AVENGERS ARENA #7: This issue gives us a glimpse at Arcade’s life prior to the creation of Murder Island, and shows us the events leading up to its inception. Mocked, humiliated, burned and beaten, Arcade had all but given up. And then inspiration hit. It hit like a hammer.
INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK #9: Hulk and SHIELD drop in on an international arms dealer, and Daredevil swings by for kicks. But when a criminal escapes with a piece of “Thor-level ordnance”, Hulk and Daredevil break out on their own.
INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK #8: Stuck in Jotunheim (and also stuck in the past), Banner is unaware that one of his team has been replaced by a frost giant disguised by magic, and that their invasion of Midgard is imminent.
INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK #7: Hulk and Thor team up to protect Banner’s science team from the frost giants; but can they prevent the frost giants from using Banner’s portal to invade Earth?
INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK #6: Using a sliver of Thor’s hammer and a dash of mad science, Banner takes his team on a field trip to Jotunheim in order to mine for new elements that don’t exist on Earth. The locals, of course, don’t take too kindly to the notion. Plus: THOR!
CABLE AND X-FORCE #9: Following X-Force’s escape from SWORD custody last issue, the Uncanny Avengers are on the hunt for them. The closest they get is Hope, who is determined to help Cable whether he wants it or not, and has a few new tricks up her sleeve.
CABLE AND X-FORCE #8: X-Force spring Kliktok the Cruel out of prison in order to prevent Cable’s apocalyptic vision from coming true, & nearly all of them are immediately taken hostage by the alien as a result. Cable & Colossus, however, are captured by SWORD, who wants answers.
CABLE AND X-FORCE #7: Cable and Cyclops have a heart-to-heart, Domino offers Colossus freedom, Forge and Dr. Nemesis steal a spaceship, and Boom-Boom fights an alien that she’s trying to break out of jail in order to save the world. Just a typical day for X-Force!
WOLVERINE #6: Wolverine is stuck beneath the ocean with an army of mind-controlled SHIELD agents, and only a handful of allies, as he pushes through to the end of this mystery.
WOLVERINE #5: Wolverine has stopped the mind control agent from being unleashed on a stadium full of people and is en route to give his statement with Nick Fury Jr. and a battalion of SHIELD agents; but why is Fury and all his men acting so peculiar?