Earth X
opened every issue with a retelling of the origins of some of Marvel’s greatest
heroes. Universe X is no different as
the narrators, Nighthawk and Gargoyle continue the tradition started by Uatu
and X-51. Dr. Strange is the subject of
this issue, and we get a refresher course on his hubris, and how that hubris
transformed him into Dr. Strange. Back
in New York, it’s a frozen wasteland thanks to the switching of the polarity
within the planet. Tucked away inside
their apartment, Nighthawk tells his tale, while Gargoyle writes it down. When a page is complete, he then sends it
down a chute to the basement, where someone binds everything Nighthawk says
into books. We get a peek at the figure,
but we don’t actually know who he is (nor will we for quite some time).
In
another part of New York, we come across Marv and Cap (this obviously takes
place some time after “Four” as Cap is now entrusted with Marv’s care, and last
we saw, Marv was in Latveria. I will
say, Doug Braithwaite does a great job of drawing Marv as a young kid. Kids are not easy to draw consistently,
especially realistically, and Braithwaite does an exceptional job at it for the
entirety of the series. This series
basically turns into one big Legend of Zelda adventure as Marv and Cap traverse
the Marvel Universe to gather all the goodies that Marv needs to complete his quest. The first item on the list is
Cloak’s…cloak. It just so happens that
Dagger, now an old woman, is using it to keep warm and mourn her friend. Some street punks want to take it from her
because, well, they’re cold too. They
don’t realize that it’s a portal to another dimension though and the cloak
begins to envelope them all. Cap saves a
couple of the kids, and Dagger is bent out of shape as apparently, the cloak
just basically eats people all the time.
Marv does what Marv tends to do through the whole series, he tells
people how the dead person that the living are mourning is doing well on the
other side. Because this is the Marvel
Universe, no one thinks he’s a nutty little kid. Marv
then takes the cloak and he and Cap now use it as a teleportation device.
In
Latveria, Reed and Sue are back together, and because of this, Reed has ditched
the beard and Doom armor. Out of
nowhere, Immortus shows up and says that the torches are crippling everyone
(which they kind of are by removing everyone’s powers). Reed explains to Immortus that the Earth is
going to die soon anyway, so basically who cares if people don’t have
powers. That seems pretty shitty coming
from someone that just got their reason to live back.
In New
York, Spiderman is now a police officer who is stopping some thugs from
stealing food. They attack him, and
Spiders Man, the guy that casts webs of illusion shows up to cast another one,
showing the thugs that there is plenty of food for them to eat. They subsequently start chowing down on
absolutely nothing and Spiderman notices that Iron Maiden is hanging around as
well. Basically, it looks like we are
connecting the two series at this point, showing what everyone is doing at this
point in time. 
Cap and
Marv are now in Dr. Strange’s house, looking for some books of his. They encounter a bunch of mindless ones that
leave them alone at first and then turn to attack. As they are enveloping Marv, Loki plucks him
out of the fray. Cap reiterates the
position that no Avenger can actually trust Loki, which Loki debunks because he
is no longer the same person. While on
the moon, X-51 enters some ruins, looking for answers.
Next Issue: Does X-51 find the answer? Do we even know what the question is?
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