From Marvel Comics
Aug. 17, 2011
SHATTERED HEROES
“The war is over, and the warriors return home, carrying with them scars of battle, both physical and mental. Now the cost will be tallied, the casualties buried and mourned, the rubble swept up and carted away. But the damage to our heroes isn’t easily repaired, the wounds not easily healed. Decisions are made and lives are changed—can shattered heroes find renewed courage to go on?” – Tom Brevoort, SVP Executive Editor
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Yeah, it was a world war. Various Sin forces and Hammer-wielders attacked Newfoundland, Washington D.C., New York, Brazil, Dubai, China, the Nine Cities of Iron Fist mythology, Underspace, New Atlantis, Paris, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, The Raft and points in between. They were opposed everywhere by the Avengers and allies-- and the good guys were soundly defeated in virtually every case. At this point Bucky Barnes is dead; Iron Man has surrendered his sobriety as a sacrifice to Odin; Giant-Man, Red Hulk and She-Hulk have been badly beaten; the entire population of Paris has been annihilated; Newfoundland has been flooded; Colossus has become the new Juggernaut; and it seems inevitable that Thor will fall in battle with The Serpent (a Marvel re-write of the Ragnarok myth where Thor and the Midgard Serpent kill each other). The Serpent's entire purpose is to destroy the human race and use Earth as a base to attack Asgard, and Odin is prepared to raze Earth himself to deny it to The Serpent.
Right now things aren't going so good for Earth!
From Marvel Comics
Aug. 18, 2011
And I didn't even mention Cap's shield being casually shattered (he seems to have gotten a new one above) and the escape of the Thunderbolts!
I've actually been enjoying it, Cav, despite suffering from the same "event fatigue" as everyone else. (By contrast, I'm not buying any "Spider-Island" mini-series or one-shots.) It's not over yet, but we can see some results above: It looks like Cap gets a new shield, as I mentioned, but seems to remain Captain America and not "Commander Rogers," so maybe Bucky's still dead (again). It also looks like Thor is gone again (I hesitate to say "dead"), Iron Man's central repulsor drive seems to remain damaged (that happened in Paris), there's a new guy replacing Thor in partial Destroyer armor (Loki enlists the Destroyer in Journey into Mystery for reasons so far unknown), there's another new guy in red on the left side, and another guy in shadow on the right. And is that Hulk or Skaar? (The primitive jewelry suggest Skaar, currently in the Savage Land.)
Hah - no-one ever picks Rome...
...STPHIP ?
( Shetltering The Pope Hath Its Privleges ? )
From Marvel Comics
Aug. 19, 2011