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Betrayal
Beyonder has gone to see his friend Molecule Man in Denver. He's frustrated and angry that everything he's tried has gone wrong. And when the Big B is angry he lashes out and destroys things, including the Moon. Owen Reece talks him down, and surreptitiously repairs everything, including the Moon.Owen asks Marsha Rosenberg to leave them alone while he tries psychiatry on Beyonder (basing it on his experience being psychoanalysed). He asks him about his childhood, but all B can do about that is show him the Beyond, outside the multiverse, where he was everything that existed. He didn't know other things were possible until a pinhole opened up through which he could see Marvel Earth. He recreates that event, right down to the photons coming through the hole. Owen looks through and finds that the event which caused the pinhole was his own origin as Molecule Man (Fantastic Four #20).But he quickly brushes past that and gets Beyonder to take him through what's happened since he came to Earth. We see B near the end of #3 where he'd decided that the way people satisfy their desires is to acquire things, and so he'd conquered the world. But that was an empty victory. So in #4 he looked for love and chose Dazzler/Alison Blaire but she rejected him. Then within #5 he visited Dr Strange in his #74 and was advised to find his role in life. He tried being a superhero in #6 but that didn't work out. After thinking a lot in #7 he thought his role might be helping others find their roles, and tried that in several tie-in issues. In particular in Spectacular Spider-Man #111 Big B tried to let Puma fulfil his destiny to kill him, but Puma failed at the critical moment.They return from the time-trip to the Denver apartment, where Owen's fulfilling relationship with Marsha just rubs salt in Beyonder's wounds. He decides the only way for him to be happy is to be alone again. And to that end he's going to destroy the multiverse. Molecule Man tries to talk him down again. He suggests that it is Big B's omnipotence which makes everything meaningless. He should limit himself to being truly human. But B thinks he's just trying to get him vulnerable so he can kill him.This makes him more determined than ever to wipe everything out. Owen pleads with B to remember their friendship and think it over. Beyonder says he'll wait 24 hours. Then vanishes.He reappears in a San Francisco hotel and compels the reception to give him the best suite, throwing the current occupants out. Then in a restaurant he compels waitress Julia to accompany him back to that suite. She is completely besotted with him, but it means nothing to him. He creates a (minor) earthquake, and then just as easily stops it. He asks Julia why humans endure their bleak lives, but gets angry when she repeats Reece's idea that the knowledge of death makes each moment precious. In his exasperation he ages her near to the death she finds so important, but then relents and makes her young again to enjoy the few hours the universe has left.Beyonder also sends Julia away, sensing the approach of trouble in the form of the X-Men led by Magneto. He's not in the mood to kill them, so he uses Magneto's own magnetism to repel him, Rogue and Wolverine, and Shadowcat's phasing power to send her and Colossus sinking through the building. But Rachel Summers uses her recently attained Phoenix status to try to kill him, but fails.Big B asks her why she tried when she must have known it was useless. She says it was because he came to their city. B realises that he knew that and must have subconsciously hoped she would succeed. He leaves to mull it over.Owen Reece has been watching these developments using his Molecule Man powers. He panics and devises a plan to at least save Denver when Beyonder destroys everything else. He gathers all his energy and surrounds the city in a force bubble that he hopes will enable it to survive without the rest of the multiverse. (Making the closed ecosystem work will be a task for later.) But B arrives and smashes it open with a thought. (For some reason it breaks into physical shards which MM has to dissolve to save the citizens.)But Beyonder was only passing on his way to the southwestern desert and the Hulk. The Big Green immediately attacks the Big B and pummels him until Beyonder suspends him in midair. The last time B saw him he was Bruce Banner trapped in the Crossroads between dimensions contemplating suicide (Hu#312). Now he wanted to study that urge more closely, but discovers that Banner is no longer within the Hulk (since Hu#315). All that's left is the power without a mortal element - which Beyonder now sees as a reflection of himself. He leaves Hulk to think some more.Later Beyonder pops up in New York and sees Spider-Man swinging past. He goes to see Peter Parker in his burned-out (since Web of SM #11) apartment. (For some reason Pete opens the door in his costume with the mask off even before he knows it's Beyonder outside.) B asks P why humans have a passion for life and a fascination with death. Peter illustrates with an example:- He saw a man committing suicide by jumping off a tall building. SM swung down to save him and the falling man grabbed his hand. PP knows that the immanence of death makes life seem sweeter.Of course this answer just irritates Beyonder again. It's what he has been trying to deny. But his parting remark is that Peter may have saved the universe again. On the way out he's attacked by the New Mutants who have been alerted by Phoenix. But he dismisses them in 3 panels and goes off to think some more.Meanwhile Molecule Man has gathered up all the free energy in the multiverse, but he knows even this isn't enough to defeat Big B. So his next plan is to move himself and Marsha to hide in a personal force bubble in the Beyond-Realm, the last place Beyonder will look. But Marsha talks him into standing up to B. She has a theory that B really wants to kill Owen because he's jealous of their successful relationship. But she also thinks to herself that she's ready to take the next step herself if he fails, even though it will hurt her lover.Beyonder has finished thinking on a lonely mountaintop and heads to Denver to tell Owen that he's right - he's ready to try mortality. But Reece senses his approach and is ready for him. He attacks on sight. B tries to explain that he comes in peace, but MM won't let up. So B just stops him.But now B's paranoia is vindicated. If he'd been mortal Owen would have killed him! So now Reece must die. But Marsha throws herself at his feet begging Beyonder to spare her. Kill Owen and the rest of the world but keep her at his side. She spurns Reece as worthless. But B is disgusted and Marsha flees. Owen is curled up in a foetal ball. B kicks him and leaves, saying that the multiverse is safe for a while until it ceases to amuse him.Marsha drives off and we learn that was her real plan. Beyonder was only angry at Owen because he was jealous. By making B think Owen's perfect life was a fraud she'd saved his life. (And we also learn that B wasn't actually fooled.)Beyonder now wanders off into NM#37 and Amazing SM#274.Then, still angry at MM's betrayal, Beyonder vents energy which is tracked by the Avengers (Black Knight, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Hercules and Sub-Mariner) in their quinjet. They land and Cap approaches him. B impatiently creates a vortex which sends the Avengers and their craft spinning away. Only Cap dodges out of the way so Big B becomes truly big and grabs him.To be continued in AVENGERS #265.


