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[Gamma Games Part 3]
The Leader drains all of the gamma radiation from
Bruce Banner, leaving him (apparently) dead. Her purpose ended, the villain allows
Betty Ross to leave. On her way out, she discovers Bruce is alive. He feels he
is finally free of the Hulk but learning that Leader is experimenting on humans
to create his own Hulk army, Bruce decides he must stop the Leader. Elsewhere,
Leader is spraying human subjects with gamma radiation, watching them mutate
and having his Humanoids destroy any that are not useful. Bruce and Betty make
their way to the armory and Bruce tries shooting himself in the leg to trigger
a change into Hulk but nothing happens, other than a wounded leg, of course.
They arm themselves and shoot their way through Humanoids to the lab; Bruce
exposes himself to the gamma and transforms once again into the Hulk. He orders
Betty to flee the island while he smashes all of the Leader’s new monsters,
finally seizing the gamma storage unit and eating it. Leader laughs at the
irony that he failed to defeat Hulk because he thinks too much. Hulk blows up
the place and leaps away as Betty wonder where he has gone….


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[Gamma Games Part 1]
Bruce Banner meets Betty Ross at a bar; she tells him Gemini
Labs where she works has some new gamma radiation storage equipment that can
possibly cure him of being the Hulk. A pair of tough guys try to take Betty
away; Bruce just walks out, to the guys’ derision…and then Betty clobbers them….
At the lab, Betty shows Bruce a Gamma Orb, to extract and
store gamma radiation. Although it has never been tested on a living creature,
Bruce insists on trying. The machine extracts the radiation from him, leaving
Bruce weak. And then the real inventor of the device, the Leader, comes out of
hiding, revealing that he had Betty hired by the company because she is the
only one who could lure Bruce to the lab. Bruce gets angry—and Leader beats him
to a pulp, though the experience is not as satisfying as he had hoped. Leader
takes Betty and the storage unit away. Angered, Bruce generates enough gamma to
turn into a smaller version of Hulk; he is attacked by a multitude of
Humanoids and keeps growing larger until the full-sized Hulk is back. He fights
his way through an army of the pink robots and out of the building, finally
dropping down on a nearby dock where he reverts to Bruce Banner….


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An overview of Hulk’s career from Crossroads (1984) to World
War Hulk (2007-2008) is presented in high speed with hundreds of little panels
covering major events and characters. Includes Hulk’s multiple personalities
including Gray Hulk/Joe Fixit and Professor Hulk.


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An overview of Hulk’s career from origin to INCREDIBLE HULK
#300 in 1984 is presented in high speed with hundreds of little panels
covering major events and characters.Survey continues in HULK: GRAND DESIGN—MADNESS
#1.


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Hulk: Gray 5 of 6 - E is for Elephant
The Hulk is trying to atone for his sins by giving "medical attention" to Betty Ross, to fix the head wound she sustained while the Hulk was beating the snot out of Iron Man. Some great Hulk and Betty interaction follows.Gray Hulk, Bruce Banner, Doc Samson, Thunderbolt Ross, Betty Ross,


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Hulk: Gray 1 of 6 - A is for Apple
In the opening chapter of the Hulk Gray Marvel Knights mini-series (by Loeb and Sale, the same team behind MK's Daredevil: Yellow and Spiderman: Blue) we see that Dr. Banner is in the office of Dr. Leonard (Doc) Sampson. Something is on Bruce Banner's mind, and he wants to talk. Sampson wants to start at the beginning, possibly to start talking about Bruce's father, and that idea is quickly shot down by Banner adding "Haven't we done that to death?" So, the story starts at the very incredible beginning, with the detonation of Banner's Gamma Bomb. What happens is a retelling of events from The Incredible Hulk #1, starting with the detonation and ending with highlights from the gray behemoth's first night out as the Hulk.


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Hulk: Gray 3 of 6 - C is for Cry
In a scene right out of Steinbeck the third issue of Hulk: Grey opens with the Hulk attempting to make friends with a rabbit, and subsequently squishing it's brains. Oops. This sets the Hulk off on a rampage which ends up burying him in the middle of the desert. That gets our protagonist out of the picture long enough to see a couple of Army guys apprehending Rick and bringing him back to the base. Thunderbolt is having a helluva time interrogating Rick, but to no avail, he's not talking. The Hulk escapes from his rubble prison and discovers (or, rather, infers) that the army has Rick and intends to go save him, which he does. As Rick and the Hulk are leaving the compound, Betty reprimands the Hulk for hurting her father. Mistake number one. After hearing her voice the Hulk brings Betty out into the desert, only to be confronted by "millionaire Tony Stark" (similar to "rocker Tommy Lee?) a.k.a. THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN.


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Hulk: Gray 4 of 6 - D is for Dog
This issue is mostly Iron Man and the Hulk fighting in the desert. This clash of titans happens over sea, air, and land. Not much going on here except for Betty having her head split on a rock during the fight (thanks to the Hulk swinging) and Stark's Iron Man suit failing a test. The Hulk stops fighting once he learns of what he did to Betty, then promptly takes her away to "fix" her.Gray Hulk, Bruce Banner, Doc Samson, Thunderbolt Ross, Betty Ross, Iron Man


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Hulk: Gray 2 of 6 - B is for Boy
Book 2 of "Hulk: Gray" opens with the Gray Hulk being at the Ross' house on the military base, looking for Betty. The Hulk, uncharacteristically, knocks, as if the humanity is shining through the gray facade, and Betty opens the door, as if the gamma rays on the base have made her either super trusting, or a tart. A delightful discourse between Betty and Hulk ensues. Suddenly, General Ross shows up with some soldiers and the Hulk leaps away. While the Hulk is changing back into Banner, Betty is sleeping with Mr. Thorazine while Thunderbolt is hassling her for some info on why the Hulk would show up at the Ross bungalow. Betty isn't having it and pretends to be sleeping. The next morning Rick follows a trail of destroyed army hardware to find a disheveled Bruce Banner. Bruce leads Rick to a nuclear waste disposal facility deep in a mountain and orders him to keep the Hulk inside the vault until sunup. This chapter ends with Rick terrified on the floor of the facility listening to the Hulk try to bully his way out of the vault.


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Hulk: Gray 6 of 6 - :::Spoilers::::
This is where it comes to a head. The Hulk and Thunderbolt have it out in the desert. Complete with thunder and lightning, real dramatic like. Betty intervenes and the Hulk vamooses. The next day Banner returns to the base with Rick and gets chewed out by Ross. Meanwhile, it's morning at Doc Sampson's office. Bruce admits that he believes Betty only loved Bruce (even after he had been "outed" as the Hulk) because she was used to loving monsters. Bruce "Hulk's out" in Leonard's office and makes a run for it, only to sit with Betty's picture in hand crying.Gray Hulk, Bruce Banner, Doc Samson, Thunderbolt Ross, Betty Ross, Rick Jones, Hulk


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Let the Battle Begin
Bruce Banner awakens in the desert and hitches a ride,
telling the driver that he is a meteorologist who was caught up in a tornado.
The radio reports on an incident the previous day involving the Hulk….
Bruce was at Mount Rushmore when the Wrecking Crew arrived to
demand one hundred millions dollars not to destroy the iconic monument,
breaking off Lincoln’s nose to show they mean business. Bruce turned into the
Hulk and beat the crap out of the bad guys, damaging the monument more than the
Wrecking Crew would have done. Then Thor arrived to stop Hulk who then took
Mjolnir away from Thor, whom he called “Hairy Lady,” and beat him into
unconsciousness with his own weapon. Hulk then took off….
In town, Bruce takes money from the bank, buys clothes, new
eyeglasses, and takes a motel room. Problem: the motel clerk, a big Hulk fan,
recognizes him; Bruce denies it but the guy approaches him for an autograph at
the local diner. Soon Bruce realizes everyone in the diner has fled and an army
contingent led by General Thunderbolt Ross arrives. Bruce warns them that if
they start something they will lose all of their equipment and weapons and
still not capture the Hulk. The army attacks anyway….
Bruce wakes up in the desert the next day only this time he’s
without his purple pants….
“Gammaragnarok” 4.5/5Writer: Mark Parsons, Tom Cohen. Art: Ed McGuinness. Colors:
Kelsey Shannon. Letters: Dave Sharpe.Synopsis: An emissary from a planet-conquering legion comes
to the Maestro’s world and demands surrender. The Maestro chooses war. He
recruits from his people young men and, using the spark of his own life, turns
them all into savage Hulks. They defeat the invaders and drive them off. Then
the Maestro asks one last thing of them: to go into space on a ship that will
explode because they are now too dangerous to live among the people.


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Nightmerica the Quarry
On a late night in a Midwestern town, Hulk is suddenly
attacked by Cobalt Man; Hulk beats him down and then smashes a truck over his
head and departs. Hulk, still angry, leaps to a construction site where he smashes
the big machines and then goes to sleep under an upturned truck…
…where he awakens in the morning as Bruce Banner. He finds an
unoccupied cabin and helps himself to some clothes. Walking toward the forest
he hears a sound he interprets as a gunshot and ducks and then sees a young
woman shyly waving to him, the noise having been a broken branch. They chat and
she introduces herself as Chrissie Cutler, a journalism student following the
trail of the Hulk. As they share a meal, Bruce tries to persuade her that the
“Hulk” was actually a tornado, a claim belied by the large footprints in the
area. A large egg-shaped craft falls from the sky and opens up to reveal an
obsolete model of robot. It throws a net over Chrissie and Bruce transforms
into the Hulk and tears the robot apart. He frees Chrissie who calls him “Dr.
Banner,” which sends Hulk into a rage against her and the young woman cowers,
convincing Hulk she is weak so he wanders off and falls asleep. He soon gets up
as Bruce Banner and checks on Chrissie; she confesses that the robot was after
her. It was a model created by the defunct defense contractors
Wright-Armstrong. Her parents worked for the company and she grew up in one of
their facilities; many of her friends went into hiding when the company was
shut down after a scandal. When she left school, the company must have thought
she was searching for the other refugees and sent the robot to get her back.
Her friends knew about the Hulk and considered him a hero so she set out to
enlist his help but now she apologizes to Bruce for endangering his life and
leaves….
Elsewhere, defense contractor Mohamed Simensky has seen the
Hulk via the viewer on the robot and now explains to his aide Ken the plan to
capture Hulk and turn him over to the Defense Department and in return they
would allow him to revive the Wright-Armstrong project….
Later, Bruce crosses paths with Chrissie again and asks for a
lift. But first he locates the tracking device in her coat, cuts it out, and
throws it in the bed of a truck going in another direction. He dozes off and
when he awakens, he finds the car stopped and Chrissie gone. He tracks her to a
small shack where she is in tears. The words, “Nightmerica,” “Broken toys,”
Military industrial complex,” and “Guinea pigs” are scrawled on the walls….


