screamer and Screaming Mimi. Clint fires
tear gas which causes Angar to close his mouth and dispel the illusion. Angar
quickly induces hallucinations of monsters in a guard, causing him to start
shooting indiscriminately. Hawkeye disarms the guard with one arrow then binds
the two baddies with a bolo arrow. Angar confesses (by writing) that he and
Mimi had met up after their escape from the Vault and discovered that their
mind-bending powers, when used in conjunction, can produce specific illusions. So
why wasn’t Hawkeye affected by their powers? Because of his deafness.
“Second
Thoughts” 4/5Writer:
Dwayne McDuffie. Pencils: Dwayne Turner. Inks: Chris Ivy. Colors: Mike
Rockwitz. Letters: Jack Morelli.Synopsis:
The imprisoned Mad Thinker is visited by a mystery man (spoiler: it’s Loki) who
tries to recruit him for a scheme. Thinker replies that a little thought
reveals that this scheme will fail and he has also figured out who the mystery
man is. The bad guy flies into a rage and teleports out of there. Thinker has
his own worries: passage of the Super-Powers Registration Act will jeopardize a
number of master plans he’s working on and so he needs a way to sway public
opinion against the act….
In
Washington a few weeks later, Wasp and Wonder Man are to speak at a rally
against the Super-Powers Registration Act. Suddenly, the rally is attacked by a
giant villain called Gargantua who isn’t very bright and appears to be
following another’s orders. There is a big clumsy battle with much property
damage. Wasp enters Gargantua’s ear and discovers a transmitter giving orders
to attack; she smashes the device and tells him to stand still and stick out
his chin. Wonder Man flattens the big baddie with a punch. The two heroes make
their speeches, swaying the crowd against the Act and, back at the Vault, Mad
Thinker is pleased at the outcome….


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Sweet
old lady Abigail Verpoorten loves to feed the stray cats outside her home. This
day, Tigra, shrunk to the size of a housecat and with instincts to match, comes
out for some food as well; the nearsighted lady notes that Tigra doesn’t sound
like an ordinary cat but she can’t see that she looks different too. A bully
lets his pit bull attack the cats; it kills one and goes for Tigra. Tigra
manages to kill the dog but is badly wounded herself. Abigail hurries the
injured Tigra to an animal hospital, witnessed by a black cat. The doctor, who
doesn’t get a good look at Tigra, assumes she is too badly injured to survive
and prepares to euthanize her. Suddenly, Agatha Harkness enters, accompanied by
her black cat Ebony (see above) and claims Tigra as her own. The doctor then
sees what a strange looking cat Tigra is; Miss Harkness leaves; the doctor and
Abigail follow and discover from the receptionist that no one has entered the office
since Abigail went back….
At
Avengers Compound, Miss Harkness uses Hank Pym’s Pym Particle device to restore
Tigra to her normal size; she tries to restore Tigra’s human consciousness by giving
her (and the reader) a detailed summary of her comic book history. But the
heroine is still badly injured and still acts like a cat, as instilled in her
by the Cat People. Believing only the Cat People can help her now, Agatha
Harkness summons the cat emissary Balkatar who turns out to be Tabur who knocks
Agatha cold and uses a special amulet to heal Tigra and restore her human
memories. She balks as she remembers Tabur was a bad guy; he explains that he
was once an enemy of the Cat People, being one of the High Evolutionary’s New
Men, but now he has conquered the Cat People and become their leader. And to
legitimize his rule, he wants to mate with Tigra. Ebony then attacks him and is
violently batted away and Agatha Harkness enters. Tigra decides Tabur is still
a bad guy and they fight. But Tigra is still weak from her ordeal and she
passes out. Agatha Harkness employs the cat amulet to transform Tabur into a
regular house cat. Tigra awakens to find she is now just human Greer Nelson;
Miss Harkness gives her the amulet, explaining that she can use it to become
Tigra whenever she wishes….


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Hurting Inside
Boomerang
bursts through a wall into the offices at Stark Enterprises, demanding (on
orders from his boss Justin Hammer) all surveillance tapes they have of the
Ghost in action. He severs the alarm, and is told that doing so automatically
summons Iron Man. Boomerang intimidates the staff, welcoming a bout with the
Golden Avenger but a mystery man in white (spoiler: it’s Loki) suddenly appears
through a shimmering wall to remind him that, even with allies, he has never
beaten Iron Man. The mystery man suggests an easier Avenger to battle….
Mockingbird
persuades Hawkeye to see a doctor about the bite he received from Mad-Dog but
the hero balks, distrustful of doctors. A simple test reveals that he has a
bladder infection and he is prescribed an antibiotic. Clint and Bobbie part
outside and a short time later, Hawkeye is under attack from Boomerang and his
multitude of trick boomerangs. The baddie starts hurling flamerangs,
endangering bystanders and property. Hawkeye uses a trick arrow to gum up
Boomerang’s jet-boots and tries to rescue the civilians. He fires a line to a
woman trapped on an upper floor of a burning building and as he is carrying her
down, Boomerang cuts his line and the two fall, only to be caught by
firefighters. Hawkeye entangles his foe in a big net arrow for the police but
the woman he rescued slaps his face, blaming Hawkeye for the disaster. He walks
off. abashed….
“Some
Assembly Required” 3.5/5Writer:
Dwayne McDuffie. Pencils: Dwayne Turner. Inks: Chris Ivy. Colors: Mike Rockwitz.
Letters: Jack Morelli.Synopsis:
Stingray searches the bottom of the Hudson River for the recently sunk
Hydrobase and Avengers Mansion, looking to see what can be salvaged. He
discovers that the room where giant robots have been kept in stasis is now
empty—and then he is hit from behind….
At
a pier above, several female Avengers are moving material that has already been
recovered when a distress call comes from Stingray. Firebird dives under the
water to investigate and she is almost immediately hurled back to the pier. The
Mad Thinker’s Awesome Android is active, having mimicked Stingray’s underwater
armor. Not thinking, Black Widow fires one of her Widow’s Bites at it and it
immediately fires a larger one back. She calls for assistance but most of the
Avengers are tied up with battles of their own. Only Monica Rambeau, Captain Marvel,
is available to come. Hellcat, Moondragon, and Firebird each try an
attack but they all fail—and the latter accidentally gives the Android her fire
powers. Captain Marvel arrives and salvages a stasis field projector, which,
powered by Firebird, shuts the Android down. But they are concerned about the
robots that are still missing and why Monica was the only Avenger available to
answer the distress call….


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Circle-T Killings Continue
Hawkeye
is the chief suspect in the Terminizer killings and he is mad. Mockingbird
points out that the mystery killer likely has a grudge against the Stone Perfs
and is someone familiar with gang culture….
The
next day is a mass funeral for the murdered Perfs; it is interrupted by a car
from the rival Mode Blanks firing on the crowd. Hawkeye and Mockingbird on the
Sky-Cycle overtake the car and Hawkeye fires a tear gas arrow sending the car
crashing into a huge monument. Bobbi jumps down and beats up all of the Blanks.
The Perfs arrive, intent on killing Hawkeye as they believe he is the Terminizer
but Police Detective Zamora brings a halt to the hostilities. He orders the
Perfs back to the funeral for their friends and tells the heroes that there are
no leads in the case. Hawkeye and Mockingbird wonder if the Terminizer could be
a cop….
Wounded
by his new boss Lotus Newmark (last issue), Prince Charming sees her shady
personal physician for care. Afterwards, he asks her right-hand-man Auggie
Slater why she should care about Prince; Slater explains that she thinks he has
potential and intends to show him how big Lotus’ organization really is….
In
the hospital, Anita Gutierrez tells Luis that she no longer blames Hawkeye for
the shooting and wants her son to cooperate with the Avenger if he hears
anything about the Terminizer, promising him a ride on the Sky-Cycle….
Prince
meets with Lotus and she asks him to prove his fitness for the organization by
luring the Stone Perfs into a trap for the Terminizer to kill them and perhaps
Hawkeye too. So word goes out for the Perfs to meet at an old quarry out of
town and the message goes to Luis and then to Hawkeye. Hawkeye and Mockingbird
are at the quarry that night, watching the Perfs gathered in one place and
waiting for the Terminizer to show….
“The
Xenophobic Man Part Three: Beliefs and Callings” 4/5Writer:
Fabian Nicieza. Pencils: Dan Lawlis. Inks: Keith Williams. Colors: Brad
Vancata. Letters: Janice Chiang.Synopsis:
U.S. Agent and the Border Patrol arrive at the hospital to find Officer Fred
Bouting has murdered the three surviving children and the nurse. Deducing that
Bouting forced the nurse to tell him where the Sanctuary Movement has its
headquarters, U.S. Agent and Captain Hitchuck take a helicopter out to the
church. The Agent hears gunfire and enters the building to find Bouting
standing among the bodies of those he has killed, confronting Father Grass and
a wounded girl. U.S. Agent fights the madman who is spouting anti-foreigner
rhetoric and is stabbed in the leg. Bouting pursues the priest carrying the
wounded girl and corners him in another room. U.S. Agent then arrives with
Bouting’s assault rifle and there is a tense standoff….


