Before I get to today's comic, I just wanted to mention another one I read while having breakfast. I picked up a box of comics at a flea market this weekend (which I'll write up a post about shortly), and it had a relatively large run of Marvel Two-In-One in it. Issue #86 was utterly great. The team-up is the ubiquitous Thing and Cain Marko, aka The Sandman. The two are usually at each others throats, but this time they sit at a bar and have a beer while Marko tells the Thing his life story. I can't help but wonder if this is the comic where the Sandman turns things around and becomes a good guy, though I feel like I've seen him taking on Spider-Man much later than the 1982 cover date on the comic.
Anyway, that's a much more pleasant situation than Wolverine and the Invisible Woman find themselves in in AoU. Much of this issue is devoted to the interrogation of these two, to see if they're clones sent to infiltrate Tony Stark's security force on behalf of Morgana Le Fey. You had to know that things wouldn't be even remotely okay once Hank Pym was killed. An interesting moment occurs when Stark has accessed their memories of the previous timeline, and he notes that it will take him his entire life to sort it all out. His primary concern is not the apocalypse of Ultron that he sees, but the fact that Wolverine and Sue have gone back and "broken" the timeline.
Emma Frost points out to him that they're all alive, instead of being dead, which one really ought to see as a bonus, but that futurist in Tony Stark is more than likely looking ahead to try and figure out exactly what ramifications this reset of the timeline will have.
What's interesting is that it's not the first time Le Fey has been involved in this kind of reset. The opening of the Busiek/Perez Avengers run puts her in command of the world, or much of it, as well. In fact, off the top of my head, aside from Ultron and Apocalypse (well, and Doom in Secret Wars, I guess), I can't think of too many other super villains whose plans for world domination have actually succeeded, if only for a little while. One wonders why she isn't considered in the ranks of those same villains more often, though perhaps its the relative importance we, as a culture, place on the scientific rather than the irrational. The other three use technology, though vastly advanced, to cement their place at the top. Le Fey uses magic, and we just don't cleave to that kind of thinking much anymore.
Alright. The next couple of days will look into the world of the Stark/Le Fey war. I'm curious to get a broader (even a slightly broader) look at this timeline. See you tomorrow.
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