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This special contains 6 interlinked tales all written by Dan Slott plus an extra 1-page 'gift'. The stories all take place on the same Christmas Eve (and a few minutes into the next morning).Story 1:- Eggnog, toilet paper, and peace on EarthArtist Matt Haley.Squirrel Girl opens the story as in the issues of the preceding Great Lakes Avengers mini-series by addressing the 'audience' on a stage in front of a curtain with her new she-squirrel pal Tippy-Toe. She gives the usual warning about unsettling content. And she also explains that the Great Lakes Avengers, now-renamed Great Lakes X-Men, won't be wearing the X-parody costumes they had on the last page of GLA#4 because they discovered they were all designed by their nemesis/would-be member Leather Boy.Doorman pops his head *through* the curtain to ask her go to the store for eggnog and toilet paper before their Xmas Eve party. Donning flying goggles (Tippy-Toe too) and a scarf Flatman knitted for her (which looks like him in his elongated form) they dash out to the Squirrel-A-Gig autogyro which Big Bertha bought SG as a Secret Santa present (with money from her modelling career). It seems Tippy-Toe is Bertha's SS but she's not saying what she got for her.But on the way they spot SHIELD battling AIM on the shore of Lake Michigan and they drop down to help. The SHIELD team leader is glad to see them, and Doreen Green recognises him as Dum Dum Dugan from her Iron Man Vs battle cards. He tells her that the bad guys are raiding a secret base in the lake which SG realises is that of Maelstrom (who the GLA fought in their mini-series), and she tells *him* that the base contains stuff that could destroy the universe. But DDD is more worried about AIM's boss MODOK who at this moment rises from the water.SHIELD provide covering fire while the squirrelly duo go into action. Squirrel Girl throws Tippy-Toe in a fuzzball special (so-named to avoid infringing on Colossus and Wolverine's fastball special) which results in TT clamping teeth on MODOK's nose. The giant-headed villain's arms and guns can't get at the attacker, and SG uses her squirrel-agility to avoid gun blasts and join in. Tippy finds a way in to Modok's hovering battle-chair and gnaws at wiring while Doreen mashes nuts into exposed circuits. The final result is Big M powerless on his back, and SHIELD take him away.Dum Dum shows SG SHIELD recording of her taking down threats like Mandarin, Dr Doom and Giganto and offers her a job as a SHIELD Agent. But she politely declines because she's with the GLA/X. She returns to HQ with the eggnog but forgot the toilet paper so she has to go out again. This time she and Tippy see a crashing spaceship from which emerges Thanos with a device he calls the pyramatrix. He proclaims that he'll use it to absorb the life-force of the global population, and then use *that* to take over the universe. Our duo spring forward to stop him ...Story 2:- Days of X-Mas pastPencils Georges Jeanty. Inks Drew Geraci. Colours Larry Molinar.While Squirrel Girl and Tippy-Toe  are out the 2nd time the rest of GLX are decorating the HQ and preparing for the Christmas Eve party. Mr Immortal is still grieving for Dinah Soar (killed in GLA#1) and has even hung up an Xmas stocking for her. Suddenly a voice comes from the trophy head of the Giant Robot Snowman, and it's Dr Tannenbaum threatening to destroy Xmas for the city of Muskego again, and he tells them where he is. Leaving a not for Doreen they head for the Topps X-Mas tree grotto where they find him holding the owner Sarah Topps prisoner while evil sentient christmas trees rampage. Ms Topps warns them that he's lured them into a trap while other trees menace the rest of Muskego. Even holly, mistletoe and wreaths are alive, and a wreath strangles Mr I. As he falls unconscious he remembers past Xmas's.4 years ago Craig Hollis was visiting the grave of his wife Terri O'Doughan when Dinah Soar joined him. Like everyone else he couldn't understand what she was saying but tried to politely tell her to leave him with his grief. But then he relents and admits that having her and the rest of the GLA around will help him get through Christmas and he hands he his Secret Santa gift, a penny-whistle that might help her communicate. But then she actually says "Thank you". She explains that her kind are almost immortal but they can only bond with 1 mortal in their lifetime, and she has now chosen him which is why he can understand her.3 years ago they're having an Xmas party including their GLA's mentors Hawkeye and Mockingbird (from the days when the team were appearing in the Avengers West Coast series). Leather Boy (from a GLA#1 flashback to the team's formation) is there too but Flatman asks him to leave. Deadpool is also there (for some inexplicable reason). Craig is explaining to Dinah that the other reindeer didn't like Rudolph because his red nose made him different.2 years ago there's another party where Dinah is explaining that her kind ignore dreams while Craig says humans think they're messages from the subconscious. Doreen Green appears to be there (for some other inexplicable reason, but then 2 other people at the party appear to be Princess Leia and the Tom Baker Dr Who).1 year ago Dinah asks Craig to explain mistletoe. The explanation leads Flatman finding them in a compromising state when he calls the team together to deal with the 1st attack by Dr Tannenbaum in Muskego. The Dr isn't actually there but his Giant Robot Snowman fires candycane missiles, some of which (temporarily) kill Mr I (but no-one else of course).In the present Mr I recovers from the wreath strangling only for a tree to send him flying into someone's apartment. Where he notices that they have a Topps tree which is sitting quietly and he deduces that it's because of the weight of decorations. Armed with loads of the stuff he gets his team to drape rampant trees until they too fall still. Tannenbaum gloats that they haven't got enough for all the trees in the grotto. But Ms Topps directs Mr I to a flocking machine (for spraying artificial snow?) and he starts spraying the trees and also DrT saying "Flock you!" (which inappropriate language Squirrel Girl warned us about on p1).That threat is over so we nip over to check that SG and Tippy-Toe have dealt with Thanos (from story #1). Uatu the Watcher is there to congratulate them on saving the multiverse, and confirm that it *is* the real Thanos.Back in Muskego Mr Immortal talks to a TV reporter and warns people to keep all their Xmas trees heavily loaded until say March to be safe. Sarah Topps congratulates him with a kiss on the cheek and asks for a date but he puts her off (and we never see her again). Then we see the reason for his action as he visits Dinah's grave and plays the penny-whistle to her.Story 3:- Getting off on the right footPencils & inks Ty Templeton. Colours Wil Quintana.Killer Shrike used to work for Roxxon so he knows they let their own security guards have Christmas off. So (still on Xmas Eve) he tries to steal Project Z, expecting to face easier rent-a-cops, but he's stopped by Grasshopper who doesn't celebrate Christmas because he's Jewish. The rent-a-cops take the villain away and GH is  congratulated by scientist Cindy Shelton who knows the hero from before but senses something different about him now. We learn from his thoughts that he's not the original wearer of the suit, Doug Taggert who died in GLA#2, but Neil Shelton her long-lost brother. When she asks him for a date he rapidly jets away on maximum thrust.Neil is happy with his life, and an editorial comment suggests we'll see much more of the ever-gregarious Grasshopper ...Story 4:- Working holidayPencils & inks Paul Grist. Colours Laura Allred.The GLX are exchanging Secret Santa gifts. Flatman gives Mr Immortal a Star Trek Red Shirt (alluding to the idea that the redshirt crew members only exist to get killed) and we discover that Tippy-Toe's present to Big Bertha is a necklace of acorns. Squirrel Girl asks Doorman if he's doing anything for Christmas Eve and DeMarr says he's going to see his dad. The others look concerned and Bertha offers to turn back into super-model Ashley Crawford who would impress his dad if he took *her* home. Doorman reverts to DeMarr Davis and says it's something he has to handle himself.At his father's house he sees it festooned with Xmas lights and stuff, but inside there's no sign of decoration. He finds his dad sitting alone watching TV, who confirms that he just did the outside stuff to outdo his neighbour. He also admits that he saw the GLX fighting evil christmas trees on the news, but still wishes his son would get a *real* job. DeMarr says he helped save the universe in the summer (GLA#4) but that wasn't on TV. He also blurts out that he died then but his dad doesn't register it and just complains that Doorman's super-power is rubbish compared to all the other superdoers.DeMarr goes to the bathroom and thinks about telling his father that he *did* die then and is now an angel of death. And as he does so his costume reappears and he knows he's needed elsewhere. Zooming out with the white cloak and flying skis he 'inherited' (from Deathurge) with the job, he makes 3 soul collection stops:- 1st to a depressed man who's hung himself. 2nd to a man who 'only had 1 drink' at a party and fatally crashed his car. 3rd to the 2nd Grasshopper who didn't realise that maximum thrust would take him into space and hadn't known how to get back to Earth. On the way back home he meets Santa Claus who says he hasn't got anything that would cheer his father up.Back on the ground Mr Davis has followed his son to the bathroom and found him gone. He sees him outside at the back and goes there to continue harassing him about his life choices. DeMarr finally does tell him about his new job as an angel of death, but says he's here to collect *his* soul. He points to dad's body at the bottom of a ladder, his feet tangled up in christmas lights. He says he's been putting it off hoping that they could reconcile before he went. And his father is at last impressed at his current job and intends to boast about it to his dead relatives, but as they go he asks how much the job pays.Story 5:- Squirrel-on-squirrel actionPencils & inks Mike Kazaleh. Colours Bill Crabtree.Squirrel Girl's previous squirrel sidekick Monkey Joe died in GLA#3 and Oblivion sent Deathurge in squirrel form in GLA#4 to collect his soul. But Mr Immortal captured him to learn why D'urge has been 'tormenting' him since birth, and DU has been stuck like that since.Now he calls on Oblivion for an explanation. The abstract entity grumpily responds that it's a punishment for failing to get MJ's soul and allowing him to find his own way into the afterlife. (He doesn't mention that he's since replaced him with Doorman.) Deathurge offers to get Tippy-Toe's soul instead, and because it's Christmas Oblivion agrees, but he only has the last 8 minutes of Christmas Eve to do it in.Meanwhile SG gets a call from Dum Dum Dugan of SHIELD to help defeat Terrax. She and TT have already beaten MODOK and Thanos today she lets Tippy have a rest and goes alone, asking Mr Immortal to keep an eye on her.Tippy-Toe finds a plug out of its socket and follows the lead to a room full of deadly traps, but she's mostly interested in the blender (connected to the plug) full of what a sign declares are free acorns. Deathurge plugs the plug in but Mr I rushes into the room and scolds TT for trying to make an acorn smoothie again because it's not good for the machine. However the blender's already in action and attacks his hand. D'urge (but not we) sees the man lurch from the blender into a bear trap and set off a cannon, a chainsaw, hissing beetles, land piranha and an angry ferret. Mr I comes running out (and his hair's on fire and he's got a spear though his chest and a snake round his neck). He seems to have set off every trap, but DU doesn't know where the snake came from.Then Deathurge hears a tugging  and sees Tippy-Toe pulling a suspended acorn attached to a crossbow. As the seconds tick down to midnight TT finally unleashes the crossbow bolt. But a cuckoo clock (an SS present from SG to Mr I) starts to chime and the wooden cuckoo springs out to get pierced by the bolt. Oblivion turns up again and doesn't accept a 'dead' wooden cuckoo. He ignores DU's pleas and leaves him stuck as a squirrel. But Tippy offers him the acorn as a christmas present. D'Urge takes it and thinks this life may not be so bad. However we see Tippy light the string trailing from the gift like a fuse, with a "Tee-hee".Story 6:- Seasons greetings from the GLXPencils & inks Ty Templeton. Colours Wil Quintana.In the early minutes of Christmas Day Squirrel Girl returns from her SHIELD mission and is reunited with Tippy-Toe (who for some reason is portrayed a featureless jet black like Deathurge but without the white cape, gloves and boots). Doorman gives her a present. It's a Doorman cap which she gratefully adds to her Flatman scarf. Mr Immortal spots a shooting star, but angel of death Doorman doesn't tell them he can sense it's the corpse of Grasshopper II burning up as it falls to Earth.The team wave goodbye to us as the squirrel-Deathurge makes another (now futile) attempt on TT's life. And in the background are guest-stars Dum Dum Dugan (in a SHIELD flying car), Santa Claus and the Watcher.Bonus page:- Flatman's special gift to youPencils Mike Wieringo. Inks Karl Kessel. Colours Wil Quintana.Front and back views of the 2D Flatman which can be cut out and glued together to form  an action figure with infinite points of articulation. It come with 3 action phrases that *you* can say:- "Let's go team", "That's Flat-tacular" and "I'm not Mr Fantastic".In an editorial 'caption' Tippy-Toe reminds you to get your parents' permission before using scissors, while in the background Mr I has their giant scissors trophy (see GLA#1) stuck through his body *again* (see GLA#3).