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[Nightmerica Part 5]
Hulk is mad now and ready to attack Chrissie whom he no longer
trusts. Mrs. Gray, who has a mental rapport with vehicles, is able to draw the
RV with Deadbird and Stu to them. Stu and Deadbird try to calm Hulk down but he
hates freaks and threatens them too; Mrs. Gray tries too. Chrissie finally
manages to talk him down and he falls asleep….
Bruce Banner wakes up to find from the others that he has
been asleep for thirty hours. Deadbird explains that he has contacted Eduardo
(Intergalactic) and he thinks Bruce’s cure is feasible. Eduardo has also found
them a sanctuary, their old base, Nightmerica. But Deadbird is beginning to
fall apart, having gone too long without a recharge….
They drive to St. Petersburg, Maryland, the RV breaking down
for good. They walk the rest of the way (only a mile) until they reach a barbed
wire fence. Stu walks right through, snapping the wires while Bruce aids
Deadbird who is sinking fast, a wing falling off. They reach the darkened
building and enter, calling out for Eduardo. Eduardo appears, a young man with
a mask wired to his face and his head hooked up to auxiliary brains. He has
prepared Deadbird’s morphogenic field generator. Deadbird is placed inside and
the machine switched on; moments later, he is the healthiest he has been in
years. Stu shows Bruce his room which is a shrine to Captain America, filled
with posters, comics, toys, and other goodies. Chrissie talks to Bruce and he
announces his intention to leave as soon as possible as he would only be
putting them in danger. Eduardo and Deadbird show Bruce to the morphogenic
field generator and with a casual “What’ve I got to lose?” he enters the
machine and the switch is thrown. At that moment, Mohamed Simensky and his
troops, along with Stealth, burst in….


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[Nightmerica Part 6]
At the Nightmerica sanctuary, the mutates gather around a
table for a meal of TV dinners; only Stu is excited. And then Mohamed Simensky
and his troops, along with Stealth, burst in and take them all captive. But
Bruce Banner has gone up to ground level and captured Ken Sayles, Simensky’s
right hand man and returns with him to the group. Simensky knows Bruce is not
going to shoot anyone and punches him. Result: Bruce does not turn into the
Hulk, proving that the cure (last issue) works. And it is revealed that Eduardo
has been working for Simensky all along, having seen the coming horrors of the
world and only Simensky believed in him and he is determined to use his powers
to stop evil. The Wright-Armstrong staff go through the drawers containing the
bodies of the failed experiments, looking for anything of value. Chrissie
approaches Stealth and we learn they are sisters and Simensky does not know
about Stealth’s homicidal urges, previously kept in check by therapy. Stealth
demands that Chrissie not tell him about her killing the two cops in issue #4….
Bruce and Chrissie ask Simansky what his big plans are. The
big shot outlines a program of creating an army of the mutates created by
Wright-Armstrong to battle terrorists. Bruce brings up the matter of the cops
killed by Stealth and Simasnky is surprised and dismayed, denying it. He offers
Bruce the position of heading up this new program, being experienced with
monsters. Deadbird catches Stealth listening in on this conversation and she
slashes his head off. She bursts into the office and carries off Bruce Banner,
slashing the guards who try to stop her plus Ken Sayles and slicing Stu in half
lengthwise, which doesn’t kill him. Simansky apologizes to Ken as the scenario
he assured him would not happen has just come to pass. Stealth tells Bruce that
she is merely doing what she was programmed to do: kill her enemies. Eduardo
sends Chrissie to destroy the morphogenic field generator and once again he
transforms into the Hulk. But Chrissie yells at them to stop, her anger burning
through her disguise and revealing her to have a winged metal body. Hulk fights
Stealth and she is revealed to be a tiny alien creature piloting a human-sized
robot body. Hulk curses Chrissie as a freak and hits her. Fed up with freaks
Hulk departs. Mrs. Gray presses Stu’s two halves together and he repairs
himself. Chrissie tells Simansky not to look at her….
Bruce Banner awakens in the desert. Thinking about the clues
that Chrissie wasn’t human and how he should have realized it, he leaves his
two photos of them together and walks off. Then, changing his mind, he
retrieves the phots and walks away….


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[Nightmerica Part 2]
Bruce Banner finds Chrissie Cutler weeping over the skeleton
of her old friend Manny Joslin, a pistol by his side suggesting suicide. Bruce
wonders if the bad guys could have killed him and faked a suicide but Chrissie
doesn’t know. Chrissie tells Bruce that Wright-Armstrong was doing human
experimentation, contracted to the government to create a superior soldier.
When she knew him, Manny was wired to stay awake for days on end but his mind
was deteriorating. As they place Manny’s bones in a footlocker and bury it,
Chrissie tells of an escape from the facility and now she wants to locate all
of her friends and take them to a sanctuary where they will be safe.
“Nightmerica” is what Manny called the facility where they were experimented
on….
In Paducah, Kentucky, Chrissie buys the reluctant Bruce some
new clothing at a mall. Bruce hides from security and he and Chrissie have
their pictures taken together in a photo booth, splitting the strip of four pix
in half and each one taking two. The next morning when they go out, Chrissie
sees Stealth flying through the air, one of the nasty mutates from Nightmerica,
now working for the bad guys to track them down. They abandon their car and
take a bus to the next point on the trip; Chrissie uses a PDA-type device
created by her friend Intergalactic, who is helping her on her mission, to
locate her friends. In Effingham, IL, they pick up a new rental car and head to
a shuttered tourist trap called “The Eighth Wonder.” Bruce breaks in and a pile
of rocks placed over the door falls on him, triggering a transformation into
the Hulk. Seeing it was only a booby trap, Bruce represses the change and
returns to normal. They find Chrissie’s next friend, Deadbird, who resembles a
humanoid crow; she reassures him about her intentions and introduces him to
Bruce as they move on. They rent a recreational vehicle in Lerna, IL, where
Deadbird can hide from view. Chrissie confesses that she has fallen in love
with Bruce but he brushes her off as it would just be something else for Hulk
to wreck. DB explains how he is suffering energy dissipation and he has no
access to the device which can recharge him and keep his body intact—and
suggests the device can cure Bruce of being the Hulk. In St. Louis, MO, they
purchase a wheelchair for their next friend and Chrissie asks Bruce not to
flinch when he sees Stu. And then they arrive in St. Louis’ scary inner city….


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[Nightmerica Part 3]
Having arrived in St. Louis’ inner city in search of the next
friend on the list, Chrissie Cutler is dismayed when Bruce Banner explains that
the only way they can escape serious notice is if they disguise themselves as a
prostitute and her client. Bruce also advises Deadbird to stay in the RV and
should anyone approach making noises should scare him off. Bruce and Chrissie
enter a grocery store where they encounter a woman who seems to recognize them
as Georgia’s son Reginald and his girlfriend. They move on and in the store a
little boy freaks out, demanding “Normal” from his mother. Chrissie asks after
Stuart Wendell a/k/a Manifest Destiny but the storeowner orders them out. In
the street, they are confronted by some gang types wanting to know what they
want but they run off when Duke Dauphin, former pro football player arrives.
Bruce claims to be a reporter so Duke takes them to his outreach ministry,
revealing he knows they are Chrissie Cutler and Manny Joslin but soon he
becomes suspicious of the pair and they leave. They draw a gun on a dude and he
takes them to a secret place where the drug Normal is made and where Stu
Wendell is being held captive. Stu turns out to be a mutated blob with a
childlike personality and Normal is derived from Stu’s liver. They cut Stu
loose from the floor he is merged with and then Duke Dauphin arrives, trying to
persuade Stu to remain and defending the drug’s effects, chemically induced
delusion making the neighborhood more livable. One of Duke’s thugs hits Bruce
over the head, triggering a transformation into Hulk and he smashes everyone.
Chrissie is able to talk him down into Bruce and they take Stu and depart….
Later, Stu explains his “origin” to Bruce, being a subject
for a new super-soldier serum test which left him looking like melting flesh but
with a sunny demeanor; his hero is, of course, Captain America. Stu persuades
the unhappy Bruce to place his head against Stu’s side and suddenly Bruce is in
an idyllic world, a small town where he and Chrissie are happily married, Duke
Dauphin is a successful banker, and Stu has his human appearance back and is in
the army. But Deadbird cries a warning to Bruce to remove his head from Stu’s
body or he will die….