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Ashes
The
Stone Perfs are gathered in a quarry, unaware that they have been lured into a
trap by Lotus Newmark; Hawkeye and Mockingbird are watching from above,
expecting the vigilante killer Terminizer to attack. When he doesn’t show, the
two Avengers go into action. Mounted on the Sky-Cycle, Hawkeye fires several of
his trick arrows to terrorize and scatter the gang. Then a black helicopter
appears and drops incendiary bombs on the Perfs, killing them all. Hawkeye
follows the copter on the Sky-Cycle; Mockingbird leaps aboard the copter and
fights the bad guys, jumping back to the Cycle as the copter heads down to a
fiery crash. After they leave, Prince Charming, ex-Perf and minion of Lotus
Newmark, emerges from hiding and paints a large Circle T on the ground nearby,
symbol of the Terminizer, and disgusted with himself for betraying all of his
friends….
That
night, Clint is still upset over the carnage; the more cynical Bobbi comforts
him, pointing out that a vigilante like the Terminizer doesn’t seem likely to
have a helicopter, henchmen, and napalm….
Prince
reports back to Lotus who explains about the cost of business, as she doesn’t
care about the loss of a helicopter and henchmen. She seduces Price into
forgetting about his betrayal of his friends in the Stone Perfs….
Bobbi
advises a brooding Clint to concentrate on the one thing that worked to give
him hope….
Auggie
Slater takes Prince to a secret lab to show him that Lotus is preparing a
synthetic drug to take the place of cocaine in the streets….
Anita
Gutierrez is checking out of the hospital; Hawkeye stops by to give Luis the
ride on the Sky-Cycle he promised. On the way, Hawkeye informs the boy that the
Stone Perfs are all dead. It’s not clear whether the Terminizer is involved but
Hawkeye is determined to bring him to justice; Luis looks worried….
“The
Xenophobic Man Part Four: The Ends and the Means” 4/5Writer:
Fabian Nicieza. Pencils: Dan Lawlis. Inks: Keith Williams. Colors: Brad
Vancata. Letters: Janice Chiang.Synopsis:
There is a standoff in the church: U.S. Agent versus Officer Fred Bouting over
Father Grass and a wounded Mexican girl. Bouting fires, toppling the huge cross
onto the pews. The Agent and Bouting fight brutally with the Agent subduing his
foe. Then Father Grass tells him that the girl may be alive under the rubble.
U.S. Agent lifts the giant cross onto his back so the priest can pull her out
when the revived Bouting points his gun at U.S. Agent—and then Captain Hitchuck
guns the rogue cop down. They take the girl to the hospital but they know they have
only stopped this killer, more will come along….


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Cry Crusader!: Avengers Reborn Part 3 of 4
A
limousine carrying a lobbyist and his wife is lost in a bad section of
Washington, D.C. and is beset by a gang of robbers who drag the couple and
their chauffeur out into the street. Suddenly, Black Knight appears on his
flying horse Valinor and overpowers the crooks with the Ebony Blade and a lance
that fires bolos. When the police arrive, they take custody of the bad guys—and
also arrest Black Knight. At the station house, BK learns that he is a suspect
in the deaths of two petty crooks who robbed a church and ended up being killed
with a sword. A cop demands that BK unmask, despite Avengers protocol and only
relents when BK is ordered to a lineup with his mask on. He stands in the
lineup but the church’s minister cannot positively identify him so he is let
go. Victoria Bentley and Sean Dolan arrive in response to his phone call. The
cops apologize and give him back his sword and lance. Outside, Black Knight
mounts Valinor to fly off, leaving Victoria and Sean to return to the castle
without him….
When
Dane reaches home, he is in a bad mood and speaks rudely to his butler
Catherwood and lashing out at a suit of armor over the ordeal. Black Knight
then receives a visit from a Mrs. Eleanor Blackwood with her young daughter,
Jenny. She saw the story of Black Knight’s arrest on the news and came to tell
him that she thinks the culprit in the church murders is her husband Arthur.
She relates how Arthur Blackwood was a failed divinity student who had a vision
of his ancestors commanding him to go on a crusade against pagans, wielding a magic
sword and shield as the Crusader; he also fought Thor, an actual pagan god. Now
he has been speaking of killing the “Saracen” and his wife wants him to get
help. Dane thinks he knows what the Crusader is planning….
They
all hurry to Dulles International Airport where a Middle Eastern dignitary, the
Emil of Ghulistan, is arriving. As the plane lands, Crusader forces his way
past security, dashes up the ramp and into the plane, holding his sword to the Emir’s
throat, promising to kill him and all his family. But the Black Knight arrives
to stop him, speaking to him in Arthurian language, trying to persuade him to
halt but it doesn’t work; the man acts as though possessed but the Emir and
family are able to escape while BK has his foe occupied. Their duel spills out
onto the tarmac and a police sniper is able to get a bead on the Crusader but Eleanor
Blackwood pushes him so that he mises. As the Crusader is about to strike down
the Black Knight, Jenny runs out and stands between the two; Blackwood can’t
harm his beloved stepdaughter and draws back. BK tells him to give up the fight
for his daughter’s sake. Blackwood hurls his magic sword against his shield and
they shatter each other. As the police take Blackwood away, he tells BK that
seeing him willing to fight and even die for people he didn’t know shook him
out of his certainty. As they go, Dane tells Victoria that Arthur won a great
victory over himself and his fanaticism….


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A Show of Hands
Escaping
the Death Throws onto a rooftop, an unarmed Hawkeye comes face-to-face with his
archenemy Trick Shot, aiming an arrow at him. But Trick Shot turns out to be
there to help the hero, firing his arrows to disarm and immobilize Knicknack. TS
helps Hawkeye into an alley where he bandages his wounds and explains to the
hero why all of these familiar foes are suddenly after him. A mystery villain
has put a bounty on Clint’s arm; one of Hawkeye’s severed arms will bring a
hefty price to anyone who can deliver with the caveat that the reward is
forfeited if Hawkeye dies. Suspicious of Trick Shot’s motives, Hawkeye sneaks
off on his own when his rescuer’s back is turned and heads down into the
sewers. But he is unaware that he has been under surveillance and soon all of
the bad guys know where he is too. Hawkeye runs into the killer Razor-Fist who
is trying to kill him, having decided that the reputation of having killed an
Avenger is of much more value to him than the bounty for taking his arm. Hawkeye
uses a glue-type arrow to stick his opponent’s blades together and knock him
out. But then all of the other villains arrive, blocking the tunnels: the
Brothers Grimm, Mad-Dog, Bobcat, Bullet Biker, the Death Throws and, finally,
the villain who set the bounty: Crossfire….
“Waste
Not, Want Not” 3.5/5Writer:
Fabian Nicieza. Pencils: Gavin Curtis. Inks: Steve Buccellato. Colors: Steve
Buccellato. Letters: Richard Starkings.Synopsis:
Firebird is trapped by a motley group of aliens of different species who have
her suspended in a force field while they study her. They come to understand
her language and then survey her development from her recent adventures to her
association with the West Coast Avengers back to her encounter with a meteor of
cold fire that endowed her with her abilities to control heat energy and it is
this last that attracts the aliens’ concerted attention. She bursts free and
demands to know who they are and what they want from her. They explain that
they are SHIELD (Society of Higher Interstellar Education and Logistical
Development) and she is aboard their orbiter. They have been examining her and
have learned that her powers are the result of exposure to the carelessly
discarded remains of a young student’s failed science project. Firebird is
shattered, having believed that her powers were a gift from God and now she is
nothing. But in the weeks that followed she came to a greater understanding of
the complexity of her abilities and realized her powers were still from God but
by a rather circuitous route and now she is ready to fulfill her calling….


