Dr. Donald Blake wallows in self-pity, having lost his job
at the clinic (last issue); he receives a call from Dr Shawna Lynde inviting
him to a surgery seminar the next month and he agrees to come. He continues
moping….
Meanwhile, Moondragon flies her ship through space, no
longer feeling a connection to Earth and, now that another has been chosen as
the Celestial Madonna, her life has no purpose. She decides to look up her
father, Art Douglas, whose soul was reborn as Drax the Destroyer; she mediates and
locates him in space…
,,,where he is looking for a purpose in his life, having
been created to destroy Thanos but Captain Marvel killed the villain first. He
decides to destroy himself and comes across a hive creature which threatens him
with destruction should he invade their space. Since that was his goal, he
tries to shatter their bubble and one of the creatures covers Drax’s head and
pushes him out into space. Feeling the mental jolt, Moondragon races to find
Drax barely alive. Unable to remove the alien creature from his head, she
decides to go to the Avengers for help….
Meanwhile, Don Blake gets a call from Tony Stark, inviting
him to dinner with a proposal. Still at loose ends, Don becomes Thor and goes
over to see his pals at Avengers Mansion. Jarvis tells him they are all away.
Moondragon appears with Drax, seeking Thor’s help. The alien tries to kill Drax
but only manages to revive him, the Destroyer goes berserk, trying to destroy
everything in his rage. A violent battle results in Thor shielding Jarvis from
attack and being critically wounded himself. Thor calls down the lightning,
electrocuting Drax and knocking the alien off his head; the alien asks from
death since, apart from his hive, his life has no purpose. Instead, Thor
suggests that Drax and Moondragon take it home to its people; they take off
hoping to bond on the journey and Thor watches Jarvis clean up the mess….
“Judgement—and Lament!”
Writer: Mark Gruenwald, Ralph Macchio. Pencils: Keith Pollard
(breakdowns), Gene Day. Inks: Gene Day. Colors: George Roussos.
Synopsis: As Odin kneels among the slain Valkyries, Hela
Goddess of Death comes to taunt him and tell of her plans to kill him and conquer
all Asgard. Odin easily clobbers her and demands to know why she is acting
against him; she explains that she was cheated of the death of Thor (issue
#190) and by seeing Sif with her beloved, Hela realized she can never know this
love so finally when Ragnarök turned out to be fake (issue #278) she was
cheated out of her entire mission, and she sought revenge by killing the Valkyries.
Odin can offer her no hope just a pardon for her to return to her place in the
cosmos. He raises the Valkyries back to life and returns to Asgard.