Marvel Comics Universe & Empyre #4 Spoilers & Review: Sh!t Hits The Fan, Avengers’ Iron Man New Fantastic Four Armor, Plus Love Blossoms?!

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Marvel Comics Universe and Empyre #4 Spoilers and Review follows.

Sh!t Hits The Fan, Avengers’ Iron Man New Fantastic Four Armor, Plus Love Blossoms?!

The issue has a fair number of variant covers in addition to the above.

Plus the main cover.

We open with a dramatis personae followed by…

…storyline catch-up and creators’ credits page.

Emperor Hulkling of the Kree / Skrull Alliance is willing to detonate to the sun to destroy the Cotati.

Captain Marvel can’t believe the words coming out of his mouth, but Hulkling appears to be Hulkling despite the uncharacteristic smize to end the scene.

Could it be that he’s being mind controlled by the Super-Skrull?

Hulkling has enough of his visitors and has a mage whisk them away, interestingly, to his boyfriend Wiccan.

Elswehere, Tony Stark still is wallowing over being duped by the Cotati; his process includes creating new armor!

In Wakanada, the Swordsman communes with is son Quoi, the Celestial Messiah, leader of the Cotati and…

…are visited by Mantis; Quo’s mother and Swordsman’s ex partner.

She can’t convince them to end the war as She-Hulk turns on everyone…

…using her gamma blast because…

…she’s been infected and now controlled by the Cotati.

Swordsman and Quoi leave the battlefield…

…as Wiccan reveals that Emperor Hulkling is not the real Hulkling who…

…is his husband.

We then get a tease of Empyre #5, the penultimate issue of this series, which is on shelves next week on August 12, 2020.

Here is the updated Empyre checklist too.

The Pulse:

This was a bit of an uneven issue as we have a lot of locales where skermishes are happening; we touched on some, but focused on the family drama of Swordsman, Mantis and Quoi. Intrigued by what’s next for Tony Stark. Positive moment at the end for those seeking more diversity in comics; to reflect the real world. Art was solid. 6 out of 10.

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