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Unknown demons went around possessing heroes trying to get hold of the Eye Of Agamotto until finally they possessed Iron Fist and took him away with it. Then the New Avengers had to fight an invasion of other unknown demons through a rent in the sky. But at the end of last issue the demons left and the rent closed, but not before returning Iron Fist (in a transmuted costume) and the Eye. And Danny Rand declared that he'd met Dr Strange's ascended mentor the Ancient One who told him that DrS stole the Eye from its owner and so he's to blame for what's happening.But this issue starts several years ago where Mister Rasputin, a minor foe of Stephen Strange, tries to hire the Hand ninjas to kill the then-Sorcerer Supreme and steal the Eye for him. He tells them that he's trained for years to even be able to hold the amulet, and that no-one knows who Agamotto is. But then Stephen's manservant Wong pops up to tell them that Agamotto is 1 of the 3 Vishanti, some of the most powerful mystical entities in the universe. And legend has it that he was Earth's 1st Sorcerer Supreme. Agomotto left his Eye to be passed down through generations of SS's, all chosen by the Eye itself. So stealing it will do them no good. Rasputin thinks Strange sent his servant because he's afraid to face him personally, but now they can use Wong as a bargaining chip. Then Stephen steps forth from the shadows and the duo do it the hard way by comprehensively defeating the ninjas with magic and martial arts. (Rasputin seems to have slipped away.)Then we get another sidebar, this 1 current. In #1 demons took away the spirit of Dr Voodoo's brother Daniel Drumm. Now we see him in the featureless white space to which Iron Fist was taken, trying to find anyone else or contact his brother Jericho. He's beginning to believe he's dead, but the space isn't quite so featureless anymore.The main battleground in the previous issues was Avengers Mansion and Central Park across the road. Hawkeye (Clint Barton who's been MIA since #2) digs himself out from under an overturned taxi. He meets the rest of the combatants at the Mansion's front door and has a reunion with his wife Bobbi Morse (Mockingbird). He hasn't got time to be brought up to speed on what's happened because he's received a priority emergency call from the (not-New) Avengers. He tells them he's not going to join *this* team - he only attended the lunch meeting in #1 to see Bobbi. After he's left Spider-Man complains that he's on *both* teams so why didn't he get a call? Ms Marvel (Carol Danvers) asks him if he's got an APE pager, and he has to admit he didn't know there was such a thing. Nobody seems to wonder why Wolverine didn't get a call when he too is on both teams (and the X-Men).The next scene change is to Dr Voodoo's Sanctum Sanctorum in New Orleans. Jericho Drumm, the current Sorcerer Supreme and hence official possessor of the Eye, is desperately searching his magic library for any clue as to where his brother is and how to rescue him. Then he gets an anguished visitation by said ghost.The New Avengers regroup in the (re-)damaged Mansion. Iron Fist's anger has reduced to simmering since punching Stephen Strange at the end of last issue. DrS is still blaming himself for all this, and Danny Rand still thinks he's right. But Stephen explains that whoever Danny met could *not* be the Ancient One. The AO *gave* him the Eye to anoint him as Sorcerer Supreme, as he in turn passed it on to Jericho Drumm. If the AO had reason to want it back he would know the proper route to get it. Whoever this is he obviously needs the amulet for his own reasons but is having to resort to force or trickery to get it. Danny says that the AO told him that Strange cast spells on the Eye to stop him from taking it, which Stephen now flatly denies. And IF apologises for hitting him. But DrS says the idea was sound and *does* cast some protection spells on the Eye.Victoria Hand asks if there's a list of who might want the Eye and is powerful enough to do what's happened in past issues. Spider-Man jokingly wonders if Agamotto wants his Eye back, but Strange and Daimon Hellstrom take the idea seriously. Jessica Jones asks why they don't give it back to him. Thing says you don't give the bad guy what he wants. She counters that in his home dimension he might be the good guy. Daimon says he was the 1st Sorcerer Supreme and like the Ancient One is now ascended to a higher plane. Stephen tells them that if it *is* Agamotto then it's really bad news.And at that point Agamotto himself joins them in his tiger aspect. Then he turns into a tigerish version of the AO who continues to talk as if he's *not* Aggie. He asks Stephen if he really wants to go to war with Agamotto and the forces of the Light Dimension. And he urges DrS to hand the Eye over to 'him'. But Strange insists on addressing him as Agamotto directly, saying that he should know that he *can't* give the Eye to him because it now belongs to Jericho Drumm. So the 'god' takes over the other Avengers who approach menacingly while chorusing that the Vishanti are no more and he needs all his power including his amulet. Against that this dimension matters not at all. DrS can't believe that the Vishanti have gone but his resistance is crumbling.But then Dr Voodoo intercedes and forces Agamotto into his alternate form as a caterpillar. The possession of the Avengers is broken and Aggie vanishes away. DrV takes the Eye back from Strange and claims to know exactly what to do. He personally challenges Agamotto. And the challenge is accepted.He tells the others that Agamotto didn't reveal himself before because he didn't want this kind of challenge, which Strange adds is to the death. Daimon shouts that Jericho's not up to this, and Stephen calmly adds that they don't know where the foe is. But Jericho says that his brother Daniel contacted him, possibly with his dying breath, to show him the dimension of light where he's hiding. If the Vishanti are broken then the the mystic universe is in chaos and Agamotto is less powerful than he was. And the Avengers can help in the fight.The fight is 1 vessel against 1 vessel but Jericho is considering using a binding spell. Stephen muses that it's not *against* the rules. And they explain to the others that there are rules that mages agree to follow, but creative bending of the rules is allowed. Daimon protests that their enemy has been breaking the rules, but Strange points out that's how they know they're the good guys in this. This particular binding spell will gather all the powers and abilities of the group and give them to the 1 who will enter the challenge.DrV admits that this spell has never been used on mortals before so the side-effects might be unpredictable, but everyone, even Victoria Hand, is up for it. He intends to be the vessel but Wolverine says he will take it because he's ready to do *whatever*'s necessary. He suggests Jericho be his guide. Stephen and Daimon have to agree the scheme makes sense and Agamotto won't be expecting it.So Voodoo gets them all to sit in a circle round Logan and Jericho recites the spell while DrS(?) bolsters Wolvie with a Fortification chant. And when it's done Wolverine stands with all their powers, the only outer evidence being Daimon's inverted pentacle and Danny's dragon sigil on his chest.Story 2: Avengers Assemble - the oral history of the Earth's mightiest heroes Chapter 8.Written by Brian Michael Bendis with illustrations by Stephanie Hans and Jack Kirby & John Romita.Chapter 7 in Avengers #5 covered the early days of Cap' Kooky Quartet, centring on the Swordsman tale in Av#19-20. This Chapter will be based on #21-24, with maybe a hint of #25.1st off they talk about the Enchantress in #21-22 (but barely mentioning the villain Power Man she created to implement her plan). Pietro Maximoff remembers her being a thorn in their side despite the Asgardian being really Thor's enemy. (She'd been in the Masters Of Evil for 5 out of the 16 issues of the original team, and now she's back.) Janet Van Dyne wonders why Odin's favourite punishment seems to be banishing someone to Earth.Pietro remembers that she (with PM) created situations that made them look bad (in #21). Steve Rogers says it only worked because of the team's internal weaknesses. Clint Barton apologises for constantly undermining his leadership, and everyone else chimes in with examples. Clint does point out that Cap was still coming to terms with being a man out of his time. Rick Jones (who'd actually left them by then to go back to his pal Hulk) reminds them about his confusing relationship with Cap. And Clint adds that he had a big crush on Wanda Maximoff while she was in love with Steve, and her brother Pietro was watching us both. So Enchantress, Power Man and Dr Doom (#25) came in on top of that. Steve denies that any love was in the air. Pietro hotly defends Wanda's honour.The upshot was that the team got disbanded by the city council and found jobs elsewhere (#22). Clint thinks it was his semi-criminal past that caused the problem (although I feel Pietro and Wanda's 'terrorist' past would have weighed heavier). Tony Stark thinks it's just because the public forget the good someone's done in the past (or even don't believe most of it) and just concentrate on their bad press. He cites Spider-Man as a prime example. He says a superhero can't do the job for public adoration, just for their desire to do good. (Tony mentions a couple of times the team fighting Dr Doom. He might be referring to the retro-added #1.5 or possibly #25.) Everyone recalls that they very quickly got back together.They don't mention that Cap quit the team anyway. But Clint does say that Kang chose their time of weakness to attack them from the future (#23-24). Kang praises his own cunning but Steve thinks he's not as clever as he makes out. Pietro thinks his attack *caused* them to reform again.Clint remembers that at this time the media were asking what happened to the *real* Avengers - Giant-Man, Iron Man and Thor, even the Hulk? Rick Jones likens it to a rock band continuing after losing their lead singer. Steve remembers losing his belief in the team, but he kept his promise to hold it together until the originals came back.And in Chapter 9 in Avengers #6 2 of them (Giant-Man and Wasp) do return (noticeably the ones without a series to call their own).


