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Last issue Rogue recruited a new Unity Squad to go to Counter-Earth following Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. The mutant twins have come to find the High Evolutionary seeking the truth about their parentage, after discovering during Axis that Magneto isn't their father after all. But Rogue's team arrive scattered throughout a city (or world?) of evolved-animal New Men.Sabretooth has actually run into the Evolutionary but has been attacked by his guards. Since being turned to the light side during Axis, Victor Creed doesn't want to fight back and hurt them. The HE ends the fight, so he expects, by mentally punching a hole through Creed's chest. He doesn't want humans to find out about his New Men colony.Herbert Edgar Wyndham addresses the assembled populace of Anushia. He tells them they represent his best work so far, but they aren't perfect. They are still subject to emotions like love, anger and greed. Some of them are born physically imperfect. It seems he regularly wipes out his creations and replaces them with hopefully better ones. And it's that time now.Sabretooth's healing factor has done its job, and he now leaps to attack HEW who has shown his colours as a genocidal villain. But the Evolutionary stops him in midair, intending to keep him as an useful specimen. Victor tries to talk him out of the mass killing - he knows how the memories of all those he himself has killed weigh on him now. But HEW is inured to it. The civilian New Men panic but he wipes them out with a gesture.Pietro and Wanda were captured by person unknown last issue. They now awake unrestrained to hear an argument in the next room. It's a revolutionary group led by someone titled the Low Evolutionary. A female rebel blames him for rescuing the twins rather than saving New Men from the cleansing. The LE says they never have enough warning of HE's action, so they can never save many and they lose many of their own. The female counters that her son died to give them warning this time.Brother Voodoo was met last issue by an animal spirit who led him to the Council of the Restless Dead. Now he is bombarded by the anguished voices of those killed in High Evolutionary's earlier culls. Jericho Drumm commands them to show themselves, and then to choose someone to speak for them. A human ghost takes on the role. She is HEW's daughter Doniva who was killed for asking him to stop the genocide. And now she senses the latest wave of deaths.Up above the HEW calls on the Green Ones, and (leafless) tree beings rise up out of the ground to consume the bodies of the dead New-Men. 1 of them wears the costume of Captain America. We saw Sam Wilson get converted to wood last issue.1 of Wyndham's guards named Dhrovo is torturing Sabretooth imprisoned by energy chains. HEW takes over and extracts his nervous system (?!). He calls on his Master Scientist who appears in hologram form. As they confer about Creed''s healing and tracking abilities, HEW mentions the ''fraternal twins who masquerade as mutants''. The scientist assures him that he detects no mutants (isn't Sabretooth 1?). He ''neglects'' to mention that he secretly captured Rogue last issue.High Evolutionary wants Sabretooth's tracking skills to locate his son (presumably the Low Evolutionary). And he turns to a female called Luminous, saying he wants her to kill her brother and sister (presumably Pietro and Wanda).


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Counter-evolutionary
Some evolved-animal New Men on Counter-Earth are discussing how Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have arrived on the planet looking for the High Evolutionary. Pietro appears in their midst and chases after an evolved cheetah who says he going to warn HE. Wanda stays behind to deal with a bear and an elephant.The twins are here to learn why Magneto is not their father, as they discovered in Avengers & X-Men: Axis #7. The Evolutionary was present at their birth and seems to have been behind the deception.Quicksilver catches his prey, but the cheetah escapes. Only to run into a wall created by the Witch. But then a mystery man zaps the mutant twins. The cheetah recognises him, but gets zapped as well.The old Unity Squad is shattered:- Steve Rogers got old and retired. Thor became unworthy. Wolverine is dead. Havok stayed an inverted villain and kidnapped Wasp (Axis#9). (It doesn't say where Sunfire is.) The only 1 left is Rogue with Wonder Man in her head, and concerned that Scarlet Witch has been missing for a week.She has assembled a group to find her friend. The new Captain America has replaced the old 1. Wanda's ex-husband Vision is here (but he still hasn't forgiven her for disassembling him during Avengers Disassembled). And there's Brother Voodoo who helped control the Witch during Axis. Vision and Voodoo are both concerned that SW might have gone off the deep end again.Rogue knows Wanda wants answers about her parentage and so they've headed for her birthplace Wundagore Mountain. And the 5th group member Sabretooth confirms that she was here a week ago. Despite remaining inverted into a good guy by Axis they don't trust him, so BV keeps him on a mystic leash. Victor Creed leads them into a complex inside the mountain where the trail vanishes.Vision interfaces with a computer bank which exchanges cryptic phrases with him before telling them that Wanda and Pietro ported to Counter-Earth, which Vision thought had been destroyed. The teleportation device has been smashed by something which guards this place, but Jericho Drumm thinks he can get them there by magical means. An armoured New Man (or a robotic lookalike) tries to stop him which is maybe why they arrive in different places.Brother Voodoo winds up in a ruined area full of bones. An animal spirit directs him to the Council of the Restless Dead.Vision on the other hand is in a shiny new place, but equally deserted. A female robot contacts him telepathically, claiming to be the Eve to his Adam. And on a screen he sees them as a family with 2 android/robot children.Rogue wakes to find herself paralysed and being spoon-fed by an aged bird-type New Man. He mumbles that he'd always told his boss that she was just the mutant they needed. And now he'd paralysed her so he could remove Simon Williams from her mind.Captain America is trapped by vines with several different aliens. A shambling 'creature' touches 1 of them and turns him to wood. Then it's Sam Wilson's turn.Sabretooth arrives in the city of New Men. He doesn't want to hurt them even though they attack him as a mutant human(?). Until the High Evolutionary appears with some of his Knights of Wundagore.


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Counter-evolutionary part 4
Scarlet Witch remembers and regrets she and her twin Quicksilver being rescued as teenagers by Magneto. For a long time they thought he was their father, but Wanda discovered during Axis that it wasn't true. Now they have come to Counter-Earth to seek answers from the High Evolutionary. But he has them captive in forcefields.He describes them as his failures, and Wanda jumps to the conclusion that he's their real father. But he quickly denies that. Instead he says he took them from their gypsy parents Django and Marya Maximoff to attempt genetic alterations. But he was unhappy with the results and returned them to the Maximoffs, where they grew up thinking they were mutants. Since then he has created a new better daughter Luminous (whom they fought last issue) with both their powers.Said daughter is leading a troop of evolved rhinos, warthogs, etc against HE's son the Low Evolutionary and the reject New Men he's saved from HE's regular cullings. Part of her team is Sabretooth wearing a control collar. Which suddenly switches off, allowing him to come to his senses. He disposes of the dog New Man holding his leash, and smashes his collar in case it comes on again.The heroic (since Axis) mutant takes stock of the situation, figures that the animals with the big guns killing indiscriminately are probably the bad guys, and slashes their leader Luminous. Then he saves the LE from a warthog and dives into the fray.Meanwhile in the Ghost Town Temple Brother Voodoo is communing with the spirits of culled New Men. Some of them want deliverance, and he could send on to paradise. Others want revenge, and he could give them material forms to attack the living. But the power in this place will only allow him to effect 1 spell, and they must choose as a group which 1.Meanwhile (again) Pietro and Wanda are brought to the evolved-bird scientist who has been experimenting on Rogue. The twins break free from their robot guards, and set Rogue free too. She wants to know what the bird-guy has done to her such that she can't hear Simon Williams in her head anymore. I think birdy suggests that she will now have Wonder Man's full ionic powers. But Quicksilver KO's him, on the grounds that Wanda will be able to bring Simon back as she's done before.The twins came to Counter-Earth alone, but they aren't too surprised to see Rogue because they've already seen Sabretooth. Rogue tells them she assembled a team to come after them. As well as Sabretooth and Brother Voodoo there's also Captain America (Sam Wilson) and Vision, but they got split up.They try to break out of the lab, but even Rogue can't break the door down. But then it just opens, and Scarlet Witch senses the work of her ex-husband Vision.Vision met another android dubbed Eve in #1, and they generated a batch of offspring last issue. It was indeed he who sneaked into High Evolutionary's computer network and opened the door. But Eve tells him that she knew he did that, and she actually smoothed the way for him. But now he must choose between his old loyalties to humans and his new loyalty to his android family. The HE learned about their children last issue, but Eve doesn't trust him so they must leave this world.Sabretooth is still fighting Luminous and her New Men when she does something to age him - a lot. But HE arrives and tells his daughter he wants Victor Creed kept alive. They return to purging Lowtown, and Quicksilver turns up just in time to stop HE killing Low Evolutionary. Wanda and Rogue join them, and HE is interested in Rogue's ionic powers.HE raises a load of tree beings as he did in #2. Once again 1 of them is Sam Wilson, who got turned to wood in #1. But this time Cap rebels, raises his shield and shouts "Avengers assemble".


