My son turns two, today, so we are celebrating with one of Pryde’s Pride!
Emma is taking out each member of the team, this is how she handles Kitty.
Colossus and Kitty welcome their new baby boy, Michael. I’m not sure why these two would name their son, Michael. Besides it being an English version of Mikhail, Colossus’ older brother. But that is a horrible person to name your son after, and I’m pretty sure Kitty and Mikhail has never had any panel time together. Which may explain why she would be cool with it, as she doesn’t have any negative implications with the namesake.
Is Logan’s reference to wanting to finally smoke a cigar, a reference to Joe Quesada’s No Smoking policy?
Xavier comes in and Kitty is very proud to to show off her son. Xavier makes a face, like something is wrong.
Years later, maybe only one, Michael is saying “Arigato” which is Japanese for “thank you.” Kitty isn’t sure where he is picking up this language, she figured Russian. She wonders if he has a power like Doug. Colossus quickly shoots that down, which I like that jealousy angle.
Xavier, in a new style hover chair – which doesn’t seem save, if someone pushed him off of it, as his legs are not protected at all. Xavier tells Kitty to get away from Michael.
Kitty, rightfully so, takes offense that Xavier refers to Michael as an, it. The whole team is here, to take away Michael. Including Colossus, who hits Kitty, as Xavier shut down her powers.
Michael, apparently, has some great and terrible power, no one is being specific. Kitty, as a great mother, refuses to allow them to take her child away from her, based off of vague details. Kitty whispers to Colossus to distract them as she makes a run for it. Proving that he is the worst, he hits her.
Kitty has Colossus dead to rights, with an axe currently phased through his head. If he doesn’t tell her where her son is, he is dead. She calls him a, big stupid metal robot – which is is how I feel about robots too.
Apparently, while being force-ably kept from her son, she sung him to sleep every night. This went on for eighteen months, which is forever, in terms of having a baby! Poor Kitty counted the days – five hundred and forty-seven times. For anyone interested, 1.5 years is 13,118 hours.
This is sort of breaking my heart, poor baby Michael went to sleep, 547 times without his mother, at his side.
Colossus reveals that Michael is in the basement and “Emma’s” mind tricks are lifted. Kitty, still in the illusion, heads off to the basement.
SWORD Peak station. Brand is discussing the situation with Sydren. Brand isn’t surprised that it was Emma, who was the traitor, Fury stated that would most likely happen. Sydren states that it feels like Cassandra Nova but not quite like her – which is super helpful.
Agent Deems comes in, and says the mole has a visual. Ord and Danger have teamed up. Brand hates that the Shi’ar are still screwing things up, as Danger is Shi’ar tech, giving life. I’m right there with Brand, Shi’ar have done more harm than good.
The mole checks in, wanting to stop Ord but Brand wants to see this play out. Brand talks directly to the mole, who is . . .
I sort of like how there is a two page spread about NBC’s Heroes, which that first season was so good, especially once Sylar shows up. What I like about the ad is how it builds suspense to the big reveal.
The big mystery since issue eight, who is the mole?, is finally revealed. It is Lockheed! What!?!
Look how boss Cassaday draws Lockheed, that little fella is built like a shithouse!
James wakes up Armor and catches her up. The Pryde girl walked away. Howlett saw Emma’s undercruve silhouette. Armor wants to know about Ms. Pryde, me too!
Kitty starts narrating how family always fails you. I love the phase, the only person you can trust is the one you make.
Kitty gets to the box that her son is in.
Blindfold wakes up Colossus. He is knocked out from when Shaw boxed his stupid ears. She gives him his orders.
Beast, still acting like a mindless animal, has killed a deer and is eating it raw dog.
We get a scene of the New Hellfire Club. Cassandra Nova is getting inpatient.
Kitty thinks to herself, that this is going to be difficult. The box has been made, Kitty-proof. She has 18 months of practicing for this one moment.
Kitty gets her hand into the box, and it is quite painful.
James isn’t use to all of this funny business, like women walking through walls. He knows she went downwards and westerly. Armor swears at him, in Japanese, that he calls “heathen funny talk.” He reminds her that he has claws.
Danger crashes into the room and James and Armor fall backwards. Ord is right behind her.
We get the page that this issue is mostly known for –
James Howlett disappears and Wolverine is back, thanks to beer!
Ord wants Danger to take him to Colossus.
Kitty has saved Michael. Colossus enters the basement but sees Michael.
Instead of a human baby, that we knew wasn’t going to be an actual baby – instead it is a giant green slug. And it is so disgusting that Colossus passes out. This is a hold over from the Morrison run, wherein Cassandra Nova’s essence is trapped in the slug. Which I thought she was stuck in the form of, Ernst, but I could be wrong.
Kitty passes out, from the strain.
Cassandra Nova can’t wait to transfer from the slug form to Kitty – which is a great idea!
So much fun that Cassandra Nova has plans to treat Kitty’s hair better than Kitty already does. She’s wasting it!
Before the Hellfire Club can make a move, Perfection (the fake Emma) is shot by . . . Cyclops! Which ends the issue.
Cyclops makes a reference to issue 14, when Emma told him that he doesn’t have claws, after she dressed him as Wolverine and he attempted to stab her. Instead, it was like a weak punch, I imagine.
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Today is Walker Dennis’ second birthday! I’m so proud of you, son, and everything that you have accomplished!
Lockheed only appears on the cover. Eva is wearing the outfit she wore to the club last issue. She also only appears on the cover.
The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Now. Kitty is outside of Beast’s lab. He isn’t answering her summons, which he isn’t even listening as he is back in time.
The very first panel shows Kitty outside of the lab, with no one around. Three panels later, Iceman is right next to her. Where did he come from?
Kitty enters the lab and looks around. She is confused by some of the readouts that are displayed. Iceman knows she is a genius so this is way out of his league.
I like how Beast uses his classic 80s Beast ape man face as the warning screen.
Then. Beast is trying to convince the Original X-Men to come with him. Bobby can’t believe that the guy he knows, Scott, can be responsible for any deaths or destruction.
Beast asks Jean to read his mind, so that she knows he is telling the truth. This is shocking to her, as she didn’t know she could read minds. She was just a basic telekinesis type at this point.
Warren starts asking why Beast can’t talk to his time era Xavier. Beast takes a beat and then tells them that Cyclops killed Xavier. I really like the panel where they hear this with the broken glass effect before their heads.
Scott is just shock by all of this news.
Beast talks to his younger self, trying to convince him of the stakes involved. He even swears on their mother, which poor Hank doesn’t even know that an alternate timeline version of himself will later masquerade as him and kill his entire living family. I would leave that out too, if it was me.
