Written by Charles Soule
Penciled by Carlos PachecoCover by Ryan Stegman Published Aug 3, 2016
Stark Tower has fallen. Who is responsible remains to be seen but Medusa is well aware who is going to be blamed. She gives the order to Karnak to seal the city of New Attilan. He's afraid it may signal guilt. She's more afraid of the human casualties that could be on Inhuman hands and a revenge attack from Iron Man. With former NYPD detective Frank McGee's help, she, Lockjaw and Karnak set out to find out who knocked this building down. Meanwhile in Switzerland, the Inhuman terrorist Lash works with some other separatist villains to begin working on an avalanche on Stark Properties in the region. whom scrambles drones to mount a defense. Back stateside, Medusa meets with her ex-husband and former Inhuman king Blackbolt to see if he had anything to do with it. Frank deduces it must have been a powerful Inhuman with an axe to grind, and in his mind, it points to the prince - Medusa and Blackbolt's son Ahura. Back in Switzerland. Lash attacks while in Venice, Medusa's team walks into the Ennilux Corporation. Once inside, Medusa compliments her son on getting better with his powers. Cutting the chitchat, the conversation focuses on the ruins of Stark Tower. Ahura denies any wrongdoing and claims he had nothing to do with it. Just then, the television in his office flickers with breaking news on Lash's terrorist dealings on Tony's properties. One of his lackeys raises a gigantic piece of rock above one of his factories, and after a rather unhelpful diatribe he gives about it being in Medusa's name, he drops it and it explodes. In an instant, Medusa teleports to the scene. While the rest of her squad holds the terrorists at bay, she demands of Lash why he did this and suddenly a flashback reveals his motives. In Greenland and much earlier on, Maximus meets with Lash and tells him the plan. To take down Medusa, he needs some firepower. It seems his sister in law has made some errors lately, and by committing these atrocities in her name it just might just put her over the tipping point. Back in the present, Lash stares into her eyes and says that he didn't do anything... she did. Captain Marvel flies in with the Ultimates asking her just what it was she did and with that, we're left to be continued. One of the greatest things about Marvel Unlimited is being able to read what is going to one day become a classic crossover and this is just another wonderful chapter of it. I think we're going to be seeing a lot of Medusa over the next few years so this gives us a peek of what just developed her character. If this is just another brick in that wall between her, the Inhumans and the Mutants, how they scale it will be amazing. I give it a 9/10.
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