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Zero Sanctuary: Part 3 of 6
We continue exploring the early life of Gamora with a voiceover of present-day Gamora telling her history to an undisclosed listener. Previously Thanos and his troops massacred the Zen-Whoberis to deny them as converts to the Magus and his Universal Church Of Truth. But the Titan saved 13-yr old Gamora when he detected that she like him could see Death. She is also the only other 1 who can hear Magus when his voice plaques Thanos.The space station Zero Sanctuary is now over planet Sakaar, a planet of bugs which are all currently in pupae state. Thanos will lead his troops down there to squash them all. Meanwhile 3 pilots in their ships Clotho, Atropos and Lachesis will strafe any that escape the hives. After the events of the 1st 2 issues these among many are beginning to question their leader's orders. But Thanos tells them all to obey his orders, and afterwards they can loot the planet for whatever they want. Ebony Maw asks what they should do about young Gamora. Thanos replies that since Butcher Squadron failed to keep her in her prison he'll take with *him*.Thanos tells Gamora to slash the cocoons open with her knife. Any that survive that he will squeeze to death in his fist. The girl tells herself that any *she* finds alive she'll let go. Then she falls down a cliff and lands amongst many cocoons that are hatching. Soon she's fighting for her life amongst the 4-armed insectoids. Until Thanos rescues her and then tosses down a bomb. But his rough rescue breaks her leg.Later Ballista Grim, Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight of Butcher Squadron are playing cards with their new members the 2 Blood Brothers and the pilot of the Lachesis while his 2 co-pilots watch. They are bitching about the slim pickings on Sakaar, and how Thanos has gone soft since he 'adopted' Gamora. The pilot thinks they should get rid of her to bring him to his senses - the 3 pilots don't have trackers in their ships so they could take her away and lose her. A Blood Brother agrees, but Ebony Maw uses his power of persuasion to make them instead agree to ransom her back to the Titan.Meanwhile Thanos is dealing with Gamora's leg. She sees Death lurking behind him. Thanos says he can't mend the leg so he's going to amputate it. But he waits for the anaesthetic to send her to sleep before doing it. He's also visited by a hologram of Magus which he can't seem to block. Magus taunts him that he's looking after this wounded child while he killed all his own healthy children (in Thanos Rising #3) but then adds that those children were hard and cold like him while this 1 *needs* him. He wonders what Thanos will do once he's got the answer to his question of why she can see Death like he does.Several days later Thanos is sending his troops down to kill more Sakaarans when Gamora joins them sporting a clearly artificial leg. Thanos said he had intended leave her behind and remotely deactivate the leg once he was away to stop her from wandering. But she just marches aboard the shuttle Sepulcher and he lets her. The pilots of the Fates this time join Butcher Squad for the journey to the ground, and Maw continues to foment dissatisfaction among the troops.Thanos and Gamora again go off together. He warns her that if she breaks her leg again he won't make her a new 1. This time they meet grown insectoids. She finds her new leg stronger than her old 1 and seems to be able to fight better now. But she gets cocky and gets her arm broken as a result. Back on the ship Thanos is angry with her. But she reminds him that he said he wouldn't replace her leg so she thought it better to get her arm broken. This makes him laugh. And he gives her a prosthetic arm.The Fates pilots and the Blood Brothers hear this laughter and believe their Captain's getting worse. The Brothers use Butcher Squad clearance to get into Thanos' quarters. They see him talking to no-one, but we see that it is Death. They grab the still sedated girl. Blood Brother R'Hos takes her to the Lachesis while Gh'Ree keeps watch in case Thanos notices what's going on. They make their ransom demand, but then R'hos sees that the Titan is beating up his brother.


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Zero Sanctuary: Part 6 of 6
In the present Gamora is on Halfworld looking after a young Magus, but she leaves him temporarily to confront the 'ghost' of Thanos who's watching them. (She killed Thanos in Infinity Wars Prime and this ghost may just be in her head/conscience.) And she continues to reminisce to *him* about their early life together.Back in the ongoing flashback they are on the Kyln facility at the edge of the universe. Very young Gamora is attacking him with Proxima Midnight's 'pitchfork' but of course the Titan shrugs it off. Death appears to them and mocks him for coming here to let the anti-matter of the Crunch kill him. He protests that that *wasn't* his plan and she *isn't* Death - who reveals herself to be Magus in disguise.Magus says that he knows enough of the future (because he comes from the far future) to know that the 3 of them are destined to fight. In fact he seems to claim that he engineered their original meeting (and that he's been impersonating Death from that point in #1). His purpose in getting the 3 of them here is to persuade Thanos and/or Gamora to join him. He holds the Titan back with a forcefield while he gives the girl the usual offer of convert (to his Universal Church Of Truth) or die. She rejects him so he threatens her life to get Thanos to submit.Back on Thanos' base Zero Sanctuary many of the crew are mutinying and fighting against others. Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight of the elite Butcher Squadron thread their way through the conflict back to Thanos' control room to try to figure out what their boss's plan must be. They discover that the orbital station is surrounded by warships of the Universal Church and that Sanctuary has started moving to ram their command ship. They commandeer an escape pod and get out before the 2 ships collide. The Blood Brothers seem to be the only other survivors in another pod.Magus feels the death of so many of his followers which temporarily weakens him. *This* was Thanos' plan, although he seems to think he's killed *all* Magus' flock. Whatever, it will take Magus time to rebuild his strength. So for now he just beats the 'god' up to emphasise how easily he can be defeated. And then he restrains Gamora from killing Magus, saying that she'll do it some day in the future while he watches. They leave Magus on Kyln, but Gamora doesn't understand why he didn't just let her kill their foe then. (Present-day Gamora thinks it was because complicated Thanos didn't want to completely ruin the little girl's innocence yet.)Many months later Sanctuary 1 is under construction. Ebony, Proxima and the BB's come begging Thanos' forgiveness for the things they did in earlier issues. The Titan actually commends the 1st 2 for their smartness in betraying him when he seemed weak and being survivors. So he promotes them to his new Cull Obsidian, which seems to include young Gamora. (And we know that the Blood Brothers are still working for him in his 1st published app in Iron Man #55.) A later scene shows young adult bladeswoman Gamora with her cybernetic arm and leg replaced by vat-grown limbs indistinguishable from the real thing. And another scene shows her with Thanos as the most dangerous woman in the galaxy in her original (Strange Tales #180) green outfit.In the present the reincarnated young Magus asks Gamora if she ever really saw Death. She says she thinks it was Magus all the time (and presumably it was his plan that Thanos would be drawn to her because she seemed to be the only other person who could see his love Death). Now she tells young Magus to take her small spaceship Lachesis/Lucky and go find his new destiny in the universe. But in case of need she's programmed in a destination he can choose where people who've been hurt by Magus go.She's left on Halfworld with Thanos' ghost who questions her decision. She says that if the young boy is to have a chance of growing up good he needs not to be raised by a killer like her, as she was raised by Thanos.


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Return of the Mad Titan Part 2: Yesterday's lovers never make good friends
Thanos has come to Earth looking for someone in Fresno, the centre of which he has transported into space. The Illuminati (Blue Marvel, Dr Strange, Emma Frost, Iron Man and Mr Fantastic) are there protecting someone named Roberta Marshall, who looks like someone else named Marie who is probably dead.Now the Mad Titan is rampaging through Fresno in his mobile chair/throne demanding that his target show herself. The Illuminati explain to each other and us that the flying city is protected by a force dome to keep the atmosphere in, and that they aren't taking up White Queen's offer to facilitate a telepathic board meeting. Also Iron Man asks Emma why she's not in her non-mutant disguise (as Tony Stark's 'wife' Hazel Kendal) but she says they need her free to use her powers. (See the Fall Of X event, especially the parts in the IM series.) Roberta asks why they're helping *her* when they could split up to help lots more people. Emma says it's because she asked them to, which she doesn't remember doing.Reed Richards organises a plan to get Fresno back to Earth. He sends Blue Marvel to disable the weapons of Thanos' ship Sanctuary. He details IM and Strange to separate Thanos from his space throne (which can transport him to any place or time). I don't remember it being part magical but DrS thinks it is. Tony and Emma think they should call on an unspecified *him*, but Reed thinks he might be more dangerous to Fresno than Thanos. The other 2 persuade him, but neither IM nor MrF think he'd answer a call form *them*. They in turn persuade DrS to call him telepathically and use a mind-dump to give him the big picture all in 1 go. Strange makes the call and he and IM go off to attack the foe. MrF tells Emma to stay and guard Roberta while he goes to find a way to get all the innocent bystanders out of town.We see a big green bare foot land with a thump in Colorado. Everyone should now be guessing that *him* is the Hulk. Except those who looked at the cover who will *know* it's him.Adam Brashear approaches Sanctuary which is holding Fresno in space with a tractor beam. It also blasts him with a starburster cannon which knocks him back but also supercharges him with energy. Which he fires back and destroys the ship's weapons. Then he heads inside to find the tractor beam controls. As the scientific genius studies the system he's interrupted by some of Thanos' alien minions. But he disposes of them easily and starts to lower the city back into position.The green foot lands in Utah as Stark and Strange approach Thanos in his chair. Iron Man blasts him out of the chair which falls onto someone's classic car while Dr Strange studies the object trying to fathom its ancient alien magicks. The city lands with a whumph as Thanos blasts IM into the distance, and the green foot lands in Nevada and DrS claims that the throne is immobilised. He then tries to turn his magic on the Titan but the villain grabs him and slams him into the ground.And then Hulk arrives. Thanos tries to dismiss Bruce Banner but the green 1 says Banner's not here as he wades through the Titan's blasts and punches him across town into a used car dealership. Meanwhile Stephen Strange recovers and calls on the Vishanti to block Thanos' access to his energised strength in Fresno and even further afield. But the Titan digs his way out of a pile of cars and is suddenly menacing the mage again. Except Hulk is also there. Thanos deduces that the Illuminati are all here hiding the female he seeks, and he demands that Banner tell him where she is.We presume he's seeking Roberta who is still with Emma as they watch Reed Richards modifying a satellite dish on top of a tower while communicating with Adam Brashear up in Sanctuary at the transporter array controls. Roberta still has no idea what's going on. Emma explains that they intend to redirect the ship's transporter via the comms tower to teleport everyone out of Fresno. Meanwhile DrS blinds Thanos with his cloak of levitation so that Hulk can punch him away again. The 2 scientists do their magic and all civilians are transported to Sacramento. We haven't seen Iron Man for a while but now he returns to help Hulk against Thanos. The Titan now notices people being transported and assumes the Illuminati are trying to take his target away. So he gets rid of his annoying attackers and steals a truck from the car lot and drives off, his bulky body sticking up through the cab roof.The old woman from last issue now re-enters the picture driving around looking for Marie. She spots Roberta and Emma and gets out of her car calling Roberta Marie. Roberta told her to escape last time and now continues to insist she *isn't* Marie. But then Thanos drives up and insists Roberta is the 1 he's been searching for. White Queen takes over his mind and mentally tells Stephen she could kill him, but DrS warns her not to try. And the Titan takes advantage of the hesitation to bat her away. He then grabs Roberta, ignoring the old woman's pummelling fists, and drags her into his truck. As they drive off he tells her that she is his love Death.