Warren wants to know why Beast doesn’t just kill Cyclops, as he killed Xavier. Beast tells him that he refuses to take anymore lives.
Beast goes outside and has another attack. The Original Five are in costume now and agree to go to the present, just to investigate the claims.
Once there, they are amazed by the size and appearance of the school. Jean wants to know why the school is named after her now.
There is a double page house ad for Amazing Spider-Man 700. Don’t worry, Spider-Man comes back it takes a year and a half, but still.
Wolverine is teaching a class about what to do when fighting a ninja master. He then gets a whiff of a scent and leaves the room. Wolverine jumps at the Original Five X-Men, and Jean holds him in the sky and Scott optic blasts him. Bobby freezes him.
Storm, Kitty and Iceman all come out and are not pleased with what they see.
Then the Two Robert Drakes meet :
Pretty fun. Bendis knows, even at the start, to limit Bobby to just two great moments per issue.
Beast has another attack, this one freaks out Hank.
Kitty is the only one, besides Hank, who knows her way around the lab.
Storm tells them that Reed Richards and Tony Stark have messages for them to respond quickly. She mentions Horizon Labs, which I’m not familiar with. It is the place that Peter Parker works at that where Doctor Octopus once he is ‘Peter Parker’ excels at.
Iceman looks at the Original X-Men, wanting to know what they were told. Scott says that he is there to speak to his older self. Something that even in the present day, hasn’t really happened outside of a few lines.
Wolverine takes the ‘little X-Men’ to the study. Jean makes him fall asleep and it looks just like how our son, Walker Dennis, sleeps now :
Jean reveals that Wolverine’s thoughts are that he wants to send them back immediately but also that Beast is his new hero.
Scott still can’t believe he killed his mentor. They see Cyclops on the news. Bobby can’t believe televisions are not better in the future.
She also reveals that Wolverine runs the school. Bobby can’t believe a guy like that, with claws, will run a school.
Hank knows that his present day self is dying. That’s why he risked time itself to bring them forward.
Scott wants to really meet himself and have a nice chat. Bobby knows that Cyclops is seeking new mutants, so maybe they should. Just then a news reporter states a new mutant has been found at the University of Dallas, so they take the Blackbird and away they go.
Kitty enters the room and sees only Wolverine sleeping away.
Issue ends with the X-Men watching the Blackbird fly away. He can’t believe Jeannie is around again.
Not sure when I will review the third issue but it has been great to go back to these early issues of All New X-Men.
The Changling, One Hour Ago. Mystique is watching a new section (to us) of Destiny’s video. Destiny is explaining how crucial the final steps are, to bring her back. There will be a lot of improvising.
Poor Lady Deathstrike is holding onto Shogun.
Mister Sinister comes at Mystique, so hard. She starts talking and he grabs her by her lying dumb mouth.
X23 wakes up Daken, he wants nothing to do with Sinister and wants to just leave. X23 is under the impression if they all defeat him, Mystique will get them home. As they are currently in the middle of the ocean. X23 wants a progress report on Shogun from Lady Deathstrike, She informs the spawn of Wolverine that Shogun is dead.
Ogun, in awesome page turn reveal, tells her that he leaves. Which is so fantastic!
Lady Deathstrike thought Fang killed Ogun but he just pushed him way down. Sharp was finally at death’s door so Ogun was able to finally do what he has been wanting this entire time, and take control over the body. Ogun really enjoys Lady Deathstrike, which I like seeing a more romantic side of him. If, romantic, is the right word.
I really enjoy Lady Deathstrike’s disbelief of the situation. She has two dudes, well two minds, sharing one body, fighting over her to be her gentleman companion. Ogun’s stakes are pretty low, if he dies, he will get a new body and if Sinsiter dies, that’s one more impressive death to add to Ogun’s vita.
While talking to Mystique, Sinister gets a s-word through the chest and Mystique drops to the ground. She shouts that everyone should get to the ship. Which I guess wasn’t destroyed in the crash. There was a giant explosion but everything, once the dust settled, was pretty much the same. That’s some impressive construction!
Sinister recognizes that the person he is fighting, should be the soldier, Sharp. Ogun corrections him, Sinister is facing – The Father of Blades. Which I imagine sounds cool on the page but I’m feeling like I have to give a lot of emphasis on it, to give it the proper weight.
Ogun claims to be the demon that caused Sinister nightmares as a child. Sinister, in possibly the coolest line of the year, tells Ogun that he was never a child.
Ogun cuts off the fingers of Sinister’s left hand and Sinister is barely impressed.
Mystique gets the Wolverines back together and starts giving orders. Sabretooth can’t believe he killed Junk, he has no memory of it. Lady Deathstrike is to watch Sabretooth. Mystique keeps calling him, Shogun, and Lady Deathstrike hints that is no longer Shogun but Mystique doesn’t have time to ask follow-up questions. X23’s orders are to grab the contents of a red chest in Mystique’s room. Daken is to check on Siphon.
X23 opens the chest and sees that old costumes are in it but it looks like a wedding dress, to me.
There is a great Marvel tribute to Herb Trimpe’s passing. 1939 – 2015, in memory of a Giant among Legends. So true!
Mystique, as X23, tells Daken that they should fight Sinister. Mystique gives Portal the Zhulong, a dagger like item that will let him teleport anywhere. So he agrees to help her, also, he doesn’t want Sinister to kill him.
Elsewhere. Siphon bites Daken and he puts a collar on Siphon.
Ogun mistakenly tells Sinister how Ogun was so smart to take over Sharp’s body, once it was almost lifeless. Sinister injects Ogun with the same serum that released Endo, Neuro and Skel from their sooner-than-expected expiration dates.
Sabretooth still can’t believe he killed Junk, he suspects that Mystique had a hand in that. X23 interrupts Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike’s conversation to tell them that she is really done this time with Mystique.
Siphon obsorbs Sinister’s healing factor, which I didn’t see coming! I should have, as Sinister bragged earlier about how his healing factor rivals even Wolverine’s! And that guy survived an atomic bomb explosion!
I like how, once the serum kicks in, Sharp takes control of the body and the mask is back to being broken. When Ogun was in charge, the mask was for real.
Sinister doesn’t recognize Siphon.
It looks like Shogun (Sharp?) cuts off Sinister’s head. Siphon is back to being able to speak, and if he isn’t hurt – to badly – he shouldn’t have to feed for months. So, of course, he is shot multiple times.
Shogun and Daken are not happy with this turn of events but Mystique just has Portal teleport them elsewhere.