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Part 1 ProloguePencils Joe Madureira. Inks Steve Moncuse, Jasen Rodriguez. Letters Patrick Owsley.The action takes place on the extremely large Godwheel, a disc whose surface is very many times that of Earth, which 'orbits' 2 dwarf stars in the gap in the centre, with Vahdala city of the Gods hovering over all. The God Argos was resurrected on Earth (Rune #9) and returned to Vahdala with Rune following him (our #0) to renew his immortality in the Crucible Of Life. But he found it empty save for the servant Iago who told him that the other Gods had fought a Civil War and died, except top god Ogma who scattered the 3 Keys:- The Windsword, the Roc's Egg and the Crystal Crown. Without these Keys the Crucible won't work, and Ogma decreed that only 3 worthy mortals could find them.Argus used Rune's Star Stones to locate powerful mortals on Earth and transported them to Vahdala. Evil Lord Pumpkin and Necromantra allied with him, all the while planning to steal his power for themselves. He also tried to get Prime but instead got 1 of his discarded protoplasmic skins, which Necromantra gave life and power to as Primevil. Ranged against them were the Freex (Cayman, Feline, Flygirl and Pressure), Hardcase, Lucasz, Warstrike and the villain Boneyard who wants to use the heroes to get the power himself. Their team escaped and found Ogma's Godyacht (a spaceship) to use as a base and source of information.Last issue the Yacht told them where the 3 Keys are and they split into 3 teams to go after each Key. But no-one trusted Boneyard so they left him behind. However Argus tracked the the good guys intending to send the bad guys to take the Keys off them. Cayman, Feline, and Pressure fought Primevil for the Windsword and won. Flygirl and Hardcase fought Lord Pumpkin for the Roc's Egg and lost, but Argus killed Pumpkin for his attempt to keep it for himself.Now the 1st team are back on the Godyacht. Feline has the Windsword and refuses to hand it over to Boneyard's 'safekeeping'. And it burns him when he tries to take it. Lizard-skinned Cayman has been half-converted into human after Primevil swallowed him. And Pressure has been acting suspiciously. A battered Hardcase returns from the 2nd quest to report failure and the death of Flygirl. Both Boneyard and Argus bemoan the fact that they've been thwarted in their goal to get *all* 3 Keys.We now turn to team 3, Lukasz and Warstrike who find themselves facing Necromantra. Conflicted Lukasz stops Warstrike from shooting her with his big gun because she is the evil Thanasi but in the body of his love Mantra (Eden Blake), whose soul is still trapped inside. (It's even more complicated than that because male knight Lucasz had originally been forced into Eden's body and had developed its latent magical potential to become the sorceress Mantra. Sharing the body the 2 had fallen in love. Just before this mini-series (Mantra #17) Lukasz created a new male body for himself and moved out. But Thanasi immediately moved in and became Necromantra.)(The backstory is even more complicated and involves Boneyard and Warstrike. Lukasz and Thanasi were 2 of 123 knights serving the good magician Archimage against his enemy Boneyard. Thanasi betrayed them to Boneyard, and mercenary Warstrike killed Lucasz with his own Sword Of Fangs. Archimage transferred Lucasz' soul into Eden's body, and the Sword became Mantra's weapon. Hence there are fracture lines in the 'good' group.)Lukasz fights back against Necromantra with the minimum of power, while precog Warstrike detects and retrieves the Crystal Crown from a huge firepit. Meanwhile Boneyard drops in to claim the Crown for himself. He blasts Necromantra, reminding Thanasi that he gave him the power to take over bodies and that therefore he should serve him not Argus. And in revenge he drives him out of Eden's body. For the 1st time for a long time she is whole, and Mantra, to Lukasz' delight.Meanwhile Warstrike has donned the Crown and it amplifies his precognition. He foresees a planet of ruin and horror ruled by himself and Necromantra. He collapses in a babbling heap as Lukasz and Mantra fight Boneyard until Lukasz kills him with the Sword Of Fangs. But then Mantra gets taken over by Thanasi and becomes Necromantra again. And she takes the Crystal Crown and transports away with it.Lucasz returns to the Godyacht with mumbling Warstrike's body which Hardcase places in a healing machine. He's also brought Boneyard's cyborg head which he intends to destroy in case there's life still in it, even as Hardcase argues that they may need him against Argus. Then the head proves Lucasz right by flying round the room and blasting him followed by Hardcase, until Pressure and Feline smash it with a blast and a blow from the Windsword. And Feline says that they *must* take the Sword to the Crucible. Despite the others saying that keeping it away from Argus is their prime goal, she activates the Yacht's teleportation system to take them to Vahdala.Part 2 Reinventing the wheelPencils John Statema. Inks Jason Temujin Minor. Letters Gail Beckett.Argus sits on Vahdala's throne watching everything that transpires with his multifaceted eyes, with Necromantra pretending to fawn over him and Primevil bowing to his 'creator'. The Roc's Egg is already in position in the Crucible's 'control panel' and Argus wants NM to put the Crystal Crown in its place too. But she pretends to vanity and asks to wear it herself until they *both* attain godhood together. Argus pretends to agree and she rewards him with a kiss and they embrace. But this angers Primevil because he thinks Argus is hurting the woman (or maybe he's just jealous). Necromantra blasts the stone beneath his feet making him jump away and Argus jokingly suggests he replace Iago as his court jester. Sly Iago makes an enigmatic reply.But NM's blast also startled a flying monkey that has been hanging around and it flies away to a 'rosebush' near Lord Pumpkin's body with it's smashed pumpkin head. And a vine snakes out of the bush, strangles it and pulls it in.Argus is still supremely confidant of his success even though he's been steadily losing power and size ever since his resurrection, which can only be countered by the reignited Crucible.Feline has transported the surviving heroes including healed Warstrike to Vahdala. The Windsword wants Feline to take it to the Crucible. Pressure urges her on and accompanies her. Lucasz follows them (I think) and tells Hardcase to go after Argus but don't hurt Eden (ie Necromantra). Cayman (turned half-human) and still-weakened Warstrike are left behind. A figure calls Cayman from the shadows and he recognises Pressure.HC finds Argus and NM and attacks the 'god'. Argus asks his ally for help but she turns on him. Feline place the Sword in the Crucible and Pressure mentions getting 1 step closer to godhood. Then Cayman and Warstrike arrive supporting injured Pressure between them, telling Feline that the Pressure with her is a fake - which reveals itself as Rune. (The switchover happened behind the scenes near the end of #1, and Cayman's been suspicious ever since.) Necromantra leaves Argus fighting off Hardcase and getting ever smaller. She flies to the Crucible and adds the last item which ignites it, and she lands in the middle.But Argus, now almost skeletal, has somehow escaped from Hardcase and is now trying to climb in to the Crucible. He and Necromantra exchange blasts and Primevil zooms in to 'rescue' his beloved creator, leaving Argus alone in the Crucible. But suddenly a horde of 'Lord Pumpkins', grown from the seeds of the original, swarm over the heroes to the Crucible which begins to hum and erects a forcefield around itself and Argus who starts to grow into an immortal god.Meanwhile Rune is beating up Primevil to get to Necromantra because he thinks she can shut down the Crucible. The energy vampire prepares to bite her neck to put her under his control and she panics. She quits the body leaving it to its original owner Eden Blake. She in turn calls to her love Lucasz for help and he attacks Rune with the Sword Of Fangs and tells her to remove the Crown from the control panel (which conveniently is outside the bowl of the Crucible itself). She does that and it shuts off the forcefield but the Crucible keeps working. However it does allow lots of Pumpkins to fall into the bowl.Argus is now giant-size but he's also part Pumpkin and growling unintelligibly. However that doesn't stop him firing eye-blasts at everyone as he heads to get the Crown back from Eden. The heroes and Rune gang up to try to stop him but he shrugs them off. He finds a voice and declares that there are other demi-gods who will serve him and kill them all. And he fires a blast which opens a portal through which flies a hammer. But it strikes him not his foes.Part 3 Thunder in VahdalaPencils George Perez. Inks Jason Temujin Minor. Letters Patrick Owsley.The hammer is Mjolnir and it's followed by Thor who isn't happy about being dragged here (from Marvel Asgard) against his will. Argus protests that this isn't the god he wanted. Everybody (including Primevil and Eden/Mantra) piles in to help Thor, but Rune ducks out and notes someone else coming through the portal. Thor calls down lightning but in this universe the effect is to open another portal. Mantra uses a magic blast to propel the Crystal Crown through it. And the Argus/Pumpkin beast follows it. And the portal closes as Argus swears to return. Battle over.There's congratulations all round. Thor senses that Mantra's magic was involved in bringing him here. She says she was trying to stop Argus' champion from coming through and seems to have got him as a bonus. The Thunder God offers to use Mjolnir to send them wherever they wish. Hardcase wants to go back to the Godyacht for some unfinished business with Ogma. Feline wants to go to the Godwheel to bury Flygirl (but thinks she might find the acceptance there that she didn't get on (Ultra-)Earth, and maybe even power). Warstrike wants return to Earth but he's giving up his Ultra-identity.Thor tries to transport himself and the others but it doesn't seem to work until Mantra adds her power. But at the last second Rune, who has regained the Star Stones that Argus took off him (in #0), leaps on Thor seeking to steal *his* power. And they all vanish ...... leaving behind Loki (who is presumably who Argus really wanted as an ally). He breaks the Windsword (presumably to stop Argus or anyone using the Crucible to become a rival god). Then Iago pops up and offers him a chalice of wine, along with his service. Loki plans to make everyone in this realm his servant.