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Return of the Mad Titan: Part 1
In Fresno, California, Roberta Marshall drives to work at the Good Medicine pharmacy where she deals with a dead rat and then cleans up. On the way home she drives past an old woman's place where she glances in but doesn't stop. Instead she goes to a cemetery to visit the grave of Marie Collins (2000-2021). During this long sequence there is a voiceover which describes an episode of a TV dating show where a man opens up to a woman about seeing his grandfather die when he was 3. This does not go down well. When Roberta gets home she catches the end of the show on TV as the woman rejects the man. Roberta falls asleep on the couch.Then we see the image of a black hole with someone screaming. And Roberta wakes in shock.Then the title page reminds of some of Thanos' past. The Mad Titanian Eternal tried to please his love Death by using the Infinity Gauntlet to erase half the population of the universe (in the IG event of course). Long after he stopped trying, the Guardians Of The Galaxy (in their (2019) #6) dropped him in a black hole. But now he's out ...We now see Thanos' Sanctuary spacecraft approaching Earth where Roberta is back at work on the cash desk. The old woman comes to buy something but then thinks Roberta is her Marie. Roberta denies it but the woman asks "Did *she* send you back?". However just then the Thanos ship fires a blast which rips along a street and through some buildings until it reaches the pharmacy, while shooting down some jet fighters that try to stop it. Roberta urgently hustles the woman out of the shop and to the woman's pickup where she tells her to get to safety. And admits that she knows her name is Christine.Then Roberta dashes back into the pharmacy to help a co-worker who's trapped under a fallen cabinet. But then that person runs off leaving her to face more devastation. Meanwhile Christine tries to get out of town but has to stop because the town centre has been grabbed by a tractor beam and is being dragged to the spacecraft. The voiceover returns but this time we know it's Roberta bemoaning the fact that she's going to die alone.Then Thanos rides his chair/throne transport into the force bubble keeping Fresno's air in place. He announces that he's seeking 1 particular female, and he'll kill others until he finds her.Roberta rises to see a group of 5 superheroes who want to talk to her. They don't expect her to recognise them all but she does:- Iron Man, Mr Fantastic, Blue Marvel, Dr Strange and Emma Frost, but she doesn't know why she knows that last name. Emma comments to the others that most of the psychic block is still intact. They explain that someone very bad is after Roberta. She doesn't understand why, nor why the Avengers are interested. They further explain that they are *not* the Avengers (well currently apart from Iron Man), they are a more secret organisation and they ask her not to tell anyone she saw them together.But then Thanos attacks them.


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Return of the Mad Titan Finale: Please don't tell me how the story ends
Death has been living life as mortal Roberta Marshall, an identity created for her by the Illuminati in the image of dead Marie Collins, whose mother Christine also lives in Fresno. She didn't remember she was Death until her ex-devotee Thanos forced her to, killing Christine along the way.Now she's mad at him as he continues to protest that he did it for love of her. But now he realises that she's become corrupted by her mortal life so he fights back. And it's a fight to the death with the Illuminati (Blue Marvel, Dr Strange, Emma Frost, Iron Man and Mr Fantastic) plus Hulk watching on. They worry what would happen if Thanos killed Death, but Stephen Strange is more concerned about Thanos dying. The last time that happened his energy merged with that of Death to create the Rot that almost consumed the universe (see Avengers: Celestial Quest). So they decide they have to protect him.Blue Marvel attacks Death directly but she swamps his mind with cold darkness. DrS intends to magic them both away to separate places, but MrF says their space-time abilities mean they'll just find each other again. At least here the heroes will know where they are, and Fresno has been evacuated. Strange tries to intervene between them but Death gives him visions of his life and death(s). Reed Richards pushes Thanos out of the way of a Death blast but the Mad Titan doesn't appreciate help. Death has the MT on the ropes until Hulk smashes her. She knows he's immortal but she still breaks his mind. Emma Frost and Tony Stark comment on their current partnership (see the current Iron Man series' part in the Fall Of X event) before taking the plunge. IM distracts Death while Emma enters her mind to heal her pain. But Death shows her what it really means to be Death.Thanos beats a strategic retreat but remembers his time in a Black Hole (between Guardians Of The Galaxy (2019) #6 and the 2021 Eternals series). And suddenly Death is overwhelmed. She remembers Christine at Marie's deathbed but she replaces Marie. Then she 'awakes' in a dark place with Thanos. He explains that in the Black Hole he forged a new dwelling which will now be her prison. She protests that the cosmos won't allow this. But we now see him with a gemstone in his hand, and Death within it. He assures the Illuminati that people will continue to die (we know that Marlo Chandler is Death's replacement), but he will take the stone to study. He may find a way to destroy it and Death, or he may find a way to control it. And he teleports away with an evil grin.Mr Fantastic reminds the others how Death told them the end of the world was nigh, and promised to tell them how it would happen in exchange for them making her mortal. They still don't know the answer and he wonders if Thanos might be involved.


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Return of the Mad Titan Part 3: She put the sad in all his songs
Thanos has attacked Fresno looking for a girl and the Illuminati with help from the Hulk are here to protect her. Thanos found the girl Roberta Marshall and told her she is his love Death and drove off with her in a truck.Now the Illuminati give chase:- Iron Man and Blue Marvel are flying under their own power. Emma Frost has a motorbike and is eager for a 2nd attempt at beating the Titan in mental combat. Dr Strange is levitating along reminding them that the team is supposed to be secret. Mr Fantastic has finished teleporting most of the population to safety and now has the unenviable task of keeping Hulk under control.Meanwhile their quarry is in an almost destroyed Mexican restaurant still trying to convince Roberta she's Death. He was trapped in a black hole and it was his rekindled love for her which enabled him to escape. (That's *not* how he got out according the the last Eternals series.) Previously he'd abandoned his devotion to her but now he sees it as their shared destiny to rule the universe.Roberta doesn't want to hear any more of this and suddenly emits a dark power that knocks her admirer back and finishes demolishing the restaurant. She runs out and drives the truck away. As Thanos calls after her he's shot in the back by a woman named Christine Collins who we've seen also stalking Roberta and calling her Marie. The Mad(dened) Titan grabs her warmly by the throat and demands to know why his love is hidden in this mortal body.Iron Man and Emma Frost catch up with the truck and try to persuade Roberta to stop running. Blue Marvel and leaping Hulk join them, but it is running into Thanos which actually does the job. IM rescues her from the now blazing vehicle as MrF and DrS catch up. BM keeps Thanos trapped in a forcefield as Tony Stark and Emma try to save the girl's life but she's dying. Which the Titan is happy about because then she'll revert to being Death. Roberta does die, and the dark energy erupts again as Death is reborn.Stephen Strange reminds Death that they gave her what she asked for - a human life and death (but we don't know anything about that - yet). But Thanos blames it on Christine who he pulls through some sort of force field door. And we find out what actually happened via flashbacks.In the fb Death consults her Infinity Well, asking it why she has to continue forever. She gets no answer but her minions bring her live human Christine Collins who has somehow got into her Realm. Christine explains that she *saw* Death when her daughter Marie died in hospital. Ever since then she's been searching for a way to find Death and tell her she made a mistake. After many false leads she met Marlo Chandler who was an avatar of Death (since the recent Genis-Vell: Captain Marvel #5). And Marlo showed her how to get here.She has brought a photo of Marie with her which Death looks at. Death says she can't disturb the balance just to restore such an insignificant being to life. Christine protests that it wasn't her daughter's time to die but Death says she doesn't choose the time, merely presides over the passing. Christine says that Death obviously doesn't understand the pain of the loss of her daughter, and that each life is as important as the whole universe. Death then seems to turn the mother to dust, but presumably actually sends her back to Earth.In the present Thanos declares that Christine had poisoned Death with the curse of empathy.And in fb we see Death meeting with the Illuminati (the current version) in the Wakandan Necropolis and asking to be given a human life and death. Reed Richards asks why she couldn't do it herself, but she plays the 'upsetting the balance' card again. Tony Stark asks what they would get in return, and Emma Frost and Blue Marvel 2nd the question. Death replies that Earth is soon destined for destruction, and the identity of who will be responsible lies in her Realm. Give her what she wants and keep it secret and that knowledge will later be made known to them. Stark objects that she could live a long time but she says the Infinity Well will tell them what they need to know when it is time. She asks to be made to look like Marie's photo and be sent to Fresno.Thanos' voiceover resumes to say that they hid her in this human body with no knowledge of her real identity to live a meaningless life. And now we continue with the current action.Iron Man points out to Death that she's had the human life and death she asked for so now it's time to tell them about the forthcoming menace. Thanos tries to reawaken her to the full Deathness he loves, but she declares that he's ruined what she wanted to experience and now she will never forgive him and never be his Mistress. The Mad Titan then kills Christine who he still blames for everything, expecting that the shock will bring her to her senses. But it just fuels her hate. She claims that Christine was more worthy than he could ever be and swears to kill him here and now.