X23, Sabretooth (who is colored blue throughout this issue, but not everytime) and Lady Deathstrike arrive on the scene. X23 wants to know where the others were teleported too. Portal just teleports them to that location as well.
Issue ends with Portal teleporting the two of them to the Nexus of All Realities and he warns that the Nexus has a guardian. Which I already know who that guardian is, but the last page shows up Man-Thing! All who know fear, burn at Man-Thing’s touch!
So that ends the Sinister plot, and I imagine the final issue leads us into Secret Wars 2015?
I can’t believe I didn’t think about how the Nexus of All Realities, in Florida, would play some role in Secret Wars 2015, that just makes sense! I’m glad the series got back on track and it was so great to see Ogun back in charge, even for a little bit! I can only imagine Ogun/Sharp/Shogun appear in the final issue. Here is hoping!
Issue opens with Junk and Shogun, back to back, as the Wolverines surround them. Mister Sinister actually refers to them as, my Wolverines. He is preparing to make one of his giant speeches when the Changling crashes into the lab, exploding all around it. Amazingly, no one dies in the explosion.
X23 starts attacking Shogun, he says her release word, Mangonel, and she is no longer under the threat of any control words. That doesn’t help much, as Sabretooth – in a blind rage – comes barreling down on them.
X23 wants Shogun to release Sabretooth but Shogun needs to release Lady Deathstrike first. She gets in a few swipes on him.
Shogun gets it together enough to say Lady Deathstrike’s release word, Flamberge. She snaps out of it, amazed that he went through with it.
Junk tries to help X23 with Sabretooth, which mostly translates as – giving Sabretooth another target to concentrate on.
Skel wakes up Endo, as he wonders where Sinister went off to.
Mystique is also alive and is upset that things have gone so wrong and off course.
Shogun says Sabretooth’s release word, Ulfberht, but Mystique has blocked Sabretooth’s ability to hear. I have to admit to being impress with the codewords, as clearly they never would have come across someone saying these words before.
X23 tries to get Sabretooth off of Junk but Sabretooth straight up rips off Junk’s head. That guy is dead. Skel and X23 starts wailing on Sabretooth.
I like Shogun telling Lady Deathstrike that Sabretooth’s release word is, Ulfberht. That way, if he dies, she can say it whenever Sabretooth can hear again. Lady Deathstrike is sort of falling in love with Shogun, as he could have made her into a puppet but chose to not do so.
Endo knocks Lady Deathsrike aside and confronts Shogun for leaving her behind with Sinister. He may have saved the three Paradise folks but he also made it impossible for them to die.
Sabretooth shoots Sabretooth in the head, putting him down. Well, as down as Sabretooth usually goes. Skel says Mystique killed Endo but I can’t tell whenever that happen besides seeing the BLAM on the previous page. Marks painted style is incredible but I can’t figure out when a quasi-important character has been killed.
Lady Deathstrike even kicks Endo’s body aside and Endo lets out an agh!
Lady Deathsrike is trying to help Shogun. He knows he is dying but Ogun will most likely just jump to another body. Lady Deathstrike loves both of them.
Mystique unloads her gun on Skel, but isn’t sure if the bullets are even having an effect on him. Mystique gives some orders but X23 is done listening to her.
They start bickering but Lady Deathstrike tells them to stop, as he wants to hear Shogun’s last words. She really doesn’t want to lose either of the men in her life.
He doesn’t look like a blond Logan there, right? It is hard to tell without the distinct mutton chops.
Shogun’s final words (of the issue, maybe ever?) are that Lady Deathsrike is the toughest person he has ever met and he is glad they got the time together that they had.
Lady Deathstrike pronounces him dead and Mystique wants to get the heck out of the lab – as the issue ends.
(So I typed this on May 26, 2015 – so I’m seven months behind on my reviews – I have lots of comics! I didn’t realize I had that many but I really don’t want to just do reviews every single day but I recognize that the event is nearly over and I’m just now reviewing the issues.)
I went with this variant, as I’m sure that is Kitty Pryde playfully punching Peter Quill’s arm. I posed the question to the Uncanny X-Cast Facebook group and I’m being told there that those two are Clint Barton and Kate Bishop, the Hawkeyes, which would explain the target on his shirt. Still, I had to buy this issue for one character in specific, so I took a shot with this variant.
Issue opens with Doctor Doom, Doctor Strange and Molecule Man are trying to plead with the Beyonders but Doom has a plan. This is the only pages, I feel, that one needed to read the entire Hickman Avengers opus to fully grasp. Instead, to me, it just reads like Doom is speaking to a mysterious force, which sort of still works.
The Multiverse is dying. Only two universes remain. Today, Earths collide.
Manhattan. Earth-1610. Incursion Event Imminent. Just for anyone who doesn’t know and may be reading this, for the first time – 1610 is the Ultimate Universe and 616 is the Proper Marvel Universe.
The Triskelion. Headquarters of this Earth’s SHIELD. Ultimate Fury wants Reed to explain how much time is left.
The City. Home of the Cabal and the Children of Tomorrow. Currently residing in Manhattan. Ultimate Reed has a weird helmet on his head. Reed gives Fury some hope, there is still time to fight this out. Once Reed ends the call, we see that Reed has been working with the Proper Marvel’s Cabal (the villain version of the Illuminati) – Thanos, Black Swan and Terrax. Reed reveals that the two Earths should have no hope, he lied to Fury so that Fury could feel decent about his last hours.
Once I saw that Ultimate Shadowcat was actually in this title, I knew I was in a for a good time. As I suspect that I will be jumping in and out of this series.
Another crossover and looking over the list, I feel pretty good for knowing all but a few characters.
I still don’t know who the Avengers Manifold & Pod are. I’m not sure about the X-Men’s Nation X Sentinels, I know Hickman’s Avengers 38 dealt with Cyclops and Nation X but that didn’t have Kitty at all. So I didn’t read that issue.
I’m disappointed that proper Kitty isn’t counted amongst the Guardians of the Galaxy.
I’m not sure who Inferno is of the Inhumans, but I’m sure he’s just a new Inhuman that won’t be around in a year.
Ultimate Universe, I just assume that The City and Children of Tomorrow are both related to Reed, I know that is true of the City but it sounds right with the Children of Tomorrow, as well.
The only members of the Cabal, that I don’t know are Proxima Midnight & Corvus Glaive. This is a more cosmic Cabal than Norman Osborn’s Cabal. I do like the note that they are on the Ultimate Earth but they are from the Proper Marvel Universe.
Manhattan. Earth-616. The Incursion Point between both Worlds.Though the narrative, we are informed that the this world’s populace knows that their end is soon. Unless the heroes can help.
