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A man named Jeremy Ellsden finishes recording a message and saves stuff on a USB stick. He packs his laptop in his shoulder bag, leaves his cat Pickles with his neighbour Mrs Horovitz and flees his apartment building as we see someone breaking into it.It's Halloween and in another apartment block we see kids trick or treating at the door of a man they suspect is Hawkeye of the Avengers and who is renowned for the full-size candy bars he hands out as treats at this time. But Clint Barton disguised as Ultron this year only has disappointing fun-size bars.Neighbour Simone and her 2 kids are there with her friend Emily Preston and *her* 2 kids Terry and Eleanor plus Emily's friend Wade. Deaf Clint converses with them using lip-reading because he isn't wearing his hearing aid (because of the Ultron costume), but he can't understand Terry because of *his* full-face Hulk mask. He recognises Wade as Wade Wilson/Deadpool who's allowed to show his scarred face tonight because people will just assume it's a Halloween disguise. Emily reveals she's learned lots of languages since transferring to a robot body including sign language so she and Clint have a chat that way where she explains that she got killed but Wade transferred her mind into a SHIELD LMD (the short version of a long story in the Deadpool (2013) series). Clint and Wade clash horns over the size of the candy bars but DP says he's only joking. They all leave.The next knock on his door is Ellsden who wants to give him evidence about some mob stuff he's got involved in but Clint brushes him off with some candy bars. Ellsden goes out into the rain and passes Simone's gang heading home. He too recognises Deadpool and slips the USB stick into his candy bag with some coconut candy bars. Ellsden is being followed by a man dressed as Punisher with an added skull mask. Wade apologises in advance to the kids for the coconut bars as they reach Clint's door. They hear shots outside and Hawkeye rushes out. Emily sends Deadpool to help. He's wearing his costume under his Ghostbusters costume.Outside he finds  that Hawkeye has pinned the Punisher to a van with arrows and is pronouncing Ellsden dead. DP observes that Punisher is a fake because the real 1's not that bulky. He admits to knowing this because he and Frank Castle have just been in a secret team together (in the 2013 Thunderbolts series). Wade tries to unmask 'Punisher' but the villain says "I am a patriot" and bites his fingers. Clint tells him to stop 'helping' and go away just before an even-bulkier 'Daredevil' spouting more patriotic stuff hits him from behind and takes Ellsden's bag with the laptop.Punisher breaks free and attacks Deadpool. Hawkeye recovers and slams P's head in the van door but the bad guy manages to taser DP. P gets a lucky blow to Clint's ear causing his hearing aid to emit a piercing sound and then fail(?). DP attacks P but H realises he's pulled a pin from a grenade on P's chest. He warns DP but it turns out to be only a smoke grenade. Still chanting patriotically P shoots at H but DP takes the bullets for him.The villain runs off and Wade urges Clint to go after him. However a bullet damaged Hawkeye's bow and he reckons it's only good for 1 more shot. After a long chase where he's watching for his chance Hawkeye takes his long shot. The bow breaks but the arrow pierces the bad guy's leg. Cops confront the fake Punisher but he asserts his patriotism again and walks in front of an oncoming truck.Clint returns to Wade who tells him about the fake Daredevil who took Ellsden's bag. Wade grabs 4 hot dogs to help his body repair the bullet wounds and then they go meet police detectives outside Clint's brownstone (which he still owns from his last series). Clint's dog Lucky is also there. The cops reveal that the dead victim was Jeremy Ellsden and DP hands over 1 of Punisher's bullets he's just spat out. Then Hawkeye relates what happened in a soundless montage deliberately echoing those that several times cropped up in the previous series, while Deadpool fumes because it's taking so long.Afterwards the duo are in Clint's apartment when Wade finds the USB stick in his goodie bag. It's a message from Ellsden saying that he's stolen all the personnel files for active SHIELD Agents. He did it because he doesn't trust the government but now he's realised that handing it over to villains will put all those Agents' lives at risk. Clint doesn't want Wade to hear any more for security reasons but Wade says that Emily and Ellie are in danger and tries to KO Clint and take the USB drive. But it doesn't work so Barton counterattacks.Meanwhile 'Daredevil' has delivered Ellsden's laptop to a Dr Lusk who reports back to their boss Black Cat that the computer doesn't contain the data they want. She reminds him that the 'drone' was supposed to capture the hacker not kill him. Lusk counters that their mind control program is in its early days.


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The
Hood has an initial meeting with new gang members at a sketchy warehouse. One
of those in attendance is Hawkeye/Clint Barton, who, the moment he is
recognized, starts fighting everybody. Clint takes down almost everybody and
sends an arrow into the tire of the villain’s getaway vehicle. When the Hood
goes after Hawkeye with his guns, the police are waiting….
Clint
goes to court where he witnesses a judge being touch on all of the Hood’s
henchmen…and then he learns the Hood himself was released with an apology on
orders from the Mayor. Clint dashes outside and intercepts the Hood before he
can drive away. The two have a conversation wherein Clint reiterates his desire
to take Hood down and Hood reminds him that Clint is a vigilante, the both of
them operating outside of society. Clint threatens violence, Hood shows his demonic
form and threatens worse. Their cat and mouse game continues…but who is the
cat…?
Clint
goes home to his new girlfriend Linda Carter the Night Nurse but he ruins a
sexy evening because he can’t stop thinking about the Hood….
The
following night, two vans full of Federal agents are waylaid by Ronin who wrecks
the vans, beats the agents, and steals the briefcase they were delivering….
The
next day, Clint is relaxing at an outdoor café when Redwing drops a bit of
guano on his jacket. Falcon and Winter Soldier arrive to question him as to
whether he was the Ronin as the other three people to have worn the costume
have been ruled out. Clint is miffed that they think it was him and he mentions
he will be going out on a mission that night and the other two insist on
joining him….
That night, the three heroes are on a rooftop
watching one of the Hood’s hangouts. Suddenly Ronin assaults the gang members
and the guys swoop down to question him but Ronin takes advantage of the three
heroes getting in each other’s way and delivers a mild beating before escaping.
Clint says to Bucky, “Told you it wasn’t me. “


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Late
at night, Ronin breaks into Gracie Mansion, home of Mayor Wilson “Kingpin” Fisk
to meet with Fisk over what to do about stopping the Hood. Fisk also wants Hood
out of action because his exploits are making the city dangerous but declines
to help; he brings in Count Nefaria as one who could stop Hood. But Nefaria
asks for a two-million-dollar payoff and Ronin doesn’t have that kind of money
and so he leaves….
Ronin
steps up his reign of terror against the Hood, bribing cops to do their jobs
honestly, publishing Hood’s private number, hijacking his trucks, beating his
thugs, sinking his boats, and more until the Hood is frantic….
Ronin
goes to a bar where underground fights are held. He enters the ring and defeats
every challenger and picks up quite a lot of money betting on himself to win.
But he is told the Hood also bet on him and apologizes for not being there….
Back
at his hideout, Clint tries to think of more ways to harass the Hood. Bryce
reveals it is the Hood’s birthday and he always celebrates by a movie and
dinner at his favorite Chinese restaurant….
And
so this year, the theater is closed due to a bomb threat and Hood heads to the
restaurant to find Hawkeye waiting for him, having bought every table in the
place. Hood sics three henchmen on Clint, who whups them handily. As Hood draws
a gun to kill his nemesis, Clint introduces his dinner companion Wesley Welch,
the Mayor’s assistant. He offers a subtle warning from Fisk to rein in his
attempts to kill Ronin. Hood apologizes and fades away. Wesley leaves. Clint
ponders….
Bullseye
forces the Skrull disguised as Hawkeye to locate Bryce; once done, the assassin
kills the hapless alien….
The
wounded Clint goes to the apartment of his girlfriend, Linda “Night Nurse”
Carter, apologizing and asking to be let in. He is interrupted by Spider-Man
and brings up his lie about a secret mission for Captain America—but Spidey has
brought Cap with him. Cap wants to know what is going on with Clint—but Linda
comes out and scolds/rebukes/admonishes Cap and Spidey that they can give their
longtime teammate the benefit of the doubt and they leave. Once they are gone,
Linda breaks up with Clint….
Clint arrives home, to find a tape recording
from Bullseye waiting. He plays it and finds his nemesis has revealed Clint’s
Ronin identity to the Hood who has hired him to find proof that can be used to expose
Clint. But first Hood requests a meeting with Clint, Bullseye has stolen the
Ronin costume, and Bryce is near death, having been shot through with multiple
arrows….


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A
battered Clint “Hawkeye” Barton shows up at a big charity event with girlfriend
Linda “Night Nurse” Carter who doesn’t know why he is there. Tony Stark stops
by to chat and hostess May Parker introduces the largest donor up to speak to
the group—and it turns out to be Clint, to the shock of both Tony and Linda. Clint
takes the stage and absolutely butchers his speech while Linda talks to
photographer Peter Parker who is suddenly called away for a “work” emergency…
…and
Spider-Man shows up at a Hood drug lab where Ronin is beating up crooks and
walking off with the money. The two spar while Spidey quips (those six words
summarize at least one scene in every Spider-Man comic appearance) until Ronin
sets off an explosion and while Spidey is trying to keep the building from
falling down, Ronin takes off….
The
next day finds Clint hiding behind a parked car while under automatic weapons
fire from the Human Bomb. Luke Cage, unmindful of the flying bullets,
approaches Clint to ask if he is the Ronin again, opining that he’s just
another Punisher, who isn’t really helping anyone. Clint denies it and Cage
picks up a manhole cover and hurls it to take down the bad guy. Cage invites
Clint to lunch but first the eagle-eyed archer has to collect the arrows he’s
fired….
The
Hood is at a warehouse meeting when his hacker Bryce has something to tell him;
Hood tells him not to interrupt and proceeds with interrogating a rival gang
member about Ronin. The interrogation is cut short when Hood loses his temper
and shoots the man, which also scares Bryce into keeping his news to himself….
Hawkeye
visits a hospital and talks to the director, asking him to turn the damaged
house (from the Ronin’s clash with Spider-Man) into a free drug rehab center.
The boss man laughs but Clint shuts him up with a huge bag of cash….
That night, Ronin crashes into another Hood safe
house and finds Bryce. He threatens to kill the hacker unless he lets him into
the Hood’s safe. Bryce doesn’t think so: he’s compared footage of Ronin
fighting a bad guy with film of Hawkeye fighting a bad guy. Same fighting
style, therefore Ronin is Hawkeye. Which Clint reluctantly confirms….