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Life rules
Using his incredible power over bureaucracy Beyonder buys a property and gets planning permission in minutes. And he builds his giant new base in Sparta, Illinois even quicker. Everything inside is on a grand scale.Dave, comic fan and owner of a local newspaper, spots the towering new building and rushes over to investigate. But Beyonder has spotted on his monitors that Power Pack are in a bit of trouble and flies to help them. Dave is more astonished to see a flying man than you''d expect of an inhabitant of Marvel Earth.In New York the Pack and their friends Franklin Richards and Kofi the young Kymellian are preparing to deal with a train crash that Frank saw in 1 of his precognitive dreams. A local gang the Squids have found an alien laser gun (dropped by a Snark in PP#17) and they use it to derail the elevated train which contains their rivals the Death Angels. Gee lightens the train with his gravity control as Lightspeed tries to lift it back to the track, while Mass Master creates a smokescreen to keep the gang from shooting again.Then Beyonder zips in and solves the problem with a wave of his hand. After some words of encouragement he flies home again.Dave sees him return and tries to get his attention. He seems to be ignored until a giant scoop picks up him and his car and brings them to Beyonder. Dave starts an interview and B tells him his story, using a mento-projector to add visuals to his tale.B used to be the whole of his personal universe and knew nothing of anything else until an event opened a pinhole from Earth. What he saw interested him and he''s now here in human form to learn about life as an individual, especially about desire. He''s tried various experiences but ended up miserable with unfulfilled wants. Then he heard about Dr Strange and sought him out in DrS#74. Stephen Strange showed him his own path to enlightenment and now Beyonder is determined to become a Champion of Life.He explains that there is a continuous contest between death and life which will either end in the heat death of the universe or all the inhabitants of the universe evolving into gods. This struggle is manifest as certain cosmic beings. On the 1 side there is Death and her lovers like Mephisto. Ranged against her are Chaos, Order and Eon who represents self-preservation. The In-Betweener stands between these opposing sides. Eternity represents the sum of them all. The Living Tribunal arbitrates disputes among them.Dave only vaguely understands all this. But he does know that Beyonder is a great force for good, and wants to help.Next day B stops a tsunami from swamping Perth in Australia. Returning home he finds that Dave has recruited a whole staff to publicise his boss''s service and prioritise calls for help - and loads of other people necessary to make a large business function. Beyonder doesn''t actually need this help, but he''s glad to give Dave a purpose in life. So he just flies off to deal with a volcano his monitors have alerted him to.In Denver Marsha Rosenberg (Volcana) is preparing a meal for her returning lover Owen Reece. Molecule Man is deliberately leading as normal a life as possible, working at a low level at the local nuclear energy plant. But when he gets home he''s angry at Beyonder''s latest scheme - it''ll all end in tears. As Marsha consoles him the dinner burns. But MM uses a tiny bit of his power to fix it.But as they eat Uatu the Watcher turns up to get Owen''s help. Reece ignores him so he has to explain himself to Marsha (and us readers). He''s 1 of an ancient race dedicated to observing the events of the universe but not interfering. He saw Owen''s miserable life leading to an earlier low job in the nuclear industry. He witnessed the accident that unlocked the power of Molecule Man - an incident which he claims rocked the multiverse.But Reece''s insecurities made him unconsciously limit his power. When he 1st appeared in Fantastic Four #20 the FF were able to defeat him and Uatu took him away. The Watcher now says he strengthened Owen''s mental blocks and allowed him to escape. MM continued as a limited villain until Dr Doom destroyed the blocks in Secret Wars I #11, and Owen Reece became the most powerful being in the multiverse. Luckily the love of a good woman (and the earlier counsel of Tigra in Avengers #216) mean that he no longer wants to use his power for evil.Uatu says that Beyonder is a great threat to the multiverse, and his race have agreed that intervention is necessary this time. He begs Owen Reece to stop his friend before it''s too late. But Molecule Man sticks by his own non-interference policy.Meanwhile Beyonder feeds a starving African village, diagnoses a mystery illness in Pittsburgh and solves the energy problem of an alien race in another galaxy. But when he returns home he''s still not sure he''s found the right role. He sees on the monitor that the Dark Elf he gave a boost to in #4 has reached New York and calls himself Kurse. He''s seeking Thor but has found Beta Ray Bill instead - and they are fighting. But B doesn''t know what to do - Kurse is only seeking to fulfil his desire to kill Thor.But his musing is interrupted by a visit from Captain America and Mr Fantastic. MrF is worried that people will come to depend of Beyonder to solve all their problems. Cap is worried about the erosion of freedom his constant surveillance threatens. But Dave uses the mento-projector to show them what he thinks they''re really worried about - B making them redundant.Beyonder assures them he''s thinking about what they said. The duo leave - Cap hopes B will do the right thing, Reed Richards isn''t sure there''s anything they can do if he doesn''t. The monitor shows that Beta Ray Bill has reverted to his civilian alien form in defeat, and Kurse has left him alive now he doesn''t seem to be Thor.Beyonder and Dave hold a press conference. There are so many reporters from all over the world that they won''t fit in the huge conference room, so the meeting is held in the even-huger concert hall. B is talking modestly about his aims when Dave interrupts and asks for a demonstration of his power. So his boss temporarily cancels gravity in the room. Showman Dave then boasts that Beyonder won''t stop until he''s vanquished death itself. B makes that a promise, and the reporters rush out to file their stories.Afterwards Beyonder studies the workings of the multiverse for a few minutes and says it can be done. It will take a bit of preparation, and many details will have to be settled afterwards, but he can remove death.In his hellish realm Mephisto is worried. If Beyonder kills his lover Death then it will cut off his supply of souls.Next day B and Dave are in a restaurant. B is explaining some of the finer points of no-death. Nothing will be able to eat meat obviously. But also they can''t eat plants either, because plants are alive. This prohibition will extend even further down the chain - the whole basis of life will change.They meet Death (in her hooded woman form) and Beyonder puts a large amount of his energy into a cup of wine. When Death drinks this she herself will die. By this point Dave is having 2nd thoughts.But at this point Mephisto invades the room with a horde of demons. He inflicts pain upon Dave to stop Beyonder. But B easily frees his friend and dispatches the demons. Dave''s 2nd thoughts are also dispatched - if Mephisto is against it, it must be good. So he grabs the cup and prepares to throw it at Death.But then there''s another interruption. The Watcher arrives with the cosmic beings mentioned earlier (Eon is in a humanoid form), plus Gardener of the Elders of the Universe and One Above All the leader the leader of the Celestials.The In-Betweener speaks for them all when he says that ending Death would be a catastrophe. But Dave thinks that like the super-heroes they''re just worried about their ''jobs''. Eternity now speaks as the sum of everything in the universe and adds his plea. Beyonder warns Dave that with his power diminished by the amount he transferred to the cup he won''t be able to reverse the effect. But Dave hands the cup to Death and she drinks - and disappears.Mephisto and the others sense the effects rippling through the multiverse. And in Denver Molecule Man notices that a vase of wilting flowers has sprung back to life. he realises what Beyonder has done and teleports to the restaurant. He asks the cosmic beings to leave while he talks to Beyonder and Dave.Owen tells B that he''s made life pointless. Why bother to strive to do anything now? And then he leaves in disgust.Dave''s 2nd thoughts are back with a vengeance. He pleads with Beyonder to put everything back the way it was. B says the only way to restore Death is by killing something, and not even he can do that now. The only way is if someone is willing to die to become a new Death.Dave realises he''s at last found his own destiny. He offers himself, and with extreme effort Beyonder kills him. And Dave transforms into Death and goes about his business.Later Beyonder demolishes his new HQ. He plans to retire to somewhere much less public. And maybe do Champion of Life stuff in minor ways from now on.


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Love is the answer
Last issue ended with Beyonder going to see Murdock & Nelson about a legal way of getting control of the world. They convinced him to give that idea up in Daredevil #223.He's obviously gone on to explore other things as we find him in his hotel suite kissing rich socialite and actress Sharon Ing who's in her underwear (we are left to read into that what we want). But now he finishes getting dressed, says it was fun but he's leaving now and he won't be seeing her again (even though he's leaving her in his own rooms). She's devastated.Beyonder gets into his sports car and causes it to fly off. Meanwhile he records his thoughts about his investigation into desire. He scans all living creatures on Earth for their desires and finds most are boringly predictable. But he has found some exceptions.He detects the Dark Elf Algrim trapped in an underground lava pool in England after a fight with Thor in Th#347-348. The armoured body is kept alive by an all-consuming desire to kill the Thunder God. B mentally rescues him and gives him improved armour and power. The being senses his foe in America and starts walking across the Atlantic floor.Beyonder also finds 2 unusual desires together. Cindy Adams is a little girl who wants to get rid of the Dire Wraith in her brain. And her friend Brandy Clarke wants to be a cyborg spaceknight so she can be with her love ROM.Others he spots are Thing who's life is up in the air since he quit the Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer who wants to break through the barrier that keeps him on Earth, Ronald Reagan who wants some tax changes, and Captain America who wants the world to live the American Dream.The Air Force pick Beyonder's car up on radar and send some jet fighters to investigate. They report a man in a Lamborghini dicing carrots in a cuisinart (a habit he picked up last issue). They are ordered to attack and a missile wrecks the back of the car. But the man just gets out and walks through the air and takes the plane that fired, making it invisible to radar to avoid further interruptions. And the pilot is delivered to the ground in the damaged car.B flies to Denver to see his friends Molecule Man and Volcana. They welcome him but Owen Reese gets rid of the plane because he doesn't want to draw attention. And Marsha Rosenberg leaves for dancercise class.Beyonder wants Owen to explain about love. Owen says he didn't know until he met Marsha. Love means caring deeply about someone for who they are, without expecting anything in return. If you're lucky the other person feels the same way. B thanks him and teleports back to his hotel ........ where he finds Sharon dead from an overdose of barbiturates. A note informs him that she couldn't live without him. But he brings her back to life and asks her why she loves him. Her reply indicates that it's the great sex, which he doesn't think meets Owen's criteria.He says he's searching for real love, and conjures up the images of random people who might be the 1. Sharon points out that some of them are men. Beyonder points out back that his natural form doesn't have a gender, and he could just as easily manifest as a woman - and he demonstrates.But then he reverts to male and restricts his selection to females (1 of whom might be Peter Parker's Aunt May) who's love can't be bought. And selects Dazzler because she may also be the most powerful mutant on the planet. He dismisses Sharon and she leaves in tears.Alison Blaire has been arrested by bounty hunter O Z Chase. She's going willingly to clear up whatever she's wanted for. But Beyonder teleports her out of Chase's truck to a domed habitat he's created on an asteroid.She's angry and confused and blasts him with her light rays, but the Big B transmits a brief resume of his life into her mind:- He existed in a universe where he was all there was. An event opened a pinhole into the Marvel U and what he saw interested him. So eventually he came to Earth, took human form and started to experience things.Now he wants to experience love and he's chosen her. Dazzler says she normally likes to get to know someone before falling in love with them. Beyonder agrees and takes the dome on a tour of 'some of the more interesting places in the galaxy'. But Alison asks to be returned to Earth.Ever willing to oblige he transports them to an igloo in the Antarctic and invites her to get warm with him under a bearskin. She's not happy about this arrangement either, so she next finds herself in a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park with B as the driver .... and also as a jogger who offers her flowers, and a man in a suit who does the same.Next stop the carnival in Rio de Janeiro. And a café in Paris where he gets privacy by becoming all the people around them. And then finally real solitude on a (not snowy) mountain peak. All the while Alison has been rejecting all this showy (but flattering) attention. It's all too much for her - she just wants normality.Beyonder remarks that her 1st reaction was to fear him, just as humans now fear her since she was outed as a mutant. In #1 various heroes including herself attacked him in Los Angeles. And he knows that in his ignorance some of his early actions were a mistake. But now he just wants a chance to court her. He's looked into her soul and seen beauty. They kiss.Next morning she wakes naked in a bed in Beyonder's South of France mansion. The maids tell her she was asleep when the master brought her home last night, and they put her to bed. She goes down to breakfast where B tells her to enjoy what the house has to offer. He'll be back soon - he's just popping out to get her a gift (without just magicking it up).He teleports to Edmonton, Canada where Alpha Flight have just ended a fight with Omega Flight in AF#27. As usual for superheroes they attack the unknown, but Beyonder uses minimal power to defend against them. Shaman held back but now reaches into his magic medicine pouch to find something to use against him.But that pouch is exactly what B is here for. He takes it and enlarges it enough to retrieve Michael Twoyoungmen's daughter Talisman who got trapped in it in the AF issue. He figures this good deed is enough to earn him the right to get something else from the bag - a ring for Dazzler's finger.But when he 'ports home he finds Alison Blaire leaving. She turns down the ring and says she's going to get a flight to New York. So Beyonder just zaps them both there. But she still doesn't want to stay with him - she's got her musical career to get on with.Suddenly she's fronting her band at a large venue. B says he did this all properly - booked the place and sold tickets (but he must have used time-travel). But this still isn't real, and she makes him put them back on the NY sidewalk.Suddenly the Avengers (Black Knight, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Hercules, Starfox and Wasp) show up and agree with Dazzler that Beyonder is too powerful - too powerful to leave free. Despite her protestations they attack him. He easily beats off most of them but Starfox subdues him with his pleasure power. They threaten to kill him but Dazzler stops them and B takes them back to their mountain top.But now she has time to think Alison realises the Avengers weren't acting in character. Beyonder admits they weren't the real deal, just figments of his power. But it showed that she cared about him. She admits that, but says it would never work between them. He's omnipotent and she's a mere human.B says he can fix that and gives her half his power. They are now both cosmic beings, and merge like that. But then Alison pulls away and flies off. He catches up with her but she fights him off and wills the power away.Unfortunately she's in mid-air and now plummets to the ground with a fatal 'thrak'. B realises she's dead, but worse - she didn't love him. His frustrated grief/anger destroys a distant galaxy. But then he calms down and restores her to life.When she recovers Alison immediately professes her love for him and suggests they get married. But after a few minutes Beyonder takes her away from the crowds and admits that he's controlling her mind. But that's not what he wants so he stops the control. Except he makes her forget most of what happened and just remember that they had a good time. He'll return Dazzler to her life and try to forget her.