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Happily ever after
In a flashback a Hydra agent offers the disfigured and hospitalised Yelena Belova (the 2nd Black Widow) a chance to strike back at the Avengers for what they did to her in #6. Hydra have hired AIM to transform her into a new Super-Adaptoid. The agent says he doesn't want Spider-Woman harmed, if possible, because she's working for them.In the present the Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Sentry, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Wolverine) are having some downtime in Avengers Tower along with Ms Marvel, Jarvis, Lindy Reynolds and Mary Jane and May Parker. A frazzled Jessica Jones arrives with baby Danielle in tow. The other women coo over the baby, except Jessica Drew.Jessica Jones quietly says "Yes" to a marriage proposal Luke Cage made earlier. Luke immediately announces it to the room (so she can't retract it like the last time).Iron Man as Tony Stark takes Cap and Sentry outside for a meeting with the Mayor, to smooth ruffled feathers over the unsanctioned conversion of Stark Tower into Avengers Tower, complete with Sentry's Watchtower on top. But he's not helped by Belova showing up in Adaptoid mode.Hearing the battle below, Ms Marvel leads the other Avengers into the fray. Cap hustles the Mayor to safety while the Adaptoid mimics Sentry's power, and that of Ms Marvel and the other arriving Avengers. She then goes in chase of Cap, who's driving the Mayor away in a car. Sentry gives chase, but Yelena easily bests him. Ms Marvel tries to absorb the powers from the Adaptoid, thus robbing her of them, but it doesn't work.Battered Tony Stark recovers, suits up and joins the others. He explains about Super-Adaptoid's powers, but too late of course. Spider-Man wonders what would happen if the Adaptoid tried to adapt to multiple copies of the same hero. This gives Stark and idea, and he tells the others to keep the Adaptoid busy until he returns.The team, including the returned Cap, repeatedly attack the villainess. Including Ms Marvel and Wolverine doing Logan's patented fastball special. But the Adaptoid shrugs them all off until she is confronted by an array of old Iron Man armours, remotely piloted by Stark. But nothing is enough against Cage's unbreakable skin, Wolverine's unbreakable bones and his healing factor.But then a side-effect of Sentry's power manifests, as the Void appears in Belova's mind. And she hasn't the experience to keep it in check. Her absorbed abilities desert her. Sentry offers to take the Void away if she'll tell them who's behind her attack (although Logan says it's obviously Hydra). But AIM cause Adaptoid to self-destruct before she can answer.After the fight Iron Man wants to know what Spider-Woman knows about all this. He's not happy about her double-agent role (which they learned about in #14). But SW protests her innocence.Now we finally get to the cover scene as Luke and Jessica Jones get married. Jessica confirms that she really wants to marry Luke, despite all the baddies that keep attacking them. And anyway, no supervillan interrupted the wedding, so that's a good sign.


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The trust, conclusion
In #37 the New Avengers stopped Hood and some of his gang robbing a bank. Hood got away but SHIELD captured the gang (including Hood's cousin John King with the money) and imprisoned them in the Raft. But at the end of the issue Hood magically teleported in and freed the gang.Now Maria Hill in the SHIELD helicarrier HQ is told about the break-in and -out and that all the villains are free - Chemistro, Madame Masque, Wizard and the Wrecking Crew (Bulldozer, Piledriver, Thunderball and Wrecker). They killed 17 Agents on the way out.We see Hood and the 7 villains plus Jigsaw visiting Tigra in her bedroom. Hood wants her to tell him where the NAv are hiding, or he threatens to kill her mother and cut of 1 of her legs. She tells him that the Initiative all know they're in Dr Strange's house but they can't prove it because the Sorcerer Supreme's magic makes it seem deserted and boarded up. She swears she's not lying but she only told them because she expects the Avengers to defeat them. So Jigsaw smacks her.In that disguised Sanctum Jessica Jones and baby Danielle Cage are having tea with Night Nurse (Linda Carter) while they wait with Wong for the team to get back from their latest mission. They arrive in a burst of light from Strange's teleportation spell. They're celebrating a victory but Maya Lopez' arm is injured so Linda attends to her. Stephen Strange is also doubled over in pain though no-one remembers him getting injured. The Nurse goes to him but he angrily brushes her and Wong off and staggers away.Wolverine heads for the kitchen to get some food but Wong stops him because he, and the others, always mess his tidy workplace up. Jessica, Danielle and Luke Cage have a reunion. Iron Fist thinks they should leave Stephen's home but Luke says they've got nowhere else to go. Except Spider-Man leaves for *his* home because he's tired of everyone suspecting he's a Skrull. Ronin (Clint Barton) offers to fix ex-Ronin Maya's arm. And Logan heads to the kitchen anyway.On an opposite rooftop Hood and the others have been joined by many other members of his supervillain gang. Wrecker asks if he's sure they can defeat the Avengers. He remembers him and his Wrecking Crew being part of a large gathering of Masters Of Evil who succeeded in taking Avengers Mansion (Av#270-277) but they still lost in the end. Bulldozer doesn't even believe the team are in there. But Hood gets his empowering demon to let him see through Strange's illusion and he tells them that Tigra wasn't lying. Madame Masque wants to know what demon he's working with. But that conversation is aborted when they see Spider-Man exiting the building, confirming to *everyone* that the Avengers are in there. Then Spidey's Spider-sense alerts him to the danger and he heads back to the Sanctum. And Hood launches their attack before they can lose the element of surprise.Inside some of the team are wondering who 1 of Hood's villains was and Luke and Danny Rand have to say it's 1 of their old foes Chemistro. Peter Parker swings in shouting "They're here!" (which Clint thinks means Skrulls) and grabs Danielle out of Jessica's arms. He swings away with the baby with Jess in pursuit, and Luke and Danny planning to intercept him. But just then the wooden frame of the ornate Sanctum window crumbles into leaves! Outside we see it's the work of Chemistro's alchemy gun, but he's hit by Iron Fist's hurled nunchucks as Spidey and baby climb onto the roof. Jessica flies up to him demanding her baby back. Peter hands Danielle over and suggests they get far away before heading back towards the fray.Wrecker kicks the front door down and leads others inside. Dr Strange's illness or Hood's influence means the non-magical villains can now see their previously spell-cloaked foes, and those that can shoot/blast rake the room with fire. Meanwhile Hood has gone straight to Strange's bedroom where Linda and Wong are tending him and he starts shooting too, riddling the Sorcerer with bullets. In the main room a full melee ensues, and Wong drives Hood away with his martial arts skills while Night Nurse pronounces Stephen dead. Outside Jigsaw has hovering Jessica in the sights of a sniper rifle. But Spider-Man detects him and webs the gun up before taking the villain out with 1 punch. Inside the mass of villains are getting in each other's way. Spidey swings back in and tells Cage his baby is safe.2 SHIELD Agents have been keeping surveillance on the house from an undercover van. They report the altercation to the helicarrier as Bulldozer comes flying out of the window to land on a car in front of them. The fight continues inside as Tigra suddenly appears and rakes Hood's face with her claws but gets shot in the shoulder. Danny Rand  deplores the ruin the battle is making of the place, destroying precious mystical books and artefacts. But on his bed Dr Strange suddenly comes back to life with a demonic glow in his eyes. The heroes are losing:- Light-being Living Laser powers through Wolverine's abdomen. Thunderball slams his Asgardian-powered ball & chain into Cage. Razor-Fist slashes Iron Fist's back. Griffin attacks Maya. Shockwave zaps Ronin. Mandrill has SM down. Bulldozer's got Tigra. But then Strange appears in a raging Hulk-like demonic form wielding the power of Zom with which he renders friends and foes alike unconscious or in agony.Linda Carter and Wong find Stephen Strange shattered. Wong grabs a surviving book and goes round each hero reading out a spell which heals them. DrS explains that in his arrogance he's recently used dark forces to try help Bruce Banner (in World War Hulk) and his allies in this series. As a result he's lost the use of his hands (again) and is losing control of magic. He can no longer be Sorcerer Supreme or provide them protection in his Sanctum. And he magically leaves to rebuild himself.The Avengers wonder what to do now. Then Ms Marvel (Carol Danvers) arrives leading some of her Operation: Lightning Storm troops. She immediately asks where Jess and the baby are. Luke says he doesn't know but they got away. The team expect to be arrested but Carol tells him to go find them. She reports back to the helicarrier that they need Brother Voodoo to clean up the dangerous magical mess, but that the rebel Avengers left before  they got here. 1 of her team protests but she points out that the Avengers just delivered the gang that killed 17 SHIELD Agents. The rest of her team agree with her. Luke thanks her but says he doesn't know how long they can remain free.Epilogue 1:- Hood escaped and asks his demon how they lost.Epilogue 2:- Jessica goes to Stark Tower and surrenders herself and child to Registration.


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Story continues from DARK REIGN: THE LIST—AVENGERS. After his capture by Norman Osborn’s Dark Avengers, Clint (Ronin) Barton awakens a prisoner aboard the H.A.M.M.E.R. Helicarrier surrounded by his enemies. Osborn wants to know where the Avengers are hiding and uses every type of "persuasion" to make Clint talk…. At the hideout, Clint’s wife Mockingbird awakens and discovers that he went off to carry out his scheme of assassinating Norman Osborn. Ms. Marvel and Spider-Woman find her in tears and learn what has happened. Avengers Tower is experiencing a lot of activity and they wonder what is going on…. During the interrogation, Venom bites Clint on the shoulder and he throws himself backward, knocking his enemy against the wall and then manages to kick the bow out of the fake Hawkeye’s (Bullseye) hand. At this point he is felled by a blow from the Sentry and Osborn calls for his special guest…. Mockingbird dons her costume and intends to rescue her husband from the enemy; she is joined by Spider-Woman, Ms. Marvel, and, after she arranges for a babysitter, Jessica Jones. Aboard the Helicarrier, Clint awakens in his cell where he finds a bow with an explosive arrow. He uses this to blast open the door and escape. Suddenly he finds himself at the scene of his death in battle against the Kree (AVENGERS #502)—it turns out his mind is being manipulated by Mentallo, Osborn’s psychic expert, who is forcing him to relive his nightmares to weaken him enough to access the secrets in his brain. And it works—Mentallo extracts the address of the Avengers’ safe house. The Dark Avengers head out there in force, making an explosive entry into the building—which is empty. Daken, with his sensitive smell, knows that their quarry was there an hour earlier. So where are they now? The four women Avengers (with Jessica in her old Jewel costume) are aboard the H.A.M.M.E.R. Helicarrier, beating a bloody path through the ship in search of their captured colleague. As Mentallo is trying to learn the Avengers’ true identities from Clint’s brain, Mockingbird bursts in and kicks the mutant mind reader in the face. As the Dark Avengers leave the scene, some guards left behind spot Spider-Man spying on them and open fire. Spidey heads over to the other secret hideout where Clint is apologizing for his foolish action which endangered the team. Bucky is upset, realizing that Steve Rogers will be mad about what happened. To their surprise Steve, in his Captain America costume, walks in and announces they are about to do something about the situation….Story continues in NEW AVENGERS #61.


