#supreme intelligence

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The Kree

The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #07 (June1985)

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Marvel Graphic Novel 1 (1982) The Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin

Cover: Jim Starlin

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Cover of the Day: Ms. Marvel #19 (August, 1978) Art by John Romita Jr. and Joe Rubinstein

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Silver Surfer #8

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“stuck”

Ron Frenz - Al Milgrom

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Universe X #6

Feat. I’m sorry but the worst Moon Knight look. Also, Sasquatch and the head and crotch of Guardian.

That’s why Moon Knight is firmly looking the other way.

To quickly recap the insanity so far: Mar-Vell is leading a revolution in the afterlife. To help this goal, his living child self is gathering powerful items on Earth. Captain America was traveling with him as his bodyguard but Cap super died. So now a bunch of other heroes like force femmed Thor, gorilla Hulk, child Banner, Spider-Man’s daughter Venom, and Mr Summers and his circus X-Men.

If any of those descriptors are confusing, I’m sorry, Earth/Universe X be like that.

Immortus is Pope now and he wants the terrigen mutated population of Earth to spread out and colonize the hell out of space. But first, he’d like Reed Richards to stop trying to cure everyone with his Human Torch towers.

A secret society called the Tong of Creel is gathering the pieces of Absorbing Man to resurrect him. They’ve been really successful at stealing several pieces underneath the noses of the superheroes.

Meanwhile, up on the Moon, Aaron Stack, Machine Man, is the new Watcher. He spends his time wondering why the multiverse and talking to Uatu, who constantly hurls abuse.

Also, Earth is tilted on its axis because Galactus slurped a baby Celestial out of the planet so everyone is going to freeze. You’d think this would be a bigger deal but nobody seems very concerned.

Universe X!

Today’s first Mar-Vell scavenger hunt stop is to Egypt, to retrieve the Resurrection Stone.

The Resurrection Stone is a fairly obscure item in the 616 with only a handful of appearances. So I don’t know if it’s meant to be the same one they’re talking about here. Because the one Mar-Vell is after is the statue of Khonshu.

Time for another weird Earth X Arc Welding!

Moon Knight and therefore Khonshu are relevant to today’s issue. So how does Khonshu work in the Earth X setting? Is he like the Asgardians? Sufficiently advanced aliens that have been gaslit into thinking they’re gods?

No, even weirder.

Khonshu is the Resurrection Stone. Which happens to have been carved from a meteor that hit Egypt. A meteor like the one that hit Wakanda and Antarctica. Khonshu is Egyptian Vibranium. And instead of melting metal or absorbing vibrations, Egyptian vibranium prevents you from dying and makes you hallucinate god.

… Sure, why not! Might as well be this!

When Lil Mar-Vell and co arrive in Egypt, Moon Knight is locked in eternal and pointless combat with a bunch of ancient Egyptian priests and temple guards, also immortal thanks to the stone.

Marv’s group throws their weight on Moon Knight’s side and fight so Mar-Vell can get to the temple and cloakaport the stone away.

Allowing Marc to finally die.

In one sense, putting him out of his misery. But since death is just being thrown back into eternal battle, I wonder if it’s much of a relief?

It at least puts him out of my misery, sartorially speaking, because when he shows up in the Realm of Death, it’s in a color-inverted version of his more classic outfit.

Looks pretty spiffy.

Mar-Vell and the gang return to Japan and Lord Sonfire gives them the Mandarin’s rings on the Mandarin’s chopped off hands.

I love how grossed out Mar-Vell looks. But he’s too chosen child of destiny to verbalize it. So, thanks, Venom. For saying what everyone was thinking.

Meanwhile, everything else is bad.

Nighthawk reveals he knows Gargoyle has betrayed him, leaking his prophecies to Mr Church in Immortus’ camp.

Gargoyle doesn’t see the problem with what he did but Nighthawk says that information is not only going to help Immortus’ mobs but also how the Tong of Creel knew when to attack and where to find the pieces of Absorbing Man. It’s been hinted a while that they had inside information and it turns out they’ve been reading the running narration.