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Re/Vision: Avengers Reborn Part 4 of 4
The
Vision, having been reconfigured in WEST COAST AVENGERS #43-45 and left inhuman
and colorless, puts himself through a systems check and learns that everything
is working well except one: he lacks a purpose. He goes to speak to Captain America
about the matter but finds Cap just leaving with Sersi for a charity
auction. Vision asks Jarvis if any other Avengers are at the mansion that
evening and there are not. His eye falls on a newspaper and sees Ann Landers’
advice column and has an idea….
Vision
visits the lab of AI expert Miles Lipton and asks him for help in solving the
problem of purpose. After some discussion, Lipton notices Vision going into a
fugue state briefly. Lipton creates a holographic image inducer for Vision to
wear so he can mingle with humans unawares and observe how they behave….
One
week later, Miles Lipton explains to his daughter-in-law Nancy that he has had
no success in tying the murder of his son Alex, her husband, to the Roxxon
Corporation; she advises him to stop the search, fearing losing him too. They
encounter Vision, in a human form called Victor Shade, and he goes off with
Lipton. Vision explains that he has attended religious services, a sports bar,
the movies, and other human activities. He goes into the fugue state again and
this time Lipton records Vision’s internal workings. After analysis, Lipton
discovers that Vision’s troubles stem from the lack of a human template for his
operating system, having lost that of Simon Williams in his overhaul. Lipton prepares
to install the brain pattern of his son Alex into Vision in sleep mode—but then
they are visited by Roxxon thugs, who know that Lipton has been hacking
Roxxon’s mainframe for evidence of his son’s murder. They take Lipton and the
unconscious Vision to the Roxxon building where they demand Lipton reprogram
Vision to serve them, leaving him alone with one guard. Lipton downloads Alex’s
brain pattern into Vision who comes online without a hitch. Vision then
occupies the body of the sleeping guard and when the other thugs return, he
beats them up, switching from body to body as necessary. He seizes onto the
leader and forces him to confess to the murder of Alex Lipton, Vision’s
memories being admissible as evidence in a court of law.
Epilogue:
Nancy Lipton is so happy that Alex’s killers have been brought to justice that
she invites Miles and Victor Shade to a baseball game. The next evening, Jarvis
apologizes for having been dismissive of Vision’s concerns the previous week.
Vision assures him no harm was done and excuses himself to attend a ball game,
confusing Jarvis….


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Bitter Pill
For
a month Hawkeye has been trying to track down who ordered the mass murder of
the Stone Perfs gang (issue #34). As we open, Hawkeye has caught several
members of the rival Mode Blanks torching the Perfs’ vacant clubhouse. As the
place burns he beats up all the Blanks, while delivering a lecture on the hard
life of a gang members. He bullies the last conscious guy into helping him drag
the unconscious ones to safety….

Lotus Newmark takes her new lackey Prince Charming, the last surviving member of the
Stone Perfs, to her luxurious mansion in the suburbs. In her office, he spots
two severed fingers in a glass case so Lotus tells him her life story….
Her
father ran a sweatshop in Hong Kong, doing business in Los Angeles; then her
mother was struck and killed by a car and Dad began to go downhill, gambling
every night and racking up huge debts to the mob. One night a band of mob big
shots led by Li Fong came to collect; they offered him a choice between having
two of his fingers cut off or his daughter taken by the mob. Cowardly Dad chose
the latter. Lotus was educated, trained in martial arts, and prepared to be a
gangster while also becoming Li Fong’s mistress. When she reached her full
maturity, Li Fong gave Lotus her freedom—and she chose to take revenge against
her father, taking his two fingers and then killing him. And now she’s a big
shot gangster in America….
The
following day, Clint and Bobbi, in their civilian clothes, take the Gutierrez
family out to a café al fresco to celebrate Luis’ birthday. And then the boy
recognizes Prince walking down the street and points him out to Clint as a
Stone Perf. Clint seizes Prince, questioning him about the massacre of the
Perfs. Prince draws a gun and starts shooting and Luis’ sister Anita is killed.
Prince is about to shoot Clint when the police arrive so the baddie hijacks
Clint’s Sky-Cycle and takes off. Prince heads to Lotus’ mansion but she is
angry at his acting like an idiot and probably drawing the Avengers’ attention
to her; she orders him out of her life for good….
U.S.
Agent delivers Clint his bow and arrows and another Sky-Cycle and the hero tracks
down and overtakes Prince. There is a fight on a rooftop with Clint growing
increasingly angry but Prince gets the drop on him, intending to kill him.
Suddenly, the Terminizer guns the baddie down, revealing himself to be a little
boy with a cloth hiding his face. Clint knows it’s Luis but doesn’t want him to
unmask, preferring to keep his illusions….
That
night, Hawkeye tells Mockingbird and U.S. Agent that he saw the Terminizer and
chose to let him get away. Agent knows he must have had a reason and
Mockingbird hopes he will tell her someday but Hawkeye says it won’t be for
another ten years and even then depending on whether the Terminizer is still
alive….


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Interlude in a Peaceable Kingdom: Avengers Reborn Part One of Four
An
amnesiac Doctor Druid and Kang-Nebula are living in an earthly paradise where the
lion literally lies down with the lamb, content in the love but tormented by
nightmares of a different world. They decide to merge their minds to break
through to reality. First, Doctor Druid sees his way back to his visit to the
dying Lama who granted him his powers and he regains his memory. He then
recalls how he joined the Avengers and Nebula, murdering a Kang and taking his
place, capturing the minds of Thor, She-Hulk, Black Knight, and Druid, trying
to recover an ancient weapon. It all went wrong and Druid and Nebula were cast
into this world of their own where they fell in love and created an Eden of
their own. And so she remembers that she is evil, energizes her powers and
blasts him, revealing that his love was only her manipulation. She teleports
them to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1961, using her Kang powers to enclose the city in
a time bubble. She demonstrates her ability to ward off any of his attacks,
reminding him also that in 1961 there were no superheroes to come to his aid. Nebula
plans to use her anti-time powers to turn back the clock and conquer the world.
And she tosses him to Tibet to get her out of her hair…
…but
Druid discovers that he is in the right place and time to meet the Lama which
changed his life. Only now the Lama reveals himself as the Ancient One and
states that his empowerment of Doctor Druid was a test run for when Stephen
Strange arrives. Elated to learn that he is a forerunner of the mighty Sorcerer
Supreme, Druid now has the confidence to combat Nebula. He rushes back to
Nebraska and swipes some artifacts from a museum and undergoes a Druidic rite
to draw on the power of the three Mother Goddesses of War. In the city, Nebula
is busy tormenting the citizens by messing around with their ages when Druid
appears, actually three Dr. Druids—one young, one middle-aged, and one old. The
three team up to remove her anti-time power and use it against her so that she
begins to shift in age before she disappears into time. And now the three
Druids become one, the young one, in 1990 and Dr. Druid is happy to have his
hair back….


