Avengers #7-13 Annotated

[Heralds of the New Universe]

Avengers #7 - "The Last White Event"

• Superflow! The Bleed in the Marvel continuity! Dreamspace between universes!
• Stations operated by Caretakers and Curators, being destroyed by some kind of rogue entropy.
• As universes die because of the Incursions, the Ascension Stations are destroyed.
• The legacy of the Builders, extinguished. At the nexus of all superflows, the caretaker orders all remaining stations to fire their white events. They are destroyed.
• The White Event arrives on Earth.
• The Light...
• Nightmask explains that a White Event activates heralds to shepherd a world on the brink of universal ascension. A Nightmask is a forerunner of change.
• Because the multiverse machine is broken, the white event is broken, so all the heralds are not present.
• Nightmask uses stark-tech to locate any other heralds: he finds a Starbrand. The selection of the herald occurred at a college campus, and killed everyone there...
• A Starbrand is a planetary defense system, but the selection process was broken, and it chose someone who has been ignored their whole life to wield a power to break worlds...

Avengers #8 - "Starbranded"

• The Avengers confront Starbrand, Kevin Connor. He freaks out and they fight.
• Captain Universe and Nightmask give us some foreshadowing: Starbrand is a product of a broken system, he is inherently flawed. But there is something else at work here...
• The system is broken, but it's also conflicted...
• Nightmask breaks the fight up and teleports him and Starbrand away. Captain Universe tells him to do it, even though it will make things worse and eventually put Nightmask in a box... right where he belongs...
• Nightmask shows Kevin the downed superflow station of the builders: the delivery mechanism for white events. There will be no other heralds to join them as a result of the broken system: they are alone.
• Nightmask explains that there is a conflict in the broken system: an older system that's not meant to operate in tandem with the white event...
• The Avengers return to home base and activate the 'wake the world' protocol to gather reserves.
• Tony mentions that he tagged Nightmask with a universal tracker, courtesy of Reed Richards...
• Just as Bruce questions the involvement of Reed, they find out that the two are on Mars...
• Nightmask tells Kevin that he himself is a product of the older system but repurposed for the new one. This puts him in direct conflict with his maker: Ex Nihilo...

Avengers #9 - "Star Bound"

• Nightmask and Kevin meet with Ex Nihilo and Abyss in the Martian Garden. Abyss tries to scan Kevin, but he reacts, and a scuffle almost breaks out. Nightmask allows Abyss to scan him instead: she discovers that the conflict between systems is actually a result of Ex Nihilo's own experiments. Instead of sticking to the normal gardener MO of termination or evolution, he changed the rules to try to make the Earth sentient. His origin bombs contained their own "human trait charge" that will initiate within its own organism and ecosystem.
• Self-awareness (Croatia), self-sustenance (Savage Land), self-repair (India), reproduction (Japan), communication (Australia), evolution/adaptation (Canada), self-defense (AIM Island).
• The Avengers see that the two fugitives have left Mars and are in Croatia.
• They witness the self-aware organisms fuse into an over-mind, the sentient brain of the planet Earth. It tries to communicate and absorb Adam, but Kevin perceives it as an attack and he destroys the over-mind.
• Adam says they will all be judged. Captain Universe tells him that she gave a warning: do what he believes is right, but it will end up with him in a box.
• The Avengers see the whole thing happening, and fight Kevin.
• The fight ceases when everyone comes to their senses.
• The Avengers believe Kevin and Adam to be too dangerous to remain on Earth, so they are sent to the solar station within Sol's Hammer.
• There was a lot of builder machine code, so here are the translations:
• I WILL BURN THE MEAT FROM YOUR BONES (pg.2)
• DO NOT DARE (pg.3)
• JOIN (pg.9)
• ALIVE (pg.10)
• CAN YOU HEAR ME (pg.11)
• I AM OF THE SYSTEM (pg.11)
• I AM EARTH (pg.11)
• THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN (pg.11)
• THE WORLD IS BROKEN (pg.11)
• THE WORLD IS BROKEN (pg.11)
• BROKEN (pg.11)
• BROKEN

[Survival of the Fittest]

Avengers #10 - "Validator"