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Dr Nod tricked Big Bertha into 'giving' him a sample of her body-changing super-power and mixed it with Mutant Growth Hormone to create his Good Bod pills. She got angry. He took a pill, as did his Bod Squad, and they bulked up to match her. She defeated them but angry DrN took more of the pills and Hulked out to beat *her*. Then he went on a rampage. But BB took some of the pills and followed him.Now the 2 behemoths clash, watched by Flatman, Doorman/Deathurge and his ghost 'sidekick' Greg Garlick. FM tries to get rubberneckers to get back but is squashed by a flung car and he can't get out from under. 2 of the Bod Squad, Bertha's modelling agent Jen and the unnamed photographer, arrive to help their boss. And then the car catches fire. Things look hopeless until ...... Good Boy, the recent 'werewolf' addition to the Great Lakes Avengers turns up to deal with the Bod Squad. (Last issue she was leaving town with her brother Lucky but saw the battle on the News.) Bertha reverts to her normal (Big) size. Mr Immortal comes back to life after being stamped on by Dr 'Hulk' Nod last issue. And Doorman gives Flatman a doorway out from under the burning car. But DrN takes even *more* of the pills and becomes a humongous monster threatening the whole of Detroit.MrI suggests it's time for Manoeuvre 33. Bertha isn't sure about this because it's dangerous and Craig Hollis is still weak from his previous 'death'. Ghost Garlick asks newbie Good Boy what Manoeuvre 33 is, but why should *he* know. However they soon find out. Bertha pulls elastic Flatman like a slingshot with Doorman and Mr Immortal as the projectile. They hurtle towards the back of giant Dr Nod and DeMarr Davis provides a door to get MrI inside the foe's body.Outside Good Boy thinks it's horrible but Bertha says Manoeuvre 34 would have been worse. Then a TV reporter asks for an update on the situation. And when do the 'real' Avengers get here? FM has to restrain BB from hitting him. And DrN destroys a bridge, which FM assures the newsman wasn't important.Inside MrI works his way through DrN's insides, all the time trying to think up a punchy 'Inside' phrase to use. Then it occurs to him that Doorman would surely have been a better man for this job. Then we flashback 3 years during the time MrI was permanently drunk because of the death of his lover Dinah Soar. He and DM are planning the Manoeuvre and Craig asks why DeMarr isn't the 1 who goes inside, because he doesn't need to breathe and can make doorways. DM says he can have the last bottle of beer on the table if he agrees to go, and Craig accepts. Now he reaches Dr Nod's heart and punches it. And the monster collapses. And DM goes in to bring MrI out.Later the team are watching themselves on the TV News with their hanger-on Pansy (and Good Boy has reverted to female human Good(ness) Silva). She still wants to know what Manoeuvre 34 is but DM tells the teen she'll have to wait until she's older. He also tells the ghost Greg it's time to cross over. Greg thanks him for this 1 last adventure. Val Ventura answers a knock on the door expecting Avengers lawyer Connie Ferrari to congratulate them on a good job. But it's (sort-of ex-GLAer) Deadpool come to tell them they're fired. Connie has discovered that their legal claim to the name 'Avengers' (see #1) doesn't stand up in court, and they have to vacate their HQ. He then goes meta to say that they may get another mini-series in a few years time, but meanwhile he'll continue featuring in several issues per month.


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We haven't seen Doorman since #3 because he's been busy as the new Deathurge ushering the souls of the deceased into the endless void for Oblivion. Now he turns up to collect another 1 at a Florida retirement home. But Greg Garlick's soul refuses to go until he says goodbye to the lost love of his life Irene, whose picture is beside his bed. DeMarr Davis decides to grant this wish, but figures that the previous Deathurge wouldn't have been so soft.In his Detroit lab last issue Dr Nod forcibly extracted a sample from Big Bertha's body and mixed it with Mutant Growth Hormone to create pills which grant the user control over their body size for 24 hours. (Bertha's superpower was to be able to switch between slim supermodel Ashley Crawford and a female version of the mutant Blob. Now she prefers to remain as (Big) Bertha Crawford.) When she objected he revealed that he and his 3 minions (1 of whom was Bertha's agent Jen) had already taken the pills, and they bulked up as Dr Nod and the Bod Squad.As the men who were the photographer and lighting tech at last issue's fake photoshoot restrain her, Dr N says they'll let her go if she promises to behave herself and be a spokeswoman for his Good Bod Supplements. She promises but then smashes his face on the floor. Then she fires Jen before using her to ram through a wall and bringing the rest of the wall down to stop the Bod-guys following them. As the 2 minions start to dig through the rubble Dr Nod, his face bloody, has a better idea - he swallows loads more of the pills.Doorman and Greg Garlick are still trying to find Irene. Greg claims he's sure this is the right house, but as has already happened several times he's wrong. Judging by the mail this house belongs to someone else. Greg finally admits that he lied because he wasn't ready to go. The picture by the bed is of his cousin's wife Irene. Mind you they did have an affair in the 70's. DM says he has a quota of souls to fill or Oblivion won't be very happy. Then the houseowner gets home and drops dead of a heart attack after seeing Deathurge (and maybe the ghost). Greg says that'll fill the quota.Big Bertha is outside alerting the GLA that she has a problem when a super-enlarged Dr Nod crashes through a wall spouting ad slogans for his product but sounding like the classic Hulk, and scattering bottles of pills in his wake. He continues in this vein as he ploughs through her and heads off to spread the word to the citizens of Detroit.Outside Great Lakes Avengers HQ Flatman and Mr Immortal are trying to get the Flatmobile to work, without seeming to know at all what they're doing. 2 guys turn up out of the blue and offer to buy the camper van. They say they are Doug and his live-in graphic designer and life coach Geoff, and they're buying the Baphomet Club across the way that used to be owned by Nain Rouge (Dick Snerd now in a coma in hospital). Then FM gets BB's alert.Lucky and Good Silva are escaping from Detroit when Good gets the alert. She tells her brother to stop the car at the nearest service station because she needs to use the bathroom. She scans local news on her phone and sees Dr Nod on his rampage. So she slips out the bathroom window to avoid Lucky and heads back to the city.The Flatmobile is miraculously working and FM & MrI are satnaving their way to where Bertha's phone is. As they see mega-Dr Nod in front of them DM and the ghost materialise in the van. The other 2 can definitely see Greg Garlick who claims to be Doorman's sidekick. Flatman demands to know what the monster has done to Bertha. And when he claims to have killed her Mr Immortal loses his temper and attacks. But he gets squashed by a giant foot. But then even-Bigger Bertha arrives, having also consumed a bottle of DrN's pills.


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Last issue Big Bertha and Good Boy discovered Nain Rouge drunk in the office in his bar, and also that he is secretly Detroit City Councilman Dick Snerd.Now they've brought him back to Great Lakes Avengers HQ in an abandoned Stark factory and tied him up in a chair in a storeroom. Good(ness) Silva wants to know why they did that and Bertha can't actually give a good reason. Snerd says it's because they think he's a supervillain and they're Avengers. But he claims that he's the 1 actually helping the city by driving people (like Good and her brother) out of their slum homes, because then they can be replaced by businesses that bring wealth to the city. The fact that he as Nain Rouge owns those businesses is a mere detail.So now he tells them his origin story. Some years ago crime in Detroit was rampant, but the US's superheroes were off fighting in outer space or alternate dimensions (he misses out just fighting each other). So he became a vigilante Nain Rouge (Red Dwarf) to make the streets safe. But he changed his mind after getting shot by a man who was threatening his own wife and child. As Nain Rouge he hired villains like Firebrand and Shriek to wreck slums, and as Dick Snerd he became a City Councilman by promising to make the city great again. And now he claims that he's done just that. Then he notices that his audience has grown bored with him. Bertha offers to go get Good a coffee and tells her to watch their captive. "If he moves, kill him." When Bertha's gone Snerd coughs, which Good takes as movement.In another part of the building Flatman and Mr Immortal have returned, and Val Ventura asks Pansy if their Avengers lawyer Connie Ferrari called about dropping off some paperwork. Pansy says she's not their secretary and she's not sure they even have a landline. She tells them Big Bertha came in about an hour ago with some man and asked for some rope. Mr I asks who the man was just as Bertha enters the room and accuses him of being jealous. This sparks off an argument about their relationship. Apparently they got engaged but then Craig showed up drunk and called it off. Hollis responds by reminding her that she ditched her successful modelling career as slender Ashley Crawford to start again as a plus-size model when the team depended on her income to finance them. She resents his desire to control her life and asks how much being a freelance drunk was paying. All through this FM has been trying to get Bertha to tell him who the man is.Meanwhile Good has taken on her much bigger wolf form and is menacing Snerd. She hates him because his super-goons put her brother in hospital, wrecked their house and set fire to the neighbourhood. Snerd says she doesn't scare him. She can't prove he's responsible for any of that (even though he admits it). And his lawyers are better than theirs and will have them all in jail. Good Boy admits he's right. But that means he must die, and she leaps on him. He's scared now.At this point Connie Ferrari is arriving in a chauffeured limo. Connie's scanning her phone for local single superheroes and has come up with Brontosaur Russ. Disgustedly she complains to her assistant Amy that nobody measures up after you've date a real 1 (in her case Captain America). She advises her never to date a super-hero. Amy scoffs at the very idea, but we see her secretly exchanging texts with Gambit.Val has just learned that Bertha kidnapped Snerd and he's worried what Connie will say, when Pansy alerts them that the lawyer's at the door. FM immediately panics and hides behind the fridge until Mr Immortal drags him out. Then he plans to take the Flatmobile and go start a new life somewhere, but BB stops him. She has a plan. They all don sunglasses and fixed smiles (to avoid betraying micro-expressions) and go out with orders to act naturally.They invite the 2 women in and Ms Ferrari explains her plan to deal with the Council's injunction against them operating as superheroes. Because they're all mutants (as established at the end of the 1st mini-series) she thinks she can use an injunction against X-Factor as a precedent. But she's becoming increasingly suspicious of the team's behaviour, especially when Val starts sweating and excusing himself to get water while declaring that his actions were perfectly normal. Then she hears noises from the storeroom and demands to know what's happening in there. Flatman bars the way and begs her not to kick them out of the Avengers. Bertha persuades him to let Connie through. And inside the room they see Good, Snerd's body and a lot of blood.The last scene is outside Butler Hospital as a nurse confiscates a pack of cigarettes from a patient with cancer. Then the Flatmobile drives past and dumps Snerd's body wrapped in a curtain along with his Nain mask and a note saying 'I'm a criminal'.


