Original Sin #8 Spoilers

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Welp, I wasn't too surprised by anything that happened to conclude in the climax of the event, but there are some interesting developments in the "epilogue" section of the comic. No it doesn't say "epilogue" but it sure reads like one. I reviewed it with a bunch of pictures here if anyone is interested.

The issue cuts between Nick Fury taking on Dr. Midas and his company and at the same time we get flashbacks to the moment the Watcher was killed. If you’re looking for any big reveals it will be on the last few pages as Aaron sets up where we’re at with multiple characters, including the state of Thor, who the new Watcher is and who takes up the mantle Nick Fury left behind. All and all it’s not so surprising, especially if you read solicits, but for what it’s worth everything is tied up in a little bow. There’s nothing dangling really, but I suspect a lot of folks will cry foul when they learn nothing much has changed aside from some character’s getting a new direction. The Orb for instance, seems to be a main player with souped up powers.

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In a flashback we see Nick Fury went to help The Watcher who has gotten an eye stolen from him from The Orb. Nick Fury demands to know who did it, to which The Watcher says you already know. Presumably this means The Watcher knew his place was bugged. The big reveal is who killed The Watcher. It was Nick Fury, but it was a suicide by cop sort of deal, where The Watcher is going to kill Nick, so Nick must defend himself and kill him first. What makes this sort of silly is Nick admits that the Watcher could never kill anyone. So why kill him you goof?! At the very least he's very sad and upset about what he did. Nick then plucks out The Watchers eye, presumably to use it and avenge him. Back in the current timeline, a bunch of Watchers show up and the Avengers decide they should just watch too. Nick shoots off Dr. Midas' hand, then they fight. Eventually Nick kills Midas by shoving the Watcher's eye into his chest. The power is too great. The Orb also gets an eye to the chest, but he seems to live through it as we see him in the final pages observing a woman who is hurting a man who hurt her. It's important to note the eyeball he gets actually attacks him, wraps around him, and inserts itself into him. When Midas has had enough and dies he explodes and we see Winter Soldier hold his head low and a Watcher shed a tear. By issues end Cap confirms Midas and Nick are dead because he finds two "Sacks of bloody stew" which is a real classy way to say your good friend is dead lol. We learn Winter Soldier has taken up the mantle of protecting the Earth as Nick did. The Avengers leave Thor on the moon as he continues to try to lift the hammer. Black Panther and Dr. Strange seem to know why Nick Fury "went crazy and died" as Cap puts it, but they won't tell him. Dr. Strange admits he may tell Cap eventually. We cut to Oubliette somewhere like Arizona, she has her father's hand which can turn things into gold still and she says, "so begins the new Midas empire." Finally we see Nick is not dead, but instead invisible to them, still on the Moon, and it looks like he's taken up the mantle of The Watcher. He's got some armor with purple glowing through it. Also a bunch of chains around his neck and a heavy blue cloak. He narrates that this is a curse.

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