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Stark is still in Asgard getting drunk in the midst of building weapons to stop the Serpent. He keeps on drinking unknowingly someone has put a curse on him. Some shadowy hooded figures plotted by getting Stark's facial hair and implanting it on a golem, the golem thus wakes up with sole purpose to finish off Stark.




Meanwhile Pepper Potts in her new armor suit is in Paris the place of devastation caused by the Grey Gargoyle. She chanced upon the Hammer Corps bunch of armored mercenaries there on a mission to retrieve a comrade. A confrontation ensues and things got more crazy when the Grey Gargoyle joins in the fray. But none can stop Grey Gargoyle and both Pepper and the Hammer mercenaries ends up in the clutches of the Gargoyle. On the other end, the drunkard and distracted Stark is busy getting drowned in sand. The golem is fast completing its mission in ending Stark's life. Lets see how he gets out of this.

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This issue is an introduction to the character Squirrel Girl as she was hired by Luke Cage and Jessica Jones to be their super powered nanny to take care of the baby. She does possess a long tail like a squirrel and acts like one too. She demonstrated her capabilities which includes a hand to hand combat test with Wolverine. Her extra super power is the ability to talk to squirrels and it comes in handy in the fight with Wolverine. Mostly the actions are centered on Squirrel Girl as the focus of story shifts to the fear event.


As the fear event is unfolding, she gets caught up in it too as she was in downtown when the nazi robots commanded by Sin started to attack the city. She managed to dodge the attacks by the robots and also taking down one of it. But the attacks are too overwhelming and she fled back to the avengers mansion where the avengers are just started to go into action to save the city. Luke Cage and Jessica Jones handed their baby to her and left. But the story ends in suspense as the avengers mansion is bombed after the avengers left.

The fine artwork from Deodato makes this book interesting in an otherwise dull storyline of a side character of the avengers that is injected into the fear event story line. Squirrel girl could be the next new member inducted into the avengers if she managed to hold off the nazi robots attacking the avengers mansion in the next issue.

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Spiderman joins up with the Avengers to stop all the fake Spidermans in downtown New York but got mistaken for one of the fakes himself. The intervention of Shang Chi helps clarify the matter and as a result Spiderman was told to take a break so as not confusing him with other fake Spiderman. Seeing that Carlie is doing all she can to help out the Avnegers, Parker gets an idea an announced that he too has spider powers just like anyone else in the city. Also did a good job at calling out all the citizens with new found powers to help out the Avengers. Sure enough the citizens with new found spider powers showed up with Parker to help thrash the fake Spidermans.


The city mayor Jonah Jameson issues a lockdown on the city to calm the situation. A cure is in the making to return the people with spider powers to their normal selves. Meanwhile Carlie got a new lead on the perpetrator of the fake spidermans who is the Jackal. The Jackal has not done yet and plan to unleash a more deadly strain of Spidermans next. Carlie and Parker pursue the lead to an old abandoned warehouse where the Jackal is waiting to spring a trap.

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The trail of blood goes on as the Punisher sneakily tracks the sole surviving member of the gang he targeted in the previous issue. Most of the action occurs in a whore house in South Bronx where Punisher unleashed hot lead on the gang members. Punisher leaves no bad guys behind this time around. So in retaliation the higher up bad guys hires a contract assassin to deal with the Punisher.



On the other end the two detectives investigating the mass killing in the wedding managed to question the only survivor of the shooting, Mrs Alves. But they end up with no clues as the sole witness is in shocked and traumatized. Meanwhile the Punisher's tracking leads him to the upper level of the gang members responsible for the wedding murders. But the bad guys has a surprise party for Punisher as he is ambushed by the contract assassin who is none other that the Vulture garbed in red. Is this the original Vulture or a new look Vulture is a question that needs answering.

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John's nephew Gemma planned to set him up by summoning a demon monster to kill him off. This issue reflects to the motive for  Gemma doing this as she narrates her story and motive throughout the issue. In the past issue John's body was possesed by an impostor an violated Gemma. John was not aware of what his impostor body has done and so do Gemma who didn't know this also and determined to seek retribution.