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Lawyer Connie Ferrari tells the Great Lakes Avengers (currently Big Bertha, Flatman, Mr Immortal and newbie Good Boy (Good(ness) Silva who can go werewolf) in their HQ in an abandoned Detroit Stark factory) that they mustn't tell *anyone* how they kidnapped villain Nain Rouge (aka Detroit Councilman Dick Snerd) and Good Boy almost killed him, before they dropped his body off at Butler Hospital. (All that happened last issue.) Now she leaves for New York and tells them to lie low.Big Bertha also leaves for a modelling job and says she'll be back later and they should save her some food. On the way out she passes a guy at the front door. She tells him that the others are inside lying low and not to ask about unexplained assaults. The others fear she's talking to a cop! But it turns out to be Good's brother Lucky who's released himself from the same Butler Hospital, still bandaged up from the injuries he sustained when Nain's goons destroyed their house. He heard about the Councilman who got mauled, and he recognised her handiwork when he snuck in to give the guy a Tito Frehley. (I was as ignorant as some of the other characters as to what that is.) Now he thinks that the 2 of them should leave town tonight.Bertha's photoshoot is in another seemingly abandoned building, Corktown Meats, and the low-budget setup causes her to threaten to fire her agent Jen. BB goes to tell the photographer that she won't do the job. We see that they want her to use her mass-control superpower to do a before and after ad for Dr Nod's Good Bod Supplement. They'll shoot her as Big Bertha, and then slimmed down to the sort-of size she 'wore' as supermodel Ashley Crawford. Dr Nod himself pops in and asks her what the problem is. He assures her that his supplement is legitimate. (As is his other product DN's Hot Cod, a microwavable fish oil supplement.) He only needs her to 'cheat' because his backers are demanding an ad now. He can see she has scruples but maybe $20,000 dollars will make them go away.Val Ventura (Flatman) tries to talk Good out of leaving, but she says she's doing it for the team's sake too. He promises they'll protect her, but she reminds him that their record so far is being arrested and nearly fired as Avengers. The easily-depressed team leader admits that they were described online as America's Alpha Flight which was meant as an aspirational compliment. (Well, AF have had a lot more issues than the GLA.) As usual he says he makes a poor leader, but she reminds him that no-one's died on his watch which gives him a much better score than when Mr Immortal was in charge. Then she goes anyway.Bertha (looking I think bigger than usual) is doing the job. The photographer gets her to look really unhappy about being fat. She's relieved when her mobile rings. She pretends it's a call to superhero action but actually it's Good (presumably wanting to inform her about quitting). She's leaves the 'studio' to take the call but on the way out she overhears Dr Nod talking to someone (presumably a backer) and saying that she suspects nothing, and something about shooting her in the neck. But he realises that she's overheard and comes after her. Bertha  goes and grabs Jen and then smashes through an outside wall (several stories up) and prepares to leap across to the roof of another building. She tells her agent this was a trap, but Jen reveals that she was in on it and sticks a hypodermic into BB's neck. They fall to the street, Bertha cushioning Jen's landing.Good is unhappy about Bertha not answering her text. Lucky brings a load of snacks he's just bought and they get in his car for a road trip, their 1st since their parents died. Good's worried that they've no money and nowhere to go. Lucky points out that she's (technically) an Avenger so maybe Captain America will put them up. Good thinks it's an unspoken rule.Bertha regains consciousness in hi-tech manacles she can't break free of. Dr Nod tells her to relax because he's got everything he needs from her. It turns out Jen didn't inject her with anything but extracted stuff from her. They've mixed that with mutant growth hormone to produce pills that can give anyone total control of their body shape for 24 hours. Now he release her and says she's free to go. But instead she proposes to wreck their whole operation. However he reveals that he, Jen, the photographer and a lighting tech have already taken the pills. And they bulk up as Dr Nod and  the Bod Squad.The last page takes us to Butler Hospital where staff discover that someone has applied magic marker to comatose Dick Snerd's face, and they declare it the best Tito Frehley they've ever seen.


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In an old Stark Holdings building in Detroit which is now the official Great Lakes Avengers HQ Doorman and Flatman are sound asleep but Big Bertha is kept awake at 2:15 by loud music from a bar across the street. She wakes the other 2 up and leads them to complain. On the way a drunk typically mistakes FM for Mr Fantastic. Inside Doorman tries out a joke on the barman while Bertha confronts the owner Nain Rouge who wears a red devil mask. He's surrounded by bruisers and the 2 villains (Firebrand and Shriek) we met last issue but he's happy to talk to her. He claims he used to be a superhero but then he wised up and now he's an entrepreneur who owns the whole block. He invites her to have a drink from the Specials board, which touts Flatman's "Fruit" Cocktail, Big Bursta's Buttered Rum and a Mr Immbarassment. He comments that he heard Mr Immortal could really drink, but then Bertha would know because she knew him best. This sets her off to attack him.Last issue we also met Good(ness) Silva and her brother Lucky when Firebrand trashed their house. And afterwards Good turned into a blue werewolf to save some neighbours from another villain. Now she's in hospital sitting by the bedside of her seriously injured brother who suddenly starts to turn into a pink werewolf, but 1 arm only. This alerts a nurse who isn't at all fazed to see a werewolf, but surprised to see the colour. Then the TV News reports on a crowd protesting against City Councilman Dick Snerd who is commenting on the 'supposed' supervillain problem in the city. He points out that the neighbourhoods being hit are hotbeds of crime and claims that the so-called supervillains should be lauded as heroes. Good decides to go join the protest.At the end of last issue we learned that Mr I is buried in a cemetery (but not in a coffin in a grave) with an airtube to the surface. Now he hears his friend Mike up above and calls out that he's ready to come out now. But Mike says no and tells him to open his mouth before pouring water down the tube. Craig Hollis asks for a lot more water so he can drown to death for a change, but Mike has gone. Then he swears that he's not going to starve to death again.  So he takes a cork which he calls Corky (with a smiley face etched on it) and shoves it in the end of the tube. (Intending to suffocate this time. You remember that he only stays dead for a few minutes? Hence his name.)We rejoin our 3 friends in jail. Doorman suddenly says he sensed something and exits through the wall of the cell (which he could have done at any time). He promises to be back in 10 minutes. Cops bring struggling Good in, protesting that she didn't throw a bottle at Snerd. When they won't let her go she turns into the blue werewolf. BB and FM break out of their cell to help the cops but the werewolf lopes away, only to be faced with more cops with drawn guns. Bertha tries to talk the wolf down and it says it was scared and only wanted to get away. Flatman announces that they're the GLA and want to help it. The wolf doesn't recognise their name. But then the Avengers' lawyer Connie Ferrari and her assistant Amy turn up demanding her clients be released.Meanwhile Craig wakes up from his latest death in his 'tomb' and rips Corky out of the tube as he starts gasping for breath. Then a voice by his side gives him a shock. It's Doorman who sensed his death and came to see how he was doing. DeMarr Davis offers to 'doorway' Craig out of here but Mr I says he doesn't want to go. DM asks if he's involved in a 'magic' performance but Craig says he paid his friend Mike bury him like this and keep an eye on him, but not let him out for a year no matter what he said. He wanted to detox from alcohol and think about his life. He's only been down here for a few months (but still he's only got stubble on his chin). DeMarr says it smells like it, and forcibly transports him to the surface. He says the rest of the gang are waiting for them.The rest of the gang with Connie and Amy plus Good turned from werewolf to human are watching Councilman Snerd haranguing the senior police officer. He wants to know why Good is being released after she tried to assassinate him. Lawyer Ferrari points out that a thrown glass bottle isn't an assassination weapon. And there's no proof her client threw the bottle. Assistant Amy queries the word 'client' and Connie asks why she hasn't given Good the relevant forms to sign. But anyway she declares that Good is a (temporary) Avenger with no prior record, and the GLA should be released to continue fighting evil. Furthermore she asks the Councilman how the voters will view him jailing the city's only superheroes during the current plague of supervillain attacks?Snerd blusters but leaves. Amy gets Good to sign the forms to become an Avenger. The girl queries some of the clauses such as 'likeness rights' but Amy assures her this is the standard form and nothing to be concerned about. Snerd gets into his limo and asks the driver to take him downtown. And we see that he has the mask and gloves of Nain Rouge.


