This
issue starts with a brief history of the cosmic cube, and the realization that
the cosmic cube might just be a Skrull (they have the power to basically be
whatever they want to be, the next step on the evolutionary ladder). It seems odd, but kind of right that the most
cosmic of macguffins in the Marvel universe is just some random Skrull that
decided one day that he was going to turn into a magical cube.
This
leads us to New York, where X-51 has come down to Earth to retrieve
Nighthawk. He takes Nighthawk down to
the street where last issue ended and we see Gargoyle asking Mephisto (Mr.
Church) to take back the ability to feel.
It’s a little late for Gargoyle to go all emo, but he hopes to make it
to his friend by sacrificing his newfound ability to not be made of stone. Nighthawk still wants to save him from
Mephisto though, even after his treachery.
We get
a quick aside with Daredevil (who is not actually Matt Murdock, that Daredevil
is dead) being approached by someone that was changed into a regular looking
human by the Terrigen Mists. He wants to
be changed back into…whatever he was before and he asks Daredevil to point him
to Reed Richards because, Reed is the only one that can change him back.
With
Iceman in New York, he has provided a little reinforcement to the torch as he
has placed a giant, thick wall of ice between the torch and the seething
masses. Of course, that won’t hold
forever as the mutants will stop at nothing to ensure that they stay
mutated. While that madness happens
below, Luke Cage and Marshall Muldoon decry the fact that the Silver Surfer
told them that he would help them keep the torch lit, but has yet to show up,
even though most of the other torches around the world are doused. Daredevil then shows back up amongst the
churchgoers and basically begs to be killed, which they happily oblige
him.
In Wakanda, Marv asks the Black Panther for the cosmic cube. The Panther refuses him, but agrees to put up
Marv and his Merry Mutants for the night in order to hear their argument. We then get a mini X-Men reunion as Beast,
Storm and Cyclops are all in Wakanda. Of
course, it wouldn’t be an X-Men reunion if Scott wasn’t mopey about Jean’s
death. Ten points for consistency!
I
Latveria, Reed is just now realizing that the Absorbing Man’s head is gone, so
Reed, Sue and the Thing’s two kids head to a vault to find Doom’s time machine
so they can go back and prevent the Tong of Creel from stealing the head. When they get there, though, they see that
the time machine is gone, stolen by the same people that took the head? We don’t know yet. The mutants on the outside of the vault break
in so they can kill Reed and make sure that he never changes them back (they
are lots of fun). Just as they are about
to make their move though, the mutants that want to be changed back to normal
attack, driving back the “evil” mutants.
Next Issue: Have the
good guys won? Can they ever truly
win? Will Reed change the mutant
population back? And what is up with the
cosmic cube?
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