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Bullseye,
wearing Clint Barton’s Ronin costume, is on a murder spree in Bensonhurst when
he is approached by Captain America. Cap, believing it is Clint in the armor,
challenges him—and Bullseye shoots him in the chest with an arrow….
Finding
Bryce critically wounded by arrows, Hawkeye rushes his hacker to Linda “Night Nurse”
Carter for help because Bryce is wanted by the police. She labors over
the wounded boy but Bryce dies anyway. She’s angry with Clint for putting her
in this position but the grim archer walks out to hunt for Bullseye. He waits
until Turk texts him that Ronin is near the Hudson Yards and Hawkeye heads
there in Bullseye’s costume. There is a confrontation wherein the baddie boasts
about ruining Clint’s reputation but Clint responds with an exploding arrow to
take down his foe, following it up with several more arrows to staple Bullseye
to the side of a train. The villain tells Hawkeye that the Hood has put a
bounty on his head: if Hawkeye doesn’t turn himself in to Hood by 9 AM, three
million dollars will go to the one who brings him in….
The next morning, the Hood is waiting in his
office at the bank, with several parties interested in collecting the bounty
(Taskmaster, Fancy Dan, Ox, Shocker, Armadillo, Rhino, and Tombstone);
meanwhile, Hawkeye is downstairs, robbing the bank of three million dollars. He
shows up in the Hood’s office, reveals that he stole the Hood’s three mil and
tosses a duffel bag on the floor. Clint then offers the assembled bad guys the
contents of the bag to not interfere as he beats up the Hood. There is a spectacular
fight which the Hood, with his demonic powers, wins. Hood then opens the
bag—and an even bigger demon emerges snatches the Hood’s red cloak and
vanishes, leaving the gang boss a mere Parker Robbins. Hawkeye then reveals the
detail he left out: after he stole the money, he gave it to Count Nefaria who
directed him to a demon for hire…and now Clint tackles Robbins, hurling them
both to the street, leaving him for the cops. As the hero walks off, Fancy Dan
notes, “He’s one of us now. Even if he doesn’t know it yet.”


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Ronin/Clint
Barton has been caught by Daredevil in the middle of a room full of dead Maggia
soldiers. Clint explains they were killed by the Hood’s men who were looking
for Ronin. DD suggest Clint should make a priority of hunting Ronin too…which
totally confuses Clint since he is wearing Ronin’s armor. He wonders if
Daredevil is blind but decides he was mistaken. DD invites him to the meeting
of a hero task force the following night….
Hawkeye
arrives at the rendezvous to find Winter Soldier, Falcon, and Night Thrasher watching
outside a new Hood safe house, planning to capture Ronin when he shows up. He offers
to watch the building from the other side and, when out of sight, he enters the
building to take on the Hood and his men singlehandedly which almost gets him
killed by the Hood’s supernatural powers but at least results in a serious
beating….
Back
at his basement base, Clint is trying to teach the LMD how to impersonate Ronin
when Bryce arrives. Clint explains all of the plans he is pursuing to knock the
Hood out of business but there’s one he didn’t know about; Bryce fills him in
on the Hood’s bank, a completely honest business. Bryce also delivers a list of
known aliens in the US….
Clint
stops a subway street entertainer and forces him to reveal that he’s a Skrull;
he then hires the guy for a mission….
Hawkeye attends the next mission of the task
force at the docks, with Winter Soldier, Falcon, and Night Thrasher joined by
Mockingbird, D-Man, U.S. Agent. They split up into teams with Clint joining
U.S. Agent on patrol. As soon as they are out of sight, Clint knocks out Agent
and joins the Skrull impersonating Ronin. Then the LMD arrives as Ronin so
Hawkeye shoots it in the head and dumps it in the river. Clint has the Skrull
hurriedly swap costumes with him so Clint/Ronin can get away—but he runs into
Spider-Man who gives him a mild beating then unmasks him as Hawkeye, having
spotted the LMD on its way over. Clint makes up a story that he is on a secret
mission for Captain America…and pleads with Spidey to trust him. Spidey
reluctantly agrees and leaves. Soon, the heroes give up the stakeout and the
Skrull/Hawkeye joins the others but rouses suspicion as the Skrull doesn’t know
that Mockingbird is Clint’s ex-wife and so talks to her without the personal
banter. Skrull/Hawkeye heads home—and encounters Bullseye….


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Back
at Hawkeye’s apartment, Clint explains to Bryce how he was able to fight
himself as Ronin (issue #1): a mini time device stolen from SHIELD to send
himself one hour ahead in time and snap him back. Clint now wants Bryce to
repair the device which was damaged in his fight with Spider-Man (issue #2); he
can’t as it too advanced a technology. A tired Linda “Night Nurse” Carter comes
home and removes much of her clothing before spotting Bryce. The ensuing
argument ends with Linda tossing her keys on the floor and walking out. Bryce
decides to leave too….
That
night, the Hood goes out hunting Ronin again for kidnapping his hacker
(actually, Bryce was hired away by Clint). A building full of gangsters sees
him coming and starts shooting. Miffed, Hood fires a rocket destroying the
building (and everyone in it) and puts out a call for more crooks he can
interrogate….
Later
in Central Park, Hawkeye is beating up criminals to further support the idea
that he isn’t Ronin. He runs into Black Widow who knows he is Ronin from their
fighting styles. After he and Winter Soldier tried to rescue her, she teamed up
with Bucky as she thought Clint was too soft. Had she known about him being
Ronin, they could have worked together. But now…. She walks off and Clint is
miserable….
Ronin
breaks into a SHIELD facility and makes off with a long box. He has Bryce help
carry it into his apartment secure that Linda won’t walk in on them because she
left her keys when she walked out. He calls it the solution to all his
problems: an LMD Clint. Then Linda shows up to try to patch up their relationship
and the LMD lets her in. She immediately knows Clint is hiding something…but
there’s no one in his bedroom. She confesses her love for him but the LMD in
the closet responds and she storms out again….
That night, Ronin assaults the crooks in a
Maggia safe house but he realizes that these are the Hood’s men. A search
reveals that the Hood’s men have killed the Maggia men and this is not what
Clint wanted. Then Daredevil arrives to find him….


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Kate Bishop (Hawkeye)'s sister Susan lured her to Resort Chapiteau to retrieve a key to a safe containing a fragment of a Cosmic Cube. Turns out the place is being run by Pascale Tiboldt, niece of the Ringmaster, who's taken over her uncle's Circus Of Crime since the 2 Hawkeyes broke it up (in their (2012) #2 which I synopsised on this site 6 weeks ago). Kate's been captured, Susan Bishop is now under the sway of a mind-control bracelet, and who knows where Lucky the dog is!Pascale does the gloaty villain thing and then gives Susan a cigarette lighter and sends her on her way. CCTV screens follow her progress to where more 'zombies' have accumulated jerrycans of petrol. The villainess takes time out from her masterplan to try to persuade Hawkeye to join her. Kate's answer is to headbutt her nose. So Tiboldt says she'll make sure the world knows it was the Bishop family that will give her a Cosmic Cube fragment, with which she will be able to control even more people.She turns to her assistant (the 1 with arrows in her purple wig) to ask about the current status of the plan, and ignores Fifi's warnings that the system isn't guaranteed to work yet. She just tells her to make sure no-one leaves the doomed building, including Hawkeye.Fifi (if that actually *is* her name) follows her boss out. Kate manages to dislodge 1 of her earrings and uses it to cut her ropes. She texts America Chavez and Cassie Lang to head for Bishop Mansion (where Pascale Tiboldt is going to retrieve the bit of Cube). She finds loads of hypnotised staff and guests torching the place. 2 of the guests attack her. Kate breaks their wristbands but it doesn't stop them so she has to fight them as 'gently' as possible But then she sees her sister and desperately bangs their heads together which has the desired effect and they recover their senses.Kate pins Susan's dress to a wall with a couple of arrows but she can't break *her* wristband. But then a man attacks Kate and knocks her down the stairs. *This* snaps Susan out of her trance and she rushes to help her sister. The attacker too is 'waking up' and the 2 Bishops join forces.They raise a fire alarm and notify the fire brigade. Then they find Lucky and start evacuating the guests. But the trio somehow find themselves trapped by fire on a balcony. Kate gets the other 2 to join her in leaping off it into the pool. When they surface Kate reluctantly plans to follow the Circus to her old Mansion home.