Since then she was not her own self as she waits for John's arrival towards a trap. The creature summoned is not stupid as it seems and tried to get ways to its own advantage throughout the issue. After John's arrival the bird like creature ambushed John and proved too strong for John's counter magic. John was injured and at his wits end as the story ends with Gemma walking out on him leaving him to deal with the creature.

The issue is penciled by guess artist Gael Bertrand and the characters rendering are different from issues by previous artist. The style reminds me of Eduardo Risso's penciling in 100 Bullets.

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The start of Spider island event is here. Things are starting to get weird when almost anyone gets spiderman's capabilities. And that includes Spiderman's girlfriend Carlie who is also a cop. Parker is now at wits end whether to let her girlfriend to go patrol around with her new powers. At the other end, a gathering of criminals is underway and the main villain uniting them all is the Jackal. The Jackal is planning something on a massive scale by 'infecting' all the criminal gangs with spider powers and also equipping them with spider gears.

It doesn't take long when the bunch of fake spidermans started to wreck havoc in downtown Manhattan, terrorizing and looting. Even Mary Jane gets caught in the middle of it. But help arrives when the avengers and FF arrives to stop the fake Spidermans. Meanwhile Parker and his girlfriend gets caught in the middle of a jam caused by the looting and Carlie swings off on hearing the disturbance on the radio. Spiderman arrives in the middle of a big fight. Spiderman got mistaken for one of the fakes and gets whacked by the Thing and IronFist. A pile of Spidermans are left on the street in the aftermath.

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A notably difference in this issue is it is penciled by another artist than from previous two issues and with very different style. The X-men representatives of Emma Frost, iceman, Colossus, Namor and Magneto attends the opening of the mutant museum. Unknown to them the new Hellfire Club led a bunch of kids are in the process of springing a surprise attack.




Mostly the crux of the story centers on the attack at the museum. The X-men underestimated their opponents because they are kids. But the Hellfire Club kids comes prepared with all the tools made to disable each X-men.

One by one the X-men are defeated and subdued by devices implanted on the face. The most interesting method are the one used to subdue Magneto by using his own magnetic power against himself. Cyclops and Wolverine on hearing what happens rushed to the scene. One of the mutants, Idie managed to hide undetected as she made frantic calls to Cyclops about the situation. In the end she saves the day by blasting the remaining minions of the Hellfire Club that is left but not before setting the place ablaze while the few leaders of the Hellfire club escaped.  A bomb expleded shortly after and it was no ordinary bomb as it ignites a magnetic force that assembles something resembling a Sentinel robot.

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More are revealed about the pass after an old agent codenamed Bravo resurfaces after disappeared during world war 2. It all happened in a mission to storm Baron Zemo's fortress. The secret weapon that Captain America and his team has is Jimmy Jupiter that can enter the sleep dimension and weaves it to his liking. Jimmy uses his ability to transport the team in and out to attack Zemo's stronghold. In a mission gone awry, Jimmy got knocked out cold by an enemy spy in the team, and goes on a long coma. That is how Bravo and few other enemy spies gets trapped in the dreamworld as Jimmy is unable to function anymore.

Presently Cap and his new team attacks a base that is believed to be occupied by Bravo. Cap disabled some Hydra agents. But not before an unknown Hydra agent which was addressed as the Queen escaped through a teleportation device. Looks like Bravo has many new accomplices since his time in the dreamworld.

It looks like Bravo has learnt some new abilities in the dream world by entering the dream of Sharon Carter and seducing her in the dream. She wakes up from the dream only to witness that Captain America gets grabbed by a giant hand belonging to a giant Captain America. It could be they are still inside a dream or the giant Captain America is a being extracted from the dreamworld.

