New Avengers – Secret Invasion | Comics

Illuminati of Earth heroes journeying into Skrull throneworld to Raft breakout, all stories connects to "Secret Invasion".

Right after freeing his gang from S.H.I.E.L.D. captivity, The Hood launches an attack on New Avengers at Sanctum Sanctorum and thanks to Doctor Strange they were all defeated. Jessica Jones ran off with her child Danielle worrying about her safety and showed up at Avengers Tower, asking for asylum and willing to register.

Searching for his wife, Luke Cage goes to her old office of Alias Investigations but then figured out where she is at. They have an argument about principles that she has ditched now and this move has now endangered their marriage. Ms. Marvel and her Mighty Avengers showed up shortly after to break their heated conversation.

Danny Rand manages an apartment for renegade Avengers members that he got through his corporation. Echo seem not to believe in Skrull conspiracy theory Wolverine came up with and goes out looking for Daredevil. She gets ambushed by a Skrull posing as him and she was saved only for the timely arrival of Logan who followed her.

Years ago, right after members of Illuminati visited Skrull throneworld following Kree-Skrull War to warn them about interfering on Earth and destroyed their capital city; they were captured and tortured by running experiment. Before they successfully escaped back home, Skrulls extracted information vital about them.

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Emperor Dorrek VII ordered his scientists to examine and start working on their recent findings to come up with a perfect solution for an infiltration on Earth. He is soon approached by a Skrull princess Veranke and her followers form a deeply religious sect Dard'van, who warns him of a prophecy that foretold an end for Skrull Empire.

Seeing his authority challenged, Dorrek declared her mad and exiled her on a deserted planet to die. Her words will eventually come true when Galactus would devour their homeworld during Annihilation War. Remaining survivors of her race finds Veranke and made her a Skrull Empress, who immediately resumed Secret Invasion on Earth.

In years of experimenting, Skrull royal priests of sciences have finally discovered how to create a new batch of Super-Skrull, who could infiltrate among humans without being detected by magic, mutant powers or tech. Veranke wishes to take a role leading their religious crusade and chose to pose as Spider-Woman to do most damage.

In Savage Land, Luke and his fellow New Avengers members go to check on a Skrull ship that just crash landed on. They are all scrambled when a T-Rex attacked and Spider-Man comes across natives led by Ka-Zar and Shanna. Though they were not the enemy he assumed, an imposter Captain America showed up out of Skrull ship.

He beat them all and attempted to get back to New York but not before he was shot with darts and his true form is revealed. Ka-Zar tells Spidey that he and Shanna discovered a rogue division of S.H.I.E.L.D. running a mining operation for vibranium months ago and their investigation has led them to a confrontation with these shape-shifting aliens.

At that time, Spidey came to Savage Land looking for Sauron with his friends and that entire operation was obliterated by S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Veranke comes to Earth after she changed into Jessica Drew back then and started working with Nick Fury, who disappeared after "Secret War", leaving her alone to do her own bidding.

She helped orchestrated a mass "Breakout" at Raft, got invited to join New Avengers and meets Hank Pym imposter to plan on taking down Wanda Maximoff. Even before they could do anything, they all disappeared from reality and "House of M" ended with a massive reduction of mutant population that helped them further their agenda.

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Building up to ambitious "Secret Invasion" crossover event from very first issue of New Avengers monthly comic-book series, Marvel Comics brought in writer Brian Michael Bendis (Daredevil – End of Days, Daredevil – Ninja) to continue his run on one of the flagship Avengers title that would see a major cataclysm to unfold in 2009.

Bendis was joined by group of artists Billy Tan (Darkness/Tomb Raider, Elektra/Cyblade), David Mack, Jim Cheung (Young Avengers – Family Matters, Young Avengers – Sidekicks) and Michael Gaydos (Daredevil – Redemption, Jessica Jones – Uncaged) on his eighth and ninth book since it came out in two part, collecting issues #38-47.

This tie-in storyline sheds light on first encounter of Illuminati against Skrull Empire (New Avengers – Illuminati), what happened after they came back home, how they figure out a way to successfully infiltrate among humans, Skrulls getting into superhero teams and finished on a note after Earth has been liberated from invading force.

