Story Twenty-Five:
Tales to Astonish: Civil War-Arc Three
(Now with 75% more Marvel goodness in each episode!)
Episode Eleven:
Family Reunions
This ep of Civil War involves the reunions of members of two separate Marvel Universe families, as Peter Parker is reunited with his magazine-publisher cousin, Ben "Pitt Slurmann" Reilly, as he recruits Peter for a top-secret mission to infiltrate Tony Stark's Pro-Registration forces at COBRA Headquarters, a move that will put him at odds with Captain America and a newly-reconstituted G.I. JOE team consisting of various Marvel heroes and original Joes! Meanwhile, Jerrica and Kimber's twin cousins, Cassandra and Crystal Kane, have arrived in Forest Hills with their mother Candice (Diane Pershing) and their boyfriends: two brothers named Jake (Christopher Grey) and Mark Rockwell (Brad Swaile), who have brought along with them three members of a ROTC squad by the names of Ace McCloud (Michael Rosenbaum), John Thunder (Gregg Rainwater) and a young man named Maxwell Ray (Kirby Morrow)! They have a mission of their own to help Emmett Benton take control of Stark's brand-new Orbital Defense Platform and stick it to the traitorous Iron Man himself! But can these new Centurions be able to handle the Armored Avenger, and what's this got to do with Stark's latest female conquest, a roboticist named Dr. Amber Stratton, the new Doc Terror (Jennifer Hale), and the evil daughter of the first Doc Terror (now deceased) and a bitter soap actress named Elizabeth Stratton (Susan Lucci)? Plus, as Peter begins his mission, Ben begins his recruitment of four unregistered Supers to form his new anti-Stark super-squad called the Slingers, and a brand-new Scarlet Spider is reborn, all in this episode!
Episode Twelve:
When It's Only Me, Mary, the Music and the Mayhem of the Misfits at the Vault!
Kimber Benton is back again, this time in a brand-new superheroic identity as she puts her gymnastics abilities to good use as the Crimson Cowl when she meets Misfits songstress Mary Phillips for the first time ever, as she escapes the custody of the Sentinel Squad! Now, the two girls must join forces to help break Stormer's brother, SHIELD Agent Craig Phillips, and her friends, the Misfits, out of the superhuman prison called the Vault! But, they're about to get some help, as Sentinel Unit commander Alexander Pelligrini (Nick Turturro), whose daughter Roxanne is in the same prison, the Fist of Khonshu, Moon Knight (Mark Dacascos), and even the Taskmaster (Ron Perlman) are about to join forces with Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) for the biggest break-out of rock musicians from the Vault in Marvel Universe history, as the girls of Hard Candy, and the Cesaire sisters from the Black Panther spotlight have arrived with the Black Panther and Storm to even the odds in this monumental battle against the COBRA/Decepticon-controlled SHIELD forces in this episode!
Episode Thirteen:
Twinkle, Twinkle, Lana Star, and Civil War, From a Shark Boy's Point of View
The worlds of music and professional wrestling are about to come together in the Marvel Civil War, as the destruction in Stamford, Connecticut has reached even the offices of World Wrestling Entertainment chairman Vincent Kennedy McMahon (voicing himself)! And now, he has joined up with his old friend, Tony Stark, as part of the pro-Registration forces with an army of his most dangerous wrestlers to stop Captain America and his men. But Hulk Hogan, Triple-H, Batista, and many other renegade WWE superstars have joined Cap in the fight, especially when Hulk's twin brother, Crusher Hogan (both played by Terry Bollea) and a new wrestler named Shark Boy (see SHH! Marvel Spotlight post number 57 for further information pertaining to him in this episode) are caught up in the conflict! All this, and there's a new Pink Princess arriving on the scene, as Lindsey Pierce's younger sister, glamorous fashion model/wrestler Lana Star (voiced by Lana Kinnear), arrives on the scene to witness the strange events of Civil War (and to upstage her more famous sister Lindsey) in this episode!
Episode Fourteen:
When the Bodies Hit the Floor!
To bring up a reference to the Drowning Pool single: "Let the bodies hit the floor," as things go to the extreme when it's hero vs. hero, mutant vs. mutant, machine vs. machine, and military agency vs. military agency as the battle begins to heat up. Heroes are recruited left and right by both factions and casualties begin to mount up in a quest for the basic freedoms of superheroes. But, could this be a part of a much more secret agenda, as many injured and conflicted heroes, villains and allies are being snatched up off of the Earth by the Beyonder, and a secret council is being formed to take control of the situation at all costs! All this just as Jacqui Benton faces a crisis of conscience when her parents, Stanley and Cassandra Webb (voiced by Stan and Joan Lee) come back into her life to help her deal with the events of Civil War and the formation of the Starlight Foundation for Foster Girls in this episode!
Episode Fifteen:
The Alliance of Evil
And, for all you Transformers fans out there, we haven't forgotten about you, as this episode segues into the next arc of Civil War as Tony Stark further betrays his fellow heroes by traveling with Megatron and Cobra Commander to Cybertron to receive his new dark armor, and to meet up with the various heavyweight villains of the Marvel and Hasbro Universe, including the Red Skull (Christopher Walken), Doctor Doom (Julian McMahon), Miles Mayhem (Gary Chalk), Mojo (Gabe Khouth), Apocalypse (James Earl Jones), Baron Heinreich Zemo (Alan Rickman), and even Eric Raymond (Charlie Adler)! Mission: Create a brand-new Masters of Evil to strike the final blow against the Earth's heroes, in this chilling episode!
Continued in Story Thirty.
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The Misadventures of Kimber and Stormer