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Hulk
Dr. David Krenzler and Dr. Betty Ross work together in a
Berkeley lab studying the use of gamma rays to activate nanomeds in the body to
accelerate healing but so far all of the frog test animals have died, blown to
bits by the process. And the collaboration between Bruce and Betty is made more
awkward by their once having been lovers, until he broke it off. Betty tells
Bruce about her recurring nightmare of being a small child and witnessing an
explosion at Desert Base, only to be seized from behind by Bruce. That night
Bruce has a dream of being attacked by monsters and awakens to see an old man
with a trio of scary dogs watching his house….
The next day at the lab, the gamma machine malfunctions and
he is bathed in radiation, waking up in the infirmary. Betty doesn’t know why
the radiation working on the nanomeds in Bruce’s body didn’t kill him. He
recalls a similar dream about Desert Base….
That night, the old man enters Bruce’s room and reveals that
he is Bruce’s father, David Banner, and he’s been locked away for 30 years but
he has returned to see the results of earlier experiments on Bruce. Later that
night, the ringing telephone has a crazy effect on Bruce while at his own lab,
David Banner turns a lab rat into a hulking monster….
Betty has a visit from her estranged father, General
Thunderbolt Ross, and he tries to tell her who Bruce Krenzler really is; she
guesses that Ross was motivated by Glenn Talbot, another of Betty’s exes who
wants her back. She storms out….
That night, a setback causes Bruce to turn into the Hulk for
the first time and he trashes the lab….
The next day, Bruce is arrested by General Ross who bans him
from the lab and from seeing Betty. Dad calls Bruce and explains that he had
long ago experimented on himself and that Bruce inherited an amazing
deformity…before telling Bruce that he has sent his Hulked-out dogs to kill
Betty. Talbot arrives and bullies Bruce who turns into the Hulk and throws
Talbot out of the window. He then heads to Betty’s house and kills the hell
hounds….
The next day, Betty tries to figure out what causes Bruce to
change into Hulk, thinking it may have something to do with his father. Then
Bruce is shot with a tranquilizer dark and locked up for study….
That night, David Banner breaks into Bruce’s lab and exposes
himself to gamma radiation, giving him the powers of the Absorbing Man….
The next day, guarded by an army, Betty takes Bruce to the
home he grew up in, trying to unlock his childhood trauma. Later she is
contacted by David Banner who reveals the truth to her: he had experimented on
Bruce then tried to kill him but accidentally murdered Bruce’s mother; now he
claims all he wants is to see his son once last time….
Behind Ross’ back, Glen Talbot has gotten himself put in
charge of the investigation and he has Bruce submerged in a tank and gamma
radiation turned on him; Bruce becomes the Hulk and smashes his way out of the
base, killing Talbot on the way, and pursued by the military. He smashes tanks
and planes, leading them to San Francisco where Betty is able to calm him down
and returns to being Bruce Banner….
Bruce is kept a prisoner in an airbase hangar and his father
is brought to him. Banner wants then to merge and become a formidable fighting
force and he bites into an electric cable, absorbing all of the base’s power
and escapes, pursued by Hulk. At the edge of a lake, they battle, with the
electric giant David trying to absorb all of Hulk’s power and panicking, unable
to control the reaction. Ross orders them bombed and they disappear in a
flash….
A year later, Bruce Banner is in hiding in South America,
working as a doctor for the poor natives. Revolutionaries demand his allegiance
and he warns them that they wouldn’t like him when he’s angry….


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Prologue
The Winter Guard have been captured by the Presence and he
has a grudge against Darkstar for daring to impersonate his late daughter, the
original Darkstar. She provides the distraction for Red Guardian to escape from
the tentacles of Presence’s monster and attack the villain, while she frees
Crimson Dynamo and Ursa Major. CD learns that the tentacled monster is Igor
Drenkov, the man who created the Hulk but the creature then kills CD, biting
his head off. Darkstar then absorbs the monster into herself at great pain, ending
its existence. Presence is captured. The Winter Guard meet the press in Moscow,
accompanied by the new Crimson Dynamo, a woman named Galina Nemirovsky. But
Darkstar is still uneasy, thinking about Drenkov….“The Closing Circle”Reprinted from THE INCREDIBLE HULK #393.“The Winter Guard”Writer: David Gallagher. Art: Steve Ellis x 3. Letters: Scott
O. Brown.Sasha Roerich a/k/a Darkstar is troubled by her discovery
that she has the DNA of a dead woman, the first Darkstar, in her; she goes to
Dmitri Bukharin, Winter Guard liaison (and former Crimson Dynamo), for advice
and he tells her not to worry about it….In their civilian identities, Red Guardian, Ursa Major, and
the new female Crimson Dynamo are shooting pool and kibitzing with one another.
Bukharin enters to tell them that Soviet revolutionaries—the Remont 6—have
raided and A.I.M. facility and the Winter Guard needs to defeat them without
Darkstar….The heroes jet down to the Forbidden Zone to face a band of
criminals including Titanium Man, Iron Maiden, the Snow Leopards, Unicorn, and
Volga. A huge battle ensues….
Sasha, still troubled in mind, confronts the imprisoned
Presence, demanding to know what he did to her. The villain reveals that the
medallion that gives Darkstar her powers has bonded with Presence’s daughter
and that Sasha is doomed to fail for her own weakness. She takes off to join
her comrades against the Remont 6. She arrives on the scene just in time to
keep Ursa Major from falling to his death but she is attacked by Titanium Man.
She morphs into a massive tentacled creature and clobbers the villain but she
is out of control. Her gamma-charged powers threaten to absorb all light and
radiation in the vicinity. Red Guardian flies to her center and removes the
medallion; Sasha burns out and vanishes. The team meets the press and a
replacement Darkstar is presented with the medallion and she begins to hear
Darkstar’s memories….


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Possibilities part 3
Hulkling and Wiccan have been sent by a magic video game into 'alternate' lives where they've forgotten about each other and found new loves. Agatha Harkness may be behind it.Wiccan and Eidolon fly to William's apartment and discuss what they'll do this evening. But Eidolon thinks Wiccan has spent too long trying to free him from his wraith-state between life and death. He keeps trying ever more dangerous spells and none of them work. He believes it's time William moved on to find someone who can be with him completely. But William says all he wants is to bring his love back to life and he *knows* he can do it.Kree/Skrull Emperor Hulkling consults a Skrull seer who has detected a cosmic disturbance eating away at reality. The seer says that Earth is too blame as usual and advises sending an expeditionary force to make them stop. Teddy wonders if the humans are what's been nagging at his mind recently. But then he's distracted by the sight of his lover Goebig. He tells the seer to keep monitoring the situation. "Things are going well in the Empire. We have too much to lose."We get another shot of Agatha's eyes.William and Eidolon are standing before a classical statue with 3 hooded heads, like the Living Tribunal but female with 4 arms. Wiccan is going to retry the spell from last issue, which Eidolon says nearly killed him. The mage says he was distracted last time (by a thought of Teddy). He again chants "Restore my love", but something happens to *him* not Eidolon. He hears words spoken to him by Teddy at various stages of their relationship. He sees them together clearly. And then returns to Eidolon with his true memories restored.He calls himself Billy not William and he can remember another love. Eidolon says it must be an illusion caused by the gods. But Billy says he's got to find *him* to see if he's real. He's distressed to leave Eidolon but he does.


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Possibilities part 2
Last issue Hulkling and Wiccan had their 1st married disagreement. Teddy expects they'll staying in his Imperial space palace for the foreseeable future but Billy was hoping to spend some time on Earth. Then someone, who may have been the 'good' witch Agatha Harkness, left Wiccan a magic video game which transported them both separately into fantasy worlds where they'd forgotten about each other but had new dream partners.Now Emperor Hulkling has caught up with a villain ZeeZee with some kidnapped ambassadors in his rocket ship. Hulkling asks ZeeZee to surrender but the villain attacks him, blasting his magic sword out of his hand. However Teddy's new lover the space pirate Goebig arrives to save the day and claim a kiss. He's evacuated the ambassadors to safety but the spaceship is going to crash. But there's still time for more kissing.Wiccan is in an amphitheatre trying to magically help his love Eidolon. He connects to the air, the earth, the fire of a volcano and the stars, and he casts 1 of his mantra spells "Restore my love". Eidolon feels the chain that joins his wristbands breaking. But then Billy has a vision of Teddy, and lightning disrupts the spell. The chain is broken but Eidolon is still trapped between life and death since Billy freed him from the Underworld. His insubstantial hand passes through Billy's, but something is nagging at Wiccan.Hulkling and Goebig have survived the crash. Goebig reminisces how the Annihilation Wave destroyed his homeworld and the rest of his people. He wandered for years as a hardened pirate until Teddy gave him a new home in the Empire and his heart. He now pledges his undying love and fealty, but Hulkling too feels something's wrong.Both our heroes reach out into the sky for something. And we see what I suspect are the eyes of Agatha Harkness. Then the moment dissolves as Goebig announces the arrival of a rescue ship and Eidolon arrives with a new spell to try.


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Possibilities part 4
In #1 Hulkling and Wiccan had their 1st marital disagreement and then a magic video game conveyed each of them to a separate 'realities' where they don't remember each other and they each have a new lover. But the truth is bleeding into their worlds. And Agatha Harkness has something to do with it.Teddy Kaplan-Altman is still Emperor Dorrek of the Kree-Skrull Alliance. His love Goebig follows him through the corridors of the Imperial space-palace asking Hulkling what's distracting him lately. An intruder alarm stops Teddy answering but he tells Goebig not to call out the guard. He feels that the intruder is causing an ache in his heart and he wants to confront him alone.He finds Billy Kaplan-Altman on his throne and challenges him with drawn magic sword. But he confesses that he feels he should know him and asks if it is his voice he has been hearing in his head. Mage Wiccan floats to him and asks him to remember who they really are, but Dorrek advances to attack. So Wiccan casts a remember spell which surrounds them both with rings of light, which does remind Teddy of the magic rings they exchanged to keep them linked. And then he too remembers everything.After a passionate reunion which Goebig witnesses with a tear in his eye Wiccan magics them back to reality and their bedroom. Billy says he senses Agatha Harkness' involvement and then she appears to them. She says she's moved on from mentoring the Scarlet Witch and is here to train Wiccan in his mystic abilities. She may have provided the trigger video game but it was his power which created the alternate realities. And his insecurities created a tragic unattainable love for him (Eidolon) and a confident companion for Teddy. Agatha suggests that they had fun in their worlds and asks them to consider it a wedding gift. Then she disappears.Their original disagreement was that Billy hoped they'd return to Earth and their friends but Teddy felt his duty would keep them in space. Now they compromise and agree to spend time in each place. But they both don't like Iceman's pie (from #1).


