In
Paris, Silver Sable tells Hawkeye about the impostor Red Skull in Algeria who
has stolen a timing device for nuclear warheads; Sable had sent an agent but he
has disappeared. She would like Hawkeye to accompany a second agent on the
mission to recover the timer and then she will intercede with the French
government to allow him to go home….
In
Algeria, Hawkeye meets up with the other agent, Le Peregrine, after Clint has
already made his presence clear by battling some baddies. Following clues left
by the missing agent, the two heroes enter a home, open a hidden passageway,
and descend into a secret lab where they find the Red Skull, gloating over his
plans to blackmail the world. Hawkeye and Peregrine jump in, fight the bad guys
and break open a vat of sand, revealing Sable’s missing agent—the Sandman. The
three agents mop up Red Skull’s men but the sinister leader sets the timer on a
nuclear warhead and tries to escape. Hawkeye disables his escape craft with a
well-placed shot and the problem of the bomb is solved by Sandman inundating
the timer with an armful of sand. They turn the bad guys over to the
authorities and worry about informing Silver Sable they destroyed the device
instead of retrieving it….
“Scattered
Lives” 2.5/5
Writer:
Dan Mishkin. Pencils: Tom Grindberg. Inks: Joe Rubinstein. Colors: Steve
Buccellato. Letters: Jack Morelli.
Synopsis:
Falcon and Redwing head to Avengers Mansion and Sam is shocked to see it gone,
until he remembers that the heroic team has relocated. He flies to Harlem where
he sees an ugly situation developing. A real estate company has bought a church
and is planning to demolish it to build a mall. The neighbors and congregation
members don’t like it and neither does Sam, whose grandfather built the church
and whose father preached there. Sam persuades the mob not to react violently
when a local crazy dude calling himself Scatterbrain threatens the real estate
guy. A cop tries to arrest Scatterbrain but the dude just hypnotizes him into
claiming the area is CIA headquarters. Able to turn the voices in his head into
reality, Scatterbrain transforms a couple of the neighbors into monsters,
attacking the others. Two cars become flying saucers, pursuing Falcon away until
suddenly they turn back into cars. Falcon realizes that Scatterbrain’s power
ends when he isn’t thinking about things. He returns to the neighborhood where
more monsters are wreaking havoc; Sam has Redwing fly at the bad guy’s face; he
is distracted and Falcon punches him out. Mob boss Victor Meachum, who owns the
church property, offers to deed the land to the congregation. Falcon turns him
down, knowing that Meachum is doing it only to hide his connection to
Scatterbrain. Sam would rather build a new church then be beholden to a slug
like Meachum.