In St. John’s, Newfoundland, Speedball faces Attuma,
possessed by Nerkkod, Breaker of Oceans, who hurls his hammer at the hero.
Speedball uses his kinetic energy powers to redirect the hammer, sending it
back at Attuma who is carried miles away into the ocean. SB hands out Avengers
communicators to everyone, telling them to spread the word around the world
that these guys can be beaten….
But Attuma returns and after a fast and violent battle, the
villain calls up a tsunami that devastates the town, overwhelming Speedball.
This has been seen all over the world while Jocasta calls desperately for
Robbie to respond….
“The Age of Anxiety Part Four: Whiskey Sour” 3.5/5
Writer: Peter Milligan. Art: Elia Bonetti. Colors: John
Rauch. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: At the Thule Society castle in Germany, the Agents of Atlas
(Jimmy Woo, Namora, Gorilla-Man, Uranian, Human Robot, Venus) gather
around the funeral pyre Namora has created for her murdered countrymen. Jimmy
Woo informs them the M-11 has discovered the entire castle is booby-trapped and
set to explode. The team flees through the castle, encountering and destroying
one last Nazi robot plus Namora rescuing Jimmy from a big fall. They make it to
Uranian’s ship just as everything explodes. They see on the news about the
chaos all over the world so Jimmy apologizes for his romance with Namora and
heads to his refuge in 1958. Namora and Gorilla-Man ask M-11 what Jimmy
discovered on the manuscripts. M-11 shows them that Jimmy decided the world
would be better off if these notes were destroyed sight-unseen so he told M-11
to delete them without reading them. Namora calls this an utterly heroic act by
Jimmy Woo….
“A Moment with…Kida of Atlantis” 3/5
Writer: Howard Chaykin. Art: Howard Chaykin. Colors: Edgar
Delgado. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Warrior Kida of Atlantis sees his city destroyed
by Attuma, possessed by Nerkodd, Breaker of Oceans. He can’t decide: is he to
be loyal to Namor…or to Attuma who bears the Imperial Trident…?
“Legacy” 3.5/5
Writer: Kevin Grievoux. Pencils: M.C. Wyman. Inks: John
Wycough. Colors: Wil Quintana. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Blue Marvel returns to his underwater sanctuary
Kadesh Base to find it in ruins. He delivers a Chinese sub to a US ship
commanded by a Captain
Degraffenreid who hates Blue Marvel for his reputation as a coward,
accusing him to trying to start an international incident with China. BM warns
them there is loose anti-matter underwater but Degraffenreid refuses to listen.
So BM heads down to move it and encounters a dragon; he clears everything up
and returns to talk to Degraffenreid and they sort things out. BM learns the
other guy is the grandson of a platoon co-member from the Korean War. Degraffenreid
discovers BM is the officer who was captured to enable his men to escape,
including his grandfather. Lesson learned about fear.