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Possibilities part 1
Hulkling (Teddy Altman/Dorrek VIII, Emperor of the Kree-Skrull Alliance) and Wiccan (Billy Kaplan, Royal Consort and Court Magician) are married, and now the Kaplan-Altmans have invited some guests to an all-gay dinner party in the Royal Palace in space. Billy is tuxedoed for the do and a snap of his fingers transforms Teddy's clothes too. A spell also transports their guests here:- Jean-Paul Beaubier (Northstar of Alpha Flight/X-Men) and his husband Kyle Jinadu, and solo Bobby Drake (Iceman of the X-Men, specifically currently the Marauders) who's baked a pie.Billy and Teddy don't really know the others but thought it was time to start socialising. Things go well until Kyle asks them if they intend to continue living in the space palace for the foreseeable future, and Billy answers "No" while Teddy says "Yes". Billy was hoping that when things settled down they could spend some time back on Earth, but Teddy thinks his Emperor job is full-time and he doesn't see it getting easier any time soon. Jean-Paul and Kyle assure them that they'll work their differences out, and Bobby changes the subject by urging them all to try his pie.After the party (with at least *some* pie conspicuously not eaten) the couple discuss the problem. Teddy admits he misses New York too and their friends there. He asks Billy if he's not happy here, but before Wiccan can answer his partner gets called away for Emperor business.Suddenly a games console materialises by Billy's side. He picks it up and sees a game called 'Possibilities' weirdly personalised with the duo's images. Intrigued he starts the game ... and we see an old woman smiling.Then we see Billy and Teddy waking in separate beds and being greeted by strangers who they welcome as their loves.


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Hulkverines! Part Two of Three
Sonia Sung, Clay Cortez’s wife, is driving their kids away
for safety’s sake. When no one is around she drives into Lake Erie, the car
converting into a submersible, and comes to an underwater facility. The place
is occupied by Sonia’s mother; Sonia explains the situation and they settle
down to wait….
Clay is fighting Wolverine who resents Weapon H cramping his
style and possibly being mistaken for him. The two face off in a formal duel,
not holding back, but after a few minutes, Clay grows concerned for his family
and runs off to find the Leader, who is with the Hulk Operations team headed by
Agent Ng. Leader teleports away, leaving the team to open fire on Clay—who is
suddenly taken down by Hulk, who would prefer to destroy the Shadow Base team
himself. Logan returns to help Clay get away on his motorcycle, wanting to
protect Clay’s family as well. Leader spreads a few seeds which grow into his
pink humanoids—but suddenly someone else scatters her own seeds which become
gray humanoids that destroy the pink ones. Dr. Aliana Alba steps forward and
nicely asks Leader to allow her to kill Wolverine. They spar with various
high-tech weapons for a bit until they compare notes and discover that they are
being manipulated, both following an enemy who led them by separate paths to
Weapon H. So, they decide to work together to see what happens….
Meanwhile, Hulk has smashed his way through the team and
takes Ng’s master comm to trace the Leader to Clay’s family. Not far away,
Logan and Clay are also comparing notes and realize they are being manipulated.
Then Hulk runs by and Logan persuades Clay to follow him to find out what is
going on. They catch up to Hulk on the lake shore; a scuffle ensues with Hulk
knocking Clay into the distance. Hulk leaps into the sky…and encounters the
rising sun. He changes back to Bruce Banner in midair and plummets into Lake
Erie. Clay and Logan dive in to rescue him and they discover the underwater
facility with Sonia looking out of the window. And so Clay discovers the secret
safe house his wife maintained as Plan C. The three men compare notes and
realize they have all been set up. Introductions are made and the kids
recognize Hulk and Wolverine while they plan their next step….
Agent Ng and her team return to Shadow Base and shortly
thereafter, Leader and Dr. Alba arrive with their Humanoids to take over and
plot to experiment with Hulk’s and Wolverine’s genetic material….


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Hulkverines! Part One of Three
At the Shadow Base in Akron, Ohio, Agent Castillo of the U.S.
Hulk Operations visits Samuel “the Leader” Sterns, handing him the latest
reports on the new Immortal Hulk. Castillo appeals to Sterns as the leading
expert on Gamma radiation to help them kill Hulk. Sterns is appreciative…but he
wants to kill the Hulk, rolling up the report and stabbing Castillo through the
eye. The guard comes running and slips on the paper Sterns has tossed to the
floor, breaking his neck. Sterns removes the electronic key from the dead
guard’s belt and escapes….
At a diner in Erie, Pennsylvania, Clay “Weapon H” Cortez is
having dinner with his wife Sonia and their two children while watching Hulk
battle the Avengers on television. The kids know their Dad is the Hulkverine
and are proud of it but Dad reminds them to keep his secret. Returning home,
Clay starts sneezing, which should not be possible until a very bad sneeze
causes his claws to pop out. This activates the family’s Plan C and Sonia takes
the kids and drives off….
Bruce Banner arrives outside the Cortez home and is caught by
Clay; Bruce tells him that he is there to stop him. Clay again begins sneezing
and Bruce knows Clay’s powers are out of control. Clay chases him and pins him
down—but the moon rises and Bruce transforms into the Hulk; Clay takes on his
Hulkverine form and they battle. The Leader is watching from a nearby hilltop
when he is captured by a Hulk Operation team led by Agent Ng. He explains his
plan to her, stating that one can only kill Hulk while he is Hulk and he has
arranged this battle with Weapon H. Using one of his new powers, Hulk drains
the gamma from H and also catches his cold—a gamma-altering virus Leader had
infected Clay with. Hulk weakens and H knocks him out. The Leader steps forward
and tells him to finish Hulk off or Hulk will track down and kill Clay’s
family, revealing that Leader knows about Plan C. This only enrages Weapon H
who pursues Leader through the woods. Leader sets off an adamantium grenade,
the shrapnel blinding H so that he must change back to Clay. Hulk explains who
the Leader is and Clay resumes the pursuit of the man who threatened his
family. The Wolverine steps out to confront Clay, whom he accuses of stealing
his style….


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Hulkverines! Part Three of Three
Sonia and her mother drive Clay Cortez and the kids, along
with Wolverine and Bruce Banner, back to shore. The men make plans while Clay
assures the kids Logan and Hulk are heroes while he is motivated by love for
his family. On shore they are attacked by one of Dr. Alba’s humanoids which
seizes Logan and Banner; as Clay takes on his Weapon H/Hulkverine form to fight
it, the monster teleports away. Clay wants to take his family to safety but the
kids shame him into rescuing the other two heroes….
At Shadow Base, the Leader and Dr. Aliana Alba enjoy working
together as they have Logan and Bruce Banner captive, using nanobots to sever
their spinal cords to keep them helpless. They throw the switch which
transforms Hulk and Logan into Hulkverines, motivated by blind fury and, once
their spines are reconnected, out of control. They are teleported to a Shadow
Base nuclear reactor and dropped from the sky; the automatic defenses open fire
and the Hulkverines destroy everything and then spot each other and begin
fighting….
A call goes out to the Avengers and Captain America and
Black Widow arrive, lamenting the fact that they couldn’t get in touch with Thor,
Captain Marvel, or Dr. Strange. As they begin to make plans, Weapon H shows up
and tells them he will take care of it. H leaps into the middle and a three-way
fight commences, Leader and Alba watching from a safe distance. Then H runs
toward the mad scientists, firing a claw that wrecks Leader’s teleportation
device. Hulk and Logan leap to the attack and Dr. Alba simply drains off their
nanobots, returning them to normal. She then sprays the bots into Weapon H’s
face, stripping away the higher functions, including memories of his family.
But Clay has learned to control the nanobots and turns on Leader and Alba…but
by this time Leader has repaired his teleporter and he blinks them away. The
heroes return to where Cap and Natasha are waiting. Clay greets his family and
assures him he will always be there for them. Cap request that Alpha Flight
sent in a team to clean up the reactor but they won’t need a containment team….
Bruce and Logan go for a beer; Leader and Alba watch from a
distance and realize they are in love and kiss….


