Everything
seems to revolving around the Inhumans, who, coincidentally, are the subject of
this issue origin spotlight. Please
note, this was years before the Inhumans became the new Disney-controlled
Mutants of the Marvel Universe. Ross and
Krueger must have had a crystal ball or something, right?
After
the opening conversation and the Inhumans’ origin, we see that the Celestials
have arrived, towering over all of the planets, looking as though they are
going to pass judgment over Earth and all of its inhabitants. The scope of these “Gods” is well sculpted by
Leon, who shows the slightest sliver of a moon behind them in order to relay
their size, and in this case, importance to the reader. 
Back on
Earth, Cap is still trying to recruit other heroes, taking his “World Tour” to
Britain to attempt to recruit Captain Britain and those under his
protection. We find out that the Grey
Gargoyle had turned the super team Excalibur to stone, which depressed Captain
Britain and caused him to sequester his kingdom. As it stands, Captain Britain is still
against helping Cap, but we’ll see if he shows up things get crazy in
America. 
Speaking
of America, we head back there, to the office of Norman Osborn, where The Skull
and his entourage have cornered the President and his henchmen. Spiders-Man, with his ability to cause people
to hallucinate, uses his powers on Osborn, causing him to see Gwen Stacey. She winds up pushing him off a cliff in his
“dream” while in real life, the Skull actually pushes him out a window, where
he falls until his foot gets caught in an American flag flying on the side of
the building and his neck snaps, much like Gwen Stacey’s did. Talk about coming full circle.
In
another part of New York, X-51 appears from the moon and confronts Reed
Richards, showing him what the purpose of humanity is. His foreboding “we’re antibodies” shows a
much bigger game in play, something that the Celestials have had a hand in from
day one. We then switch to the Inhumans,
where Karnak is still convinced that Maximus released the Terrigen Mists on the
world. Medusa uses her thinking cap
though and figures out that it was actually Black Bolt that did it. She thinks
that he did it, mutating the entire populace of Earth in order to
prevent the Inhumans from dying when they moved outside of the hidden city
where they lived. Apparently, the
regular Earth atmosphere was just different enough without the Terrigen Mists
in it, that it was poisonous to Inhumans.
We
finish on Reed and X-51 and the revelation that Celestials lay their egg inside
the core of planets (Earth included), and superheroes are there to prevent
destruction of the planet until the Celestial is ready to be born and…destroy
the planet. Now, it looks like the
Celestial is ready to hatch, and all of Earth is doomed because of it.
Next Issue: And you thought the Skull was bad news, what
happens when word gets out that the world is going to end because of a
hatchling Celestial? Does Cap recruit
anyone else for what is turning out to be a pretty pointless mission of
stopping the Skull?
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