ZUB • MAGNO GRUNDETJERN 3

RATED T+ $3.99 US 1 1 3 0 0 4 – DETAILS – INSIDE! 3 9 8 9 0 6 0 6 DIGITAL EDITION DIGITAL 9 5 7 BONUS BONUS The Kree and Skrull empires have united under Emperor Hulkling to writer Jim Zub fight a common enemy: the Celestial Messiah, Quoi, and his plantlike Cotati, artist Carlos Magno who have claimed Earth’s Moon as color artist Espen their own! But the Cotati want more than justice for the crimes the Kree Grundetjern and Skrulls committed against them --they want to exterminate all animal life, starting with Earth! letterer VC’s Ariana Maher

To face the threat of the Cotati, cover Paul Renaud the Avengers broke up into several variant covers Paco Medina & smaller teams. The Vision, Doctor Nemesis and Luke Cage battled a Jesus Aburtov mutated Plantman, who had allied himself with the Cotati, in New graphic designer Carlos Lao York’s Central Park. Mockingbird, Quicksilver and Wonder Man fought assistant editor Martin Biro the Cotati alongside Kree and Skrull soldiers in Mexico, only to have the associate editor Alanna Smith ruthless warriors turn against them editor Tom Brevoort and each other. editor in chief C.B. Cebulski Finally, a team consisting of Black Knight, Scarlet Witch and Doctor Avengers created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby Voodoo traveled with Ka-Zar to his home, the Savage Land. There they were attacked by both the Man- Thing and Ka-Zar’s wife, Shanna, who had been manipulated into aiding the Cotati. But just as Ka-Zar helped Shanna break the aliens’ hold over her, he was brutally impaled by a Cotati warrior…