We
begin this issue with a brief history of all things cosmic, including Galactus,
the Watchers, the Celestials and even the Silver Surfer. We then begin the real issue where we ended
the last issue, with X-51 speaking to the Supreme Intelligence. The Supreme Intelligence issues a warning to
X-51, saying that Marv is one piece of the Cosmic Consciousness away from being
all-powerful. This is apparently a
pretty bad thing, according to the Supreme Intelligence. The last piece that he is missing, happens to
be Nighthawk’s eyes, the eyes that can see the future that were given to him by
Mephisto.
With
that segue; we travel to New York, where Nighthawk and Gargoyle are having a
heart to heart, as Nighthawk has accused Gargoyle of selling out everyone to
get his “humanity” back. Gargoyle denies
this and leaves, heading out into the cold, among the throng Immortus’
followers.
On the
moon, Marv’s band of merry mutants show up to retrieve the Ultimate Nullifier,
which Uatu was keeping in his vault o’ super weapons. We then find out that the Celestial embryo in
Earth (that was destroyed by Galactus at the end of Earth X) is not the only
Celestial embryo in Earth. Each reality
(and there are a bunch of them) has its own Earth and therefore has its own
embryo just waiting to burst out all Xenomorph style and destroy the Earth. The rest of the heroes, on their way to ask
the Watcher where he keeps his Ultimate Nullifier see him travel through a
portal that basically takes them through history, not as active participants
per se, but more as observers, unable to interact, kind of like Scrooge in “A
Christmas Carol”. They eventually corner
Uatu and he relents, at first threatening to use the Ultimate Nullifier on
them, and then when Marv explains that that would be interfering, he just hands
it over. 
In New
York, Iceman shows up to help, while Spiderman goes into the holding cell where
they are keeping Spiders-Man (apparently the truce they struck at the end of
the Spidey Special Issue was a tenuous one).
Spiderman first wraps webbing around his eyes so as not to fall prey to
Spiders-Man’s illusions, though, and then he asks Spiders-Man to join them yet
again. In Japan, Xen fails at their job
of protecting the hands of the Absorbing Man from the Tong of Creel, and now
only his head remains until he is made whole.
It just so happens that his head is under the care of the one-armed Reed
Richards in Latveria. We journey to
Latveria at that point (Krueger does a phenomenal job throughout the entire
series of threading things together so that we go seamlessly from one location
to another as the action demands, and while this may seem like something
mundane and not really worthy of praise, I’m giving it to him because there are
so many damn locations in this series that he could easily confuse the
readers).
In
the realm of the dead, the heroes fight on against the minions of Thanos and
Death. Marv explains yet again that
Thanos is not special, that everyone eventually gets a kiss from Death (she’s
apparently pretty slutty, raise your standards Thanos!). Marv explains that he will eventually be
strong enough to kill Death, his whole reason for the fetch quest in the land
of the living it appears. Back in the
land of the living, Mr. Church is confronted by Gargoyle, who refuses to help
him anymore, to fuel his religion and the hatred and violence it creates. We then get the big reveal that Mr. Church is
in fact Mephisto, the devil, lord of lies, etc.
Next Issue: So, the devil has been pulling the strings, got
it. Now what?
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