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Counter-evolutionary: part 3
For a long time Wanda and Pietro Maximoff believed they were the children of Magneto, but born in the High Evolutionary's science-palace on Mount Wundagore. During the Axis event they discovered that Magneto *wasn't* their father, and now Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver have come to Counter-Earth to get the truth out of Herbert Edgar Wyndham. Rogue recruited a new Avengers Unity Squad (Captain America (Sam Wilson), Dr Voodoo, Sabretooth (who was turned good by Axis) and Vision) and followed them here. But Jericho Drumm's magical teleportation split them up.In #1 Vision met a female android called Eve who showed him an image of them as a family with 2 android kids. Now we see them connected by wires, and Vizh has found love and a place in the universe. High Evolutionary discovers them and they show him a roomful of their children floating in tanks. (Eve says they are already self-replicating, so presumably she and Vision only made the 1st few themselves.) HE shows them the empty new city the kids could occupy, and tempts Vision to stay here.Also in #1 Rogue was captured by an old bird New Man who is Evolutionary's Master Scientist. He said he was going to remove Simon Williams (Wonder Man) from her mind (there since she absorbed him in #21-22 of the previous series). Now the Scientist is putting Sabretooth back together (after some severe torture last issue) while testing Rogue's ionic powers that she 'inherited' from WM. (He hasn't told HE that he's got her.)Wanda and Pietro themselves have have met a guy called the Low Evolutionary who we now learn is Herbert Wyndham's son. He is the leader in Lowtown of a rebel group of survivors from his father's purges of failed experiments. Now that the mutant twins are here to help maybe they have a chance to rise up against their oppressor. He hopes they can evacuate the wounded to Earth (Wanda suggests the empty Morlock tunnels) and assemble another army there.A messenger arrives to report that the HE has a new way to track them. LE issues a call to arms. Scarlet Witch offers herself and Quicksilver to go fight HE's forces but LE will only let them fight as *part* of his troops. However Pietro rushes off carrying his sister to investigate this new tracker, who they find is Sabretooth on a leash held by Dhrovo and Lord Gator. Quicky takes out the New Men but Sabretooth attacks the Witch until she imprisons him with a spell. This is the 1st hint they have that the Unity Squad followed them (which doesn't really make sense because they don't know Victor Creed is now *in* the Squad).But then a costumed female (Luminous from last issue) arrives and taunts them. Quicksilver speeds to the attack but the foe proves even quicker and possessing a mighty punch. Scarlet Witch takes up the fight but Luminous turns out to use Chaos Magic too, and has better control of it. As Pietro rushes back into the battle she diverts Wanda's magic blast which picks him up a throws him into his sister, almost knocking them both out.Dhrovo, Gator and Sabretooth have recovered so Luminous sends them on their way to find Lowtown. She tells the twins she's not allowed to kill them before the High Evolutionary has a chat with them. So she generates a force bubble to hold them and flies off towing them to meet their maker.Sabretooth finds Lowtown, and Dhrovo reports back to the HE who sends some more New Men to deal with the rebels.


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Counter-evolutionary part 5
This issue begins with a flashback to when Magneto told Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch he was their father. It has Magneto claiming that Pietro had inherited his anger.Now the twins have discovered (during Axis) that Magneto was mistaken, and they have come to Counter-Earth to get the truth from the High Evolutionary. Rogue assembled a new Unity Squad to follow them. Herbert Edgar Wyndham revealed that they were actually early attempts by himself to modify humans, after his successful experiments on animals that produced the New Men.The Squad got dispersed across Counter-Earth. We 1st look in on the android Vision where his very new mate Eve is preparing to take their children to space, to keep them safe from fear and bigotry. And she wants Vision to come with them.Most of the rest of the Squad (Captain America, Rogue and Sabretooth) have linked up with Pietro and Wanda to protect Lowtown where HE's surviving rejects live (the Evolutionary usually kills his substandard New Men). HE's main army in this conflict is rejects he had converted to wood-beings. (Sam Wilson was so-converted in #1, and has just shaken off Evolutionary's control.)Sabretooth saves some young New Men, while Rogue tackles High Evolutionary direct. Wyndham is very interested in her ionic power (inherited from the now-feared-dead (again) Wonder Man). But Scarlet Witch saves her from HE's clutches, until he throws Rogue at her. Quicksilver doesn't fare any better.Then the last member of the team, Brother Voodoo, shows up with a crowd of vengeful New Men ghosts led by HE's dead daughter Doniva. But as the ghosts overwhelm their murderer the Witch is assaulted by HE's live daughter Luminous who has the powers of both twins, and can use them much better. But Vision sticks his hand in Luminous' head, to save his ex-wife. He's decided where his loyalties lie.The Evolutionary is unrepentant, and he and the ghosts disappear in an explosion.All the wood-beings are destroyed too, but the Uncanny Avengers survive. Cap sends Quickie to the side of his wounded sister (and Vision). But it turns out Wyndham didn't die, and he flies off with unconscious Rogue and his other prize Sabretooth - both grist for his genetic mill.Pietro races up the side of a skyscraper to catch up with them and hits HE with a metal bar to make him drop his captives. Then he runs back down the building, dragging Evolutionary's armoured head through the side of the wall. The building collapses but Wyndham appears unharmed. During all of this we get Pietro's inner monologue about how he always ran away from problems and blamed everyone else for his troubles, especially his father Magneto for his temper. Now he doesn't have that excuse.His schemes in ruins, Evolutionary creates a wormhole to escape through. But Quicksilver keeps beating him up. (More monologue - Pietro came here looking for someone else to blame his life on, but now he accepts his faults as his own.) His rapidly pounding fists crack HE's helmet, and we see his ravaged face. But Wyndham goes through the wormhole with Luminous, leaving an ominous prediction of an Evolutionary War that he won't be here to save them from.Epilogue in Avengers Mansion days later:- Vision gets a wish-you-were-here message from Eve saying she and the kids have found a paradise planet to live on. He's using HE's genetic science to reverse the process that turned Sam to wood. He comforts Wanda over the fact that her mystic powers can't find any trace of her lover Wonder Man to bring him back as she has before. Vizh decides to keep to himself disconcerting stuff he found in Wyndham's files about her future (and past?).


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In Civil War II #2 angry Iron Man abducted the Inhuman precog Ulysses because 1 of his prophecies sent War Machine to his death. Queen Medusa led a contingent of Inhumans to Stark Tower to demand his return, but Captain Marvel (and companions including Captain America (Sam Wilson) and Thor (Jane Foster)) persuaded them to let her deal with Tony Stark.Here Medusa agrees to leave. Stark's AI Friday starts to order both sides out until Grid disrupts her hologram. Karnak objects to giving in, but Medusa shuts down the argument.However the disagreement flares up again back in New Attilan. Karnak says this sign of weakness will embolden their enemies. Triton automatically supports his Queen. And Crystal is swayed when she says she wanted to avoid further alienating ordinary humans by starting a destructive fight in the city.But Medusa continues that they will hit back another way. She tasks Iso, Karnak and Nur to find ways to hurt Stark through the things he loves. But they must only target the man, not Stark International which would affect many others. Meanwhile she herself will work with Captain Marvel to get Ulysses back.A new Inhuman called Mosaic is sent to temporarily take over the body of 1 of Stark's executives, and send all Tony's personal money to an offshore account. Crystal accompanies Grid as he hacks into Tony's private database (and fights past Friday in virtual ninja mode). He extracts all his personal emails. Lockjaw teleports into Stark's 'garage' and leaves bombs to destroy all his personal vehicles.Ninja Friday reports the latest attack to Tony. He tells her not to counterattack because the Inhumans are being very selective, and he deserves to be punished for invading their home. He tells her to just send Medusa a message saying "Message received", and he hopes that will stop hostilities.But it doesn't. They blow up parts of 3 of his houses, and cause scandals by releasing some of his emails about affairs he's had. His assistant Mary Jane Watson offers no comment.But 1 of the Royal Family still thinks Medusa hasn't gone far enough. Stark needs to be made an example of to deter other enemies. But it's Triton not Karnak who we see seek out Maximus as an ally.Later Medusa is explaining again to faithful Karnak that her restrained targeted approach was necessary to avoid turning public opinion against them. So she's shocked when there's a large explosion at the base of Stark Tower, which possibly brings it down.


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In Civil War II #2 Iron Man abducted the Inhuman precog Ulysses. In #11 of this series Medusa retaliated with moves that damaged Tony Stark''s belongings without harming anybody, but Triton wasn''t satisfied with that and conspired with Maximus to destroy Stark Tower. In #12-13 Maximus also got Lash''s rebel Inhuman group to destroy a Stark facility in Switzerland, and blame it on Medusa. Captain Marvel and the Ultimates came to arrest Medusa as she surveyed the destruction. New Attilan was in defensive mode, but Maximus sneaked in last issue and deactivated the defences. And at the end of last issue a load of Iron Man armours attacked it.The armours are being controlled remotely by Tony Stark with help from his AI Friday. The main attack is on the throne room, currently occupied by Karnak and Black Bolt. Black Bolt was injured in the initial strike and is now surrounded by a force field specifically designed to reflect his vocal power back at him. But Karnak is taking down drones by striking their weak points, as he does, and then escapes down a lift shaft.1 of the drone armours sits on the throne and other drones feed it with energy which creates another force dome, this time over the whole city. Stark announces via a drone that the forcefield even prevents teleportation through it (so much for Lockjaw). He says he''ll leave Attilan in peace when they give him Medusa.But Medusa isn''t there. She''s currently with her son Ahura and they''re watching events probably from Ennilux, the company Ahura runs.Triton and Maximus are trapped inside Attilan at ground level. This has all gone much further than Triton intended, but Maximus is enjoying the chaos. Triton threatens him but mad Max threatens back with his power of mind control. Which he never used in this whole storyline because he prefers to let people make a mess their own way. Triton leaves to help the other Inhumans.An important group are gathered in the central atrium. Medusa left Iso in charge of defence, which she hasn''t done too well so far. Reader tries to console her. Ms Marvel thinks Tony won''t hurt them, but Grid wonders if the AI in his drones knows that. Iso wonders where Black Bolt is until Karnak arrives to update them on events - and tells her she must fight back.He says he can advise them of the drones'' weaknesses, but people won''t follow him. She has Medusa''s delegated authority so she must be the 1 to lead. And she starts by using her pressure power to repel the drones in the room and form a barrier around her people there.As the drones try blast through she gives a rousing speech about how Attilan gave refuge to her and many others who were recently Inhumanised by the Terrigen Cloud. Now it''s time to pay it back. When the drones get in they are met by a large resistance. (As well as those mentioned above we see Flint, Inferno, Naja and others we probably don''t know.)Karnak then reveals that this is but a distraction in his plan while he, Iso, Grid and Inferno head for the throne room. A Hulkbuster armour bars the way until Triton lands on its head and disables it with his swords. Then they start destroying the drones that are creating the forcefield.Against Friday''s advice Stark is about to send all his other armours into the battle. But then Medusa arrives in an Ennilux attack zeppelin with Ahura and Nur. She calls for a halt to the fighting just as Stark''s shield fails (including the 1 holding Black Bolt).Medusa talks to Tony via 1 of his drone armours. She refuses to surrender because she claims that the building attacks that killed people weren''t her doing. She thinks it was Maximus. Stark thinks that''s an awfully convenient excuse, even when the Inhuman Queen adds that Carol Danvers has Lash in custody. But then Triton confesses his part in the scheme.He surrenders to Stark, and the IM armours leave. But Maximus escapes by boat with freed prisoners Lineage and the Unspoken.