Baxter Building. Near it, an explosion occurs. We see that the Fantastic Four have been making a Life Raft, with a bunch of brains being invited. I like Reed growing a beard. Black Panther is also on board. We get the first check in with Black Widow and Spider-Woman, who are bringing in the majority of the scientists. A few didn’t want to come, opting to spend their last hours with their families. That is an impossible choice but I can only imagine I choose to stay on Earth. Unless I can pull an Elijah Wood in Deep Impact and marry Leelee Sobieski and bring her along with me.
Manifold is trying to save the day, by following Black Panther’s instructions but it really isn’t explained how he is going to do it or what his powerset is. He isn’t successful, like, not even a tad.
Ultimate Iron Man is leading the Ultimate army (of SHIELD soldiers) against a main heroes listed on the character list, so the Ultimate side of things have no chance.
Spider-Man is about, saving civilians as is Iron Fist and Luke Cage. Representing the Guardians of the Galaxy are – Star Lord, Drax and Rocket. No mention of where the other members are. Not sure why they didn’t bring their cosmically enhanced members such as Gamora and Shadowcat. Thor (who is really Jane Foster) is fighting along with Storm.
FalCap and Iceman witness Sentinels coming to assist as Cyclops is leading them, as he is a leader of Nation X. Captain Marvel is directly fighting Ultimate Iron Man. Groot is on the scene, as well. Ultimate Iron Man inappropriately hits on Captain Marvel.
She-Hulk fights a weak spot in the Ultimate Hellicarrier and Colossus fastball specials Doc Green, in that direction. The Ultimate Universe is not putting up a decent fight, at all. Ultimate Hawkeye is on board, aiding Ultimate Nick Fury, they know they are not putting up a fight. Fury tells Reed to begin to use his doomsday worldkiller weapon.
Giant explosions star occurring. We get a panel with Ultimate Jean, Wolverine, Cloak & Dagger and Shadowcat! Hence, why I own this issue. I’m hoping, since they are included here, that they are crucial (or at least, involved) in Ultimate End. Which I can only imagine takes place right before this issue. So the final issue has to recreate some of this.
There are these, practically, city wide domes on Earth now. They slowly open, revealing a slew of smaller ships. Seems like Ultimate City is just the Proper version of The World, of the Weapon X facility.
Ultimate Spider-Man was standing on one of the globes. Now the Ultimate Universe has brought its big guns.
Kingpin sent a massive e-mail to his fellow villains. I like their e-mails
I wish they were more imaginative e-mail handles, Fisk’s is pretty great. Punisher arrives at the party, he can’t bring his bullets to the afterlife, and so he kills all that are present. I imagine, the villains, didn’t put up much of a fight.
Natasha calls Susan, they are not going to make it to the Baxter Building. Black Widow is the first hero (and Spider-Woman) that we see die, on panel.
Oh, Manifold’s ability is to get the second life raft (you know, the one that contains named characters), and they take off. So we have Reed, Black Panther and Susan that are safe and the other Fantastic Four family members and fellow Foundation students.
Black Panther puts out the call to get the survivors that they need.
Cyclops grabs his Phoenix Egg, which I’m still not sure about.
Apparently, it just contains the Phoenix Force. Cyclops gets the Phoenix Force aura around him but not the red thong.
We get Drax, Groot and Rocket’s deaths – and Rocket did not want to be on Earth. We see Drax and an uncosmically enhanced Gamora, so that is odd. I imagine that Hickman was told everything before he wrote this issue, so he should have been told about the end of a very well promoted crossover, Black Vortex.
Star Lord disappears, as does Thor, Captain Marvel and Spider-Man. Manifold decides not to take off in the life raft, he wants to stay and keep gathering the needed heroes. The life raft launches from the Baxter Building. Phoenix Force empowered Cyclops is also on the life raft. Instead of a black mask with red cross, Cyclops’ mask is now yellow.
Reed if flying the life raft into the heart of the Incursion, as that is their best chance at survival. A lightning blast strikes the side of their round life raft. The carrier section breaks away, Black Panther tells Reed (and us) that Susan and their children are located there. Which is odd, as two pages earlier – Susan, Franklin and Val, are strapping in right behind Reed. What happened in the ensuing page (which was the full page of the lightning blast)?
Susan places a force field around the carrier section. Reed tells T’Challa to drop the shields, he is going to reach out and grab them. T’Challa tells him he only has seconds to make the attempt. Reed has five seconds and they go by so quickly and . . . this is so heartbreaking, fails. We see the carrier burn up – so Susan, Franklin, Val and Thing are all dead.
On Reed’s section – for sure – are, Star Lord, Thor, Captain Marvel and Black Panther.
How great is that narration? I full agree with it. You find your life partner, and you can’t believe you can love anyone as much and then you go ahead and have a child. You still love your life partner, but – somehow – you love this child more than you love anything you ever loved before. Reed has lost his family and, with that middle panel, has lost an entire planet and worst, a universe. Such a devastating page!
We end the issue with Doom, who use to believe in tomorrow but now he believes in nothing. Issue two will be defining Doom’s role and the new (temporary) Marvel Earth – Battleworld.
Such a great way to end the issue with the tombstone of the two great Marvel lines. The proper one, 1961 – 2015 and the Ultimate one, 2000 – 2015. I can’t believe the Ultimate Universe was 15 years old. Marvel was a very young, 54 year old.
Other famous 53 year olds? Michael J. Fox, Melissa Etheridge, Ralph Macchio, Eddie Murphy, Boy George, Richard Hatch, Scott Baio, KD Lang, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jane Leeves, Meg Ryan, Thomas Hayden Church, Enya, George Clooney and the Great One, Wayne Gretzky. All born in 1961 – how crazy how much they al accomplished for being born the same year and how different each of their careers are, no two have the same path. All with various levels of success.
While working at Hastings, I was trying to sell slash hype this issue and this one guy started flipping through the pages. I asked him to slow down as with each quick page turn, he was quickly killing the Marvel Universe. We had a good laugh after that.
Sadly, this fantastic issue is ruined with a six page preview of Uncanny Inhumans. Which is unwanted and unnecessary.
This handy website has a more detailed commentary of the issue :
Which is a pretty interesting read, as I read none of Hickman’s Avengers and two issues of his Fantastic Four run.
YouTuber ComicsIsland had this pretty awesome hour long episode –
Which is pretty great as I rather just watched this than buy the eventful Hickman Avengers Omnibus. There were parts that almost lost my interest but then the reveal with Doom and how everything starts paying off, sounds pretty great.
ComicsIsland has plenty of similar theme episodes, which is pretty great as well as review episodes and fun top ten lists and such.