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Hit and Run
Late
one night in Avengers Compound, U.S. Agent discovers a stranger working on
Hawkeye’s Sky-Cycle. The Agent attacks him—and learns that it is Hawkeye,
testing out a disguise for his new mission against the city’s gangs. They go
into the house where Clint is caught by Bobbi and has to explain….
At
the home of the Gutierrez family, there is a late-night knock at the door and
mother Anita opens it to find a warning note from the Stone Perfs street
gang—and then gunshots are fired through the window, striking Anita but missing
the kids; Luis hastily calls 911….
Detective
Zamora calls Clint with the news. Clint tells Mockingbird that this is the
mother of the boy who called 911 when Hawkeye was shot last issue. Mockingbird
tries to tell him the problem is too big for their kind of heroism but he walks
out. Hawkeye visits Mrs. Gutierrez in the hospital but she blames him for
everything that has happened to her family. In the hallway, Luis assures him
that his mother is only frightened but Hawkeye advises the kid to stay out of
danger. Luis responds that he can take care of himself….
Stone
Perfs gang member Prince Charming is bailed out of jail by a big-shot lawyer
and delivered to crime boss Lotus Newmark. Lotus hires a hostile and reluctant
Prince to chauffeur out-of-town hit-man Reynaldo Cortazar on his mission to
kill Hawkeye….
That
night, Hawkeye patrols the downtown, missing Luis purchasing something from a
shady dealer in the street. Clint does spot a van matching the description of
the one driven by the bad guys and jets down for a closer look. A bright light
shines in his face, blinding him, and his Sky-Cycle collides with an oncoming
car. Cortazar emerges, firing a huge gun at Hawkeye. The archer responds with
an explosive arrow which destroys the gun and knocks Cortazar down. Hawkeye
turns him over to see if he is all right only for the bad guy to point a gun at
Hawkeye’s face from point blank range. Then Cortazar is shot in the head and
Hawkeye looks up to see a mysterious figure on a rooftop flee into the night….
“The
Xenophobic Man Part One: Rocks & Hard Places” 4/5Writer:
Fabian Nicieza. Pencils: Dan Lawlis. Inks: Keith Williams. Colors: Brad Vancata.
Letters: Janice Chiang.Synopsis:
A group of Mexicans quietly crosses the Southern border in the dead of night,
only to be ambushed by a gunman who opens fire on them killing most. But U.S. Agent
is there and he manages to rescue three little kids; he tries to pursue
the villain but decides the kids come first….
The
gunman heads home, wondering who that was. It wasn’t Captain America because he
thinks Cap would be on his side, trying to keep illegal aliens out of the
country. He undresses and dons a uniform with a badge….
U.S.
Agent has been sent to stop the madman who is killing illegal aliens as they
cross the border and he is arguing with Captain Hitchuck of the Border Patrol,
whose job it is to stop the border crossings but he is severely understaffed. He
insists U.S. Agent doesn’t understand the situation and the higher ups don’t
really want the problem solved as the killer has slowed the rate of influx more
than the Border Patrol has. A nurse at the hospital slips Walker the name of
someone who can help. He goes to a church late at night to find the sanctuary
movement only to be surrounded by men with guns, led by a priest….


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Tales From the Vault—Acts of Vengeance Prologue
The
supervillain known as the Wizard is taken to the Vault, the maximum security
prison for superhuman criminals. Guardsman Frank Ensign is assigned to escort
him to his cell and explain the rules of the establishment. Once in his cell,
Wizard discovers another, disguised person there (spoiler: it’s Loki); the
one-sided conversation is picked up by the monitors and Frank goes over to
investigate. He discovers the Wizard in his gadget-laden costume able to fight
back. Wizard defeats Frank and releases all the prisoners from their cells; the
Guardsmen head to the scene only to come face-to-face with a formidable gang
including Mr. Hyde, Armadillo, Electro, and Scarecrow. In the office they
discover the cables to the power plant have been cut and the silent alarms have
been disabled. An automatic call to the Avengers has, unknown to anyone at the
Vault, been diverted to the offices of Damage Control. Frank is able to repair
his helmet radio and send a message to the Avengers, which is picked up by
Peggy Carter, before he passes out again….
“Tales
From the Vault Part 2”Writer:
Dwayne McDuffie. Pencils: Dwayne Turner. Inks: Chris Ivy. Colors: Paul Becton.
Letters: Jack Morelli.Synopsis:
Iron Man is the first Avenger to arrive at the Vault and immediately finds
himself grappling with a scaled-down Orka. Defeating the baddie, he turns on
the master power switch and sees the carnage left by the prisoners’ revolt.…
Meanwhile,
Hawkeye breaks into the control room to find three staff members barricaded
inside. He escorts them safely out of the building before returning to search
the prison where he encounters Iron Man and immediately assumes that Shellhead
is responsible for the breakout, recalling his attack on the building during
the Armor Wars. Iron Man tries to cover up, claiming that he is a new hire,
replacing the previous Shellhead but Hawkeye knows that it’s Tony Stark both
times. Finally, Clint makes him so mad, he presses his gauntlet with the
repulsor ray against Hawkeye’s face and tells him to help rescue the Guardsmen
or not. Iron Man tears up a huge section of the floor and they put all of the
wounded Guardsmen on it as a makeshift stretcher while Hawkeye continues to harass
Shellhead about his responsibility for the breakout. When Shellhead lifts the
giant stretcher, Hawkeye is seized from behind by the Scarecrow, holding a
knife to his throat and demanding to be shown the way out. Hawkeye flips him
and aims an arrow at this heart to force the baddie to lock himself into a
cell. Hawkeye uses an explosive arrow to blow the wall out of the building but
only succeeds in awakening the giant Yetrigar. They make it outside and Iron
Man remotely closes and seals all cell doors until more Avengers arrive.
Hawkeye tests an electro-magnetic pulse arrow developed by Hank Pym. He fires
it and it completely shuts down all electronic devices in the immediate area,
including Iron Man’s armor and his own hearing aids….


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Terminizer!
Police
Detective Zamora updates Hawkeye and Mockingbird on the results of the latest
investigation. Hit-man Reynaldo Cortazar was killed by a mysterious gunman who
left a symbol, a T in a circle, at the scene. Cortazar’s presence indicates
that the Stone Perfs gang is working for a much larger organization with
connections; “Circle T” is a wild card. Zamora warns Hawkeye that if he is
going to continue his anti-gang crusade, he will need clearer objectives and a
set of tactics if he wants to avoid dying. After he leaves, Mockingbird give
her own speech on why Hawkeye needs to be more careful….
Meanwhile
to the underworld, “Circle T” reveals himself to be the Terminizer, gunning
down Stone Perf punks on the streets of LA….

Lotus Newmark gives Prince Charming his orders and also a lesson on why he should
respect her. She catches him leering behind her back and she easily beats him
up with smooth martial arts moves, leaving a gash in his abdomen as a
reminder….
Hawkeye
patrols the streets at night, wondering whether there is any solution to the
gang/drug problem, unaware that the Terminizer is watching him. Hawkeye spies two
muggers robbing a young woman so he heads down and subdues them. The woman does
not want to call the police as she is afraid of retaliation by the gangs so
Hawkeye leaves them bound in the alley. But after the Avenger leaves, the
Terminizer shows up and executes the two helpless bad guys and leaves his mark
on the wall beside them….
Over
the next several hours, Hawkeye pursues his new strategy of constantly
harassing the gang members, unaware that the Terminizer always appears minutes
later to shoot the Stone Perfs. The next morning, Clint and Bobbi are talking
about his new strategy when they are interrupted by Wonder Man, calling their
attention to a news report on the TV. Discovering that gang members he has
subdued are being murdered, he is shocked….
“The
Xenophobic Man Part Two: Methods and Standards” 3/5Writer:
Fabian Nicieza. Pencils: Dan Lawlis. Inks: Keith Williams. Colors: Brad
Vancata. Letters: Janice Chiang.Synopsis:
On a late night visit to a church, U.S. Agent is surrounded by men with guns.
He beats them all up and then tells Father Kevin Grass he is trying to stop the
man killing illegal immigrants. Father Grass tells him they are on the same
side and the fight was unnecessary. The priest takes him to a secret basement
where he shows U.S. Agent what the Sanctuary Movement is doing—protecting
illegal immigrants. Father Grass reveals that the Sanctuary people were not
involved in the deadly crossing the night before (last issue)—but they called
the Border Patrol about it and they did nothing to protect the Mexicans….
U.S.
Agent returns to the Patrol headquarters where he beats up Captain Hitchuck,
accusing him of working with the killer. Hitchuck asks who was on switchboard
duty the night before; he is told it was Officer Fred Bouting who is now at the
hospital…
…where
the killer is threatening to shoot a Mexican boy to force the nurse to reveal
the headquarters of the Sanctuary Movement. She tells him the name of the
church—and he fires….


