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| Publisher |
Chaos! Comics |
| Artist |
Steven Hughes |
| Published | November 1996 |
On the way to Asgard Vandala and Lady Death make a stop off as there are things that need to be done before they can enter.In Asgard Odin and his men are in a ship on a frozen sea when another ship approaches with a crew of angelic characters and small childlike beings who crave trinkets.. They meet and in th spirit of friendship the strangers give a gift to Odin. The gift a small golden ball explodes and cripples his hand as the angelic creatures reveal their true demon forms. They call forward the Doom Magistrates and the childlike creatures erupt into insect like warriors many times the size of the shapes they inhabited.Odin falls leaving only his arm after he is melted by an acid-like fluid. From his corpse rises Genocide the chaos master. He takes the arm as a symbol of power but it is not the power he was looking for. Odin somehow commands the Valkyrie Vulnavia (Vandala's one eyed sister) to retreat and warn the others despite her protestations she complies. One Valkyries final act on the battle field is to cast a glowing sword over the cliff like edge of the ocean. Genocide has returned many times but always leaves without what he is looking for.Genocides troops find them and Vandala transports them away once more. They arrive at Asgard. Vandala explains that Genocide is the embodiment of chaos and while suppressed for eons he has returned to smash the universe back into chaos once more. In Asgard the men are leery of Lady Death as a savior and after much taunting she takes a sword and channels lightening, killing several around her and then rips the tongue from a mans head, just as she promised him she would. the example is brutal but effective.In a doorway the drunken Brock and Grimnir watch and are amused by all the goings on.Elsewhere Genocide and his bride Antigone watch, he is pleased that Lady Death has arrived and now is his time to move. Antigone is concerned with how plotting her husband has become and that is not the way of chaos. Vex their first born...