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Earthfall
A being enters this universe and heads for Earth. His crashlanding in hills outside Denver is seen by Owen Reese, who just returns from his balcony to rejoin his sweetheart Marsha Rosenberg watching a Hogan's Heroes rerun. But then the TV goes off and there's another loud noise. Large chunks of hillside are flying past the apartment.Marsha turns into Volcana and blasts 1 of the chunks apart, but also sets fire to their carpet. Owen uses his Molecule Man powers to douse the flames, and then leaps out into the passing rock storm. He locates the spot where he saw the landing and levitates that piece of hillside to him. Standing on it is a humanoid form that MM recognises as the Beyonder.In Moira MacTaggert's home on Muir Island in Scotland the recuperating Charles Xavier wakes screaming that the Beyonder is here. The New Mutants (Cypher (mistakenly with black hair), Legion, Mirage, Warlock and Wolfsbane) run to him and Prof X tells Moira to take them to (relative) safety with Magneto and the X-Men. But he faints while trying to telepathically contact others (possibly the Illuminati).But the message gets through to Captain America, who's on a commercial flight from London to New York. However Prof X could only locate the danger somewhere in the Western US, so Cap uses Avengers Priority to divert the plane to Los Angeles.En route he recalls the events of Secret Wars I. The extradimensional Beyonder created the Battleworld planet and transported superheroes and supervillains to it. He pitted the 2 sides against each other, promising to grant the wishes of the survivors. Dr Doom ignored the subsequent war and instead stole the Beyonder's own power. But human Doom couldn't control the power, and the Beyonder reclaimed it.Back in Denver Owen and Marsha are playing host to Beyonder, who's taken a musclebound form with a composite costume modelled on many supercharacters. He says he's come to Earth to understand life. Owen agrees - understanding set him free. Since he gained his powers (Fantastic Four #20) he let self-doubt limit his control over molecules, but in SWI#11 he learned that he could do anything (which he demonstrates by turning a sculpture into an apple). But now that he knows he's omnipotent he's content with a simple life with Marsha.Beyonder's lack of knowledge reduces his use of language to an almost Hulk-level but with bigger words (strangely he was more fluent in SWI). He expresses a desire for experiences. Marsha suggests LA as a place you can experience everything. Owen suggests a less conspicuous body. Beyonder leaves, and the couple settle down to watch a Laverne and Shirley rerun.At the X-Men's Westchester school Colossus and Nightcrawler face Magneto who has received a psychic message from Prof X to come and lead the team in this crisis. They also got the message, but when the rest of the X-Men (Rachel Summers, Rogue, Shadowcat and Wolverine) burst in they're all very unsure about trusting a man who's tried to kill them multiple times. But they agree to follow him (but keep on the lookout for treachery).Their private plane is being repaired so they face a long drive out west. But Magneto uses his control of magnetism to levitate their limousine there.It's very early morning in LA as Beyonder arrives as a floating ball of energy. He overhears Stewart Cadwall, a writer for a TV cartoon and other TV series, complaining to his agent on the phone that he's sick of writing unrealistic violence - he wants to write realistic violence. Beyonder enters the apartment of Stewart and his girlfriend Marian and takes the form of Owen Reece, complete with the facial scars from Owen's origin accident.Beyonder's dialogue has improved. He explains that in his dimension he's all there is. Now he wants to understand how things can be separate and different. He demonstrates his omnipotence by turning Stewart's desk and computer into a pile of apples.The X-Men have arrived in LA too, so that Magneto can interrupt a secret gladiatorial combat amongst mutants. He persuades New Mutants Cannonball and Magik to come with him, along with Dazzler and Lila Cheney. But Magma and Sunspot of the NM elect to stay - and those were who the others came to rescue. Magneto says the Beyonder is more important, and asks Rachel Summers to locate him telepathically.Cadwall diagnoses Beyonder's problem - he can do anything he wants but he doesn't know what he wants - more, he doesn't even understand what wanting is. Stewart suggests that if Beyonder wants to see what it is to have a desire fulfilled he should give him a superpower. Beyonder zaps Stewart and the Shazam award he's holding, turning him into golden-armoured Thundersword with his magic thunderbolt. Thundersword  leaps out of the apartment into midair, and his winged horse Boromir appears beneath him. They ride off into the sunrise and Beyonder follows as energy.The whole X-pack are in the (apparently enormous) flying limo and Rachel is scanning the whole of western US for the Beyonder (they don't know he's in LA). She is hampered by not knowing what she's looking for, and by her ex-Hound's dislike of using her telepathy to hunt someone. But she does detect the power of Thundersword and they guess that he's Beyonder.They find him trashing NBC Studios. As Cannonball and Rogue prepare to fly to attack he slices through the car with his thunderbolt. Magneto holds it together magnetically and uses Rachel to mentally pass on his commands. He sends Cannonball after their foe, and Nightcrawler, Rogue and Shadowcat to outflank him. But Thundersword scatters them all. Colossus and Wolverine catch hurtling Cannonball as he crashes through a MacDonalds window. Stewart Cadwall decides to destroy that symbol of mediocrity too. And accidentally sets fire to a next door motel, which Rachel telepathically empties of guests.Meanwhile Captain America is heading this way in a cab.And in the West Coast Avengers HQ Tony Stark and James Rhodes are working on a new Iron Man armour. They hear about the battle and Rhodey dons the current IM suit and sets out to help.Cap arrives and saves a mother and son from the motel. Then he notices Magneto and Dazzler and hopes they'll follow up on his next action. He throws his shield at Thundersword, who parries it with his thunderbolt. The resulting klang (plus other noise) powers Dazzler up to emit blinding light at the enemy. And Magneto throws used cars at him. But Cadwall treats them with the same disdain he has for the rest of American culture.A chunk of broken car stuns Lila Cheney. Rachel tries to mentally check she's OK but there's some source of psionic interference messing with her abilities (which  also prevented her checking Thundersword's identity earlier). She mentally probes for the source of that, and finds the real Beyonder who now appears as Owen Reece again.He's most interested in Magik. He reaches into her heart and turns her into her demonic self Darkchilde. Panicked Illyana Rasputin summons a stepping disc and takes Cannonball, Dazzler, Kitty Pryde and Rachel to Limbo.While Cap continues to fight Thundersword, Wolverine thinks Beyonder has taken the youngsters away and he attacks him while Magneto, Lila Cheney and the other X-Men try to restrain him. Logan stabs Beyonder with his claws, and Lila uses her power to teleport them away. Cap is distracted by this (that never happens!) allowing Thundersword to knock him down.But as he's about to strike the killing blow Iron Man joins the fight and blasts him. And Cap recovers and strikes too. Then IM carries Cap away, and simultaneously detects that the thunderbolt sword is Thundersword's power source. So they dive back and Steve Rogers throws his shield to knock the sword out of the villain's hand. (And Jim Rhodes is a bit disconcerted when Cap calls him Shellhead.)The golden-armoured superguy reverts to chubby Stewart Cadwall and the flying horse vanishes. Beyonder ignores his pleas to turn him super again. He's more concerned with the realisation that being stabbed by Wolverine was an experience but watching Cadwall wasn't, so now he will seek personal experiences. And he disappears.Cadwall too has a realisation - he's just destroyed NBC Studios (and offpage the animation studio) that he writes scripts for. Captain America leaves Iron Man to hand him over to the police, and suggests recommending psychiatric care. They can't do anything about the Beyonder now. Steve will call Charles Xavier to report what's happened to his X-Men.But Steve doesn't realise that part of the invisible Beyonder is following him. (Another part will follow Rachel Summers around.)


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Ceremony Part I
Twenty years ago Carlton Beatrice spent time on the Keewazi reservation and mastered the male side of shamanism but not the female side. But he also learnt to steal and consume souls, enabling him to acquire female shaman energy. (He killed Wyatt Wingfoot's aunt Miriam, who also had shamanic powers.) Since then he has become head of Carlton Industries, and has also been gathering totems that will enable him to steal all the female energy in the world. He now only needs one more totem, a basket.Carlton can't steal the basket or buy it, he must be given it. It is currently in the possession of Wyatt Wingfoot's grandmother Roberta Elk Step. She sends it to Jennifer Walters, anonymously without explanation. Jen instinctively rejects Carlton's offer to donate any amount she wants to charity if she will give him the basket.Jen and Wyatt had a romantic relationship when She-Hulk was a member of the Fantastic Four, but they broke up. Wyatt is still living in the Baxter Building, and is just starting a law degree.The basket is supposed to bring Jen and Wyatt together, so that Jen can be Wyatt's spirit guide in his vision quest, and also provide the balancing female energy. Jen feels her biological clock ticking. She and Wyatt both regret splitting up. The basket's influence gets mixed up with this, so that first Jen asks Wyatt to be a surrogate father, which he rejects, and then Wyatt asks Jen to marry him, which she accepts.Jen meets Mavis, an old friend from law school, when an abortion clinic is bombed. Mavis gives Jen advice and organises her bridal shower with Wasp and Invisible Woman. There are other Avengers/Fantastic Four female guests: Captain Marvel II, Scarlet Witch, Tigra (probably Alicia Storm, and possibly Crystal).Carlton's second in command Michael Souris sends a Native American demon Anung-Ite to kill She-Hulk and steal the basket (humorously with a to-do list memo). Needless to say it doesn't work, but the fight makes Jen too late for her bridal shower.Carlton has a jar of wafers, which are souls he has stolen. Every now and then he eats one. Carlton is angry with Michael because She-Hulk must give him the basket willingly. He steals Michael's soul as punishment, but I don't think he eats it because Michael is still around to obey his commands, here and in the 2nd issue.Jen and Wyatt go to see Roberta Elk Step and Wyatt's sister Rain Falling West. Roberta explains that Carlton Beatrice sees himself fulfilling an unspecified prophecy. Only the chief of the Keewazi can stop him, using shaman magic. Wyatt should be the current chief, but he has declined the honour and doesn't believe in shaman magic.