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The bitter Wonder Man
addresses his Revengers (Anti-Venom, Ethan Edwards, Goliath (Tom Foster),
Atlas (Erik Josten), D-Man, Devil-Slayer, Century, Captain Ultra) and tells
them of the evils and crimes perpetuated by the Avengers. He lists their five
biggest crimes as Ultron, the mad Scarlet Witch, Civil War, the Hulk, and
Norman Osborn’s Dark Avengers. And Simon proposes that they be pro-active in
fighting the Avengers….
The next day,
Wonder Man and his team wait until Luke Cage and Jessica Jones send their
daughter Danielle out with her nanny Squirrel Girl before they assault Avengers
Mansion because they aren’t the bad guys. Atlas smashes through the front door
like a bulldozer and the Avengers look up to see their assembled foes coming
through the gates.  The assembled heroes
(Spider-Man, Wolverine, Thing, Ms. Marvel, Doctor Strange, plus Luke and
Jessica, with Wong and liaison Victoria Hand) take action. As the fighting goes
on, Hand sends out an alert to the other Avengers to come and help. She also
identifies the assailants and calls out their weaknesses to give her side the
edge. The entire building collapses, the one left standing is the Thing and the
invaders take turns punching him into insensibility before blowing him up. The
last Avenger, Ms. Marvel, plummets from the sky after her high-altitude battle
with Wonder Man, who touches down and praises his team for their performance.
Next target: Avengers Tower….Story continued in
AVENGERS ANNUAL (2012) #1.


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This issue breaks into 3 sections.Shortly after the Kree/Skrull War Iron Man calls together Black Bolt, Dr Strange, Mr Fantastic, Prof X and Sub-Mariner to a meeting hosted by Black Panther in Wakanda. IM thinks that if Earth had been more unified the aliens may not have attacked it. He proposes an alliance of all super-humans to face such threats.Namor absolutely thinks such an organisation would be unworkable. Dr Strange, Mr Fantastic and Prof X also express strong reservations. Panther points out that most super-heroes are counter-establishment, and that allying with mutants is more likely to increase distrust of non-mutant heroes rather than decreasing anti-mutant bigotry. Subby follows this line by mentioning the dubious Avengers such as Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, and BB's brother Maximus who helped the Kree invasion.With the super-hero army shot down, Reed Richards picks up on the idea of sharing information. If they'd pooled the knowledge about the Kree and Skrulls they could have been better prepared. This group itself could meet to discuss big problems.Sub-Mariner is prepared to trust the people in the room, but he wants it kept secret from everyone else, including teammates and family. Charles Xavier can telepathically monitor the group to detect any betrayal.6 of them agree, but T'Challa opts out. He says that their decision proves how wise the world is not to trust superhumans. He also advises them to drop the idea, before disagreements split them apart at a crucial moment.But after he's left the room the others decide to continue meeting. Including Black Bolt, as Xavier reports what he's thinking. Before they part Prof X brings up the subject of the island of Krakoa.Thus were the Illuminati born.The next section of this issue occurs many years later. It opens with Hulk and Thing fighting in Las Vegas. Then we cut to Iron Man in the SHIELD Helicarrier discussing casualties of the battle with Maria Hill. She tells him that politicians are looking for things to blame on superheroes. And 1 thing people are asking is why the Avengers haven't done something to stop Hulk for good.The Illuminati meet on the Avengers' abandoned Hydrobase, except for Prof X missing since House of M. Iron Man proposes sending Hulk into outer space because the country will never be safe with him in it. Namor is again the one who disagrees. He asks Stark if he's sure he never killed anyone when he was drunk in charge of the armour. He also thinks Stark and Richards could have cured Banner if they put their minds to it.Reed angrily retorts that he's spent years trying to find such a cure. And Strange has tried to find magical means. Stephen once banished him to a place called the Crossroads, but it didn't last. And Xavier once probed his mind, but only to find that Hulk couldn't even kill himself.Subby's last ploy is to argue that IM wants to punish Hulk as displacement activity because he can't punish Scarlet Witch for Avengers Disassembled.But in the end all but Namor vote for Stark's plan.Sub-Mariner swears he won't let them harm Hulk. He and Iron Man fight. Subby takes the conflict into the sea, and rips Stark's helmet off. But Dr Strange halts the battle by levitating them both into the air.Namor asks Strange how he can do this to Hulk after all the 3 of them have been through together. He flies off, quitting the group. But before he goes he predicts that Hulk will find a way back from wherever they send him, and kill them all.An LMD of Nick Fury is sent to Banner to recruit Hulk to deal with a satellite whose AI has gone rogue. But while he's up there the 4 remaining Illuminati contact him by video to let him know what they're doing. And they send him in the satellite off into space.The 3rd section of this issue is month's later. This time the Illuminati meeting is in the abandoned Stark subsidiary Funtime Inc. IM has called for the others, including Namor but not Xavier who's still missing. But he doesn't know if they'll come because they disbanded after sending Hulk away.Stark has the draft of the Super Hero Registration Act which he says will soon be made law, requiring all people with powers to register with the government. This is the consequence of Avengers Disassembled, Nick Fury's Secret War, House of M and the mutant discord in the 198 series. He and Richards predict this will polarise the super-community and the country. Tony suggests that the Illuminati come out in support of the bill before it passes, to defuse the situation.Namor is amused. 1st IM persuaded them to get rid of Hulk. Now he wants all superhumans under his control. This is what Stark has wanted ever since the 1st meeting.Stark responds that if they don't take control of the situation now, it will blow up in their faces. He predicts that some inexperienced hero will make a mistake that kills lots of people. And this will start a witch hunt and a civil war that will pit friend against friend.Sub-Mariner leaves them to it, confidant that they will tear themselves to pieces before they can turn on Atlantis. Dr Strange and Black Bolt just think the Act is wrong, and walk out too. That leaves Mr Fantastic supporting Iron Man, and he doesn't think he'll get the agreement of the whole of the Fantastic Four.Now the Illuminati really are finished (not).


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Prof X explains to the other Illuminati (except Iron Man) something about Secret Wars I. (Mr Fantastic is the only other 1 of them who was there as well, but he doesn't know some of this.)A being from beyond this universe who they dubbed the Beyonder had gathered a bunch of superheroes and villains on Battleworld and pitted them against each other. Charles Xavier says he could have psychically stopped the fight, and then he and Reed Richards could probably have dealt with the problem. But he was wary of how the immensely powerful being would react.But he now adds that he investigated the Beyonder's mind and found a mutant signature and an image of the Inhuman royal family. He believes the Beyonder is actually a mutant Inhuman. Ie he was a mutant before the Terrigen Mists triggered his Inhuman power. Xavier reads from silent Black Bolt's mind that he doesn't remember such a thing.Prof X has gathered Black Bolt, Dr Strange, Mr Fantastic and Sub-Mariner together now because he has sensed the return of the Beyonder. (DrS says they don't know where Tony Stark is, and MrF says he hasn't talked to him for a while.) PX thinks they should go find the alien before he gets a chance to do anything. He's used Cerebro to track the 'mutant' to the asteroid Ceres. Regal Namor expects the Beyonder to respect the will of his king BB.Reed takes them to the Skrull ship that they escaped from the Skrull galaxy on in #1. The other Illuminati believed the ship destroyed lest the Skrulls track it (but surely the Skrulls know where Earth is?). But he and Stark have been studying it, and Namor accuses them of both profiting from the alien tech.They fly to Ceres and find a lifesize replica of Manhattan there. They land on the Baxter Building and Stephen Strange declares that the city's inhabitants are all mindless puppets.They see the Beyonder in human form talking to fake Iron Fist, Power Man and Spider-Man in front of a collapsed gold building. Then B makes PM & IF vanish.But then Beyonder notices the Illuminati and transports himself to their presence. He is astonished to see real people made of real molecules. Then he recognises Black Bolt and kneels to him as his lord.But at that point a fake Hulk attacks the alien. Beyonder gets rid of him and apologises for not aborting that scheduled action.He says Blackagar Boltagon can speak here without fear of his voice destroying the place. He offers to give his king control over his vocal power, or even to remove it completely. But he's confused over how BB can still be alive - Beyonder believes he's been away for a long time.While they are speaking Beta Ray Bill and Captain Marvel streak past, followed by Silver Surfer, Galactus and his herald Nova/Frankie Raye.The Illuminati ask Beyonder to return to the universe he just came from (not his birth universe according to the origin presented here). They say his meddling is upsetting the natural order of things, especially the future of humanity. B responds that they interfere all the time, but DrS says they are human so that's OK.Beyonder then gives them a taste of the 'perfected' world he could create, with their desires satisfied. Dr Strange wakes up in bed with Clea and Scarlet Witch (according to Marvel Wiki). Overhead fly Iron Men and Iron Women, and many other flying beings (Inhumans?), and flying cars. Sub-Mariner invades the surface world with his Atlanteans.The Illuminati tell him to stop. Namor relays it as an order from King Black Bolt that he should leave this universe. We see Beyonder's memory of walking into the Terrigen Mists watched by BB and co. (Presumably after his transformation he disappeared into the solipsistic universe he later occupied.)Then his body turns into a statue, which starts to crumble along with the surroundings. And the Illuminati escape as other asteroids crash into this 1. The team believe the alien has gone. And BB still can't remember him.But Beyonder watches them go from afar. He's in another replica Manhattan, or maybe the real 1.