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Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) has been living in Venice Beach, Los Angeles since the 2016 Hawkeye series in which she was the headline star with Hawkeye (Clint Barton) sometimes joining her. She ran HawkEye Investigations, and its office became the HQ of the newest version of the West Coast Avengers in their 2018 series, which included both Hawkeye's. Clint has since gone his own way with another of his own mini-series and apps with the likes of Avengers and Black Widow.Now her old Young Avengers comrades America Chavez and Cassie Lang are nagging her to return to New York (where she began superhero-wise in YA), but she's putting off agreeing by investigating an attempted break-in. However their insistent calls alert her targets and she has to fight several balaclava'd baddies with normal pointy arrows as well as the odd trick shot like a bolo arrow. While athletically leaping around she considers that she's already loosened her ties to LA because her boyfriend Johnny Watts has downgraded to just friends. An extra complication is that her friend, Johnny's sister Ramone, was also America's girlfriend.As she often does Kate's inserted herself into a case being investigated by Det Rivera of the LAPD. The cops are watching the target building but on a hunch Hawkeye had checked the gang weren't breaking in from the building next door. They've rigged explosives to blast a hole in the wall, and in an attempt to disarm the device with an arrow she accidentally sets it off. She quickly traps the gang with net and adhesive arrows and leaves a note for Rivera.She texts America to say she's coming to NY but she's going via a detour to handle another case which she's just decided to take. Back at HawkEye Investigations she picks up the invitation from the Resort Chapiteau on Long Island to the Honourable Kate Bishop, which she figures is a trap. But she'll take Lucky (the dog she 'inherited' from Clint) and see what happens. She leaves a note for Ramone & Johnny but they catch her outside and give her a personal send-off.On the flight she gets messages of welcome from America, Cassie, Clint and Jessica Jones. America tells her to forget the case, and Jessica offers her work in Alias Investigations. Kate tells them about Resort Chapiteau just in case it *is* a trap.She arrives at the luxury hotel in the Hamptons with swimming pool and tennis court. She has to leave her bag with the greeter to run after Lucky who's chasing a ball which turns out to be thrown by Kate's sister Susan Bishop. Susan wanted to talk to her alone. She'd arranged the invite without signing it because Kate might not have wanted to see her. Their estrangement dates all the way back to the Young Avengers who interrupted Susan's wedding (to save them from armed robbers). She never approved of her sister becoming a superhero, and turned a blind eye to their father's shady business practices.We learn that Susan's now divorced after she took over their dad's business. She came to the resort 2 weeks ago for a needed break. But when she left 3 days later she had scratches and her clothes were a little charred and she can't remember how that happened. And it took her a week to realise that her signet ring had been replaced with a plain brass 1. Now she tells her sister that it's vital she gets the ring back.They are approached by 2 menacing bouncers and a top-hatted juggler. Susan quickly fastens a bracelet on Kate's wrist (and we notice that she's wearing 1 like it). The goons back off when they see the wristband which obviously signifies that Kate's a guest. When they're gone her sister tells her its a fake (which will presumably be significant later).Then they hear a scream from a woman who says her little daughter Kennedy has gone. Her jacket is stuck on a railing around the estate. Kate leaps up to check it out. But when staff arrive they act roughly, pushing Susan to the ground. Kate displays her PI license. And we see blood on Kennedy's sleeve.A female is watching the proceedings via security cameras. She has a bracelet threaded through several rings. (Narrativium of course decrees that 1 of them is Susan's.) Someone asks her if she wants to continue with the experiment. She tells them to keep going, and welcomes Hawkeye to the 'circus'.


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Last issue Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), her sister Susan and her dog Lucky escaped from the burning Resort Chapiteau in the Hamptons. Villains Pascale Tiboldt and Fifi had already left, presumably with an entourage of goons, heading to Bishop Mansion in New York to get a fragment of a Cosmic Cube. Kate texted her friends America Chavez and Cassie Lang (now Stinger) to head them off.Now text messages let us know that the pair have arrived to find the place stiff with guards (the goons). But also their texts can't get through to Kate's phone. This is because the escape involved diving into a pool which has knackered said phone. The Bishop duo and dog are being chauffeur-driven to the Bishop home. Susan Bishop lets us know they called the fire department before they left and Kate reminds her they made sure everyone got out.They reach their destination to be greeted by America and Stinger. They note Tiboldt's guards and Hawkeye devises a plan. She and America take out some drones that the baddies seem to have brought with them from the Resort. She sends Stinger flying miniaturised to scout the place. America will teleport Susan straight to the vault to secure the fragment. (Pascale has taken Susan's ring which would open the safe but superstrong Chavez is certain she can just tear it apart.) Lucky will distract the guards while Kate tackles Pascale and Fifi.Things go to plan except America and Susan find that Tiboldt has already opened the safe and got the Cosmic Cube. Fifi surprises Hawkeye with trick arrows. Since their 1st encounter in Hawkeye (2012) #2 the circus archery performer has trained and equipped herself to be Kate's match and better. She seems to have succeeded until Stinger joins in, goes giant-size and KOs the foe with the flick of a finger.Then reality warps as Pascale uses the CC fragment. Kate is confused by multiple images from her past. She shoots an arrow at her foe who then turns out to actually be Susan. Luckily it was only a boxing glove arrow but it's enough to hurt her shoulder. Then more images of her sister bedevil her, but Kate calls in Lucky who attacks the 1 who is really Pascale. The dog clamps his jaw on the wrist where the CC fragment is dangling from a charm bracelet. The villain shakes him off but the real Susan takes over the attack. Kate fires an arrow which Tiboldt plucks from the air and stabs Susan's other shoulder. Lucky grabs the fragment again and Hawkeye breaks the bracelet with another arrow. Pascale flees with America and Stinger in pursuit.Later they've rounded up the gang including Fifi, but Tiboldt has escaped. Susan's shoulders are bandaged up. Lucky still has the Cosmic Cube and is surrounded by a load of dog toys and pizzas. Cassie suggest taking it to Pym Labs where she's an intern. Kate sends a pic of Lucky to Clint Barton (the other Hawkeye who's the dog's co-owner). The Bishop sisters establish that they're now friends and respect each other. Kate reveals to Susan that their mother Eleanor isn't dead but a vampire (as seen in Hawkeye (2016) and West Coast Avengers (2018)). (She doesn't mention that their father Derek now has a young cloned body (also Hawkeye (2016).)Then America and Cassie mention intel they have from Eli (presumably Elijah Bradley, ex Young Avenger Patriot) about something weird at an NY research lab which Kate might like to investigate with them.


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Kate Bishop and the case of the missing girl/the missing ring/the suddenly-not-so-missing sister
Last issue Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) was tricked by her estranged sister Susan into coming to the Resort Chapiteau on Long Island to help her find a stolen ring of some importance. Then a young girl named Kennedy went missing leaving a blood-stained jacket.The Resort staff don't want Kate investigating the girl's disappearance but she refuses to hand over the jacket to them. They settle for requesting everyone to return to their rooms. Susan Bishop's more interested in getting her sister to find her ring but for now she lets Katie (she hates that name) and her dog Lucky into the room she's reserved for them next to hers.However Kate changes into her Hawkeye togs and weapons and exits via the window and leaps from ledge to ledge looking for something suspicious. Then she sneaks into the apartment of Kennedy family and overhears Mr Kennedy on the phone promising to pay anything to get his daughter back. Hawkeye lets him know she's there and signals for him to ask for proof she's OK. The image he gets on his phone shows the girl happily playing with some toys in a wooden room, and there's a hand giving her another toy. The man says they should never have come back here but they had such a good time last time. Kate recalls her sister saying the same thing, but things like the ring replaced with a fake suggested that the experience wasn't as pleasant as she remembered.Hawkeye leaves the room by using her bow to slide down a sloping wire (mainly because it provides a good visual). Then she hears a suspicious rustling in some bushes but it's only Susan and Lucky. Big sis says she overheard the staff saying there's no sign that anyone left the Resort so Kennedy must still be on the grounds. And Lucky leads them to a wooden hut (probably he'd got the scent from the girl's jacket). Inside they see Kennedy with 1 man with a gun.Hawkeye kicks the door in and enters with drawn bow. Kennedy's glad to see her but the man goes berserk claiming that he must protect the girl. Kate and him fight while Susan escapes with Kennedy and Lucky. Hawkeye's the better and more athletic fighter but the guy just won't go down until she puts an arrow in his leg.Then the man named Alex doesn't understand what's happening and what he's accused of. The last thing he remembers is having a good time watching acrobats. But for safety Hawk covers him with a net arrow.Someone's watching via a drone camera and says she'll send someone to 'take care' of Alex later. And she asks someone if they're ready for the next phase of testing.Our heroines and dog return Kennedy to her family. But then Kate notices that they're being surrounded by vacant-eyed staff and guests.


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Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) was called by her sister Susan to the Resort Chapiteau in the Hamptons to retrieve a stolen ring. But a young girl was kidnapped and then found, and her kidnapper seemed to be under mind control. And now the sisters and Kate's dog Lucky are surrounded by mind-controlled guests (although to me they all seem to be staff).Kate tells Susan Bishop to grab Lucky while she goes into action. A series of acrobatic moves and trick arrows deals with the attackers and a drone camera, and a 'fishing line' arrow reels our 3 safely up to a roof terrace. Then Kate notices an old foe with a bow and purple wig with arrows sticking in it like a pincushion.But 1st she wants to clear the air with her sister. She breaks the bracelets that Susan made them both wear as camouflage in #1 (though I don't know why she figures they were dangerous). She wants Susan to leave so she doesn't have to worry about her. But older sis refuses to leave Katie in danger (and Kate tries yet again to get her to call her *Kate*). However under pressure she admits that the real reason is that she can't leave without the ring, which is the key to a safe.Cue various flashbacks involving their father Derek Bishop. He wasn't happy when the board of his company asked Susan to take over running it. He shoots someone to make him tell where a Cosmic Cube fragment is, but we see Susan sneaking off with it and hiding it in the safe. Li'l Katie sees him beating someone up. He's angry at Susan's wedding, and when he learns Kate is a Young Avenger. And then he left their lives.Susan apologises for leaving young Katie alone with their dad so much, and Kate admits she didn't realise what her sister was dealing with at the time. Susan opines that they each fought back in their own way.Kate now knows that the stakes are keeping the Cosmic Cube fragment out of the hands of the Circus, and tells Susan that she now recognises the purple-wig woman and some other performers as members of the Circus Of Crime who she's tangled with before. They used to just hypnotise audiences and steal their jewellery and money, but now they seem to have set their sights higher.And a mystery woman continues to watch them via another drone camera, as Kate reluctantly tells Susan to stay hidden with Lucky while she goes in search of the ring. Which the m-w seems to have in her hand.Kate contacts Prodigy, an ex-member of the later Young Avengers, and he provides an app which enables her to track something (what? I don't think the Cube is supposed to be here). She also asks Cassie Lang to contact America Chavez for backup, and Cassie says she's coming too. Clint Barton also tries to contact her (the only person she doesn't *mind* calling her Katie).Then she reaches the central lair with the drone control screens (maybe it the drone signals she was tracking?). But she has to fight the purple-wigged woman who's upped her game since their last encounter. Kate talks a good fight but she's losing when the mystery woman calls a halt. She announces herself as Pascale Tiboldt (probably daughter of Maynard Tiboldt, Ringmaster of the Circus), and she's got a mind-controlled Susan in tow.