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Ceremony Part 2
In issue 1 She-Hulk and Wyatt Wingfoot got engaged. But they have to protect a Keewazi basket from Carlton Beatrice, head of Carlton Industries, who wants it as the last totem he needs to fulfil a prophecy.Carlton Industries owns the factory where the Keewazi Indians work. Carlton has stolen their souls and uses their zombiefied bodies to bring Jen, Wyatt and Wyatt's sister Rain Falling West to him. She-Hulk can resist him, and Rain is presumably following in her grandmother's shaman footsteps. But Wyatt doesn't believe in magic, allowing Carlton to steal his soul.Carlton has the Keewazi souls in a jar. Jen empties the jar into the basket, freeing the souls to return (as butterflies) to their bodies. But Carlton still has Wyatt's soul, and threatens to eat it, killing Wyatt. Jen gives him the basket in return for Wyatt's soul.Wyatt disappears with his grandmother Roberta Elk Step to learn shaman magic.Carlton Industries has won the legal right to mine the Keewazi Reservation. She-Hulk tries to stop the Keeeazi being thrown off their land. The government sends the army and specialised robots to fight She-Hulk. Carlton has convinced them that she has become as dangerous as the Hulk. They capture She-Hulk and Carlton Industries takes the Reservation.Wyatt and Roberta return, presumably from a place where time runs very differently. Wyatt has long hair and is a shaman. She-Hulk escapes from the army.Carlton has zombiefied the Keewazi again, and uses them as a human shield around the Reservation. But Wyatt's new power gets him and She-Hulk through the wall. Carlton sends two demons like last issue's Anung-Ite to stop them. She-Hulk takes them on, leaving Wyatt to tackle Carlton.Carlton uses the gathered totems in a ritual to become Husband to the World, which allows him to steal the souls of the whole world. He intends to eat all the souls, giving him supreme power.Wyatt intercepts the beam of power from the basket to Carlton. But as a male shaman alone he won't be strong enough to hold the power. She-Hulk joins him, and together they send all the souls back home. Carlton disintegrates (but with a typical horror film ending paving the way for his return in a sequel, when his soul flutters off unnoticed as a black butterfly).Wyatt and Jen realise their engagement was (at least mostly) a side-effect of the basket bringing them together. They decide to part. But Jen will use her legal talents to help get their Reservation back.


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Tin can heroes, part 4: A prehistory of violence
In the advanced Mutate base in the Savage Land, Brainchild explains his plot to his captives James Rhodes and Tracy Skylark. He's increased the size, strength and ferocity of an army of dinosaurs (who look like T-Rexes). He couldn't do anything about their brains, but he's given them cybernetic implants. And he's built a giant artificial brain which communicates with these implants and grants them a telekinetic ability. He originally intended to use them to conquer just the Savage Land. But now he plans to conquer the world, and take revenge on his long-time foes the X-Men.Then Skylark nuts him.Meanwhile rescue is on the way. As the dinos chow down on the remains of 2 other Sentinal Squads and 2 of our spotlighted Squad, our team has sent in a cloaked Stealth Sentinel. It's piloted by claustrophobic Nathaniel Briggs with the teams 2 mutants as passengers - Alex Lexington and Jeremiah (Meld) Muldoon.Jake Slayton is coordinating things from his Recon Sentinel. And when the Stealth Unit attracts some unwanted attention he remote-pilots the other 3 working Sentinels to provide a distraction (leaving Rajani Dhama and Emil Winston behind - and Emil's Unit was damaged last issue).Lex and Meld take the opportunity to exit the Stealth Sentinel and make a dash for the Mutate's hi-tech base. Lex's electric discharge disables a keypad and gets them inside before the 3 other Sentinels are taken apart by the dinosaurs.The pair then run into a load of Mutates. Lex's energy discharge shocks them, allowing our heroes to run away. Meld then hides them by warping the metal corridor wall into a hiding space. And the Mutates run right past them.Meld takes the opportunity to tell Lex his life story. He was abandoned as a baby on a miltary base, and raised by the government. Who didn't know what to do with him, so eventually stuck him in the Sentinel Squad. Lex promises to give Muldoon some choice in his future. If they survive.Meld does some more melting to give them a direct line to the centre of the base, where they find Rhodes and Skylark, and Brainchild still unconscious on the floor. He then warps their metal shackles to free them. Jim takes his armour from where the villain had been examining it, and destroys the artificial brain. So the dinosaurs lose their telekinesis and are no longer under anyone's control.The 4 exit via Meld's hole. Outside they find Sentinel bits but no dinosaurs. Jeremiah turns and melts the whole base down. Then they realise that Briggs and the Stealth Sentinel have gone. Slayton's Recon Sentinel can't detect him anywhere.The 4 rendezvous with the 3 in the Sentinel graveyard. They set about using the broken parts to make a working Sentinel that is an improvement on the originals, thanks to Prof Winston's ideas. Meld fuses pieces together, and Lex acts as a power source for the result:- a Sentinel with 4 arms, 2 heads and a missile battery. The reduced super-dinosaurs are no match.But Briggs has returned to base and reports to Gen'l Lazer. He's still angry about losing his command last issue, and is jealous of Lex for being better than him. He gives Lazer a biased account of last issue. That Lexington disobeyed Steele's orders and took their Squad out of the battle, leaving the other 2 Squads to die. And that Lex is a secret mutant.


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Tin can heroes, part 2: Growing pains
Alex Lexington's Sentinel takes down Galactus with a couple of blasts and breaking his neck (as if!). All the while James Rhodes is kibitzing from his man-sized armour (even after Lex swats him like a fly). But Lex forgot about the Silver Surfer, who destroys the Sentinel and kills him. But of course its a virtual reality training system operated from inside a mock-up Sentinel. Commander Rhodes' praise is blunted by a reminder that this was supposed to be a defensive exercise.Jake Slayton wants to know when they'll get to pilot real Sentinels. Rhodes replies when they stop dying in the simulations. Slayton also bitches about having to learn hand-to-hand combat. Commander Rhodes reminds them that the Sentinels will respond to their control, and will only be as fast and accurate as they are.He also tells them (and us) more about their future. Once they're active they'll be living and sleeping within their Sentinels for 3 months or more. Special suits will stimulate their muscles to prevent atrophy, and they'll get some bi-weekly out-of-armour time. Nathaniel Briggs appears worried by this.Rhodey discusses the team with Assistant Director Val Cooper, who reminds him that he has carte blanche to drop anyone he wants. Jim is worried about Slayton's attitude, but he thinks he can whip him into shape. He's more concerned that this team is being pushed harder than previous ones. He also wonders about the mutant Meld (Jeremiah Muldoon). Cooper says Gen'l Lazer has special plans for him. (We get to see Meld's metal-moulding ability.)Val in turn says that she and the General are doubtful about Lexington's prior discipline problems and Rajani Dhama's temper. Jim defends both of them, but counters that he'd really like to fire Emil Winston, who is a scientist not a soldier and in his opinion unstable. Cooper replies that they need Winston's cybernetics/AI skills, and he only agreed to join if he could drive a Sentinel.She ends by announcing that the team will be going on their 1st mission.Corporal Briggs leads a team consisting of Dhama, Lexington and Slayton. The 4 robots look the same to me, but Slayton claims to be in a Brawler, Dhama is in a Recon model, and I think Lex is in a Stealth unit. (It isn't shown as invisible as 1 will be in #5, but the Hydra agents who turn up don't seem to see it. But then most people seem to be ignoring all of them.)The job is to guard 1 of the Senators who backed the Sentinel Squad O*N*E program, but who is now a target for Hydra because of his anti-terrorism stance. They are working with SHIELD who have learnt of an imminent assassination attempt.Lex complain that this isn't the kind of thing they signed up for. Briggs snaps at him to shut up, because he's claustrophobic and it's getting to him. (In that case why did he ever volunteer to pilot a Sentinel in the 1st place?!) Nat tries to disguise his discomfort by asking about Lexington's operational status. Lex reminds him that Dhama is monitoring them all from her Recon Sentinel. (The males seem to like taunting her by calling her Joni instead of Rajani.)Dhama detects 2 armed Hydra agents near (invisible?) Lex, who grabs them. But another agent approaches (and sees) Slayton, apparently carrying a doll. That agent is also a suicide bomber, who detonates his explosives. Jake's Sentinel is unharmed, but the 'doll' has grown much bigger.The Sentinel and the doll trade blows, the doll getting bigger all the time. Rajani interrogates their database and realises that this is a Growing Man. It's an android that absorbs kinetic energy and uses it to grow. By the time she tells Jake, the Man is bigger than the town centre.Briggs is frozen as the other 3 Sentinels combine blasts, but only make matters worse. In return the Growing Man rips Slayton's Sentinel apart and then stamps on it. Lex decides to risk exposing his mutant status. He uses his power to charge up his Sentinel, and applies the energy directly to his foe's head. The Growing Man collapses and shrinks.Rajani detected what was happening, but Lex tried to bluff that he managed to activate something in his Sentinel. I think his action also destroyed his Sentinel's arms (but if so then a word balloon is misplaced).When the dust has settled Val Cooper and her boss Gen'l Lazer turn up. Lazer dumps the blame for the devastation, and the loss of a Sentinel, on Cooper, because she and Rhodes assured him the team was ready for such a simple job. Val tells Briggs to bring his team to a debriefing next morning to work out what went wrong.Several times during the operation team members asked Briggs for orders, but his claustrophobic panic meant he was unable to answer. He tries to blame it on problems with his comms, but Dhama says her monitors reported it working. Briggs tries to divert attention by asking how Lex's Sentinel killed the Growing Man.Val tells them all to shut up. And they watch as Slayton is stretchered away from his broken Sentinel. He's lost his lower legs.