• Crazy issue!
• Maria Hill and Agent Porter approach the corpse of Canadian Dept H Agent Robert Michaud. They access the recording implant in his head to find out what happened during the mission... and why he killed himself...
• One of the origin bomb impact sites was in Regina, Canada. Ex Nihilo said it corresponded with evolution...
• One month ago, Dept H sent a super-squad known as Omega-Flight to investigate the impact site. They were picked off by the flora & fauna within the dome; Validator leaves a final message, a warning: This place is death...
• Dept H gets the Avengers to come and investigate, led by Captain America, Falcon, and Wolverine. Michaud explains that they did everything to penetrate the dome, but nothing worked, not even nuclear weapons.
• Eden is able to get them in there, but Michaud tags along.
• The group meets an indigenous tribe of little yellow people. The guide them to a pit of orange energy.
• Validator emerges from the pit and raises her hand...
• Hello father...
• She whispers something into Michaud's ear...
• The group appears out of the dome in a desert, the sand beneath them a mysterious symbol...
• Agent Hill intercepts them, but Michaud shoots himself in the temple...
• Porter and Hill discuss why the Avengers withheld information from them, but Hill understands that SHIELD gives the heroes a reason not to trust them.
• Porter reveals he found 327 hours of additional footage of the mission, but it came from the past... and the future...
• Validator raises her hand as the orange energy pit casts the same symbol found in the desert.
• The Avengers are hit by a wave of adaptation and evolution, morphing them into past and future analogues.
• They see that Validator pulled Michaud close, and she told him something...
• As the Avengers fly home, they discuss the events of what happened, with Logan explaining that Michaud offed himself because some secret was more important than his life, the secret told to him by Validator, his daughter!
• Validator tells Michaud that something amazing has happened, they've made something within the dome, and now she must protect it...
• The system is now online...

Avengers #11 - "Wake the Dragon"

• Avengers go to infiltrate a criminal underworld exchange at a casino in Hong Kong.
• Of course, it doesn't go so secretive, Bobby and Sam convince some AIM bozos to quit their jobs.
• Carol goes head-to-head in poker with the AIM broker Mathias Deeds. He beats her since he was cheating.
• Everybody thinks AIM is there to sell something, but it turns out that they were there to buy an army.
• The army belongs to a group called Chimera; mercenaries who profit on death and war, a wicked kind of progress. Shang Chi fights against a couple of them.
• Shang Chi believes that AIM is preparing for some kind of war...

Avengers #12 - "Evolve"

• The Avengers go to the Savage Land to teach the alien children some good ol fashioned values!
• Spider-Man is still Superior and Tony is in space with the Guardians at this point in continuity.
• The kids were from the self-sustenance pod, so they don't get tired, they don't eat or drink or sleep or run out of energy. So the question is how they will fit into society without any want or need...
• Thor and Hyperion talk about the wars to come, and the storm that seems different than any they've faced before. Will there be another side?
• Builder machine code spoken by kids:
• I HAVE TRIUMPHED
• BUT HOW?
• I HAVE EARNED IT
• Hyperion and Captain Universe tell the kids that their purpose will be to provide and do good in hope of a world without need. Virtue unbound!
• Some of the kids then get kidnapped by the freaking High Evolutionary!

Avengers #13 - "Strong"

• Avengers get help from Garrok the Watcher who tells them High Evolutionary took the kids.
• Evolutionary activates a re-animated Terminus to hold off the heroes.
• Hyperion goes in and whoops Wyndham only to find out that he was using the kids as batteries to power the Terminus. Hyperion gets the kids out of the robot just before Thor fries it with lightning.
• High Evolutionary gets away.
• Hyperion tells Thor that he believed the death of his world to be the defining point of his life, but now knows it was the arrival of a new world. He pledges himself to these alien children. The acceptance of a family, of love, makes him strong!

New Avengers #4-6 + Avengers #4-6 Annotations

[Swan Songs of a Dead World]

New Avengers #4 - "World Eater"

• Reed and T'Challa are almost done replicating Black Swan's weapon, an Anti-Matter device.
• Tony gives them VR helmets and shows them what he's been making: a Dyson Sphere around the sun to use as a tool to stop the Incursions.
• Reed christens it "Sol's Hammer". Recall that we saw Sol's Anvil back in Fantastic Four.
• Stephen reads dark spells in a book called the Blu'Dakorr. Wong is disturbed. The spells require a high cost; 40 fallen souls... and one righteous.
• An incursion is alerted, and Stephen tells Wong that his estate will be left to him in the case that anything happens.
• The gang runs through some solutions, but no avail. Namor says fuck it and goes into the fray.
• This world was ruled by Magneto but is in the process of being eaten by Galaktus.
• His herald, Terrax the Enlightened, dunks on them. He says there's nothing they can do: Galaktus will unmoor the universe by eating earth.
• The Illuminati say screw it and fight anyways.