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This issue starts with a flashback in Milwaukee several years ago where a man named Matt is serving takeaway coffee to a long queue. He slips on some spilled coffee and in an effort to save the situation turns 2D and stretchy. A customer comments that he's some sort of flat man. Matt says he's alright, he was born this way. A friendly customer leaves him a newspaper with an ad for supers circled and says "Consider it a tip".In the current day Flatman and Big Bertha are in their new Detroit HQ in an abandoned Stark factory. They are discussing their newest member Good(ness) Silva, ignoring the fact that she's sitting nearby listening. Bertha is worried that the latest member will die like Dinah Soar, Grasshopper and Monkey Joe (all in the 1st mini-series). FM (Dr Val Ventura) shushes her because he doesn't want to freak the newbie out. And anyway Squirrel Girl went on to great things. (Coincidentally we see a cute report on TV News about a squirrel being towed over snow on skis.) It seems that female Good wants to be known as Good Boy when she transforms to a 'werewolf' because her fursona is male.The TV then informs them that Councilman Dick Snerd (from last issue) has banned the GLA from active superheroing in the city despite the current supervillain crisis. He complains that the Avengers or the Federal Government imposed the team on Detroit, and the council want time to make their own evaluation of the situation. Val tries to ring their Avengers lawyer Connie Ferrari. Pansy, the girl who they inadvertently asked to join them in #1, enters the kitchen area. They ascertain that she believes this is like a commune and she can stay for free if she contributes to the workload. She guesses she's like an intern, which reminds her to mention that there's someone wandering around the place looking for them. Enter the long-missing Mr Immortal, followed by not-so-missing Doorman.Next we're back in the Milwaukee flashback. It turns out that the ad in the paper wasn't the 1 that 1st gathered the Great Lakes Avengers together. Instead elastic Matt is working for the man named Andrew who left him the newspaper. He's preparing to 'entertain' a birthday gathering of supervillains dressed as Mr Fantastic.In present day Detroit Bertha doesn't want to share the same building as Mr I so she takes Doorman and Good Boy to check out Nain Rouge's nearby bar where they saw some of the supervillains last issue. Used-to-be leader of the group Craig Hollis accepts it as a plan and says he and Flatman will take the Flatmobile (a camper van) to check other sites of supervillain activity. Val protests that they're not supposed to go into action but Mr Immortal takes the wheel and says he *needs* to do something. He explains that he's been in a buried coffin for the last 6 weeks to get sober (until DM 'rescued' him last issue). On the way out he asks if he missed anything while he was 'away'. Val mentions the Civil War and he thinks Bruce Banner died, but he can't keep track of all the events.Meanwhile DeMarr Davies uses his doorway power to get Bertha and Good Boy into Nain Rouge's place. But suddenly a giant blue hand grabs him and makes him dematerialise. BB's used to DM vanishing (to his other role as Deathurge) so she thinks nothing of it. She also doesn't want to talk with Good about her and Craig. So instead Good Boy picks up a pair of sunglasses and asks if it's OK for a hero to take a bad guy's stuff. Bertha wants to know how she became a werewolf, but Good denies that's what she is. She says it's an inherited trait, but her family aren't all wolves. Her brother Lucky is a fox with 2 tails. They have different fursonas. Then they hear a noise and and Good Boy smells someone familiar from their time under arrest (last issue). They enter Nain Rouge's office and find Councilman Snerd drunk with the villain's 'demonic' mask and gloves.Back in old Milwaukee Matt is fed up with impersonating Mr Fantastic for the birthday parties of rich kids. He wants to be a real superhero like MrF. But his 'agent' Andrew reminds him that Reed Richards is a rich scientific genius who *is* a superhero, while Matt is a broke college dropout who just *happens* to have a superpower. But Matt says he'll *pretend* to be like Richards, he'll claim to be a scientist Dr Val Ventura. He'll call himself Flatman and Andrew can be his sidekick Paperboy. Andrew points out that he's older than Matt, and dissolves their working relationship.In the present the Flatmobile is parked outside what looks like Good Silva's wrecked house (from #1). Val/Matt continues to complain that they shouldn't be here. If they get prosecuted for breaking the Council's injunction then the Avengers might fire them. Craig's not bothered. They can just go back to being unofficial Avengers in Milwaukee like the good old days. FM points out that in those 'good old days' they got several teammates killed. And Craig's messy breakup with Bertha tore the team apart. Craig's excuse is that he was a drunk then (after the death of his previous love Dinah Soar). He accuses FM of wanting to continue being the leader (in Mr I's absence). Val admits that he does want to be the leader and he *really* wants to be an Avenger. And now they *are* they'll get respect. And he wins Craig over.For our 1st epilogue we'll see what's happened to Doorman. He's in the Darkforce Dimension with his boss (as Deathurge) Oblivion who wants to know why his minion hasn't been concentrating on his job (collecting souls of the dead).In the 2nd epilogue in Milwaukee Andrew gets a parcel addressed to Paperboy. Inside he finds a Michigan newspaper featuring the the Detroit Avengers. Their picture is circled and a message reads "Sidekick still wanted. 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Same old, same old Great Lakes Avengers
Connie Ferrari of legal firm Ferrari and Hindel is hoping to leave work on time for a date when her assistant Amy tells her that their client the Avengers have a job for her. We learn that this ex-girlfriend of Steve Rogers (Captain America) hasn't got over him. but she has to cancel her date with an SR lookalike to catch a flight from New York (with Amy) immediately.In Milwaukee Flatman (Dr Val Ventura), reduced to living off the scant residuals from is autobiography The Flat-Out Truth, is playing an online fantasy role-playing game when Ms Ferrari (and Amy) rings his doorbell. She reminds him how he used to be in the Great Lakes Avengers until the real Avengers told them to stop, but not before he (it seems) applied for a trademark on the Avengers name. However the current actual holder of the trademark, Stark Holdings, is no longer viable (after the death of Tony Stark in Civil War II) so the ownership of the TM has passed to *him*. And she's been authorised to buy it back from him. The meeting continues over pizza and Ventura adds various wild demands on top of the generous amount of money. Ferrari gets impatient and asks him what he *really* wants. He cunningly replies he wants whatever's in the briefcase Amy clutches. Connie extracts a prepared document which says that if he surrenders the trademark then the GLA will be officially be made a permanent Avengers team. And they were right to have assumed that is *exactly* what Flatman wanted.Ashley Crawford has changed her name to Bertha after she changed her lucrative modelling career into that of a plus-size model, choosing to live in the plus-size shape she used as Big Bertha in the GLA. She now comes to meet Val at a diner. He's alone even though he texted Doorman, Mr Immortal and Squirrel Girl as well. (We get hints that something happened between Bertha and Craig Hollis. And we see SG with Tippy-Toe ignoring his text while she has a restaurant meal with Captain America (Sam Wilson), Spider-Man (Miles Morales) and the female Thor.) Bertha's not too sure about restarting the team, especially when Val says he'll lead it in the absence of Craig. Then Doorman (DeMarr Davis) enters the room through the table, worrying if his cosmic boss Oblivion will come after him (he's officially now an Angel Of Death). Then he notices that Flatman is 3-D instead of his usual 2-D and is astonished to learn that FM could always switch modes at will, because otherwise many necessary things in life would be impossible for him. Then Ventura gets a call with the team's new assignment.In Detroit we look in on young Good(ness) Silva and her brother Lucky. Good is creating super-chars on her computer and tablet, which Lucky reminds her that he paid for. Suddenly her bedroom is wrecked as a supervillain Firebrand blasts his way through it. Good survives with minor scratches but is worried about Lucky. However through the remains of the wall she sees another villain Pitchfork with forks for hands menacing (rather ineffectually) a mother and child across the street. She rushes out confronts the bad guy as a sort of werewolf.The GLA trio are heading for Detroit, because that's where the Avengers have relocated them, in a camper van (which FM calls the Flatmobile, nothing like the Flat-A-Maran we glimpsed in the Deadpool/GL Initiative Summer Fun Special). FM and Doorman discuss the Mr Immortal situation which is that he's supposedly off on his own 'saving the world 1 person at a time'. They speak in whispers because they don't want to offend Bertha after 'everything that happened'. But she tells them she can hear them from the back of the van. They arrive at their promised Stark Holdings property but find it's a run-down building in a bad part of town. And they're watched by 2 bickering supervillains as they go in:- Firebrand (who we learn is named Erikson Hades) and Shriek (Frances Barrison), and they mention a boss who won't be pleased.The 1st obstacle is a locked gate which they don't have a key for. DM lets FM use him as a doorway through, but Big Bertha refuses on principle to slim down enough to fit and she just smashes the gate down. Outside the front door they're greeted by a young woman who introduces herself as Pansy who says she's here because she got FM's texts. Which were the texts he sent Mr Immortal, but presumably(?) Ventura sent them to the wrong phone. But she came anyway.And on the final page we finally see where Mr I really is. He's buried underground in a cemetery with an air tube to the surface.


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Peter Quill, Star-Lord, is in a Star Wars cantina chatting up a Kree woman when a troop of troopers herald the arrival of his father Jason, King of Spartax. Jason wants Peter to stay away from Earth. Which was where Peter was born after then-Prince Jason crashed his spaceship there and had an affair with Peter's mom (see #0.1 for more details).Jason tells Peter that a council of galactic empires met and decided to make Earth off-limits, to give us a chance to evolve into our own galactic presence. Peter accuses his father of making Earth a target for the enemies of the council members, such as the Badoon.Jason really wants Peter to come to Spartax and take up his position as heir and Star-Lord, instead of roving the galaxy with his companions. But Quill is determined never to become part of the Spartax empire.The argument is interrupted when Gamora fights her way through the ring of troopers, thinking Star-Lord needs rescuing. Jason knows who she is, the most dangerous woman in the universe, as well as the rest of his son's gang, He's also kept track of Peter's adventures, including Thanos, the Cancerverse and a return from the dead. Star-Lord and Gamora leave.We now skip to Iron Man on his way out of the Solar System (flying past Mars I think), as recommended by Pater Quill. But he doesn't get far before running into a Badoon spaceship heading for Earth. They engage in a space battle, and suddenly another craft appears. And the Guardians of the Galaxy join the fight. (As well as Star-Lord and Gamora there's Drax the Destroyer, Groot and Rocket Racoon.)Drax attacks the outside of the Badoon ship. Rocket blasts a hole in it, which Groot rampages through, followed by Gamora. Star-Lord, Rocket and Iron Man combat Badoon fighter ships.The Badoon are losing. The commander sends a message back to the Brotherhood of Badoon. Then he launches a smaller ship, and leaves the main ship to explode.The blast damages Shellhead's systems and knocks him out. Quill takes him back to the Guardians' ship. Drax goes to help Gamora, but she fights her way out of the wreckage anyway. Rocket retrieves a fragment of Groot, which will be enough to regrow him.Gamora figures that Jason expected Peter to come to the aid of Earth, and face great odds. She thinks that he thinks that if Quill won't do what he wants then it's better he dies, and takes Earth with him!The Guardians follow the surviving small Badoon ships to London.


