This month, we begin by flashing back to Norman Osborn meeting the Sentry, saying he’d like to introduce himself since they’re going to be neighbors and asking how he is.
I feel compelled to point out that Original Recipe Norman Osborn was never really portrayed as having “voices in his head.” He was simply a cruel, often delusional man who would do anything to get what he wanted. Even after his idiotic return from the grave, since they changed his character and personality so completely that he’s not even the same person, he’s not been portrayed that way. But Bendis’ own Ultimate Norman has, sooooooo… Anyway, Bob tells him about the Void, but he knows about the Void, and he proceeds to tell Bob there is no Void, and all he has to do is decide to believe that and he’ll be fine. Which is the kind of mental health advice you expect from a deranged murderer, certainly. And slowly, it begins to win Bob over.
Because no one has ever understood him like Norman, says Norman. Then he has Victoria Hand order out for Five Guys for the entire organization as we cut to Bob’s wife, Lindy, pretending to sleep and watching all this happen and not looking thrilled. Then pull back to Morgan Le Fay watching it in her cauldron, commanding to show her all her enemies’ weaknesses. She’s researching them after having had her head pulled off in her future, a logic that only makes sense to Bendis. She even tells herself she’ll try not to die this time. Whatever! Back in the present, the Dork Avengers are fighting the evil monster hordes, and Osborn tells Ares he better come up with a solution.
Good job, Ares!
I have no idea what Bullseye means in that last panel. All the monsters conveniently disappear when Le Fay is killed a 2nd time. Only Moonstone is smart enough to realize if they killed her once and she came back, she’ll be back again, and she’s taken one member of the team down each time. So Osborn wants them to pick up the inert Doom and get out of there, but…
Norman just takes off with Doom, leaving his flunkies to fight monsters and also Venom, while he compels Doom to open his servers up to Osborn so he can see how to defeat her since Doom is frozen by a spell and can’t do it himself. Doom is not interested. But, as Osborn’s armor is about to be breached by Morgan(a) Le Fay now riding a dragon, Doom relents, and they use his “time cube,” no longer a platform, which materializes out of nowhere somehow, to travel back in time and escape her.
It’s not that I don’t think this could be an exciting adventure or whatever. I think Le Fay being able to come back from the dead for absolutely no reason is dumb, but other than that, it’s fine enough. It just seems like a very weird first outing for a new team. Especially this team. Weird or not, it wraps up next time.