Blindfolded, Sally Floyd is taken to the secret hiding place of a number of heroes and ex-villains defying the Super-Human Registration Act. She assures them their statements will be confidential and they open up about the fears of the Act and the possible formation of an underground….
Meanwhile, Ben Urich is at the Baxter Building, interviewing Reed Richards who offers reams of data and statistics supporting the Registration Act with confident projections of its success….
Later on a New York street, Sally is part of a crowd which witnesses a fight between the pro-reg Bantam and the anti-reg Thunderclap; the latter unleashes his signature move and Bantam is hurled back into a gas truck. Which explodes, killing the hero. Police and firefighters converge on the scene while everyone stands by in shock, most of all Thunderclap….
Story #2The Accused Part Three
Writer:
Paul Jenkins. Penciler/Inker:
Steve LieberSynopsis
Robbie Baldwin, the former
Speedball, meets with his new lawyer,
Jen "She-Hulk" Walters; she is trying to get him transferred to a safer prison but his insistence that he is innocent means he will just be the scapegoat for the
Stamford incident. On his way back to his cell, he is again threatened by other inmates and manhandled by guards but he thinks he can trust his cellmate
Hickey (he’s wrong). Jen returns with an offer: sign the
Registration agreement and he will be sentenced to three years of community service helping
SHIELD track down unregistered super-humans. He again refuses….
Story #3Sleeper Cell Part One
Writer:
Paul Jenkins. Penciler:
Lee Weeks. Inker:
Robert CampanellaSynopsis
Police and firefighters are called to a disaster scene at a small pet shop. Detectives
Keith Dixon and
Donna Altieri investigate; it looks as though a large person broke out of the building. The shop owner, a well-liked but enigmatic man named
Joe, is missing. We see that earlier this evening, Joe and his wife were watching television which was reporting the mysterious beaching of a school of whales. When he hears the whales’ song, Joe gets up, as though in a trance, and enters the bathroom. He injects himself with a drug and stands revealed in his true form—a blue-skinned
Atlantean….
Story #4(No title given)
Writer:
. Penciler/Inker:
David AjaSynopsis
Wilfred Owen’s poem "
Futility" is applied to both its original context in
World War 1 and the first responders to collateral damage of the current superhero clash.