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All over the world 'special' teens are abducted.Tony Stark drives by motorbike to Central Park to attend a meeting at the Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach. On the way he sees Daredevil swooping in via billy-cable. They meet at the door and we learn it's a gathering of folks who have been looking for Wolverine since his grave was found empty.Kitty Pryde greets them by phasing her head through the door. Inside they pass Colossus and some students I don't think have been seen before. Tony spots Psylocke who's been rverted to her original Betsy Braddock body, and isn't happy about it (see Hunt For Wolverine: Mystery In  Madripoor #4). Kitty takes the pair to a lecture theatre, but before they start DD asks about Cypher's Internet addiction (see the HFW: Weapon Lost mini). She says Jean Grey is helping him (which is strange because I thought *DD* was).Pryde clicks up some images:- a space shuttle, a DNA helix, Wolverine and a zombie. Kitty tells them her X-team went to Madripoor (HFW:MIM mini) and discovered 1 particular company has been launching a lot of stuff into space from there, but she can't discover what they're doing up there. Stark describes how his team of ex-New Avengers (HFW: Adamantium Agenda mini) found and destroyed a DNA database collated by Mr Sinister - but someone else copied it before they got there. Daredevil's detective team (including Cypher) tracked down a corporation (in HFW:WL) with records of Logan's activities *after* his death - and he appears to now be a bad guy. Kitty completes the quartet (HFW: Claws Of A Killer) by mentioning that Lady Deathstrike took Daken and Sabretooth looking for Wolverine so *they* could kill him. But instead they found a town of zombies (and Daken was killed).Pryde then brings up a slide which shows how all these things are connected (and to lots of other things from Wolverine/X-Men's past) And linking them all is the name Soteira, the name of the company Daredevil investigated and whose logo was on the uniforms of the people who copied Sinister's database. They were also the company launching the space flights, and behind the zombie town. Cypher dug out all the other connections (sounds like a *very* good way to cure his Internet addiction).Daredevil's acute hearing detects the wind-whistle of incoming large falling objects - just before an alarm goes off to evacuate the building for the same reason. A screen shows them to be 4 large solid objects dropped from high orbit. Pryde sends flying mutants up to intercept while Nightcrawler starts teleporting students away. Tony goes out to his motorcycle which creates a version of his Iron Man armour with heavy weapons - and IM joins Storm and Firestar in the air. Meanwhile DD uses his senses to help locate the last remaining students.The Golden Avenger identifies the bolides as solid tungsten aimed precisely at the school, now travelling at terminal velocity. The 3 flyers will take 1 each, and the 1st person to be successful will chase down the last object. Storm stops hers with wind. Firestar uses microwaves (to melt 1?). Shellhead attaches inertial dampeners and leaves AI Friday to control the descent while he chases the 4th weapon - but he's not going to make it.The school is now empty except for Kitty Pryde who stayed behind. She uses her phasing power to make the ground intangible all the way to the magma layer. The 4th rod disappears into the ground, resulting only in a minor earthquake.Daredevil senses someone on the far side of the Mansion. They find a man in white with 10 covered-over corpses (as DD confirms). Then a hologram of woman in white, with her face obscured, appears. She names herself Persephone. She graciously thanks them all for saving the world many times over. She is the person behind Soteira, and she confirms that Logan is currently working for her.Then she introduces the 10 bodies as the teens kidnapped at the beginning of the issue. Sinister's DNA database identified them as mutants whose powers had not yet manifested. Persephone says she knows the identities of thousands of such teens, and she will kill them if they move against her. Then the hologram fades and her aide collapses dead.Tony Stark proposes a plan - they use Cerebro to identify the kids and protect them. But Storm points out that Cerebro can only locate active mutants. The group sags in defeat.In her base Soteira confronts Wolverine, held in energy chains, and promises him it will soon be over.


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The flashback sequence continues with Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Maria Hill, Spider-Man and Tony Stark waiting at a safe distance for radiation to dissipate. Inside the blast zone Wolverine chats with remote-controlled Iron Man. Stark has his own reason for keeping the others out for a while because Logan has just told him (via his link to the IM armour) that he'll do something for Tony in return for his promise to make sure that, when Logan does die, he'll keep his body safe from experimentation.Now Wolverine promises on his side to keep Stark's 'secret', which Tony doesn't understand. Logan reminds Iron Man how he messed everything up in Civil War (I) (resulting in Captain America 'dying', Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, etc). Now IM, Cap and the Avengers are back together, including links like Wolverine to the X-Men. And Logan is willing to do his bit to stop it all falling apart again. He checks with Stark that the others can't hear what they're saying because he doesn't think Tony wants them to know about what he's going to say next:- He knows what really happened here.And that's all we're getting on that for this issue.In the present Wolverine is long-dead, Tony Stark and others hid his body but now it's vanished. (We readers of the Marvel Legacy 1-shot and some other places know Logan's alive again but keeping a low profile.) Jessica, Luke, Spidey and Tony have come to an illicit auction in a submarine where they thought Wolvie's DNA was on offer.It wasn't but 1 of the sellers told them he could get it. Then Mister Sinister broke in angrily claiming that the seller had stolen some other DNA from him. In the ensuing fight the hull of the sub was breached and the ocean poured in. And the other Wolverine (Laura Kinney) revealed herself to chop 1 of Sinister's hands off.Cage's invulnerable body is plugging the hole in the wall while Iron Man tells Jessica and Spider-Man to capture Sinister before more damage is done. Spidey webs him up and Jess punches him out. But the villain blasts them away and breaks free. Sinister menaces his traitorous henchman but Kinney is on him again and takes his other hand. So Sinister teleports to safety.Iron Man exits the sub (making another hole?) and lifts it up to the surface where a hovering helicarrier is waiting to arrest all the villains on board. (SHIELD no longer operates. This carrier belongs to South Korea.)Angry Jessica, Laura and Luke get to interrogate Sinister's minion Declan Fay. Jess and Luke are understandably upset because their daughter Danielle's DNA was on sale. Laura wants to know where her 'father' (Logan)'s body is. Fay tells them Sinister has a DNA database, but he's not in the inner circle who know whose DNA is in it. Wolverine can tell he's not lying. But he *can* tell them the base is in the Kerguelen Islands.Tony has a plan to get past Sinister's defences - he equips them all with tailor-made stealth-mode Iron armours. They enter via a lightly-guarded (according to Fay) hangar door. Then they abandon stealth and take down the guards. Following a route supplied by Declan they reach a blast door which Iron Cage smashes through.Inside they find not just a computer database but physical DNA samples. And then enormous racks of samples suggest that Sinister has the DNA of everyone on Earth.


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We open as usual in the flashback part of the issue.Wolverine took a hit for the team by stopping a bomb going off in a big way by making it go off in a small way that only damaged him and part of a building. The explosion included some radioactivity so only Iron Man (actually remote-controlled by Tony Stark from outside the zone) could enter the blast zone to help him recover. And while they were alone Logan told Stark he knew his secret,Now the radiation has died down and Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Spider-Man have come to see him (while he's still knitting back together) because Tony said Wolvie wanted to talk to them. Logan tells them he's asked Stark to take care of his body when he *does* die. But nobody completely trusts Tony after Civil War I so he asks them check that his wishes are being followed. (He doesn't actually tell them that his request is that his body not be used for scientific experimentation.)And for now we leave the flashback without learning what the 'secret' was.In the current day Iron Man has led the same 3 Avengers on a search for Wolverine's body, or at least his DNA. The other Wolverine (Laura Kinney) has joined them and Tony Stark has given them all distinctive armour so they could invade Mister Sinister's Kerguelen Islands base where he keeps his large DNA collection. They have found both real DNA, possibly from everyone in the world, and a computer database of it.LK-Wolverine wants to destroy it but Stark sees it as a scientific resource. Spider-Man finds that the database contains no information on mutants. They are attacked by 2 guards who they easily subdue, but it is still strange that they haven't faced much opposition this issue and last, and no scientific staff. Wolverine senses some people behind a locked door and uses her armour's weaponry to blast through it. Inside they find dead scientists and the corpses of some troops in a different uniform - someone beat them here, and Tony detects that the database has been copied. He also finds that the mutant DNA and database is in this more secure area. The database is heavily encrypted but he proceeds to crack it.However Mr Sinister (or a version of him with tattered clothing and with both hands intact - Kinney chopped them off last issue) teleports in and attacks them. They don their armoured helmets to protect themselves against his mental powers and gang up on him - Wolverine's claws dealing the final blow. Beaten Sinister says someone sent a killteam to steal his data. Laura wants to know where Logan's body is, but he says he doesn't have it - he has all the all he needs of him here. The others remind Stark of his promise to Logan to protect his remains from abuse. Sinister mentions the value to science. Tony is torn.Now back to the flashback and the original Wolverine. We see the continuation of last issue's conversation between Logan and Tony, before his chat with the other Avengers at the beginning of this issue. Wolvie says that when he detonated the bomb he saw that it had a Stark Industries logo. He accuses Stark of building a superhero mousetrap, because it was designed such that it could only be defused by someone willing to sacrifice their life. Tony says he designed it but never built it - the design was stolen and he has people looking for it. (So the villains slavishly followed the design, right down to the logo?!)Logan accepts his word but says that trust in Iron Man within the superhero community is low after Civil War I, and the fact that he even *thought* of such a thing would split the newly-reformed post-Dark Reign Avengers. Logan doesn't want to risk another superhero conflict so he'll keep quiet, but Tony had better think on.In the present Stark remembers this and chooses to destroy the database. The others gladly help him.Later the 5 heroes return to Jessica and Luke's house where Iron Fist has been babysitting their infant daughter Danielle Cage. Tony tells Laura he decrypted 2 bits of the mutant database before Sinister attacked. 1 of them happened to be *her* file. He tells her she's not completely a clone of Logan - half her DNA comes from someone named Sarah Kinney. Laura says she was a scientist who was a surrogate mother to her foetus, and raised her like a mother. Tony says she *was* her mother. Laura is stunned, and Jessica gives her the baby to hold to soothe her.The other piece of info he decrypted was that an unknown member of the X-Men *isn't* a mutant. (S)he's a sleeper agent genetically engineered to pass as 1.