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Since I bought the variant cover at Hastings, I was awarded with a giant poster of the Battleworld Map!
I do enjoy being able to hold the entire map and seeing everything larger than I can on a computer screen.
I’ve tried my hand at scanning the one I have :
That isn’t any better but maybe someone with sweet skills can make that work.
I’m trying to find an image with all of the covers revealed, as at this point, only three portions of the map are still CLASSIFIED and no further information is available on those.
Apparently, Marvel released a trailer for this event and had started connecting with portions are which titles.
Thanks to Marvel Entertainment for hosting their own video, also this next video!
This was the first video of The Watcher’s that I have seen. I’ve seen previous videos of Lorraine Cink’s advertised before but I may have to check more of them out.
I was surprised that Wikipedia had the full list and the corresponding titles, that is pretty handy!
Battleworld map
Following numerous incursions across the multiverse, the remains of various realities have been fused together to create a new Battleworld. All of these realities are known as domains and have the ability to interact with each other, except for three (consisting of the Deadlands, Perfection and New Xandar) which are separated from the rest by the Wall for the simple fact that these domains contains threats that if set loose, would destroy all the others.
The following is a list of the domains and the Marvel Comics event titles that are their basis or reimagining as revealed on Marvel Comics’ Interactive Battleworld map. Secret Wars #2 will publish a complete guide to each domain:
43. Timely (may or may not be one of the classified domains) – The town of Timely where all the Marvel characters exist in an 1872 Wild West setting.
44. Genosha (may or may not be one of the classified domains) – The island that became the Mutant homeland and where the E is For Extinction mini-series will be set.
45. Holy Wood and Forest Hills (may or may not be one of the classified domains) – Though mentioned in the solicitation for the Korvac Saga, they are not shown on the Battleworld map.
Special thanks and shoutout to whomever typed all of that up and figuring it out!
I was looking for this Marvel Interaction Secret Wars 2015 Battlemap page but unfortunately it is only a hotlink on their main page for the event, so I’m not sure if it will still be an active website but it should work for a while, I imagine.
A nice brief summary of what each portion of Battleworld and which comic series that it correspondences with.
The titles and sections of the map that I’m mostly interested in, and at the very least, tracking are –
Number – Region Title – Comic Title
3 – Domain of Apocalypse – Age of Apocalypse
Which is above Limbo (which I’m also tracking) to the left of both Egyptia and Technopolis (which I’m not tracking). To the left of it is – Mutopia to the top left, Westchester (the FOX X-Men Animated series by Chris Sims) shares a small border and The Wastelands makes up the bulk of it.
11 – K’un-Lun – Master of Kung Fu
Which is to the right of Regency (the world if Peter never made a deal with THE DEVIL to undo his marriage to Mary Jane, so that his elderly aunt can live a few more years) / below King James’ England (the 1602 world) / to the right of Utopolis and above Weirdworld
17 – Marville – Giant Size Little Marvel
Which is surrounded by Utopolis above it, Arachnia to the right and New Quack City – where Howard the Duck is from, below it.
20 – Manhattan – a) Attilan (Inhumans) b) Proper Marvel New York City c) Ultimate Marvel New York City d ) Monster Metropolis
Don’t care about the Inhumans, but I’m sure b & c are going to crucial to the main series and whichever titles are not associated with a certain portion (such as Star Lord and Age of Apocalypse Kitty Pryde) and Ultimate should be where Ultimate End takes place in. Monster Metropolis is where Shiklah‘s kingdom is.
They are surrounded by several locations too! High Avalon to the left / CLASSIFIED above / CLASSIFIED to the left / The City (but not the City from The Tick, unfortunately) below. I imagine those CLASSIFIED locations are important only because of how close they are to the most important locations.
29 – Monarchy of M – House of M
I highly doubt SHIELD agent Illyana Rasputin or school teacher, Kitty Pryde, are going to be in this at all. Killville (where MODOK is important) to the top right and 2099 to the bottom right. 2099 is suppose to be a title that survives this event, somehow.
30 – Sentinel Territories – Years of Future Past
Killville to the left / 2099 to the bottom left / The Wastelands (Old Man Logan) to the bottom right / Mutopia (Morrison’s E is for Extinction) to the right
37 – Limbo – Inferno
Limbo, being so vast, covers quite some ground on Battleworld. Well, until I realize it was suppose to be a globe, so now I want a gif of the map spinning so I can get a better grasp on it. To the top of it is Domains of Apocalypse, along with 36 and 31 and below it (but separated by the SHIELD) is both The Deadlands (Marvel Zombies) & Perfection (Age of Ultron). Which makes sense as there is a comic, Age of Ultron v Marvel Zombies, which seems highly missable to me now. New Xandar (where Thanos is kept) is also separated by THE SHIELD. The SHIELD is there to prevent the horrors from escaping into the rest of Battleworld.
So this is all pretty exciting!
I was looking at the map, to make this post an my wife had a few things to add. First, that the Battleworld doesn’t look like Earth. Which brought her to ask if America was even represented. Which sort of blew my mind, as Battleworld is now like 90 percent American. There is an England, Egypt, Howard the Duck world, and maybe Mars? but the other 30 sections are American. New Xandar is Xandrian. Limbo is a different dimension. K’un -Lun is also another dimension.
The Gulf of Mexico. Arcadia. Mystique isn’t thrilled that she cannot community with anybody. Just then, three Sinister cronies appear and start attacking her.
Inside Sinister’s Lab. Neuro is acting pretty smug while the Wolverines make short work of the cronies. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of them, so the fight keeps coming, even though it isn’t a challenge.
The Wolverines rather be fighting Sinister, but he never gets his own hands dirty, unless Cyclops’ seed is involved.
Poor Junk, strangely, he is torn from fighting his former friends, even though two of them are just standing about while Neuro takes great pleasure in the bloodshed. Shogun wants everybody to fight with all of their might.
Skel wants Neuro to end teh fight with the control words but Neuro is all about making Sinister happy, and he is quite happy.
On Board the Changeling. The cronies know they are dealing with a shapeshifter but she still tricks them by shifting into one of them.
Meanwhile. Sabretooth is dead killing nameless crones and jumps towards Sinister. Sinister just electrocutes Creed back to the ground.
Skel really wants the fighting to stop, as it is needless. Sinister could stop it with the control words, at anytime. Sinister finally gets tired of all of the whiny and insults the treasonous and failures to entertain him. Neuro is really offended by this.
Sinister starts teh Oblation Protocol, so the cronies burn up, separating the Wolverines from each other and surrounding them by circles of fire.