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Tin can heroes, part 5: Creep mission
5 surviving Sentinel Squad members (Rajani Dhama, Alexander Lexington, Jeremiah (Meld) Muldoon, Jake Slayton and Emil Winston) return to base with their patched-together Sentinel and the 2 Squaddies they rescued from the Savage Land (Commader James Rhodes in his man-sized 'Iron Sentinel' suit and Tracy Skylark). Prof Winston says he's retiring from Sentinel piloting to return to what he's best at - designing improvements for them. (The bosses never wanted him to pilot a Sentinel anyway.)But the returning heroes are met by Gen'l Lazer and some military police who want to arrest Lex. Cpl Briggs got back before them and reported that Lex disobeyed the orders of his superior Sgt Steele, and Steele and 2 other Squads are now dead. Plus Lex is a secret mutant.Jim Rhodes intervenes, saying that Lexington saved the lives of his team plus Rhodey and Skylark. Lazer backs down, but promises changes.3 weeks later Briggs is back in charge, now promoted to Squad Captain. Skylark has joined our Squad. Briggs is going to lead them on a mission to save a village of mutants in Ecuador, who are being menaced by the mutated Sentinels of Cassandra Nova.But meanwhile Val Cooper reviews the current Squad makeup with Gen'l Lazer, with the changes this issue and #3 (Rajani Dhama switching to a Brawler Sentinel, Jake Slayton taking over the Recon unit). Cooper claims that Lexington showed leadership ability, and has the respect of his teammates, while Briggs has neither. And supposedly she and Rhodes have a free hand in organising Squads. But Lazer says there is 1 overriding rule - no mutants in positions of authority.The Squad faces the Nova Sentinels like huge insects, which seem reluctant to attack fellow Sentinels. Lex wants to try to communicate with them, possibly order them to cease their attack on the mutants. But Briggs prefers the direct approach. He blasts 1, and then the other insectinels turn on the Squad.Now the Squaddies are forced to fight, and even Lex uses his mutant electrical power to fry them. The other mutant Meld makes his Sentinel exude tentacles which grab the flying bugs, and then his power can melt them too. Slayton detects human life signs in the church basement. Skylark's Sentinel breaks in and rescues a load of kids. The battle is ended, but the children are orphans.Earlier in the issue Meld said he would wait for the right time and then desert, to get the freedom he's never had his whole life. Only Lex and Slayton know about this, and support it. Meld indicates that the time is now. Slayton tells Briggs he's picked up a news report from Quito about 5 more Sentinel bugs heading there. Sensing an easy victory in front TV cameras Briggs orders Slayton to accompany him there.Meld is going to stay to look after the mutant children. He doesn't want them brought up by an uncaring government as he was. Rajani and Tracy are miffed that they weren't let in on the plan. But they readily agree to tell the bosses that Jeremiah was killed when some more insect Sentinels appeared.Presumably that all goes to plan. We now skip a month to M-Day, and Lex wakes up to find he's no longer a mutant. He joins the rest of the Squad hearing that it's happening all over the world. Val tells Jim that Lazer is 'worried' about the safety of the remaining mutants, now that they are heavily outnumbered by enemies. And Sentinel Squad O*N*E is going to do something about it.As the Squad prepare for their new assignment we learn that Lex is now in charge. Lazer is unhappy because he thought he'd made it clear that he didn't want Lexington to be given command. Val Cooper reminds him that he said she could do what she wanted as long as she didn't give the job to a mutant.The Squad leave Rhodey welcoming a new set of recruits, and fly their Sentinels to the X-Men school.


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Tin can heroes, part 3: Savagery
We finally get to see the mission to the Savage Land promised in #1. But James Rhodes has led a different team there, ending in disaster.Some Savage Land Mutates find the shattered Sentinels, and extract the living. 4-armed Barbarus picks up Rhodes and Amphibius takes Skylark. They find another recruit who's still alive but too far gone, and Brainchild tells them to leave him. When they've gone a dinosaur pops in for a snack.Meanwhile back at the Sentinel Squad base it's the debriefing the morning after last issue's debacle - a devastated town, Jake Slayton in a wheelchair, and 2 wrecked Sentinels (Slayton's and I think Lexington's). But Assistant Director Val Cooper zeroes in on how Lex managed to defeat the Growing Man with an inexplicable surge of energy from his Sentinel. Lex is saved from having to admit he's a mutant by the intervention of obvious mutant Meld. He says he was angry after an argument with Lexington and used his metal-melding power (only a little bit) on Lex's Sentinel. So that probably caused a (lucky) power overload. (We also learn that Muldoon has a special Sentinel which is designed to actively respond to his power.)Cooper says this would normally get him thrown off the program. But he'll just get a black mark on his record. (The other students wonder why Meld gets special treatment. We know from last issue it's because Gen'l Lazer has plans for him.)She then moves on to ask why Cpl Briggs didn't coordinate the team's actions. (We know it's because he was paralysed by claustrophobia.) Nathaniel repeats his lie about his comms failing. But he immediately switches to the attack and blames the absent Commander Rhodes for sending them on a mission when they weren't ready.Cooper responds by telling Briggs he'll be replaced by a new unit commander. And Jim Rhodes is M.I.A. with another Sentinel Squad in the Savage Land. The remains of that team's Sentinels have been brought back to base.As the recruits survey the wreckage, Alex Lexington thanks Jeremiah Muldoon for the save, and apologises for being nasty to him in #1. We hear that Rajani Dhama has been reassigned from a Recon Sentinel to a Brawler type, to channel her aggression. And legless Jake Slayton appears to take her place. And their new squad commander Sgt John Steele will take the full team to Antarctica.In the Savage Land Sgt Steele makes it clear he's going to rule this rookie squad with a will of iron. He's led them to a hi-tech base that is believed to be occupied by the Savage Land Mutates. They also see oversize T-Rex-type dinosaurs with the electronic gizmos on their heads that we were shown in #1.Their objective is to rescue any survivors of Jim Rhodes' team. It turns out that Steele has 2 other squads here, and his plan is that all 24 of them wade into the patrolling dinosaurs. He's confidant that they'll be more than a match for the reptiles, despite what happened to the previous team.At 1st things go well. Then Steele ups the ante by calling on Pvt Williamson in his special Ballistic Sentinel. Williamson launches a barrage of guided missiles. But suddenly he loses control of them, and they hit other Sentinels, including that of our squad's Prof Emil Winston. He himself survives, but he deduces that the dinos are telekinetics, as well as their physical enhancements.Briggs freezes up again, and his Sentinel has to be rescued. Lexington infuses his Sentinel with his electrical power again (as last issue), and fries the brains of some nearby dinosaurs. His teammates realise that he's a mutant.Lex wants his team to use the opportunity to escape. But Steele demands they all stay and fight. Until a dino telekinetically tears his Sentinel apart. Then our 6 remaining Sentinels (including Winston's being carried) make a strategic retreat, as everyone else becomes dino-fodder.Briggs is incensed at Lexington effortlessly taking the command role he lost. But the rest of the team back Lex, who exits his Sentinel and suggests they continue their rescue mission without the armour.


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The Sentry & Hulk
At the base of the Statue of Liberty the Hulk stands with several other heroes, and feels fear. The Void is coming and the Hulk is the one he hates the most. Hulk sees the Sentry overhead and in the dim recesses of his brain recalls the way things were supposed to be… He remembers how Bruce Banner was exposed to gamma radiation and transformed into the violent angry Hulk; how the Sentry—whom Hulk calls Golden Man—arrived to save the day; how they discovered that Sentry’s golden aura calmed the Hulk… so Sentry made Hulk his partner, promised to find a cure, said, “As long as you stay close to me you’ll have nothing to fear.” Bruce learned to control his transformations and he became a hero with his partner the Sentry. Then they encountered the mutant misfits known as the Lobster Men, and for the first time, Hulk was accepted for the person he was. Then it all went wrong: the Void attacked and when Hulk touched him, his life changed; he was no longer a hero, but struck by a series of bitter moments: abused by his father, hunted by General Ross, watching Betty die, afraid to kill himself to end his misery, coming to a solitary end in the distant future. The Sentry vanished that day as the Void swore his eternal hatred for the one Sentry loves. Thus the Hulk became the hated, feared, rampaging monster he is today, as he waits for the Void to destroy the last remnants of his soul.


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Where Will All Come Home
After a long time, Bruce Banner returns to the New Mexico cave lab he and Rick Jones constructed back in the early days to retain the Hulk at night. Banner hopes to find useful devices but there's nothing of value. Suddenly, a tremor knocks rocks from the roof. Banner looks refuge inside the special chamber and gets trapped. Stressed due to lack of air, he turns into the Hulk. The man monster pounds the door but to no avail since it was built to resist his attacks. So, he starts lashing his power against the thick cave walls instead. He insists for hours without success. Banner's personality is pessimistic. But Hulk doesn't give up. When there is almost no breathing air left, Hulk notices water entering from a newly created crack. Such strengthened him, pounding the floor hard, causing the wall to break apart, letting the lake water in. Struggling, Hulk reaches the surface to finally breath. As the transformation takes place, Hulk reminds Banner that he cannot be defeated. And Banner realizes that the monster he is so tired of, has saved his life once again.Also in this story (flashbacks): Rick Jones, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Giant-Man, Wasp. “…Even the Beast Hates!” 4/5
Writer: Jim Starlin. Art: Tom Grindberg. Letters: John Costanza.Synopsis: The Werewolf (by Night) is running free in the Catskill
Mountains when he comes across the body of a small child, slain by a pedophile.
The next day, Werewolf’s instincts lead Jack Russell to identify the culprit in
town. Pretending to be a man with similar tastes, Jack, reminded of a man who
molested him as a child, invites him to his motel room, only to turn into the
Werewolf and pursue him through the town and the woods. The molester,
discovering what a real predator is, flees in panic, finally leaping off a
cliff. “I may be a monster but there are things even the beast hates.”

