Ok. This book has taken a rather strange twist. Last issue, a Dr. Igor Kragoff invited Sue and Reed to a scientific symposium in Russia. I guess the guys a friend of Sue's dad. Well, Reed didn't go because he was working on his Cosmic Cube, however Sue did decide to go. Because Reed was working on his Cosmic Cube. It's a sore subject right now. Anyways, it was all a set-up. This Dr. Kragoff, who was working with Rutskaya, his assistant who has a gauntlet of a Crimson Dynamo, shot Sue's plane down when it entered Russian airspace. Having found out about the accident, Reed, Johnny and Ben immediately set out in search of her. Dr. Kragoff's plans are to use N-Zone technology to meld Sue's body with that of his dead wife's, Julia. She was dying of cancer, but then she was hit by a car in Moscow and killed. Being a brilliant geneticist, he decided to focus his efforts on bringing his wife back to life. Without her, he seems to have lost all focus. Well, his assistant, Rutskaya, has decided that she wants to use his ideas and plans for herself. She knocks out, or kills . . . we're not really sure . . . Dr. Kragoff, and decides that she's going to meld herself with Sue. That was she can use Sue's powers to impose her own will on things. The problem is, they kept Sue semi-coherent, because she started giving them ideas on how to make the gene splicing stick. They were having problems with tissue rejection, but Sue seems to have some of the answers. Well by the time Rutskaya fires up the machine and is ready to start, Sue is ambulatory enough to evade the process. The result ends up being Rutskaya merged with all the lab animals that Dr. Kragoff had in the laboratory. The issue ends with Reed, Johnny, Ben and the original Crimson Dynamo facing off against a squad of Russian Super-soldiers, and Sue coming face to face with the monstrosity that is now Rutskaya. It was a pretty cool story, written by Mike Carey and drawn by Mark Brooks.
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