Changeling. Mystique has taken a second crony down and starts teasing the third one. Instead of playing along, it blows up and the ship starts crashing towards the lab. Mystique tries to save Portal and Siphon but she has to make sure she stays alive too.
Junk reveals he has electric eel powers, knocking a few more foes but also knocking Daken out. He shocks Daken awake and I finally noticed that Daken doesn’t have his shoulder or chest tattoo. When did he lose that?
Shogun kicks Neuro to the face! Skel and Endo start punching Shogun.
Sinister starts walking away but X23 shkts Sinister’s left foot, through the floor. He takes this as a grave insult and says all of the command words at the same time. Daken, Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike appear to be stun. The issue ends, with the very next page, with the Changeling crashing through the ceiling of the lab. The three villains no longer look like they are stun, so that didn’t last long.
I’m pretty excited about the final three issues and how they are leading to something.
The cover is the only place that Lockheed can be found!
The Pet Avengers are – Lockjaw, Zabu, Furball, Ms. Lion, Redwing and Throg! No mention of Lockheed, which is unbelievable! Now I have joked in the past about being one of those X-Men conspiracy theorists but now that Lockheed isn’t considered a member of the team, I think there is something going on with the X-Office!
The Pet Avengers don’t have the Mind Gem, any longer, so they don’t sync up their minds with Rocket or Cosmo, so we don’t hear anything from the non-English speaking members, so we don’t get any reference to them, not talking about Lockheed.
This is a real shame that Lockheed has been kicked off the team. All due to editorial.
Issue opens with Rocket and Cosmo, on monitor duty. Cosmo, to pass the time, starts talking about other animal heroes. Twooatu, the Cosmic Owl. Graavalian Wormatoid.
Starting the running subplot of the issue, Rocket just wants to drink his very illegal beer. Cosmo keeps it away from him. Rocket gives chase and sees that Cosmo teleported off the spaceship so Rocket does the same. I guess at some point, Cosmo joined the Guardians of the Galaxy, or at least, stays with them on their ship.
Cosmo speaks with this interesting accent but it is hard to read sometimes – essentially, anything that ends with -ing ends with -ink. Listenink / shiftink / snoozink – maybe not hard to read but it makes me notice the spelling, thus takes me out of the story.
Somewhere on Earth . . . Rocket catches Cosmo playing poker with the Pet Avengers! Lockjaw / Zabu / Ms. Lion / Throg / Redwing / Hairball. Rocket is mostly upset that Cosmo never told him that the dog knew how to play poker. They could have been playing poker this entire time!
All of a sudden, the wall busts down. We get the Vulture Von Doom and the Pets of Evil Masters! I imagine the name is a take off of the first two minis being titled “Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers” which I always thought was a silly title, just call it “Pet Avengers.”
Good thing we are given who their masters are, as I don’t recognize any of them.
Vulture Von Doom – Doctor Doom
Thori – Loki’s hellhound
Falconia – Lady Falcona’s Familiar (who?)
Mikhol – One of the Red Ghost’s Super Apes – who I totally called as being a member of the team
Tiger Wild – Doctor Doom’s Attack Tiger
Cuddles – Princess Python’s Killer Snake – of Circus of Crime fame – I haven’t heard anything with them in a while
Bitey McSpidey-Bite – Mutant Radioactive Spider – the same spider that bit Peter Parker and Silk – who I also thought was dead.
The Pets of Evil Masters take out the Pet Avengers, rather easily and take off with Lockjaw. Rocket now has to go save them, begrudgingly.
Cosmo can read minds, including animal minds, so that explains how he can play poker with the Pet Avengers. I’m not sure why Cosmo doesn’t link all of their minds.
Latveria. Castle Doom. Vulture Von Doom is evil-monologueingm. eviloguing? He is a vulture who has been hiding in the shadows of the castle. So he isn’t like a secret pet that Doom has been keeping, this entire time.
Editor, Xander the Xandarian Historian, informs us that Vulture Von Doom’s plan references the original Pet Avengers miniseries. He is planning on absorbing the cosmic energy that the Pet Avengers were exposed to, when they had the Infinity Gems as he is planning to create his own cosmic cube.
Rocket and the Pet Avengers get to the castle, rather easily. Rocket still only wants his beer back. The beer has been shaken so Rocket just shoots it and the cans explode. Everything is covered in sticky beer. With this sequence of events, the Pet Avengers take out the Masters of Evil Pets, quickly. It was the element of surprised that was their undoing last time.
Rocket gives the Pet Avengers a back handed compliment. He takes off Vulture Von Doom’s helmet and he freaks out as he believes he is hideous. Rocket informs him that all vultures look that way.
You decide –
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I still say turkeys are the more unattractive bird!
Some off model Doombots – actually, Servo Guards – arrive to clean up and take the vulture away. Doom is aware of the vulture and apparently, he gets up to these silly schemes in the past.
Sector QXM78-67EMX. Pleiades Quadrant. Planet Klaatu. Grott, the Man-Slayer has come back to this universe, from somewhere where he didn’t have a body. He will have his revenge. Unfortunately, for him, Rocket, Cosmo and the Pet Avengers are ready for him.
I can only imagine these two pages were added so that Lanning & Schmidt could work in a “I am Grott” gag and Rocket says he already knows a guy with that shtick. I imagine “Grott” and “Groot” sound alike, right? It isn’t just the spelling of their names.
Issue ends with Lockjaw teleporting and giving Rocket a fresh case of his beer. So the Pet Avengers are not that bad, now.
Not a bad story, I just wish Lockheed was involved or at least, mentioned.
The Changeling. Six Miles Above the Atlantic Ocean. Two Hundred Miles West of the Azores. Issue opens with Shogun spitting blood into a sink.
Shogun is spitting blood, as the Paradise folks’ expiration date is coming upon them. Junk reveals that he is a little further along the path, as he now has tar like veins on his arms, and they are spreading. Neither Junk or Shogun are thrilled that their time seems to be shorter than they had expected.
Junk is now learning more about his powers, he just learn he has chameleon abilities. Junk really was hoping to join the side of the heroes and maybe one day, being an Avenger. Shogun calling Junk, brother, seems odd to me. Maybe the real Sharp is coming out now that Ogun may be completely out of his system. Shogun is curious about Mystique’s plan but they can’t wait for her time table.
Junk can’t believe how far off course the Paradise team has come. They keep getting distracted by the Wolverines nonsense. Though he makes a point of liking Fang’s adventures, which I can only imagine is a meta message, as fans have to be like me, right? In that Fang was the detour from the book proper?
Junk calls the Wolverines, all of them, monsters, as X23 walks into the room. Which is bad timing as she is the best one there.