“Foul Tip” 4/5Writer: Keith Giffen. Pencils:
Keith Giffen. Inks: Andy Smith. Letters: John Workman.Synopsis: Hearing that
Doctor Octopus has hired A.I.M. to build him a weapon, Spider-Man invades their
hideout and beats them up, overcoming all of their devices, including a huge
robot. When he demands to know where Doc Ock is, the A.I.M. agents are confused
as they are working for Viper. Spidey realizes he got the address wrong and
departs….
(No title given) 4/5Writer: Bob Layton. Art: Bob
Layton. Letters: John Workman.Synopsis: The
Silver Surfer locates a desolate planet, suitable for Galactus to feed on. A warship
suddenly appears out of hyperspace and attacks the Surfer. The Surfer fights
back and confronts the lone occupant. He is Skarrzz, scout for the galactic
warlord Kallreich the Unconquerable, and his desire is for Galactus to kill him
and the Warlord both. Skarrzz was forced to serve Kallreich in exchange for the
villain’s sparing his homeworld but now the blood on his hands has become
unbearable and he wants them both to die. He hoped that the Surfer could put
off summoning his master until Kallreich had arrived. The Surfer rejects this
idea, being beyond emotions such as pity or compassion. Yet a spark of Norrin
Radd’s conscience remains in him and soon Kallreich lands on the planet—moments
before Galactus arrives. The Silver Surfer realizes that Skarrzz was a better
judge of the Surfer’s soul than he realized and that his own day of reckoning
is approaching….
Pin-Ups
Colossus by Bart Sears
(frontispiece)
Thor by Arthur Suydam
Viper and the Silver
Samurai by Mike Dringenberg
X-Men by Andrea Di Vito
and Sandu Florea
The Thing by Claudio
Castellini
Nick Fury by Lee Weeks
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Free Fall
Black Widow meets with a
band of Russian mobsters by literally dropping into their open car from above. They
offer Natasha her mother’s diary, offering to tell her of the family she never
knew. But it’s a trap, as she realizes at the last minute, leaping from the car
as the seat she was occupying is riddled with bullets. She confronts the
gunman, a huge armored killer called Vindiktor, part of a group of patriots out
to assassinate the Black Widow for defecting. As she nabs the diary, the
Vindiktor reveals a burned face, while claiming to be her brother, persecuted
for his class and forced into a life of crime while she led the life of a
crimefighter in America. Nat leads the armored giant on a chase to the top of a
water tower, only for his weight to plunge him to his death. Natasha escapes
and finally looks in the diary to find it blank, a fake used as bait for their
trap….
“Limited Intellect!” 3/5Writer: Bernie Wrightson.
Art: Bernie Wrightson. Letters: Bernie Wrightson.Synopsis: Hulk fights a
T. Rex then a giant scorpion and then a huge dragon which he slays with a magic
sword. He then makes his way into a hospital room where a man suffering from
total body paralysis spends all of his time recording his memories onto a combination
EEG/VCR that has gone on the blink—but he can’t make Hulk understand because of
his limited intellect. Hulk sizes up the situation and slaps the TV on the side
which makes the picture come in more clearly. The old man thanks him; Hulk
replies, “Limited intellect.”
“A Man’s Reach…!” 3/5Writer: Steve Ditko, Len
Wein. Plot: Steve Ditko. Art: Steve Ditko. Letters: Michael Higgins.Synopsis: Pepper Potts
and Happy Hogan arrive at the warehouse lab of Dr. Andre Armond for a meeting
with Tony Stark only to find the place has been taken over by crooks led by a
hooded man. The scientist is unconscious as his assistant Morris has betrayed
the boss and is stealing the plans for a disruptor. The superpowered henchman
Longarm, so called because of his mechanical arms stolen from Doc Ock’s lab,
overpowers Happy and they kidnap Pepper. Iron Man is elsewhere, stopping a gang
of hijackers but one shoots Shellhead with a ray that disrupts his armor,
causing several malfunctions. Back at the office, Tony is called by Happy
telling him what happened and is worried that Armond’s invention could be a
weapon to defeat Iron Man. Happy locates the villains’ hideout and Iron Man
goes over to rescue Pepper but he is caught and shot with the Disruptor which
causes his armor to seize up. While Longarm is beating him, Tony reroutes his
circuits and everything is working smoothly again and he beats up Longarm while
Happy takes down the normal hoods but the hooded leader gets away….
Later at the office, a
group of important clients stops by and Pepper recognizes one man’s voice as
that of the masked leader. He is captured so Tony and Happy go out to celebrate
while Pepper chooses to stay and get caught up on her workload….
“Devils & Angels” 4/5Writer: Ron Marz. Art: Brian
Stelfreeze. Letters: ?Synopsis: Perched atop a
cathedral by a cemetery, Daredevil watches an old man stand before the building
and remonstrate with God about taking away his friends, his wife, his health,
and his eyesight, ending by breaking up his white cane and asking to die.
Daredevil descends and tells the man that God has a purpose, that he is not
alone, a lesson he himself has learned. The man looks for his white cane so DD
hands him his and offers to help him home….
Pin-Ups:
The Punisher by Rodolpho
Damaggio (frontispiece)
Frankenstein vs. Wolfman
by Tom Grindberg
Thor by Cam Smith
Wolverine by Joe Bennett
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The Good Old Days, Conclusion
At his wrongful death trial, Steve Rogers has just admitted
that everything in Harold Fogler’s dying statement is true. Counsel for the
Plaintiff Matt Murdock asks Steve if he is admitting guilt; Steve denies it and
Matt rests his case. Steve’s lawyer Jen “She-Hulk” Walters asks him to supply
the missing facts. Steve relates how his pal Sam Fogler asked him to accompany
him to Los Angeles
to look for Sam’s wayward brother Harry. When they had located him and were
captured by the gang Harry was running with, it turned out that the hoods were
being recruited as traitors by Nazi agent Saurespritze. The villain ordered
Sam, Harry and Steve to be executed but Steve stood up to Saurespritze, mocking
the Nazi pretensions to superiority and upholding the American fighting spirit.
Saurespritze responded by killing Sam. Jen then asks Steve why the Nazi was not
mentioned in the police reports; Steve states that it is classified….
Later at the office, Patsy Walker, in her Hellcat outfit,
hands over the secret file she swiped from the government. It reveals that
moments after Saurespritze had killed Sam, FBI agents raided the meeting,
capturing the punks, rescuing Harry and Steve. The lead Agent suggested that
Steve, despite being 4-F continue to try to serve his country and hinted at a
secret experimental program…. Jen sees this as the perfect way to close the
case—but Steve won’t allow her to reveal classified information….
The next day, the two lawyers present their closing
arguments and Steve is acquitted of the charges. Later, Steve tells Matt and
Jen that the case was orchestrated by his old enemy Dr Faustus to tarnish the
name of Captain America,
so Steve involved the two sharpest lawyers he knew to clear his name
permanently. She-Hulk and Daredevil then accompany him on a visit to Faustus.
The two younger heroes take on the baddie’s goons while the elderly Steve
clobbers Faustus….
Epilogue: Jen returns to Brooklyn
with Angie Huang and Patsy where they find her office has been broken into—and
Titania is there, waving the Blue File….


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The Good Old Days, Part 2
Former Captain America Steve Rogers is now an old man being
sued for wrongful death in a case from 1940. His attorney, Jennifer “She-Hulk”
Walters has just discovered that counsel for the plaintiffs is Matt Murdock. The trial begins….
A policeman recounts the dying declaration of Harold Fogler:
how he was involved with criminals in 1940 Los Angeles and his brother Sam came out to
try to persuade him to return home. Sam was accompanied by his pal Steve
Rogers, then a weak little man. Sam and Steve were captured by the gang and
threatened with death; Steve started trying to talk his way out. The gang
leader threatened to kill Sam if Steve didn’t shut up, but Steve kept talking
and Sam was slain. The police record of the incident mentions Steve saying
“This is all my fault” A military historian shows that Steve Rogers volunteered
for the Super-Soldier experiment one week later. Jen is unable to find a flaw
in any of this testimony. Later at the law office of Matt Rocks (a duplicate of
Jamie Madrox), Jen suggests to Steve that she try to get Matt Murdock thrown off
the case as he is a longtime friend ad associate of Steve’s but Steve doesn’t
want to win on a technicality. Jen contacts Patsy Walker—on a mission as
Hellcat for the case—but she has nothing to report yet.
That night, Jen is awakened by Daredevil knocking on her
window. He invites her for a late-night run and dashes off. He leads her on a
wild chase over the rooftops and when she finally nabs him they talk about the
case. DD reveals that he took the case because Steve asked him to, insisting he
do his best to win. They part, both puzzled as to Steve’s motive….
The next day in court, Matt puts Steve Rogers on the witness
stand—and he immediately states that everything Harold Fogler said was true….


