This is really a different type of book. It seems like we're dealing with some of the cosmic shattering events that it took the whole Marvel universe to overcome, but this small group of leaders is doing it on their own. Last issue it was the Infinity Gauntlet. This issue . . . it's the Beyonder. Charles has called them together, because he's been getting glimpses that the Beyonder and his power has returned to their Universe. However in their shared connection, he's also realized that he's not the unlimited powerful God that he's portrayed himself to be. He actually an Inhuman. Well not entirely. Actually he's a mutant Inhuman. Apparently he had a mutant power before he went in to the Terrigen mists. " . . . and when he went in . . . the results were . . . unthinkable . . . unprecedented." So seeing that the Beyonder was actually one of Black Bolts subjects, they decide to travel out to confront him. They think that with this new knowledge, they should be able to reason with him. They find him in an asteroid belt, on the edge of our cosmos. He has the surface of one of the asteroids turned in to an exact replica of the entire island of Manhattan. He even has it populated. But they're just mindless copies. Basically . . . he's playing with them. Of course once he realizes that some people have come to visit, words are exchanged and parts are measured. But a battle is avoided. Basically it comes down to Namor yelling at him. "Stop! Your king demands it! You are not a god! You are not an immortal! You are the royal subject of a kink. And your king demands that you stop this madness now! All of it! You will stop this. You will leave this universe. And you will not come back!" The Beyonder tries to argue, but again Namor yells at him, "Silence! You will obey your king!" The Beyonder is silent for a while, but then he blows away like so much dust. Of course when that happens, the asteroids start coming closer and closer to each other. So our group must beat a hasty retreat. They're sure that they got through to him, and that they won't see him anymore. But we get a glimpse on the last page, that wherever he's at, he really seems to enjoy playing with the people of this planet. Even if they are mindless drones on a copy of an Earth city. So I'm sure sooner of later, we're going to see him again. I really liked this book. I like it when groups win . . . without having to beat the crap out of someone. Cool book.
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