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Forewarned is Disarmed!
Hawkeye,
wounded and bowless, is trapped in the sewer by the main villain Crossfire and
the legion of bad guys he has recruited against the heroic archer with his
bounty on Clint’s arm: Mad-Dog, Bobcat, Death Throws, Bullet Biker,
Brothers Grimm, and Razor-Fist. Crossfire is enraged that the “weakest Avenger” has
beaten him on two occasions and so wants to shoot the hero but then he wouldn’t
suffer. So he turns him over to the assembled bad guys, one of whom will take
his arm and earn the bounty while Dr. Steinmetz, the phony marriage counsellor,
is standing by to prevent Hawkeye from bleeding out after the amputation.
Hawkeye is surrounded but then a light shines from above, a bow drops at his
feet, and Mockingbird and Trick Shot also come down to join him. While the
three good guys clobber the mass of villains, Bobbi explains how they used the
tracking device Steinmetz planted on Clint to find him and come to his rescue.
Crossfire flees, Hawkeye pursues and corners him on the edge of a spillway—but
Hawkeye is out of arrows. So Hawkeye throws his bow, disarming the baddie and
knocking him over the edge. Crossfire grabs on and Hawkeye leaves him wondering
is he’s going to let his foe fall to his death before rescuing him….
As
the police take away the villains, Trick Shot explains to Hawkeye that his
cancer is in remission and he is trying to turn over a new leaf. Hawkeye and
Mockingbird finally reconcile after their long estrangement….
“Best
Seller!” 5/5Writer:
Glenn Herdling, Dwight Jon Zimmerman. Pencils: Rod Ramos. Inks: Don Hudson.
Colors: Sara Tuchiasky. Letters: Don Hudson.Synopsis:
Rick Jones is publishing his memoirs and he (and his pal Betty Banner) are
staying at the condo of the sexy Veronica who, after a night of romance, is
hoping Rick will sign her as his agent. But they are interrupted by a visitor
named Kholdsor, who claims to be a Skrull and he is offering an exorbitant
reward for selling publishing rights for his memoir to the Skrulls. When Rick
doubts his story, Kholdsor pulls a ray gun but Rick disarms him and throws him
out. Veronica suggests they leave quickly as more quirky aliens after Rick’s
book arrive via window, toilet, and a hole smashed in the wall, some nice, some
nasty. After fighting them all off, Rick, Betty, and Veronica depart, only to
be beamed aboard a spaceship where representatives of hundreds of alien races
are prepared to bid for Rick’s memoirs. The auctioneer Beppe III apologizes for
the aliens who have tried to contact Rick in advance of the auction—including Veronica,
secretly Major Vron-Ikka of the Kree. Rick hands the manuscript over to Beppe
who posts the relevant section on the end of the Kree-Skrull War for the
assembled bidders to examine. But it turns out that the aliens all wanted the
secret of how Rick Jones ended the War—but he doesn’t know himself so the
memoir is worthless to the assembled aliens. Rick and Betty are sent home where
Rick receives a visit from his musical agent Mordecai P. Boggs, offering a
contract for his book. Then the phones rings—and the receiver turns out to be a
Poppupian inquiring after the movie rights…..


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Tooth & Nail and Hammer and Bullet and Chainsaw—!!
Hawkeye,
surrounded by Mad-Dog and Bobcat, gains a reprieve when the two villains start
fighting over him. Poisoned by Mad-Dog, Clint gets away, stopping the baddies
with a teargas arrow but he is unable to locate his Sky-Cycle and so must find
his own way out of the neighborhood. Dr. Steinmetz, working with the baddies,
is keeping him under surveillance from his office window. Getting away from the
bad guys, Hawkeye finds himself under attack by the Bullet Biker who has a
grudge against the hero. A grenade tossed by the baddie detonates, destroying
Hawkeye’s bow so he clobbers the Biker with a trash can lid. A few blocks away,
he is surrounded by the Death Throws: Ringleader, Knicknack, Tenpin, Oddball,
and Bombshell. He climbs a telephone pole and drops an explosive arrow,
scattering his foes. He tosses a cable arrow to reach a nearby rooftop only to
come face-to-face with Trick Shot….
“Second
Debut” 4/5Writer:
John Byrne. Plot: John Byrne, Kieron Dwyer, Pencils: Kieron Dwyer. Inks: Karl
Kesel. Colors: Kieron Dwyer. Letters: Phil Felix.Synopsis:
The new, colorless, emotionless Vision arrives in Los Angeles and immediately
witnesses a trio of crooks called Smog Alert robbing an armored car using their
weapons that fire a noxious gas. Vision intervenes, takes down the crooks,
rescues a sexy hostage, informs the police of his identity, and departs on his
mission, all following his programming for guidance on how to behave. Having
confused the police with his altered appearance he scans his memory banks on
the most efficient means of informing the public of his new visage. To address
the largest number of people at once, he invades the taping of the TONIGHT
SHOW, surprising host Johnny Carson and his guests, singer-dancer Charo and
comedian Pee-wee Herman. The celebrities’ jokes and banter confuse him but he
explains that he is the familiar Vision known from Avengers history….
That
night, fellow Avengers U.S. Agent, Scarlet Witch, Tigra, Wonder Man, Wasp, and
Hank Pym laugh hysterically at their teammate’s absurd appearance on national
television….


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Hawkeye
arrives at his meeting with Mockingbird a little late, leaving his Sky-Cycle
parked outside. He is annoyed that she chose a marriage counselor so far away
from Avengers Compound while she is miffed that he insisted that they do this
in costume. Dr. Steinmetz interrupts and invites them into his office to begin
but they are attacked by the Brothers Grimm tossing an explosive egg through
the window. Mockingbird is tied up fighting a pie full of blackbirds while
Hawkeye takes it outside. He and Mockingbird reunite against the twin baddies
on the roof and the Grimms let slip that there is a contract out on Clint. Bobbi
is paralyzed by nerve gas. Hawkeye sets a trap for the Grimms: by pretending to
fall over the edge under a cloud of smoke, he gets above them and ropes them
up—but then the archer is attacked by Mad-Dog. The vicious villain bites Hawkeye
on the arm, poisoning him; they fall over the edge and land on a car roof—then
suddenly Mad-Dog is pushed away and Hawkeye finds himself trapped between
Mad-Dog and Bobcat….
“Once,
There Was a Swordsman…!”  4/5Writer:
Lou Mougin. Pencils: Don Heck. Inks: Don Heck, Jose Marzan, Jr. Colors: Paul
Becton. Letters: Joe Rosen.Synopsis:
Hawkeye gathers Scarlet Witch, Vision, and Wonder Man to show them the FBI’s
tape of their interview with the Swordsman, the only record of his true origin…
In
the tape, Swordsman gives his name as Jacques Duquesne, son of Armand Duquesne,
government official in the French Protectorate of Sin-Cong in Southeast Asia.
When he turned 18, his father told him they were the descendants of WW1 hero
the Crimson Cavalier and Armand presented Jacques with the Cavalier’s sword. Disgusted
with how the French (including his father) treat the country’s natives, Jacques
joined the local revolutionary group and as the masked fighter calling himself
the Swordsman he took part in military missions against the French oppressors.
Jacques had cut a deal with rebel leader Wong-Chu that if he aided in the fight
for independence, Wong-Chu would allow him and his father to leave the country
unharmed. When independence was achieved and the war concluded, Wong-Chu
presented Jacques with the corpse of his father, murdered the previous year by his
servants. Wong-Chu then ordered his men to kill Jacques but the Swordsman seized
Wong-Chu as a hostage and fought his way out, cursing himself for an idealist
who was really a tool of another tyrant. Leaving the nation, the embittered
Jacques became a mercenary and a thief before becoming an Avenger. When the
tape ends, they all leave in a somber mood, Hawkeye planning to tape a
basketball game over it….