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The Good Old Days, Part 1
Prologue: An elderly man in a hospital makes a deathbed
confession….
Jennifer “She-Hulk” Walters arrives at her Manhattan law office with her latest client,
the now-aged Steve Rogers, formerly Captain America. Her staff, Angie Huang and
Patsy Walker, are thrilled to meet the legendary hero. Getting down to
business, Steve explains that he is being sued for wrongful death over an
incident in Los Angeles
in 1940. Jen starts looking for loopholes but Steve tells her he does not want
to win on a technicality, he wants his name cleared. Since she is not licensed to
practice in California she phones Matt Murdock in San Francisco requesting to
be attached to his firm for the trial; Matt is agreeable until he learns the
details, then he brushes her off, to Jen’s surprise….
Soon, Jen, Steve, and the team are taking a Stark jet to LA
where they are mobbed by reporters; Jen has to Hulk out to scare them off. They
head to the office of local lawyer “Matt Rocks” (a duplicate of Jamie Madrox)
to use his firm for a base. After several days of intensive preparation, the
trial date finally arrives and Jen walks into the courtroom ready for anything…
…except for the discovery that the opposing attorney is Matt
Murdock….


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Cosmic Collision
A huge lady villain, Unum, invades the planet Yor, kills its
heroines, and moves on….
Valkyrie appears to a female soldier in an Asian war zone to
tell her she will not survive the battle but she is destined for a place in
Valhalla. Val fades away….
She-Hulk and her Skrull partner Jazinda, working for Freeman
Bonding, Inc., are pursuing a merc called Max Farrell. They corner him at a
construction site; he asks for three days to see his daughter be married. Jen
refuses but Unum suddenly appears, intending to kill Shulkie and Jazinda. A
punch nearly kills Jen; Jazinda tries to protect Jen from their enemy’s deadly energy
beams but they are suddenly beamed away. Unum knows the Elder behind this and
vows to catch up with him. Farrell, left alone, skulks away….
Jen and Jazinda find themselves in a modest-looking house. Valkyrie,
Thundra, Invisible Woman, and Storm appear and greet Jen but Jazinda is gone//having
been teleported away to another location where she meets Lyja, Gamora, Quasar (Phyla-Vell),
and Mantis//and a disembodied male voice informs the Earth women that she has
been transferred to be with her own kind. They demand to know what’s going on
and the voice tells then he has saved their lives from Unum. The women leave
the house for the nice green yard but walk into a force field. The two heaviest
hitters, Shulkie and Thundra, try smashing through but it doesn’t yield….
Their protector, revealed to be the Collector, monitors
their doings but Unum bursts into his control room and accuses him of coming
between her and her prey….
Mantis advises Quarar to insert her Quantum Sword into their
force field//Shulkie suggests that Valkyrie try to pierce the field with her
sword Dragonfang. Sue uses one of her own force fields to enlarge the hole
slightly and Storm fires lightning through the hole and the barrier is broken,
the two parties of women find themselves in the same place. Then the Collector
drops into their midst and Unum follows, ready to kill all her prey at one time.
The massed heroines fight their common foe and do poorly. Shulkie learns from
the Collector that Unum is powered by Enmity which Phyla-Vells explains is a
member of a family of seven cosmic beings who are a law unto themselves. Mantis
seizes Unum but by accident, Phyla-Vell’s sword pierces Shulkie, Mantis, and
Unum. Jen and Mantis meet Enmity in space, who explains that Unum is a gestalt
being, an amalgamation of multitudes of minions of powerful beings including
Annihilus, the Magus, Dormammu, and countless others, who appealed to Enmity
for deliverance from their masters. As a single being, they can indulge their
hatred of superpowered being and the glory goes to Enmity, starting with female
heroes and proceeding to the male—and Enmity enjoys it. But Jen tells Enmity
that she understands Unum: she is tired of being used for the purposes of more
powerful beings—and Enmity is no different except that instead of some lofty
goal like conquest or egomania, Enmity is manipulating her simply for
entertainment. So Unum impales Enmity on her spear and the cosmic villain blasts
everything back the way it was…
…Mantis and She-Hulk are nursed back to health by the Collector
and eventually Jen and Jazinda are returned to the construction site they
vanished from; the later learn that Max Farrell did indeed turn himself in
after his daughter’s wedding. And Valkyrie returns to the battlefield to find
the Sergeant dead….


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The Siege of Asgard - Phase Two
At the siege of Asgard, Ares finds himself in combat with King Balder, telling the Norse god he is getting what he deserves. Heimdall appears to correct him, proving he has been deceived by Norman Osborn….
As Osborn and his Dark Avengers stand over the fallen Thor, a rocket hits the madman full in the chest. It was fired by Maria Hill, who lays down covering fire so a local guy named Jason can load the unconscious Thunder God into his pickup and whisk him away to safety. Elsewhere, Steve Rogers, Captain America, has assembled a team of heroes to head to the rescue of their friends and to overthrow the dark reign of Norman Osborn.
In Asgard, the betrayed Ares challenges Osborn to battle but the demented Sentry rushes to his master’s rescue and, after a brief struggle, kills the God of War by ripping him in half, to the shock of all who witness it.
At the Avengers Hideout, the heroes prepare for action: though both Steve and Bucky will be wearing the Captain America colors, Bucky insists Steve take back his shield. Jarvis gives Cap a small suitcase for Tony Stark. Nick Fury tells Phobos that he must stay behind because of his age and because he is Ares’ son. They set out in an ultra-fast SHIELD transport….
In Broxton, Wolverine (Daken) is on the trail of Maria Hill and the wounded Thor. Suddenly he is immolated by a bolt of lightning from the Thunder God. Osborn orders the Sentry to kill Thor…when the villain is contacted by Taskmaster, advising him to turn around. Osborn turns and we see reflected in his armored faceplate a red-white-and-blue shield coming closer….


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The Siege of Asgard - Phase One
The warrior Volstagg leaves Asgard to adventure on Earth like Thor—so Loki advises Norman Osborn that the brave but naïve warrior can be manipulated into causing an incident that would be a pretext for the invasion of Asgard. In Chicago, Volstagg apprehends a fleeing robber by slicing the man’s truck in half with his sword. Then, according to plan, the Asgardian hero is attacked by the U-Foes, supplied by the Hood for Osborn’s purposes. The villains lure Volstagg to Soldier Field during a football game and fire their force powers at him; the hero deflects them, causing the destruction of the crowded stadium and a high casualty count. With the images of the dangers of the Aesir portrayed graphically across the media, Osborn persuades a reluctant Ares to draw up a battle plan which he presents to his Dark Avengers. When the President learns of his plans, he orders Osborn to stand down, but Norman refuses, proceeding with his siege….
In Asgard, hovering over Broxton, Oklahoma, Loki informs his brother Balder (the king) of the impending attack. As the news media (alerted by Osborn) broadcasts live, the Sentry begins to crash through the walls of the city, followed by an airborne attack by the Dark Avengers. In Broxton, Dr. Don Blake tends to the gravely ill Tony Stark, who is guarded by ex-SHIELD head Maria Hill. When the attack begins, Blake excuses himself, transforms into Thor and flies to the defense of his home. Thor is knocked out of the sky by the Sentry and the Dark Avengers and U-Foes fire on him simultaneously. The report that Thor has been defeated is broadcast over the airwaves—and reaches the attention of Steve Rogers, Captain America….


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The Siege of Asgard – The Fallen
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The Siege of Asgard - Intercepted
At the White House, the President orders the military to Oklahoma to put an end to the siege of Asgard and arrest Norman Osborn. But the Avengers and their allies have already arrived on the scene—as Captain America’s shield hits Osborne in the face with a resounding "Clang!" Cap’s and Nick Fury’s teams aid the embattled Aesir against their foes, when suddenly the Hood enters the fray with his own team of supervillains. Meanwhile, in nearby Broxton, Thor and Maria Hill have been discovered by the Sentry—who proves to be impervious to the Thunder God’s most powerful attacks. Hill keeps guard over the wounded Tony Stark, as Speed of the Young Avengers delivers the case Jarvis sent on the mission. Watching from the White House War Room, the general in command orders his troops to take down HAMMER—and jets fire upon the villains’ Helicarrier. Cap and Osborn are locked in combat when the madman’s Iron Patriot armor is shut down—by Iron Man who has entered the field. Helpless, Osborn commands the Sentry to destroy Asgard—which the insane superbeing does, shattering the buildings with a series of piercing attacks until the foundations crumble and the towers fall. Under arrest, Osborn is stripped of his armor, revealing that he is wearing Green Goblin facepaint under the helmet. The raving supervillain tells the assembled heroes that he was the only one who could control the Sentry—and in the skies overhead, the Sentry is transforming into the all-powerful, malevolent Void….


