- 8 hours until the next Incursion and each member of the Illuminati is handling the situation in their own way. Banner is at the gamma bomb test site in New Mexico, Beast is discussing with his younger self, Dr Strange is drinking tea (he asks Wong if he is a good man to which Wong replies "NO"), Tony Stark is pouring shots but not drinking them, T'Challa visits Storm and talks about what could have been, Reed goes to see Valeria in Latveria and Black Bolt is on the moon crying with Lockjaw beside him.
- They're waiting for the incursion to happen but to their shock nothing happens.
- The Illuminati meet to discuss what happened. Banner thinks they might have made a mistake but Reed makes it clear that they had catalogued countless incursions and were positive of what they had seen. Stark notes that something had to have happened and BP agrees because if not, it means they would have killed a world for nothing.
- Blackbolt then gestures and Reed translates, BB is asking where Namor is.
- Four hours before that time, we see Namor meeting with the Cabal comprised of Maximus, Black Swan, Terrax and Thanos and his generals.
- Namor gives a similar speech that was given at the beginning of the series about how "everything dies". Namor says he accepts that fact that everything dies but doesn't want to go quietly "mewling like a child". He notes that there's something out there that's trying to kill everything and he would do to it what it is trying to do to them. So, he asks the Cabal if they will help him kill worlds.
- The issue ends on-Earth 9004 with Namor and the Cabal slaughtering the occupants of Earth-9004.
I'm extremely curious as to where this series will go from here. Namor has completed his heel turn and I'm a bit surprised that Marvel allowed Hickman to take the character this far.
One last thing, can we keep the thread clean and not use abusive/overly aggresive language? I notice that most of these threads end in harsh words being exchanged.
Can we also keep AvX out of this thread, that was over two (2) years ago and we should all focus on the here and now.