New Avengers #5 - "Black Swans"

• The origin of Black Swan!
• The Illuminati resolves to let Black Swan out of the cage to get some info on the incursions.
• Beneath her cage is a bomb, but they give her a necklace with the same explosive power if she goes out of line.
• Terrax from last issue ended up getting captured; they were too late to stop Galaktus, but they took Terrax for some info as well.
• Swan doesn't rock with Stephen...
• Her origin has a reverse of the first page of Avengers #1.
• Her name is Yabbat Ummon Taaru. She had a brother, Dadingra, and they inherited a key to the Library of Worlds, a gift from Sinnu Sarrum, the Ivory Kings.
• Only the great ladies, Black Swans, could navigate the twisted paths between worlds.
• Their planet got attacked by beings called Black Priests, descending from an incursion world. They are seen in the flash forward from New Avengers #2.
• Yabbat is the only survivor, she takes the key and flees to the Library. The Black Swans find her and train her in their way.
• Her world was an offering to Rabum Alal. The birth of Rabum Alal started the incursions, and every Earth destroyed by Black Swans is a gift to him, to save one planet until the next incursion instead of both universes perishing. One season longer... Wardum Uggae.
• The Eighth Way, shading the apocalypse: evacuating Earth and destroying it stops the incursions for that universe.
• Alternate Beasts use this method, and his name is known in the Game of Worlds...
• Black Swan has incursion detectors in her eyes, but they can forecast better; she can predict them.
• An incursion begins, but this one is in Latveria...

New Avengers #6 - "Blue Hell"

• Incursion in Latveria!
• The gang shows Swan the anti-matter bomb they built.
• They take her with them to Latveria where they discover this to be a different kind of incursion: a blue sky.
• Blue means Map-Makers: so there is a race of beings called the Map-Makers who have hijacked the incursions for their own benefit. They harvest worlds, wait for incursions, then send their Sidera Maris (Bridge-Builders) to conquer the new world. From the new world, the dead world is destabilized, and a piece of it falls onto the new, marking it. The marker allows the Map-Makers to locate it and begin the cycle once more. Somehow, they can travel the multiverse at will.
• Doom and Kristoff take on the Sidera Maris, but Panther is worried about the actions of the Illuminati getting found out since Latveria is a surveillance state.
• The group agrees to destroy the dead world.
• Reed thanks Swan for her help.
• Swan telepathically conspires with Terrax, claiming they can be useful to each other in the future. He doesn't miss Galaktus, but he misses finding worlds to destroy.
• Doom's minions find a remnant of the dead world, a marker...

[Heroes Assembled]

Avengers #4 - "The Death & Resurrection of Major Titans"

• Origin of Hyperion!
• His world was destroyed by the Incursions. he tried to hold both earths apart but failed. He survived the death of the two realities but was snatched out of the void by AIM. He was then freed by the Avengers.
• The Avengers discover a sixth impact site of the origin bombs that Ex Nihilo unleashed, in the savage land.
• They intercept the AIM scientists trying to claim it, and the pods burst to reveal little alien children. Hyperion is their new dad.
• However, the AIM scientists find the seventh site in Norway, and an individual encased in crystal...

Avengers #5 - "Superguardian"

• Origin of Smasher!
• Flashback to the New X-men arc Imperial, the Shi'ar are attacked by Cassandra Nova and Smasher falls to Earth to warn the X-Men. A piece of his goggles is left behind, living armor picked up by Isabel Kane. She becomes the new Smasher, and is initiated as a Sub-Guardian of the Shi'ar.
• Her gramps was Captain Terror, an old ally of Cap. He puts her in touch with the Avengers.
• in present day, Stark finds out that the new man built by Ex Nihilo is called Adam/Blackveil.
• Cap and Smasher lead an Avengers squad to the help the Shi'ar against an invasion. They win, and Isabel becomes a Super-Guardian.
• Gladiator and the Superguardians discover that the invading race was actually running from something...

Avengers #6 - "Zen and the Art of Cosmology"

• The origin of Captain Universe!
• She was a single mother with her daughter in a car crash. She was in a coma for ten years.
• The Universe selected her because they were both broken and dying. Earth is the axis that the multiverse spins on.
• Spider-Man is Superior right now, douchebag Otto in our best boy.
• Shang Chi gets our Mother/Cap Universe back on track; Tamara Devoux faces grief.
• But nobody knows what happened to her daughter...
• Tony is still trying to decode the builder language to communicate with Blackveil.
• Cap Universe speaks builder machine code and reveals his name is actually Nightmask. She completes Tony's translator and gives Nightmask English:
• The System is broken, it's coming, the White Event...