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The Infinity Watch
This issue begins with a brief resume of Thanos' life. According to the Thanos Rising mini-series in his early life on Titan he was a shy intellectual kid who didn't commit his 1st murders (scientific dissections) until his late teens. He'd fallen in love with Death (she effectively seduced him) and set out on his life course to woo her by sacrificing worlds to her. But he's also returned from death (and near-death) several times so his relationship with her is complicated. (And she's nearly always been cold towards him.) Lately she's spurned his love, and in his recent mini-series he ended up trapping her in a black gemstone ...... which he now calls the Death Stone, a new member of the Infinity Stones. We see him finishing ravaging another world, but he can't get the Death Stone to actually kill for him. So he decides to once again gather the other 6 Infinity Stones because they tend to reinforce each other's powers.Recently (Infinity Wars #6) the Stones were granted sentience by Adam Warlock and scattered, and this time they merged with various beings:- the Time Stone with Hector Bautista who takes the super-id Overtime (Infinity Wars: Infinity 1-shot), Space with someone only known as Quantum (Miles Morales Spider-Man #7), Reality with Ripley Ryan/Star (Captain Marvel (2019) #11), Power with the Prince Of Power (as revealed in Guardians Of The Galaxy (2020) #12) and the Soul Stone with a robot who calls himself Ward but takes the id Multitude (2021 Avengers Annual). We don't know what has happened to the Mind Stone.Anyway the story proper begins in a Coffee Shop where a young man can't get the shop's app on his phone to work - he says he's no good with things. The friendly young woman at the desk says he can order from her, no extra charge, but he says he's not very good with people either. She grins and asks what he wants, but he's baffled by the multiple options. An older man pushes him aside because he's taking too long and demands a latte, but the staffer claims they're out of coffee and recommends another place half a block away. He storms out and the young guy asks for a latte too, which she supplies.He's carrying his coffee in a cup and saucer when a young woman invites him to join her at her table. She comments that the preceding was like a scene out of a Rom-Com. She insists that he knows she's Star in the same way that she knows he's Quantum because of the blue Space Stone inside him that lets him teleport. She's got the Reality Stone and she feels that it's stronger now that they're together.Then Thanos appears and Star is immediately cowed. Quantum says that he felt Star was different but Thanos is even more different. The Titan offers to tell them all about their Stones if they come with him. But Ripley Ryan has regained her composure and tells him 'No' to his face, including Quantum in her stand. She also comments that she can tell that his Stone isn't part of him like theirs are. And she stands on her chair as she uses the Reality Stone to involve them in the 'floor is lava' game but with with real lava. Quantum teleports out of danger as the lava laps around Thanos' ankles. He claims that it's merely uncomfortable but still steps onto a chair as Star moves up to a table and switches into costume. However she realises that it's now very hot and affecting her lungs so she wishes the lava away.Thanos claims that every time she uses the power it weakens her, but she goes into hovering mode crackling with energy to refute that and demands to see his Stone which she can sense but doesn't recognise. He manifests it in his hand and it emits dark energy which attacks Star but also others in the cafe. He tells them it is the touch of Death. But a costumed figure 'bwomps' in and takes the friendly cashier away to a wooded area. She's still frightened, even when he wills his head-covering away to reveal that he's the youth she was kind too. Then he teleports back into the shop but finds it deserted. But then another voice addresses him as Quantum.However our attention switches to Thanos' huge spacecraft Sanctuary where Star is strapped to an operating table. The voiceover from the history lesson returns to add that when he was young he was asked in school to dissect a lizard and it made him sick. But (initially under Death's urging) he later dissected people. Now he's done something to stop Star using her Stone and now he's going to cut her open to discover how it's bonded to her. And he's not using anaesthetic so there's lots of screaming. He doesn't work out how it works but he does extract the Reality Stone. And she of course is dead. But then the Stone disappears out of his forceps ...... and is seen in the hand of a new costumed figure, Overtime the Time Stone bearer, with Quantum by his side. Thanos is about to attack them when Overtime brings in backup by swapping the dead Star for the live 1 from earlier, now free of her restraints. She immediately suggests Quantum go find a weapon and then causes the Titan's hand to seal over the Death Stone before she starts pummelling him with force-fists. And Quantum returns with a futuristic double-headed axe, and teleports around hitting the foe from different angles until he buries a blade in his back. Thanos pulls it free and throws it at Quantum and Star but Overtime intercedes and somehow sends it back to slice into his shoulder.The voiceover returns to inform us that Thanos knows that the Time Stone must always be dealt with 1st. And he always keeps a handy chrono-fish which *eats* time-travellers, which he now sics on Hector Bautista. The voiceover rates the teleporter as the next most dangerous but says that Thanos' technique here is to predict Quantum's porting strategy and move fast enough to hit him as he emerges. So he strikes at Q with the axe, embedding it in a wall as he disappears to emerge behind the Titan just where a massive fist is waiting to KO him. Groggy Star attacks Thanos physically but he bats her away and throws a metal wall at her, which she changes into a cloud of butterflies. But then he grabs her head and squeezes.Meanwhile we've seen Overtime battling the chrono-fish in out-of-sequence images as they shift through time. The large fish bites an arm. OT is pulling the axe out of its bleeding carcass. The fish is biting his leg as he reaches for the axe stuck in the wall. OT pants from exertion with the axe buried in the not-yet-bleeding body. Then Thanos punches his jaw when it's all over.The Mad Titan stands over 3 beaten foes (and the fish) and talks to the Death Stone in his hand. He can sense that the proximity of 3 other Stones has made it stronger, and that now it *wants* to kill. But now he doesn't want his foes dead. Instead he wants the Stone to learn how to merge with a host like the others. He wants to consummate his love for Death by *becoming* Death, the Destroyer Of Worlds ...... But the Death Stone has other ideas. It leaves his hand and the spaceship and heads elsewhere. And Quantum teleports the Stone bearers away to Earth. Star wishes she'd had a camera to capture the look on Thanos' face when that happened. But then she remembers who she is and creates such a photograph. She thanks Overtime but he now lets them know that he's actually from the future. He advises them to link up with the current Overtime in Queens. His parting remark as he heads back to the future is that he's glad he could change things so she's alive. And it finally dawns on Riley that she was dead.The voiceover now watches Thanos brooding over the fact that Death(stone) has abandoned him for another host. And it wonders what the Mad Titan will do now.But there's a short 2nd tale which is part 1 of a continuing Annuals backup story called the Death Stone Saga.The writer is Derek Landy as above, but the other creators are different:- Artist Sara Pichelli, colours Mattia Iacono, letters Travis Lanham.In Wisconsin Nighthawk (of the Squadron Supreme that Mephisto created during the 2018 Avengers series) is recalling the universe as it *should be* (ie the universe in the 2021 Heroes Reborn event which Mephisto created for (an alternate version of) the Squadron but which this NH remembers). And he's resuming his quest for Infinity Stones to help him get that universe back. His Infinity Stone Scanner was destroyed (in the Giant-Size Black Cat: Infinity Score 1-shot) and it's taken him a long while to recreate it, and now it's led him to a graveyard here. He knows that the Space, Reality and Time Stones have all bonded with hosts, but (as far as he's aware) the Mind, Power and Soul Stones are still up for grabs.But when he finds a black Stone hovering over a grave he knows that it isn't 1 of the Infinity Stones he knows about. And it's not going to find a live host here. Moreover the 6 Stones are created at the birth of each universe, and there can't be more! He reaches out for it but it zaps him. Then a skeleton rises up from the grave, dressed in the (tattered) clothes it was buried in. The Death Stone (for such it is) dives into the bony chest and begins to reknit the flesh on the bones until a living man stands before Kyle Richmond. He recognises him (and we see the gravestone of Phil Coulson). This is the man who Mephisto brought back from a previous death to run the Squadron.


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Part 2 of 4: Duelality
In the Negative Zone young Annihilus oversees Dr Bultar's work with the unconscious Hulk. The Cerebral Disruptor will keep him that way while they analyse a certain unique property of his body and learn how to duplicate it artificially.Meanwhile both Hulk and Bruce Banner personas are trapped within Hulk's mind. And they've got a visitor - Thanos. Bruce thinks Thanos is working for Annihilus, but the Titan is here to find out what the ruler of the Negative Zone wants with Hulk.Simple-minded Hulk grows tired of talk and does what he does best - attacks. Thanos responds by blasting into pieces the small blue planetoid they're standing on. Banner deduces that they're in a virtual reality (now) controlled by Thanos, which the Titan confirms. Hulk attacks again, but Thanos just casually tortures him trying to get Banner to confess Annihilus' plans. Which Bruce of course is ignorant of.Thanos' body is in his Sanctuary starship in normal space. Apparently unbeknownst to him Pip the Troll didn't leave last issue, and now he detects where the villain's mind has gone merely by touching him. Then he teleports there, and finds himself in a room full of Annihilus' network servers.Pip 'ports around the base until he finds the most heavily-guarded room, figuring that's where Hulk is held. Inside Bultar has noticed increased mental activity in his prisoner, and then detected an intruder in the virtual cell where they're holding Hulk's consciousness.In that cell Banner has realised that the only way to beat Thanos is to wrest control of the virtual reality from him. So he leaps to join Hulk, and joins his brainpower to Greenie's rage. And now they can hurt their enemy. Now the contest is equal, and the battle rages on. But eventually Thanos proves still the stronger.Outside Bultar has discovered the identity of the intruder. Annihilus decides to deal with this personally, and has his consciousness projected into the cell. And to Thanos' surprise the Titan is ejected back to his Sanctuary.Back home Thanos claims that it was all planned. He actually knew about Pip, and the Troll may yet be a useful pawn. He allowed Bultar to detect him, but Annihilus' network is still compromised, and his servants have been downloading data about the bug-king's offensive and defensive armaments. He doesn't actually care about Hulk and Banner. The info will be used if and when Annihilus actually becomes a threat worth concerning himself about.In the Negative Zone Pip sees Annihilus gloating about how the Hulk's mysterious attribute will allow him to regain his full glory.


