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All-New, All-Coordinated Avengers #95 – ‘Looking to the Sky to Save Me’

Posted on June 21, 2023September 19, 2023 by phil.wrede
Within the walls of the Vault, the super-prison located in the Rocky Mountains, warden-and-evil-genius Edwin Cord stands opposite his prisoner, the mutant hero Shatterstar, who in the previous comic strip had begun to free himself from Cord’s mind control. The title of this comic strip, “All-New, All-Coordinated Avengers Presents… ‘Looking to the Sky to Save Me’,” is visible at the top of the image.
Cord argues with his partner in crime, the Controller, over who takes most of the responsibility for Shatterstar’s mind control waning.
In the sky overhead, Iron Man, in his Modular armor, and wielding his gigantic nanotech proton canon, looks down at the activity in the Vault. As the canon powers up, he remarks, “It looks like they’re having a heated discussion!”
Iron Man fires a blast from his proton canon at the Vault; the energy burst ignites the ground just nearby Cord and the Controller.
Iron Man lands before the evil masterminds, his chestplate glowing with concentrated energy. Neither the Controller nor Cord look excited.
Iron Man flies forward with repulsor energy, punching the Controller in the face so hard that pure energy leaks out from between his armored fingers.
As the Controller falls unconscious to the ground, Iron Man offers Cord a choice: a third chance to prove that he’s not a “bad widdle boy” (in a direct quotation of the Simpsons’ character Gabbo), or to finally get locked up in the Vault, himself. Cord asks for a third chance at rehabilitation.
Now free of the mind control, Shatterstar is mobbed by his friends in X-Force: Cable, Dazzler, Colossus, Warpath, Domino, and Sunspot. Off to the side of the action, the Beast and Cyclops commiserate. Red Guardian offers his hand to help up Thunderstrike.
As the heroes all reacquaint themselves with one another, Whirlwind and Klaw try to escape, but are cut off when Darkhawk and a Vault Guardsman discover them.
The credits for the comic strip, citing the Unsplash users whose photographs were the background art, the ownership of Marvel by Disney, the creation of Marvel characters by actual human beings, and the figure photography/script/lettering by me, Phil Wrede.
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Well, all’s well that ends well, relatively speaking! I mean, we still have to figure out what to do with Cord, and the Controller; they can’t be held at the Vault, or in any conventional prison. What’s X-Force going to do next? Will Cable and Cyclops ever be able to have a real conversation?

Then, the Vault itself! Is its integrity as a prison forever compromised by Cord’s dastardly plan? Moreover, what’s the role of prisons in a society like this one? Any super-prison – the Raft, the Vault, Arkham Asylum, Belle Reve – is just a place where supervillains take a shower and get angrier before they ultimately break out again! With a whole baseball division’s worth of brilliant people in the Avengers, you’d figure someone could come up with a better solution to super-crime!

And, now that Domino’s back, is she going to reconnect with War Machine? What do you think she’s got to tell him?

In the plus column, it looks like Tony was able – as usual – to make the things he imagines become real! The “big blaster” about which he spoke to the computer came in handy today! Nanotechnology, what can’t it do?

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