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No end in sight Part 1 of 3: Breaking in
A costumed man with an eye-patch is very worried about a task someone is performing for him.A bunch of kids at the alternate X-school (Benjamin Deeds, Goldballs (Fabio Medina), Tempus (Eva Bell) and Triage (Chris Muse)) are watching a video of the original New Mutants, including Magik in her sunnier days. The current darker Magik fends off their questions.Cyclops calls the 4 students for flight training, where they're joined by the 3 (surviving) Stepford Cuckoos. Chris tries to find out about the New Mutants from Cuckoo Irma. When they're in the air Cyclops hands control of the plane to Fabio. But suddenly they are attacked, and Scott has to do a forced landing.3 mercenaries, leader the robot bounty hunter Death's Head, step out of a strange craft. The telepathic Cuckoos can't tell what they want, so Cyclops exits the plane and hits the mercs with his optic blast. The cyborg pair respond with heavy fire. Cyclops responds by getting Goldballs to fire lots of his solid golden balls at them, and tells Triage to call Magik and Emma Frost for help.But the mercenaries break in through the roof of the plane, so the students flee through the door. Cyclops fights a rearguard action, but is captured by Death's Head with a helmet projectile that latches on to his head and smothers his optic blasts. The trio make their escape with him in their spaceship, and Magik teleports in too late to stop them.Death's Head and friends take Cyclops to eye-patch guy, and it turns out there's been a misunderstanding. He really wanted Havok, and didn't know there were 2 Summers brothers. ("3 actually" points out Death's Head.) DH refuses to go up against the Avengers to get Havok, at least not for the money he's been promised. E-p guy refuses to pay for Cyclops. But the mercenaries just take the money anyway.Emma Frost and Magik interrogate the 4 non-Stepford students, but don't get anymore than the Cuckoos were able to show Emma telepathically. She doesn't recognise the abductors, and decides to send Benjamin and 1 of the Cuckoos to infiltrate SWORD, to use their database to identify them.Benjamin Deeds and Cuckoo Mindee get SWORD uniforms and IDs from somewhere, enter the SWORD ground base and get on a shuttle to the orbiting Peak satellite along with several real young recruits. Ben excuses himself during their induction claiming to need a restroom, but really to find a computer terminal.Along the way he does run across a bathroom, currently occupied by a gelatinous alien. But eventually he locates a terminal in an empty room and searches the database until he finds a description match for Death's Head.(Un)fortunately Iron Man happens by at that very moment and recognises the face of the robot bounty hunter. Benjamin's chameleon power kicks in (he can't completely control it) which makes him look like Tony Stark - but Shellhead doesn't recognise his own face.Ben's mutant pheromones help make Stark believe that he's a real SWORD agent. And Tony offers to help him track DH down, because he knows his usual haunts. Benjamin accepts, much to the disgust of Mindee who's been following events telepathically.The story continues in IRON MAN SPECIAL #1.


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Unholy Union
Doctor Strange detects a great disturbance but cannot see any
more of what is going to happen, to Wong’s dismay….
Jackie Estacado is at a bar with his pal Butcher, celebrating
his acquittal in court, thanks to his lawyer Matt Murdock who believed he was
innocent (wink). Detective Sara Pezzini (former Witchblade now pregnant)
confronts him, thinking he was guilty, threatening him to stay out of trouble.
She goes off with her pal Danielle Baptiste, current bearer of the Witchblade.
Ghost Rider crashes into the bar to bring vengeance on Jackie; Jackie becomes
The Darkness, and the battle begins. Outside, Bruce Banner, presumably
triggered by the antics inside, morphs into the Hulk and crashes in to fight
The Darkness who he remembers he doesn’t like. Dani takes on her Witchblade
persona in hopes of ending the violence. No such luck, the battle just spills
out into the street. Darkness conjures up demons that resemble Wolverine,
Thing, Absorbing Man, and Abomination but Doctor Strange arrives to freeze Hulk
and Ghost Rider in time and then teleport them away with their memories of this
incident erased. Strange warns Jackie and Dani about an approaching war and
wishes them well before vanishing….
Epilogue: Velocity is seen working on her jet, unaware of
anything that has just happened….
“The Darkness Video Game Enters the Light”
Writer: Unknown.
Synopsis: Four-page text article previewing the upcoming
Darkness video game.
[Witchblade recap]
Writer: Unknown. Pencils: Mark Silvestri. Inks: Joe Weems.
Colors: Steve Firchow.
Synopsis: Three-page summary of the Witchblade situation and
characters.
“First Born: Conception.”
Script: Ron Marz. Art: Stejpan Sejic x 3.
Synopsis: Unseen villainous types study Sara Pezzini, Jackie
“The Darkness” Estacado, Magdalena, and Danielle “Witchblade” Baptiste to see
how they will affect the group’s sinister plans.


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Lookin’ for Uncle Sam

Captain America (Steve Rogers) and Captain America (Sam Wilson) are pursuing the
super-fast Fake Cap after a series of destructive acts across the Midwest. They
deduce he is Speed Demon and suspect he may be going after Joe Gomez in Kansas,
a local handyman who has been called Captain America….
The
two Caps meet with Joe Gomez and warn him he is in danger. Joe shows them a
room in his house turned into a Cap museum because Cap is his inspiration, a
man who always says what he means and cares for the people. After some discussion,
they suspect the baddies may be targeting Monroe Elementary School, the site of
the famous civil rights case Brown versus the Board of Education of Topeka,
banning school segregation. Joe suits up in his Native American variation on
the uniform….
They
arrive at the school to be met by gunfire from the villainess, who Cap confirms
is Sin, now calling herself Superior. Steve Cap is knocked out from behind.
When he awakens, he finds Sam and Joe seriously wounded. As they rush Joe to
the hospital, the man tells them he suspects the target may be Prescott, a
Native American running in the primaries for Governor, who is speaking in town
that day. When they arrive in town, Joe tells Steve that this is the second time
he has saved his life (see the second story in the issue for the first). Sam
and Steve go to the rally and Speed Demon is there; the villain hurls the
shield at Prescott and Winter Soldier leaps out of the crowd and deflects it
with his metal arm. As the baddie flees, Joe jumps out of the ambulance to try
to catch him but he fails and says he is ready to go to the hospital….
Later,
they learn that Prescott, fearing for his family’s safety, has dropped out of
the primaries. Steve asks Bucky to join him and Sam in stopping the bad guys….
“People
Like Us”Writer:
Darcie Little Badger. Pencils: David Cutler. Inks: Roberto Poggi. Colors: Matt
Milla.Synopsis: Joe Gomez, construction worker in
Kansas City, heads to work with his coworker Nikki; on the way they talk about
a recent spate of destruction by the Wrecking Crew and whether Captain America
cares about people like them. At the construction site, Joe is working the
crane when Bulldozer arrives to threaten the workers; Joe drops a girder on him
so the villain climbs the crane to get him. Joe crawls out to the very end of
the machine where he is able to kick Bulldozer off. When he slips off himself
he is caught by Captain America. After this, Joe knows that Cap really does
care about the people and he creates a costume, adapted from Cap’s, to protect
his own people….


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I Hate It When This Happens
At
the Annual Kickapoo Powwow, Captain America (Steve Rogers) ponders his fitness
to be the symbol of a nation of colonizers. Captain America (Sam Wilson) and
Winter Soldier assure him that he is the ideal….
At
Sam’s cabin in Colorado, Steve, Sam, and Bucky try to get a line on Sin’s next
move. Two of the local Captains arrive to give aid: Aaron Fischer (from issue
#1) and Arielle Agbayani (introduced in the second story in this issue). Steve
Cap and Bucky head out to an appointment….

Warrior Woman, going by the name Commander Krieger, leading Sin and Speed Demon,
invades NORAD and takes down the guards. A lone defender, Captain Jeremy
Merrick, manages to get a call for help out and it is picked up by Sam Cap….
Steve
Cap and Bucky arrive at a bar where they find John Walker, the U.S. Agent,
drunk. Steve tells Walker they need him just as Sam arrives with news of the
attack on NORAD. The assembled Captains, including Aaron and Arielle, head to
NORAD; as they ride, Steve Cap reveals that Hate Monger is imprisoned at the
mountain base…
…where
Warrior Woman informs the vicious beast of her plan to conquer America by turning
the nation against itself. The heroes arrive and there is a big battle with
Captain Merrick joining in. Speed Demon is thunked on the head, snapping him
out of the hypnotic spell he was under; coming to his senses he attacks WW but
she takes him down quickly. The villainess releases Hate Monger and they flee. U.S.
Agent tells Cap they needn’t pursue as they have Sin and Speed Demon to
question, with Walker volunteering to do the job…..
“The
Halloween Party”Writer:
Alyssa Wong. Art: Jodi Nishijima. Colors: Matt Milla.Synopsis: At Hargrove University on Halloween
night, Arielle Agbayani has a plan to deal with her friend Maribeth’s problem—she
was assaulted by Elliot Carmichael, a rich kid whose family makes sure he never
has to pay for his misdeeds. Arielle dons a Captain America-inspired costume
and heads to the party at Elliot’s frat house. She sneaks into his room where
she recovers Maribeth’s stolen phone and spots Elliot’s as well. Elliot catches
her and attacks her with a lacrosse stick; she knees him in the groin and
flees. He calls to his friends to stop the girl dressed like Captain America
and then discovers that all of Maribeth’s friend are wearing Cap-related
costumes. Arielle reports to Maribeth that she was successful and plans to post
the incriminating evidence from the phones on the news. The friends celebrate.