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What’s the Point?
Hawkeye
is summoned to the hospital at the request of filmmaker Aaron “Dollar Bill”
English, who was hoping for Daredevil. Bill shows him a videotape of his cable
TV show featuring the demented menace Madcap; while Madcap was going into his
act, creating chaos and preaching that life is meaningless, he was kidnapped by
the hoods known as the Power Tools who beat up Bill and got away. Bill wants
Hawkeye to rescue Madcap because they have a syndication deal in the works….
Hawkeye
traces the license plate on the baddies’ truck (clearly visible in the
videotape) to a punk bar called Scuzz. He is dropped though the floor into the
basement where he finds the Power Tools guarding the captive Madcap. The two
heroes beat up the bad guys and Hawkeye reveals the villain behind the scheme:
Dr. Karl Malus, who really wanted Daredevil so he could learn his secrets along
with finding the source of Madcap’s invulnerability. Malus sets the
self-destruct timer and flees, along with the other bad guys. Hawkeye flees but
Madcap is still in the building when the bomb detonates. Hawkeye is sad—until
Madcap comes rushing out, unharmed and looking for Dr. Malus, whose torture
device he wants more of….
“Tales
from the Vault (Conclusion)” 4/5Writer:
Dwayne McDuffie. Pencils: Dwayne Turner. Inks: Chris Ivy. Colors: Mike
Rockwitz. Letters: Rick Parker.Synopsis:
Iron Man is at the Vault, training the Guardsmen in the use of their new
Stark-designed armor, replacing the failed Stane version. The Avengers and
other heroes are returning captive bad guys from the mass escape some time
earlier. When the prisoners are locked up again and the heroes have left, the
Wizard is brought in; Iron Man falls prey to a trap, as the Wizard is there to
help Klaw escape. Klaw creates a pair of giant rhinoceroses out of sound waves
to clobber the hero. Shellhead takes a few minutes to broadcast the right
frequency to dispel the Rhinos—and then Klaw. Guardsman Prime asks to take on
the Wizard and, using all of the defensive weapons built into the new armor as
well as his fists, he beats down the baddie and unmasks to reveal himself to be
Frank Ensign, whom Wizard nearly killed during the breakout in issue #26. And
now the Vault is secure again….


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Recovering
from serious illness, Gilgamesh of the Eternals spends his days cleaning up the
debris from Olympia while his pal Sprite tries to get him to relax and enjoy
life for a change, even gaining the recognition for his heroism always denied
him. Gil agrees though with reservations (and threats against Sprite should
anything go wrong). Sprite teleports them to Paris, giving them modern clothing
to blend in, though Gil discards the hat which reeks of garlic….
In
the Latin Quarter, they witness the robbery of a cash exchange. Gil intervenes
and subdues the criminals. The news media arrives—and attributes the heroism of
the day to soap opera actor Jean-Paul Beltootho, who just sits there smiling. Sprite
wants to take vengeance on the actor but Gil restrains him….
Near
the Eiffel Tower, a prehistoric enemy of Gil’s whom he doesn’t remember
suddenly appears. B’Gon the Sorcerer has spent the millennia since his defeat
by Gilgamesh building his power and assembling an army of dragons for just this
day when he can overcome his enemy and conquer the world. Gil takes down
several dragons in a series of skirmishes but B’Gon’s threats to attack humans
sends Gil into a rage and he beats the sorcerer in his dragon form. Gil herds
the dragons into a western-style cattle roundup but B’Gon awakens and teleports
them all away, leaving Gil to plummet from the skies. Suddenly, Captain America
flies up and catches Gil and lowers him safely to Earth. Cap, actually Sprite
in disguise, loudly sings the praises of the hero Gilgamesh in his exploits
against the marauding monsters, making sure the Eternal hero gains the glory
her deserves….
The
next day, however, the Daily Bugle reports that Gilgamesh went on a mad
rampage in Paris and Captain America swooped in to save the day. Gil is angry
but Sprite points out that for the first time, the world got his name right and
spelled correctly. It’s a start so Gil smiles for the first time in a long
time….


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A space probe lands on Earth’s moon and is recovered by the Kree warrior force stationed in the Blue Zone. It brings news of the Empire’s devastation and summarizes the events of Operation: Galactic Storm and the Avengers’ role in it. The Kree vow revenge and study their files on the Avengers and their allies.Epilogue: the Vision has detected the probe and warns Crystal that this could mean trouble for the Avengers.Additional info: the recap of Galactic Storm is titled "Galactic Mourning" and consists of text by Cefn Ridout against computer-generated backgrounds by Dave Hornsby. The Avengers files is a portrait gallery by various artists. Avengers: Vision, Crystal, Giant Man, Deathcry, Black Widow, Hercules, Black Knight, Sersi, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Thunderstrike. Allies: Force Works, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Inhumans, Shi’ar Imperial Guard.


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This issue begins in the future on the Badoon homeworld Moord where Iron Lad (Nathaniel Richards) is attacking his future self Kang who has just slaughtered the population. IL has sworn to free all the worlds Kang has Conquered and kill every alternate version of Kang, including this 1. But the Avengers are here to stop him. And they're the grown-up Young Avengers (Captain America (Elijah Bradley), Captain Marvel (Ted Altman), Hawkeye (Katherine Bishop), Quicksilver (Tom Shepherd), Stinger (Cassandra Lang) and Vision (Jonas)).More surprises come thick and fast. 2 extra Avengers are Falcon (Eli's wife Samantha Wilson-Bradley) and Bucky (their son Steve). Stinger and Kang are an item. (Well, Cassie and Nathaniel *were* in love before he left the YA.) IL wonders what happened to Cassie's relationship with Vision, but Jonas says he deleted his emotions. Kate and Tom are also involved, and Kate is pregnant with twins. And they're all in the timestream hiding from the 'real' Avengers.Kang explains that their attempt to rescue the Scarlet Witch (in the main Children's Crusade series) led to war with the Avengers. Kang led them in escaping into the timestream, and now they roam the timelines doing whatever needs to be done - including wiping out the mass-murdering Brotherhood Of The Badoon. Iron Lad says this makes them just as bad as the Badoon. Eli reminds him that they became the Young Avengers after the Avengers had given up, disbanded after Avengers Disassembled, to fill the gap and do what their elders wouldn't. IL reminds *them* that the reason *he* founded the YA was to defeat Kang (and stop himself from becoming him).Most of the rest of the issue is a flashback to the earliest days of the team (before YA#1), before Cassie, Kate, Tommy and Vision joined them.The 4 lads are in a sub-basement of the abandoned, ruined Avengers Mansion. Iron Lad has created holograms of villains for he, Asgardian (Billy Kaplan), Hulkling (Teddy Altman) and Patriot (Eli Bradley) to fight. This bunch of villains is Spider-Man's old foes the Sinister Six (Dr Octopus, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Mysterio, Sandman and Vulture). They defeat 5 of them but then IL freezes when Mysterio imitates Kang - but Hulkling just knocks him out.Billy and Teddy are going on a date night (I didn't think they were actually in a relationship at this time) and Eli is going with them. They persuade Nathaniel to accompany them. Nat confesses that he was a science and comics geek in the 30th Century and didn't get to go out with girls. On the way they pass a girl who Eli is immediately attracted to. (We know that it's Kate Bishop ringing her sister about preparations for the wedding in YA#1.) But an electric storm and a blackout distract them.It's the real Electro causing havoc. The 4 dash in but electric bolts drive them back until Asgardian magics up a forcefield. Then Nathaniel screws up his courage and dives on the villain, absorbing his electrical energy into his future-tech armour. There's a big bang and Electro is down, but Iron Lad also needs holding up. But the baddie may be down but he's not out, and he too can absorb energy. He grabs IL and takes all the energy back, and then tosses the body to the others. Electro then goes back to whatever he was doing before. Billy applies CPR and Nate is back with them. But instead of tackling the villain again they go to save people in a building Electro's blasts have set afire. (This is the fire that is reported on in the Daily Bugle at the start of YA#1.)Back in the future Iron Lad says that this event turned their attention from defeating Kang to protecting civilians. But Kang reminds him that they didn't stop Electro, who went on the to free loads of super-villains (in New Avengers #1). IL counters that the prison break sparked the re-formation of the Avengers. Kang says that those same Avengers killed Billy and the Scarlet Witch, and only his own intervention allowed the rest of the team to escape.Iron Lad swears to go back in time and prevent that disaster. Kang says he may well succeed, but every change he makes to history has been bringing him closer to becoming the Kang he hates. He sets off in a time craft.After he's gone Billy Kaplan makes himself visible in the robes of the Sorcerer Supreme. Kang lied about the Avengers killing him. But now what happens in the past (Children's Crusade #4-9) *will* cause Nathaniel to become Kang. And he will destroy the Avengers forever.