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Part 3 of 4: Transhulkrification
Hulk has been captured by Annihilus. Both the Bruce Banner and Hulk personalities have been banished by Cerebral Inhibitor into a virtual reality, leaving the body mindless. The ruler of the Negative Zone wants something from the body to upgrade himself from the teenage (insectoid) body he currently inhabits.Anni's scientist Dr Bultar has discovered that the relevant substance only exists while Banner is transforming into the Hulk. So he's calmed the body down into the Banner state, and is now giving it adrenaline to start the transformation. He detects the substance forming, analyses its makeup and creates a synthetic equivalent.Now droid(?) servants painfully remove Annihilus' outer shell, and restrain him for the even more painful procedure to follow. Bultar bathes him in rays which cause him agony as they grow his body. Anni's lieutenant Blastaar is concerned that the process appears to be going too far. But Bultar explains that their leader wants a body superior to the 1 he had when previously full grown.And at the end what steps forth is a hulking version of Annihilus, still without a carapace.Pip the Troll has been watching all this. Now he sneaks down next to Hulk's head and removes the Cerebral Inhibitor. Immediately Hulk wakes up with his own personality, leaving Bruce stuck in the computer. But Blastaar blasts him out of the building, and Pip lies unconscious in the resulting rubble.Annihilus has no use for Hulk anymore and gives Blastaar permission to kill him. Blasty calls his flight boots to him and sets off in pursuit. What follows is a flying vs leaping battle, with blasting vs throwing stuff. When Hulk gets the upper hand Blastaar is saved by a swarm of flying insectoids who attack with ray guns and claws - Annihilus' Royal Guard. But Hulk brushes them aside and it's back to fighting Blastaar again.Meanwhile Annihilus is fitted with his new shell, augmented with biometric microcircuits. And Pip wakes up.Hulk finally drops a building on Blastaar. Then turns to face the giant-size armoured Annihilus.


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Part 4 of 4: Annihihulk
Hulk is battling the all-new Hulkified Annihilus. Anni's only regret is that Hulk doesn't have Bruce Banner's keen intellect to fully appreciate how outclassed he is. Hulk of course just keeps fighting back. But then the lord of the Negative Zone demonstrates a new power - he broadcasts fear waves, and Hulk runs away terrified.Pip the Troll wakes up in the ruins of the laboratory where the juvenile Annihilus was transformed last issue. He looks through a large hole in the wall and sees Hulk leaping past outside, followed by the flying giant Annihilus. Even with Anni's size Pip doesn't understand why Hulk is running away.The Troll teleports outside intending to follow and help Hulk. But he gets hit by Annihilus' fear wave. He tries to convince himself that he must rescue Hulk and take him back to Earth, or the Avengers will blame him for putting Greenie in this situation in the 1st place. And the further Annihilus gets from him the more confidant Pip becomes. So he deduces the existence of the bug-guy's new fear power.Annihilus continues to chase Hulk. But Pip figures out, for the readers' benefit, a flaw in Anni's strategy. No matter how frightened, a cornered animal will turn and fight. Sure enough Hulk stops, faces his foe, leaps a mighty leap and smashes him in the face.Annihilus is angered because Hulk has broken 1 of the metal antennae on his new armour. He forgets about his fear power and blasts at his enemy with his Cosmic Control Rod.Pip has been following them and 'ports onto Anni's back, leaving a bomb as a present. But this just serves to attract the Neg Zone lord's attention. Until Hulk leaps and hits him again. And Pip teleports himself and Hulk back to Earth.Hulk isn't grateful, so Pip just leaves him in the desert. Next we see Bruce Banner stagger back into the SHIELD base where he works. Maria Hill demands to know where he's been, but Bruce just needs to sleep.Pip returns to the alien bar where he left Heater Delight in #1, only to find that she left with Quasar.Thanos is shown, surrounded by his Outriders, watching Annihilus on a videoscreen.


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Part 1 of 4
Iron Man arrives at SHIELD's scientific base in Nuclear Springs Nevada unhappy that they've let Bruce Banner wander free on a vacation. Director Maria Hill isn't worried. He's riding 1 of Captain America's motorbikes, fitted with a GPS tracker, and he's got an implanted transmitter. And there's a drone following him.But then an agent rushes up to say that Banner's transmitter has gone. The drone shows that a character whom Tony Stark recognises as Pip the Troll teleported onto the back of the bike and injected Bruce with a sleep-drug. Then he teleported them both away.SHIELD's files say that the alien was a member of the Infinity Watch and recently worked for X-Factor. But Stark is more concerned that Thanos was also in Infinity Watch. He bets that the big baddie has Hulk, and they could be anywhere in the universe.Where Banner actually is is within the type of spacecraft we saw in the Annihilation Wave. Pip has delivered him to the Negative Zone villain Blastaar and some insectoid aliens, all working for some unnamed boss. Bruce transforms to Hulk when he wakes up, but a Cerebral Disruptor on his forehead turns his brain off.The Troll claims his prize for delivering the Hulk. And the aliens return his hostage 'girlfriend' Heater Delight. They teleport away to a bar somewhere in space. Pip fears the Avengers might be after him for kidnapping Hulk, so he figures he'd better do something about getting him back. He leaves Heater to chat up another patron of the bar and teleports to find ...... Thanos in his Sanctuary spaceship. The Titan is guarded by some of the Outriders seen in Infinity. And he's not pleased to see the Troll. Pip tries the tactic of telling an obvious lie, to lull his opponent into accepting the alternative as the truth. Thanos immediately dismisses Pip's claim to have just dropped in for a chat for old time sake. Then the Troll gives an edited version of the true story, leading up to Hulk now being in the hands of Annihilus (who didn't guess that?).Pip finishes by asking Thanos for help getting Banner back. The mad Titan reminds the Troll of the last time he disturbed his peace - he lobotomised him. Pip teleports a hasty retreat.But after he's gone Thanos activates a hack into Annihilus' network and learns about the Cerebral Disruptor that the Negative Zone scientists had devised to control Hulk. As Pip had expected the Titan wants to know what Annihilus needs the Hulk for. And the sneaky Troll is still hanging around waiting for Thanos to locate their target. Once found Pip hopes to do the rescue by himself.Blastaar has taken Hulk to the Negative Zone and the lab of Dr Bultar, inventor of the Cerebral Disruptor. who confirms to Annihilus that Hulk contains the element they seek. When we finally get a good look at Annihilus we see that he is still the young version. Something about the Hulk is going to restore him to his full stature.Bruce and the Hulk have found themselves in the unusual situation of both being together in the 'place' they exist while the other is in control of their body. Then Thanos materialises beside them, a conscious projection from his spaceship.


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Thanos: A god up there listening : Part 1 of 4
Much of this series will be a flashback to an early exploit of Thanos, but that doesn't begin until the last pages of this issue. This issue mainly concerns the present day part of this series starring Thanos' son Thane. And first of all it has to tell us a whole load of backstory.In the Thanos Rising mini-series we learned that Thanos sired many children to alien women, and then killed them all at Death's urging. The Infinity series/event told us that the Titan later learned he'd missed 1 boy, and he then outdid King Herod by scouring the galaxy killing all males of a certain age. Eventually it turned out that it was Thane, an Inhuman healer on Earth. Thane had not yet been subjected to Terrigenesis until the Terrigen Bomb was unleashed during Infinity. This transformed him from a healer into a source of death which killed all the life around him in the city of Orollan. Ebony Maw of Thanos' Black Order found him and gave him a suit to control his powers. Now his left hand deals death and his right hand encases things in amber. At the end of Infinity Thane trapped Thanos and Proxima Midnight in amber.Now ever self-serving Ebony Maw transfers his allegiance from father to son and offers to teach him about Thanos by taking him to his father's living biography. Thane is glad to leave the ruins of his home. They fly from Earth in Maw's spacecraft but are attacked on the way SWORD forces. Maw evades them by activating the ship's cloaking device.Eventually they arrive at the planet Malady whose atmosphere is alcoholic. Thane wears a breathing mask to stay sober. Ebony is unaffected but is also invisible. They approach Sclerosis Syd's bar looking for an alien called Trynka. The bouncers won't let Thane in because they think he's already too drunk (because he's talking to an invisible companion). Maw stops him from attacking them and uses his power of persuasion by whispering in their ears that Thane is son of Thanos. They immediately back off in fear.Inside (as the word Thanos spreads through the clientele) they locate Trynka who's well drunk. Ebony explains that Thanos knew nothing of this biography because *he* secretly arranged it. The DNA of Trynka's race can record events so that you can relive them via telepathy. When they accost him the living biography recoils in fear and starts babbling about death, rage and ego. It turns out he's talking about an encounter some years ago between Thanos and Ego The Living Planet.And we see Thanos' fleet approaching the Planet and the Titan gives the order to annihilate Ego.


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Dead by Rumor
Thor, accompanied by the
ravens Hugin and Munin, arrives on the dead moon of Titan. Brooding over the
vision he had of his death at the hands of Thanos, he has come to Thanos’ homeworld
to learn if the titan is really dead. He is met by Death who will not answer whether
Thanos is dead or not. Thor and the ravens enter a library which was Thanos’
refuge and they discover a diary, telling of Thanos brooding over the massive
collection of data and artifacts assembled by his father. Thor begins searching….
“All That Is”Writer: Christopher
Cantwell. Art: Travel Foreman. Colors: Rachelle Rosenberg. Letters: Travis
Lanham.Synopsis: Tony Stark
studies the damaged robot duplicate of Thanos, trying to understand an alien
technology too advanced for him. Tony wears the Iron Man armor for protection
should anything go wrong. Eventually, he gives up and prepares to melt down the
robot—which causes the machine to revive and warn Tony that if he destroys the
robot, he and everyone close to him will be tormented for eternity. The robot
tells him that Thanos has already conquered the universe and Tony’s world is
but a delusion, projecting an image of this reality into Tony’s brain. And it
explains that any action against the robot is a rebellion against Thanos’ rule
and will have dire consequences. Tony weighs the probabilities and decides not
to destroy the robot—but he does dismantle it, concerned that the nightmare
will haunt him for the rest of his life….
“Love and Death and Much
In Between”Writer: J. Michael Straczynski.
Art: Geoff Shaw. Colors: Dean White, Ruth Redmond. Letters: Travis Lanham.Synopsis: Thanos is
restored to life by Lady Death and she needs his service. She takes him to a
remote planet where he sees an echo of his one-time love Carella. Lady Death
asks him to tell her the story: Thanos was a feared person in Titan’s society, shunned
as a deviant; he was loved by a woman named Carella. Her family opposed this
relationship so they planted a bomb in his spaceship. But Carella accompanied
him on his mission to search for life on other worlds. The bomb detonated and Thanos
was severely injured. Out of love, Carella allowed herself to asphyxiate so
that her beloved would have enough air to breathe until rescue came. Lady Death
then asked him to learn that lesson and, out of love, destroy half the universe
so that the other half might live. He agrees and departs but the shade of Carella
insists that not what she meant….
“The Bar at the End of
the Line”Writer: Kyle Starks. Pencils:
Ron Lim. Inks: Don Ho. Colors: Israel Silva. Letters: Travis Lanham.Synopsis: Thanos walks
into a bar on a remote world and demands that the bartender tell him where to
find his daughter Gamora. The bartender cites the bar’s policy of privacy for
its clientele. Then an armada of Docatians arrives, seeking to punish Thanos
for wiping out half the universe. Thanos goes out to meet them and then he
destroys them all. He returns to the bar and again asks the bartender where he
can find Gamora….
“[Conclusion]”Writer: Torunn Gronbekk.
Art: Andrea Di Vito. Colors: David Curiel. Letters: Travis Lanham.Synopsis: Odin, speaking
through the ravens asks Thor what he has found. Thor has discovered that a file
on the Black Stone has been removed as well as one for Bor Borison, Odin’s
father. Leaving, he asks Death who else was here recently and is told Corvus
Glaive. Death invites Thor to stay and keep him company but Thor has a mission….Story continues in THOR #29.


