Although Doctor Strange is back, a search for his new successor begins with The Hood seeking his powers.
Now that Tony Stark is not Director of
S.H.I.E.L.D. anymore,
New Avengers are on the run because Norman Osborn is in charge of everything. Aside from running a new task force H.A.M.M.E.R., he has assembled his own version of "
Earth's Mightiest Heroes" with their twisted and villainous counterparts as
Dark Avengers.
Some heroes went underground and many like Clint Barton AKA
Ronin became vocal about their opinion on Osborn in public. When his team tries to choose a leader, Barton is elected and he picks
Ms. Marvel as his second-in-command. They ask for
Spider-Man to share his real identity with them and he reluctantly does so after all.
Turns out,
Jessica Jones was a classmate of Peter from high school and had a crush on him, which irks her husband
Luke Cage a little. Before they proceed to plan ahead to take Osborn down,
Doctor Strange arrives there to seek help. He barely survived an encounter with
The Hood, who is currently after his Eye of Agamotto.
It appears that Stephen Strange is no longer a Sorcerer Supreme of Earth dimension as he used dark arts to save his friends earlier. He has been looking for a new contender for his former title ever since and met
Young Avengers member
Wiccan in New Jersey but their conversation is interrupted midway when he sees Parker Robbins outside.
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Strange told Billy Kaplan to run and attempts to face
Hood alone but not only did he fail to reason with Robbins, he soon realized that his enemy has grown more powerful than he is now. Instead of running, Wiccan came out helping with his powers, allowing them both to escape from there and he came here to gather strength.
New Avengers insists on helping Strange as they were after Robbins, who has ties to Osborn. Meanwhile,
Hood goes to
Dormammu seeking help to ease his pain and meets
Madame Masque. Not knowing what he's been up to, she suggests that they go look for
Doctor Strange to get help and removes her mask before kissing him.
They all head to New Orleans trying to find the new rightful owner for Eye of Agamotto in a Quinjet that Carol "borrrowed" when she left
Mighty Avengers. What Strange is mostly concerned about is that even people like
Doctor Doom or
Hood could be a candidate for being next Sorcerer Supreme and that would be disastrous.
On their way, the Eye suddenly activates by itself and starts display all of its possible holders before getting disappeared, most likely to its new owner. They are hit by a missile by
Madame Masque, prompting Spidey and
Wolverine to go after her. Logan ran into heavy fire and
Spider-Woman engaged her until
Captain America took her out.
In his apartment,
Daimon Hellstrom was arguing with his ex-wife Patsy Walker AKA
Hellcat over phone.
The Hood comes at him guns blazing thinking he has what he is looking for but was unable to even land a scratch on him. They both get a glimpse of the Eye before it gets vanished again and
Hood is cast outside from his house.
Their fight gets ugly pretty quickly and caught attention of
The Avengers, who came in offering aid to
Hellstrom. As Cage and Doc Strange try their best to contain the fiery fury of an unhinged Parker Robbins, who has taken a larger demonic form, Jericho Drumm AKA
Brother Voodoo shows up wearing the Eye of Agamotto to help.
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Continuing his run on eleventh
New Avengers storyline "
Search for the Sorcerer Supreme", writer
Brian Michael Bendis (
House of M,
Secret War) returns once again to rally up the heroes to face a "
Dark Reign" with a revised team lineup and status quo for
Marvel Comics in 2009 that would spread across various other mini-series.
Bendis was joined by artists
Antonio Fabela,
Justin Ponsor,
Billy Tan (
Thor – Latverian Prometheus,
Uncanny X-Men – End of Greys),
Chris Bachalo (
Dark Reign – The Sinister Spider-Man,
X-Men – Age of Apocalypse) and
Matt Banning in telling his story within issues #51-54 from fist volume of monthly ongoing comic-book series.
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Even though Cage has been acting as a leader for some time, he steps down and Bucky Barnes simply didn't have old-school
Avengers experience. In a not so surprising manner, Clint Barton gets elected as current leader of
New Avengers.
The Hood, one of Osborn's allies and a herald of
Dormammu becomes a major pain for heroes to deal with. Although he went after Strange to steal his Eye of Agamotto by force, Parker eventually ended up being badly burnt in hospital. A new Sorcerer Supreme is chosen and more bad news is heading for them in next story "
Powerloss".
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