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Let us fling ourselves, once more, into the turgid maelstrom that is our days of yore.
Clearly, there's only one person who can do anything to sort this mess out.
And that's Lorelei's big sister; the Enchantress.
The only problem is that, when they find him, he's about ten times their size!
But is everything as it seems?
Given that it's Arcade - and Dr Doom is allegedly dead - I think we can take it for granted that nothing is as it seems.
Sadly, I can't recall in what way it isn't as it seems.
Also, robot replicas of the X-Men are involved.
Maybe a robot Dr Doom is also involved.
Maybe a robot Arcade is also involved.
Maybe a robot Kitty and Colossus are also involved.
Maybe I'm a robot too.
I'm too confused to remember.
Paladin's there too but doesn't seem to be able to make up his mind whose side he's on or whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like he's going to live long enough to enjoy it.
As far as I can remember, on an alien world, he encounters a brilliant Earth scientist who's taken over the planet and keeps draining its inhabitants of all blood in an attempt to achieve immortality.
Needless to say, Bruce is having none of that nonsense.
And neither is Hulkie-Pops.
As far as I can remember, both DD and Widdy spend the entire issue complaining they don't know how to operate in a swamp and could be killed at any moment by absolutely anything and everything. Which, given their talents, seems a little unlikely.
Somehow, this all climaxes with a bunch of people being hanged by someone for something.
Needless to say, only Spider-Man can prevent the rotund rapscallion from carrying out his epic heist.
Infamy piles upon infamy when Madame Masque returns and promptly allies herself with Obadiah Stane who's kidnapped Bethany Cabe and sent a big flying machine thing to kill Iron Man!
4 comments:
LOL I had identical robot Qs while trying to recall the details of this story. This must be the issue that Byrne referred to during his FF run when we find out it was a defective Doombot since the real Doom would never let Arcade strike a match against his armor.
I think I might have had that HULK, the cover looks very familiar. I remember buying the occasional issue of HULK and ALPHA FLIGHT when Mignola was drawing them, but always being disappointed that Marvel couldn’t find more suitable inkers for him.
b.t.
That female antagonist wanting blood for immortality's similar to Elizabeth Bathory.
Phillip
BT -
I thought that Mignola cover was by Kelly Jones at first glance.
Just the DD and the Thor, as usual. The DD was the first of a run of bad issues, with either Kim DeMulder inking Mazz or else a stand-in artist. We’re not fully out of the woods yet, I guess.
I can’t say I like any of these covers really. Maybe the FF?
I went to see the FF movie on Friday and quite liked it! No messing about, pleasantly optimistic and likeable. It helped it was completely divorced from all the other Marvel movies of the last 17 years.
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