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In Thanos: The Infinity Siblings GN Kang the time-travelling Conqueror saw a future even-more-powerful Thanos defeated by something that went on to ravage the multiverse. He went back in time to recruit Thanos' brother Eros, Pip the Troll and current Thanos himself in a plan to stop that future happening. They succeeded but in fact current Thanos had been taken control of by future-Thanos to ensure *his* future happened. And Eros sneakily copied Kang's time-tech because he thought it might come in useful some time.In Thanos: The Infinity Conflict GN the controlled Thanos kept killing Adam Warlock every time he regenerated. Meanwhile Eros and Pip used time-travel and teleportation to try to kill Thanos. Meanwhile again the Living Tribunal (who since Thanos: The Infinity Finale has been another version of Adam) told Adam to kill Eros as the only way to stop future-T. He did so but Eros was rejected by Death rendering him like Adam and Thanos, 'existing outside the norm', which was LT's plan. But in the future Thanos absorbed all the cosmic beings in the multiverse including LT, thus becoming omnipotent.Now read on ...We start with repeating a scene from the end of Conflict. Thanos has absorbed Death and all the other cosmic entities and now faces the Living Tribunal and Above-All-Others and sucks them in too. As he put it then he has achieved more than omnipotence. He doesn't just *control* everything in the multiverse he *is* everything.Now Pip teleports Eros and Adam to where Thanos ought to be but they find a swirling emptiness and the Tribunal's hood on the ground. Then the giant face of Thanos congeals out of the mist and Adam realises what the mad Titan has done. Eros takes himself and Pip away through time, and Thanos tells the Troll there's nowhere and nowhen he can hide. Adam speaks up and the omniscient one is surprised to see him. Thanos says Adam and Eros are strangely difficult for him to see (which is why he only spoke to Pip just now). But now he can focus on Adam and he sucks him in as Adam cycles through his many previous incarnations/costumes (who we saw in the previous GN). Now only Eros and Pip remain to be subsumed. Apart from them he is everything throughout time, space and alternity.Eros has taken Pip to another time but of course in the same misty nowhere. Pip is angry that Eros left Adam behind, but Eros says Adam deliberately didn't come with them. They are discovered by Above-All-Others (presumably they have travelled to a time before Thanos absorbed him, even though Thanos now is all of time). Pip takes them elsewhere to escape his wrath.Next stop is present-day New York where Eros leads Pip into an Army & Navy Store. He grabs a backpack, rips head, arm and leg holes into it, stuffs the Troll inside and puts it on. Then they time jump without paying to 1921. Eros has worked out that Thanos can't sense him and hopes being closely attached to him will make Pip somewhat invisible too. Besides he can only do time jumps and Pip provides the space jumps so Eros doesn't want to take any chance of them getting separated.Eros jumps back to the present day and tells Pip to take them to Thanos' ship where they find Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight who say that Thanos left 2 hours ago after talking to a floating head. That head was the future-Thanos and this happened in Conflict. There were also a horde of Thanos' minions called Outriders who Corvus and Proxima now have forgotten. And then they too fade away. Eros figures that Thanos is wiping from time everyone who knows anything about him.Adam has found himself still himself inside the reality which is now Thanos. He locates Kang's timeship and Kang floating beside it in a transparent 'coffin'. He has a feeling Kang will be useful to counter both Thanos *and* Eros.Present day Thanos also seems to be within super-Thanos. He shares the omnipotence but isn't in control. He doesn't approve of super-T's goal but is content for now to watch and wait. He notes that the multiverse carries on its business without detailed supervision, which is just as well because trying to keep track of the very-multiple parallel timelines is disorientating, so both Thanos's concentrate on the main timeline. It seems that super-T can't achieve his end until he has absorbed *everyone*, particularly his brother. So Eros' freedom is now essential for the continued existence of reality.The 2 fugitives are now in Starlin's Bar on Knowhere with the floating head of ISAAC the Titanian supercomputer who advises them that Thanos can not now be defeated physically. Thus they have to find out what his intentions are and then outwit him by playing on his madness. Eros asks ISAAC to calculate when super-T and the universe will end. ISAAC provides the answer and Eros time-jumps there.Adam has brought Kang's coffin inside Kang's timeship. Super-T is so obsessed with his goal that he doesn't notice Adam exploring his mind and discovering his (still-unrevealed to us) plan.Eros and Pip arrive at the end of time in what appears to be a featureless white void. But then they spot super-T in the 'distance' and realise they are outside the multiverse (because outside of *him*). And super-T declares an ending, and reality/him explodes.Our duo have leaped to safety in the present on the Moon at the feet of the Watcher. They have just seen Thanos commit suicide and take reality with him. Then a hologramic message from ISAAC informs them that he won't be able to help them any more because God-Thanos has arrived to destroy him.Adam wakes Kang from his coffin. The Conqueror doesn't know how he got here. His last memory is of waiting for Thanos (presumably in orbit round Chandilar where the Titan sent him to wait in Siblings). Adam informs him that Thanos betrayed him to future-T who has now become God. He suggests the time-traveller ally with him to defeat the Mad Titan before he destroys the multiverse. In particular he wants him to pick up Eros and Pip from a point in space-time which he doesn't know yet.Adam hopes they can get away with his scheme because Thanos is still unfamiliar with omniscience, and also he's spending all his effort trying to detect the undetectable Eros. At this point he lets Kang know that Eros is time-travelling using tech stolen from *him*. Adam leaves Kang deliberately without revealing any more of his plan, and heads off to the 'darkest depths of Thanos' soul'.The Watcher is still watching Eros and Pip mope about on the Moon. Eros hopes that his 'outside the norm' status can give him an edge. He's still seeking a way to exploit his brother's madness. Despite being a psychopath Thanos has demonstrated affection for a few people like Gamora and Eros himself. Eros now plans to skip through his brother's life reinforcing the brotherly bond.Now back to Adam. Using his version of cosmic awareness he manages to locate Thanos' dark heart on a dead world. He finds a portal to the psyche in the ruins of its civilisation, but before he can step through he is accosted by the memories of his past selves. They don't want him to go there because they fear that omnipotent Thanos will obliterate him and hence themselves. Current Adam insists that the survival of the multiverse is more important than his own, and so they fight. Eventually he grabs the Soul Gem off the brow of 1 of them and steals their souls.It has been a while since Adam gave up the Soul Gem because it affected his mind. But now he figures being crazy is right for the kind of path he's following, and he enters Thanos' soul. The landscape is very Ditko Dr Strange (I even spot the G'uranthic Guardian among the portals there). He figures each doorway leads to a specific memory. The 1st shows very young Thanos with his parents after smashing a lamp with a bat. His intuition leads him to another door beyond which he finds little Hunger floating in space, in his much-reduced state after his defeat by Thanos in #1-6 of the 2003 series and his reappearance in Siblings. Adam uses the Soul Gem to give Hunger enough of a power boost to do what he did in Siblings - inconveniencing future-T but not by much.Eros and Pip are on Titan soon after Eros' birth. They run into young Thanos and Eros tells him he is his baby brother come back from the future to tell him how much he loves him. Thanos isn't impressed but Eros assures Pip that repetition will have an effect. Next they visit the teen Titan who has sicced some beasts to kill some bullies who annoyed him. Again Eros impresses on his brother how much he cares. The 3rd stop is the day Thanos fires a missile from an early spacecraft which kills many on Titan including his mother. Thanos reiterates that he doesn't care if Eros loves him.Within super-T, current Thanos detects these small temporal disturbances and that they are caused by Eros. The next 1 we see is Thanos' encounter with Drax The Destroyer and Iron Man in IM#55. Eros says he's going to continue annoying his brother until he realises he's taking the wrong path in life. Now god-T detects the time-disruptions and figures out who must be making them. And we follow our errant duo to Avengers Assemble #7 where Thanos is confronting Champion, Collector, Contemplator, In-Betweener and Stranger with a Cosmic Cube in his hand. Before Eros can do anything Pip gets sucked into 1 of several coloured balls of light floating around. Eros can't afford to lose Pip's space-teleportation so he follows him in ...... to an ever-mutating environment Pip dubs Crazyland. Their bodies are continually distorted in ways  funhouse mirrors would love to emulate, including splitting into parts. The surroundings are equally weird. Until eventually Pip is able to lock on to somewhere else and port them there. They're back on the Moon with the Watcher.Thanos within super-T is tracking them and thinks he may be able to point them in a more useful direction than trying to save his soul. He causes their next jump to take them to another time when he had a Cosmic Cube - the end of the Thanos War in Captain Marvel #33. Thanos freezes time within the battle against CM and Drax, and it is the trapped Thanos who speaks through his earlier body to Eros and Pip. They admit that they've been trying to convince early Thanos's that Eros cares for his brother. Thanos laughs and says Eros is a sociopath who cares about no-one but himself.The scene changes to Drax killing Thanos in Annihlation #4. The dying Titan tells our pair that they don't *need* to change his mind because he already disagrees with future-T's plans. Next stop is backwards to the climactic battle of the Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos stops time again and explains that future-T took control of him in order to ensure his own future came to pass. And Thanos doesn't *like* being controlled. Another jump takes them further back to another big battle in Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2. Thanos claims difficulty in freezing time while being beaten up by Thing and Thor. Eros  uses his emotion power to cause temporary fear in the foes. Thanos tells them they must free him from god-T at the end of time so he can help them.Meanwhile Adam enters another door in god-T's mindspace and witnesses Eros and Pip indeed talking to the trapped current Thanos. Thanos tells Eros to reach into his light cage and pull him out. Eros obeys and it all goes wrong. Adam withdraws from the scene as god-T materialises and thanks our Thanos for luring Eros to him. God-T was aware of what our Thanos was doing all along, and now he has taken the last soul he needs. He tells our Thanos that he only disagrees with the suicide plan because he hasn't experienced his future life yet.God-T leaves and Adam pops in again. He refuses to free current Thanos because he isn't powerful enough to defeat his future self, even with Adam's aid. He has his own variation of Eros' plan, and that requires current Thanos where he is now. He asks the Titan to trust him as they once shared trust (as part of Adam's Infinity Watch).Adam uses the windows in god-T's psyche to follow  him as he explains his motivation in a god-voice monologue. His life has taught him that existence is a fruitless struggle for supremacy over others. Concepts like love, friendship and loyalty are illusions. The only peace lies in non-existence. So he has achieved oneness with the multiverse so he can save himself and all its denizens from the horror of life by committing suicide. Current Thanos and Adam are determined to stop him.Adam now mentally contacts Kang and tells him to retrieve Eros and Pip who are on the present-day Moon with the Watcher (obviously before super-T absorbed Eros). Kang picks them up in his timeship. Adam hopes that denying Eros to super-T will upset his plan. He then leaves Thanos' mind to go to the end of time to see what happens. He finds himself in the earlier scene outside the Thanos-verse watching Eros and Pip watching Thanos about to commit reality-cide.Then god-T realises he doesn't actually contain Eros. Current Thanos senses his opportunity. Super-T *does* explode. But does he take reality with him?Adam finds himself in a black void. But then he spots a lone glowing spot. As he approaches it extrudes a 'rope' which he grasps, and he's pulled through to somewhere by Kang standing on his timeship. It seems reality has been recreated as it was before, and only Kang, Adam, Eros and Pip know anything happened because they were outside the timestream. And Adam knows why. Our Thanos was able to take advantage of future-T's lapse in concentration to take control of his suicide and redirect the energy back to the multiverse as it was. Meanwhile Kang went back in time and stopped Eros from stealing his time-tech. And he delivered him and Pip to Starlin's Bar as Adam requested.Adam heads to the Bar to join them. But 1st he gets Kang to take him to another moment in time. This seems to be an excuse to show us a moment not depicted before this trilogy (but here it is a word-for-word repeat of the beginning of Conflict). In Warlock And The Infinity Watch series Adam divided the Infinity Gems among 6 guardians to keep them apart, and he gave the Reality Gem to Thanos! This scene explains why. Thanos knew the Reality Gem was too dangerous to use alone, especially without the Time Gem to undo any errors. Thanos certainly wouldn't want anyone else to have it, and no-one would be foolish enough to try and take it from him. (It is unclear whether current Adam is meant to have influenced this choice here, because he relied on this past alliance earlier in this story.)Be that whatever it is, Adam arrives at Starlin's Bar but he sits alone, not joining the carousing Eros and Pip. The Guardians Of The Galaxy are at another table, and they notice that Adam has the Soul Gem back on his forehead, but of course they don't know how he got hold of it. (The presence of the alien Ghost from Siblings here suggests that this is supposed to be the same time as similar scenes near the end of Siblings and the beginning of Conflict.)