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Don't fear the reaper
We open with Adam Warlock in 1 of his old costumes standing in a barren landscape. He remembers some of his many previous costumed versions as he skips a stone across a large pond. The stone reaches the other side at the feet of a new version of Warlock who thinks he's dreaming. He also thinks he's witnessing creation but the other Warlock tells him he's witnessing destruction. New Warlock looks down and sees some Marvel characters floating dead in the water (The corpses we see are Nova (Richard Rider), Drax, Groot, Rocket and Star-Lord along with Cable and Hulk.)He *is* dreaming and he awakes, but he doesn't recognise himself in the mirror. He blasts his way outside and *does* recognise Soul World, so he must be dead again. He goes out to see what's what.Now back to the regularly scheduled Guardians of the Galaxy storyline in the Nova Corps HQ the Rock. The GoG signed up in #146 at the start of this Legacy story 'Infinity Quest'. Agents of the Fraternity of Raptors have infiltrated the Corps. Rocket Raccoon, working for Nova Commander Scott Adsit, has arrested all the Corps members involved in petty crimes. But last issue he sprang a surprise. *They* are the ones who are actually loyal. The apparently squeaky-clean Corpsmen are the Raptor spies. And now Raptor forces are attacking thinking the base is undefended. But Adsit and Rocket have freed and armed the prisoners.The enemy Corpsmen don their Raptor talons and prepare to slaughter the defenceless prisoners, but instead they face they face the armed troops and Guardians led by Rocket in the Centurion helmet he donned last issue (and the red uniform he found with it). Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Gamora, Groot and Star-Lord (Peter Quill) are in the fray. As is Drax whose pacifist stance only forbids him from killing - except accidentally.As the enemy are subdued and captured the Raptor fleet starts firing on the Rock. Rocket taps into the Nova Force at the superior rate allowed by the Centurion helmet and flies out to zap Raptor ships. But there is 1 large ship with shields even the Nova Force can't punch through.Ant-Man has a plan. The shields allow light through, and he can shrink himself to a single photon. Adsit programs the forward laser to emit only light and Scott Lang hitches a ride. And returns to full size in the big ship's control room where he knocks out a couple of goons and then triggers further growth and becomes so large he breaks open the spaceship. Then he shrinks to human-size and Adsit tells Rocket to bring him back.As usual after a trick like that Scott is almost wiped out. Rocket is full of praise, but when he realises that Ant-Man can't remember what happened he tells Scott that he got knocked out and Rocket had to blow up the ship himself and rescue him.The Raptor Talonar survived the attack and is contacted by an uncaptured spy Talon-M who tells him that the Nova Corps have the Power Stone on 1 of their research facilities. He overheard the Earthman Nova telling Star-Lord about it (#148). Talonar assumes that Nova is the young Sam Alexander - he doesn't know that Richard Rider has returned from the Cancerverse. And Gamora beheads Talon-M before he can correct him.Nova (Richard Rider) himself now arrives at the base. Star-Lord tells him the Raptor emergency is over and now they can get back to dealing with the Ultron virus infecting aliens (since #146). But Nova has news of a new problem - giant trees attacking planet Telferina led by an old man. The Guardians already fought some of his trees on Knowhere in #148-149 and they figure that the man behind it is the Elder of the Universe known as the Gardener. (They learned in All-New GotG that he had stolen most of Groot's wood and was probably the reason why Groot was currently unable to grow taller than a sapling.)Gamora wants to leave the Ultron-aliens to the Nova Corps and continue their search for the Infinity Stones. But Peter Quill wants to go to Telferina because they might find a cure for Groot. Adsit takes the Centurion helmet back off Rocket (who was hoping to keep it). And Drax says he quits (probably partly because he accidentally killed a Raptor spy in the fight). Gamora says they need Rider for raw power then, and he only agrees if they go to Telferina. Quill persuades Drax to come with them because he has somewhere he thinks Drax should be ...... which turns out to be the Nova Corps place which is hiding the Power Stone, which is very very much bigger than it was in the old reality. Star-Lord introduces Drax to pregnant Nova Centurion Eve Bakian who is guarding the Stone and suggests he stay there for quiet contemplation while also guarding the place when Eve leaves for the birth. Drax comments that the Power Stone didn't used to be purple, he thought that was the Reality Stone, but Peter gives him some proof. And also admits that he hasn't told anyone else including Gamora about this.But the word is getting out. A Skrull spy in the Nova Corps tells his people. A member of an unidentified group tells an alien called Talinda that they monitored a transmission (presumably the 1 from Talon-M) from the Rock during the Raptor attack and heard about the Power Stone. Talinda broadcasts an offer to other criminals to sell the location to the highest bidder. Ultron-infected aliens overhear that as do the Chitauri, and their Warbringer has Talinda kidnapped and makes *his* bid - he'll let her live if she tells him where the Power Stone is. He'll use it to free the Chitauri homeworld from Thanos (which he conquered in his (2017) #13 and presumably still ruled in #18 after his return from a trip to the future in between).We finish the issue back with Adam Warlock who doesn't remember how he got back inside the Soul Gem. Is he hiding here or did someone such as Thanos imprison him? He comes across an aged version of Gamora who asks him to help her escape like he did before. He claims that's impossible and she blames him for trapping her here in another life. He admits that he and his friends found refuge here a long time ago but now claims not to recognise her. He says he no longer owns the Gem, but as he leaves this place he says if he regains it he might return here.What we see is Warlock emerging from 1 of his cocoons facing Kang the Conqueror in his hall of trophies.Adam Warlock's story continues in INFINITY COUNTDOWN: ADAM WARLOCK. He has awoken at the end of time. Kang explains the Thanos problem and sends him back in time to his earlier self Rama Tut in ancient Egypt who sends him forward to the present by suspended animation.(Note that Warlock's costume in the current issue is plain black across the chest. An energy bolt on p1 of IC:AW adds a yellow lightning symbol like the 1 on his Power of Warlock costume which he will sport in later IC apps.)Then Warlock and the Guardians will have bit parts in IC PRIME which introduces all the players in IC.Then the Guardians story itself continues in full in IC #1.


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The final gauntlet (3 of 6)
On board the Shi'ar Destroyer Lilandra IV Eros/Starfox communes with a hologram of Thanos bemoaning the fact that no matter what he himself achieves he'll always be known mainly as Thanos' little brother. And now he thinks his quest to kill Gamora to stop Thanos being reborn makes him as bad as his brother. Shi'ar Emperor Kallark/Gladiator informs him that they have tracked down Nova (Richard Rider) (Gamora's sometime boyfriend).In the Negative Zone Hela and the Black Order have come to see its lord Annihilus. They want Thanos' head, and Annihilus points to his children who are using it as a ball. Proxima Midnight offers to kill him but Hela says that as a Death Goddess she *knows* when Annihilus will die, and how and by whose hand. They duel for a bit and then she cuts off 1 of his hands. And whispers that as a Death Goddess she can *stop* that destined death. And asks again for the head.Meanwhile on Elynor-143, a planet of sentient humanoid birds, Nova crashes to the ground pursued by Eros' Dark Guardians. Guardian asks where Gamora is. Richard Rider's reply is a blast of Nova Force. The Wraith snags him from behind with his whip and uses his Exolon parasites to cause extreme pain. He reminds Nova that they fought side-by-side in the Annihilation Wars (Annihilation Conquest). He doesn't wish to kill him but Starfox wants Gamora dead and has promised him in return info on Knull the God of the Exolon parasites to help him get rid of the parasite curse.Gladiator stops Wraith from killing Nova, and the Cosmic Ghost Rider tries the good cop approach on Rich. Thanos is dead but his consciousness has been transferred to someone else, and his 'daughter' Gamora is the obvious candidate who he trained from infancy. Richard Rider won't let them kill her for something she hasn't yet done, but Ghost Rider points out she deserves death for trying to destroy the universe with the Infinity Stones (Infinity Wars). And with Thanos' mind she'll be even worse. Nova personally knows what a bad dude Thanos is, so he should be on *their* side.Nova's reply this time is to rocket off. Gladiator orders them to give chase, but Ghost Rider says no-one can catch a Nova. [Well they obviously caught him earlier.] Nebula suggests they let him go and just track him. She guesses he'll lead them straight to her 'sister' Gamora. (G-Type and some Kree were also at the party but didn't do anything.)At last we get to the stars of the show, the Guardians Of The Galaxy. In his spaceship The Ryder Star-Lord is burying his head in a pillow on his bed trying to ignore the rest of his team outside the door. Groot tells him something's happened to his father but when Peter Quill opens the door he discovers it was a trick, and the tree-being won't let him close it again. He says they've agreed to go save Gamora from Eros and pals. But Quill doesn't want to do that because the green assassin killed *him* (Infinity Wars again). He'd rather drown himself in booze, but Groot grabs the bottle and smashes it against a wall.Apparently Peter and Groot are the only ones who know where Gamora actually is, but now Groot is going to tell the others. And he's going to take them there in The Ryder (they wouldn't all fit on Beta Ray Bill's hammer). Quill points out it's *his* ship but Groot says it's a mutiny and if Peter doesn't like it Bill will confine him in the brig. Moondragon and Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell) are in on this too.Groot tells them Gamora's gone to Halfworld to look for the missing Guardian Rocket Raccoon. And we see her there.