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Years ago when Wolverine was in the New Avengers he and Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Spider-Man were called in by a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent (who Marvel Wiki thinks is Maria Hill) to deal with a bomb that is very carefully contrived to test heroism. It will go off if it's moved. They can't detect what it will do but it will affect a mile-wide area if it's left to go off in 5 minutes time. A switch will restrict it to 200 feet but that can only be operated by a living human being who will be killed by the immediate explosion. (A lot of this is only true if they believe their anonymous tip-off.)Spider-Man and Jessica aren't invulnerable but Luke is. However Logan points out that the bomb might do something like release poison gas that his invulnerable skin won't defend against. And besides that Luke and Jessica have baby Danielle to think about. On the other hand he himself has proven basically unkillable.The others reluctantly leave him to the job. Spider-Man uses an Avengers' communication channel to promise Wolverine that he'll put him back together again afterwards no matter what it takes. As the bomb goes off Logan seems to recognise who made it (but we don't have a clue). It seems to release a gas and lightning bolts and an explosion, and Hill detects radiation.Iron Man arrives to join them and goes in to recover Wolverine's body.Cut to the present where Tony Stark and Kitty Pryde are discussing the fact that Wolverine's corpse has gone missing (see the Marvel Legacy 1-shot). Tony calls in Spider-Man (Peter Parker) who's just KO'ing a bank(?)-robbing Vulture. It turns out Stark made a similar promise as Spidey to Wolvie back then. And they figure it also applies now. Shellhead reckons Jessica and Luke feel the same way.Tony's people regularly monitor the black market for signs of stolen Stark tech. There is an auction recently announced for the DNA of a superbeing which may well be that of Wolverine. Stark sends a jet to pick Spidey, Jess and Luke up (and organises an emergency babysitter for Danielle).The destination is a submarine in international waters near Guam. Luckily the auction expects face-masks to be worn to disguise the identity of buyers. They are met by Rosgarth, an enhanced Head of Security. They only made it just in time as the sub dives.Our 4 are ushered to a private room. Stark explains that the payments at these auctions are made via crypto-currency, not old-fashioned wads of unmarked bills. But when Rosgarth comes to take them to the auction he'll only allow 1 of their group to attend. After a bit of a kerfuffle between Jessica and Luke and the guards, Tony is chosen to go and the others will eavesdrop via their comms channel.At the auction their lot is the 1st 1 up. And the seller presents the DNA sequence of Danielle Cage. Jessica and Luke are understandably not happy.


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This issue is divided into continuations of last issue's main story and the several-year-old flashback.In the flashback some of the post-Dark Reign (New) Avengers had gathered to deal with a big bomb. The only safe way to handle it was for Wolverine to make it go off in a controlled way which caused a small amount of damage at the expense of blowing himself up.Now Iron Man, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Spider-Man search for Logan in the rubble. Iron Man finds him. He appears to be dead but of course pops back to damaged life and reflexively snikt's his adamantium claws through Shellhead's helmet. Luckily Tony Stark drives up in his sports car - he was remote-controlling the armour.Logan gets Stark to promise him something when he *does* die. He doesn't want Tony or *anyone* using his body as a 'science project'. And in return he'll do something for Stark (presumably continued next ish).Back to the present where Wolverine *did* die and his body was buried in a secret place. But later the body vanished and the 4 Avengers heard of someone's super-DNA offered for sale on the Dark Web. Fearing it was Logan's they came to the secret auction in a mid-ocean submarine. But then they discovered the DNA for sale belongs to Jessica and Luke's child Danielle.The criminals in the auction room are disappointed because they were expecting something better. They are wearing non-usual masks as disguises (although the body of 1 of them betrays that he's the Griffin). Masked Tony Stark is representing our group, the rest of whom are following the action via communicators. He puts in a lone bid just to get the DNA for the parents.Then he suddenly bids a lot of money for the next item - a big piece of the Z1, a very early programmable computer supposedly destroyed in the bombing of Berlin in 1943. He and Spider-Man enthuse over it.A masked female lets Stark know she knows who he is and then slips away. Tony is informed that the deal(s) will be completed in the group's private room. He rejoins Jessica, Luke and Spidey. The DNA-seller, ironically wearing an Iron Man facemask, brings the goods. Stark asks if he's got anything better - like Wolverine's DNA. Surprisingly the seller says he does, and asks 6 million dollars for it.But the deal is interrupted by the sudden appearance of Mister Sinister who claims the seller stole it from *him*. Sinister prepares a hand-blast, Spider-Man's web-shot pulls his hand wide and the blast tears a hole in the side of the sub. Sinister, Stark and 'Iron Man' get washed away leaving Cage, Jones and Spidey (who's swapped his party mask for the real thing) to plug the hole. Which Jessica does with her husband's invulnerable body. Spider-Man webs him in place and he and Jess go to help Tony.In the engine room Sinister is trying to kill the seller when the real Iron Man surfaces and stops him. The mystery woman arrives and unmasks, and then chops off 1 of Sinister's hands. It's the other Wolverine, Laura Kinney.


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Last issue Iron Man turned up at Hyperion's motel room looking for him, but found instead the teen girl Doll that Hype saved from her carnie Family.Now Marcus Milton gets back to find Tony Stark waiting to arrest him for killing Sub-Mariner (Squadron Supreme #1). Marc responds by punching the Golden Avenger out of the building. But IM comes right back and takes Hyperion into the skies. Marc wins the fight but Stark uses dark radiation to cut him off from the solar radiation which powers him.Powerless and trapped in a forcefield, Marc has to talk to Tony. He counters Stark's talk of justice by pointing out that Namor was a mass murderer who needed killing. (During his time with the Cabal in the lead-up to Secret Wars they destroyed many alternate Earths to safeguard this 1, Earth-616. And while in the Illuminati he blew up the Earth of Squadron Supreme member Dr Spectrum. But he was not responsible for the end of Hyperion's own Earth.) Tony decries the cycle of violence such an eye-for-an-eye system leads to.The argument is interrupted when Doll hits Iron Man with a thrown can. And even more so when Hype's lover Thundra hits him with her mace-on-a-chain. This breaks the dark radiation projector and frees Hyperion.Tony tells Marcus that if he doesn't come peacefully now, then soon lots more superheroes will be after him. Marc says he'll deal with that if it happens, but right now he needs to protect Doll from an army that is coming for her.This is news to Doll. But Hyperion and Thundra explain that Doll's father Junior didn't really die in #4 when Hype destroyed the carnival, and he's recruited a load of followers to attack. It is Marc's theory that Junior can recreate himself from a single molecule, and so is unkillable.Hype and Thundra are going to face the army. He persuades Tony to take Doll and her dog to safety. IM agrees - they'll discuss Namor again later. Then Marcus sends Thundra to guard the perimeter, and kill any of Junior's men who tries to escape.Hyperion faces Junior and his Mad Max-style army/Family. But instead of fighting them he rises high into the air and then comes down like a missile. The site is devastated, but Hype sees Junior starting to regenerate from a bit of flesh clinging to his glasses. He takes him into space where he can keep being reborn and dying from lack of oxygen.Marcus returns to Thundra, and they drive off to try and find this Earth's version of his adoptive father.Tony Stark takes Doll to New York, sets her up in a life and organises her legal emancipation from her father. She decides to name her dog Marc.


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Homecoming
The
Young Avengers (Wiccan, Hulkling, Stature, Speed, Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Vision
(Jonas)), have been invited to Avengers Mansion to meet with their heroes and
they are more than a little nervous. They enter the Mansion grounds and the
defenses start attacking them. They try several methods to get past them but
none works until Wiccan merely concentrates on being an Avenger and they shut
down. Hawkeye (Clint Barton) greets them, telling them it was a test to see if
they are ready to join the team. At this, he lets them into the Mansion and Speed
starts acting all fanboy over meeting the Avengers….
“The
Books of the Iron Fist” 3.5/5Writer:
Duane Swierczynski. Art: Jason Latour. Colors: Rico Renzi.Synopsis:
Iron Fist is moving to a place closer to Avengers Mansion so Misty Knight is
looking for a new apartment too; Danny doesn’t know what splitting the living
arrangements will do to their relationship. They meet to divide up their books
and a volume on pregnancy reminds him of the trauma caused by a false positive
they went through. They each pick a favorite book they think the other would
like and embrace, not knowing what the future holds for them, just knowing
there will be one.
“Welcome
Home, Squirrel Girl” 2/5Writer:
Alex Zalben. Art: Tom Fowler. Colors: Matt Wilson.Synopsis:
Squirrel Girl and Tippy-Toe get off a plane in New York City. Doreen sees
Iron Man flying through the air and rejoices that she’s home again.
“Gnu
Recruit” 3/5Writer:
Chris Eliopoulos. Art: Chris Eliopoulos. Colors: Chris Eliopoulos.Synopsis:
Throg and Ms. Lion discuss a possible new recruit for the Pet Avengers. He meets
all the qualifications except one: he doesn’t have a tail. And so, Wolverine is
rejected for the team.


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A Little Help
Reprinted
from CAPTAIN AMERICA: A LITTLE HELP.
“Growing”
4/5Writer:
B. Clay Moore. Art: Felipe Andrade. Colors: Chris Sotomayor.Synopsis:
Ant-Man (Eric O’Grady), new to the Avengers, sneaks into the Mansion by
clinging to Beast’s fur, unaware that the system has detected and identified
him. He tries to enter Stature’s ear for some mischief but Justice mistakes him
for a bug and swats him away; he then nearly gets stepped on by Iron Man.
Ant-Man goes to the kitchen where he eavesdrops on a dull conversation between
Steve Rogers and Captain America (Bucky) then heads for the training room where
he spies on Spider-Woman and Hawkeye and the latter accidentally shoots off
Eric’s flight pack. Eric flies an ant around the building and is stopped by
Quicksilver who tells him that he spotted Eric and Vision, Tony Stark, and
Wolverine would all have detected him had they tried. Pietro tells Eric he
doesn’t have to sneak around the Mansion, he is an Avenger, he can walk in the
front door. So Eric grows to full size and walks in the door…to a hearty
welcome from Steve Rogers and the others….
“Rain
Stops Play” 4/5Writer:
Alan Davis. Pencils: Alan Davis. Inks: Mark Farmer. Colors: Javier Rodriguez.Synopsis:
The Young Avengers (Wiccan, Hulkling, Stature, Speed, Hawkeye (Kate Bishop),
Vision (Jonas)), taking a break from their training to go out to play on the
Mansion lawn. Suddenly a thunderstorm appears, halting their plans. Thor
arrives and mildly jokes with them, then dispels the storm. The young ones are
grateful but decide to go back to their training….


