After a “horror movie” kind of intro where some young women stop by a roadside diner in the desert to find everyone inside turned to stone, and then a quick Dark Avengers vs Man-Thing sequence, the team is assembled, bickers, and then goes off to investigate that diner.
What they find is an abandoned town. Shortly after they arrive, Osborn finds himself transported to another dimension where he faces Molecule Man, the Beyonder, the Enchantress, Mephisto and Zarathos.
Oh, and he’s naked.
It’s not real, though.
It turns out, the abandoned town is Owen Reece’s adopted home and he wants the Dark Avengers to leave him alone. Manifesting his powers in ways we’ve never seen before, Molecule Man torments Osborn for a while with fantasies and visions.
ScreenshotThat panel, and several of the covers of this arc, pay tribute to prior classic issues. Like this tribute to Todd MacFarlane’s AsM #1…
Then Osborn attacks the Dark Avengers and pretty much tears them apart until Sentry figures out that he ALSO has some kind of molecule control power and saves the day.
And because this is a Brian Michael Bendis story, there are flashbacks. In one, we learn that Victoria Hand is a lesbian who put her career before the woman she was a relationship with. Okay. Not sure why it matters.
As with most Bendis books, this is well written and a fun read but the ending is rushed and unsatisfying, particularly because Sentry is powerful enough without a new set of abilities.
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