In fact, the Canadian Human Torch has fallen, leaving Sasquatch and Guardian’s head the only survivors of Alpha Flight.

And while fleeing the slaughter, the two run into a feral tribe of Wolverines???? Universe X, what the hell?

But the Latverian Human Torch is also under siege. Thanks to Gargoyle’s information, Immortus’ mob knew when defenses would be thin with Thing off elsewhere. The mobs are breaking down the door to kill Richards and co. The Tong stole the head of Creel. And Mr Church sneaks past the Doombots to steal Doom’s time platform.

Mr Church. What an odd ominous one. Aaron’s end of issue appendix has him muse that there’s no information in the Watcher’s systems for the guy before he showed up to join Immortus.

He’s probably definitely Mephisto.

When Immortus starts losing it because he’s locked out of Limbo and mutating, he turns leadership of the mobs over to Mr Church.

Also, the Micronauts are spying on Immortus for some reason?

Meanwhile, on the Moon, Aaron drags the Kree Supreme Intelligence to the Watcher’s house.

Aaron wants the Intelligence to explain the multiverse to him but the Intelligence says Mar-Vell is on his way to kill him and Aaron will need to stop that or else bad things might happen to the multiverse.

I don’t know about kill but Dead Mar-Vell has lately been preoccupied that there are no Kree in the Realm of Death and decided his living self will need to talk to the Supreme Intelligence about it.

So if the Supreme Intelligence thinks Mar-Vell is going to kill him about it, I think maybe he knows Marv won’t like the answers.

So a lot going on. A lot and a lot of it weird.

I didn’t even mention the demon man in the colorful shorts.

Because I don’t know what it means yet.

Next time, the next issue.

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Captain Marvel (1968) #16

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FF (2011) #18 by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta

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From Captain Marvel: Assault on Eden #001

Art by Eleonora Carlini and Ruth Redmond

Written by Anthony Oliveira

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This might be the first time ever a hero has been like “yo... there is no way all these people can really be here, this is probably bull shit” logic agasint one of these “all the enemies from your past” situations and I 100% love it...

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Avengers: The Kree/Skrull War (1971-1972) by Neal Adams

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Art Edit Credit to Roberto Coltro

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All-New Invaders Vol 1 #3 (Cover art by Mukes Singh)

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I like how Captain Marvel opens on Hala and is just like, "Yeah, this is Vers, she's a Kree Warrior with superpowers gifted by the Supreme Intelligence."

And. Like. It's believable. The Supreme Intelligence is really good at sounding like a reasonable authority figure. She's got this whole Kamar-Taj Ancient One vibe to her. And Yon-Rogg is rocking the Mordo role as Vers's personal friend, superior officer, and mentor all in one.

If you didn't know from Guardians 1 that the Kree are a bunch of imperialist, genocidal pricks, you could totally buy this.

But knowing the actual truth of Vers's identity on rewatch, you start to see how everything Yon-Rogg and the Supreme Intelligence say to her are peppered with gaslighting and veiled threats. Like, they throw "Stop being so emotional!" in her face like four separate times in the first five minutes just to make her doubt herself, even when she's barely conveying any emotion at all.

What pricks!

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Universe X #7

With the Supreme Intelligence, Thor, skinless Aaron Stack Machine Man, and Uatu the blinded Watcher on the cover!

Wait, holy crap, does Aaron have the Ultimate Nullifier?? Don’t point that thing at me!

Are the bubbles in the Supreme Intelligence’s Zordon tube little screaming Supreme Intelligences?

Also, looking at the stitched together version of all the covers, the Supreme Intelligence is covering up giant cosmic Mar-Vell’s crotch. Thank you, the Supreme Intelligence.

Anyway.

To recap in brief: Mar-Vell is leading a revolution in the realm of Death. His living child self is gathering powerful items on Earth. Earth is tilted on its axis and is freezing. Pope Immortus has raised mobs to prevent Reed Richards from curing the mass Terrigen mutations. A cult is gathering pieces of the Absorbing Man. A mysterious man called Mr Church seems to be influencing both Immortus’ group and the Tong of Creel. Aaron Stack has been pondering the multiverse and has dug up the Supreme Intelligence to ask him questions.