Now that Skrull army is defeated, there is a new power shift which gets S.H.I.E.L.D. dismantled and its director gets replaced. More to a new chapter will be explored in next storyline "Power", slowly delving into "Dark Reign" event. Both Earth and New Avengers have been liberated from its biggest enemy but are not out of woods yet.
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Civil War – Wolverine | Comics

During their publicity stunt for TV show, the young heroes of the New Warriors have tried to perform a staged attack on the hideout of the second-string bad-guys like Cobalt Man, Speedfreek, Coldheart and Nitro, that ended up in vanquishing them all when Nitro accidentally blew up in a massive blast and then escaped in the back of a pickup truck after causing a huge collateral damage to Stamford, killing many as a result.

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Woverine was fighting Arthur Blackwood and Crusader flunkies to stop them from hijacking a federal treasury. It ended up with the enemies losing and the plane they were in, crashing on a corn field. He then went to a bar for refreshment but then New Avengers and X-Men communicator calls him in. He learns about the Stamford incident from TV. The human and mutant superheroes tirelessly puts their effort in helping in this situation and Iron Man talks to Captain America about Nitro's current whereabouts.

He talked with fellow X-Men member Cyclops and Emma Frost about going after Nitro and in spite of their warning, Logan goes after the villain to avenge the deaths of innocents. Upon deciding that the nature of the blast Nitro produced during the incident was even greater than his regular extent, Wolverine goes on a personal mission to take down the man who is responsible for the infamous Stamford tragedy, which caused the Superhuman Registration Act to be created and the super-human “Civil War” as well.

As soon as he starts digging deep into the mystery in search for Nitro, he finds out disturbing information on the existence of a small group of stalkers who also is looking for the same person and has an encounter with them. Logan is anxious not only about the mysterious trio but also their superior, to whom they answer to.

Logan finally apprehends the human bomb but Nitro blew him up and a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to bits. An enraged Wolverine comes after Nitro to interrogate about his secret benefactor. Namor, the Sub-Mariner and his Atlantean royal guards appears to take Nitro for trial. When he digs deep to the core of a conspiracy he is approached by The Mandroids in a three-on-one fight and then he is about to be faced by the all-powerful superhero; The Sentry.

Nitro Strikes Again

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"Civil War – Wolverine" is a seven part mini story arc, that took place in third monthly ongoing volume of Wolverine, from issue #42-48, which by the way is a Civil War tie-in story. Famous writer Marc Guggenheim (Punisher & Bullseye – Deadliest Hits, Secret Invasion – Amazing Spider-Man) serves his writing talent for the story and sensational artist Humberto Ramos (Amazing Spider-Man, Superior Spider-Man) delivers the finishes for "Civil War – Wolverine", which was published in 2007, by Marvel Comics.

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New Avengers member Captain America, Iron Man, Luke Cage, and Spider-Woman, along with Dagger, Daredevil, Falcon, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Thing, Yellowjacket and Wasp also briefly appeared in this story alongside many other popular superhero team and character as well. Hulkling, Patriot, Stature, Vision and Wiccan of the Young Avengers were also included in the cameo. In this solo mission to apprehend Nitro, Wolverine actually went through a personal journey and made peace with some of his past.
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Fantastic Four – Disassembled | Comics

An oldest adversary for Fantastic Four and founder of Frightful Four super-villain team, Bentley Wittman AKA The Wizard returns with his old accomplice Trapster at his side to rebuild his old team once again and destroy his long-time enemies for good. In his virtual chat room, he was telling his fans that how the recent mishaps at Latveria have discredited his foes and how they are struggling to keep things together these days. He has also enlisted aid of his ex-wife Salamandra AKA Dragon's Daughter and one of his former teammate Hydro-Man in his brand-new endeavor.

However, instead of attacking The Four directly, he sends off his daughter Cole Wittman to seduce Johnny Storm AKA Human Torch after they have been chatting online for some time and let her father break into Baxter Building. She was successful in making contact with Johnny and The Wizard eventually got Reed Richards and his team on their knees for the whole world to see it. Looks like it is this the end time for Fantastic Four but hopefully Mister Fantastic will pull out something off his sleeve like he always does.

