CAGE #14: The Corporation has turned Cage’s brother James into the super-powered Coldfire—and Coldfire is holding a grudge against him! Can they put aside their differences long enough to rescue their father?
CAGE #13: Cage engages in a knock-down, drag-out fight with a mechanized messenger of the Tinkerer, who wants Cage’s help in rescuing his son from The Corporation—the same folks, it turns out, who have Cage’s father and brother.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #377: Spider-Man is out to capture Styx and Stone, and Cardiac has similar plans—but he wants to put them down once and for all! Spidey, of course, can’t allow that.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #376: Spider-Man has a run-in with Styx and Stone, who have been hired by a filmmaker to protect his warehouse. Cardiac arrives on the scene, as well, with a grudge against Styx and Stone’s employer.
SECRET DEFENDERS #1: Dr. Strange summons Nomad, Wolverine, Darkhawk, and Spider-Woman to Phoenix to deal with… a bank robbery? There is, of course, more to the story than meets the eye.
AVENGERS #366: Black Knight, Crystal, Hercules, and Death Cry have been taken prisoner by the Kree, and the rest of the Avengers have to rescue not only them, but the entire planet from the threat of their Nega-Bomb, as well.
AVENGERS #365: Admiral Kor and his Kree deathsquad have been taking out their anger on innocent civilians in order to get the attention of the Avengers. Unfortunately for everybody, it works.