New Avengers #1-3 + Avengers #1-3 Annotations

[Illuminated]

New Avengers #1 - "Memento Mori"

• And it begins!
• Recap page: clipped scene from one of the Bendis comics with the Illuminati (one that I don't care to look up) where T'Challa declines the membership and warns them of disagreement in their future endeavors to shepherd the world...
• Reed gives us his everything dies speech; it's inevitable, and I accept it...
• In Wakanda, a group of tech'ed out kids complete a gauntlet of trials, becoming fitting candidates for the Wakandan space program. Black Panther congratulates them, but not before discovering a hidden vibrational threshold.
• On the other side, we see an Earth in the sky. Black Swan and Manifold descend with some foot-soldiers from this Earth, planting a device while they speak in high Sumerian.
• The Wakandans confront them, but the kids don't make it out.
• Mentions of Incursions, the great destroyer Rabum Alal, and the Wheel...
• Apparently Manifold teamed up with Swan to destroy his planet, but she kills him anyways.
• Swan activates the device and destroys the Earth in the sky, but Panther KO's her.
• Panther recalls a meeting with Bast, who warns him of dark days ahead, worlds dying, and those who answer the call of a desperate man...
• The Illuminati!
• Iron Man, Cap, Namor, Black Bolt, Doctor Strange, and Reed Richards!

New Avengers #2 - "In Secret, They Rule"

• Reed interrogates Black Swan beneath the Necropolis.
• Something is hidden within her...
• The Wheel demands an offering, and the destroyer gets his due...
• The Wheel shames the weak; it breaks hope and crushes decency and steals honor...
• What comes next...
• Tension between Namor and T'Challa (I assume because of AvX). T'Challa says he will kill Namor.
• Reed gives the everything dies speech, and then lays out the known ground rules for the incursions.
• The death of one universe causes the end of everything early, contractions in the multiverse, a domino effect of colliding universes.
• Incursions last for 8 hours, two earths in the same space. Either destroy the other Earth, or both universes perish. Black Swan used a device to destroy the other world.
• Cap rejects any immoral or consequentialist course of action, presenting the idea of using the Infinity Gauntlet as a way out.
• They split up to gather the remaining gem (since Charles is dead) while Tony, T'Challa, and Reed build an early defense system.
• Hints of what's coming: some reptilian creatures, flying helmed beings, alternate heroes, and robotic soldiers...
• Reed and T'Challa meet: two possibilities for the cause of the incursions, either it's natural, or someone is behind it. Reed says if the plan with the gauntlet doesn't work, then they must learn to destroy a world...

New Avengers #3 - "Infinity"

• DAMN!
• Hank McCoy Beast joins the Illuminati in place of Charles Xavier. He brings the final gem along with him.
• The gang finishes the early warning system, devices implanted in their palms.
• They put together the gauntlet when an incursion appears, and Cap uses it to push the reality back.
• It works, but some kind of feedback shatters all of the gems, except for the time gem which disappears.
• Steve says there is no way he's going to let the rest of them build WMD's to stave off the incursions, and they all agree to mind-wipe him with Strange's magic.

[Eden on the Red Planet]

Avengers #1 - "Avengers World"

• Tony and Cap resolve to expand the Avengers... an Avengers World!
• Cap has bad dreams about the mind-wipe...
• On Mars, Ex Nihilo and Aleph and Abyss are up to no good. They've come to judge Earth; Aleph has chosen to raze the planet. They send Origin Bombs to evolve flora and fauna on Earth. Two of them hit Australia and Canada.
• Ex is making his own perfected artificial man...
• The movie lineup of the Avengers come to take these villains on; they get shredded.
• Cap is sent back to earth in the Quinjet as a warning, he assembles the backup roster he and Tony put together.
• Wake the world!
• Before the Light...
• Before the War...
• Before the Fall...