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Benjamin Grimm A.K.A. The Thing and Susan Storm along with young Franklin and Valeria Richards goes for trick or treating on Halloween night. He was talking with Sue about how there are so less people dressing up as The Avengers this Halloween and how they are perceived as a threat to public. Johnny and Reed were at Fantastic Four, Inc. office, while suddenly some major environmental abnormalities are seen across Manhattan. Multiple giant pylons starts landing from skies into surrounding water filled area of the island.

With The Avengers no longer available at the moment because of their recent incident, the mayor reluctantly asks for help from Fantastic Four against his secretary's strong advice. Though he and his family are currently dealing with some major issues of their own right now, Mister Fantastic and Human Torch immediately reaches out to tackle this situation. Meanwhile, Ben and Susan already had their hands full with holding back massive tidal waves that are about to hit the bystanders the moment they lose it.

Cavalry arrives soon as Johnny and Reed quickly came breaking Sue's force field to rescue everyone from scene. Figuring out what he must do to save their island; Reed led his team to one of those strange extraterrestrial obelisks that are hovering above the island of Manhattan. Inside they are initially greeted with hostility from a group of alien creatures and then met their leader named Zius, who has survived from the planet devouring entity Galactus long ago and now, came here with a very specific as well as deadly motive to stop the Destroyer of Worlds from consuming any more planets.

Manhattan Goes For a Ride

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"Disassembled" is two sets of three part Fantastic Four storyline that took place in the first volume of titular monthly ongoing series from issue #514-519 by Marvel Comics. Series regular writer Mark Waid (Onslaught Saga, Original Sin) and guest-storyteller Karl Kesel (Harley Quinn, The Final Night) took care of the story as artist Paco Medina (New X-Men, X-Men) and Mike Wieringo (Tellos, The Flash) aided them with their mind-blowing artwork over the course of two different tale; "Dysfunctional" and "Fourtitude". This is also a tie-in for major crossover comic event “Avengers Disassembled”, running parallel with it.

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Following "Unthinkable", the four adventurer of the unknown is pretty shaken and still trying to figure out what to do now. Then in "Authoritative Action", they got into more troubles when they unwittingly try to free people of Latveria upon defeating Doctor Doom, had to confront and a great personal loss. Just as they thought they have recovered, their old enemy The Wizard and his team of Frightful Four, back with a new scheme. The second arc "Fourtitude" actually served as an aftermath of Avengers disbanding and also set up a prologue storyline for upcoming "Rising Storm" arc with more stakes at hand.
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In the wake of the eternal mutant Apocalypse’s rise in power and the untimely death of professor Charles Xavier, Magneto, now head of the X-Men in this newly altered dystopian timeline has taken charge, assembles his team of the gifted mutants, whom are now the potential threat for the ruler of the world, Apocalypse. While discussing their mission with his team, he is joined by Blink and Sunfire, who came through a portal after being chased by Apocalypse’s minion Delgado. They inform the X-Men about Apocalypse's latest culling of the humans, led by his son and one of his Horseman – Holocaust.

A loyal mutant follower of Apocalypse has brought him the news of Delgado’s failed attempt to apprehend the two X-Men members but the tyrant himself smiles about it. After bidding Gambit goodbye to his own separate mission, Rogue, along with Blink, Sabretooth, Morph and Wild Child sets off for Chicago to face the deadly horseman Holocaust. Sabretooth personally wants to settle some old score with the Horseman of Apocalypse. When they met him, Sabretooth quickly engages in a fierce battle with Holocaust and their fight creates mayhem in the battlefield. Just as they are trying to fight off the forces of Apocalypse, the tyrant himself is also seeking to meet the X-Men personally for purpose unknown.

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Released from Marvel Comics in 1995, the four issue limited series of Astonishing X-Men served as one of the core stories for the then ongoing crossover event "Age of Apocalypse" that drafted the foundation for the “Onslaught Saga” afterwards. Writer Scott Lobdell and fan favourite superstar artist Joe Madureira pitched up this storyline that is set in an alternate reality of Earth-295. It was a different take on the classic Uncanny X-Men series and Joe Mad delivered one of his finest artworks as usual.
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