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Tarot #2

Jan 2020
Alan Davis, Paul Renaud

Story Name:

(No title given)


Synopsis

Tarot #2 synopsis by Peter Silvestro
Rating: 4 stars

At Avengers Mansion, Diablo has used the Ichor of Ish’izog to seize control of the minds of Avengers Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and Scarlet Witch and had them subdue the Defenders. But Thor is fighting the mind control and deliberately left Valkyrie free. The villain has Hulk fight Thor and Val while he brings the other Defenders (Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer, Sub-Mariner) under his control along with Val and Thor. With all the heroes his slaves, he desires coffee and sends Surfer to fetch his favorite from a café in Punta Secca, Sicily….

Spider-Man and Daredevil see the Surfer zoom by and suspect something is wrong at Avengers Mansion….

Meanwhile, Hulk has reverted to Bruce Banner who is not under Diablo’s control and he seeks out Vision whose android brain is immune to the villain’s magic. The damaged Vision asks Bruce to take him to Pym’s lab….

Silver Surfer returns with the coffee, passing the Baxter Building where the Fantastic Four notice. Invisible Woman is curious but Reed Richards claims they are busy, with Thing and Human Torch trying to contain the Negative Zone, and besides, the Avengers can handle whatever’s going on….

It turns out the coffee is cold so Diablo orders Hulk to punch SS in the face—but he can’t detect Hulk under his control. He sends out a mental signal which starts to force the change on Bruce but the villain is interrupted by the arrival of Kang the Conqueror, warning them that Diablo’s action will result in the end of reality. Diablo has the captive heroes fight Kang, who shrugs and departs. And then Diablo notices the Watcher watching him before he leaves too. Then Yellowjacket arrives to fight the heroes while a six-foot Ant-Man smashes the villain’s mirror, breaking his control. The heroes realize that Yellowjacket is Vision and Ant-Man is Bruce Banner and when Diablo forces Banner to become Hulk, Hulk is very angry with him, scaring Diablo into opening a portal and fleeing. Doctor Strange sees that the portal has ruptured the Beyond and destroys it, trapping himself on the other side. The Avengers and Defenders then notice that things are different: there is no sign of damage to any of the heroes or to the Mansion. Cap now remembers the strange Hulk incident from the War (see issue #1) and it is in their database. And they don’t know what to make of it….

Meanwhile, Strange is hurtling into another dimension, hitting his head on an object and clinging to it for safety: a Silver Surfboard in the farthest reaches of the galaxy….


 

Review / Commentaries


Tarot #2 Review by (January 31, 2020)

Review: Another cool yet overcrowded issue is full of excitement and mystery with (as yet) pointless cameos by Spidey, DD, and the FF. And the next issue promises to be bizarre with its cartoon characters.

Comments: That’s Galactus’ home base in the background on the final page but I couldn’t work it into the synopsis.



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Preview Pages




Paul Renaud
Paul Renaud
Paul Mounts
Paul Renaud (Cover Penciler)
Paul Renaud (Cover Inker)
Paul Renaud (Cover Colorist)


Characters

Listed in Alphabetical Order.

Bruce Banner
Bruce Banner

(Robert Bruce Banner)
Captain America
Captain America

(Steven Rogers)
Daredevil
Daredevil

(Matt Murdock)
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange

(Stephen Strange)
Hulk
Hulk

(Robert Bruce Banner)
Human Torch
Human Torch

(Johnny Storm)
Invisible Woman
Invisible Woman

(Sue Storm)
Iron Man
Iron Man

(Anthony Stark)
Kang
Kang

(Nathaniel Richards)
Mr. Fantastic
Mr. Fantastic

(Reed Richards)
Scarlet Witch
Scarlet Witch

(Wanda Maximoff)
Silver Surfer
Silver Surfer

(Norrin Radd)
Spider-Man
Spider-Man

(Peter Parker)
Sub-Mariner
Sub-Mariner

(Namor McKenzie)
Thing
Thing

(Ben Grimm)
Thor
Thor

(Odinson)
Valkyrie
Valkyrie

(Brunnhilda)
Watcher
Watcher

(Uatu)