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Fear Itself
There is a mass escape at the Raft, the prison for
super-criminals. Among the fugitives are Griffin, Man-Bull, and Basilisk who
now have their powers back as the dampeners fail. They come upon a woman
escapee who has a life raft and take over, bringing her with them. As the
guards open fire, Griffin flies off, towing the raft behind him. Basilisk
suggests they head for Brooklyn so he can pick up some stuff at home….
Rhea awakens Hercules, reminding him of his appointment to
meet with the public but the voices of his worshippers in his ears are painful.
They speak of being imprisoned by Ares and warn that Ares will strike against
Hercules though his greatest fear. But Rhea doesn’t believe Herc is who he
claims to be and offers him a beer is he listens to ten people’s problems. Over
a long and tiring day Herc hears requests to close down a meth lab, capture
Mister Negative’s men, stop a dog from barking at night, and eliminate minorities
the guy doesn’t like. A couple from the Gowanus Drawbridge Studio present Herc
with a new costume, a tunic made from high-tech materials. He…doesn’t hate it
but then Rhea alerts him to a police call for a bank robbery so off they go….
Downtown, Man-Bull is destroying police cars, Basilisk is
petrifying the bank customers, Griffin is having little success tearing the
vault door off its hinges until the mystery woman (who doesn’t know her own
identity) hands him the combination, gleaned from the manager’s mind, with some
residual damage. They open the vault and Herc steps out, stabbing Griffin with
the Sword of Peleus, missing his major organs and Herc demands he surrender.
Herc also explains that he used the Helm of Hades to enter the vault invisible
then jump out dramatically. Basilisk attacks Herc with his eye beams but the
hero reflects them with the Shield of Peleus, clobbering the bad guy. As Herc
grapples with Man-Bull, the mystery woman gazes on the image of Medusa on the shield—but
she doesn’t turn to stone, instead she learns her identity. Herc defeats
Man-Bull, Griffin grabs stacks of cash and flies through the ceiling—and is
shot down by the Warhawks, led by Kyknos, son of Ares, who proclaims himself
the protector of his territory, proclaiming the wargospel of “All Versus All.”
Herc attacks Kyknos, telling Griffin to escape. Hercules defending the
criminals confuses the crowd and they quickly turn against Herc who clobbers
Helene who was shooting at him. Herc and the baddies reenter the bank where
they find the mystery woman has grown horns and she mutters a spell that makes
all the dogs in the vicinity turn vicious. As the crowd denounces Herc, the
mystery woman reveals herself to be the three-faced witch Hecate, proclaiming
herself the new Dark Queen of Lost Brooklyn….


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All Versus All
Hercules and the bad guys Griffin, Man-Bull, and Basilisk face
Kyknos, son of Ares, and his Warhawks in what the baddie calls the war of All
Against All. The two challenge one another with Herc proclaiming himself the
city’s champion. But the crowd attacks Herc, thinking he’s the bad guy and Herc
is forced to use the Shield of Peleus to turn the mob to stone (temporarily) to
protect them from themselves. Basilisk and Man-Bull run for their lives as more
people capture Hercules to bring him to Kyknos as prisoner. But Griffin, now
transformed into mostly winged lion and a friendly one at that, swoops down and
carries off Hercules, as the Warhawks, including Helene Panayiotou, shoot at him. Herc
wonders how to help the city, drowning in chaos….
He comes upon some quarrelling neighbors in the Carroll
Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn, a landlord and a tenant fighting over bedbug
control. Herc lands and tries to mediate but a little girl stabs him in the
back with garden shears and her parents assault the hero. He pushes them off
and proclaims that no one will get the object they are fighting over, slicing
it in two with his sword before flying off on Griffin. The beast takes him to
the rooftop of George Michael’s restaurant where he hopes to find treatment for
his injuries but George Michael shoots him (knocking the shears out of his
back), blaming him for the city going crazy, including his daughter. In a
nearby park, children are being terrorized by vicious dogs (the result of
Hecate’s return) and Griffin swoops down and carries the two hounds away. He
returns to the rooftop where he tries to feed raw dog meat to Hercules who
recoils though he admits he has eaten dog before, just not raw. Herc searches
through the pockets of his new garment and discovers a roll of bandages and
dresses his own wound. Herc mediates on the climax to the Chaos War and how he
had the power and responsibility to remake the world and one of his actions was
to resurrect Kyknos as the Great Villain a Great Hero needs but he did not
count on losing his powers. Now he sinks into despair….
Rhea makes it back to her apartment after negotiating the
treacherous streets of terrorized Brooklyn but she finds Helene Panayiotou and some Warhawks there.
Helene jokes about Rhea’s interest in the political theory of rights, holding
out Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan as the source of the Warhawks’ philosophy
of All Versus All. And they take her hostage….
Kyknos prays to his father Ares, thanking him for revealing
his purpose: to remake the world in Ares’ image to prepare it for Ares’
resurrection. Hecate joins him, seeking revenge for Zeus’ having forbidden interference
with the world of men which resulted in her memory being wiped. She intends to
start with Hercules, whose greatest fear is the return of Kyklos and Ares. And
she conjures up a multitentacled monster….
At dawn, Hercules awakens, rested and refreshed and adopting
a more optimistic attitude than the night before. And then he discovers the
city is a hellscape, filled with dead trees….


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Lost City
Witch-Goddess Hecate, in league with Kyknos, son of Ares, has
turned Brooklyn into a hellscape with eerie trees, vicious monsters and a
miasma of fear. The injured Hercules’ brain is filled with he voices of his
worshippers. He mounts Griffin in his winged lion form and flies off two face
his enemies in their Coney Island lair. They are attacked by bewitched police
officers mounted on flying dragons which were once horses. Griffin is seriously
burned by dragon’s breath and he and Herc crash to the ground. Herc is attacked
by goblin-like creatures but Man-Bull and Basilisk arrive to fight them with
Herc, who unleashes the Shield of Perseus to turn them to stone. The baddies
saw Griffin and came to help Herc; Basilisk is then grabbed by a giant purple
tentacle and dragged down into he subway. Hercules races down there and chops
the monster up, pulling Basilisk from its gullet. The goblins comes after them,
Herc realizing that the petrifying effects of his shield are lasting seconds
rather than days, probably an effect of Hecate’s magic. The train pulls in but
it turns out to be a giant centipede-like monster. Herc and the baddies jump
aboard and the centipede carries them away. The “train” pulls out of the tunnel
and into daylight. Bas asks Herc if he can summon some kind of help but they
see Manhattan in flames and the Statue of Liberty destroyed. So Herc’s Avengers
pals are likely busy. As police dragons descend on them, Man-Bull suggests
prayer. So Hercules prays to his father Zeus for aid and a bolt of lightning
crashes down, revealing Hermes, messenger of the gods. Hermes explains that the
crisis is worldwide, brought on by the renegade Norse god called the Serpent.
Odin and Zeus have forbidden their people to take part. And now Zeus commands
Hercules to return to Olympus; Herc responds that he is no longer a god. Hermes
notes that Zeus can always give him back his divinity. Herc ponders but refuses
as if he were again a god, Zeus would have forbidden him to intervene and many
mortals are in danger. Hermes doesn’t see his point but promises to convey his
refusal back to Olympus….
Herc and pals ride the centipede to Coney Island where Kyknos
and his army have established a base in MCU Park, a minor-league baseball
stadium. There, the Son of Ares commands his followers to maim and kill one
another, illustrating the Warhawks’ “All Versus All” philosophy. Herc notes
that Kyknos’ followers must be bewitched and besides, there are far too many of
them to fight so Herc comes up with a plan….
Helene Panayiotou drags Rhea through the
stadium, telling her that when the ground is bloodied enough, Ares will return
and Rhea and Herc’s three captive worshippers will be his first sacrifices.
Rhea is surprised to discover that Herc really has worshippers and is less then
pleased to find they are all nerds, as they are locked in a cell at the center
of a giant wicker effigy of Ares. Then the three baddies step forward,
Man-Bull, Griffin, and Basilisk, demanding attention and they bring the
greatest kill: the petrified form of Hercules….


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Black Rapture
At Kyknos’ lair in MCU Park on Coney Island, Herc’s
girlfriend Rhea pleads with Helene Panayiotou to free her from her
cell in the giant wicker Ares. But Helene is entirely under the spell of
Hecate, serving the plan that will raise Ares from the dead. Meanwhile, the
ex-villain trio (Man-Bull, Griffin, Basilisk) have brought the petrified body
of Hercules to gain the favor of Kyknos (all part of Herc’s plan) but the
monster is displeased: they have robbed Ares of the pleasure of killing Herc
himself. And Kyknos wields the hardened Herc as a weapon to chastise the
baddies. He places Herc in a position to watch everything and calls Helene
forth. He asks if she is ready for her ultimate sacrifice for her master. She
agrees and Kyknos hands her a sword and commands her to execute her father,
George Michael. She tries, Rhea tells her to fight it, and she balks. Kyknos
screams in her face to complete the deed—but Hercules bursts out of his stony
prison and takes the sword from her to the amazement and cheers of Rhea and the
nerdy worshippers. Herc knew that Kyknos would be dumb enough not to remember
that a stone spell only lasts for a few hours so he challenges the monster to a
sword duel, all versus all. Herc, aided by Basilisk, Man-Bull, and Griffin,
takes on the more powerful Kyknos. The crowd witnessing this finds their fear
turning to hope as Herc…is seized by the villain who uses him to batter Griffin
out of the air, smashing Herc into the ground. The three worshippers tell Rhea
that Herc needs their prayers but Rhea can’t bring herself to make that
commitment…until, watching Herc be abused, she whispers, “I believe.” And Herc
stabs the bully in the chest with his sword. Kyknos feels that the power has
left him. Hecate confirms that her spell has moved elsewhere…not to Hercules
but to Man-Bull, Griffin, and Basilisk who, with overwhelming power, brutally
beat Kyknos as his Warhawks stand and watch. He pleads for Helene to help
him…so she lifts a rifle and puts a bullet in his head. The spell breaks, all
of the captives are returned to normal. Hecate flies away, telling the crowd
that, though the Serpent still terrorizes the world, they are now free from her
control. The angry image of Ares appears in a brazier but Hercules kicks it
over, proclaiming, “Brooklyn is my town.”