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The Avengers have just defeated both the Kree and the Skrulls in the Kree/Skrull War saga in Av#89-97. The Skrull Emperor is holding an inquest aboard his flagship into why they lost, especially why the human teen Rick Jones was able to mentally paralyse them all. All this despite a prophecy that Skrulls would take the planet Earth (and also that the Skrull throneworld would be destroyed). A trembling military leader offers the excuse that Earth has a rising population of super-heroes, some of them mutants which would be killed at birth if they were Skrulls.He's saved from further grovelling by the arrival via mystic spell of the Illuminati (Black Bolt, Dr Strange, Iron Man, Mr Fantastic, Prof X and Sub-Mariner). They have come to warn the Skrulls never to try to invade Earth again, or they will bring the war back to the Skrulls. As a sample Black Bolt uses his voice to destroy the flagship and some surrounding buildings, while Dr Strange brings the Illuminati back to their own small spaceship.Namor exults in their vengeance, but the others are not so happy. And as they fly off their success is short-lived. They are attacked by multiple Skrull ships, their own ship destroyed and they are left floating unconscious in space.They awake to find themselves trapped in individually-designed restraints, and being studied to destruction by their captors. Tony Stark is left alone because the Skrulls know his only power is the armour they have removed. But they do send Skrulls imitating other Avengers to pretend to rescue him, hoping to lull him into giving away secrets. However Stark sees through this ploy straight away. Unfortunately this allows the Skrulls to deduce that he knew the Avengers wouldn't come for him because they don't know he's here. And they correctly guess that nobody else knows about the mission.But Tony uses the combat training that Captain America gave him to defeat all the fake Avengers. He grabs a gun and finds where Prof X is being held. Shooting his way in he frees Xavier, who uses his mind to subdue his captors/torturers. Next they release Sub-Mariner from his hot dry cell, and Dr Strange and Black Bolt. Stark at last collapses because his damaged heart isn't protected by his armour. But Strange uses a spell to keep him going. And somewhere along the way the sorcerer retrieves his Cloak of Levitation and Eye of Agamotto. Lastly they rescue Reed Richards, who is being test-stretched to find his limits.The assembled Illuminati steal a Skrull spaceship and flee from the Skrull armada. Black Bolt wants to shout at the chasing fleet, but Dr Strange creates an image of Galactus, while Prof X bolsters the fear this induces.The Illuminati make it back to the Solar System, trying to tell themselves that they've given the Skrulls reason to pick on somebody weaker. But they know that in reality the aliens will be back. Meanwhile on the Skrull throneworld the Emperor (who somehow survived his exploding spaceship) gloats that they've got the DNA of the various super-heroes, and his scientists will get to work on it.


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Dr Strange is sitting pensively alone in the Illuminati's meeting room (in an abandoned Stark factory) waiting for the others. Mr Fantastic joins him and asks if he's OK. Stephen Strange says that his lover Clea has left him to rule the Dark Dimension. It takes some hints for Reed Richards to recall who she is. Iron Man joins them and Reed explains Stephen's 'problem'. Tony Stark commiserates because she was very attractive, which doesn't go down well with DrS.Stephen asks them how much attention is needed to keep a woman happy. But it is Prof X who answers, having entered with Black Bolt. Charles Xavier opines that no amount of attention is enough, and Strange adds that Xavier's experience extends to dating an alien (ie the Shi'Ar Lilandra Neramani). Charles is doubly-shocked - that his love-life is discussed online and that the Sorcerer Supreme goes online. He can access the Astral Plane! But Stephen says the Astral Plane doesn't get hockey scores.Tony says he envies their long term relationships. He puts in a lot of effort but can't make it stick. Blackagar Boltagon pretends to make himself sick and telepath Prof X says that BB is mentally laughing and saying his wife Medusa never lets him get a word in (which is of course a joke). Tony comments that Reed's wife Sue (Invisible Woman) is great. Reed agrees but adds that she keeps wanting to interrupt his experiments, and when he ignores her she leaves the building. And he says he knows where she goes, looking meaningfully at Sub-Mariner who has just completed the group. Namor tells him that Sue feels trapped but she'll never leave him no matter how hard Subby tries to persuade her. Tony tries to break the tension by claiming to top all their tales by admitting to having slept with Madame Masque.Then they get on to why he called the meeting in the 1st place. Noh-Varr/Marvel Boy, a Kree (from an alternate timeline), came to Earth and declared war on mankind (in the Marvel Boy mini-series). He's now imprisoned in the Cube but he's still dangerous. He might escape, or the Kree might demand his release. Namor suggests they beat him into submission. Tony suggests Prof X 'change' his mind. Xavier protests that he doesn't do that sort of thing. And he reminds them that if he *did* do that kind of thing then he and mutants would be ruling the planet instead of being outcasts. And anyway minds aren't that easy to mess with successfully. So they decide to just talk to MB.But what we see 1st is Sub-Mariner visiting Marvel Boy in his cell and beating him up as he 1st suggested. But then the scene changes and Noh-Varr is with Prof X and Black Bolt in the Inhumans' home Attilan. Xavier tells him how the Kree created the Inhumans thousands of years ago to be weapons. Noh realises that this is an illusion created by PX. And because this is an illusion BB is able to speak and tell him he is king of the Inhumans. Then we're back to Namor beating the message into him.Next up is Mr Fantastic in his head courtesy of Prof X. Noh and Reed are on the roof of the Baxter Building sharing a memory of Reed's of the original Captain Mar-Vell. The Kree remembers him as a traitor to their race during the Kree-Skrull War. MrF remembers him as someone who saved both the humans and the Kree from destruction. He goes on to admit that humans are a foolish squabbling lot but Mar-Vell saw the potential of greatness within us. Noh-Varr however sees all the more reason for the Kree to conquer them and make use of that potential. Richards persists in believing the alien could use his powers for good.Marvel Boy expects to go back to being beaten up by Namor. But instead he finds himself having a cosy chat with Iron Man who tells him he understands having more intellect and power than everyone else. But he now faces a choice. He could be a hero (and we see him in a Captain Marvel uniform with the Avengers) or he could remain stuck in his cell ...... which is where he now is apparently with all 5 of the Illuminati. He asks if they'll let him out if he says he'll be good. But Prof X says that he should *earn* his way out, and they leave his superior intellect to figure that out.An epilogue in the Baxter Building shows Reed and Sue watching over their sleeping son Franklin. Reed gives his wife a choice for tomorrow. Should they go on a date or a family picnic, or both. We don't hear her answer but she looks happy. Tony Stark stares at his Iron Man mask and a presumably non-alcoholic drink. And Dr Strange levitates and meditates. While Noh-Varr contemplates the name Captain Marvel.


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In deserted Funtime Inc Iron Man waits with a bodybag. His AI detects the astral arrival of Dr Strange and verifies his identity. Stephen Strange is curious why Stark has called the Illuminati together again after their disagreements over the Hulk and the Civil War (as described in the 1-shot that preceded this series). Given that DrS is now an outlaw he thought it wise to attend in disembodied form.Tony Stark doesn't want to say who's in the bag until the others join them. But they don't have to wait long as the AI announces and checks the other 4:- Black Bolt, King of the Inhumans. Reed Richards, leader of the Fantastic Four. Prince Namor of Atlantis. Prof X, leader of the X-Men.Sub-Mariner is even more unhappy than he was when he quit the team in the 1-shot. Since then his kingdom has been destroyed (Sub-Mariner: Revolution limited series). The team are amazed to see Charles Xavier walking. But that's enough chit-chat - they all want to know who the body is - Subby thinks it's Captain America. But IM unveils a Skrull dressed as Elektra.Strange knows about this. The New Avengers were there when the Skrull was killed and exposed (NAv#31). They didn't trust Stark enough to bring the body to him because they feared he was a Skrull too, which would explain the Superhero Registration Act and Civil War. But Spider-Woman decided to switch teams and take the corpse with her (NAv#32 and Mighty Avengers #6).Iron Man is worried because the real Elektra is missing and the substitution was undetectable by science, sorcery or enhanced senses. No-one knows how long the Skrull has been Elektra. Or how many other humans may have been replaced.Tony suspects that Earth has been invaded by Skrulls. And he believes that it's because of what happened when the Illuminati invaded their homeworld. (In #1 they went in retaliation for the Kree/Skrull War that involved Earth. But the Skrulls captured them and studied them.) He also thinks that the Skrulls may have caused all their recent troubles:- The Avengers disassembling. M-Day depowering most mutants. Nick Fury disgraced. Civil War splitting the Avengers. Captain America's death. The destruction of Atlantis. (He especially wants Cap's death to be the Skrulls' fault - not his own.)Mr Fantastic suggests they dissect the body and work out how to detect the aliens. But Black Bolt has a better suggestion - he'll take the body and his people will kill them. The others are shocked because BB's voice should cause a massive explosion. Such a blast does occur, but the figure that strides out of it is a Skrull.This Skrull does have vocal powers but he's in control of them, as he demonstrates with a roar that repels Namor. However he has other powers too, as his flexible body allows him to dodge Iron Man's blasts. He outdoes Prof X in mental force and treats MrF's equally malleable body like taffy. Dr Strange imprisons him in the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak but he breaks free (because Stephen's mystic strength is decreased because of his tainting by Zom in World War Hulk).Sub-Mariner has been revived by water from a broken pipe. He attempts to break the Skrull's neck, but this won't work against a shape-shifter. However this was just a distraction so Namor could impale him on a piece of debris, killing the alien.Subby doesn't get the thanks he thinks he deserves - Shellhead would have preferred a prisoner to interrogate. But they're going to get another chance as 2 more enhanced Skrulls burst through the wall. 1 carries a hammer and is dressed somewhat like Thor. The other has metal skin like Colossus and a vaguely similar uniform.Tony Stark gets in mental contact with Charles Xavier and gets him to relay a plan - Dr Strange should teleport the others out of there on IM's signal. The Golden Avenger connects to 3 nearby nuclear power stations and siphons their energy for 1 big blast. The 4 other heroes escape as Funtime is destroyed.When they re-enter the zone they discover that a small circle surrounding Elektra/Skrull, Iron Man and a chair is unscathed.Prof X confirms that Black Bolt was Black Bolt even in his thoughts, so they really can't tell who's a Skrull. Iron Man tries to rally them to defend the world now that they've survived this assassination attempt. But Mr Fantastic thinks the real objective today was to sow distrust among them. Sub-Mariner flies away because he never trusted any of them anyway. And the other 3 reluctantly leave Stark alone because they can never be sure of each other.


