I can't say for a fact that this is the first time (more likely that was in Crisis), but it's got to be one of the earliest examples of needing to have read an issue of a crossover in order to get what was happening in this issue. Today's story assumes that you're also following Secret Wars II.
Now, don't get me wrong.
We all were.
But that should never be an assumption in the cases of "event" series. So, to fill you in, The Beyonder has decided that humankind sucks. He has no idea how to forget us and return to his own dimension, and restore himself to peace. And he's pissed about it. I'm not reading through the series myself at the moment, and I don't remember it super-well, but let's assume the Avengers decide it's do or die time, and they launch themselves at him. This is where today's comic picks up.
There's a great moment, when Sub-Mariner and Hercules are about to come to blows over who will lead the team in Wasp's absence, and Captain Marvel steps between them, knocks them both on their asses, and then tells them to go and make themselves useful while she figures out what to do next. It has been one of the true joys of this run of comics watching Monica Rambeau become Captain Marvel, and really begin to be a superhero. It was a wonderful narrative tool, as well, to bring her in as a rookie, to give the comic reasons to give us the kind of expositions that are inevitable in the comics of the 80s. With Stern's run, we feel like we too are being inducted into a very select group, and the history we're a part of grows up around the story quite naturally.
That said, I think after tomorrow's epilogue to the second Secret War, we'll take a brief break from Avengers, and I'll finally finish the glorious science fiction epic that is Prophet. Very. Excited.
To be continued.
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