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The New Labors of Hercules Part 3
And so the New Twelve
Labors of Hercules begin, a TV show hosted by Eurystheus and Achelous:
1.
Hercules is sent to the
Savage Land to capture a sabretooth tiger. On arrival he mistakes an allosaurus
for his quarry, subduing it quickly. After Gordon, Robert, and Jimmy explain
that the new labors parallel the old labors thus a tiger is similar to the lion
he fought once, Herc rushes off into the jungle and returns with a hogtied
Zabu. After he departs, Ka-Zar and Shanna arrive in a very bad mood looking for
Hercules….
2.
To parallel the slaying
of the Hydra, Herc is now pitted against the modern terrorist organization
which has a huge multi-headed monster of their own. While Herc is busy with it,
Hydra Commander #56 pitches a reality series of his own to Gordon at gunpoint,
involving Hydra interns being set to various evil tasks and facing death if
they fail. Herc comes out and faints, the monster having exploded before he
could fight it. The commander blames the R&D department and leaves….
3.
Herc and company fly to
the Blue Area of the moon to capture the Inhumans’ dog Lockjaw. They make it
safely away then discover from Herc that the giant doggie has swallowed Jimmy….
4.
Herc next must capture
Dragon Man so he chains himself to the beast which flies off with him.
Eventually it tires and goes to sleep in a dumpster, allowing Herc to complete
the labor….
5.
Hercules drives off
Attuma and his army from attacking Atlantis, so the conqueror sets his sights
on a retirement home on the Florida Coast….
6.
For a modern equivalent
of cleaning out the Augean stables with their wretched odor, Hercules must stay
in a room with the Red Skull’s dust of death. He does and comes out laughing a
bit too much….
Hercules takes a break
from the labors, brooding on a sidewalk. Jimmy offers him a bit of wisdom from
his father that it’s better to be lucky than be good. And he advises Herc, “Now
that you’ve been lucky, go be good.” And Herc perks up.
7.
Hercules is set to face
the Abomination at Madison Square Garden. On their way in Gordon interviews
Blonsky and while the big scaly guy is bragging about how he is going to defeat
Hercules, the Prince of Power bashes him with a streetlamp, ending the match….
Gordon, Robert, and
Jimmy are delighted as Herc has turned a corner, recovering his heroic
qualities. But elsewhere, Eurystheus and Achelous are concerned that the series
is not turning out the way they had hoped. A disappointed Hera appears before
them, handing over her list of the four final tasks….


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The New Labors of Hercules Part 5
Hercules has vanished
after learning the nature of the final labor assigned to him; Robert and Jimmy
search the city for him without success. Then they wonder if he would have gone
back to the Extra Points Bar where he wore out his welcome and they arrive
there just as Herc throws another bouncer through the window. They sit with him
and he explains that he murdered his wife and children while drunk. An angry
Gordon Allworth arrives and berates Hercules for walking out; he confesses Herc
was his hero but has now learned what a drunken cowardly blowhard he really is.
Gordon goads Hercules into trying to defeat Eurystheus by confronting his
victims because that’s the only thing to make Herc a hero in Gordon’s eyes. And
Herc responds…by admitting that Gordon is right and admiring his courage. Herc
heads back to the studio and Gordon faints….
Hercules and Jimmy go to
a restaurant in Little Italy which is actually the gateway to the land of the
dead, presided over by Hades, resembling the Godfather. Herc asks permission to
enter his realm; Hades grants it, adding that in the future he may ask Hercules
for a favor (like the Godfather)….
1      12th Labor: Hercules, accompanied by
Gordon, Robert, and Jimmy, enter the underworld, ferried by Charon—whom Robert
has managed to insult. The arrive at the gates of Hades and Hercules knocks;
Cerberus comes out barking and Herc punches its lights out. The group is
surrounded by guards who hold them as Megara and the children approach. She
wonders if Hercules’ happy and carefree persona is but a mask to hide his
sorrow. Megara does not require an answer, his tears are enough. She grants her
forgiveness and gives him the flower from her hair. As they leave, the three TV
men are crying but Herc insists that Megara’s words were just a misguided
theory and he smashes Jimmy’s camera….
Hera takes a call from
Hades, reporting the outcome; she is surprised at Megara’s reaction even though
she didn’t know Hera was behind the murders. She walks out on Eurystheus and
Achelous, leaving them to face Herc’s reactions to her miscalculation. Herc
arrives and battles the two villains, who, rushing to kill Hercules, end up
piercing one another with their weapons…and then a sword mounted on the wall
falls, decapitating Eurystheus once more….
Later, all concerned are
holding a party at the Extra Points Bar where Tiberius Stone expresses
disappointment that the completed Hercules reality show wasn’t what he wanted
but he is satisfied with the ratings. Captain America asks for all the stuff
collected by Hercules to be returned. Wolverine tries to pick up the lady
manager but she reveals she is dating Hercules, who had someplace he had to be…
…which we see is in
Greece, tearfully placing the flower on Megara’s grave….


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The New Labors of Hercules Part 4
At the office of the
Olympus Group, Zeus lectures the board on baseball and loyalty, gesturing with
a baseball bat. He stops behind Hera to bash her in the head but she sends a
quick bolt to disintegrate the bat. She sarcastically notes that it has taken a
few thousand years for him to figure out she was the one behind Hercules’
labors, both ancient and modern. Their “understanding” was that Zeus would
continue his infidelities with mortal women and Hera would persecute their
offspring. Zeus denies having any more affairs with mortals but his reaction to
his sexy secretary belies that statement. Zeus accuses Hera of jeopardizing the
gods’ position on Earth but she brushes it off, calling on the board to vote on
whether she continues the labors of Hercules and the board approves….
1.      8. Eurystheus continues
hosting the new twelve labors of Hercules. As in ancient times, Hercules has to
defeat Diomedes and his four man-eating mares so now Herc will be pitted
against Mole Man and his four monsters (the one from the cover of FANTASTIC
FOUR #1 and his three siblings). Herc arrives in Maui to buy 1000 feet of
chain, paying for it with Gordon Allsworth’s credit card; when they see this,
Robert and Jimmy make some purchases too on Gordon’s card. So as Mole Man
tunnels up from below, planning to conquer Hawaii, Hercules meets them, wraps a
chain around one monster and swings it to knock out the other three. Then
Mole Man sends his Moloids after Herc who wraps the monster into a huge ball
and bowls the Moloids over and plugs the tunnel….
2.
9. As Herc once stole the
golden girdle of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, now he must retrieve Captain America’s
shield. Herc visits Avengers Tower and Cap welcomes him, thinking he
has come to apologize for his behavior at the funeral. They converse, with Cap sympathizing
with Herc as they are both warriors out of their times. Cap apologizes to Herc
for not understanding his concerns. Then Herc punches his lights out and takes
the shield. Wolverine, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Spider-Woman confront him so
he wields the shield and bowls them all over and runs out the door. Cap
recovers and tells the Avengers that clearly Herc needed the shield for some
important reason and to cut him some slack. Herc is miffed that they
reassembled the Avengers and chose Wolverine but not him….
3.
10. Hercules enters Latveria
and steals a Doombot but the thing’s dire threats lead Gordon to wonder if it
really is a Doombot or did Herc get….
4.     11. Herc must steal a
Helicarrier from SHIELD. He ropes one and tows it away while the agents fire
upon him with all available weapons. Nick Fury is woken up and alerted to the
disaster. He goes back to sleep, saying, “Wake me back up if he takes us
someplace good.”
Eurystheus is surprised
that Hercules has gotten this far. He describes how Herc went into Hades to
bring back the three-headed guard dog Cerberus. But this time he wants Hercules
to enter Hades and bring back a flower from the hair of his wife Megara—as a
sign of her forgiveness for killing her and their children. Robert is shocked
at this revelation but Hercules can’t deny it….


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The New Labors of Hercules Part Two
Achelous has dragged the
groggy Hercules to a limousine where Eurystheus awaits. Eurystheus reminds Herc
that they have long been enemies and fills in their history after Herc’s death
in the ancient world: he had made it his goal to stamps out everything
associated with Hercules but was captured in battle and brought before
Hercules’ mother Alcmena. The bereaved Alcmena put out Eurystheus’ eyes with a
knitting needle and had him beheaded. But his patron goddess Hera raised him back
to life and he replaced his head, sewing it back on, though nothing could be
done about his eyes. And now with centuries to recover, he is wealthy and
successful and has a proposition for Hercules, accompanied by director Gordon
Allsworth, assistant director Robert, and cameraman Jimmy. Herc wants to rip
his head off but Eurystheus informs him it is his only chance to become a hero
again so Herc unhands him. Herc’s reputation has suffered and, by extension
Eurystheus also looks bad so he proposes a new series of twelve labors for
Herc, to be covered in his reality show. Gordon is enthusiastic but Achelous,
in human form, enters, mocking Herc’s courage. Gordon asks Achelous for his
story: Achelous was a river god infatuated with Deianira but she had eyes only
for Hercules. The two fought, Achelous in his bull form, and he lost, losing a
horn as well. Herc gets in a bit of revenge for the sucker punch in the
previous issue and accepts Eurystheus’ offer….
A business-suited Hermes
dashes to Wall Street, enters the offices of the Olympus Group, interrupting the
boss and his sexy secretary, and reports on this latest development to Herc’s
father, Zeus….
Characters: Hercules, Eurystheus, Achelous, Zeus, Hermes