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The splash page reminds us that years ago Thanos gathered together the 6 powerful Infinity Gems to try to kill half the universe. After his defeat cosmic forces stopped the Gems working together, and scattered them throughout the universe.Mr Fantastic has convened a meeting with the rest of the Illuminati (Black Bolt, Dr Strange, Iron Man, Prof X and Sub-Mariner). He shows them the red Power Gem, which She-Hulk gave him after taking it from Titania. Reed reminds them how often the Infinity Gems have been united to cause major problems. They dismiss the idea that the Gems can no longer be used together (mainly I would presume because they've seen them combined since that prohibition was made).Reed Richards proposes that they seek out the Gems themselves before someone else does. He then reveals that he has the Infinity Gauntlet to hold them, and has in fact already retrieved 2 more of the Gems (the green Soul Gem and the purple Space Gem). He says he's discovered that the Gems talk to each other, and he can use them to find each other. But as he increased the number of Gems he had they became more difficult to control. Which is why he's brought them to the Illuminati.Mr Fantastic causes the Gauntlet to show them the locations of the other Gems in a sort of virtual reality. The blue Mind Gem is in the universal collective unconscious, the yellow Reality Gem at the edge of reality, and the Time Gem is adrift in time. He proposes they split into 2 teams to get the 1st 2 Gems. Then the combined might of the 5 Gems should be enough to bring the Time Gem to join them.Dr Strange, Prof X and Sub-Mariner go after the Mind Gem. Charles Xavier uses Cerebro at the X-Men's school to help him send their psychic projections into the unconscious of the universe. Dr Strange's astral form should be able to bring them back. Namor is there as muscle. They find that the Mind Gem isn't just in the collective unconscious, it is the universal unconscious.They imagine themselves standing on an infinite blue crystal plane. But Namor also thinks of it as an ocean, and a giant fish surges up to attack them. Sub-Mariner saves Prof X. He claims that since the fish obviously came from his imagination, then it's up to him to defeat it. But actually a spell from Dr Strange helps as well.In the Baxter Building Reed and Tony Stark use the power of Black Bolt's voice to open a hole in reality. Iron Man expresses surprise at what he senses through the rip, but we're never told what it is. Instead he just reaches in and pulls out the Reality Gem.Of course it's not as easy as that, and the Gem starts to erode him away, and the floor he drops it on. A gesture from Black Bolt suggests Mr Fantastic use the gauntlet and its 3 Gems to take control of the new Gem. Driven by worry for Human Torch and Thing who are also in the building, Reed grabs the Reality Gem with the Gauntlet and struggles to master it, eventually restoring Iron Man back to existence.The other 3 Illuminati return with the Mind Gem. Reed adds it to the Gauntlet, and the 5 Gems summon the Time Gem to them without his intervention.Mr Fantastic seems lost in the power (literally) at his fingertips. He ignores the others' entreaties and threats to take the Gauntlet off. Uatu the Watcher even drops in to talk Richards down. But when Reed comes to, he explains that he'd tried to use the Gauntlet and Gems to wish themselves out of existence. But he couldn't make it happen.Richards then offers the Gauntlet to the Watcher. But Uatu says no one being should have all the Gems. Reed suggests that each of the Illuminati take a Gem and hide it, even from the others. Watcher still isn't too happy, but is willing to let it be.


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Once an Invader (part 4)
Continued from AVENGERS (1998) #84.On orders from US Secretary Of Defence Dell Rusk U.S. Agent has formed a new team of Invaders in Av#82-84. He seemed to be blithely unaware until the end of Av#84 of the scandal when Rusk was revealed to be Red Skull. They worked with Sub-Mariner and his Atlanteans to effect regime-change in Mazikhandar, and succeeded despite (or actually aided by) the interference of the Avengers. But it went sour when their replacement ruler General Rafiq killed the ex-dictator Hassan.The Avengers have US Agent in custody and now Captain America confronts Namor to demand Rafiq stand trial for murder. But John Walker is getting a message from someone called the Thin Man asking for a distraction to enable him to 'salvage the specimen'. USA breaks his bonds and counter-demands that the Avengers leave because this was a mission sanctioned by the US and British governments (2 of the Invaders are British). Hawkeye was guarding him and now shoots an arrow into his buttock. The teams start to fight, which satisfies Thin Man who has appeared on top of the Capitol building and now disappears ...... to reappear inside where Hassan's body is rapidly decomposing. He admonishes Rafiq because the deal he made with him was for Hassan to be delivered to him alive. Rafiq protests that they both know this wasn't the real Hassan. Thin Man agrees that Dell Rusk  had Hassan assassinated and replaced with this synthetic being, but he needed the 'specimen' alive to study. At that point Blazing Skull gets knocked in through a window. He recognises Thin Man from WWII and after (they worked together in Invaders and the V-Battalion). Then he dashes back out to continue fighting She-Hulk and admiring her cleavage, but a bit later we see him stuck with some of Hawkeye's arrows. TM leaves Rafiq to his fate.Cap and Iron Man enter the building in search of Rafiq. An Atlantean Sulumor makes to attack them but his liege Namor stops him. He accuses Sub-Mariner of bowing to the wishes of air-breathers again so Namor knocks him down. But Thin Man pops in to suggest Sulumor might have a point. Subby agreed to invade Mazikhandar because its actions were polluting the oceans. TM suggests that the villains behind 'Hassan' are still a menace to Atlantis while Rafiq's people will be their allies. But Rafiq himself is a liability. So Namor and Sulumor find Rafiq and 'persuade' him to surrender.Tony Stark suggests to Steve Rogers that the Invaders they know, especially Spitfire and Union Jack, wouldn't normally get involved in stuff like this. So he wonders if they're being controlled by Red Skull. Then Thin Man does his appearing act again. Cap asks why Bruce Dickson isn't still in prison for murder (Marvel Comics Presents #34). Dickson replies that the government released him to 'clean up Dell Rusk's mess'. The heroes try to leave but TM's elastic limbs whirl them about.Meanwhile outside Blazing Skull has toppled the giant-size Wasp, nearly squashing his team-mate Union Jack in the process. Another Invader, the flying, blazing (and to Mark Todd's enjoyment, naked) female android Human Torch Tara, swoops in to carry BS to safety. And UJ is confronted by Cap who TM has just painfully transported through sub-dimensional space (that's how he does his disappear/reappear). But then Dickson whips him away again.Iron Man has I think also been thus disoriented by Thin Man, enabling US Agent to beat him up a bit. Tony asks John what's really going on but Walker claims it's classified. Stark points out that he's the Secretary Of Defence, so he'd better get some answers. He repulsor blasts him but Spitfire and Union Jack step in with guns to stop the fight. Thin Man appears overhead with Cap and Iron Man blasts *him* and he collapses.Namor and Sulumor turn up with Rafiq in tow. Sub-Mariner announces that Mazikhandar is now a protectorate of Atlantis, and Sulumor has been appointed its Atlantean 'advisor'. Rafiq will be prosecuted for murder. Political prisoners will be released and human rights established. (He doesn't actually follow this with the usual 'democracy will be installed as soon as it is safe to do so'.)Cap tells Dickson he'll be keeping an eye on them, and the Avengers leave in their quinjet. Walker says that he enjoyed fighting the Avengers but maybe things would have gone better if they'd told them what was really going on. Thin Man quotes 'need to know'.


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Exiled Part 5: Unhappily Ever After
Story continued from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #638 Bor has been summoned from Hel to officiate at the wedding of Sigurd and the Disir, thus breaking the curse on the vicious women. As the ceremony progresses, Dani Moonstar grows increasingly uncomfortable with their vow to become Sigurd’s chattel and decides to free them another way. She slashes Bor with a sword and his blood draws the Disir after him. To escape, he opens a portal to Hel but the Disir and Dani follow. Trapped at the gates by order of Hela—said gates being guarded by Loki—Bor’s only recourse is to lift the curse altogether. Restored to their original forms, the shieldmaidens swear fealty to Hela. Back in San Francisco, the heroes are returned to their own identities. Mephisto appears and vows revenge against Loki for losing him his handmaidens. Sigurd, meanwhile, has decamped to Texas, where the former Disir corner him in a tavern men’s room and inform him that they can wait for his death to gain their satisfaction….


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Exiled Part 3: Cannibal Time Bomb
Story continued from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #637 To cast the spell returning the Asgardians to their proper identities, Loki leads the New Mutants around to collect something personal from each of them. Meanwhile, Brun informs her support group fellows that their eating disorder has vanished and she gives them meat, whereupon the Disir recover their true natures and go on a vicious cannibalistic rampage through the streets in search of their quarry Sigurd. The amnesiac heroes assemble but are at a loss for what to do against this danger. Inside, Loki casts the spell and…nothing happens. The New Mutants discover that he hadn’t really recovered his identity but was just playing along with his heroes. Then they see what is happening outside…. Story continues in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #638