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You Brought Two Too Many

Steve Rogers broods over the two American dreams and one lie. A guy dressed as
Captain America crashes into the room, beats up Steve, and makes off with the
shield. Steve calls the Falcon to fly out and track the shield thief, while
donning his Cap outfit and pursuing on motorcycle. Sam sees the surprisingly
speedy thief at a railroad bridge; the thief hurls the shield, smashing the
front of an oncoming train and the disappears again. A second train is coming,
on course to hit the stopped train. Cap rushes to the oncoming train and has
them hit the brakes but there’s still a collision. Cap works to rescue the
injured passengers and spies a fellow in a Cap outfit—but it isn’t the thief:
it’s a teenager in a makeshift Cap outfit and mocked up shield. His name is
Aaron Fischer and he’s a wanderer, inspired by Captain America to help anyone
he can. A female sniper shoots Aaron in the arm before diving into the river
and getting away. Aaron mentions a whole loose network of Captains America
across the country, helping where they can. After taking Aaron to the hospital,
Steve and Sam decide to search for these other Caps to protect them from the
assassin and maybe find the shield….
Characters: Steve Cap, Falcon
“Tracks”Writer:
Josh Trujillo. Art: Jan Bazaldua. Colors: Matt Milla.Synopsis: Aaron Fisher, thrown out by his father
for being queer, goes to the big city where he learns other homeless youth have
been disappearing. He decides to look for them since that’s Captain America
would do; suspecting that Roxxon has something to do with it, he breaks into a
corporate building where he is thumped over the head and wakes up in a Roxxon
forced labor camp where the situation is outlined by a kid named Adrian. Aaron
decides to fight back: he puts together a simple Cap-inspired costume with a wooden
shield and attacks the place’s four guards and defeats them. He and Adrian, his
new boyfriend, hop a train out of there….


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Oh Captains! My Captains!

Captain America (Steve Rogers) watches right-wing pundit Knox Jennings on TV, ranting
against Cap and Cap Network as bogus patriots, wondering if Hate-Monger is
behind it….
Winter Soldier
 and Arielle Agbayani (Campus Captain America  introduced in issue #4) go to Colorado Springs
where Captain Jeremy Merrick has found his front door defaced with anti-Cap graffiti.
Jeremy sees this as evidence of Hate-Monger’s vendetta against him….

U.S. Agent, having interrogated Sin, has discovered the villains’ plan: they are
using Knox Jennings’ TV broadcasts to build an audience then hypnotize them
with Cap’s shield to turn the nation into violent fanatics. Walker has the coordinates
of the broadcast. Meanwhile, Speed Demon, angry at having been brainwashed by
the baddies, confronts the imprisoned Sin, who clobbers him and escapes. The
other Caps, alerted to her breakout, arrive to hear her make a nasty
anti-America speech and then jump out of the window to land on a fast-moving
truck….
Steve
Cap calls Bucky and they pick up Jeremy’s daughter from school and hasten to
California for safety….

Captain America Sam Wilson flies reconnaissance over the island that the broadcast is
coming from while Steve Cap and U.S. Agent gain the island by stealth. They
enter the lighthouse—which explodes….
Back
at the base, Jeremy realizes that the coordinates were bogus and it was a trap.
They send out a call for reinforcements….
Steve
Cap, Sam Cap, and U.S. Agent wake up to learn they are prisoners of the bad
guys: Hate-Monger, Warrior Woman, and Sin. Hate-Monger explains his nefarious
plan to brainwash the country into evil. Warrior Woman demonstrates the
hypnotic power of Cap’s shield by trying to drive Steve Cap insane with it. But
then Bucky (wearing his Captain America uniform) and Arielle parachute onto the
real island HQ leading the reinforcements from the Captain Network and defeat
the baddies with Jeremy absorbing Hate-Monger back into a miniature cage. Steve
is reunited with his shield. They realize Hate-Monger’s broadcast is about to
go live so Steve invites the Network to send a message. Aaron Fischer (from
issue #1) takes the lead in introducing themselves to the nation as the one who’ve
“got your back….”
Weeks
later, Steve is at the Smithsonian exhibit looking at his shield displayed on
the wall with many others when a little boy recognizes him as Captain America.
Steve replies that the boy could also be Captain America, just like everyone
there….


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I See Great Things in Baseball
The
story starts with an odd recollection of Captain America (Steve Rogers) of a
childhood visit to the Gettysburg battlefield where he was dissuaded for
urinating in the grass because it was hallowed ground. Now in Central
Pennsylvania, he meets up with Captain America Sam Wilson, both on motorcycles
and Steve with the electronic shield once created for him by Tony Stark. They
are looking for the fake Cap who stole Steve’s shield and are there to look into
the case of Nichelle Wright, a young Black woman who was arrested for domestic
terrorism while wearing a Captain America suit. First they investigate the new water
pipeline Nichelle is accused of sabotaging. They realize that it was damaged using
Cap’s shield—and the super-fast Cap impostor shows up to fight while confirming
that his mission is to make the country hate the name of Captain America. The
lady assassin in a red, white, and blue costume is also there and she shoots
Sam. Steve conks her with a chink of wood and the imposter carries her off
quickly….
At
the jail, the Caps are denied permission to see Nichelle. A racist cop defends
her arrest and Sam hurls the man through a glass door. They break Nichelle out
to protect her from the assassin and she declines the aid, needing to get back
to her job, protecting the people on the street. The lady assassin then drives
up in a military vehicle and fires a mounted machine gun into the place.
Nichelle Cap protects the racist cop and Steve Cap walks out, his shield protecting
him from the deadly gunfire. But she doesn’t want to make Steve Cap a martyr,
just tarnish his symbol using the local Caps when they can. She then fires a
flame thrower at Cap and drives off. Nichelle declines to join the two Caps in
their pursuit of the bad guys, instead getting back to her main job of
protecting the neighborhood which the real Captain America has no time to do….
Epilogue:
the baddies are revealed to be Speed Demon and Sinthea "Sin" Schmidt, now calling
herself “Superior”….
“Hometown
Hero”Writer:
Mohale Mashigo. Art: Natacha Bustos. Colors: Matt Milla.Synopsis: Having been busted out of jail by
Steve Cap and Sam Cap, new Captain America of Harrisburg Nichelle Wright is on
the run. She dodges the police and returns to the neighborhood she protects and
find a couple of white guys holding hostages in a restaurant to celebrate Nichelle’s
arrest. She bursts in and fights the guys and receives a bullet in the
shoulder. The police arrive and she runs for it, claiming she was protecting
the people in the restaurant; a cop points out that it was the people in the restaurant
that called the police. She is nabbed by a dude named Benjamin, who hides her
in an abandoned church. She defends her practice of protesting legally by day
and fighting crime as a vigilante by night. Nichelle’s sister Joan and her
former gymnastics coach (who receives no name other than Coach) arrive to help.
Joan shows her a series of videos of neighborhood people who offer their
support for Nichelle. She gets a call from Aaron (Captain America of the Railways)
warning her of trouble coming her way. So she goes out to meet it as a symbol for
America.


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The Sacred and the Profane Part III
Valkyrie Jane Foster
ferries the dead hero Heimdall, not to Valhalla, but on a journey to learn what
lies beyond all. She uses the magic weapon Undrjarn to open a portal to the
spaces between world. They enter Heven where they must fight off the Angels,
enemies of Asgardians; another portal takes them to Hades but one that is
oppressed by the Anti-Tree which has turned the realm—and its ruler Pluto—into
a dead and decaying mess. Fighting off a band of silvery demons, they enter the
Anti-Tree and reach a realm unseen by all eyes. Jane releases Heimdall,
grateful and full of wonder, into his new home….
Suddenly Jane finds herself back in New York, floating far above the ground.
The flying horse approaches and reveals that he can talk (in a Northern English
accent) and gives his name as “Mister Horse” (actually “Mister ‘Orse”). Jane is
now responsible for him and she rides him home, wondering where to keep him in
her apartment….
Her flight is televised and the villain Grim Reaper, who had hired Bullseye to
kill Val and now knows that the All-Seeing Heimdall is gone, is watching and
vowing to take advantage of that fact….


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The Sacred and the Profane Conclusion

Grim Reaper has trapped Doctor Strange’s astral form inside a magic mirror and Valkyrie
(Jane F) is fighting him for it; she fires her All-Weapon at him but GR smashes
it, causing it to blow back at her. The villain leaps astride a black Stallion
of Hell to deliver Strange to his master Mephisto. Kaecilius takes the
opportunity to vanish so Valkyrie Jane Foster summons Mister Horse but Dr.
Annabelle Riggs stops her to express her disappointment at Brunnhilde’s
replacement; Jane excuses herself and heads out in pursuit of the Grim Reaper.
After she is gone, Lisa Halloran tells Riggs that Valkyrie met her on the worst
day of her life and became her friend and emotional support and she will do no
less as Valkuyrie. Lisa calls Damage Control and asks them to send the “Atomic
Steed” (former vehicle of the Black Knight) and takes Riggs along to apologize
in person….
Jane catches up with Grim Reaper as he is about to escape through a Hell-Gate
in the sky above Manhattan. Horse takes on the black stallion and the two
riders face each other in midair. The battle shows Jane that with Mephisto’s
powers, Grim Reaper is faster and stronger than she is. Lisa and Riggs arrive
to lend a hand with the Atomic Steed’s weapons and Riggs apologizes to
Valkyrie, telling her to not fight like a super-hero. Jane catches on—realizing
that Grim Reaper sees himself as a hero, intending to raise his brother from
the dead, and if he is a dead hero, she knows where dead heroes go. Jane seizes
the villain and drags him, protesting, into Valhalla. Brunnhilda is a bit
skeptical of this new arrival but Skurge takes GR under his wing to show him
around. And watching from Hell, Mephisto swears revenge. Jane returns to the
college with the magic mirror and Strange’s soul is reunited with his body; he
thanks her, while also letting on he knows she is Jane Foster….
So Jane heads into her new life, tending to the
living as a doctor, ministering unto the dead in the morgue, and fighting for
both as the Valkyrie….