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Star-Lord's father J'son is Patriarch of the new Universal Church Of Truth. He's captured and mind-controlled most of the Guardians Of The Galaxy, but he's left his son Peter Quill free of mind-control hoping to convince him their cause is right. They have Drax The Destroyer and an army of clones of him and they intend to kill Death. Groot and Moondragon remain free along with dying Rocket Raccoon kept alive by a mech-suit, and they've recruited the Magus (who used to lead the Church) reborn as a young boy. The free Guardians have just crashed their spaceship Bowie into the Temple-Destroyer Cathedral.Rocket strides in mech-suit guns a'blazing but is stunned to see he faces an army of his friend Drax, too many for Magus to control. Moondragon reads the mind of the lead Drax and is satisfied that her father Arthur Douglas isn't in there. Then she unleashes the Dragon Of The Moon on them. Quill finds Groot and they update each other. Peter says they've got to free the other Guardians. J'son gives orders to some Black Knights of the Church but Magus mind-controls them and they shoot at their boss. Rocket tells Groot and Star-Lord to take the opportunity to go find their teammates.Unfortunately they discover all the cells open and empty. Magus is about to kill the Patriarch when he is blasted from behind by Gamora at the head of an army of other 'converted' heroes. There's the other Guardians Beta Ray Bill (carrying unconscious Groot and Star-Lord), Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell) and Lockjaw along with previous members Bug, Cosmo, Major Victory and Mantis. The others include the Starjammers plus Darkhawk, Firelord, Nebula, Quasar and Terrax. And they all shoot at the young Magus. His shields hold but Lockjaw teleports Phyla-Vell behind him and she takes him down. Moondragon reluctantly goes after her lover PV but Gamora disperses the Dragon Of The Moon leaving Heather Douglas vulnerable to the mob. Beta Ray Bill's flung Stormbreaker shatters Rocket's armour/life-support. And it all seems over.J'son orders Groot, Magus and Moondragon taken away to be converted. He shows Peter that the Cathedral is nearing Earth where he intends to feed the population into the ship's life engines (it is powered by their subjugated wills). Star-Lord and the others, starting with his love Gamora, will also become fodder.The Patriarch ignored the dying Rocket Raccoon. He also probably doesn't know about the bunch of mini-Groots who now rush in shouting their name/mantra Stab. They prize Rocket free of his mech-wreckage and give him his trademark big gun. And he staggers off to save the day, dragging the gun behind him.


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Faithless (1 of 6)
We open with the Universal Church Of Truth's really large flagship Temple-Destroyer surrounded by debris plus most of the existing Nova Corpsmen (but not Richard Rider) and their ships. A voiceover by Moondragon reminds us that the Church was originally a cult run by Adam Warlock's evil half Magus, and their spaceships had engines powered by the faith of their believers. But she says it's all different now. The Nova Corps are confronted by the Patriarch of the Church who says he doesn't want any trouble, but the Corps want to board the ship. In response the Patriarch re-enters the ship which then makes a very loud noise and  translucent tentacles emerge which convince the Corpsmen to remove their helmets in the vacuum of space while saying "Have faith".The Guardians Of The Galaxy are enjoying R&R on the sin-planet Dolo-Mayan. Peter Quill is in bed with Gamora. When he told her he loved her last issue he didn't think her reaction would be this enthusiastic! But duty now calls. Apparently Groot has won them a new ship which Pater intends to continue tradition by naming after another of his favourite actresses. But Gamora asks why it can't be a handsome *actor* this time? They are interrupted by Groot who says there's something Peter needs to see.This something is a message from his father J'son of Spartax. He says that the destruction of the Nova Corps triggered an interstellar war, as part of which he's leading the Spartoi fleet against the Temple-Destroyer. He deems it a suicide mission so he's taking this last chance to apologise to his son for their past disagreements. The message ends with J'son telling Peter not to come here but run as far away as he can. And then "Have faith".Quill of course does the exact opposite. And Moondragon's voiceover says the team followed him without hesitation. When they arrive at the Temple-Destroyer in their new spaceship, now named the Bowie, Star-Lord can't pick up any transmissions so he lays out a plan. Groot will stay on the ship with the engines running. Moondragon will stay with him to provide a psi-link to the away team. The Inhuman dog Lockjaw will teleport the others (itself, Star-Lord and Gamora plus Beta Ray Bill and Phyla-Vell) inside the big ship.When they get there they see countless translucent tubes, all with many bodies inside them. The Patriarch greets them and says the Church is going to resurrect their messiah. Moondragon mentally tells the GOTG to get out now! But it's too late as the tendrils grab them all.Back on the Bowie Heather Douglas spasms, and her voiceover tells us that she learned that this COUT is from the future, and their engines are powered by life not faith - they steal your will to live. In the present she starts to chant "Have faith" but pulls free and desperately tells Groot to run! He takes their ship away from there.On the Temple-Destroyer we see that the tendrils work by inducing despair. But Patriarch gets them to let the Guardians go. He explains that Quill and friends have seen the dire future that the Church is trying to prevent. Their resurrected messiah is the only 1 who can kill their foe, Death. The Patriarch says he sent the message to bring Quill here, and drops his hood to reveal himself as the (possessed) J'son. Peter says no, but his teammates rise against him saying "Have faith".The issue ends with Moondragon talking to Groot and someone else. The voiceover has been what she's been telling them. Now she says she's lost mental contact with others because they're too far away. It's up to the 3 of them to save the day. She speaks to the 3rd person saying that everyone on the team hates him but they need his help. We see that it's Rocket Raccoon hobbling around on medical support - he's dying so what's he got to lose.


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Star-Lord's father J'son of Spartax is now the Patriarch of the Universal Church Of Truth (henceforth referred to as the UCT) and he's trying to persuade his son of the rightness of his cause. He describes what they found millions of years in the future - the universe dying. I guess we see what Peter Quill imagines on hearing his dad's words. [That's the only explanation I have for the skeletons of Earth heroes still in their costumes amid the ruins of recognisable Marvel landmarks like the Baxter Building, all having survived the aeons.] And the Patriarch says the figure of Death watched over it all. And now the UCT intends to prevent that future by killing Death.In the present we see Peter in the grips of tendrils of the UCT's Cathedral spaceship. He chants the mantra of the converted "We have to have faith". The starship has been gathering in the power of the lifeforce of beings throughout the universe. Now they have their sights on what J'son claims is the biggest concentration of life energy in the universe - Earth. He promises to drain the life from only a couple of continents in order to resurrect their messiah, and then they'll return to the future to kill Death.Then Star-Lord reveals that he wasn't really converted by breaking free and punching his pa's jaw. Then he makes a frantic escape from pursuing armoured guards. Only to run into the converted Cosmo the Space-Dog who zaps him with a mind-blast. J'son and the guards recapture him.Meanwhile the dying Rocket Raccoon in a Transformers-like giant battle suit has brought Groot and Moondragon (and her manifested Dragon Of The Moon) to an unidentified planet for help to rescue Quill and the other Guardians Of The Galaxy from the UCT. But so far all they've done is fight a horde of vicious alien critters. Rocket says Gamora told him about the place 1 night when they got drunk (some time just before the Guardians found Gamora in #4 with Rocket on his birth planet Halfworld). Then our heroes find themselves floating above the foe and a voice tells them to stop scaring his pets. It's an early-teen version of Magus, and Rocket says this is who they've come to find.Back in the Cathedral J'son takes Peter to the cocoon that will birth the messiah. (And last issue we saw that they have rooms full of such cocoons.) He commands the engines to be started, and the cocoon cracks open. [So they didn't need the extra life-energy from a large chunk of Earth for this.] And out of it steps Drax The Destroyer.


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Star-Lord's dad J'son of Spartax is Patriarch of the new Universal Church Of Truth, who have come back in time to gain the power to go back to the future to defeat Death. They've resurrected Drax the Destroyer to head an army of Drax clones. They've captured the Guardians Of The Galaxy and many others to use as 'fuel' for their life-force engines, and now they are about to add the population of Earth. Only dying Rocket Raccoon is left to save the day (plus a bunch of baby Groots all called Stab).The Patriarch is pontificating, saying he willingly takes the guilt of what he has done and is about to do in order to save the future universe. But suddenly their giant starship loses power, and a viewscreen to the engine room shows a lot of dead troops and Rocket using his engineering skills to monkey with the system. Next he frees all the captives, and sets the ship to go back to its future in a few minutes. And then collapses.The prime Drax grabs him by the scruff of the neck but Rocket spits in his eye. But then the cavalry arrive. Beta Ray Bill knocks the Destroyer back with his hammer Stormbreaker. Big Groot encases his Raccoon buddy in his wooden body to replace the mecha-suit (destroyed last issue) that had been keeping him alive. And he hands Rocket his big gun, and grabs several others to wield himself. Moondragon (Heather Douglas) invades the mind of Drax (who was separated from the mind of her dead father Arthur Douglas at the end of Infinity Wars) and shows him his past. And he awakens as his old friendly self.Lockjaw teleports all the freed heroes to the Guardians' ship the Bowie (which I thought had been somewhat damaged by crashing through the wall of the Temple-Destroyer in #10). And the Church's starship returns to the future.We follow them billions of years into that future where they are confronted by the being they have referred to as Death. And we see that it is the future Thanos from Thanos (2017) #13-18. But the real Death as usual stands behind him.In an extended epilogue the Guardians have brought Rocket home to Halfworld to be healed. The current Guardians (Beta Ray Bill, Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell), Gamora, Groot (and his Stablings), Moondragon and Star-Lord) are joined by the Cosmic Ghost Rider, Drax, Lockjaw, young Magus and Silver Surfer. A doctor explains that Rocket's bio-mods were way out of date but now he's been upgraded he should recover (slowly). (So why did the Raccoon  wall himself away in his house on Halfworld to die?)Gamora and Star-Lord make up. Cantankerous Rocket rejects everyone's sympathy and demands to know what's been happening while he was away (since Infinity Wars). We see a montage of the future Thanos story (which also introduced the Cosmic Ghost Rider), CGR's own series, the Death Of Inhumans mini-series and the Silver Surfer: Black mini (all written by this series' scribe Donny Cates). SS tries to tell him but Bill stops him and says Rocket hasn't missed anything.Rocket sends everyone away but the folks from the original Guardians (Drax, Gamora, Groot and Star-Lord). He forces himself to thank them and says he's going to get better and join them in guarding the galaxy. Peter Quill tells him to take all the time he needs.


