apparently magneto has given up on mutant supremacy and decides that since he can evidently manipulate volcanoes,tidal waves, and the weather with his magnetic powers he will now create a new heaven on earth choosing those who he shall save. he tells mystique this while mystique is looking like the scarlet witch in her undies.
henry pym having witnessed his ex-wife being eaten by the blob (who in this issue has become even more ugly) becomes super engraged. pym picks up the blob who must've just got done playing the x-men arcade game because he shouts, "nothing moves the blob----." pym bites the blob's head off and spits it out and then rushes janet's corpse back to the triskelion and tells iron man to look up the encrypted JOCASATA project.
angel wants to go fight magneto by himself since dazzler is dead. the rest of the x-men get in his way.
captain america and thor are somewhere in asgard fighting off ogres and monsters. cap asks thor if they are in hell. thor says no. but then hel shows up proving that thor doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. hel tells thor that she'll restore the valkyrie to life but one of them will have to stay.
multiple man is acting as a suicide bomber around the world blowing up crap everywhere. henry pym somehow makes all the suicide bombing multiple men attacking the triskelion jump on him and he rushes out into the ocean where they all blow up. valkyrie and captain america wake up from death. captain america is sad because thor died in his place and then hawkeye who's becoming quite the bitch says something like "well thor wasn't the only one to die saving you; henry pym died saving the woman you both love."
then captain america realizes that they need to gather every available hero to save the world, even though charlie xavier told them the same shit in issue 1.
GRADE: F-
only two more issues and a few more tie-ins until it's over. i wish marvel would kick jeph loeb to the curb afterwards.