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Strange Aeons Part 2
The
medical heroes Valkyrie, Doctor Strange, Night Nurse, Cardiac, Excalibur, and
Manikin stare in awe at the Death of Death, the monster coming to kill off
Death. A few words from Strange are needed to keep Val from panic but the
others all have coping mechanisms to take it in stride. Aware that they are
inhabiting a living metaphor, the enter Death’s house to search for their
patient. They encounter a river of pus with a ferryman who tells them that one
of them must die for the others to cross the river. Excalibur jams her sword
into the river, destroying it—but she must stay behind to ensure it doesn’t
come back. They come to an art gallery with a single painting: Val sees a burning
car crash and recognizes it as the deaths of her ex-husband and son; the others
also see it as the deaths of someone close to them as the disease tries to
discourage them from aiding Death who has harmed them in these ways. As Strange
looks, Cardiac creeps up behind him and shocks him into insensibility with his
staff, insisting they should not be trying to help Death but to let her die and
save everyone’s life. Manikin knows that they have been called to help a
patient and their oaths compel them to do so; to disarm Cardiac, he takes on
his Proto form and is electrocuted, causing Cardiac to break down in tears. Val
looks closely and sees that only his Proto form is dead, Whit, Homo Erectus,
and Highbrow are alive and trapped within the puddle. Leaving the others, Val
passes through the doors to see her patient…
…and
Jane walks into a darkened room where Death, a Goth girl, lies on a hospital
bed and the Death of Death asks her “Do we need Death?” Jane responds that a
world without death would be a cancerverse. And Death is healed because Death
of Death is convinced. Jane passes through the door…
…and Val is back at the clinic where she
announces “Death will always be with us. We did not lose. But did we win?” And
she sees the vision of Death by the burning car crash.


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At the End of All Things Part 1
Prologue:
In a hidden tomb, a mystery god (it’s Tyr, as revealed next issue) pours the
sap of Yggdrasil into the heart of an ancient corpse and there are signs of
life….
Jane Foster and Lisa Halloran are enjoying an
afternoon out when Jane senses trouble and transforms into Valkyrie. The ground
opens up and winged demons fly out, seizing people and draining them of their
life force. The Avengers are coordinating the global response with Captain America
in Manhattan linked by radio to Iron Man on the West Coast. Mounting
Mister Horse, Val joins him and Doctor Strange and Spider-Man in fighting the
monsters. And then Thor arrives. The action quiets down long enough for Jane to
be introduced to the other heroes who have not yet met the new Valkyrie. Val
heads into the bowels of the Earth to find the source, accompanied by Thor, the
new All-Father. They find the tomb and Thor recalls a tale told him many years
ago by his father Odin: When life was created, so was the Anti-Life, a being
called the Rokkva. An early king named Ode wanted to control it but it slowly
drained him of all that was human; his body was buried here, to be guarded
forevermore. And now, Thor tries to destroy Ode’s living, evil heart with
Mjolnir but its tentacles reach out, transforming Thor into a cold zombie-like
figure….


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At the End of All Things Part 2
Prologue:
Tyr, sentenced to serve in Valhalla by Thor, learned of the existence of Ode’s
tomb and the Rokkva and eventually trekked to the site and forced his way in….
Now,
the Rokkva has taken over Thor’s mind, turning him into a minion who sucks the
life energy out of all he confronts. Valkyrie is aware that the specter of
Thor’s death is so large that they are inside of it, so she fights to keep
either one of them from dying. Then she realizes as Jane she must treat the
cause not the symptoms. She turns the All-Weapon into a white wooden stake and
jams it through Ode’s heart….
On
the surface, the Avengers, Captain America, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man,
with Iron Man tuning in remotely, feel the world shake and see the demons drop
and they know something has changed.…
Back
in Ode’s tomb, Tyr arrives and takes the wooden stake from her, revealing that
this weapon was what he was after all along. He revived Ode, knowing she would
come to the tomb and that Undrjarn would become what she needed it to be. Tyr
leaves with the enthralled Thor heading toward the Barren Mountains. Loki and
his sidekick Drrf follow to see what is going on….

Mister Horse arrives to rescue Jane and she asks to be taken to Asgard to deliver a
warning about Tyr….
Tyr uses the white wood to open a secret door in
the mountains to find the massive monster that is the Rokka, and he has the
white stake in his hand to control it….


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The Sacred and the Profane Part I
The new Valkyrie,
Jane Foster, wielding Undrjarn, a weapon that takes on any form needed for a
situation, descends upon a crime scene. The gang of armored rollerbladers the
Fast Five (Blue Streak, Gold Rush, Silver Ghost, Green Light, Redline) have
robbed a truck containing Dark Elf and Asgardian weaponry left on Earth after
the War of the Realms. Jane easily takes them down. Having to save a carful of
people from Redline allows Gold Rush to get away with Dragonfang, sword of
Brunnhilde, the previous Valkyrie. But not for long: the rollerblader is
accosted in an alley by an unseen assailant and killed with the sword he’s
stolen. The mystery man reports to his superior that he has the sword….
Jane has to hurry and ends up late for her own performance review at the
hospital. Dr. Regina Hagen, her administrator, is angry with her for her
unreliability so Jane has to endure a transfer, becoming a morgue assistant.
With Dr. Rudy Gillespie, Jane examines the corpse of a young man killed by a
sword. Jane realizes this is Gold Rush and, as Valkyrie, heads to Valhalla to
talk to her predecessor. Explaining the situation to Brunnhilda, Jane asks if
she has a way to locate Dragonfang; Brun doesn’t and warns Jane that the
wielder of the sword has all of her Asgardian powers. Brun also reminds Jane
that being Valkyrie is a heavy responsibility and tells her to seek out a woman
named Annabelle Riggs. Meanwhile, Jane recruits Heimdall and they go to New
York where he encourages her to develop her innate ability to see everyone, as
well as their fates, the size of a skull icon above their heads indicating how
near they are to death. She then turns to Heimdall and sees a massive skull
looming over him—and then he is impaled through the back by Dragonfang. The
sword is in the hands of Bullseye, who also controls Valkyrie’s flying horse….Lisa Halloran is also in the story but I couldn't get her into the synopsis.


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Strange Aeons Part 1
Working
as morgue assistant to Dr. Rudy Gillespie, Jane Foster is there to see him
quoting Shakespeare’s The Tempest while working on a recently deceased
actor. Suddenly, with the words “and with strange aeons, even Death may die,”
the dead man seizes Gillespie by the throat; Jane breaks the corpse’s arm as he
calls on them to aid the dying Death. Gillespie, having deduced that Jane is
Valkyrie (and insulted that she thinks he is stupid), tells her to go off on
her mission. She transforms into Valkyrie before him, thanks him for treating the
dead with respect, and heads off to visit Doctor Strange….
At
home, Strange, having recently regained the use of his hands in DOCTOR STRANGE
(2018) #19, is practicing card tricks. Val explains her errand and Strange
conjures up the image of Death. It seems Death has a human form and thereby may
be vulnerable to human weakness. So Strange sees the need to call in
specialists….
Val and Strange visit a secret clinic where
heroes can have their injuries tended to. They are greeted by Night Nurse (and
Dr. Strange’s ex) who introduces them to three more recruits, heroes with
medical backgrounds: Cardiac (Elias Wirtham), Excalibur (Faiza Hussain), and
Manikin (Whitman Knapp). Val gives them her death stare, learning all about
them. With the mission (and the guest stars) explained, Strange teleports them
all to a dark dimension; Strange suggests that Night Nurse, with no special
powers, should stay behind but she declines. They enter the dark forest and
Manikin turns into his futuristic self, Highbrow, who detects movement around them—and
then they are attacked by the zombie-like Death’s Minions. Manikin changes to
his Homo Erectus form to fight and Excalibur gives her sword to Night Nurse to
protect herself. The heroes are overwhelmed by numbers until Val realizes their
enemies cannot fly so she tells Strange to levitate them away from danger. And
then they see a glowing grim reaper figure who is the Death of Death, hovering
over Death’s mansion….


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At the End of All Things Part 3
Sif,
the new guardian of Bifrost, sees Tyr and the captive Thor approaching,
enveloped by the darkness that is the Rokkva. She attempts to hold them off but
the darkness overwhelms her….
Ten
minutes earlier, Jane Foster was confiding in Volstagg her confusion and
uncertainty about battling the Rokkva, a dark nothingness that she couldn’t
comprehend. While Mister Horse made the acquaintance of the hellhound Thori,
Volstagg led Jane to the armory to choose her armor and weapons for the coming
battle—and then the horn sounded….
Tyr
with the enslaved Thor and Sif arrives at the gate of Asgard to announce he is
taking the throne, met by Hildegarde, Hogun, and Fandral, who call on him to
release Thor. Tyr refuses and the army of Asgard attacks. Tyr uses the white
staff to unleash the Rokkva, turning the skies dark and overwhelming the
warriors. Volstagg leads the second wave, while Jane rides Mister Horse over
everyone’s heads to take on Tyr directly. He impales her on the white stake and
Jane breaks down to reassemble as Valkyrie since the staff was originally her
own All-Weapon Undrjarn; she sees all of the power and knowledge held within
the darkness but rejects it, using the staff to draw together and contain the
Rokkva, returning the Asgardians to normal. Thor asks if Jane would have killed
him back on Midgard (last issue). To save Earth, she agrees, she would—but it
would have killed her too. She heads out to return the Rokkva to its cave,
leaving Mister Horse in Thor’s care….
Loki and Drrf are waiting at the Rokkva’s cave
and see the defeated Tyr return; Loki offers to protect Tyr from Asgard’s wrath
in exchange for “the cards up his sleeve.” Meanwhile, Valkyrie returns Rokkva to
its prison, saying “See you at the end of all things.”