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The final gauntlet (5 of 6)
Last issue Eros' Dark Guardians attacked the Guardians Of The Galaxy to capture or kill Gamora. Nebula tried to shoot her 'sister' Gamora but Star-Lord took the blast in his chest.Now Groot and his twiglets all named Stab try to revive him despite Beta Ray Bill and Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell) saying he's dead. And then Peter Quill sits up complaining his ribs are broken. He reveals he's wearing body armour, which he says he started doing after Gamora stabbed him to death (Infinity Wars #1). But now the others have to tell him that the enemy took Gamora.Their spaceship the Ryder is a wreck. Nova (Richard Rider) is cut off from the Nova Corps. And they have no way of tracking where Gamora has gone. But Bill says he has an ally he can call on that will solve 2 of those problems. He whirls a special whistle in the air and the Inhumans' dog Lockjaw teleports to their side. Bill says that he aided the Inhumans when they were being hunted and killed by the Kree (in the Death Of The Inhumans mini-series). Now he can call on them for aid.They show Lockjaw the cape Gamora left behind. Bill translates the dog's woofs to say that Lockjaw can indeed track her through space and teleport them all after her. The hound also expresses his remorse over what's happened to Rocket Raccoon. (We'll find out what that is after this story arc ends next issue.) The whole team (including Moondragon who's been silent throughout) set off.We leap ahead (and back a bit in time) to the Shi'ar warship Lilandra IV where Gladiator, Nebula, Wraith and the Cosmic Ghost Rider bring handcuffed Gamora to Eros in front of a hologram of Thanos. Eros gives Wraith the promised information about Knull in payment for his services.Eros believes Gamora is the recipient of the consciousness of the dead Thanos (who she herself killed). He tells her that the whole reason Thanos saved her and trained her was for this purpose. But to prevent his brother's return Eros will now have Gladiator kill her.Except Hela the Asgardian death-goddess suddenly appears and stabs Gladiator through the chest. She's backed up by the Black Order (Black Dwarf, Black Swan, Corvus Glaive, Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight). But Ghost Rider attacks *her* directly. So she reduces him to a skeleton and he offers his obedience. Wraith already has what he wanted, and Nebula could care less what Hela does with Gamora.But it turns out Hela doesn't want Gamora at all. She claims to have been in league with Thanos the whole time. He left the message in his will about his consciousness purely to sow discord. The true bearer of his mind is his brother Eros. The injured and scarred Titan is suddenly wracked with pain and bursts out of his 'wheelchair' to stand unaided. And with Thanos' voice he greets his lover Death.Our guys teleport in too late. Gamora is still shackled, surrounded by the still forms of Gladiator, Ghost Rider and Nebula. (Wraith presumably left.) Gamora tells them that Eros is Thanos and the Black Order took him.Their destination is the old Guardians' base Knowhere where they have Thanos' body (with head reattached). The plan is for Thanos to return his mind to his body. Unfortunately Eros won't survive the process. There's a blaze of energy and Thanos opens his eyes.


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So Star-Lord's father J'son is the Patriarch of the new Universal Church Of Truth and he's captured and 'converted' most of the Guardians Of The Galaxy. He's left his son unbrainwashed  and tried to convince him of the need for their messiah to kill Death. That messiah turned out to be Drax The Destroyer reborn from a Warlock-type cocoon, and the Church has loads more of these cocoons.Meanwhile Groot and Moondragon were free and went to recruit dying Rocket Raccoon, who needs a 'Transformers' robot to get around in. He in turn led them to another ally - the Magus resurrected as a young boy.Magus recounts the story of *this* life. Gamora found him emerging from *his* cocoon at the end of Infinity Wars #6. She set out to teach him to be good, and in the Thanos (2019) mini-series we saw them together in the framing tale where she narrated the story of her early life with Thanos. In *that* #6 they were on Halfworld to see Rocket, but Gamora decided it was best to send Magus away to people who could raise him better. It was on Halfworld that we found Gamora in #3 of *this* series.Now we learn that Magus wound up with the Order Of The Healing Truth, members of the old Magus-led UCT who were dedicated to repairing the harm their old church had done. But unfortunately they considered his existence as part of what needed repairing, so they tried to kill him lest he grow up into their evil boss again. So *he* had to kill *them*. As he sat in the burning ruins of their temple the 'monsters' we saw last issue found him and became his pets.Groot, Moondragon and Rocket (he's left his robot suit outside) have come to tell him the UCT is back. Moondragon whispers to Rocket her concerns about trusting the boy. Rocket whispers back that she could try reading his mind. Magus says he can hear them and offers to let Heather Douglas in. She declines. (Meanwhile Groot is making friends with the pets.) Rocket thinks the living Magus could confuse the Church members, giving them a chance to rescue their friends. Magus signs up 'cos he's bored.Rocket stands up to lead them out but collapses into Groot's hands. He tells them to put him back in his armour, which sends out metal tentacles to take him in and engulfs him in a sustaining fluid. It seems he needs this suit to survive in. But now he does lead them away.On Cathedral, the Temple-Destroyer flagship, Peter Quill confronts the newly-born (but full-size) Drax and tries to get through to the Arthur Douglas within. But this Drax says Arthur is dead and throws Star-Lord down into the pit of cocoons. Which burst open releasing an army of Drax's who all attack him. As he drowns in a sea of foes they all, including the Patriarch, get massive headaches ...... caused by Magus and telepathic Moondragon. Rocket transmits a message demanding they release the Guardians. Patriarch refuses and counter-demands to know who this is. Rocket says it's the starship Bowie which now crashes through the wall of the Cathedral. The crew disembark (including Groot's little Stablings) and young Magus steps up to say that J'son should bow to him.


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The final gauntlet (1 of 6)
Starfox/Eros has called a meeting on Thanos' base-ship Sanctuary. He tells the assembled heroes that the Galaxy is in deep trouble. We see Odin brooding in the ruins of Old Asgard in flames (maybe a reference to War Of The Realms), there appears to be civil war amongst the Kree army, Deathbird is leading a rebellion against the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, Black Bolt is in prison after the Death Of Inhumans mini-series, we've just been through Infinity Wars and Galactus is back to being the World-Devourer. He also mentions ancient gods stirring from their slumber which may be referring to the 1st arc of Asgardians Of The Galaxy.Behind him is the headless body of his brother Thanos. Eros is sure that it *is* Thanos, even without the head, and he *is* dead. (Gamora decapitated him in Infinity Wars Prime.) He has brought everyone here to listen to Thanos' last message found on Sanctuary in a region called Super-Space, the hidden star fields of Sector X.A hologram of the Mad Titan tells them that he isn't leaving a will. He never believed anyone could kill him, but he took precautions just in case. He arranged for his consciousness to be automatically uploaded on his death and implanted into someone else. He looks forward to them trying to find him and stop his "Final Gauntlet".Eros points out that he hasn't included any Avengers in this gathering because the task ahead is only for those not afraid to make hard choices. Captain Marvel (Phyla Vell) asks about the Guardians Of The Galaxy ...... so we look in on Star-Lord and Groot in their spaceship heading to their old base Knowhere in the Rip. Peter Quill is getting drunk looking at an old wanted poster of the old team and what looks like a smashed cassette deck. Surly teenage Groot is trimming his spikes (and he's given himself a Mohican 'haircut'). Quill tries unsuccessfully to contact Knowhere but Groot tells him to look out the window. There's nothing where it should be except a few pieces of debris.Back on Sanctuary Eros says they're going to have to kill a lot of people to make sure Thanos doesn't come back. Beta Ray Bill protests that they can't trust anything Thanos says. But Silver Surfer and Gladiator of the Imperial Guard think they have to consider it. The Cosmic Ghost Rider regrets not having killed baby Thanos in #1 of his mini-series.Eros shows images of those he considers possible hosts for his brother, all of whom they may have to kill just to be safe. But he suggests they start with the most likely candidate Gamora (and we know she has Thanos talking to her in her head since she killed him). Phyla says she should have killed Gamora when she and Moondragon arrived here from their parallel timeline (IW#5). Heather Douglas tries to talk her lover down. And the Rider points out that Thanos could be 1 of the folks *here*.The argument is cut short by an attack by the missing Knowhere - a giant Celestial's head. Silver Surfer recognises it, and also the Korbinite steel cables that it has grabbed them with. He also recognises the horde of Thanos' Outriders boarding them and tells Bill to guard the body. Norrin Radd turns to the Ghost Rider who he's never met. The Rider says he's Frank Castle (the Punisher) and the Surfer will kill him in the far future. "We're good, but don't give me orders." Then the Black Order follow the Outriders in.Quill and Groot have landed on a large chunk of the missing Knowhere, and they've called in the Nova Corps to report it gone. An alien Nova has turned up and doesn't believe the story of a missing Celestial head, with questions like "Where did you last see it?" and "Have you been drinking?" Under more questioning Peter claims not to be Star-Lord anymore and the Guardians have broken up - Drax is dead (I think the end of IW: Fallen Guardian suggests otherwise) and Gamora is a villain (the end of IW#6 suggests otherwise for that too). Groot says they don't want to talk about Rocket Raccoon (who it seems will be involved in the upcoming Avengers: No Road Home weekly mini). And their ship is no longer the Milano (named after Alyssa, and destroyed in Infinity Countdown #2), the new 1 is the Ryder (named after Winona, not the Earth Nova Richard).Then the Nova guy gets an alert that a Celestial head has been detected heading towards the big meeting on Thanos' ship. Peter hasn't head of this, but Groot says they got an invite but he didn't think it sounded interesting. The Nova guy leaves in his ship and tells them not to interfere.On Sanctuary Knowhere's cables latch on to Thanos' body. Proxima Midnight fires a missile into space which disgorges a small sphere which explodes ripping a hole in space. The Black Order escape in Knowhere with the body and everyone else is sucked into the hole. The Nova Corps arrive too late, but in time to see Beta Ray Bill's Asgardian hammer Stormbreaker emerge from the hole pulling behind it Cosmic Ghost Rider's mystic chain. The hammer ignores the Corps and heads straight to the Ryder which has just got there. Groot grabs the chain and Peter puts the ship in reverse. They pull out Beta Ray Bill who has Moondragon, Phyla Vell and Ghost Rider hanging on behind.Bill tells the pair that Corsair's Starjammers, Silver Surfer, the whole Imperial Guard and the Skrulls (all of them?) are lost. And the Black Order have Thanos' body. The Novas drop by to take Bill and co in for questioning. Quill demands to see a warrant to enter his ship but is told that his rights only extend to his crew. So he declares that this bunch is now the Guardians Of The Galaxy.Proxima Midnight, Black Dwarf, Black Swan, Corvus Glaive and Ebony Maw bring the body to their boss and report that their enemies are now scattered across time. They are told they must now also find the head because they need the whole deal in order to resurrect Thanos. Proxima protests that their earlier boss is now with his lover Death. And surely not even Hela Asgardian Goddess of Death would wage war against Death itself. Hela's smile suggests otherwise.