[Assistant] In the Infinity Relativity GN Thanos was trapped by Annihilus and Dr Bultar in teleportational limbo. He escaped by committing suicide, knowing that he would awake here in the realm of his lover Death. But it has taken 3 months for her to reconstitute him. He enters the Infinity Pool to learn what has happened while he was away.With the captured power of the new Adam Warlock (who is the embodiment of a whole alternate universe) Annihilus has defeated alien races like the Badoon, Kree and Shi'ar, killed Galactus and slaughtered the Celestials. Earth is destroyed but some survivors huddle inside the Moon. Thanos chooses to materialise there.After getting past the guardian Hulk, he finds Black Bolt, Captain Marvel, Captain Universe, Colossus, Corvus Glaive, Dr Doom, Drax, Firelord, Gladiator (of the Imperial Guard), Hyperion, Lockjaw, Loki, Mentor (of the Imperial Guard), Nightcrawler, Nova, Runner (of the Elders of the Universe), Silver Surfer, Smasher, Terrax, Thor (Odinson), Venom, some Kree and a member of the Brood.Pip the Troll is still hiding on Annihilus' mobile planet. He's been scavenging parts and has built a scanner that shows him how to get to Warlock. Who is held in a coma by the tech of Dr Bultar. Whose tech stops teleportation to/from the planet, except by his own gateways. Who we discovered in Infinity Entity is really Mephisto and is the real brains behind the whole thing. And who has just located the resistance group in the Moon.Thanos wants to ally with the resistance to kill Annihilus. They are understandably distrustful. Thanos says he can enhance the ability of a teleporter to breach Bultar's barrier. But it will be a 1-shot effect that will kill the subject. There are only 2 teleporters to choose between:- Lockjaw (the Inhuman dog) and Nightcrawler. Kurt Wagner volunteers. Thanos operates on his brain.Annilihus' planet arrives at the Moon cloaked. He wants to savour the defeat of the resistance so he doesn't just order the Moon destroyed. Instead he blocks off their exits preparatory to porting in his troops. But Surfer, Terrax, Thanos and Thor blast a new exit and the resistance escape to the surface.Battle commences with everyone else defending Thanos and Nightcrawler. Slowly our side gets whittled down. Then Annihilus notices Thanos, and Bultar sends a death ray which kills Nightcrawler but only staggers the Titan. With that hope gone Thanos joins the fight until only he and Thor stand on a mound of corpses. Then a death ray takes Thor too. Bultar has teleportation from the Moon blocked, and Annihilus finally orders its destruction.An earlier instance of Thanos arrives on the Moon together with 2 avatars of Thanos from Infinity Gauntlet days (as seen in Thanos Annual #1). The current Thanos now remembers this scene, and takes comfort in the fact that Annihilus' victory will soon be negated by the end of the universe.Meanwhile Pip has been sneaking, and occasionally reluctantly fighting, his way towards Warlock's containment chamber. He at last wakes Adam from his coma. A blaze of energy erupts from Warlock's forehead - and the universe is consumed. Including Death's realm and all the cosmic beings.Warlock opens his eyes to a white void. And Thanos who he has recreated. But Adam can't bring back the rest of the universe. Thanos says they'll have to petition the being known as Above-All-Others, who ranked even higher than the Living Tribunal on the cosmic scale. And who can only be contacted by LT.The just-gone universe's Tribunal was killed by the Beyonders, which probably made it easier to destroy. But Adam contains a whole other universe, including its LT. So he can communicate with the ultimate being. And take Thanos with him.They enter a cloudy realm and meet a being of light who to their eyes alternates between male and female, and who has been expecting them. Thanos negotiates a deal which he knows was what Above-All-Others had already decided (so he doesn't actually have to spell it out) - the creation of a universe unique in the multiverse. The deal is passed to Warlock's mind and he agrees too. The supreme being will allow them to set some things aright before the deal is activated.The universe is recreated and we find ourselves in the Negative Zone at the beginning of Infinity Relativity. Thanos and Warlock appear and uncloak Dr Bultar as Mephisto. Annihilus summons his Annihilation Wave but Thanos counters with the legions of dead from Death's realm. The dead win by sheer numbers.With a gesture Warlock imprisons Annihilus (without his Cosmic Control Rod) and Mephisto. Then he destroys the tower containing Annihilus' clone bodies, but 1st he teleports its inhabitants out. Then he releases Annihilus and devolves him to a small insect. But Thanos squashes it with his boot. Adam considers Mephisto a necessary evil, so he sends him back to Hades. But without a mouth, which should limit his future deceptions. They leave Blastaar to rule the Neg Zone.The duo leave, and Warlock checks that everything is as it should be. Finally he brings back the Earth-616 Warlock (but still in his new outfit from Infinity Revelation). then he leaves to fulfil the bargain.Thanos sends Warlock-616 to Pip the Troll, to a replay of a scene from IR which previously had Thanos instead. Thanos himself returns to his lover Death.Meanwhile the not-616 Warlock has become the replacement for the Living Tribunal that was killed by the Beyonders. He tells Eternity and Infinity that his presence will mean the outcome of 'that story' will be different now.