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Made perfect
We open with a Commission on Superhuman Activities memo from Director Carol Danvers to the Vice-President before the meeting he will attend. It reminds us of the basic plot of this 2-issue story:- That the CSA has sent the Thunderbolts to attack the New Avengers, as a message to the group that is acting without Government sanction. She expresses her strong reservations.The action this issue is spread across a night (last issue's covered this night and the preceding day).We return to the late evening battle between Thunderbolts and New Avengers:- Photon vs Sentry, Radioactive Man vs Iron Man, Songbird vs Captain America, Speed Demon vs Spider-Man, Atlas has already thrown Luke Cage out to sea.Cap wants to know why the Thunderbolts have attacked them. Melissa Gold can't tell him, and doesn't really believe the answer herself.Sentry works out that Photon is the son of Captain Mar-Vell. He suggests the father wouldn't want the 2 of them to endanger the Earth with the clash of their mighty powers. So Genis-Vell takes them elsewhere.Spidey uses giant Atlas as a base for web-swinging. But the other team are ready for that, and Atlas shrinks back to human-size. Leaving SM at the mercy of Speed Demon's fists.Radioactive Man has no new personal tactic against Iron Man, whose armour has improved since last they fought. But part of Songbird's plan is to win by teamwork, so Dr Chen steps aside to allow giant-again Atlas to stamp on his foe.Cap realises that the enemy is prepared for them, including somehow getting access to the Red Ronin robot last issue. He tries to tell his troops to foil the 'Bolts by switching opponents. But Melissa had anticipated this too. Photon pops back at just the right moment and takes Steve Rogers away.Armour-damaged Iron Man's next ploy is to try bribery. Speed Demon had bet this would happen. Radioactive Man says this is the kind of thing that means the Avengers need to be taught a lesson.Meanwhile we see Spider-Woman fighting Joystick, who sneaked into Avengers Tower last issue. The minutes tick over into the next morning as in CSA HQ Carol Danvers, Henry Gyrich and Hank Pym watch the battle through miniaturised (by Pym-particles) surveillance devices that Joystick is scattering from her truncheon weapons. The longer the fight continues, the more coverage of the Tower they will have. Jessica Drew is beating (literally) Janice Yanizeski, but Joystick won't give up.For a bit of light relief we turn to a strip club where Norbert Ebersol (Fixer) takes Abner Jenkins (Mach-IV) to meet fellow ex-Thunderbolt Donnie Gill (Blizzard). Fixer offers to upgrade Blizzard's supersuit, because he needs a team to save the world.Photon has taken Cap and Sentry to the Microverse. Now as the 2 powerhouses clash, Steve has to keep dodging the debris. But his luck can't hold out forever. When Photon sees Cap trapped under rubble he sends him elsewhere, saying that the Thunderbolts don't want any of the Avengers to die.The Web Slinger and the Golden Avenger are still fighting 4 Thunderbolts. Iron Man sends a repulsor blast Chen's way. But unfortunately Captain America reappears in the way. Speed Demon and Radioactive Man then tag team Spidey, and RM counteracts the power granted SM by his irradiated blood.As Shellhead punches Atlas in his huge jaw, he and weakened Cap try to reason with Songbird. They figure the team must be being manipulated in some way. Melissa's reactions lead IM to guess (correctly) that the Government is blackmailing them.Just then Photon and Sentry return, catching the 3 Avengers in their explosive reentry. But Genis just sends Sentry back to the Microverse. He expects Bob Reynolds to find his way out, but he'll emerge a long way away.The Thunderbolts figure they've embarrassed the Avengers enough now. Luke Cage just now swims ashore but the team refuse to fight him. Melissa gives him the message - they can take down the Avengers whenever they are told to. Photon 'ports them out.Back in Avengers Tower Joystick has kept on fighting the lost battle, to spread more Pym-bugs. But then she ends the encounter by leaping from a balcony, shouting "I win". To be saved by Songbird's solid sound.Jessica Drew then makes the call to Luke Cage that began last issue where they compare notes on what just happened, monitored by the 3 CSA'ers. We also see the Thing on a screen, and Pym suggests that he planted bugs in the Baxter Building when he last visited there. And that Dallas Riordan put some in Thunderbolts HQ last issue.Then we're introduced to another player behind the plot - Baron Zemo. The CSA gang are somehow convinced that they need to help Zemo save the world.


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An internal Commission on Superhuman Activities memo from Deputy Director Dallas Riordan to Director Carol Danvers lets us know that 6 weeks have passed since the end of the Purple Man story last issue. Mach-IV allowed Songbird to replace him as team leader (because of dubious decisions like accepting finance from Hydra), but then quit the team to recover from his injury by Swordsman in #10. Melissa Gold fired Blizzard (because the young guy's just not up to the job). And she asked for Joystick to be sent back to jail, but the CSA have left her in place. Meanwhile the team have had undocumented successful encounters with U-Foes, Mr Hyde and AIM.Another memo from Assistant Director Henry Gyrich to Riordan repeats the official disquiet with the unsanctioned New Avengers team, heightened by Scarlet Witch's reality-changing during House of M. He recommends that something must be done about them.The events of this issue and next are spread over a day and a night. We begin early in the 2nd morning where Danvers, Gyrich, Riordan and the Vice-President(!) are watching Spider-Woman communicating with Luke Cage. Cage says they've just been ambushed, and Jessica Drew says she's just dealt with an intruder in Avengers Tower.The we skip back to the previous morning when the remaining Thunderbolts (Atlas, Joystick, Photon, Radioactive Man, Songbird and Speed Demon) fight the new (female) Dr Spectrum, who's beating them all. But she's distracted when Speed Demon claims to know about her Power Prism (from his early days as Whizzer in the Squadron Sinister). She claims it just appeared one day recently stuck to her palm, and gave her a costume and powers. But now it just stops working, and the team hand her over to the police.Songbird answers a TV reporter's question about the absent Blizzard and Mach-IV, saying they'll be back after Mach-IV has recovered from his injuries and Blizzard has improved his super-suit. Abner Jenkins hears the interview and congratulates (talking to himself) Melissa on being economical with the truth. He himself is upgrading his exoskeleton.That afternoon Danvers, Gyrich and Riardon have a meeting in Washington where they agree a plan to use the Thunderbolts to send the New Avengers a message.That evening Dallas in New York tells Melissa that the CSA want the Thunderbolts to fight the Avengers. Songbird is understandably reluctant, but Riordan threatens that if they don't do it the Thunderbolts will be considered as much a loose cannon as the New Avengers.Afterwards Dallas chats with Erik Josten her former boyfriend. They remind us of some elements of their complicated relationship in the original series. At 1 time they both inhabited her body, and his ionic energy freed her from her wheelchair. Later they were separated - he wound up powerless but she still had some of his energy. But in #1 of the New series Erik regained his ionic powers, and in #8 we learned that Dallas was back in the wheelchair. This is the 1st time they've met since then, and it is made clear that Atlas didn't mean to take the energy away from her.Later still, the still-convalescing Mach-IV is testing out his repaired flying suit near Avengers Mansion when he sees Iron Man and Sentry flying off to action followed by a quinjet. Fixer from the previous team incarnation shows up with an offer for him.Meanwhile Songbird is explaining the plan to the rest of the team. The Avengers have been called out to a decoy situation in a remote area where there will be no danger of civilian casualties. We see Captain America, IM, Luke Cage, Sentry and Spider-Man facing the giant robot Red Ronin. But now that they're here the robot vanishes.But then a spatial aperture opens and a giant fist breaks the quinjet. Atlas steps through followed by Photon, Radioactive Man, Songbird and Speed Demon. The team members choose opponents.Songbird takes on Cap, who wants to know why they're doing this. After all, they offered her Avengers membership at the end of the Avengers/Thunderbolts mini-series.Atlas grabs Luke Cage and throws him out to sea. But not before reminding him how in Power Man #21 they fought over that name, which neither of them uses any more.Spidey picks his old foe Speed Demon, while Iron Man faces his old sparring partner Radioactive Man. And the hyper-powerful guys Photon and Sentry square off, each suffering from their own forms of insanity.Meanwhile Joystick has been sent to break in to Avengers Tower, where she runs into Spider-Woman.Now it's back to just before the CSA meeting we began with. The VP has arrived and met Carol Danvers. A 3rd person in the room turns out to be Henry Pym, who was a founding Avenger as Ant-Man.


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Encounters in a crowded alley
Last issue Night Man was chasing the villain Chalk, a murdered man who appears only as the chalk outline that was drawn round his dead body. Chalk entered Dr Lao's Magic Shop looking for a new weapon. But a horned vision (who we know is Loki) appeared claiming that a certain yellow gemstone was the strongest weapon here, and that from henceforth Chalk would be his minion. But Chalk grabbed the gem instead and Loki destroyed him for it. Then NM arrived on the scene.Now the horned man goes into a villain rant explaining his identity and plan. He says he's got rid of Chalk because he had the gemstone he wanted. He declares that he's a god Loki who ruled Asgard (with a few petty obstructions) but was dragged to this realm where he discovered the presence of gems like this which will allow him to rule this universe unopposed. Night Man counters that it's his job to stop people like him. He attacks but Loki hurls him away to land next to the thing which the Asgardian calls the Reality Gem. Johnny Domino picks up the Gem and faces Loki. But the villain asks if he really did that, and Johnny turns to see a duplicate of himself without the Gem. And the duplicate sees him as Loki who got to the Gem 1st, until the real Loki kills him.Loki explains that reality is composed of multiple choices, and to the Reality Gem they're all equally real. So when he reached for the Gem he either got it or he didn't. And Loki just killed the version that failed. Night Man says he'll keep the Gem and leave. But then an alternate pops up who throws it down. It's Loki who leaves until NM sorts himself out. The number of Night Men keeps doubling as they keep making choices some of which get them killed. Until 1 of them uses the Gem to become all possibilities at once and become one with the universe - but he dissipates into everywhere.Another version with the Gem decides instead that he must get rid of all the others. He chooses 1st to get rid of all versions without the Gem because they represent choices he would *never* have made. That happens to leave 7 copies who enter into a philosophical discussion over who is the original. But 1 declares that the real NM is the 1 who wants life the most and he starts a free-for-all. 6 of the Night Men are involved but the 7th watches as 1-by-1 they drop their Gems which all roll together. He leaps on that pile a commands all 7 Gems to destroy the other NMs. But nothing happens so all the others turn to fighting over the chance to try it for themselves, until for 1 NM it works and he's left alone with only 1 Gem.The remaining JD says he now understands the power and peril of the Reality Gem, and he makes the final decision. To keep the Gem to fight Loki. To throw it away again. Loki returns to confront these 2 NMs, and this time he picks up the discarded gem and uses it to kill the 1 who kept it. He teleports away with the Gem. And NM doesn't notice another surviving copy of himself lurking in the shadows.


