Marvel Two-in-One #61Thing and Starhawk!
"The Coming of Her!"
I think this will be useful for this....
Creative Team: Mark Gruenwald-writer, Jerry Bingham-pencils, Gene Day-inks, Joe Rosen-letters, Ben Sean-colors, Jim Salicrup-editor
Synopsis: Someone has fished a rather large brown floating object out of the East River...
Seriously need to do something about their sewage system.
They look it over and then something breaks out of it. The figure flies off and heads for Soho, when Ben & Alicia are out on a date. they are interrupted by someone who uses too much bronzer....
Ben declares it "Clobberin' Time!", then gets blown across the room. Goldie tells Alicia she is there for her (Well, she's Her, but not She; Alicia is herself) and she (Her, not She) needs her help to find Him.
Pronouns!
Ben comes back and gets blasted across the room and outside the building. Goldie levitates Alicia and they fly away, as Ben climbs back up the building to find them (but not THEM) gone. They have gone to Riverside Park. Goldie relaters Her past and explains why she (Her) must find Him...
Meanwhile, ben goes looking for help and no one is at the Baxter Building, nor at Avengers Mansion. Ben then uses some of Reed's gear to trace Her's cosmic trail. Then, Starhawk turns up, to add more pomposity...
He thought Korvac might have been at work, but that mess is over. Ben and Starhawk go off to track down Her and Alicia (my grammar teacher is rolling over in her grave).
At the park, Moondragon has interrupted Her and Alicia, so this just gets better and better and the pompous meter just exploded. Moondragon relates the story from a better writer....
The boys turn up and, apparently, it's a No-Y Zone and Her zaps them from the sky. Her seals Ben in concrete, but Starhawk breaks him (not Him, who's dead, but he'll get better) and then Moondragon brings in her ship and she and Her and Alicia (and a dog named Boo) fly off. Well, they are about to, when Starhawk tries to interfere, but Her is more powerful than him and she (Her, not Ayesha) sends him (Starhawk, not Warlock) hurtling away, to meet up with Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla and Albert Andreas Armadillo, while the girls fly off in search of Him (no idea if Gabriella Rafaella Sarsaparilla was onboard). Ben fails to stop them and fishes Starhawk out of the drink and vows to hunt them across the galaxy.
Thoughts: Well, Gruenwald isn't Jim Starlin; but, his tale beats Chris Claremont's issue, from this cycle. There is mystery here, which makes it intriguing and we still get the pro wrestling stuff; but, there is a reason for the fighting. It takes a while for Starhawk to make his entrance, probably to this song.....
So, there is enough plot to make the story seem substantial; but enough action to keep it from being total exposition, making for a nice balanced issue. Jerry Bingham is an undersung artist (probably because he wasn't that prolific, probably because of his speed) but he handles this stuff extremely well and Gen Day makes it all look nice and slick an appropriate for cosmic heroes.
Letters page has praise for Project Pegasus and some pointed comments about blowing up Deathlok. They do point out that Luther Manning is still alive, as a clone, in the future. Well, Deathlok will turn up alive, too; so, he will have that going for him.
Next issue features Counter-Earth, which I think is built out of formica......