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Hercules: The New Labors Part 1
Infant Hercules is in
his cradle, attacked by two snakes sent by his stepmother Hera. The baby
strangles the snakes and…the director yells, “Cut!” Gordon Allsworth is in
charge of making a Hercules centered reality show and doesn’t like how it’s
going and he fears for his career. The producer, Tiberius Stone, makes a
surprise appearance, terrifying Gordon. Stone tells him the problem with the
show is that it is too respectful of its subject as Hercules is now tabloid
fodder. Stone shows Gordon film of a drunken Herc’s appearance at the Avengers’
funeral, mourning for Thor, assaulting various heroes, and causing a ruckus.
Stone wants a show that exploits Herc’s current pure reputation….
At Avengers Mansion,
Captain America presides over the unveiling of a memorial to their fallen
teammates. At the Extra Points Bar, an inebriated Hercules hurls a chair at the
TV and clobbers the bouncer when he tries to eject the Price of Power. The lady
manager was willing to put up with Herc’s antics because he pays in gold but
she is getting tired. Herc is accompanied by Jimmy, a cameraman recording his
activities for the TV show and uses his connection to the hero to try to pick
up woman. Herc suspects the manager is smitten with him and starts listing his
Twelve Labors of legend. He admits it was done as punishment, levied by King
Eurystheus, and excuses himself to go to the restroom. He is confronted by a
sinister cloaked figure who hurls Herc through the door and reveals himself to
be Hercules’ ancient enemy, Achelous the river god. In the form of a human
bull, Achelous uses his serpentine tail to strangle Herc into submission, then
drags him outside to a waiting limousine. Inside is Eurystheus, happy to see
Hercules after all these years….
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Cry Havoc!
Hercules,
now SHIELD Agent 125, attends the Special Ops school in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
He has some trouble getting the point, preferring to smash through the obstacle
course rather than run it as designed, enraging the trainer, John Farrat/Agent
72. The youthful Buddy Juniper, Agent 223, offers to accompany Herc through the
course; he turns out to be a very chatty individual who is totally committed to
the service. When Buddy realizes that his pal is the real Hercules, Herc tells
him about the voyage of the Argonauts: when they discovered the Golden Fleece
and its monstrous guardian, Jason ordered his men into battle and many were
killed before Hercules slew the Hydra; Jason, however, having gained the
fleece, gave no thought to the men who died. His lesson for Buddy is to be
careful about what he sacrifices his life for….
At
his stronghold in South America, Ares watches his Warhawks have bayonet
practice with live targets; a message from his agent in SHIELD warns him that
his (the traitor’s) presence is suspected. Ares initiates Phase Two….
The
rookie SHIELD Agents board an aircraft carrier. Herc is met by Agent 33/Kara
Palamas who shows him the security footage from the museum battle; it looks as
though Tharamus died trying to protect something from Ares. The film has been
tampered with but Kara has studied the museum catalog and identified the
missing object as the Heart of Athena. Hercules explains that it is a magic
device which magnifies the power of any weapon, making an army using it
unstoppable….
Agent
Alex DePaul is put in charge of Operation: Argonaut, to lead a team against
Ares’ base in the jungle. SHIELD dispatches a Helicarrier to the region and
Floaters ferry shock troops to the ground. When they reach the base, a giant
Minotaur attacks them, plowing through the team until it reaches Herc. The
Prince of Power battles the monster and gets the worse of it. Buddy rushes
forward to back Herc up and is mortally wounded by the Minotaur. Hercules
reacts by breaking the Minotaur’s back. He rushes to see to Buddy but the boy
dies in his arms; Hercules lets out a cry of anguish….
The
Floaters return to the Helicarrier but with a surprise: they are filled with
Warhawks and Ares leads the takeover of the SHIELD craft. On the ground, the
Agents discover one Floater left: for Hercules to face Ares alone. As Herc doesn’t
know how to fly the vehicle, DePaul joins him as pilot. Herc radios Ares that
he is coming. Ares responds by shooting down the Floater with a missile….


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Even an Immortal Can Die!
A
peace conference held at Anstice Castle is invaded by the terrorist band known
as the Warhawks who slaughter the delegates on orders from their leader, Ares,
Greek God of War….
Hercules
recalls his battles with his half-brother Ares which would often be broken up
by Zeus who made them drink of the Chalice of Forgiveness. He is visiting the Museum
of Greek Antiquity for reminders of home, shaken when he hears a kid say that
Hercules wasn’t real and the Avenger who claimed to be him was just some
“super-jerk who ripped off the name.” Herc is approached by SHIELD Agent Alex
DePaul, accompanied by Agents 33 and 72. DePaul says that in light of the
Onslaught event and the loss of so many heroes, SHIELD would like Hercules to
join the agency in fighting evil. Herc declines, even knowing that they want
him to fight Ares and the Warhawks. Agent 33 a/k/a Kara Lynn Palamas is a
mythology expert and she appeals to Herc but he still refuses….
At
his stronghold in South America, Ares is punishing a minion for failure by
ordering the man to impale himself on Ares’ sword while the rest of the gang
cheer their leader. Then Ares takes a call from the US, telling him that
Hercules won’t play the game so he changes his plans….
Hercules
wanders the streets, brooding over the number of people he has seen die,
perking up briefly to uproot a streetlamp and hurl it to disable some bank
robbers’ getaway car. He returns to the museum to greet the curator, Tharamus,
Greek God of Learning. Agent 33/Kara returns to persuade Herc to join SHIELD,
revealing that they suspect Ares has a traitor within SHIELD and they need an
outsider to help spot him. Then two Mandroids, Ares’ Dogs of War, smash through
the walls to fight Hercules with plasma blasts that, to Ares’ surprise, do not
kill the demi-god, even though his power had been reduced by Zeus. Herc rips
apart a Mandroid and questions the operator but the man swallows poison and
dies rather than talk. Meanwhile, Ares has gone into another room and fought
and killed Tharamus, who, though a scholar rather than a warrior, was trying to
stall him until Herc arrived. Agent DePaul arrives and tells Herc that, had he
joined SHIELD when first asked, his friend would not have died. Kara must
prevent Herc from killing DePaul for that remark. But, grieving over Tharamus’
body, Herc agrees to join the team….


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Let Slip the Dogs of War!
Their
Floater having been blown up by a missile, Hercules and Agent Alex DePaul
plummet though the air. Herc seizes him and tries to aim so that they reach the
Helicarrier. Ares sends minions to look for Hercules’ corpse, supervises the
construction of his superweapon, the Gabriel Horn, and has his Warhawks search
the ship for any SHIELD Agents unaccounted for…
Herc,
with DePaul in tow, manages to nab a remote corner of the Helicarrier and halt
their plunge; they enter the ship through a hole Herc tears in the bulkhead and
DePaul heads for the communications room to send for help, while Hercules goes
in search of Ares….
Elsewhere,
Agent 33/Kara Palamas goes online to try to identify the traitor in the ranks;
DePaul, the traitor, finds her and starts shooting. Shortly thereafter Agent
72/John Farrat catches him and there is more shooting….
Meanwhile,
Herc is facing a Dog of War in Mandroid armor; Herc smashes it through the gym
wall and into the showers. More Warhawks arrive and open fire; Herc, weakened
by his wounds, hurls an electric line and fries the bad guys. He passes out and
is captured by Ares…
…waking
up chained to a jet’s wheels. Ares shows him the Gabriel Horn, a sonic cannon
he will use to cause the structural breakdown of all metal on the planet. Earth
will be returned to a feudal state, easily controlled by Ares. DePaul arrives
and Herc is startled to find he is the traitor; DePaul defends Ares’ scheme.
Herc breaks free, sweeps the underlings aside with a swipe of his arms and
pursues Ares, who flees into the ship. DePaul shoots at Herc but Kara arrives
and fights him. Herc catches up with Ares who gloats that he has led Hercules
far from the control room where he could stop the countdown of the Gabriel
Horn. So Herc devises an alternate scheme: he throws Ares into the barrel of
the giant weapon, causing a chain reaction. Herc throws the weapon overboard
and it explodes, the shock wave also causing DePaul to fall on his sword….
A
few weeks later, at the Museum of Greek Antiquities, the new curator hired by
Hercules, John Farrat, has the place running again, while Herc and Kara ponder
his future….


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What Fools These Immortals Be!
After a long absence,
Hercules returns home, climbing Mt. Olympus and at the top fighting a
yellow-crested Titan. Guards arrive to tell Herc that it is “The Day of
Reflective Silence” to observe Zeus’ birthday and the titan was merely trying
to quiet him. Soon, the silence is broken and Zeus looks in on Hercules who is
loudly carousing with the serving women. In his anger, Zeus banishes Herc until
he learns humility—not on Earth where he is a demigod but into the galaxy where
his strength is nothing special. Apollo lends Herc his Sun-Chariot and two
fiery steeds and Herc takes off for the stars….In the Andromeda Galaxy,
Hercules encounters the fleet of the Colonizers of Rigel where he is invited
aboard to rest. Herc turns down a request to join them on their journeys but
they do persuade him to take along Recorder 417 so they can add his travels to
their data banks….Hercules and the
Recorder arrive at the planet Petocco where they land at Starharbor, the
planet’s cosmopolitan spaceport. They check into a hotel (with the Recorder
charging all expenses to the Rigellian Empire) and go out looking for drink and
women. Herc spies a blue giant and on learning that he is a Pheragot, the
strongest creatures in the galaxy, he picks a fight but is surprised that his
foe cries and everyone now hates him because Pheragots are also the kindest and
gentlest beings in the galaxy. Then a disabled starliner crashes into the port
and Herc is able to detach the passenger section and carry it to safety then he
hurls the burning fuel tanks into space where they explode harmlessly. Herc is
now hailed as a hero….
Later, a dude bumps into
him and Herc’s first instinct is to fight but he decides against it, alarming
and confusing the other fellow….