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This comic covers the trial of Hawkeye for the murder of Bruce Banner, and as such it parallels Civil War II #3.We start with the scene where Clint Barton gives himself up for arrest after shooting Banner with an arrow in front of a collection of superheroes including both Captain America's, Iron Man and Thor.1 month later Daredevil defeats Blizzard, Living Laser and an unidentifiable female. Then he gets a call as Matt Murdock from Evelyn Stanzler of the Justice Department to join her as prosecutor of Barton.They go to see Clint in prison. They have to leave all their belongings outside the cell because Hawkeye could turn any of them into a weapon. (Are we sure they haven't got him mixed up with Bullseye?) They offer him a plea of Mannslaughter 2, 10 years but he'd rather risk the death penalty. It seems like he wants the court to tell him whether or not he made the right decision in killing Bruce.We see Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel give her evidence on the 1st day of trial. She tells the court how she led a group of super-persons to confront Bruce Banner after the Inhuman precog Ulysses warned them he was going to become Hulk again that day and kill many people. When defence attorney Rikleen objects Judge Rappaport listens to Murdock's counter and overrules the objection.In the following days of the trial the judge continues to favour the prosecution. On day 18 they meet her in chambers to discuss whether Banner's video diary is to be allowed as evidence. It supports Barton's claim that Bruce asked him to kill him if he was about to become Hulk, and gave him a special arrow-head to do it with. The judge rules it out as hearsay.Afterwards Rikleen tells Murdock he thinks there's a government conspiracy to convict Hawkeye. 1st they rushed the trial to start in a month. Now the judge always rules for the prosecution. And he believes Stanzler is controlling Murdock's strategy - which Matt can't deny.That night Daredevil breaks into Stanzler's office at the DoJ, but (amazingly!) her stuff is all on computer without an output mode designed for the blind. But he happens to hear some heavily-armed soldiers and decides to check what they are guarding. It's a meeting where Stanzler and an aide tell Gen'l Strakofsky that the government is going to use Clint Barton's conviction to push through a new version of the Superhero Registration Act. Stanzler says she's got Rappaport and Murdock under her thumb.On trial day 20 Murdock tells the court that the prosecution is withdrawing their objection to Bruce Banner's video diary. Evelyn Stanzler is not happy, but Matt says he's ensuring a fair trial - his duty as an Officer of the Court. Stanzler tells him if he loses this trial she'll get him disbarred (again). But he's recorded the conversation.Matt still intends to do his professional best to win the case. Day 21 sees Clint on the stand. During cross-examination Murdock gets him to repeat parts of his defence again. Banner came to see Barton and told him to kill him if there was a chance of him becoming Hulk again.Murdock objects that Banner wasn't becoming Hulk on the day in question, but Barton says his eyesight (as the world's best archer) is more acute than others' and he saw Bruce's eyes turning green. Something no-one else saw, even the Inhuman Karnak. Under questioning Hawkeye admits that he had the arrow nocked before Banner came out to meet the super-group, ready to fire long before he saw the so-called evidence that Banner was about to Hulk-out.Murdock concludes by asking Barton if he thinks he did the right thing. Clint again has to admit that he doesn't know. That concludes his cross-examination, and presumably the case for the defence.The public is shown as mostly on Hawkeye's side. Tony Stark believes Clint shot too soon, but doesn't know whether he should go to jail. (Captain Marvel's comment confuses me.)Day 22 is the summations. Rikleen compares it to a robbery where the villain reaches for a gun and is shot to defend others. Clint Barton claims that he saw Bruce Banner starting to turn into the Hulk. Others didn't see it, but it causes reasonable doubt. Murdock reminds them that Hawkeye came loaded to kill. If it wasn't a mistake it was an execution. And Barton himself doesn't know whether he was morally justified.On day 23 Judge Rappaport is preparing her instructions for the jury when she gets a visit from Daredevil. He warns her to be fair. When she protests that she has been doing that he warns her about lying to him.After the verdict Matt goes to see Clint in prison to tell him about the conspiracy, and what he did to balance things out. He thinks the trial was fair in the end, but he can't say the verdict was. And we see Clint walk out a free man, but concealing his identity.


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From Far Beneath the Mirror of the Moon!
The
Cat is in a small speedboat zipping across Lake Michigan, pursued by a large
cabin cruiser. She tries to escape by zipping through a marina but crashes into
some rocks and is hurled into the water. The ship’s crew throws a new overboard
and brings her aboard. Here the comic pauses to show us the aftermath of the
last issue: the Cat had gone back into the building, changed back into her
street clothes and locked herself back in the closet to let the police “rescue”
her. After Dr. Joanne Tumolo was released from the hospital, the doctors still
unsure as to why she lost her faculties, Greer put her in a country home where
she would receive round-the clock-care. Dr. Tumolo’s lawyer Ben Richards
visited her and he and Greer went out scuba diving in Lake Michigan; while
underwater, Greer heard some suspicious noises and decided to investigate them.
So she went home early, having swiped Richards’ boat keys and returned to the
lake where she ended up in the boat chase….
So
now the Cat wakes up in an underwater dome where uniformed people are working
intently at unrecognizable tasks. She is brought before Intelligence Officer
Belag who questions her as to what she knows about them and why she dresses
like a cat. Greer refuses to answer him, demanding to know who he is and what
his people are doing. An alarm sounds, Belag dashes off, leaving a soldier to
guard Cat, who promptly knocks him out and escapes. She ducks into a side room
to avoid detection and discovers racks of US Navy uniforms and concludes this
is some sort of undercover Naval mission. She looks down into the main room of
the dome and sees that the place has been captured by pirates, led by Commander Kraken.
Kraken explains that their domed city beneath Lake Michigan would be
the perfect pirate lair and he will not take no for an answer. When the pirate
king seizes Belag by the throat with his hook hand, the Cat leaps down on him
and Belag orders his crew to fight even though their arms are tied. Cat frees
Belag who unties the others and the battle goes to the good guys. Kraken uses
his electrified hook to shock the Cat so he can make his getaway in a
squid-ship. Cat tells Belag that she knows he works for the US Government; he
is evasive so she reveals her secret identity, part of a full explanation as to
why she’s there. And she offers to keep their secret if they keep hers. Belag
agrees, Cat departs in Ben Richards’ boat, and Belag decides that they have
exceeded their basic research for the project. So they resume their original
wolf-like forms and the aliens take off in their ship for the stars. And Greer is
now mad at herself for her pride in thinking she knew everything that was going
on….


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Stampede!
Greer
Nelson has a visit from high school friend Sally and gives her the tour of
Chicago. After visiting the stockyards, they stop in at a diner for lunch. A
burly guy named Bull sets his sights on them, getting a little familiar. Greer
grabs his hand and flips him to the floor, “accidentally” knocking a mug of
beer on his head. Some other guys at the bar see this and gang up on Bull to
teach him a lesson about annoying women. After a beating, Bull drags himself to
the men’s restroom where he injects the serum that transforms him into Man-Bull.
He emerges and begins to tear up the place, bowling over the other men. Greer
puts Sally in a cab and returns as the Cat to confront the raging bad guy. Man-Bull
pauses at that moment to review his history for the sake of readers who came in
late, ending with his stealing the serum and fleeing to Chicago. Bull flattens
Cat and heads outside where he wrecks a police car and moves toward the
stockyards. Realizing she can’t overcome him with strength, she decides to
outthink and outmaneuver him. Cat uses her agility to hit him then bounce away
before he can retaliate. She flips him through the side of a barn. Man-Bull
emerges, leading a herd of steers on a stampede through the city. She hits him
a few more times, then takes a metal pipe to his head which triggers his change
back to normal. The steers head back to the pens, trampling Bull on the way.
Cat sees the police coming so she indicates Bull is the bad guy and he needs
medical help as she swings away. A cop asks his superior if they should go
after her but the detective says no, she’s handled everything well, and she
deserves her freedom to be the hero Chicago needs….
“The
Female of the Species!”Writer:
Linda Fite. Pencils: Werner Roth. Inker: Sam Grainger. Colors: ? Letters: Sam
Grainger.
Synopsis:
Marvel Girl a/k/a Jean Grey explains her powers to the readers, using
telekinesis to pick apples, bake an apple pie, and do housework. She can also
deflect weapons thrown at her, escapes from bonds and open locked doors, and
run over fire. She can levitate and use her brain power to knock out baddies,
demonstrating by tripping up a purse snatcher and attracting the attention of
men with her beauty.


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Beware the Claws of…the Cat!
On
a stormy night, the Cat climbs up the outside of a Chicago skyscraper, on a
mission of vengeance. A lightning bolt dislodges her from a precarious perch;
she fires her cable-claw which hooks onto a roof and with her foot-claws she
climbs back up. She reaches the penthouse level and tries to force her way in
through window which has steel plating behind the glass; she pushes and
suddenly it falls in, dropping her to the floor where a thug seizes her. She
kicks him in the chest and gets free but more thugs are on the way. She fights
her way through them, ripping out a fuse box to turn the floor dark, giving her
an advantage. A baddie is calling the boss on the phone and Cat seizes the guy,
demanding he tell her what the boss is up to. And then gas spews from an outlet
in the wall, putting her to sleep, where she dreams…
Flashback
1: College student Greer Grant had a cute meeting with Police Officer Bill
Nelson when she spilled her loose change in front of him. They began dating and
she soon learned that he wanted to protect her, so she learned to be helpless
around him and anytime she tried to assert herself, he would quash her. They
married and she dropped out of college; Bill discouraged any attempts she made
to have a life of her own. Then one night, Bill was killed when he intervened
in an armed robbery and she was left alone. Greer tries to find a job but she
wasn’t really trained to don anything. And then she ran into Dr. Joanne Tumolo,
her physics professor and Dr. Tumolo hired her as a lab assistant, which she
enjoyed greatly, leading her to gain confidence and self-awareness….
The
Cat is awakened and meets the Big Bad: Malcolm Donalbain, sportsman,
entrepreneur who is planning to open a chain of health emporiums. The staff
will be an army of women given powers identical to Grants by equipment based on
Dr. Tumolo’s designs, women also under Donalbain’s mental control by
will-nullifying collars. Disgusted, she shoves the thug holding her into
Donalbain who has a severe phobia about being touched. He recoils and shouts
for Zabo, his gigantic, mind-controlled henchman who hurls the offending thug
across the room. Cat breaks her bonds and fight off Zabo who turns out to be
stupid so she easily confounds him and escapes through an airshaft; at the top
she rests in the shaft while leading the baddies to think she has fled so she
ponders…
Flashback
2: Dr. Joanne Tumolo shows Greer a device she has invented to make it possible
for any woman to fulfill her physical and mental potential. She ran out of
funds and was desperate so she accepted Malcolm Donalbain’s offer to underwrite
the project. Donalbain then pressured her into using his test subject, Shirlee
Bryant. So the project continued, using the indifferent Shirlee by day and repeating
the experiments by night with the enthusiastic Greer. And Greer becomes more
intelligent, more empathetic, athletic, and skilled as the treatments
progressed. But the experiments with Shirlee are a disaster so Dr. Tumolo goes
to Donalbain’s penthouse to confront him and discovers an exact duplicate of
her equipment. She also sees Shirlee dressed in a cat woman outfit as Donalbain
put a mind-controlling collar on her, which immediately saps her will. She is
then put through her paces, fighting henchmen and climbing to the top of a
tower. Ordered to swing by her cat claw to the next tower, she loses her grip
and falls to her death. Dr. Tumolo decides to go to the police, taking one of
the cat costumes as evidence. She goes back to her lab and tells everything to
Greer, who leaves to pack a bag to stay with Dr. Tumolo. But while she’s gone,
Donalbain’s thugs, who spotted Tumolo at the penthouse, set off dynamite in her
lab. When Greer returns, Dr. Tumolo warns her that the bad guys stole her notes
and now they know about Greer before she dies. So Greer dons the cat costume
which was undamaged in the safe, and went out on her mission of revenge….
And
now Cat returns to the penthouse, overpowers some henchmen but when Donalbain
tries to contact them, the lack of response tips him off that something is
wrong. He and Zabo head to his lab where they find Cat sabotaging the
equipment. She flips Zabo into a machine, electrocuting him as Donalbain shoots
at her. The lighting shorts out, plunging the room into darkness. Cat taunts
Donalbain, noting he has only one bullet left and se is coming closer so his
phobia against being touched leads him to shoot himself. AS the place burns,
Cat escapes over the rooftops, wondering, “Have I become a stronger woman --
only to become a poorer human being?"


