John Livesay

Collects Avengers (1998-2004 3rd Series) #24-56, #1 and ANNUAL 2000-2001, Thunderbolts (1997-2012 Marvel) #42-44, Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet (2000), Maximum Security (2000) #1-3, and Avengers: The Ultron Imperative (2001). Fan-favorite creators Kurt Busiek and George Pérez craft a new era for Earth's Mightiest Heroes! The Avengers forge an uneasy alliance with the Thunderbolts to face Count Nefaria - but the true threat comes from the stars as Earth is declared a cosmic maximum-security prison for alien criminals! To save their planet, and contend with hordes of rampaging Hulks and the spawn of Ultron, the Avengers must rebuild their operation bigger and better than ever. But none of it will do any good when the time-spanning Kang the Conqueror wages war on the present day...and wins! Now, Captain America and a small band of rebels may be the world's only hope for freedom!

When T'Challa falls to the one foe he's never beaten, Killmonger earns the right to become the new Black Panther! Now, only Everett K. Ross can save T'Challa's life - okay, Ross plus Moon Knight, Brother Voodoo and the Panther God! Still suffering, the deposed Wakandan leader finds himself caught in a cat trap with the Avengers and¿Deadpool?! Storm of the X-Men offers comfort as Wakanda finds itself on the verge of war with Lemuria and Atlantis - and Klaw, Malice and Man-Ape threaten to destroy the African Avenger once and for all! Plus: Ross spends a day in Mephisto's metaphorical shoes, and Captain America recounts his never-before-revealed wartime meeting with the former Black Panther, T'Chaka! Super heroics meet geopolitics as only Priest can mix them! Collecting BLACK PANTHER (1998) #18-35 and DEADPOOL (1997) #44

 What is the Man-Ape's plan for T'Challa? And why is Everett K. Ross paid a pleasant visit by Henry Peter Gyrich?

"Gorilla Warfare" continues with the battle of the century! In this corner we have M'Baku the Man-Ape, and in the other... Henry Peter Gyrich?! Meanwhile, the Defenders battle... a magically-modified Everett K. Ross?! Think you know the winners in these bouts? Think again!

Before she was an X-Man, Emma Frost was White Queen of the Hellfire Club where she labored under the yoke of Sebastian Shaw, the Black King. Now she sets her sights on the club, determined to tear down the organization that wronged her… if she can convince the X-Men to help out. PLUS: Part 5 of X-MEN BLACK: APOCALYPSE!

Before she was an X-Man, Emma Frost was White Queen of the Hellfire Club where she labored under the yoke of Sebastian Shaw, the Black King. Now she sets her sights on the club, determined to tear down the organization that wronged her… if she can convince the X-Men to help out. PLUS: Part 5 of X-MEN BLACK: APOCALYPSE!

Before she was an X-Man, Emma Frost was White Queen of the Hellfire Club where she labored under the yoke of Sebastian Shaw, the Black King. Now she sets her sights on the club, determined to tear down the organization that wronged her… if she can convince the X-Men to help out. PLUS: Part 5 of X-MEN BLACK: APOCALYPSE!

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Before she was an X-Man, Emma Frost was White Queen of the Hellfire Club where she labored under the yoke of Sebastian Shaw, the Black King. Now she sets her sights on the club, determined to tear down the organization that wronged her… if she can convince the X-Men to help out. PLUS: Part 5 of X-MEN BLACK: APOCALYPSE!

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Before she was an X-Man, Emma Frost was White Queen of the Hellfire Club where she labored under the yoke of Sebastian Shaw, the Black King. Now she sets her sights on the club, determined to tear down the organization that wronged her… if she can convince the X-Men to help out. PLUS: Part 5 of X-MEN BLACK: APOCALYPSE!

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Before she was an X-Man, Emma Frost was White Queen of the Hellfire Club where she labored under the yoke of Sebastian Shaw, the Black King. Now she sets her sights on the club, determined to tear down the organization that wronged her… if she can convince the X-Men to help out. PLUS: Part 5 of X-MEN BLACK: APOCALYPSE!

When Wally West tries to take down Kilg%re, he's stunned to find he has an unknown ally who can move just as fast as he can. Dr. Pernell, a brilliant S.T.A.R. Labs scientist, has found a way to power his buggy using the Speed Force. When The Flash agrees to help test the limits of the vehicle in a race, something sends them spiraling out of the Speed Force and into the unknown. They land in a post-apocalyptic future, but Dr. Pernell is gone, leaving only the buggy, which is now sentient. Together with his new anthropomorphic ally, The Flash must find a way to repair the time stream and stop the triple threat of Savitar, Speed Demon Buggy and... Reverse Speed Buggy!

When Wally West tries to take down Kilg%re, he's stunned to find he has an unknown ally who can move just as fast as he can. Dr. Pernell, a brilliant S.T.A.R. Labs scientist, has found a way to power his buggy using the Speed Force. When The Flash agrees to help test the limits of the vehicle in a race, something sends them spiraling out of the Speed Force and into the unknown. They land in a post-apocalyptic future, but Dr. Pernell is gone, leaving only the buggy, which is now sentient. Together with his new anthropomorphic ally, The Flash must find a way to repair the time stream and stop the triple threat of Savitar, Speed Demon Buggy and... Reverse Speed Buggy!

Reprinting What If? (1989) #77 What If Legion Had Killed Magneto? One Dream, Written by Benny Powell and Warren Ellis. Art by Hector Gomez, John Livesay and Mike Halblieb. Legion succeeds in killing Magneto in the past (thus negating his own existence as Maggie once saved his mother's life before he was born); Without the polarizing threat of Magneto to make the X-Men strong, they become little more than pro-mutant media figures; Thus, when Apocalypse and his forces attack, the X-Men are ill equipped to deal with the threat; Scott and Jean come out of retirement to join the fight but Jean ends up killing 100,000 people with the Phoenix force; As a result, the world now hates and fears mutants and Scott opens X-Mansion as a school to help repair the rift. 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $1.00.

What If? Legion Killed Magneto?