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For the Love of Gods
On his way across the
galaxy by Sun-Chariot, Hercules challenges a spaceship to a race, not knowing
the other ship has been modified, leading to Herc being humiliated by losing.
Herc and Recorder 417 arrive at Port Anteris of the planet Wilamean where their
opponents Clide and Alpo demand payment of the bet: ten thousand credits. Herc
admits he has no money and they insist on holding onto the Chariot as
collateral. Herc has an idea: he has seen posters offering a ten thousand
credit reward for the rescue of Layana Sweetwater, kidnapped by pirates and
held in their impregnable island fortress. So Herc smashes his way into the
place and takes on all the guards while Recorder frees Layana from her cell
and, after Herc destroys all of the pirates’ craft, they take off with only one
casualty: Recorder’s right hand is shot off by the baddies. But when Herc tries
to collect the reward he finds the local police don’t have that kind of money;
they only offered the reward to placate Layana’s father, a powerful politician,
and didn’t think anyone could actually rescue her. So Herc decides to hold onto
the girl until they find the reward and Layana, smitten with her hero, is okay
with that….
Recorder has a new, nonmatching, hand installed and Herc leaves him behind when
he goes off with Layana for some privacy. Recorder, programmed to observe
everything Hercules does, tries peeking through a window and is promptly
arrested; in his cell he gets high on “audio-tootski” offered by his cellmate. Inside,
Herc tells Layana of his sad romantic history, namely falling for a mortal
queen but when he was summoned by Zeus he went and returned shortly, not
realizing that time passes more quickly for mortals and finding her old and
dying—and that’s why Herc resists any long term commitments. Layana responds
with her own tale of how her father sold her into marriage with the lizard-man
Count Igwanus and how, fleeing the wedding she was captured by the pirates
until Herc arrived to rescue her. And then Igwanus and a team of guards arrive
to take her away and Herc helps her escape once more, setting off a running
fight throughout the city. When Herc overpowers Igwanus, he learns that the
Count did not purchase the girl, she freely agreed to marry him; Layana
confesses that she made up the story about the betrothal so that Herc would
keep her. Herc apologizes and Igwanus pays Herc the ten thousand credit reward.
Herc spring Recorder from jail and visits Clide and Alpo in the hospital, after
they tried to sell the golden chariot but found that Apollo’s fierce horses
were rather formidable. Herc notes that he is giving the money he owes them to
the hospital to cover their medical expenses….


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“—Not Just Another Galactus Story!"
Recorder 417 returns to his makers the Colonizers of Rigel and reports on
his mission to record the exploits of the exiled Hercules. After a review of
the previous issues, Recorder settles on Herc’s celebration of his recent
victory on Ciegrim-7, the distiller’s planet where they really know how to
party. Out of their gratitude, they present Herc with a vial of the most potent
liquor in the galaxy. But then, Galactus’ herald Nova (Frankie Raye) arrives on
the planet to learn why it wasn’t made ready for her master to feast on. Herc
and Nova have an epic destructive battle which ends abruptly when she finds out
that her foe is the real Earth Hercules and they go off together. Hearing
nothing from his herald, Galactus orbits the world and puts his
matter-converter in place. So Herc and Recorder take the Sun-Chariot out to
Galactus’ ship to confront the World-Devourer; Herc tries to fight but finds he
can do nothing to stop Galactus from his preparations to devour the
planet—until Herc has an idea. He invites Galactus to drink with him, then
spikes the big guy’s cup with the potent liquor given him by the inhabitants of
Ciegrim-7. Galactus mellows out, even removing his helmet (he’s got a scary
black widow’s peak), and informs Herc that he knows what the demigod was plotting
and pretended to go along with his charade because he finds Herc to be an
amusing buffoon. In gratitude, G decides to spare the planet and find another,
returning Herc and Recorder to the planet. However, the Rigelians have arrived
and want to discuss with Hercules the enormous bill run up on Recorder’s charge
account. The grateful citizens of Ciegrim agree to pay it off but the
Rigellians take back Recorder anyway. And Hercules? He returns to his romantic
interlude with Nova….


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Whom the God Would Destroy!
Flying through the Omacron system via Sun-Chariot, Hercules and Recorder 417
are fired upon by a space patrol under orders to destroy any encroaching craft.
This annoys Hercules so that he tears his way into the lead craft, takes
control, and demands they return to their base so that he can clear this up.
The patrol returns to Starstation Raga where Herc meets Commander Malin who
explains that the star system has been under martial law for five years. It
seems that one planet of the system has disappeared without a trace every year
for the past five years and the due date is that very day. In the station’s
bar, the pilot of the lead ship recognizes Recorder and picks a fight, which
leads to a huge brawl which is single-handedly put down by Hercules when he arrives.
Then the alarm sounds: the planet Ciegrim-7 has been ensnared by a pair of
planet-sized ships. The space fleet scrambles and Hercules hops in his chariot
to join them but the alien ships shoot down most of the Omacron craft. Hercules
boards an alien ship, hoping to avenge the men who have died and when the Recorder
has his legs shot off by defensive weaponry, Herc stops long enough to be
captured. Herc finds his captors are of the Brotherhood of the True God of
Vengeance, who is appeased only by the sacrifice of a world and so spares the
galaxy. Herc is freed by the legless Recorder and battles the Brothers, finally
destroying their master towing device. At this, the Brothers confess that they
have failed and initiate self-destruct procedures; Herc and the Recorder make
it to the Sun-Chariot and escape the ensuing destruction. Herc takes a minute
to reflect on the early worship of his own Greek Pantheon….
Epilogue: Recorder is repaired and Herc relaxes aboard the Starstation….
Epilogue 2: We learn that the Brotherhood was serving Galactus, who is quite
miffed that the planet he was promised is not at the predesignated place….


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Deadly Legacy
A band of crooks led by
Dhielus Shreck break into a hidden tomb on an asteroid near Titan; the henchmen
are polished off pretty quickly by the tomb’s booby traps, leaving Shreck, last
of the late Thanos’ followers, to vow to succeed in his mission and destroy
Titan….
Hercules is on his way
home to Olympus with his companions Recorder 417 and Skyppi the Skrull when
they are intercepted by a message from Mentor summoning him to Titan. They
arrive safely (with Skyppi taking the form of an attractive green-skinned
woman) and meet with Mentor and Starfox. A dying man claiming to be Apollo was
found on the planet and he has been asking for Hercules; Herc discovers from
him before he dies that Zeus has turned against the Greek gods and has been
killing them. Mentor suggests that Herc consult their computer system
I.S.A.A.C. to scan Olympus to prepare him. Meanwhile, Starfox puts his romantic
moves on Skyppi (who looks like a hot babe, remember). For I.S.A.A.C. to scan
Olympus in its separate dimension, all non-essential systems must be shut down and
the power diverted to I.S.A.A.C….
…unfortunately, this
includes the traps in the mysterious tomb, allowing Shreck to enter and claim
the Nega-Bands from Captain Mar-Vell’s body….
I.S.A.A.C.’s scan shows
Olympus a waste with only Zeus alive on that world. Herc and pals prepare to go
but Shreck arrives on his mission to destroy the planet. With the Nega-Bands,
the villain turns out to be more powerful even than Mar-Vell was. Shreck is
able to withstand the attacks of Herc, Mentor, Starf, and the Skrull (who has
taken on the form of a huge tentacled monster) and retaliate violently.
Recorder and I.S.A.A.C. team up to find a solution, which includes giving
Recorder (and the reader) a brief summary of Captain Marvel’s career. Recorder
rushes to tell Herc to expose the baddie to an inordinate amount of photonic
energy. Puzzled, Herc punches Shreck into the center of a solar generator where
his powers begin to increase and increase until he overloads and explodes.
Recorder explains that the Nega-Bands were made for a Kree and Shreck, not
being of the race, would not be able to contain the full charge of the Bands. Herc
and his companions prepare to leave and then Starfox discovers that the
beautiful green woman he was courting was a male Skrull in disguise and he
pitches a fit….
Meanwhile, in Olympus,
Zeus awaits the coming of Hercules….


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Red Wolf Stalks the Stars!
Hercules, with his
companions Recorder 417 and Skyppi, is escaping from the planet Deniciere via
the chariot of Apollo when they find they are being pursued by the planet’s
patrols. Herc seizes the opportunity to leap onto one of the patrol craft and
force the pilots to parachute to safety. This, however, leaves the chariot
uncontrolled and it crashes into a building, causing Skyppi and Recorder to
smash into private rooms terrorizing the occupants. Cleaning up, Herc finds
that Recorder is damaged so they head to Starstation Philord where he can be
repaired….
At the Starstation,
members of the maintenance workers union are greeting their candidate for Union
President, Parnal Banak. But one of the workers suddenly metamorphoses into the
armored hero Red Wolf. Red Wolf accuses Banak of being a Skrull and
assassinates him. He fights off security guards until they join forces to shoot
him down—but Red Wolf is gone, replaced by an ordinary man. And then they
discover that Red Wolf was right, Banak was a Skrull in disguise….
As they approach the
Startstation, Skyppi convinces Herc to avoid violent confrontations, the Greek
god resolving to contain himself and seek reason. Herc and Skyppi (disguised as
a little human girl) drop Recorder off at a repair shop and they are
immediately surrounded by guards who have been warned about him by Deniciere.
Skyppi suddenly turns into a bug and clings to a guard’s boot, while Hercules,
restrained by his resolve, meekly surrenders and is placed in a cell….
On Mount Olympus, Zeus
moves through the palace, killing each god he encounters, including Dionysus
and Hephaestus, but Apollo flies through space to safety, or so he thinks….
In his cell, Hercules
looks in a mirror and discovers he is aging, and it is a shock. His cellmate,
Rojohn Smythe (i.e. Red Wolf) reveals that he was an archaeologist who, on the
legendary planet Talbos, entered a temple where he was transformed into Red
Wolf, embodiment of the Talbosian god, and dedicated to the mission of
destroying the entire Skrull race who had earlier exterminated the Talbosinas.
In the days that followed he found himself turning into Red Wolf in the
presence of any Skrull and tasked with killing it. Then Skyppi arrives,
disguised as a guard and Herc warns him away but Smythe turns into Red Wolf and,
smashing out of the cell, attacks him, also fighting Herc when he tries to
protect his friend. The battle between the two powerful heroes sees them
crashing though the floors into the lower decks, which becomes a problem when
Red Wolf shoots a hole in an airlock, casting them both into space. Herc saves
Red Wolf who promises him a boon in return. And the boon Herc asks is for Red
Wolf to distract the guards while Herc, Skyppi and the newly repaired Recorder
hop in their chariot and zoom away….