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The Owl and the Pussycat!
Late
at night, the Cat is on the rooftop of a Chicago hospital, sensing that Dr.
Joanne Tumolo has drawn her there. Suddenly, a trio of owl-masked baddies
descend onto the roof and attack her. She fights them, discovering there is a
helicopter waiting above them. A security guard arrives and Cat pushes him out
of the way of machine gun fire. As the police arrive, the Owl gives the order
to kill his own men to keep them out of the hands of the police and the trio of
owl-masked hoods are shot from the copter which then departs. The cops start
asking questions Cat doesn’t want to answer and she jump off the roof, using
her special claws to climb down to a lower floor. She follows her heightened
instincts to a particular window where she discovers that Dr. Tumolo is still
alive and in intensive care, her nephew consulting with the doctor and
expressing his wish to move her to another hospital. After they leave, Cat
enters and can sense the comatose woman telling her that the man is not her
nephew but a bad guy. Cat goes home to rest as Greer Nelson, reviewing the last
24 hours in the form of a four-page recap of issue #1….
The
next day, Greer goes to the hospital where she meets Arthur Tumolo, the bogus
nephew and Dr. Tumolo’s lawyer, Ben Richards. While Tumolo is out of the room,
Greer chats with Richards who tells her a) he has never heard of Arthur Tumolo,
b) Dr. Tumolo owns quite a lot of stock in a lucrative munitions firm, and c)
Greer is the beneficiary in the old lady’s will. Greer senses danger and heads
to the window to see an ambulance drive away and she knows Dr. Tumolo has been
kidnapped. She hops in her car and pursues them to a warehouse district where
she is captured by the Owl’s men. The Owl obligingly explains that he has a
device to drain the memories of intelligent people which can then be downloaded
into a device which will make Owl the smartest person in the world. Greer is
taken away and thumped on the head….
Greer
wakes up, changes into her Cat costume and picks the lock. She goes back to the
lab where she discovers the Owl reciting his business plan to the entire room
of people ignoring him while trying to do their jobs. As the smartest man in
the world, big business, government, the military, everyone will come to him to
consult on every imaginable issue. She searches the building for Dr. Tumolo,
using her heightened senses, only to discover her brain has been drained,
leaving her a mindless husk. She puts Dr. T in the ambulance to take her to the
hospital but the Owl discovers what she’s done and orders his men to capture
her. The thugs shoot out the tires and Cat careens to a stop where she
activates a fire alarm. The Owl glides down from the roof and they fight, Cat
being surprised at how powerful he is. The police arrive and Cat and the bad
guys all flee. Owl returns to the lab where he discovers Fake Arthur Tumolo
hooked up to the machine so he can gain all knowledge from his own invention.
He fires a pistol at Owl and hits the control panel, sending feedback into the
helmet, frying Tumolo’s brain. Cat heads to the rooftop where she sees the Owl
heading for his helicopter. There is a brief tussle and Owl falls from the
roof…and startles Cat by flying away….


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Jackie Estacado, vessel for The Darkness, is riding the
subway when he spots a man who has a huge green burden on him. He follows the
man to a maintenance room where the nervous fellow pulls a gun on him; Jackie
recognizes him as Bruce Banner and asks him for an autograph. Leaving the room,
Jackie gets a shock: with his Darkness power he can see that all the people on
the platform are about to die: Chechnyan terrorists have seized control of a
train and are about to set off a bomb at the station. Jackie pushes Banner into
the path of the train and he immediately turns into the Hulk and destroys it.
But Hulk knows who pushed him and pursues Jackie who conjures up demons from
The Darkness to fight the monster. But The Darkness just makes Hulk stronger
and he grabs Jackie and starts to squeeze. Then the terrorists fire a missile
into Hulk’s back which turns his attention to them. With that Hulk pursues
them, while the demons detonate the bomb (the subway riders have all fled by
now) and the demons drag off the surviving bad guys. Banner confronts Jackie
who explains what he is and advises Banner to accept his own “powers” and
offers him a job with the Mafia. Bruce declines and heads off down the tunnel.
A SWAT team arrives and Jackie directs them down the tunnel after the Hulk,
seeing in their faces that they are about to die….


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2 months ago it's Bruce Banner's funeral. As angry protesters wish him in hell, his friends gather round the grave. Tony Stark, Dr Strange, Thing and Hercules all reminisce. Ex-wife (and ex-Red She-Hulk) Betty Ross declines to speak, but Rick Jones comments on how many heroes aren't there. And he counters the demonstrators by reminding them of how many times Hulk/Banner was a hero who saved the world. In reply he gets a bottle thrown at his head.The crowd rush the police cordon, until Silver Surfer uses the Power Cosmic to share his empathy and calm them down. Then he and Dawn Greenwood fly off on his board. Everyone else leaves too except Betty, Rick and the Warbound (Elloe of Sakaar, Korg the Kronan and No-Name of the Brood, Hulk's allies from Planet Hulk and World War Hulk).Korg says they must seek out the other 4 Hulks. The Warbound will find Hulk's son Skaar. Betty will talk to She-Hulk when she wakes from her coma (from Civil War II #1), and to her father Gen'l Ross/Red Hulk in prison. Rick Jones will find Amadeus Cho/Hulk who reacted badly to Bruce's death and is on the run from SHIELD.Skip forward to after Hawkeye is acquitted at his trial for Bruce's murder.Betty Ross visits her jailed father, whose main concern is verifying that Banner really is dead. He's sorry for Bruce and Betty, but he's glad the menace Hulk is gone. And he suspects that Betty has something planned, which she denies.Skaar is living in the Pyrenees as a trapper named Santos. He returns from the wild to sell some pelts and learns about his father's death and the result of Hawkeye's trial. He goes back to the woods and turns to stone. Which is where the Warbound find him.They speak to his inert form about Hulk's deeds on Sakaar, and how his unborn son was lost on the destroyed planet but was later reunited with his father on Earth. They finally get through to him and he de-stonifies himself.Rick Jones is in 1 of Hulk's old bases in the Mojave desert. he's still not found Cho. Betty turns up and discovers him holding a big gun - and correctly deduces he wants to go kill Clint Barton. But she talks him down.Then Betty, Rick, Skaar and the Warbound are called by Matt Murdock to the reading of Bruce's will. Stephen Strange and Tony Stark are there too. And Murdock has been able to get hold of Amadeus. (Jennifer Walters is still in her coma.)It's a video will, and after a general farewell telling them not to feel guilty about feeling relief that Hulk is gone Bruce comes to his bequests.He leaves Tony the solution to a scientific problem that had been nagging him for some time.Bruce didn't believe in ghosts, but Hulk could see them and talk to them - or things that said they were ghosts. He gives Dr Strange his notes on the subject.But his main bequest is to Amadeus, Betty, Jen, Rick, Skaar and the Warbound. As well as an equal share in his fairly small estate he gives them all an equal share in the corporation which looks after his patents. Most of the money from that company goes to recompensing victims of Hulk's rampages. But there's still enough on top for a generous regular dividend for each of them.Amadeus and Jen will manage the company. But he also has some more gifts for the others individually.For the Warbound he has drawn up plans to recreate their Sakaarian stone starship which the corporation will build if they ever want to leave Earth. Betty gets the documents for a new identity if she needs to escape her wrecked past. And Rick gets Jimi Hendrix' guitar.Plus each of them gets a kitchen timer. He advises them to use his old method for controlling anger - wait 3 minutes.Betty takes her timer to sit with She-Hulk and say goodbye to Bruce. Tears run down from Jennifer Walters' eyes too.The Warbound go with Skaar back to the Pyrenees. The Warbound are content, but Skaar maybe not so much.Rick Jones plays the guitar.But Amadeus Cho can't contain his anger and bounds off as Hulk.


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Fear Itself: In the Beginning
When King Bor dies, his son Cul claims the rule as All-Father, assuring his younger brothers Odin, Vili, and Vi they shall all rule together. Years pass: Odin and the younger ones do battle with the demon horse Sleipnir but fail to subdue the beast. Cul arrives and informs the wounded Odin that the monster’s rampage is necessary to instill fear into his subjects so he can rule through his brutal warriors, the Worthy. Odin, abashed and afraid that his brother is going mad with power, visits the World Tree where he sacrifices an eye for the Tree’s wisdom. What he learns is that Cul is lost and that his final defeat will cost Odin his son’s life….
Centuries later, the now burly and white-bearded Odin assaults Cul’s stronghold on Aesheim. He single-handedly slaughters his brother’s warriors for forty days and forty nights, so that for the first time Cul himself feels fear. As the enraged Odin finally breaches the gate of the palace, Cul sends his Worthy into other worlds and other dimensions until he recalls them then faces his brother alone. Proclaiming himself the Serpent who will feast on the world, Cul defies Odin but the battle is brief and Odin is victorious. Cul—the Serpent—is imprisoned, his palace razed and Aesheim renamed Midgard. Odin took the throne as the All-Father, burning the memory of his mad brother from the Nine Worlds—and brooding about the prophecy that threatens his son….