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The tale continues with another victim of Wolverine. This time its a girl who is part of the Hand a ninja based criminal organization. Since she was little she was trained to be a ninja assassin and not only that, to watch her father and siblings die one by one at the hands of Wolverine. Seems like Wolverine has a heavy body count of the Hand that died by his claws since long ago. One day she came face to face with her nemesis but was cut down only to be revived by the Hand later.

Her allegience change and joined the red right hand to wage revenge on Wolverine. She was tasked to train the new assassins to try to kill Wolverine. Presently Wolverine faces a final villain Gunhawk. But bullets can't hurt Wolverine. He expired the villain but not before mumbling that the final door Wolverine is about to enter contains a whole lot of pain for Wolverine.




Wolverine doesn't gives a damn and enters the final door to find what is exactly behind that door and what exactly the plan of the red right hand. Theres still a lot of unanswered question here though and will finally be answered in the concluding of this arc next issue.

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Juggernaut advance to San Francisco is still unstoppable and basically this issue has lined up a whole lot of strategies that the X-men deploy in trying to halt Juggernaut. The first strategy is calling an old foe of X-men now turned bartender Avalanche to create chasm to stop Juggernaut. Its good to see some old mutant bad guy character trying to help out to stop another threat to mutants. But nothing stops Juggernaut as he walks through air.


In Utopia, Emma Stone and Hope are in the ward incapacitated due to the psychic battle with Juggernaut previously. Emma's mind is corrupted as she gets vision the phoenix, Cyclops previous lover is incarnated as Hope. Emma knows what needs be done and tries to murder Hope. The scene stops at the murder attempt though. Meanwhile the X-men is throwing everything at Juggernaut and there's detailed description of each attempt here from Pixie trying to teleport it, Rogue's trying to absorb its power and boiling its blood all end up failed. At last count there are 42 plans to stop Juggernaut and nothing is stopping him.

As the X-men runs out of approach, Cyclops enlists the help of Colossus's sister, Magik to stop Juggernaut who also derives his power magically. Colosus sister's weaves her magic and transport them into the Crimson Cosmo where the magical being Cyttorak resides. Here the artist's artwork of rendering the Cyttorak demon is topnotch and menacing with horns and fangs. There are that many shades of red imaginable in these crimson cosmos panels. Cyttorak is the creator of the avatar Juggernaut. Magik persuades Cyttorak to disown Juggernaut as Juggernaut now serves the Serpent god. Cyttorak agrees and Magik declares another avatar is needed and volunteered herself. But there's a twist ending as Colosus forbade her and puts himself as avatar. Colosus gets transformed into another Juggernaut. A battle between Juggernauts are definite in the next issue and expect more mayhem. Colonaut go.

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The ultimate action is all in this issue alone. The multiple action scene itself makes this issue a worthwhile read. Thor squares off straight away with the Thing and Hulk. Thor uses his mjnonir trick to outmaneuver Hulk and Thing but still gets a bashing. Thor strikes down the on rushing Thing by commanding mjolnir and the hammer strikes through the body of the Thing leaving him incapacitated but not dead. With the Thing out of the picture, that leaves Thor and Hulk to slug it out.


Meanwhile in the capital city, Captain America is battling Skadi/Sin. Serpent finally arrives at the capital city signalling his intent on world domination. The avengers arrives at the scene just in time to face off with the Serpent. Spiderman has the best line here calling the Serpent Beardo suck it. But as expected the avengers is no match against a god as all fall in one blast. The penultimate of the fight happens when Serpent breaks the unbreakable shield of Captain America easily. After getting a hammering by the Serpent the avengers are left to regroup to fight another day of losing battle.

Thor's fight with Hulk is not over yet in downtown New York. Thor knowing he can't beat the Hulk uses his wits instead by sending the Hulk far far away in a bolt of thunder and lightning that screams to be heard in the page itself. At the end, Hulk was hovering in mid space and entering atmosphere hurling towards earth once more. On a losing battle the avengers will be most hopeful on Ironman to create god like weapons in a deal with Odin.