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This issue runs in parallel with Dark Avengers #15 with many shared scenes with different contents. There are also connections to the Siege: Loki 1-shot and Avengers: Initiative #31.It opens with Norman Osborn sitting on his bed as his Green Goblin mask gives him advice about Asgard. (Siege: Loki will let us know it's really invisible Loki doing the talking.) Asgard the city is currently hovering a few feet above the ground outside Broxton, Oklahoma and the mask says it's obviously there flouting his authority. He must assert that authority and do something to get rid of it. Norman wants to consult Loki but the mask tells him not to trust the Trickster God. Osborn is persuaded.The next scene is in Avengers Tower. Bullseye and Moonstone are asleep in their (separate after being reprimanded in DAv#14) beds. Osborn is in his Iron Patriot armour (sans helmet) in a meeting room with Loki, Hood and Taskmaster waiting for the only other remaining member of the Cabal to join them. Doctor Doom seems to arrive via Cosmic Cube, but it might be some other technology or magic.As usual Doom impatiently asks what Osborn wants *this* time. And who is the extra member - Osborn introduces Taskmaster (inducted in Av:I#31 to swell the dwindling ranks). Doom immediately takes over the agenda and tells Osborn to stop making moves against his ally Sub-Mariner. (This would be the attack on the X-Men and especially Namor in Dark Reign: The List: X-Men.) Norman responds that Namor and Emma Frost need to be punished for betraying him and the Cabal (in the Utopia crossover). Doom accuses Osborn of turning on any 1 of them who displeases him. Norman counters that he helped Doom regain Latveria as promised (DAv#1-4) and now he wants to help Loki take over Asgard and take it away from Earth. Doom says he'll help but he wants Osborn to 'produce' Namor 1st. (But Osborn doesn't *have* Namor - he and the Atlanteans are living under the X-Men's new home on the artificial island Utopia.)At this point Norman decides it's time to take back the initiative and bring Doom into line. He summons his secret weapon (which DAv#15 reveals is Sentry's dark half the Void in his nonhuman energy form) who blasts Doom against a wall. Iron Patriot dons his helmet as things heat up. Loki advises *his* ally (as seen in issues of New Avengers) Hood to leave, which he does by magic. Doom blasts back but hits Taskmaster (which puts him in hospital as seen in Av:I#31, which also has a Taskmaster's-eye view of this meeting). Void blasts Doom again and the armoured form falls.But it's not Dr Doom it's a robot which emits a horde of flying robot bugs which invade the whole Tower. (Loki is unaffected, probably intangible.) Osborn contacts Victoria Hand and orders a complete evacuation. We see her telling the Dark Avengers present (Bullseye, Daken, Moonstone and Venom) to go to the quinjet on the roof despite Venom wanting to stand and fight.Iron Patriot's armour AI can't find a way to combat Doom's (probably partly magic-based) attack. (At this point DAv#15 shows us Osborn ordering Void to switch to Sentry (and to Bob Reynolds who I believe doesn't know the Void interludes happen).) We then see Sentry bringing his wife Lindy Reynolds to join the others on the roof, and asking what's going on. He drops Lindy off at the quinjet and flies off to see if Norman is alright. IP is still trying to shut off the power to the bugs when Sentry arrives, rips the collapsed Doom robot in half and smashes the halves together. There's an explosion and all the bugs fall to the floor.Patriot picks up 1 of the bugs which opens a communication channel to the real Dr Doom. They exchange threats and the bug self-destructs.The final scene has Osborn talking to a hologram of the President who refuses permission for him to invade Asgard. When the conference is over Norman turns to Loki who has a plan. He reminds Norman how Civil War I was started (via the Superhuman Registration Act) by the Stamford incident. He says he can arrange such an incident to make the public demand a war on Asgard.


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Bear Any Burden
As Norman Osborn, HAMMER, and his Dark Avengers lay siege to Asgard, a young couple (Jimmy and Susie) in Oklahoma decides their ticket to fortune lies in snapping photos of the conflict to sell to the media. Leaving their teenage daughter Madison to watch her little sister, they drive off. Moments later, the TV warns residents to evacuate the area so Madison takes Kim and drives to find her parents. She arrives just as Sentry destroys the citadel and the family is enveloped in a massive dust cloud….
Captain America (Steve Rogers) rises from the rubble, having been protected by his shield, which Bucky returned to him. He sees James Barnes—the new Captain America—at the mercy of the killer Crossfire. The former partners get the drop on the villain and lay him low. Just then, Jimmy runs up seeking help for his wife and children. After sifting through the rubble, the Caps discover the injured Susie but can find the children. They look up to see the girls held hostage by the assassin Razor-Fist. As the stalemate lengthens, Madison elbows the villain in the groin and he responds by slashing her neck. While Steve performs first aid, Bucky takes on blade-handed enemy. Razor-Fist gets Bucky at his mercy and pieces his hand with a blade. Fortunately it’s Buck’s bionic hand and he is able to punch out his foe. The impact causes a precarious wall to fall and he narrowly rescues Susie and Kim. Razor-Fist seizes this moment to attack but the two Caps are able to take him down. As they see the family off in an ambulance, they return to continue with the rescue of those trapped in the rubble.


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With the gods having returned to Asgard in Oklahoma, Loki is disgusted with the status quo and decides the city needs to be burned clean. After this he whispers into the mind of Norman Osborn that destroying Asgard will cement his place in history as a great leader. Loki then returns to Latveria to find the homeless spirits of his henchmen, killed by Balder in THOR GIANT-SIZE FINALE #1. They cannot go to Hel since Hela no longer has a place for them. Loki then traps them to lure the Disir to him. The Disir were the Valkyries of Bor the mighty; for the sin of cannibalism, they were cursed to wander the world able to feed only on the wandering spirits of gods. Since the spirits of gods would be in either Asgard or Hel, these women would wander for eternity, unable to feast. Now that Loki has provided a meal for them, the Disir appear and feast on the dead rogues. Loki would bind them to his service and when they object to slavery, they attack him but he defeats them and forces them into his thrall.
Loki then approaches Hela who without her Hel can only let the dead wander; Loki proves to her that the Disir are no myths and offers to find her a new abode. Loki goes to Mephisto and demonstrates the power of a single Disir against a mighty demon; he makes his proposal: deed a corner of Hell to Hela for 1001 years and Loki will grant him the services of the Disir for 101 days. Mephisto and Hela sign the agreement—and Loki signs as well, freeing him from being tied to either Asgard or Hel. And with that matter taken care of, Loki then moves ahead to create all the mayhem he can ….


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Norman Osborn is alone in a meeting room in Avengers Tower when Loki pops up beside him. (This is presumably just after a meeting of the Cabal because Norman says "I thought you'd left".) Loki says he could sense something was bothering him and Osborn admits to not understanding Asgard or why it's currently here on Earth (outside Broxton, Oklahoma). Loki tells him about the Nine Realms:-Alfheim (home of the Light Elves)Nidvallir (home of the Dwarves)Jotunheim (home of the Frost Giants)Svartalfheim (home of the Dark Elves)Hel (realm of the dead)Muspelheim (home of the Fire Demons)Vanaheim (home of the Vanir)Midgard (Earth)Asgard (home of the Aesir)Which doesn't really answer his questions.Osborn doesn't know whether to believe him but Loki says he's the God of Mischief not the God of Lies. He uses mischief as a tool/weapon to achieve his ends, but in this case his ends and Norman's coincide. The city of Asgard doesn't belong on Earth, and human and Asgardians are a danger to each other. So Loki urges Osborn not to back out of their alliance to deal with the situation.


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Young Phobos (Alexander Aaron) is in Nick Fury's secret base #21, Providence, watching news reports of the invasion of Asgard (in the Siege limited series). (Fury took the rest of the active Secret Warriors with Captain America's forces to oppose the invasion in Siege #2, but he wouldn't let Alex go along.) Now he sees his father Ares, Olympian God Of War, being torn apart by Sentry (later in Siege #2). Those 2 warriors were supposed to be on the same side, as part of the US Government forces led by Norman Osborn.He remembers a conversation with his dad (probably from the same period as the flashback in SW#10 and the end of Ares (2006) #5 where the pair are bonding while recovering from the events of that series). Ares says he will die in battle eventually, and it will be up to Alex to ensure that death was honourable and seek any necessary revenge.So Alexander hacks into Nick Fury's database and looks up details of secret base #23, Memorial, which has access to the White House.Now we flashback 4 hours to Cap's team preparing for the assault. We see Hellfire, Quake and Stonewall of the SW team, alongside Captain America, New Avengers Luke Cage and Spider-Man, and Young Avengers Stature, Vision and Wiccan. Daisy Johnson (no relation) sets it up so Nick Fury can communicate with Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) in the thick of the conflict in Asgard. Nick's image will be transmitted to Osborn, but with no background to hide the rest of the forces from the foe. Steve Rogers will use a 2nd headset to see what Fury sees, but his presence won't be made known.They see Iron Patriot leading his troops, in particular the Dark Avengers Ares and Venom (Mac Gargan) and the U-Foes Vapor and X-Ray. Fury says he's coming to get Osborn, and Norman assumes it's just him (and maybe the Secret Warriors). He's going to get a bit of a surprise.Back in the present Phobos has sneaked into the White House via a secret passage. He's soon found by Secret Service Agents who are lulled by his age (10-12 years) into ignoring the samurai sword at his back. Until he uses it on them.In Asgard now Cap and Fury are fighting the full set of U-Foes (including Ironclad and Vector). Vapor possibly flies off elsewhere, and Nick puts Vector down. He then takes time out for a swig from a hip flask. Cap turns the offer down and continues battling Ironclad and X-Ray. Nick invites Steve Rogers to the next get-together of surviving Howling Commandos. Vector revives as Fury puts his flask away so Nick hits him again as Cap finally bests the other 2.Back at the White House Alex is up to his neck in Agents. Loads more are evacuating the President to the Marine One helicopter. More Agents arrive at the fight with big guns. So Phobos grabs some guns off fallen Agents and returns fire while diving backwards out of a window. He lands on a lawn just as the chopper takes off. He aims at the copter ... and says "Bang". Then he's mobbed by more Agents and the fight resumes.Later Alex is in the Oval Office surrounded by fallen Agents, writing a letter to the President. He blames the Pres for Ares' death, and the general foolishness of giving power to Norman Osborn. He signs himself God Of Fear, Son Of War.


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During the siege of Asgard by Norman Osborn and his Dark
Avengers, Venom, knowing his side has lost, is determined to cause as much
havoc as he can with the time they have left. He starts chewing on Asgardians
but Spider-Man swings down to challenge him. They fight and end up falling off
the edge and down to the streets of Broxton. Ms. Marvel swoops down to clout
Venom as he attacks Spidey. When Spidey confirms that the monster’s powers come
from the suit, Carol reaches into his mouth and yanks Mac Gargan out, dumping
him in the street. But then the Symbiote captures Carol and gains her cosmic
powers. Exulting in the newfound power, Venom attacks Spidey who dashes off to
a nearby church only to discover that there are no bells in the tower.
Carol tries to escape from the Symbiote, calling for more energy
so Spidey pushes his foe into some electric wires and the power gives Carol the
strength she needs to break free. The Symbiote simply goes back to Gargan and
the figth continues. Venom halts Spidey by mentioning that he knows Ms. Marvel’s
feelings for him. But then MM clobbers the bad guy and suggests baseball to
Sidey. So Spidey webs up Venom and hurls him and Carol smacks him into the
distance with a jeep’s bumper. Ms. Marvel picks up Spidey and they fly back to
Asgard, with Spidey asking Carol if she likes him….