Miriam Sharpe threatens the mob who are planning to kill
Speedball, ordering them to stop. She makes clear that Speedball did not kill
her son, only making the situation worse. She also says that there are times
when they need superheroes and this is one of those times. She tells someone to
look at their laptop and the news comes in of the Serpent’s attacks all over
the world, including eight powerful individuals with hammers. Miriam tells
Speedball to go out and help someone, wherever no superhero is, to give them
hope…
…so he goes through a dimensional door back to Avengers
Academy HQ and tells Jocasta to send him somewhere nobody else is. She sends
him through a door to Salem, Missouri, where…
…Juggernaut, possessed by Kuurth, Breaker of Stone, is on a
rampage. Unable to stop the unstoppable villain, SB uses his kinetic energy to
add to Juggernaut’s leap, sending him far out of town. Juggy looks back and
slams his hammer to the ground and a massive chasm opens up through the town;
Juggy moves on. When the citizens of Salem come out to investigate, SB hands
them his Avengers communicator and puts them in touch with the people of
Stamford so they can help each other. Even though he is wounded, Robbie keeps
moving, he goes back to the HQ then Jocasta sends him through to St. John’s,
Newfoundland…
…where Speedball faces Attuma, possessed by Nerkkod, Breaker
of Oceans….
“The Age of Anxiety Part Three: Funeral Writes” 3/5
Writer: Peter Milligan. Art: Elia Bonetti. Colors: John
Rauch. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: In Germany, the Agents of Atlas (Jimmy Woo,
Namora, Gorilla-Man, Uranian, Human Robot, Venus) are exploring the Thule
Society castle where Jimmy Woo and Human Robot have discovered the skeletons of
many Atlanteans. The rest of the team arrives but Jimmy doesn’t want Namora to
see the bones of her countrymen so he angrily orders them all away, confusing
them by his sudden strange attitude. He goes back to examining the writing on
the parchment made of Atlantean skins, trying to discover what the Society did
for the Red Skull. They are attacked by a Nazi robot and the sounds cause the
others to come running. They destroy the robot but when Namora sees the bones,
she is offended that Jimmy wanted to protect her when she sees she must give
the skins and the bones a proper funeral. She and Jimmy break up over his
obsession with knowing the truth while Gorilla-Man suggests that it’s being
with Namora that has changed them….
Jimmy and M-11 sit on the roof, watching as the bones and
the writings are destroyed in a funeral pyre. Then M-11 reveals that he scanned
all of the pages and translated them into English….
“A Moment with…the People of Paris” 4/5
Writer: Howard Chaykin. Art: Howard Chaykin. Colors: Edgar
Delgado. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Mignonette Gotlieb muses on how she moved from
Brussels to Paris to be part of the magic city, only to be turned to stone by
the Grey Gargoyle, possessed by Mokk, Breaker of Faith….
“Breakdown” 4/5
Writer: Ben McCool. Art: Mike Del Mundo. Colors: Mike Del
Mundo. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: The city is shattered by rioting and looting.
Cardiac is on the scene to rescue people where he can. He comes upon an overturned
taxi with a man and a boy inside, the man pleading for his son to reach the
hospital to treat his meningitis. Cardiac recognizes the man as the head of a
pharmaceutical firm whose greed delays life-saving medication from reaching the
market—the situation which killed Cardiac’s brother, leading to him becoming a
superhero. He ponders the matter, then hits the man while taking the boy and
rushing him to the hospital. Soon, a nurse comes to tell him he was too late
and the boy has died. Because he hesitated so long, what the hero hoped would
be his redemption is just more bloodshed and fear.
Characters: Cardiac