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Asgard confidential (conclusion)
Last issue Valkyrie (Runa) brought Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) to Asgard to investigate the disappearance of Thor and some objects mad of Uru metal. PI detective work plus consulting an expert suggested that an Uru-eating space parasite was the culprit. The duo tracked it to a dark cave system but were confronted by Thor wielding Mjolnir and an axe, and covered in the trademark slime of the parasite. And the Thunder God doesn't seem to be himself.Thor's hand and gaping mouth projects tentacles to consume the hammer, so Hawkeye shoots an arrow through the hand making it drop it. Thor produces more tentacles from all over to attack the females with, so Valkyrie starts chopping them off. A tentacle knocks Kate into a chasm, followed by Runa who breaks an arm. From somewhere Val produces a rope to bind her arm up with and Hawkeye ties more of it to an arrow, shoots the arrow to the surface and climbs up the rope.Thor is trying unsuccessfully to resist the parasite and manages to tell Kate to use a flaming torch which Runa dropped. She thrusts it at Thor and the dark/damp-loving space-thing screams as it escapes from his body. And screams again when he incinerates it with lightning. The body disintegrates leaving Asgard's sacred Uru objects unfortunately broken into pieces.Runa climbs out of the hole to join them and they return to Asgard with the artefacts. Later the 3 celebrate their victory while some puzzle-loving Asgardians set about reconstructing the objects. Thor suggests Kate stay here as the only PI in Asgard. Runa agrees, and Kate is tempted.


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Asgard confidential (part 1)
Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) can't resist the opportunity to visit Asgard when the Valkyrie Runa asks her to help in an investigation, even though it's way out of her PI comfort zone. Besides she's owes Runa for saving her and America Chavez from some ghost-earthworms. Asgardians look at her askance as her guide leads her to the 1st of many crime scenes where objects made of Uru metal have been stolen. As she examines the room Kate finds traces of glowing slime. Then they visit Thor's bedroom from where he disappeared a few days ago along with his hammer Mjolnir and an axe, and Hawkeye finds more ooze.Kate tries to phone a friend but Asgard doesn't get mobile reception. However Runa takes her to their communications centre where she contacts the tree-being Groot. But 1st she has to apologise to him for taking 1 of his branches to use as an arrow. He seems to accept her apology and she describes the goo to him. His 'groots' convey that he knows of a space parasite that eats Uru, and it likes cold, damp, dark places.Runa now takes Kate to a nearby cave system where she swears to disembowel the creature if necessary to retrieve the sacred Asgardian objects. They come across a few of them lying around. Then there's a loud roar and they're confronted by Thor and his 2 weapons, but covered in glowing slime.


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Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) has been captured by the Controller; once his disc is
on the back of her neck, he controls everything she does, though she is awake
and aware of it all. He tests the disc first by grinding his cigar in the palm
of her hand and then by kissing her. She reacts to neither so he sends her out
to bring back the broken body of the other Captain Marvel….
On
Titan, Genis-Vell broods about his legacy from a father he never knew. His
uncle Eros a/k/a Starfox tells him about his father Mar-Vell and take shim out
to a classy club called the Cockaigne Lounge for drinks and companionship. Eros
attracts two gorgeous women; when he excuses himself to go to the restroom,
Monica is there in an evening gown; she blasts him and heads back to the table.
She casts an illusion over Genis, causing him to see the young ladies as
wretched hags so Monica, following the Controllers, prompting, takes Genis back
to his place where she attacks him, rendering him unconscious….
She
carries him back to Earth but he wakes up in transit and uses his Nega-Bands to
cause an explosion, leading them to a fight on the ground. She secretly summons
the Avengers, reaching an apathetic Deathcry who thinks it’s a prank. Vision
drags her to Monica’s aid they arrive just as Monica is knocked cold by Genis’
attacks. They fight with him until Starfox shows up to explain. He offers to
stimulate CM’s pleasure sensors so that she reveals what is going on. So she
blasts him with x-rays, which stops Starfox but allow everyone to see the chip
on her head. Vision removes it and the heroes attack the Controller in his
lair. Monica is offered the chance to punish the Controller…but she realized he
is under someone else’s control….
As
they leave, Genis suggests that Monica better deserves the mantle of Captain
Marvel. But Monica tells him the name is his legacy and announces her new name is
Photon….


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Last issue ended with Sub-Mariner's attack on the Avengers in Wakanda with a tidal wave and his Atlantean troops. This issue describes that attack.Lei Kung had created a portal to K'un Lun, and Hope Summers and Wolverine went through it. Now Iron Man takes Lei Kung to follow them, telling him to close the portal behind them, lest the Atlanteans find the way. His parting words to Captain America are to use their 'secret weapon'. Black Panther and Iron Fist are left behind with some Wakandan spear carriers (well, advanced weapon carriers).Cap heads off with the others, supposedly to talk sense into his old friend Namor (but he never gets much chance to do that). Along the way he points out that this attack on innocent Wakandan civilians with water and sea-monsters ridden by Atlanteans proves that the X-Men are the villains of the piece, and therefore the Avengers are the good guys.Cap baits the flying Sub-Mariner to come down and attack him, and then he sends out the call for all Avengers to converge here. Meanwhile Iron Fist and Black Panther tackle Namor, while Cap faces a hulking Atlantean warrior. Sub-Mariner KO's Iron Fist, but merely trades threats with Panther. But that holds him long enough for a horde of other Avengers to descend on him (Beast, Daredevil, Dr Strange, Falcon, Quicksilver, Red Hulk, Spider-Man, Thing, Thor, Valkyrie and Vision).The assembled cast commence pounding on Namor, who doesn't inflict any significant counter-blows except to break Red Hulk's arm. (Some Avengers don't do much, including Dr Strange.) The battle boils down to a fight between Sub-Mariner and Thor, which Namor seems to win. Then Cap calls in Scarlet Witch for a duel between Phoenix Force and her Chaos Magic (which last issue we learned were somehow connected). The effort exhausts Wanda, but Namor is down too. (Wanda is rescued by her ex-husband Vision, who as of last issue definitely hadn't forgiven her for killing him during Avengers Disassembled.)The other Phoenix-infected X-Men (Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost and Magik) have been watching the events with Magneto in Utopia. Now the 4 of them arrive via the Siege Courageous, and the Phoenix Force abandons Namor and shares his portion between the others, increasing their individual power.Cap chooses this moment to use Iron Man's 'secret weapon'. A device on his wrist reopens the portal to K'Un Lun, and the Avengers stagger through, reuniting with Hope Summers' small gang. The X-Men are left to face a mental vision of Professor X, who asks them to stop, or he will have to stop them.