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The Sacred and the Profane Part II
Valkyrie is facing
the evil Bullseye over the fallen Heimdall, with the villain in possession of
the sacred sword Dragonfang. Val and the baddie spar with the sword but then
Jane is kicked in the head by the winged horse and Bullseye makes his move—but
the wounded Heimdall rises to strike the villain who again skewers him with the
sword. Val seizes Bullseye’s hand, snapping the wrist and forcing his to drop the
sword—so the baddie kicks Heimdall off the roof. Val uses her wings and
Undrjarn to catch him and lower him safely to the ground. The dying guardian
tells her that she has to learn to let go and then Val sees the skull icon over
a homeless beggar’s head suddenly grow and she is able to yank him out of the
way as Dragonfrang pierces the wall where the man had been sitting. The villain
is able to summon it back to himself and the duel continues. Bullseye boasts of
the havoc he will cause with this weapon so Val launches herself at her foe—and
with a word of apology to Brunnhilda—smashes the sword in Bullseye’s hand,
effectively letting go of her late friend. The battered Bullseye is collected by
the police and the dying Heimdall has one last request: not to be taken to
Valhalla because he has already seen it and all other worlds to the end of
Forever. He wants to see what lies beyond so she commands his spirit to rise
and they set out on a journey into mystery….


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The Sacred and the Profane Part IV
Some time before: Mephisto,
exiled to Las Vegas by Doctor Strange, meets with his hireling Grim Reaper
(Wonder Man’s brother, not the famous one). Meph explains the he signed a
contract with Hela giving him ownership of the Disir, a troupe of undead
Valkyries. But Meph added a loophole stating that if there are no Valkyries,
his Disir become the Valkyries. After the War of the Realms, there are no more
Valkyries so Grim Reaper, Mephisto’s Disir, will become Valkyrie as soon as he
delivers a hero’s soul to Mephisto—and then they discover Jane Foster….
Jane Foster is trying to explain to her pal Lisa Halloran why she now owns a talking
horse called Mister Horse and how she can’t pay the rent now that she has been
demoted to morgue assistant. Lisa suggests they attend a lecture by
archaeologist Dr. Annabelle Riggs whom Brunnhilde had suggested Jane seek out…
…and they arrive just as the lecture is finishing. Dr Riggs asks for questions
and Doctor Strange rises to tell her about the purple mirror she has on the
platform. Strange warns her that it will become dangerous in the next few
minutes and he wants to take it back to the Sanctum Sanctorum until the threat
is past. The mirror is made from one of the Gems of Aggamon and is actually a
portal to the Purple Dimension—but Strange’s watch is fast and now the portal
opens, releasing three Dr. Strange villains who had been imprisoned there,
Kaecilius, Adria, and Demonicus. And then Valkyrie arrives to do battle and
after some magical combat, the wall explodes and the Grim Reaper enters.
Mephisto had told him that, since his hireling Bullseye failed to kill Val
(issue #2) and Jane has yet to take a soul to Valhalla (Heimdall went elsewhere
in issue #3), Reaper needs to either kill Val or bring Mephisto a hero’s
soul—and absorbing Dr. Strange’s astral form into the purple mirror, the baddie
decides to do both….


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Drive all night
Last issue the Young Masters went to kill Dr Octopus and the Teen Brigade went to save him. They succeeded but Radioactive Kid's radioactive hand scarred Ultimate Nullifier's face.Now we see that RK's glowing green pustulent head is exposed from his hazmat suit as well as his right hand. Executioner tells him to kill UN because he's still dangerous. And Mayne proves it by shooting the Kid with 1 of his Nullifier guns. Meanwhile Miss America Chavez flies to the rescue (taking time out to advise Barnell Bohusk over comms to tell Angel Salvadore he loves her), slams Danny DuBois over breaking his nose, and zooms away with her injured teammate. And Radioactive Kid is disgusted to discover he's now normal.Later in their base, a crashed helicarrier, the Masters review the situation. They lost the muscle of their team Mako in #2 and leader Executioner thinks they should have found a replacement before taking the Doc Ock job on. Their mysterious benefactor and task giver would have been patient. The Kid is back in his full hazmat suit and glad to have his radioactive power back. (We knew that the Nullifier's effect is only temporary.) Android Egghead is getting repaired but is able to join in the conversation. Young female Black Knight joins them and refuses to apologise for being late. *She* buried Ock's minion Rhino in concrete but she didn't see the others doing much. (The other 2 minions Electro and Sandman were both Nullified by the other team.) So she just threatens Mayne with her Ebony Blade, and she continues to refuse tell where she acquired it.They don't know who the Teen Brigade are. But their benefactor has given them some more info including where to find Loki and recruit him. They know that Loki is currently suitably young (although RK would have preferred the recent version that was female).The Red Skull flashback has moved on to 1945. His secret internment camps in Poland have finished killing the families that comprised the Russian eugenics program to breed superior humans. He considers this as saving the world. He gets a message from Hitler that the Allies are closing in on Berlin, but he decides this means he must activate Operation Der Tag for the future war.The 2 Nighthawks (current Joaquin Pennysworth and ex Kyle Richmond) are in a bar with ex-SHIELD Agent Jack Truman (in Larry Young's body). He admits leaking SHIELD info. He explains his back-story:- He was Agent 18, the prime SHIELD Manhunter, until they sent him after Cable. He was severely injured then so SHIELD's ExTechOp turned him into a Deathlok cyborg under their control. But he rebelled and used a Tibetan mind-swap technique to take the body of Larry Young, a not-so-nice SHIELD Agent, leaving him as the Deathlok. Richmond comments that he's done the mind-switching bit before as well (Defenders #31-33). Truman adds that since the swap Young has mixed booze with cybernetics and broke down. And he claims that his leaking is aimed at cleaning up messes that have been forgotten about. The Last Defenders drink to that.Last issue Ultimate Nullifier flirted with Black Knight while they fought Sandman. Now Mayne's tracked her to a Manhattan night club even though his head is completely bandaged. We can tell the girl is BK because (she's obviously ditched the armour but) she's still wearing the t-shirt with the Black Knight bird symbol on. And UN also has his guns in their thigh holsters. He's in touch with Angel back at base, who queries whether he's after information or a date. They dance a while, but the answer's still in doubt when he accompanies her back to the Young Masters' base. She gets him to show her his scarred face, and then they kiss. And we see them take it further while the next scene unfolds.The other 3 YMs are in a van outside the museum where they expect to find Loki. They're unhappy with the Knight's no-show but figure if Loki joins them they can do without her anyway. Inside Kid Loki is dismissively looking at a display of Asgardian stuff. He's not happy to be interrupted but Executioner asks him to join them. Loki consults his magpie Ikol. They both sense evil in them, Ikol's happy about that, Loki not so much. But before any deal can be concluded America Chavez drops in through the roof. DuBois fires bullets at her but they have no effect. Radioactive Kid charges at her but a stamp of her foot bowls both of them over. Loki calls on 1 of Thor's chariot-pulling goats Toothgnasher to fight her. (We see a flashback where the young In-Betweener tells her, Angel and Barnell that young Loki doesn't favour either Order or Chaos so should not be an enemy.) She defeats the goat but Loki produces the Screaming Idol of Tiboro which sends her somewhere. Executioner makes his offer to Loki plainer but the little god says it's not for him.Chavez finds herself on an alien world. Angel and Barnell lose America's signal. The In-Betweener goes mystical and disappears, possibly saying he's going to do something. And Angel and Barnell have no idea what to do next.


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Faith and deception
The individual panels of the 1st page summarise where we left everybody last issue and what they're going to do next. The young In-Betweener is hanging out in space watching the plot unfold. Miss America Chavez of the Teen Brigade is with Daimon Hellstrom and She-Hulk of the Last Defenders in the 6th Dimension where they've just defeated Tiboro, discussing how to get home. Executioner is about to lead what's left of the Young Masters to Latveria while Dr Doom is away in the Future Foundation being, as he puts it, Reed Richards' butler. Jack Truman (in Larry Young's body) has revealed himself to the Teen Brigade as their source of covert info, and agrees to accompany them to Latveria as well. They travel in what seems to be an X-Men aircraft piloted by the team's ex-mutants Angel Salvadore and Barnell Bohusk. (Barnell tries to take America's advice to tell Angel he loves her, but this isn't the time.) Truman has also told the half-strength Last Defenders team to join in. The last panel shows Kristoff Vernard is ruling the country in his adoptive father Doom's place ...... which segues into a celebration of his rule by the populace with abundant fireworks. He knows that previously the people would pretend to celebrate because they feared what Dr Doom would do to them if they didn't. And he doesn't believe his courtiers' assurances that this time it's different. But he intends to prove his good intentions by making the country better than it is now before his father returns from his stay with the Fantastic Four.Meanwhile the Teen Brigade have arrived in their cloaked plane and Angel & Barnell have dropped off Truman & Ultimate Nullifier to sneak into the Latverian capital Doomstadt. Less sneaky is the Young Masters (the android Egghead, Executioner and Radioactive Kid) entering via the sewers and 'killing' Doombots along the way. They've also planted explosives all over, which go off ruining the party. Executioner emerges on the surface with guns blazing. RK removes 1 glove of his hazmat suit and starts infecting people until Jack runs over him with a truck. Egghead imitates Vision to emerge on Vernard's hovering platform, but Nighthawk (Joaquin Pennysworth) of the Last Defenders swings down from somewhere to floor him with a kick. Exec makes the platform rather crowded and tells Doom Junior they've been told to kill him. But UN squeezes in to threaten Executioner with a (special) gun. And there's still room for the In-Betweener to materialise in the open attracting the attention of ...... the Braak'nhud horde who are after him and rain down out of a spacetime hole in the sky. And everyone, including Kristoff, has to fight *them*. Atlantean Warlord Krang joins Nighthawk and slices Radioactive Kid's hazmat suit open. But this means he starts leaking his infectious radiation so Pennysworth flies him away from civilians. Still in the X-plane Angel and Barnell see another wormhole opening ...... and out flies the chariot pulled by 3 demon horses driven by Daimon Hellstrom, and carrying America Chavez and She-Hulk from the 6th Dimension to join in the melee. Daniel DuBois thinks his Young Masters need to make an unignorable statement and prepares to shoot the black & white kid. But now it's his turn to get run over, this time by Hellstrom's chariot. Nighthawk returns with RK wrapped up in something (presumably lead) to block his radiation, to join Agent Truman shooting Braak'nhud. Krang is fighting side-by-side with Doom-lite. The gangs are all here and and continuing the battle, including Egghead but not Exec and RK. (It seems like Angel and Barnell might be shooting aliens from the X-plane too.)UN finds battered Executioner and threatens him with his Nullifier guns. But In-Betweener tells him that killing Danny isn't the answer. Good and evil need each other to survive. The Braak'nhud are overwhelming the defending forces. Barnell tells Mayne that the In-Betweener's energy is going critical. Ultimate Nullifier pistol-whips Exec instead of killing him. And then fires both his guns at the strange kid, the 2 Nullifier bullets hitting the black and white sides of his chest. There's a blinding eruption of energy ...... and we follow IB's psychedelic thoughts. Created as a balance by Lord Chaos and Master Order he was also the balance between other dichotomies such as life and death, good and evil. But he got tired of being a pawn in cosmic games (but I would say he has also played some games of his own). In #2 he told us that he created a psychic space to hide out in but this in turn spawned the Braak'nhud who want to destroy the balance of the universe. He absorbed them into himself but they broke free and he was reduced to this amnesiac young boy form and held in Area 51 until Chavez released him (#1), and the Braak'nhud sought revenge on him. Now his 2 sides gradually reconcile and he reabsorbs the horde.When the energy recedes (and IB is gone) the other combatants recover. Kristoff Vernard confronts the Last Defenders and somehow deduces that Executioner is to blame for all this and takes him into custody. The Defenders accept that and Doom lets them leave. But Jack Truman and the Teen Brigade have already slipped away in the X-craft. Egghead has also escaped and makes it back to the YM's base in a derelict Hydra helicarrier where he's contacted by their benefactor/info source who turns out to be the hooded villain Zodiac (who once used the same base). He tells the android that he set the Masters up to see who would survive, and now offers Egghead a place in his *real* army. Egghead accepts.And Mayne wakes from a dream where the In-Betweener commends his actions.