I hope some of these plot threads weave together soon so the recap can be shorter.

The issue opens with some more Nighthawk narration over double page spreads, elaborating more on the relationship between Galactus and the Celestials.

The previous universe was destroyed because the Celestials overpopulated. Every Celestial born destroyed a planet or star and… weakened the firmament? Is that how physics works?

Knowing this, Galan decided to become a counter to the Celestials when he was reborn in a new universe as Galactus. He slurps the Celestial yolk out of the egg and leaves the planet intact. Probably not capable of supporting life anymore due to the planet’s energy being stolen by the Celestial. But intact planet means the firmament stays strong! I guess!

I mean, I guess Galactus has eaten a planet and left it intact before. He did that to Silver Surfer’s planet. So more arc welding.

Anyway, the Supreme Intelligence explains that sure, Galactus saved this Earth. But there are many Earths all across the multiverse with their own Celestial growing within. So thats the deal with the multiverse.

But it’s not what the Supreme Intelligence is concerned about. No, the problem, according to the giant green head, is Mar-Vell.

If he gets the complete cosmic consciousness, he’ll have complete knowledge of the whole multiverse and of time. And that will make him a cosmic dictator.

There’s… a weird democracy vs autocracy theme popping up. Weird because the big democracy rep is the Supreme Intelligence.

Anyway, remember that American democracy is dead. And Captain America died not trying to save it but protecting Mar-Vell’s vision of the future. Superpowered beings rule the nations of the world now as monarchs.

Democracy is basically dead and the only person arguing for it is a gestalt intelligence who (spoilers) dies off-panel in this issue and whose death gets a ‘good, fuck that guy’ from Aaron Stack.

Anyway, Mar-Vell and co arrive on the Moon looking for the Ultimate Nullifier and the Supreme Intelligence. Aaron tells them where the Watcher is hiding with the Nullifier and then also immediately tells Mar-Vell he knows where the last piece of the cosmic consciousness is hidden. The piece of information that the Intelligence begged Aaron not to share.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the last piece of the cosmic consciousness is in the eyes Nighthawk got from Mephisto, which let him see the future. Which Mephisto benefits from without having to interact with directly. Since he’s worried about catching compassion from that sliver of omniscience.

Mar-Vell and co pursue Uatu the Blind Watcher into the depths of his home. Uatu tries to divert them by throwing up big splash page illusions of random things.

I kind of wonder if there were deadline problems with this issue. There’s a lot of splash pages. Not just in this sequence but throughout the book.

Anyway. They corner Uatu. He threatens them with the Ultimate Nullifier but Mar-Vell is like c’mon. Sounds like interfering tbh.

Elsewhere, the Tong of Creel returns to Japan and this time beats Xen and swipes the hand-flail of Creel from Tao.

Leaving only the head of Creel being held in Latveria. Which is currently under siege with the Richards and Grimms running for safety.

Reed leads the group to the chamber with Doom’s time platform only to find it missing (stolen last issue by Mr Church). Without that escape, Reed, Sue, and mini Thing 1 and Thing 2 are cornered in a dead end by the mob.

The uprising in the Realm of Death continues.

Mar-Vell rubs it in Thanos’ face that everyone has kissed Death. Thanos isn’t special.

And he finally, explicitly, states his goal for this uprising. Mar-Vell is going to kill Death.

We are in strange aeons, I guess.

But, hey, we know part of Mar-Vell’s grand plan now!

Speaking of things being confirmed…

Hurt by Nighthawk telling him what a fuck up he made, Gargoyle goes back to Mr Church and tries to break their deal.

Because Mr Church is Mephisto!

World’s most obvious theory has been confirmed!

The plot is coming together. As one would hope, considering this is issue 7 out of 12, plus some specials.

Next post, issue 8. Then, another one of those wacky Universe X specials.