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The story starts off with Roger, an ordinary man whose life was somehow destroyed by Wolverine. Here is the story of how Roger's encounter with Wolverine took place. Roger is rushing trying to get his pregnant wife who is in labor to the hospital. But they are being stuck in the middle of a traffic jam. Up ahead it was the Hulk who is causing the jam wrecking havoc on the road. Roger try to maneuver his truck to bypass the road blockage but end up hitting something. Out of the shadow, it is Wolverine that got hit and he is as always without a scratch from the accident and got straight up on his way to stop the Hulk.

The truck unable to start up after the accident, Roger carried his wife and tried to get to hospital but all ends in futile. From then on he blames Wolverine for the death of his wife. Roger then went on a drinking binge and develops a weird hobby of forcing homeless man to dress up as Wolverine to be whacked by his baseball bat. He was approached by a strange boy with red eyes, who I assume must be the devil's assistant who persuade him to make a deal with the devil. So Roger joins the red right hand and brings all the devil worshiping back to the club in order to seek revenge on Wolverine.


Meanwhile presently Wolverine has to face off with two opponents Fire Knives who attacks with fiery knives and Saw Fist. Seems like both of them are intent on this suicide mission trying to put down Wolverine. At the end they don't mind getting boot off by Wolverine as if they expected it. Roger now an older man already on seeing that Wolverine is still alive tries to go after him but gets killed of as the deal was to stick to plan. Looks like making a deal with the devil is not so a good idea after all. Is the devil going to manifest itself in the final issue of Wolverine's revenge is anyone's guess but Wolverine is sure a whole lot pissed. Tons of body counts is expected.

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There is not much of action in this issue compared to previous. The opening scene has Stark screaming and pleading his case of the dangers of the Serpent god to Odin while getting drunk. He finally strikes a deal to enable him to use Odin's workshop to manufacture new weapons capable of defeating the Serpent. But there's a catch as Odin gives Stark only time until Serpent conquers earth or else earth will be razed. Then Stark has to deal with the dwarves that operates the workshop. So the story is mostly about Stark having to convince the dwarves and get them on his side in his mission to manufacture the best weapons there is. There are a lot of dialogue and arguing even Stark having a brawl with a dwarf so that he gets his point across but he managed to achieve that in the end. And with booze as celebration.



Meanwhile the action shifts a gear as Pepper Potts suit up in an iron suit and arrived in Paris to check on the damage caused by the Grey Gargoyle. Unbeknownst to her there is anothers team of suits working for the Hammer industries already at the site to retrieve Detroit Steel that was turned to stone by the gargoyle previously. The team is jittery enough on inspecting the scene as all of human in the city in turned to stone. They spotted something moving and starts shooting with Potts trying to flee from the scene. The Grey Gargoyle watches from a distance and should make a meal of the team in the next issue. Potts now has to face the Hammer team first in the meantime.

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The story still revolves on John's thumb that he got from another guy, Tom as John seeks out who is the owner. John got to know the thumb's owner from his widow and at the time he was running scared from a local gangster who is also John's father in law, Terry Greaves. John soon learn that Greaves was paid to scare of Tom. At the same time Greaves revealed that he is involved with mafia that is responsible for antique treasure smuggling and he wants John's help in dealing with them in exchange for the information on Tom. John and Greaves had a deal.

Soon John shows up at the doorstep of the people that paid Greaves. There was a scuffle when Greaves also arrives at the scene and accidentally John found his original thumb to be used as sculpture. John feeling grateful on finding his thumb, replaced his new thumb with his own. That process involves dismembering his new thumb again and reattaching his old thumb, with a lot of yelling and swearing.





Meanwhile Gemma whose uncle is John, try to get revenge on her uncle. She gets the help of some witch to summon a demon to get after John. As the demon appears, she had the fright of her life. She begins to have second thoughts and a change of heart. It seems that the demon is much too frightening and powerful to control She pleaded to her uncle John over the phone to come and save her. What kind of spell will John use to outwit this demon.