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The twelfth hour
Last issue ended with Miss America Chavez transported to an alien somewhere. Now she's approached by ghostly figures of scientists Prof Schuyler, Dr Green and an unnamed 3rd, followed by many others. The trio tell her she's in the 6th Dimension, the realm of Tiboro. They were sent here from Earth by his Screaming Idol (as was America). The 3 safely returned to Earth (with the help of Dr Strange in Strange Tales #129) but they left behind shades who lack the spirit to rebel against the local god.At this point giant-size Tiboro himself shows up and starts stamping on the assembly of 'ghosts'. Chavez fights back and is faced with a horde of large insectoids which the ghosts fight too. Tiboro lets loose a blast from his mouth which incinerates both sides. But Miss America survives (as do the scientists).While this was going on we glimpsed the Teen Brigade's Ultimate Nullifier and Black Knight of the Young Masters (Of Evil) lazing in bed, and Jack Truman (as aged Larry Young) leaving the men's hostel.Now we find Mayne and the female BK up and about in the YM's base in a crashed helicarrier. The rest of the YM are still out (as we saw last issue) trying to recruit Kid Loki to their cause. The girl is disillusioned with Executioner's crusade to wipe out the old guard of villains (such as Doc Ock in #3) so that young villains can take over. But she's no more convinced by the Teen Brigade's idea of saving the world in secret, and having a good time while doing it. She opens a safe and takes out a folder and hands it to him as an example of stuff the Masters' benefactor has given them. Apart from a covering note signed 'Z' it contains a classified dossier from 1947 about the Red Skull flashbacks in previous issues.The report details what we already learned in the flashbacks:- Red Skull organised Spinner Camps along the Polish border with Russia which used uncontrollable molecular excitement to destroy products of a Russian eugenics program to create perfect warriors. Gene therapy increasing metabolic function, strength and speed rivalled Prof Erskine's Super-Soldier Serum which created Captain America. Hundred's of adults were exterminated, followed by all their children. We now learn that advancing Russians found the Camps but they were empty, and as we know Skull was believe killed by Cap in Berlin (but really also went into suspended animation). However a Spinner Camp scientist was extracted by the US as 1 of the V-Weapon team at Peenemunde, and a secret US operation confirmed the execution chambers. But the US decided to keep quiet about it.Mayne is shocked by the cover-up. BK tells him that the US was secretly glad that RS had stopped the Soviets mass-producing super-warriors. But they couldn't afford to appear to condone genocide. This is part of why she doesn't believe in the idea of good vs evil. Ultimate Nullifier still thinks his Teen Brigade can make a difference, but she's still not convinced.Back in the 6th Dimension Miss America is still leading the shades against Tiboro and the giant insects. Tiboro produces a glowing globe that he calls the 6th Dimensional Heartstone which he throws at her. It explodes, destroying many combatants.The 'young' In-Betweener left the Brigade HQ last issue and has now materialised in front of Kyle Richmond, She-Hulk and Daimon Hellstrom of the Last Defenders. He reminds them that they've already helped America Chavez fight the Braak'nhud (#3). Now he tells them that she's trapped in the 6th Dimension and needs help again. Daimon transforms into his Son Of Satan id and summons his chariot drawn by 3 fiery horses. He and the In-Betweener take it and Shulk into Tiboro's realm, but IB leaves them en route.Black Knight decides to quit the Young Masters. But before she goes she leaves Mayne with a parting gift of some info on the YM's computer system.The 3 scientist shades have survived Tiboro's assault, and they see America emerging battered but unbeaten from the mound of dead shades and insects. Then the 2 Defenders arrive and Daimon brings the shades back to 'life' to fight again. The insects are also active. For some reason the battle now includes a giant spacecraft bristling with guns, which the SOS attacks with demonic blasts. Then Chavez flies into Tiboro's eye and straight through his brain. His essence leaks out through the holes and his stone body falls to the ground. Daimon and Jennifer Walters congratulate her and offer to get her home. But Miss America denies needing help.Ultimate Nullifier returns to Angel Salvadore and Barnell Bohusk and the anonymous rest of the Teen Brigade. He tells them that the Masters had been notified by their secret benefactor about a big do being held in Latveria, with instructions to gatecrash it. So he proposes that they 'attend' too. And someone else agrees - it's Jack Truman who suddenly appears and tells them he's their info source.


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Every little thing
Last issue ended with the black&white boy offering to show Ultimate Nullifier what's really going on. But now he's showing the main Teen Brigade chars (Mayne plus Angel Salvadore and Barnell Bohusk) by taking them into his psychedelic special space which includes images from their pasts, futures and probably just imaginary (including Angel and Barnell getting their mutant bodies back). He explains that the most important thing in the universe is maintaining the balance between Order and Chaos. And we see him as the 'adult' In-Betweener whose job that is. He says he created this space to chill out in, but somehow it resulted in the Braak'nhud who are obsessed with destroying that balance. The IB contained their menace by absorbing them into himself, but now they're free again.America Chavez isn't with them because IB has transformed her into a version of himself, symbolised by her black&white colouring, and she's flying around as a decoy to lure the Braak'nhud away. And we see that the other 4 are sitting in a diner holding hands, seemingly asleep. Their vision seems to involve a big-brained octopus which the young In-Betweener thinks also threatens the balance. He continues his explanation to say that when the Braak'nhud escaped he was shrunk to this boy-form with his mind addled. Now they are after him for revenge. He needs the Brigade to fight to preserve the balance to stop reality collapsing. But it will involve delicate choices.Now we see the old man in the men's hotel from the beginning of #1. It seems that he is the 1 who has been supplying the team with information. But he finds the place unusually deserted and Nighthawk (Joaquin Pennysworth) waiting for him. NH addresses him as ex-SHIELD Agent Larry Young and asks him to come quietly. But Young decides to fight, and puts up a good 1 until relative youth wins out. Ex-Nighthawk Kyle Richmond has been watching from the shadows but now steps forward to reveal that they know he's really Jack Truman.Next it's time for this issue's 1944 Red Skull interlude in Poland. He's had the special extermination camps built (which Hitler mustn't know about) to deal with the Russian families that the SS have rounded up. These families are part of a Soviet eugenics program to produce 'supermen'. 1st he'll have all the adults killed, and then their children.In the present Miss America is overwhelmed by Braak'nhud demons (and her black&whiteness seems to have worn off). But suddenly the rest of the Last Defenders (Daimon Hellstrom, Krang and She-Hulk) arrive through a midair portal in Hellstrom's 'Son Of Satan' chariot pulled by 2 demon-steeds. (Hellstrom sensed the Braak'nhud invasion last issue.) Shulk dives down onto the mass of demons and starts tearing them apart. Daimon fires blasts and even Krang's swords manage to take out a few from the back of the chariot. But Jennifer Walters' dive has now taken her *through* the crowd and she's falling towards the ground, until Chavez powerdives down to save her. But then the demons leave because they've realised she's not the In-Betweener. America delivers She-Hulk to the flying chariot and then leaves. Jen comments that she looked extremely young.Later Angel and Barnell enter Dr Octopus' base while in contact with Ultimate Nullifier outside. Doc Ock these days has his torso encased in a metal shell with 8 metal tentacular arms, his own useless limbs dangling limp and the top of his brain exposed. They tell him they're not here for a fight, but they don't believe the harmless act he's putting on. They're here to warn him that someone else is after him.We see Executioner and Radioactive Kid of the Young Masters surveilling the place and talking about putting Ock out of his misery. They get a message from Black Knight saying she's being attacked by Rhino. And we see that Electro is also on Doc's defence squad, but he gets his power temporarily removed by 1 of Mayne's Nullifier guns, and then beaten unconscious.BK traps Rhino in concrete from a mixer truck. The Egghead android accosts Ulty but his gun seems to discorporate his floating head (which is maybe a holographic projection). BK of the Masters is then attacked by Sandman and UN of the Teen Brigade saves her by nullifying his control of his sand body. He does his trademark show-off bit by twirling both his guns. BK isn't impressed and whacks him on the head (with the flat of her sword).As Angel and Barnell exit Ock's HQ Mayne is dodging automatic rifle fire from Executioner. Then R-Kid drops on him from above, removes 1 glove and grabs his face with his glowing green, radioactive and pustulent hand.