Avengers #2 - "We Were Avengers"

• Recruitment season!
• Avengers Machine: Spider-Man, Falcon, Wolverine, Eden Fesi (from Secret Warriors!) as Manifold, Captain Marvel, Shang-Chi, Spider-Woman, Hyperion, Smasher, Captain Universe, Sunspot and Cannonball.
• So our three stooges were created by The Builders, the first race born in the universe. They worshipped the female incarnation of the universe, but then decided to remake all of reality as they see fit.
• The Aleph judges worlds and purges them accordingly, carrying two seeds within him: an Ex Nihilo and an Abyss. The Ex & Abyss can choose to evolve the surviving worlds to their full potential in the new design of the universe.
• A ton of Origin Bombs land on Earth, striking Japan, India, Savage Land, Croatia, and Norway.
• Cap gets Manifold to transport the new Avengers roster to Mars.

Avengers #3 - "The Garden"

• The perfected artificial man, Adam, is born. He starts spewing builder machine code, referencing something called a White Event, and how the universe is broken, and the builders have left the machine.
• Ex Nihilo is psyched, life is chaos, evolution is unpredictable!
• The Avengers fight the three interlopers; Captain Universe pretty much one-shots them since apparently her suit is the embodiment of the universe that the builders worship.
• She talks about 'a crash' and pie...
• Falcon speaks to the birds on Mars, they have some kind of natural psychic link with the dogs Ex spawns, and they depart together.
• Aleph gets nuked by Captain Universe, but Ex and Abyss are chill. They decide to stay on Mars.
• One was life, one was death! Cap and Tony!

Fantastic Four #605-611 + FF #16-23 Annotations

[Four Reborn]

FF #16 - "One Step Beyond" [3/28/12]

• Val narrated chapter.
• Fallout from the War of Four Cities and the battle with the Mad Celestials.
• Future Frank and Galactus watch the sunset, Galen is happy he doesn't have to watch the universe end alone.
• New and improved Baxter Building.
• Space station called Foundation.
• Johnny is going to move in with Pete!
• Intervention with Valeria. She promises not to keep anymore secrets.
• But she did keep a secret: she told Doom to stay alive, for there is something beneath the Council that is worth finding...
• He finds the corpses of Suit-Reed and Beard-Reed and their Infinity Gauntlets, but he also finds the Hole with the lobotomized Dooms.
• Here, I can build.

Fantastic Four #605 - "End of Line"

• Fun little story where Reed and Nate go forward in time by 1000-year intervals.
• 3012: Franklin, Spider-Woman, a human torch analogue, and Ben Grimm lead the FF.
• Ben only ages once a year when he's normal for a week.
• 4012: Franklin dips to hang with marvel cosmic.
• 5012: Ben is still alive, an old man, reminiscing about times past as he speaks to the memorial of his friends Reed, Sue, and Johnny.
• 6012: Ben's funeral attended by Franklin.

Fantastic Four #605.1 - "Origin Story"

• Origin of Beard-Reed who is actually Nazi-Reed + how the Council came to be.
• Hickman builds his own version of DC's Earth-X.
• Loved the follow up to Beard-Reed having a little bit of Doom in him, mentioned way back in #571.

Fantastic Four #606 - "Adventures in Red"

• The gang removes a tumor from the brain of Willie Lumpkin!

FF #17 - "The Roommate Experience"

• Hickman + Dragotta = Hilarious.
• This was amazing.
• Johnny has a portal to the Negative Zone in Pete's apartment. Pete's trying to get rid of him.
• The get drunk on cosmic mare's milk. Pretty sure Johnny bangs Mary Jane.
• The final straw is Pete finding Annihilus dropping bombs in his toilet.

FF #18 - "What Do You Call The Opposite Of a Field Trip?" [5/30/12]

• Fantastic issue!
• We wrap up the Negative Zone sub-plot with a field trip into the anti-verse!
• Meanwhile, the Kree/Inhuman war is settled with both Franks fixing the Halan star. Future-Frank warns Black Bolt that he must be on Earth, for something wicked this way comes! Incursion hinting!
• Punchline on that last page was hilarious.

[Ancient History]

Fantastic Four #607 - "Inert" [6/13/12]

• Wakanda! Black Panther! Storm!
• Recap for an event I didn't read: T'Challa renders all Vibranium inert in order to prevent Doom from exploiting it. However, T'Challa reveals in this that his process of liquidating Vibranium and investing it has kept the country's economy intact.
• Crazy Egyptian pantheon lore! War between Amun-Ra and Anubis! Amun-Ra is beaten, but he hides his knowledge in his heart, which he gives to Bast to prevent from falling in the hands of Anubis. Bast goes to the Wakandans and drops the heart in a well. Using the remaining blood, she paints the face of one of them; red paste of knowledge. And so begins the reign of Wakanda.
• The way things are... the burning cycle... the first and last hunt... the great circle...
• The throne room is attacked by the soldiers of Anubis.
• Equilibrium, harmonics, fate... everything lives... everything dies...
• T'Challa and Reed arrive at a well... right before a temple of Amun-Ra
• Storm, Shuri, and Sue go to meet with Bast.