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Buried Treasures
Story continues from CAPTAIN AMERICA #421.At the Miami estate of
the mob boss known as the Slug, Nomad/Jack Monroe holds a gun on
everyone to prevent the assassination of the obese mobster. He tells
Captain America to stop the Wanderers while he goes after the man who
brainwashed him: Dr Faustus....Interlude: Senator Bart Ingrid
visits Jack's sister Jill and she tells him of her money woes and how
Giscard Epurer told her that Jack is alive, which Ingrid does not
take well....Cap easily defeats the Wanderers and leaves them for
the police and heads after Jack....Jack confronts Faustus who
offers to help Jack recover all of the hidden memories of his past.
Jack agrees and under the influence of drugs and hypnosis, recalls
his early days when he was tricked into telling federal agents that
his parents were secretly Nazi supporters and they were executed for
treason. Jack goes berserk, tears his way out of the lab and takes
down all of Faustus' men, intending to kill the villain. Cap arrives
and persuades the enraged Jack to let the law deal with Faustus; he
drops his gun and leaves, no happier for learning the secrets of his
past....Weeks later, Faustus is in a minimum security prison when
he receives a late night visitor: Jack. The young hero is suffering
under the knowledge of his past and so he shoots Faustus in the head
and departs....


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Super Soldier Soiree
Nomad (Jack Monroe) is a prisoner in
the Florida asylum of Dr Faustus, being subjected to drugs and
hypnosis designed to brainwash him. A vision of a gruesome parody of
Captain America calling him a coward fails to do it. Jack recalls how
he got into this predicament: he was staggering drunkenly down a
street in Tampa Bay when the Wanderers, Faustus' mercenary gang, came
upon him in a car and roped him, dragging him through the streets by
the neck before they tranquilized him and delivered him to their
boss....
Interlude 1: Senator Bart Ingrid has a
secret  late night meeting with Zaran, the Weapons Master, delivering
him a powerful gun with which to kill Jack Monroe....
Interlude 2:  Giscard Epurer has Jack's
sister, farm wife Jill Coltrain a captive while demanding to know
Jack's whereabouts to prevent him from killing Senator Ingrid....
With Jack fighting off all of Faustus'
attempts to control him, the villain decides to use Program 130D
which will either break him or kill him. Jack relives his childhood
when at the age of three, he was brutally beaten by his father for
going down into the cellar where the Monroes had a secret Nazi base,
to keep Jack and his sister from ever revealing the secret to the
outside world. This finally breaks through Jack's will and spirit,
leaving him a pliable agent of Faustus....
Jack is sent on his mission, leading
the Wanderers in an effort to assassinate gang boss Ulysses Lugman,
a/k/a/ the Slug. That night, Jack and his team arrive at Slug's
mansion only to be confronted by the mobster's own gang of
mercenaries, Cannibal Catch. As the two teams of soldiers mix it up,
Nomad enters the building and locates the morbidly obese Slug and
squeezes off a shot at him. The shot is deflected by a
red-white-and-blue shield and Captain America appears promising to
take down Jack for good....

Story continues in CAPTAIN AMERICA #421.


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The Big Fall Apart
Story continues from CAPTAIN AMERICA ANNUAL #9.In Miami, a young woman, Elia Arriguez, is being pursued though the streets by a pair of gunmen, who corner her in an alley and shoot her in the back. Nomad suddenly appears and takes out the hitmen with a great deal of violence. As he rushes the victim to a hospital, he hears her name the man responsible: Umberto Safilios, the drug dealer he has been pursuing. As the medical staff races to save her life, Nomad meets with Elia’s father, Hector Arriguez, who tells the hero that Safilios is his wife’s brother, and he had been pressuring Elia to steal technical information from her employer, Cyberoptics. Nomad heads to the corporate headquarters to investigate and finds Safilios’ address in her Rolodex and a meeting with DEA Agent Joseph Kittle on her calendar. As he leaves the premises he is halted by Captain America who learns about his mission but disapproves of Jack’s use of deadly weapons, warning him about crossing the line….
Nomad heads to the waterfront to keep Elia’s appointment with Kittle. In a warehouse, he finds crates of military weapons and Stinger missiles; Hector Arriguez and Joe Kittle are there to make arrangement to deliver the keys to the building to their contact. Nomad trails them to a nightclub where they meet with Safilios and arrange to trade the weapons for drugs. It’s a double-cross, however, Arriguez is wearing a wire to get the goods on Safilios for the DEA as revenge for his daughter being shot. Safilios guns down his brother-in-law and Nomad enters the fray, trying to nail the druglord. Safilios tries to escape in the truck full of drugs but Nomad shoots out the tires and the vehicle goes off a cliff to a fiery explosion below. On the scene, Nomad uncovers a suitcase full of money and a map with directions to Lexington, Kentucky. He turns the cash over to the Arriguez family to help in the now-paraplegic Elia’s recovery and sets out for Kentucky and the next link in the chain….
Epilogue: In Washington, the National Security Council’s Super-Powers Commission meets to decide what is to be done about Nomad. They order a full psychiatric profile to aid them in their decision….


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Melting Fire with Ice
In Juneau, Alaska, Nomad, with baby Bucky on his back, sneaks aboard a Russian ship in search of the weapon everyone has been fighting over. He discovers it is a cybernetic super-gun, one that fires according to the wielder’s thoughts. He plugs in the software and has time to alter the weapon’s commands before his is caught by soldiers led by Major-General Sokolowski. He hurls his throwing discs at the guards and makes a break for freedom—but runs into Captain America on the dock outside. Cap reveals that he has been ordered to bring Nomad in since he is a security risk. Nomad puts the baby down safely and the two former partners square off. Cap easily knocks down his foe but the sneak kicks Cap in the crotch and runs—into the hands of government agents led by members of the Super-Powers Commission. In desperation, Nomad holds a gun to baby Bucky but is unable to keep up the bluff so he surrenders. Aboard the ship, the Commission members leave Nomad in the hands of General Sokolowski and his American counterpart and make their exit. The two generals explain to the captive hero that Elia Arriguez was shot (issue #1) to prevent her from jeopardizing the deal. The US set up the deal to trade drugs to the Soviets (who wanted them to keep rebellious masses pliable) in exchange for the weapon, and behind it all was Umberto Safilios, who didn’t die in the truck crash in issue #1. He wants the gun to sell to Cuba, a Soviet ally. And now the Russians will leave so the American military can silence Nomad. Meanwhile, Commission psychiatrist Andrea Sterman, realizing the ruthlessness of the group she works for appeals to Captain America to rescue Nomad. They return to the ship where Cap sneaks aboard and frees Nomad, taking the opportunity to tell him his methods were no different than those of his enemies, and he must learn to do the right thing in the right way. They rescue baby Bucky and deliver her to Andie Sterman for safekeeping before returning to stop the bad guys. After taking out most of the soldiers aboard, they face the American general with the weapon—but it fails to work, as Nomad had reprogrammed it. Nomad seizes the weapon and guns down Safilios and all the Soviets. Wracked with guilt he destroys the weapon and Cap promises to help him get away. Nomad takes the baby and heads off into the night.


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Cool Cat and Cry Babies
In Minneapolis, Nomad cracks some punks’ heads and learns from a prostitute that the local gang boss is one Eddie Vanelli. She asks that Nomad help her get back her baby daughter, whom Vanelli is holding to force her onto the streets. He heads to the Veterinary Pathology labs, the destination of the dead horses filled with cocaine (issue #2), Finding a couple of hoods there to pick up the drugs, Nomad takes them down and discovers a ledger which gives him Vanelli’s address….
In Washington, the Super-Powers Commission is concerned that Nomad’s involvement will jeopardize their mysterious project. They decide against having him killed because of repercussions but need him captured by one of his own. They call Avengers Mansion and summon Captain America….
Nomad crashes into Eddie Vanelli’s penthouse and takes out the bodyguard, then snatches up the infant hostage and leaps from the window. In the garage, Vanelli appears and blasts Nomad’s truck with a Stinger missile; the hero responds by shooting the gangster in the head. Nomad returns to the baby’s mother and demands the truth. She reveals that one of her clients, Daniel Harding, is a crack-addicted weapons designer at Cyberoptics. Eddie Vanelli was holding her baby to guarantee against her blackmailing Harding and cutting off one of Vanelli’s best drug customers. Nomad insists on holding on to the baby until he can check her story. Nomad heads out to see Harding and finds the man stoned. Questioning him, he learns that Harding had designed a weapons software program and, out of love for Elia Arriguez, he sold it to the government. The program won’t work without the hardware and the trade is being made for it in Juneau, Alaska….
Epilogue: The Super-Powers Commission tells Captain America that Nomad is a threat to national security and orders him to bring in his former partner, or else they will have the loose cannon killed….


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The Wild Horses
At Boothe Stables in Lexington, Kentucky, a fire causes the horses to stampede and new employee Jack Monroe manages to save the life of an attractive blonde who is in the animals’ path. Monroe is Nomad, working undercover to learn the truth about a drugs-for-weapons exchange in Miami, and he learns about the stable’s recent problems with fires. After she goes, the other stablehands inform him she is Jennifer Boothe, the boss’s daughter—and a cocaine addict….
In a restricted room at the Library of Congress, psychiatrist Andrea Sterman is working up a psychological profile of Jack "Nomad" Monroe on orders from the National Security Council’s Super-Powers Commission. She learns of his stint as Bucky to the 1950s Captain America, his growing mental illness from the makeshift Super-Soldier treatment, his rehabilitation and service as sidekick to the real Cap and his solo career as a vigilante in Miami….
Jack checks out the company insuring Boothe Stables’ recent losses, the Kanjos Insurance Corporation and uncovers evidence of insurance fraud and graft. On his way back from the city, he discovers he is being followed by two men in a car. He uses his truck-mounted machine gun to bring his pursuers to a halt (damaging only their car) and learns they are taking orders from Jennifer Boothe. Back at the estate, Jack, as Nomad, confronts Jennifer, who is high on drugs, and learns she is the one behind the cocaine smuggling. She offers to tell him all he wants to know—if he kills her father….
Later, Nomad returns to the Kanjos building and sorts through the file, discovering that Orinn Boothe owns Cyberoptics. The tech company has developed something that Miami druglord Umberto Safilios wanted so Boothe sent the cocaine to Safilios, who used it in a trade for weapons and now, Nomad finds the drugs are being shipped out in the corpses of horses killed in the stable fires. He stops the struck from leaving by taking out thugs with his throwing discs and learns the truck was heading for Minneapolis. He enters the mansion to find father and daughter in a Mexican standoff: Orinn is engaged in insurance fraud and Jennifer heads the drug smuggling operation, blackmailing her father into cooperating with the knowledge of a cybernetic weapons program developed by Cyberoptics. As Nomad aims his guns at both of them, they shoot each other; Nomad walks out. Next stop: Minneapolis….
Epilogue: Andrea Sterman presents her findings to the Super-Powers Commission. When she is unable to state definitely whether Nomad is sane, they order him brought in, dead or alive….


