and naturally once he finishes off the rest of Kree space, the Earth is next. Yeah, I would be pissed if I spent about a year as a nekkid woman professing love for humanity and being punched out by Sentry, too. Peter Quill feeds the Phalanx a lie to keep them from assimilating him, but Ultron doesn't buy it and tries to break down his mind with his Encephalo-Ray (say that 3 times fast), and not even the psychic aid of Mantis can help Peter for long, as she and Bug are discovered. Rocket and Groot (who FINALLY manages to say a second line) go off to set up a Plan B. Phyla is sobbing about the murder of Moondragon and the loss of her Quantum Band's power, and literally needs WARLOCK to get her to stop angsting. That's pretty bad. Granted, the ever-evolving Warlock is starting to regrow a pair, especially after landing on Hala and "feeling" all the souls of the dead (but being unable to channel them properly without his Soul Gem. Thanks, Mr. Fantastic! I swear, between this, once accidentally blowing up a star and saving Galactus, he's done more harm to the universe than Jean Grey ever did, and where and the Shi'ar and their combat trials?
) Still, Warlock gets in a line I am proud of:
"A joke? Yes, maybe you are! Perhaps you'd like to blame yourself for Moondragon's death while you're at it! What manner of heroes has this new generation bred? Your whining disgraces the PROUD legacy of Mar-Vell! Can't you smell it? It's all around us. Death, misery, destruction. There's a world to save, Phyla. An empire. BILLIONS of souls. But it's all about poor little you, isn't it!?"
That was awesome, and it worked, Phyla got it together, and started looking at Warlock as if she might actually be bi. Hey, lines like that helped Nova rise up, you never know. About time someone besides Peter and Ronan got some cajones. Unfortunately, they walk right into a trap set up by High Evolutionary, who'd made a deal with the Phalanx. Oh, right, and Ra-Venn talks again, and Ronan's big secret cache is 15,000 Sentry robots that via Wraith and Prax are immune to assimilation. Eh, not quite as bad ass as, a suped up hammer or something, but it is practical at least. I still get the feeling that DnA are hardly taken with Wraith and he really is only there for his power (Prax may be too, but she wasn't the star of a mini like Wraith was), which makes him seem more plot conviant than a character unto himself. AC is still a well drawn thrill-ride with defined heroes and one bad-ass villain, and while not quite capturing the "thunder in a bottle" of the Giffen work on the prior event, it still is very thrilling for me, and is among Marvel's better "events". Part of me secretly wishes Ultron actually COULD invade the Earth and basically go, "**** Skrulls, THIS is what a real invasion is!" but that would put him in the hands of others and that wouldn't be as hot. I wonder if any space types will hold Pym responsible for now having constructed a universe threatening being. I could imagine the Kree being irked. Anyway, there isn't a whole lot to say.
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