Fantastic Four #608 - "City of The Dead"

• Beneath Wakanda, behind the wall of knowledge, lies the Necropolis: City of the Dead, where all Black Panthers are laid to rest.
• T'Challa has been guided by a dream, and he and Reed enter.
• They meet with Bast who judges T'Challa. Reed's presence cements a bond between him and T'Challa that will never be broken.
• We get some foreshadowing about Avengers vs X-Men (which I don't really care about)
• T'Challa wants to be the Panther once more, but Shuri retains the position while T'Challa becomes the King of the Dead. He now has the strength and knowledge of every past Black Panther.
• Meanwhile, Shuri Storm and Sue face off against Anubis in the spirit-realm. They get some good licks in while Bast finishes the job.
• Dark Days are coming, and Reed and T'Challa must face them together!

FF #19 - "Safari"

• A new addition to the FF! Onome!
• Hyena Clan, bad news, they clean em up pretty well.
• Just a fun romp!

FF #20 - "Deus Ex Inhuman"

• House-keeping!
• Inhumans return to Earth! Light Brigade is welcomed, they won the unwinnable battle!
• Annihilus is drop-kicked back to the Negative Zone. Johnny keeps the control rod for leverage.
• Bentley and Val blossoming friendship...
• Future-Frank drops off Franklin at normal school, hinting at his future friendships.
• Medusa interrupts Ronan and Crystal; Black Bolt has summoned her home...

FF #21 - "Ronance"

• Hearts break!
• More revelations on the peace between Black Bolt and Supremor: they agree on a ceasefire as a result of the oncoming death of everything.
• However, Ronan has to return to Hala and break off his Ronance with Crystal.
• Nerds cry.
• At least Pete got a reunion with his centurion spitfire.

Fantastic Four #609 - "The God Ship" [8/8/12]

• Wrap up the Nu-World plot threads. They use the corpse of the OML Galactus as a time vessel, a 'god-ship' that will take them lightyears into the future.
• Banner Jr decides to rejoin them.

[Fantastic Finale]

Fantastic Four #610 - "The Wizard" [9/12/12]

• AIM buys the island of Barbuda. Cap, Pym, Tony, and Reed meet with the Prez.
• Reed leads the Four to invade the island. They fight against the beekeepers bozos and The Wizard, but Scientist Supreme dispatches him and reveals a peace treaty.
• Barbuda is now AIM Island, legally purchased, with Reed as their American ambassador. In exchange, the Four are given custody of Wizard.
• Wizard is sick, he has a massive brain tumor, but he hints at Reed split by light and shadow before men of night and day...
• Reed leaves Wizard to meet with his clone Bentley. Bentley presents the helm of the Wizard, but Wizard tells him to put it on...

FF #22 - "You Are Whatever You Want To Be"

• Bentley rejects his dad. Kicks him in the balls. Great stuff.
• Val is three????? Wtf.
• We can defy our nature! Great stuff!
• Fun little character pieces.

Fantastic Four #611 - "Foundation"

• Doom uses the Infinity Gauntlet found in the Council remains to rebuild its destroyed universe of origin in his own image!
• However, the nature of a Doom universe betrays and imprisons him.
• Future Val, Nate, and Reed go to save him.
• They convince the six Doom-lords to release Doom, but one of them sends a Doom-dragon to stop them. Just as they cross the portal, the doom-dragon barely stops them, but not before the lobotomized dooms sacrifice themselves to save Victor.
• Nate plans to visit all the multiversal reeds without dads to make up his penance while Val will apparently use the council dimension for her own designs.
• Here, I can build!

FF #23 - "Run" [10/24/12]

• So good!
• Future Frank takes Leech and his younger self into a no rules adventure in the closet pocket universe. It's so much fun and Dragotta gets to stretch his legs really well.
• Future-Frank says goodbye to everyone. Leech, Val, and even a happy hour with Ben and Johnny where we get a future preview of the Frank-tastic four!
• Frank says goodbye to his parents, he needs to leave because two Franklins in the same time period will cause disturbances in the universe, especially with what's coming next.
• Frank tells his parents they did a great job of raising him, and says goodbye.
• When the threshold between who you are and who you can be presents itself, do not walk through... run!