Rome, Italy. The Arcadians, the ones the Paradise folks were being experimented on for so that the Arcadians can get the good material. They are attacking Endo (who is not dead, apparently), Skel and Neuro – which a handy editorial note that we first met this group in Weapon X Project 5. Neuro and his crew seem to be beating back the Arcadians, rather easily. Some more Arcadians show up and Neuro surrenders.
Epsilon, the field leader, goes on television and announces who The Arcadians are. On the Changeling, they are watching the news coverage. Junk really doesn’t want to leave his former allies behind in the hands of the clear enemies.
The Changeling Deck E — Detention. Mystique is checking in on Portal, who looks a tad by Wolverine – out of costume. Portal and Mystique don’t have any history together. She doesn’t want him as an enemy but she wants to save a friend, which I’m sure we haven’t had Destiny hinted or mention since issue two or three. Siphon is sleeping in the next cell.
Junk wants to go save his friends. Shogun has to explain who the Arcadians are, to Sabretooth, even though Sabretooth was in the room when the news was being aired. Daken brings up the good point that Neuro wouldn’t go save Junk and Shogun, so maybe they shouldn’t go after them. Shogun has to agree with Daken but Junk doesn’t care – Neuro may be horrible but he liked Endo and Skel.
X23 offers to help Junk save Endo and Skel, as they did seem like nice people. With X23 on board, Shogun is happy to go through with the mission. Which makes sense, he doesn’t want to be the sole fighter so that he has to do all of the fighting and still watch out for Junk.
Mystique comes in and does the one thing one shouldn’t do with this group. Mystique tells Junk and Shogun that they can go, but she still needs X23 for her primary mission. So X23 is definitely going now and Sabretooth and Daken are now a go for the mission to, as screw Mystique! Which I really like that turn of events.
Daken is definitely growing his hair out, so he is now going to look like a tall (Dark) Wolverine with a missing arm and eye.
The Gulf of Mexico. Arcadia. Later. Lady Deathstrike has also joined the team, Shogun tries to talk to Lady Deathstrike but she has no interest in him now that Ogun is no longer around. The team makes very short work of the Arcadians. It helps that the Arcadians are fake, as they are weak shells of people, filled with foam (or something).
The team opens the door and sees the real Arcadians but they are all dead. Mystique warns them to get out of there but they continue on. That Mystique, she doesn’t take any hints.
Neuro shows up and reveals that Mister Sinister is behind all of this. He wanted to get the team out into the open. Some light blue bald Mister Sinsiter cronies show up and pop two claws each, per hand – so Sinister really used Daken’s arm to beneficial results. The issue ends with Sinister on deck.
This is the final back issue I was able to buy from Kelly’s Komix in Great Falls, Montana, I had a twenty dollar budget, as I couldn’t tell if my wife was going to give me more of budget. Our son, Walker Dennis, was pretty much running around the store, he was only sixteen months at the time and always looking for a chance to run about any location. So I had a pretty tight timeframe of searching for comics. With this issue, I now own all four chapters of this storyline.
That’s a pretty great cast of characters above – plus there are only seven so that rule of thumb is still respected. Kitty Pryde, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Namor, Magneto and even, Colossus. That’s pretty A-List there.
This is only part two, so the previous issue mainly dealt with setting up the overall plot. There was a warship from Breakworld, coming to Earth – Agent Brand of SWORD (whatever happened to her, she was all over the place, for quite some time) called the X-Men to intercept the ship. That issue ended with Kruun, the former warlord of Breakword – and who Colossus in an awesome scene, ripped off his arm, has come to Earth, asking for Asylum for the rest of the refugees of the planet.
There is an ad for Thor, coming to theaters on June 6, 2011. Can’t believe it has been four years since that film came out.
I want to say that this was an odd time for me, like I barely remember reading the issues and I was in a weird headspace, like I was reading but not super enjoying it and the issues were not leaving much of an impression on me.
Decomissioned Breakword Flagship Resplendent Celestial Slaughter. Docked. The Peak. Orbital Headquarters of SWORD. Peak Meeting Room XIV. Topic : Breakworld Refugees. In the meeting room is – Agent Brand / Sydren / Cyclops / Emma Frost / Kruun / Haleena. Kruun doesn’t know how to go about being a diplomat. It is a new language to them. They came in a warship, as they don’t have anything else, and they didn’t signal their arrival, as they didn’t know that was necessary. Haleena isn’t any more skilled. Kruun suspects that Brand wants them to beg, but he refuses.
Haleena had a vision that Earth would take them in, and apparently, she and Kruun are a couple. Cyclops asks the question, what happened to Breakworld. Kruun explains that there is constant fighting and the planet is no longer what it use to be. Brand makes some flippant comments and Kruun doesn’t care for her tone, he wants, no – he demands – refuge.
Cyclops asks the other important question, why is he there? The United Nations are still divided on if Utopia is a proper nation, or not, which is silly. Brand has some leeway, so if Cyclops wants the refugees, he can have them. If the Breakworlders revolt, she will just wipe the entire island out. There is a great moment when Emma mocks Sydren, which is great. That poor guy can’t catch a break. In one panel, Cyclops decides to test out the peace idea.
Utopia. Island Home of the X-Men. Emma mocks Scott, she wonders if he fed the stray cats of Anchorage, Alaska. Magneto, also isn’t thrilled, Utopia is for mutants, by mutants.
There is an house ad for Fear Itself, Book Two – Blitzkrieg USA, it came out in May 2011. All I really remember of the main event, is that Winter Soldier was killed in one of the first issues and then, was back alive by the end of it.
Scott feels responsible, as they are refugees because of the X-Men. Well, like Emma states, they did fire a moon-sized bullet at Earth. Good thing Shadowcat was there to save all of us! Not only that, but they brought the X-Men to them. Scott isn’t sure what they even eat. Probably rocks, as they are hardcore!
Kitty isn’t thrilled to have this many Breakworlders around her. Kitty decides the best way to start building a community, is to be interested and listening. Oh, Shadowcat, you truly are the heir to Xavier’s dream!
They listen to several stories.
The last one calls Colossus, Powerlord. The person is willing to rip off his own arm, if that is what the Russian wants.
Kruun shows up, he calls Kitty “Colossus’ mate” which is going too far! Kruun suspects the true power couple have plans to parade his people around the island and laughing at them. Kitty has no plans to laugh at anyone, she only wants to help. Kruun tells her that helping is the same as laughing.
Haleena reveals the rest of her vision, that they were taken in but they have no future on the planet. Which is, essentially, true – as I don’t believe they have been seen since.