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Like a Streak of Light
Spider-Man
is foiling a bank robbery when he discovers the robbers are aliens with high
tech weaponry. Then the building is lifted from the ground and pulled into
space. Nova arrives, having been notified of the Valgon raiders by Worldmind.
Worldmind updates Spidey on Nova’s recent history (see the ANNIHILATION event
for more detail) and they fight the baddies together. Nova tells Spidey how
Steve Rogers recruited him for the Secret Avengers and Spidey tells him about
his call. They discover what the Valgons are looking for at the bank: a
powerful alien weapons system mistaken for an antique vase by an art collector.
They beat the baddies and Nova returns the weapon to its owners, leaving Spidey
to get the bank back to Earth.
 “Closure
Part 2” 4/5Writer:
Sean McKeever. Art: Mike Mayhew. Colors: Rain Beredo.Synopsis:
In a desolate New York City, Firestar  and Justice  find themselves under fire
from younger versions of themselves. They vaguely remember this happening but
don’t recall why. The earlier couple is confused as to why their future selves
are uncomfortable around one another. Then the older pair captures the younger
but their bitterness over the breakup comes out. The earlier couple thinks this
is a trick and then explain that all of the Avengers are fighting their future
selves and it’s all the doing of Loki….
“The
Darkest Depths” 4/5Writer:
Marc Sumerak. Art: Antonio Fuso. Colors: Antonio Fabela.Synopsis:
As a group of underwater explorers are attacked by a Hydra robotic shark,
Stingray, just recruited for the Avengers by Steve Rogers, comes to the rescue.
He agreed to join the team because, while the land is pretty much protected,
he’s the one who guards the underwater realm.
“The
Smashy Adventures of the Hulk” 3/5Writer:
Katie Cook. Art: Katie Cook. Colors: Katie Cook.Synopsis:
Hulk’s membership in the Avengers is revoked and he goes through the five
stages of grief.


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Everything Will Change Soon (In Bed)
At
the Baxter Building, while the Fantastic Four is having a dinner of Chinese
take-out, Thing drops the bombshell that he has been asked to join the
Avengers. Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman are concerned about where that
would leave the FF while Johnny Storm just makes snarky remarks. And Ben’s
fortune cookie says, “Everything will change soon.” At that moment, Ben has a
call from Luke Cage (with Spider-Man joking in the background) to join them
fighting giant sea worms in Asbury Park, New Jersey.           …
Johnny
confides to Sue that he is hurt that he has never been asked to join the
Avengers….
While
Thing is battling sea monsters with his new teammates, he gets a call from Reed
that the Baxter Building is under attack and hops on his sky-cycle to hurry
back. When he arrives, he finds no threat. Valeria confesses that she imitated
her father’s voice because she wanted to know if the Avengers and the FF needed
help at the same time, which would her Uncle Ben choose? Ben tells them that
the Avengers are his team but the FF is family and nothing will ever change
that….
“Closure
Part 3” 4/5Writer:
Sean McKeever. Art: Mike Mayhew. Colors: Rain Beredo.Synopsis:
Using the magic sword Sverosorg, Loki has set the Avengers to fighting future
versions of themselves: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and Justice and
Firestar. This was caused by the God of Evil to distract the heroes because
when reunited with the body of its owner, the sword will endow Loki with
supreme power. The two Justices team up, as do the two Firestars and head out
to foil Loki’s plans. The Justices arrive at the museum Viking tomb and are
caught and blasted by Loki, giving the Firestars the chance to set the tomb on
fire. Loki tries to use the sword to send them back to their own times but the
Firestars melt the floor and the Justices bury the sword too deep to recover.
And then everything goes back to normal….
The
earlier Avengers praise their Justice and Firestar for their quick thinking and
the two young lovers who plan to ger engaged because their love will last
forever, while their modern counterparts part awkwardly….
“Then
and Now” 3/5Writer:
Colleen Coover. Art: Colleen Coover. Colors: Colleen Coover.Synopsis:
Spider-Woman and Ms. Marvel come upon a gang of crooks looting a store and
reminisce about their early days in the superhero business while clobbering
them.
“Growing
Pains” 4/5Writer:
Lucy Knisley. Art: Lucy Knisley. Colors: Lucy Knisley.Synopsis:
At the Mansion, Iron Man thanks Stature for helping out in the latest adventure
but soon starts to passively-aggressively scold her for accidentally wrecking
his sports car by growing at the wrong time. The scolding causes her to shrink
and apologize. Then Ms. Marvel tells her that Tony’s car was insured and her
anger causes her to grow so large she intimidates Tony with a dirty look.


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Post Mortem
One
soldier was killed in the action at Broxton (seen in the SIEGE event): Private
Donald Horodowsky of Memphis, Tennessee. Steve Rogers asks Maria Hill for
funeral details so he can attend. Steve visits the wake and talks with the
escort then stands by at the funeral ceremony. Afterwards he goes to speak to
the widow who is angry that her husband died and the military doesn’t know or
care who he was. So Steve asks her to tell him about Don so he can remember
with her. Afterwards, Steve asks for Don’s dog tags which he adds to his
collection of fallen comrades….
“Closure
Part 1” 4/5Writer:
Sean McKeever. Art: Mike Mayhew. Colors: Rain Beredo.Synopsis:
On their day off, Justice, Speedball, and Nova, in their civilian identities,
are having a night out at a bar. At the same time, Firestar is there with her
pals Hellcat and Photon, likewise out of uniform. Then Robbie spies the women
and he brings Angel (Firestar’s secret identity, Angelica Jones, not the X-Man
with wings) over to say hello to Rich but things have been cool between her and
Vance since their breakup. This leads to gossip within the two groups that
doesn’t please Angel and Vance. And then, suddenly, everyone vanishes except
for Vance and Angel. Changing into their uniforms, Firestar and Justice fly
around the city and see no one. Then Angel is blasted from the sky; the two
look up and see…younger versions of themselves, with mayhem on their minds….
“The
Journal of Edwin Jarvis” 4/5Writer:
Paul Tobin. Pencils: David Lopez. Inks: Alvaro Lopez. Colors: Nathan
Fairbrairn. Synopsis: Wolverine is searching the Mansion for Jarvis, trailing
him from Avenger to Avenger as the butler delivers customized meals to each
hero. Finally, Logan catches up with Jarvis and invites him out for beer and
bratwurst to thank him for his service to the team. Jarvis notes in his journal
that he does all this because he is a butler…and they are his friends.“Pie
of the Tiger” 4/5Writer:
Jacob Chabot. Art: Jacob Chabot. Colors: Jacob Chabot.Synopsis:
At the Avengers picnic, D-Man enters the pie-eating contest against Valkyrie,
Protector (Noh-Varr), and the current champion, Thing. When the dust (and
dough) clears, D-Man has beaten Thing by one mouthful. The two go and get sick
together.


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I am Captain America
For the 70th anniversary of Captain America, “I Am
Captain America” variant covers appeared on several Marvel issues. Those
covers, honoring American heroes and each drawn by a different artist using
Cap’s iconography, are collected here with commentary by Kiel Phegley. They
are: autoworkers by Michael Lark; truckers by Ed McGuiness; farmers by Gerald
Parel; police officers by Marko Djurdjevic; kids by Scottie Young; doctors by
David Mack; teachers by Bobby Rubio; Olympic athletes by Rodin Esquejo;
emergency medical technicians  by Alex
Maleev; cowboys by Colin Wilson; Little Leaguers by Austin Madison; U.S Army
soldiers by Mike Perkins; nurses by John Tyler Christopher; Navy SEAL frogmen
by Chris Stevens; construction workers by Dave Johnson; steel mill workers by
Mike del Mundo; firefighters by Joe Quesada and Danny Miki; U.S. Air Force
pilots by Michael Wm. Kaluta; Paralympic athletes by Larry Stroman and Allen
Marinez; U.S. Marines by Greg Horn.


