Back in
the normal series, we begin issue five with the origin of Prince Wayfinder and
his sword, a sword that created the entire world of Subatomica, a world within
our world. The magical sword lay dormant
after the death of Wayfinder, but came back to “life” to find Wayfinder’s
descendant, Arcturus Rann. Rann held the
Enigma Force, which he added to as he was in a state of suspended
animation. While this was happening, a
portal was created to Subatomica known as the Prometheus Pit. A villain appropriately named Psycho-Man
tried to invade Earth from Subatomica but was soundly defeated by all the
superheroes, so he turned his attention to Subatomica instead. Psycho-Man used his suggestion device to
cause Rann’s own wife to kill him. The
Enigma Force essentially died with Rann, ending up in the realm of the dead,
where it transferred to Captain Marvel (the adult version in the land of the
dead). 
Well,
that was a mouthful. We open the action
on the funeral for Cap. If you read the
special issue directly preceding this one, you would know that Cap died
protecting Marv. If you didn’t bother to
read it because, well, it’s not part of the series proper, then you missed out
on one of the central characters in the series meeting their untimely
demise. This is quite the odd thing to
do, in my opinion, but, speaking as someone that picked up everything to do
with the series, I’m not sure why anyone would skip out on the special
issues. Many of the heroes assembled
pledge to help Marv complete his quest, while Wyatt Wingfoot is none too happy
with Marv for leading Cap to his death. Thor
chases Loki away when he tells her that she can be whatever she wants, that her
destiny as a God of Thunder is not set in stone. Marv then makes the proclamation that all of
the heroes are going to Hell. Like,
literally going to Hell, not in some vague, you cut me off in traffic kind of
way.
In
Britain, the Tong of Creel attacks Captain Britain’s home to steal another
piece of the Absorbing Man, and of course they succeed. All of these heroes in the world and they
still can’t keep pieces of a dead man secure.
We are
back with Marv and his merry band of heroes as they head to the Prometheus
Pit. It appears that, in order to
prevent anything from crossing into the real world, Man-Thing sacrificed himself
to plug the hole. We get a brief history
from the Micronauts Proton and Neutron along with the glowing visage of Rann’s
wife. Basically, Psycho-Man won in his
attempt to enslave Subatomica. The only way he was beat was through the help
of Man-Thing who, when he clogged the Prometheus Pit, he lodged Psycho-Man’s
suggestion device within himself and released his fear burning tendrils into
Subatomica. Rann’s wife seems to be
speaking to everyone from the land of the dead, and of course, that causes
Scott to ask about Phoenix. He is told
that she is with him, that the dreams he has of her is actually her reaching
out to him. Marv then retrieves the
suggestion device from Man-Thing and they go about their merry way.
We end
with X-51 talking to Uatu on the moon about Galactus, and about how Wayfinder’s
sword was not a sentient being as he once thought it was, it was the star that
Wayfinder shoved his sword into that was sentient, and the only sentient star
out there is Galactus. We then see X-51
walk over the containment unit of the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence (the hive-mind
like creature that acts as the Kree’s governing body).
Next Issue: What does the Supreme Intelligence have to do
with all this? Better yet, what does
Galactus have to do with all of this?
Can the heroes actually hold on to a piece of the Absorbing Man, or are
they the worst heroes ever?
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