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Cyclops, gorged with the Phoenix power he now only shares with Emma Frost, found his way last issue through the dimensions to K'un Lun to take back Hope Summers. Iron Fist and Iron Man try to stop him while Hope tries to find Lei Kung.Also last issue Black Panther, Captain America, Prof X, Storm and Wolverine went back into Magik's hell in Russia to rescue Spider-Man, who had stayed behind to hold off Colossus and Magik while everyone else escaped. They found him battered but still alive, while Colossus and Magik had fought each other and lost their portions of the Phoenix Force. Charles Xavier now commits himself fully against the remaining Phoenix 2.The other half of that duo is on Utopia Island revelling in enforced adoration by a bunch of X-Men. Only Cannonball slightly resists but Emma Frost soon changes his mind, literally. Magneto objects to her misuse of the Phoenix Force which they had originally used to improve the world. But she silences him too.In K'un Lun Cyclops now faces Hawkeye, Thing and Thor still recovering and angry from their treatment by Magik. They fare no better than the previous 2 Avengers. But Hope has found Lei Kung, and now they appear riding on Shao Lao the dragon of K'un Lun. The dragon's fire causes Cyclops some difficulty, but not for long.At last Hope faces Cyclops, and discovers that she can now project dragon fire herself. But she runs away into the arms of Scarlet Witch with Beast and Iron Man. Wanda stands up against Cyclops, but finds she can't hold him off with his increased power.Suddenly Hope leaps in with a martial arts move, and hits Cyclops with an Iron Fist imbued with the Witch's Chaos Magic (which the caption dubs the Chaos Fist).The blow sends Cyclops to the Moon, where the Watcher watches him lie unconscious for an hour before speeding back to Earth to find Emma Frost.The away team (including Dr Strange who I guess was holding the gateway open for them) return from Russia to learn what Hope just did. Meanwhile in Utopia Magneto sends a telepathic call for help to Prof X.


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MODOK Superior and a bunch of cyborg creatures and some ordinary AIM troops attack a convoy carrying an AIM traitor Dr Udaku. Scarlet Witch interrupts the battle, but is a little swamped by the enemy's numbers. Until the passing Spider-Woman and Ms Marvel join in. Leaving Wanda to take down MODOK himself.Wanda thanks them for their aid. She says she's out of practice. Ms Marvel invites her back to Avengers Mansion, but Wanda's not sure she'll be welcome. Carol insists.Beast, Iron Man, Thor and Wolverine are in. But the 1st person the Witch meets is her android husband Vision, who gives her a frosty (even for him) reception. He can't forgive her for using him as a weapon against his teammates the last time they were together.The other Avengers think he's being harsh. But Vision tells her to leave, and Wanda obeys. Ms Marvel carries the sobbing woman away. And the last panel of this half shows (again) that even an android can cry.One night on the X-Men's Utopia island, Cyclops tries to stop Hope Summers from flying off wearing a jet pack. It turns out she's been flying to San Francisco every night and fighting crime. Cyclops wants her to stay home where she's safe.Hope wants to know why she's so important, and Cyclops gives her the standard Mutant Messiah answer. She especially wants to know about the Phoenix Force that took over his wife Jean, and that's supposedly coming for Hope. But Cyclops refuses to talk about that. So she uses his own optic blast power against him, and flies away.Hope interrupts a bank robbery by members of the Serpent Society. Remembering being trained to fight in the future by Cable, she defeats lookout Bushmaster by cutting his cybernetic arms off. When Asp comes to investigate Hope sends her crashing through a wall, possibly using Asp's own mutant electric blasts.Then Hope finds the rest of the gang, where Puff Adder is using his acid spit to break into the vault. Anaconda wraps her in her snake-like cybernetic arms, but Hope head butts her into submission. Mutant Puff Adder starts to grow, but Hope outdoes him at his own game, and knocks him out.The final Serpent Cottonmouth tries to bite her with his bionic jaw, but Hope beats him up until she's pulled off by Cyclops. He and Emma Frost have come to take her home.Hope says she's ready for the Phoenix Force. The last panel shows the Phoenix on its way.


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Captain America, accompanied by Beast, Black Widow (not on the cast list), Falcon, Giant-Man, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Mockingbird, Ms Marvel, Red Hulk, Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Storm, Thor, Valkyrie and Wolverine, recruits the help of Hulk.Rogue comes to the Avengers' stealthed aircraft in the Wisconsin plains, saying that Madison Jeffries tracked Iron Man's energy signature, and asking for a truce. Professor X shows himself as aligned with the Avengers already. And loads more X-Men (Cannonball, Gambit, Havok, Iceman, Karma, Polaris, Psylocke, Warlock, Warpath, X-Man and a blonde who is probably Boom Boom (not on the cast list)) come out from the vegetation behind Rogue. Hope Summers appears with the Avengers too. They all know that Cyclops and Emma Frost, the last 2 holders of the Phoenix Force, must be stopped.On Utopia Island Emma accuses Scott Summers of wanting to take the Phoenix Force all for himself. Scott denies it, suggesting Emma is projecting her own intentions on him. But Emma reveals that her urge is more to destroy the imperfect world and rebuild it from scratch.Their conflict is interrupted when Cyclops detects Prof X nearby. Scott confronts his mentor who tries one last time to talk him down. But when Cyclops tries to attack Xavier he finds he can't. And Charles reveals that they are fighting within Scott's mind.Cyclops breaks free and back to reality. Where he finds Emma Frost facing a selection of the combined Avengers and X-Men, with Dr Strange, Magneto and Vision (missing from the cast list) thrown in for good measure. In fact Dr Strange seems to be holding Cyclops magically prisoner.Cap tells everyone to keep attacking, to keep the Phoenix 2 distracted while Prof X regains mental control of Scott. Summers tries to manifest the Phoenix, but Xavier battens him down. Emma tries to come to Scott's aid, but Storm hits her with lightning (saying it's something she's wanted to do for a *long* time).Cyclops fires his eye-beam at Xavier, but Cap reflects it back with his shield, and it hits its originator. Scarlet Witch sends energy coursing all over Scott's body. And Emma retaliates by frying Wanda. But Hulk smashes her into the ground.Cyclops returns in Phoenix-mode after Prof X, but is confronted by Magneto, who says he invited Xavier to Utopia to oppose Scott. Summers engulfs Magneto in Phoenix-fire. Scarlet Witch attacks to save her father. When Cyclops is down, Thor leaps to the attack with a rallying cry to others. But Scott easily beats him back with a wall of flame.Then Hawkeye gets him in the back of the neck with an arrow, which Cyclops casually snaps off. He asks Xavier why he's helping the Avengers try to kill the X-Men. But Iceman chooses this point to attack, saying that it's just Scott (and Emma) who are the target. And the rest of the X-Men are on the Avengers' side.At last Charles has Scott back on the mental battlefield, intending to put him in a coma. But it is Prof X who loses the battle!Battered and surrounded by foes, Scott Summers attacks Emma Frost, and takes her portion of the Phoenix Force from her, leaving her for dead. Charles Xavier tries to stop him again, but Cyclops, possessing the whole Phoenix Force, renders him possibly dead or mindless too.Scott is horrified by what he has done, but blames the Avengers. If only they'd left him alone, none of this would have happened. Sensing the last chance, Wolverine gets Hulk to throw him in a fastball special. But Cyclops burns him in midair without even looking.The assembled heroes, including Emma Frost, watch in dismay as the Phoenix-fire consumes Cyclops, and he arises as the Dark Phoenix.