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Broken eggs
The issue begins with a flashback to 3 months ago when an old man in the communal room of a men's hostel watches TV showing Commander Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter trying to deal with the Fear Itself event. The general consensus is that the heroes are all useless, and the old man decides to do something about it.Switching to the current day we see a costumed youth in a club attracting the attention of 2 females. He's also in text message contact with someone else and his messages are labelled ULT while hers are signed ANG. He hooks up with the other 2 and they decide to leave for somewhere more private. An older man is standing around watching them.Now another flashback, this time to 1944. Adolf Hitler feels the War slipping out of his control. He believes the Russians have a secret breeding program to evolve superior humans and he details Red Skull to deal with it.Now we see an organisation including depowered mutants Angel Salvadore and Barnell Bohusk who are in radio contact with their agent Miss America (America Chavez) (apparently not yet 16 years old). They have sent her to an abandoned secret facility near Groom Lake, acting on info from a reliable deep source. It has a scrambling field preventing them from detecting what's inside. Chavez flies down into a very wide, very deep man-made hole inside a building, ending in front of a big door which Bohusk detects has a time lock which he should be able to deactivate. But America doesn't wait and just tears the door out. They direct her to the only occupied cell where she finds another door. Bohusk says this 1 has a sonic lock, but Chavez doesn't try to whistle the right notes and just tears this 1 open too. Inside she finds a young lad dressed in black and white but whose body is half and half too. And he's mumbling "2 sides. Same coin. It's all out of balance. Lucky 13. They're coming. All of them." Angel hopes their leader gets back from his 'playtime' soon.In the Regent Beverly Wilshire hotel ULT and his female companions are in bed when Magneto (presumably the guy who was watching them in the club) smashes the window. He's disgusted by their sordid behaviour and says that mutant Stacy X is neglecting her responsibilities. ULT pulls out a strange gun but Magneto throws them around using the iron in their blood. However when ULT fires his gun their foe loses his mutant ability. ULT says he's been keeping under the radar but he goes by the name Ultimate Nullifier. Stacy and her friend Sugar Kane leave. Magneto tries straight fisticuffs but UN agilely defeats him. He declares that his loss of power means he can no longer carry out his duty of policing the mutant community so the boy might as well kill him. Ult says he was here to protect the girls from *him*, but now guesses that he really isn't the villain he used to be. He also says that the Nullifier effect is only temporary, and Magneto feels his power returning and leaves. ULT texts ANG to say he's returning with mission sort-of accomplished. (And by now you should have worked out that ANG is Angel.)But we leave all that for the cafeteria of a New York business where an ex-SHIELD Agent has called Kyle Richmond for help via a mutual acquaintance Joaquin Pennysworth. He thinks another ex-SHIELD Agent is feeding classified info to someone. He's unsure who to trust in SHIELD now Steve Rogers has taken over so he wants Richmond to investigate, even though Kyle says he's given up being Nighthawk. Meanwhile the current Nighthawk (who is Joaquin Pennysworth) is leading the Last Defenders (Daimon Hellstrom (Son Of Satan), She-Hulk and the Atlantean Warlord Krang) in their plane against giant aquatic beast Gargantus who is razing a city.Ulty is back at HQ with Angel, Barney and many unnamed others beavering away at their computers. He reminds them that they are the current Teen Brigade, a descendant of the 1 led by Rick Jones in the early days of the Hulk and the Avengers. But he claims there have been Teen Brigades going back to WWI, 9 or 10 in total, those other than Rick's working in secret to aid the overt heroes. As he speaks he spins his 2 Nullifier guns dramatically. But Angel and Barney are more interested in keeping track of Miss America's progress. UN grabs a mike to chat her up in the guise of checking if she got the 'package'. She rebuffs him and says she's flying home with 'it'. And 'it' continues babbling "No more masters. The ankh is dead. Disparate rivers of chaos merging into 1."4 single-page snapshots follow:-In his 6th Dimension Tiboro declares "My idol screams across the extra dimensions wailing decay and so I await my sacrifice."The Last Defenders have subdued Gargantus and get a call from Kyle Richmond with another job.Kristoff Vernard has been crowned ruler of Latveria.Egghead and Executioner of the Young Masters (Of Evil) welcome 3 new members.Meanwhile Chavez has flown into strange weather. Her burden mumbles "Out in the open. They can find me now. They want satisfaction. The Braak'nhud." And demons appear in the air around them.


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World on fire
Last issue's 1944 flashback continues. Red Skull has captured a Russian scientist in Poland involved in the Soviet eugenics program and has confiscated his list of subjects. Now he puts him in a metal cell where he is blasted apart by electricity - a test of extermination tech that will be implemented on the eastern frontier.In the current day Miss America Chavez has rescued a strange black & white boy from Area 51 but they were attacked in midair by demons. She fights them but loses hold of the boy and she has to dive down to catch him. At Teen Brigade HQ the leader Ultimate Nullifier (whose name we now learn is Mayne) is quarterbacking her over the comm link while Angel Salvadore monitors the extreme weather that accompanied the demons. America now has the 'package' by the foot and uses him as a flail to beat off demons. And then the demons and bad weather are gone as suddenly as they appeared.In McKeesport, Pennsylvania Devlin DeAngelo shows the Young Masters around the crashed Hydra helicarrier that was once used by Zodiac (the man, not the team) because they want to use it for a base. Devlin recognises the android Egghead and Executioner (son of Princess Python who thinks he's a more extreme Punisher) from the earlier version of the team but has to be introduced to the newbies:- Radioactive Kid, a young female Black Knight and the Atlantean Mako. They don't like DeAngelo but he claims to be working for the person who is their benefactor.Miss America and the weird youth get back to TB HQ to find that the team's moving out to a suburb of Chicago - they change bases regularly to avoid being found. The new guy is more lucid than he was last issue but he's still cryptic and claims to be still becoming himself. Mayne introduces him to the only members whose names we know, which includes Angel's partner Barnell Bohusk. Boss UN is miffed when the kid sits in *his* armchair, but it's almost immediately whisked away into a van. Angel and Barnell get in their car and argue over who's driving. Mayne tries to impress the kid by twirling 1 of his Nullifier guns.The Last Defenders (Daimon Hellstrom, Krang, She-Hulk and their field leader the new Nighthawk (Joaquin Pennysworth) have returned from last issue's battle against Gargantus to the Richmond Riding Academy, and ex-Nighthawk Kyle Richmond is briefing them on their next assignment. He explains what he learned last issue that someone has been extracting classified SHIELD files and sending them to someone else. Nighthawk adds that the files concern unexplainable things (ie the X-Files). Hellstrom interrupts to say that his Son Of Satan heritage has allowed him to detect an evil hivemind finding its way into our reality.Executioner has defined the Young Masters' reason for existence - to fill the vacuum caused by the absence of villain groups like the Masters Of Evil and the Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants (he dismisses the Circus Of Crime as a joke). Now the team are invading an ExTechOp facility. Black Knight and Radioactive Kid are in a tunnel where RK has just killed a security guard by mutating his flesh. BK can't find any mention of ExTechOp on the Internet, even Hacknet, so she deduces it's deeply secret. Meanwhile Executioner and Mako have reached their target, the body of Bullseye. They've killed some more staff, and Mako's currently eating 1. Egghead phases through a wall to join them.BK and RK are temporarily blinded by a gas as someone runs past them. Then an explosion blows a hole in the wall of Bullseye's chamber and a shot wings Mako. It's Lady Bullseye who evades Executioner's bullets and Egghead's grasp. Then her sword and acrobatic moves defeat Daniel DuBois and the android. But Mako is still alive and approaches menacingly ... until she dismissively decapitates him. She tells the other 2 that she's not here on the orders of her boss Kingpin, so they haven't angered him and they can just leave now safely. They choose retreat as the better option.Ultimate Nullifier and the black&white kid are standing on a rooftop looking out over the city. Mayne tries to assure him he's free and safe now. But the boy says he's beginning to remember what he is. He senses destiny at work and offers to show UN what he knows.But instead we get a 1-panel glimpse into next issue with Dr Octopus.


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Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself…!
A
pilgrim dressed in white ascends Mount Wundagore to show up at the cottage of
Bova Ayrshire, midwife and help for wayward travelers. She tells the pilgrim
not to worry about the mad Modred the Mystic and sees to his comfort. She tells
him of a woman named Magda, fleeing her husband, who gave birth to twins and
then vanished into the night. The pilgrim is Magda’s terrifying husband and he
demands to know what happened to the children, threatening Bova and ripping the
cabin apart with a wave of his hands. She reveals the children’s names as Wanda
and Pietro; the pilgrim wrecks the rest of the cottage and flies off. Bova
pleads with mad Modred to send a warning to the children, which he does….
The
warning reaches Attilan, the Inhumans’ city on the moon, just as Scarlet Witch
and Vision arrive to seek help for Vision’s mutilated arm (see issue #2). Well,
it’s an easy fix as it’s whole again in the next panel. Quicksilver and Wanda
reveal that they have both had premonitions of danger but keep quiet as Wanda
sees Crystal and the new Baby Luna. And, moving beyond his prejudice, Pietro
allows Vision to hold the baby. But then the white pilgrim arrives in Attilan
and, invisible, he seals off Pietro and Crystal’s tower home. The other
Inhumans (Black Bolt, Medusa, Karnak, Gorgon) are unable to enter and those
inside are unable to leave. The white pilgrim enters and reveals himself to be
Magneto, surprising the heroes more than the readers. Magneto insists he means
no harm but there is a scuffle with the others until the baby starts to cry.
Magneto claims the baby as his granddaughter, revealing himself to be Wanda and
Pietro’s father. He has lived a hard life and had to become a hard man to
survive but he has been reassessing his values and he is softening now that his
granddaughter is homo sapiens. He humbly asks acceptance of Wanda and
Pietro…his children….