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When Worlds Collide
The issue starts with a flashback to CAPTAIN AMERICA (1996) issue #4-5, where Rikki Barnes as Captain America’s sidekick Bucky was at the mercy of her evil brother John. Now in this world John Barnes is Rikki’s best friend and we see them at a café, pondering the mystery of classmate Desmond Daniels and how he has brought a handful of students under his power as though they were zombies. The talk switches to John’s family, and Rikki learns that in this world, his father was killed in a terrorist attack, and his mother died in childbirth—along with his baby sister. Rikki chokes up—but the street is rocked by an explosion; as an EMT cares for the injured John, Rikki dons her new Nomad costume and heads outside. The culprit is the anarchist Flag-Smasher, who has bombed a military recruitment center to protest government. Nomad challenges him, holding her own with throwing discs and a hard-light shield. The bad guy brings down a façade on a helpless couple and Nomad rushes to the rescue, while Flag-Smasher flies off on jet-boots—straight into Falcon’s fist. Falcon is startled to see someone in the Nomad outfit and Rikki ends up telling him her entire story. She confesses that she feels that she is being manipulated into taking on the Nomad identity—but Falcon counters that perhaps someone thought she was worthy of following in Steve Rogers’ footsteps….In school, social studies class is interrupted by the report that Desmond Daniels is making a speech; the classroom is emptied out as the students rush to hear him. This time, after another all to get involved, a larger number of teens sign on to his campaign. Doctor Powers scolds him for disrupting class and Desmond apologizes and sends everyone back to their rooms. Rikki wonders what is going on….Later we see Desmond’s original five followers in robes meeting with a hooded figure, who dispatches them to ensure victory with their next actions. The leader repairs to his lair, a high-tech console room guarded by Mad Dog, where he ponders the threat of Nomad to the schemes of the Secret Empire. Knowing who Nomad really is, he knows how to break her….Riki meets with the battered and bandaged John to try to explain what’s going on in her confused mind. He tries to kiss her and she reacts violently. She tries to explain that he’s like a brother to her and he takes it the wrong way, little realizing how literally she meant it. He avoids her for days, leaving her lonely and miserable. To clear her head she goes out at night as Nomad. Nearby at the park, the five members of the Desmond cult are planning a more extreme statement, one that Desmond can’t be associated with because he needs to maintain an image. Another student approaches and wants to hear their plans because it might be right up his alley—John….


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Brave New World
Rikki Barnes, who was Captain America’s sidekick Bucky in a parallel world, is now in ours; she lives in Manhattan and attends high school under the name Rikki Baines. Her dream is to meet this world’s Cap—Steve Rogers is dead but she’s on the lookout for his replacement. One evening she hears a news report that Cap is engaged with armored villains downtown; she quickly dons her Bucky costume and heads to the scene. As she prepares to join in the battle, she is stopped by Black Widow who knows all about her otherworldly origin and advises her to not get involved with superheroing at such a young age. Frustrated, Rikki goes home….The next day in school she meets up with her best friend John—who was her mean brother in her world. Social studies teacher Doctor Powers assigns the class to attend the speeches made by candidates for Student Council President that afternoon. The addresses are a pretty dull lot until the last candidate Desmond Daniels speaks. He criticizes the students’ lack of responsibility and challenges them to make a difference. To Rikki’s surprise, five students immediately stand up and pledge to do that—and they are a startlingly diverse lot: a popular girl, a jock, a nerd, a punk, and a slacker. In the days that follow these five begin a campaign of calling out and publicly shaming fellow students for bad behavior (necking in public, dirty language, disrespect for teachers, etc.). Suspicious, Rikki trails the popular girl, Natsuki, and finds her meeting after hours with the others at the school. Donning her Bucky costume, she enters the building and descends into a previously unknown dungeon-like area; there she as attacked by a huge and fearsome dog-man. Fighting to get away, she escapes though with a slash to the arm. Making her way hone, she discovers on her bed a suitcase containing a costume and a top secret file on Nomad….


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Small World
At school, Rikki Barnes runs into her friend John who has been manipulated by the Secret Empire and he tells her off. That night, confused and alone, she cruises through the night as Nomad, unwittingly heading to the home of class president candidate Desmond Daniels, whose campaign is at the heart of the sudden rise of the fascistic morality movement at her school. As she ponders events, she is confronted by the cloaked villain who blasts her with energy bolts from his gauntlets, hurling her into the arms of Mad Dog, who knocks her out. At his lair, she is subjected to sophisticated brainwashing technology and her will is broken and subjected to that of the villain. The next day in school, as Desmond Daniels makes a final campaign speech before the election, Nomad swings into the school gym and endorses Desmond for office; she then unmasks as fellow student Rikki Barnes. She is ushered off stage by followers of the totally confused Desmond. At the villain’s base, he is praised by his superiors in the Secret Empire for progress in their scheme to conquer America; he is then ordered to put Nomad to death. As word comes that Desmond Daniels has won election in a landslide, his followers literally riot in the streets, led by Matt Surman, the slacker who was one of the original recruits; meanwhile, Nomad, at the villain’s mercy learns that he is her teacher Doctor Powers—or more accurately, Professor Power….


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Into the World
Nomad (Rikki Barnes) is a prisoner of Professor Power who is carrying out an experiment in mass brainwashing by turning her high school classmates into a self-righteous movement which is now rioting in the streets. He reports to his masters in the Secret Empire to recommend halting their plans since mindless violence was not part of the plan but, to his surprise they insist he proceed with the program. While he is distracted, Nomad recovers her mind, thanks to the blood rushing to her head; she slips her bonds and strikes at Power and his henchman Mad Dog, dashing out at the earliest opportunity—and into the control room where she sees the riot on the view screens….The agitators, led by ex-slacker Matt Surman, confront the police riot squad, which is reluctant to fight back against kids. Most of the original supporters of Desmond Daniels’ campaign are now shocked by what has happened, including John Barnes. John goes to confront Surman, hoping to talk sense into him, but the newly empowered slacker won’t listen. Meanwhile, Nomad has arrived with the Young Avengers and attempts to calm the storm but they soon discover that they can’t stop the violence without hurting someone….Back at the villain’s base, the Secret Empire orders Professor Power to burn the building and report to headquarters with the gathered data to be punished for his failures. Power and Mad Dog don’t like that idea, choosing instead to destroy the facility and its precious contents….Nomad has Desmond Daniels address the crowd, telling them that his call to activism was never meant to be an excuse for violence and he resigns as class president. A shot is heard and Nomad rushes to the parking lot to find that John has been gunned down by Surman….Weeks later, Rikki visits John’s grave to report that Surman is in a mental hospital and Power managed to escape. She blames herself for what happened to him but suddenly Captain America (Bucky Barnes) is standing with her, assuring her that it wasn’t her fault, that John died standing up to evil. He encourages her to continue as Nomad but denies having sent her the costume. Watching the scene through binoculars, the Black Widow smiles quietly….At a rural convenience store, a disguised Professor Power stops in to make some purchases. The clerk reveals himself to be an agent of the Secret Empire and draws a gun. Outside, Mad Dog heads for the woods….Nomad delivers a televised message to the Secret Empire that she is out to hunt them down, then takes off into the night. Alone as she was at the beginning she now has a new purpose to help her cope with her situation….


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The Adventures of Doc & Sammy
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Berserker: part 4
Old Man Logan has arrived in the present from his savage future and has set out to stop it happening. Last issue Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) tried to help him find 1 of his targets, Mysterio. But they failed and she was shocked by his savagery. So he left her but was accosted by Old Man Steve Rogers ...... who wants to know who *this* Logan is. Logan is confused because *this* Steve Rogers is an old man in a uniform that isn't Captain America, and he doesn't remember anything like this in his past so he figures it's a trick. Kate-eye has caught up with them and aims an arrow at Logan, warning Cap that the man is dangerous. Steve has activated his zero-point energy shield and claims to have the situation under control. Logan extends his claws ... and is hit by shield and tranquilizer arrow.Unconscious, he dreams that his daughter Jadie complains that he let her die.Then he wakes up handcuffed to a tree near his birthplace in Alberta. Steve says they've brought him here to show him something. They'll uncuff him if he promises to behave. Logan gives his word, but then he attacks the pair claiming that they and this are all Mysterio's illusions. He battles through arrows and shield again and nothing seems to stop him. He breaks Kate's bow (another 1 since he broke 1 last issue). But an electric shock weakens him enough for Cap's fists to finish the job. As he falls he says "I have to stop the future".This is a surprise to Steve. (But surely Kate's had time to fill him in with what Logan told her last issue.) Logan explains that he comes from the future where nearly all the heroes have been killed, and he has to stop it from happening.Cap's response is to lead Logan into a nearby wooden cabin. Inside he flicks a switch and the floor descends taking the 3 of them down to an underground area. Steve says that Forge built this place because the X-Men thought it an appropriate place for him to rest in peace. The room contains a body with extended claws encased in adamantium on a pedestal. Steve says that this is Wolverine who died in this reality, so he can't be from this reality's future. (Logan probably remembers dying several times, and recovering, but not *this* death.)Logan finally accepts the situation. He tells them a bit more about his future - the Wastelands and his family who were killed by the Banner clan, and the flash of white which brought him to this Earth and time. Cap offers to help him but Logan now has no goal, and he wanders out into the wilderness. (His voiceover says he had to convince Rogers not to follow him.)Over the following months he drifts aimlessly across Canada. Until a familiar scent warns him that a Sentinel is about to attack. But as he launches a pre-emptive strike with his claws the robot astonishingly begs for mercy. And Iceman and Storm ask if it's really him.