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Chapter 4: Limitless
Iron Man is sitting on a rooftop edge eating a takeaway burger while Dr Strange is sitting in midair near him eating takeaway chow mein. Tony Stark asks Stephen Strange if he can see what he sees. Stephen mentions mating phantom squids, a dying gargoyle, and a werewolf and 2 Dark Elves sharing a forbidden kiss but none of these are what Tony meant. But since the populace of Greenwich Village aren't running away screaming Tony guesses nobody but him can see it.Over the following days Stark ascertains that Brother Voodoo, Moon Knight and Spider-Man can't see or sense anything. But eventually Strange agrees to do a magic investigation. And we finally see a giant tentacled monster with a keyhole symbol on its head, in chains above Dr Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum.Later they're in a SHIELD Helicarrier over the Arctic Sea and outside Tony Stark, new Director Of SHIELD says he now sees a *really* huge humanoid with multiple eyes and his neck in chains, also with a keyhole symbol on its brow. They banter about Tony's dubious mental state and a possible bondage fetish. Strange takes a blood sample from Stark's thumb which the Helicarrier's AI, which Tony Calls DEEDEE, interprets as an attack until he uses his authorisation to allow Strange freedom of the place. And they enter a hall of wonders which includes the Iron Spider armour that Tony created for Spider-Man (during Civil War). Stephen spots Hulkbuster and Thorbuster armours, and asks why Tony has prepared contingency plans against his allies but hasn't created, say, a Thanosbuster armour. He wonders if this is connected to why Tony is seeing monsters all around him. Anyway DrS has used Stark's blood to create mystic eye-drops which will enable him to see what Tony sees.Our next scene is in the Yaba district of Lagos City where SHIELD is investigating a strange death. Maria Hill is there and she's called in Iron Man. Apparently the victim had been acting paranoid and stopped coming to work or seeing anyone 3 weeks ago. It is assumed he died then but he was an alien with a healing factor which makes it difficult to be sure. The killer removed vital organs to ensure he stayed dead. Stark suggest they could regrow organs for him and then his healing factor could bring him back to life. Hill points out that his brain is missing.Maria takes Tony aside to explain why she involved him. This is the 5th similar murder in 2 months of extraterrestrial immigrants granted legal status by SHIELD and personally assigned residence/work by *him*. Many in SHIELD suspect his hand in their deaths and she wants to hear his side of things. She shows him a room where the victim has written Iron Man all over the walls. But Tony also notices a large keyhole symbol on the wall too, and remembers such symbols on his vision monsters.Next IM and Hill are in a SHIELD submarine (with trailing jellyfish-like appendages). Hill is keeping a big gun trained on Stark as he speaks an explanation that they're heading to stop another murder of an extraterrestrial processed by himself. As agreed he's repeating this every half hour of their 2 hour journey to reassure Maria that he's still Tony and hasn't been taken over by the killer. However Tony points out that the if the killer can possess him then it could access his memories and fool her. She counters that by pointing out that her big gun suits all situations.We see another giant chained keyhole demon looming over their destination Atlantis. Our duo get there but they have to contend with immigration bureaucracy to see the target, and by the time they get there the murder has been done. Hill wants to follow SHIELD procedures and have Atlantis go into lockdown because the killer is probably still there, but her Director says they haven't time to deal with Atlantean bureaucracy again. He knows where the last surviving immigrants are and he prefers to save *them* rather than catch the killer.The pair return to their sub, which is also controlled by DEEDEE, and shoot up out of the Atlantic Ocean. The sub's appendages turn out to provide rocket power, and the craft turns out to be spaceworthy. So soon they're in the oxygen atmosphere of the Blue Area Of The Moon. When they exit their craft Tony confirms to Maria that only *he* knows where the immigrants are. And he tells DEEDEE to self-destruct the vehicle, which is what happens.Hill believes she's now trapped on the Moon with Stark who is the killer, so she aims her (different) big gun at him. But he tells her that that the deaths of all the victims were spread out in time, with plenty of time for a single killer to move from 1 to the other. But the only way to get from Lagos to Atlantis was to hitch a ride with *them*. And the most reasonable way to get to the Moon was also with them. On cue an alien bursts out of the smoking ruins of the spacecraft. And Tony and Maria blast it to death.Then Dr Strange joins them via a gateway spell to tell them he's figured out what's going on. Tony was infected by a mystic virus called The Key which finds things you have a strong emotional attachment to (which doesn't really explain why it chose alien immigrants) and then The Lock destroys them until you catch it and angrily kill it. The Lock *wanted* to be killed because this opens a lock and lets the chained monsters free and loose on Earth. And we see the monsters on a rampage.Tony 'wonders' how he caught this mystic infection. Stephen pretends not to know what he means. Maria reminds him that the 2 of them have regular bro lunches. Strange ignores that and suggests they alert the Avengers to the invasion, but Tony says most of them don't like him at the moment. And he asks Stephen if he's still infected with The Key. And we see DrS looking like an evil version.We also see that Iron Man is standing in front of a large building called DOME (Destroyer Of Mystic Energy) with a large 'cannon' aimed at Earth. Somehow IM and a stranger-than-usual alien (presumably 1 of the immigrants) persuade/force Strange (still dressed evil) to mystically extract The Key from Stark and deposit it in a machine inside the DOME. The alien warns him not put any of his own mystic energy in there too or he'll regret it. The alien then explains that the cannon will use the total power of a Cosmic Cube to project a beam of energy that is the antithesis of the mystic sample provided. And we see the beam obliterating the invading monsters.Stephen looks at his friend Tony and summarises the situation. This is a weapon that uses a Cosmic Cube to cancel specific mystic energy. If a sample of *his* energy was put inside it would cancel *him*. This is Stark's Strangebuster. Tony doesn't reply and Strange (*still* dressed evil!) departs whence he came. The alien asks if they should destroy the weapon. Tony reluctantly says "No".


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Chapter 2: The man with the bleeding heart
The issue opens with Iron Man trying to stop a flaming asteroid hitting Earth. He's pushing against it while his boot jets thrust but it's not really slowing down. He uses his armour's thermocouple to convert some of the asteroid's heat to extra thrusting power but it's still not enough. But suddenly his efforts fragment the rock into pieces which continue their cluster of trajectories towards a village in Norway. It's people start to flee but 1 woman stays because she is convinced Shellhead will save them. And she watches as he continues pounding the fragments into smaller pieces.Later men in hazard suits are collecting the meteorite bits. Apparently our hero stopped anything hitting the village but some of the surrounding animal life got killed.But we find IM lying exhausted at the bottom of a fjord. He wakes to see a giant fish examining him. We are privy to its thoughts as it apologises for almost eating him but says it can't understand his speech. It doesn't communicate like that. It could produce fluorescent patterns but that tends to startle the Freds. But it *can* do telepathy, and eventually it gets Tony Stark to exchange thoughts with it. And Tony 'says' that it should go far away unless it wants to die. The fish takes this as a threat and starts to attack. Stark is working out how best to fight back when it suddenly gives up the fight and says "Just kill me already" - it thinks it deserves it for all the Freds it's eaten. It takes some time for Tony to convince it he doesn't *want* to kill it.Tony now explains that there's a large piece of dangerously radioactive asteroid in the water. He's trying to find it but he repeats that the big fish would be better off staying away. But it replies that it can show him where the rock is. As they walk and swim along it sees Stark's armour glowing and it fluoresces in reply. Tony tells it that his thermocouples are extracting heat from the water to keep him alive.Then a shoal of fish that the creature calls Freds rush past them all thinking loudly "Flee". The big fish says that Freds (which we know as sardines) are simple-minded creatures with only 5 thoughts all beginning with F - flee, fight, frolic, feed and Tony interrupts the list before the last entry. So it wonders why they're *all* thinking 'flee' and what they're fleeing from. As they head to where the sardines are coming from they meet a whale swallowing down lots of them, and at the same time the giant fish points to the chunk of asteroid and claims that it grants super-powers.As if to prove the point the whale emits a telepathic command which draws Freds to it, and the big fish responds too. The Golden Avenger tries to stop it but the big fish says it *has* to obey because it too used to be a Fred (before the asteroid changed it). It advises IM to take the meteorite and leave it to its fate. But our hero instead with 1 punch sends the ex-Fred (I think) to the surface and then threatens to do the same to the whale if it doesn't leave. The whale doesn't believe he's that powerful, and Stark knows he's nearly out of power. They have a face off. Tony recites in his head p to many decimal places and the whale retreats(?!).Iron Man falls down into the water but the ex-sardine catches him and deposits him on the sea-bed leaning against a rock. Tony slumps, knowing that if his armour loses enough power his heart will stop.Later divers sent by SHIELD Director Nick Fury find him alive and rescue him.


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Chapter 3: Best friend
This issue opens with a character called Iron Shogun in a video game being directed by a controlling voice which tells him he senses danger and to unsheathe his 2 burning swords and cut down (literally) the hordes of Oni who are stalking him. But he's too late to save his burning village which the voice defines as his 'inciting incident'. He comes across his friend War Monger who is strung up and apologises for not protecting the village. IS cuts him down and he asks for water, and a bowl of liquid appears beside him.James Rhodes, for it is he, refuses to drink something that appeared out of nowhere. Tony Stark, for that's who the Iron Shogun is, tells Rhodey to stick to the script or he'll get them killed. He drinks what turns out to be soda then puts his War Monger mask on to get back into character. He says that something powerful came out of the mist and took the Shogun's mother. IS asks WM who it was and is told that it was the Oni Queen.Now we see what may be reality where a teenage boy with 2 wooden swords is with his mother who is sitting on the floor very loosely tied up. There is also a rag doll on a chair with 2 small swords. Mom is supposed to be acting in a game with the boy but can't keep the hero's name straight - Iron Samurai, Iron Ronin, no Iron Shogun. The boy accuses her of not taking it seriously and reading 1 of the 'steamy comic books' she shares with Aunt Annalise. Mom relents and says "Save me, Iron Shogun." He rushes forward shouting "Fear not, mother. I'm here to save you from the grasp of these foul creatures." But she throws a box of toys at him saying "The Oni Queen's minions want to eat your face."In the other realm Iron Shogun repeats the boy's words as more Oni attack him and he slices them up too. Then he dashes towards to Oni Queen, sitting on a throne with 2 swords, and the bound woman at her side. In reality it is his mother who leaps on the boy, laughingly claiming to be in the Oni Queen's control as she tickles him. In the video game the bound woman has leapt on Iron Shogun and the Oni Queen is looking on puzzled. IS introduces himself as Iron Man and says he's here to rescue her. He compliments her on knowing the right moment to break out of the script.And then we see that the X-Men foe Mojo is behind all this. It seems (I think) that the 'reality' part was in the past and then Mojo kidnapped the mom to have her take part in 1 of the TV shows he produces in the Mojoverse (and in this case presumably using the plot that the boy has made up). He'll then keep her to reuse in other shows, maybe based on her steamy comic books. I think the apartment got burned down during the kidnap and the boy. whose name we at last learn is Bobby, was recovering in an ambulance when Iron Man and War Machine promised to rescue his mom. But they said they needed his help.Now Iron Shogun contacts Bobby to say his script worked and his mom is safe. War Monger flies up changed into his War Machine armour. Tony asks him to keep Mojo's robots busy while he changes to Iron Man. It seems that they were wearing their real armour under the Japanese stuff, which Mojo protests doesn't make sense. The attacking Oni spout "No-one poaches talent from Mojo." But Tony Stark 'creates' a 'rocket' to contain the mom and she jets away with the 2 heroes.But Mojo has been recording it all and loves the ending. It's been broadcast live and the audience love it too. He plans a couple of sequels with Iron Man and then he'll add more heroes to the mix. His right-hand man Major Domo is worried about overdoing it but Mojo thinks the audience will never get tired of stories about heroes. And our heroes deliver his mom to Bobby.Later Tony Stark visits the grave of *his* mother Maria. He remembers her being his best friend while his father was always busy or away. But there was nothing he could do to save her when she died in his late teens. Now he wishes her Happy Mother's Day.