Catch up time!
The Avengers adventure in the Savage Land comes to a tragic end in today's issue. I do remember reading about this disaster in later comics - I'm not sure of its status these days, but for a while Terminus's destruction of this area was canonical and well-known history, at least to the major superheroes of the Marvel U.
Terminus has shown up prior to this adventure in an issue of Fantastic Four by John Byrne (which I'll get around to reading one day - it's actually pretty good), and perhaps there we get a little more back story. Here, he's simply a giant with a radioactive staff (simply!) that destroys the climate control machinery in the Savage Land and Pangea, reducing both to frozen, Antarctic wastelands.
Something I'm beginning to realize about this run of The Avengers is that the team is often called in to situations that have rather extreme body counts. It makes sense, in a way, that you'd have the self-proclaimed mightiest heroes on Earth taking care of the more blatantly destructive problems that happen. But we don't often see the aftermaths, and the Stern/Milgrom/Buscema run thus far has done a nice job of doing so. Today's issue is destruction on a level that I don't think I've seen since reading the first issue of New X-Men. In the end, though, Terminus gets his just desserts.
To be continued.
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