At the end of the first issue of this series, Morgan LeFay attacked Doctor Doom. What does this have to do with Norman Osborn’s newly formed Thunderb—uh, Avengers? Read on.
Morgan is upset with stuff Dr. Doom did as an adult, but given her ability to cast spells that target any point in time, she visits Victor as a child. You know, sort of like going back in time to kill baby Hitler. Only Le Fay decides not kill baby Doom because the child hasn’t done anything yet–and won’t know why she’s killing him.
Returning to the present, she attacks the adult Doctor Doom and Norman Osborn’s team rides to the rescue.
Over the course of this arc, Morgan Le Fay, safe in the past, repeatedly picks different points in time to exploit weaknesses in Norman’s team. She sics and army of demons on them and turns Ares to stone.
She figures out how to turn the symbiote against the team. She spies on Osborn talking with Sentry about his mental health issues and then exploits that weakness, which causes Sentry to literally tear off her head.
Osborn’s Avengers manage to beat her, over and over, but since she doesn’t exist in the future it’s easy enough for her to just return and attack again.
To solve the time travel issue, Osborn and Doom back in time to Le Fay’s own era.
Doom uses magic to push Morgan further back in time, to a period where the magic to time travel can’t be accessed. Once her threat is neutralized, Osborn says he wants to change the future from their vantage point in the past, but Doom doesn’t let him. Yes, Doctor Doom is the arbiter of morality in this story.
While Norman and Victor are shunting Le Fay into the time of the dinosaurs, her demon army appears to kill Sentry.
But at the end, he’s alive. And appears to be angry with Osborn.
The Sentry story is set-up for next arc. Another arc starting here has the “real” Hawkeye, Clint Barton, exposing to the media that Norman Osborn is training villains to become Avengers.
Lots to like here–big action, great character interactions…I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: People complain about Bendis, and I know he did a lot of “big” stories and retcons, which can be exhausting. But he writes a fun story.
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