Will it turn into Osborn Vs. Doom? I don’t honestly recall. But first, we check in on the rest of the team, the ones left standing, as they keep fighting monsters and a returned Morgan(a) le Fay, who calls Moonstone a whore, because that’s just how Bendis writes ‘em at this point, for some reason.
A good ol’ fashioned “woosh.” Don’t see that too often. Meanwhile, in the past, Le Fay is dressing down the bad guy boys for being bad guys, and then she does a big “FAASSHHOOO” light show, but it literally doesn’t do anything? I don’t understand.
How would he know she’s in his future? The concept of time travel is so absurd in this.
Doom has sent the dead-eyed Poser model portraying Le Fay, who will soon be all of Deodato’s women, to 1 million BC. He says she was right that he can’t kill her. He also tells Osborn she didn’t really die in the future, because “she was alive here.” Nonsense. Osborn wants to use the time machine for nefarious purposes, because he’s a bad guy, despite him also wanting to be the real Avengers, somehow, but Doom refuses and takes them back, where they find the others having defeated the demon horde. Doom then reverses the spell that turned Ares to stone.
It appears the Sentry is dead. Doomstadt is just a pile of rubble. Norman says no one can ever know what happened here, because he can’t be seen running around the world to help Doom. Because he’s a bad guy. But he wants to be a good guy sometimes, also. Once the Dark Avengers leave, Doom uses his time cube to bring his whole castle back. From the past? From the future? Who even cares, get the time travel trope away from Bendis. Doom walks inside. As the team flies home and Moonstone openly flirts with Noh-Varr, Victoria Hand informs Norman that Clint Barton just told the world about them.
Sentry is such a strange choice. All the time, in any story. Well, there you have it. The two titles are playing pretty nicely together so far. At least Bendis doesn’t have to worry about one of his artists just deciding not to work for a few months like on Mighty Avengers. We’ll stick with Dark for a couple more posts before checking back in with the New guys.