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My Love is…Green?
The year 2385, rebel
forces have seized control of mining asteroid Lerarak-27; the Omacron
government has sent in a peacekeeping force whose scout is Hercules, Prince of
Power. Herc tears his way through the army, followed by the government troops
until he smashes into the rebel stronghold, scares the troops into surrendering
and captures the leader. Herc’s sidekick, Recorder 417, detects that the rebel
leader is a Skrull in disguise to divide the Omacrons so the Skrulls will find
them easy to conquer. Herc also learns that his longtime military friend Amayd
Malin is critically wounded and is able to be with him as he dies. Hercules,
having borrowed his old pal the Recorder from the Rigellians, decides to move
on….
In Apollo’s chariot,
Herc and Recorder travel to the spaceport of the planet Deniciere where they
are checked in by the attractive Tyne Pryntess who startles Herc by being able
to handle his ferocious horses. On his way to the hotel, Herc spies the tall
redheaded model Shasha and is instantly smitten but she brushes him off like
she does every other man….
On Mount Olympus, Zeus
is in a particularly bad mood so when everyone looks in on Earth and discovers
the humans have gained psychic powers, Ares scolds Zeus for letting them
progress this far—Zeus disintegrates the God of War. And threatens everyone
else….
On Deniciere, Tyne
Pryntess stops by the flirt with Hercules but he spies Shasha and chases after
her; she ducks into an alley but when Herc gets there the only person there is
a beggar. Herc returns to talk to Tyne but she is offended and stalks out. Later,
Herc and Recorder spot the fashion show Shasha is starring in and the Price of
Power jumps up on the catwalk to confess his love for her. Recorder then points
out that his readings show that Shasha is a Skrull. The crowd wants to kill him
but the Skrull (whose name is Skyppi) explains that he was an outcast on his
planet as he was not suitable for war. He fled the planet and hid in plain
sight as a celebrated (human) model. This does not appease the mob so Herc and
Recorder help Skyppi to escape and end up in the women’s dressing room. Skyppi
turns into a giant monster to scare off the pursuers and they reach the hangar
where Herc uses his charm to persuade Tyne to allow them to escape the planet
in Apollo’s chariot….
On Olympus, Pluto shows
up to ask Zeus if the time has come; Zeus replies that his rule is about to end
but first all of the gods must die….


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A Pearl of Great Price!
Hercules returns to
Mount Olympus with his companions Recorder 417 and Skyppi the Skrull to find
the place in ruins. In the great hall, they find Zeus, a sadistic leer on his
face and an axe in his hands and now he challenges Herc as the last of the
gods. When Skyppi tries to intervene, Zeus turns a fallen marble column into a
giant horse-headed warrior and sets it on the Skrull and Recorder to pursue and
kill them. Zeus then takes away Herc’s immortality and encases it in a pearl,
dropping it into a burning brazier where it will be destroyed in an hour; Herc
has that much time to defeat Zeus and recover it. But Hercules refuses to take
arms against his father so Zeus hurls a flaming axe at him….
Elsewhere, Recorder and
Skyppi are running from the stone warrior. The Skrull comes up with a scheme;
he turns into a duplicate of the monster and confronts it; Recorder is able to
tip the startled thing into a huge well….
Hercules refuses to
fight his father though he will defend himself; this leads to Herc’s being
injured several times but he brings down the palace to slow Zeus down. His pals
find him and Skyppi goes to distract Zeus by impersonating Hercules. Zeus is
not fooled and he kills the Skrull, choking him with one hand. At the sight of
his companion dying, Herc loses his temper and beats Zeus bloody…but he balks
at finishing him off with the axe. Zeus tells Herc he has passed the test: the
time of the gods is over, only one demigod may survive to begin a new race; it
was for this that Zeus sent Herc out into the world, to learn humility and
compassion. Zeus prepares to go to the gods’ afterlife, where he has already
sent the others but first he brings back the brazier; Herc debates whether to
die and be with the others of his kind or to accept his new destiny. Finally, he
touches the pearl and is restored to health and life….
Epilogue: Herc discovers
that Skyppi isn’t dead so they board the chariot and prepare to search out
Hercules’ new destiny….


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Skypping Over Details!
The black hole that was
Galactus continues to engulf worlds; the latest victim is the planet Krystilla.
The citizens panic. A lone scientist places his infant son in a small ship and
launches it toward Earth. The planet is destroyed and the tiny escape ship
smashes into a Rigellian cruiser and is destroyed. The Rigellians hear the
noise and dismiss it as space debris and resume scanning the black hole….
In the hospital on
Wilamean, a sexy nurse asks Skyppi the Skrull why he is constantly flipping
through his holo-tablet. Skyppi explains the Skrulls’ final rite of passage:
when dying, a Skrull can take a drug that causes a permanent shape shift into
an inanimate object of its choosing; Skyppi is just going over a multitude of
options. Then the critically injured Hercules is brought in and Skyppi is
shocked. Juno relates to the Skrull Herc’s apocalyptic defeat of the new Silver
Surfer and now it seems he may never recover….
Recorder 417 brings word
to the Emperor Arimathes that its masters, the Colonizers of Rigel, are about
to arrive. A panicked Prime Minister Spincor dashes in, followed by the
Rigellians who terrify the locals by being impossibly tall and thin. They
reveal that they have merged their bodies with their android Recorders. Getting
down to business, they announce they have convened an emergency meeting of
other space-faring races to consider their options….
Macie Malaprop hosts a
political debate on television between reactionary Rowl Lemblatt and former
ambassador to Krystilla, J.A. Skelter about the coming crisis and Hercules’
medical issues. Lemblatt’s conspiracy theories provoke anger and then violence
from Skelter, who kicks Lemblatt in the head and stomps on him. Malaprop cuts to
a commercial….
Back in the hospital,
Skyppi suddenly has an idea and asks the nurse to get him an audience with
Emperor Arimathes. The nurse responds with ridicule of the idea and mocks his
pretensions—and his health. So Skyppi punches her in the head, takes her form,
and departs….
The interplanetary
conference convenes, representatives of a multitude of concerned planets
present, plus a Watcher to observe. The delegates, including members of every
race known to Marvel and some new ones, begin making demands of the Emperor to
grant them exorbitant favors, including enslaved citizens, in exchange for
their help. Arimathes rebels against this extortion. The Watcher steps outside
with Recorder-417 and other androids and they witness the arrival of a bomb
from the terrorist Succession Alliance which destroys all the alien ships in
orbit, stranding the delegates on Wilamean. Meanwhile, the Galactus threat
grows closer….
Hercules enters the
conference room, requesting an audience with the Emperor; everyone is stunned
at Herc’s good health and aura of authority. Then “Herc” reveals to Arimathes
that he is really Skyppi, standing in for the injured hero. “Hercules”
broadcasts a message to the Wilamean system, calling on the populace not to
panic but that the Emperor and the delegates have the matter under control.
Skyppi’s poor attempts to mimic Herc’s speaking style cause some confusion but
in the end, everyone is reassured. Then Dr. Bophish enters, announcing he may
have a solution: he has devised a white hole to counteract the effects of a
black hole. The big problem is delivery as the black hole would destroy any
conventional vehicle trying to enter and, even if one could, the hole would
kill any mortal who made it inside. Skyppi starts to feel ill and must be
hastened from the room. The delegates start debating whether they should try to
rescue Galactus or destroy him; tempers run high. Arimathes makes the decision
to proceed with the creation of the white hole device after which they will
work out the delivery problem….
Back in his hospital
bed, Skyppi expresses his gratitude for Juno’s friendship—then demands that
Hercules be revived as he is the only one who could deliver the while hole bomb
and save the universe….


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A Cosmic Blast from the Past!
The Kawan Silver Surfer
vows revenge against Hercules and when Herc attacks him, he seizes the demigod
by the throat and informs him of his crimes. The Surfer was a member of the
Brotherhood which worshipped Galactus. Herc visited their world-ship and
clobbered them, leading the Brotherhood to die by suicide, fearing Galactus’
anger. The Surfer was off world at the time and returning, he saw the disaster
and sought out his god, hoping to be killed and join his people. Instead,
Galactus was impressed by his anger and transformed him into his herald,
promising him vengeance against Hercules. And now that Herc is in his hands…the
Imperial Guard, led by Herc’s grandchildren, attacks the Surfer and swoop down
to rescue the plummeting Hercules, Juno seizing him by his hair so they can zip
away….
The Rigellians detect
the massive black hole that was once Galactus and they plan a rescue mission
for the multitude of Rigellian colonies there. Needing to dispatch a Recorder
to investigate the phenomenon, they discover the closed Recorder to the area is
Recorder 417, assigned to Hercules….
Back on Wilamean, Silver
Surfer engages the Imperial Guard in an aerial battle while, on the ground,
Herc leads the firing of the ion cannons. The Surfer is unharmed and smashes
Hercules so hard he crashes through several levels of city and lands in the
sewage treatment plant. The two hit each other until they wreck the city’s
hydrogen processors, sending flames through the water system, startling Skyppi
in the hospital when fire shoots out of his sink. Worse happens to Prime
Minister Spincor who is bathing when his bathroom is engulfed in flames. Herc
finally manages to wound the Surfer when he drives a huge wooden splinter into
his foe’s shoulder. Soldiers arrive, led by the grandchildren then Surfer
seizes Juno….
In the palace, Recorder
417 relays a message from the Rigellians to Emperor Arimathes that they request
a sub-space audience with him. Recorder then shows the Emperor film that shocks
him….
Hercules demands that
the Silver Surfer release Juno; the monster refuses. Herc taunts the creature,
mocking his god Galactus, driving him into a rage. Surfer hurls Juno away from
him and unleashes a blast of the Power Cosmic at Hercules. Ursus leaps in front
to protect his grandfather and is obliterated. Hercules and everyone around are
stunned at this development, then Hercules, consumed by divine anger, beats the
Silver Surfer into the ground, breaks his board in half, and uses the jagged
edge to decapitate the Herald of Galactus. Then Hercules collapses and the
medics are summoned….