Kitty tries to explain how there is always hope. Colossus is fine with the refugees being on Utopia, he hates Kruun, and how he benefited from all of the death and breaking of wills.
Kruun explains how they brought Colossus back from the dead. Which is a story that Whedon didn’t even really hint at. Kruun keeps making a point that “they didn’t have hospitals” which seems to be the line from the Whedon run, that really stuck with Gillen.
See that only left panel on the image above? Try reading that again? Is it me, or is that some not great explaining of a concept? To bring back Colossus, five slaves had to give their lives. Or rather, their life energy, so you could survive the process but these five didn’t, as they didn’t want to live with the shame. Being part of the process, at all, is to be one of the lowest of the low.
A would be hero decides to do a sneak attack – assassin style – but Kruun prevents the attack.
There is an ad for four collectible Slurpee cups featuring Thor characters. Two are decent – Thor & Loki – and I imagine those who got the Destroyer & Lorelei cups. Did Natalie Portman decline on the invitation? These were only available at a 7 Eleven, which I don’t believe I’ve ever lived in a city that had one of those. Sort of like how Circle K isn’t in Montana, at all.
Kruun is mostly upset with the younger guy, because of the sneak attack from behind. Heleena, and apparently this is her first appearance – which is pretty cool – is proud of Kruun for saying “I’m sorry” to Colossus for the attempted assassination.
Kitty and Colossus walk away, as they can only listen to so much nonsense.
Kruun does recognize that Colossus was the death nail in Breakworld but it was his own actions that brought them to Earth.
There is a house ad for X-Men Legacy 250 – featuring the cast of Magneto, Rogue, Gambit, Frenzy, Xavier and David Haller.
Heleena, and those like her, are called – Augurs. Heleena and Kruun would never have met before, as he would never have looked at a lowly augur before.
Magneto approaches the couple, he wants to know how the metal of Breakworld works. Afterall, it was Magneto who brought Kitty back to Earth, and he has been (apparently) trying to figure out the metal.
The X-Labs, Utopia. Madison Jeffries hints that Doctor Nemesis wouldn’t like a stranger being in his lab. He calls Magneto “Mags” which Magneto doesn’t miss a second to inform him that Magneto is not amused with that nickname.
Magneto asks if technology or magic is the trick to working with the metal. Kruun reveals that “magic” isn’t a word they know – which is odd as I thought they had placed magical protection against the bullet, so they must know about it. Instead, they just call working with the metal as “weapons” such as, making weapons, I imagine.
There is a house ad for Uncanny X-Force 11, the team going up against Age of Apocalypse characters! They keep referecing “MMXI” the year of the X-Men – which I feel like it really wasn’t.
With the little amount of the metal, Kruun makes a weapon that hones reflexes – mostly, used by children. With more metal, he could make more impressive items. Magneto states that there is so much debris all over the state, he just needs thirty minutes. Since he open the bullet on Utopia, wouldn’t most of the metal be on the island? Or just he just fling the bullet away once Kitty was out?
Magneto leaves and Kruun quickly takes out Madison Jeffries, from behind! Kruun throws up a bag and inside are five vials. Magneto came back in twenty eight minutes. While fighting Magneto, we learn that the vials have the mutant cure in them.
On Breakworld, they have an expression “revenge is a dish best served, swift” as he ties Magneto up, next to Madison Jeffries. The issue ends with Kruun brandishing a decent sized dagger.
New World According to Peter Parker, Part Six of Six
According to the recap page for issue five, the only thing of note that happened was that Iceman got kicked out of his parents’ home and went to Kitty Pryde for him. She introduced him to Aunt May and now he lives there, as well.
That is one crowded table! Good thing Kitty is only visiting! Now the cast of the title is complete! !
Gwen, always never awkward, stands up and announces that she is Peter’s girlfriend. Gwen doesn’t want the two new boys to be chasing her, where she sleeps.
Aunt May restates the no hanky panky rule, she emphases it to Johnny. She kept up with the gossip websites, which surprises Peter. It makes sense, in this more grounded world, that the news would cover Johnny Storm like he was a regular celebrity.
Peter wonders how the boys are going to go undetected, Aunt May has a scheme.
There is an ad for the Honda Civic.
First up, Johnny dyes his hair black – the ladies help him. In the shower, Peter is assisting Bobby with shaving his head.
The big plan is to have Johnny and Bobby pose as Peter’s cousins. Over at Midtown High, the principal isn’t buying it. He suspects Peter is Spider-Man, so he can sort of guess who these other two are. Good thing Aunt May has a slight history of taking in nephews. The Principal, now that we are Post Ultimatum, is a huge fan of Spider-Man. He still rather the school wasn’t targeted to just get to Spider-Man.
Captain America : Reborn 6 is coming out, so this will bring Steve Rogers back to the land of the living – in the present day.
Midtown High School. Next Morning. Mary Jane can’t believe that the Parkers are even going to attempt to pass Johnny off as a high school student. He is age appropriate but he clearly looks like the Human Torch.
Peter’s spider sense starts to go off. I like Bobby having to learn about Peter and his abilities, I can see him not really paying attention when Kitty was going on about dating Spider-Man.
Peter eyes a female student going through a set of double doors, next, a giant explosion occurs. Then the three eye robot from the cover arrives on the scene.
Peter tells everybody to get out. Johnny really wants to help but Peter tells him not too. Which is smart, one can’t simply have Spider-Man, the X-Men’s Iceman and the Fantastic Four’s Human Torch, all suit up all at once.
There is an house ad for X-Necrosha that is starting soon.
Peter suits up.
See Jessica Jones in that second panel on the top row? That’s what got me to review this issue for this event month.
Spider-Man starts fighting the robot and saves the principal.
The Shroud shows up on the scene. Spider-Man now knows that the Shroud is not the principal, which is a clear joke.
While he was joking, the Shroud disabled the robot – proving who is the better hero. Human Torch, the idiot, arrives and burns the robot. Which, with the time difference, people are probably going to assume it took him a while to get there – so he doesn’t go to the school. Plus, the Shroud being there, they will probably imagine that this is a new team of young heroes.
Human Torch has to be told that he just ruined any evidence, thus any leads. So now he knows he is a rookie and needs to be schooled.
Spider-Man and the Human Torch leave the scene. We see the Shroud is also getting away but taking off their hood.
There is an ad for Fantastic Four 575, by Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham.
The Shroud is really . . . Kitty Pryde! So issue four is the very first issue that Kitty ever has had in her Ultimate career.
The issue ends with Mysterio being all proud of himself. He notices the police are getting close and blows up his headquarters.
. . .
With this, we conclude Jessica Jones Month! I really need to work on ending these in a better fashion.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 