Writer: Jeff Parker
Penciller: Neil Edwards
Inker: Terry Pallot
Colourist: Chris Sotomayor
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously, in Dark Avengers: After being accidentally transported to a different reality, the Dark Avengers were embroiled in a war between superheroes — in this terrible dimension, New York has been divided up between Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Ben Grimm and a few other heroes as they fight for supremacy. The group is divided, with each of them getting sucked into a certain warlord’s army.

The only way to fix their predicament is to find Reed Richards – one of the few heroes who seems to be uninterested in the war and only in trying to restore reality to the way it should be. The Dark Avengers decide to save Richards and hope that he’ll be able to send them home. But before they can, Moonstone falls in battle; or so it seems.

Writer: Jeff Parker
Penciller: Neil Edwards
Inker: Terry Pallot
Colourist: Chris Sotomayor
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously, in Dark Avengers: The Dark Avengers, John Walker, Skaar, and Moonstone have found themselves trapped on an evil alternate Earth where New York has been split between warring superhero factions. Skaar and Moonstone are captured by Doctor Strange, who forces them to ignite a long-standing feud between Ben Grimm and Iron Man. Meanwhile, the rest of the team are relocated to Iron Man’s laboratory, where The Witch, June Covington performs experiments on them.

Ragnarok remains unconscious after his procedure, John Walker’s severed arm and leg are restored, and Ai Apaec is shrunk to miniscule height via Pym Particles. As they regain their senses, Sue Storm and Namor arrive in New York with an ultimatum — vacate the city and cease the war, for they will flood it all in 24 hours. The Dark Avengers decide to try and rescue Reed Richards, the only man in the madness who seems to know what’s actually going on; and if not, escape the city before Namor and Sue raze it all.

Writer: Jeff Parker
Pencillers: Mirco Pierfederici and Neil Edwards
Inkers: Mirco Pierfederici and Terry Pallot
Colourist: Chris Sotomayor
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously, in Dark Avengers: After being apprehended in Sharzhad by the Thunderbolts, the Dark Avengers (as well as Moonstone, Skaar, and John Walker) are accidentally sent to an alternate dimension where superheroes rule all of New York, and fight for territory amongst each other. Moonstone and Skaar are captured by Doctor Strange and forced to start a war, whilst the other Dark Avengers are found by Tony Stark and Hank Pym, and are taken back to Stark Tower for experimentation.

The Witch releases herself from confinement, and uses her mind control powers to twist Hank Pym into aiding her. Using her extensive knowledge of genetics, she is able to remove the cybernetic parts of Ragnarok, the clone of Thor, and turn him into a purely organic being, and restore John Walker’s missing arm and leg, allowing the USAgent to return to active duty once again.

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Those who pay attention to the monthly solicitations for Marvel’s comics may have noticed that April’s issue #189 of Dark Avengers was noted as being the “Penultimate issue of dark heroics.” Not to get ahead of myself, but that seems to pretty positively be stating that the series could be ending with May’s issue #190.

Writer: Jeff Parker
Penciller: Neil Edwards
Inker: Terry Pallot
Colourist: Chris Sotomayor
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously, in Dark Avengers: After a teleportational mishap from Man-Thing, the Dark Avengers, John Walker, Skaar, and Moonstone find themselves in an alternate dimension in which New York has been split into territories, each controlled by a different superhero. These lords of the city battle with each other in land disputes, each employing their superpowers in twisted ways that our dimension’s heroes would never dream of, and the Dark Avengers are smack bang in the middle of their war.

The Dark Scarlet Witch is captured by Iron Man’s forces, and taken to his laboratory where she is able to escape using her new mind control powers. Unleashed in the lab with all of Iron Man’s facilities and a mind-controlled Hank Pym at her disposal, the twisted geneticist goes to work on her fellow team members, who are unconscious and at her mercy. And across town, Moonstone and Skaar run afoul of Doctor Strange, who sentences them to serve him!

Writer: Jeff Parker
Penciller: Neil Edwards
Inkers: Terry Pallot, and Bit
Colourist: Chris Sotomayor
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously, in Dark Avengers: The Thunderbolts returned from their trip through time just in time to save Luke Cage and the Dark Avengers from committing an act that would send the Earth spiralling into a cataclysmic dystopian future. As a reward, Cage and his fellow Avengers allowed the Thunderbolts to go free, and so Man-Thing used his teleportation powers to send them to the places where they would receive what they sought after most.

The Dark Avengers were placed into custody, and Warden Walker and Skaar were set to fly their transport ship back to New York for their imprisonment. Unfortunately, the Toxic Doxie used her powers to almost crash the ship. Moonstone flew up to try and catch it, but Man-Thing instinctively sent the ship through a portal in order to keep his friends on the ground from being flattened. Despite intending to send the ship back to New York, Man-Thing has instead sent it to a parallel world, and now the Dark Avengers, Warden Walker, Skaar, and Moonstone must find their way back home.

Writer: Jeff Parker
Penciller: Neil Edwards
Inker: Terry Pallot
Colourist: Chris Sotomayor
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously, in Dark Avengers: Tricked into helping the Federal Advisory Committee to the Thunderbolts with their plot to steal Sharzhad’s Rigellian forcefield technology, the Dark Avengers were poised to succeed in their mission, having ditched both Luke Cage and Skaar, the chaperones on their ill-fated mission.

Luckily, the time-travelling Thunderbolts team arrived back in the present and defeated the Dark Avengers in order to prevent their mission from succeeding, saving the world from an apocalyptic future as a result. Now the two teams are reunited, and both the Thunderbolts and the Dark Avengers must face the consequences of their recent actions.

Writer: Jeff Parker
Penciller: Neil Edwards
Colourist:  Chris Sotomayor
Inker: Terry Pallot
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously, in Dark Avengers: The Thunderbolts’ time travelling adventures are almost at a close. Deep within Mondo City 1, a dystopian future city in the midst of a war with mutants, they have discovered a signal that Man-Thing can track back to the present. The only thing standing in their way is Boss Cage, the clone of Luke Cage’s grandson.

In the present, the Dark Avengers have managed to put an energy siphoning mutant named Wender inside the Rygellian device that powers the Sultan Magus. This has caused a massive energy feedback, and threatens to cause enormous destruction. This event has become known as the Cataclysm in the Thunderbolts’ future, and they are now trying to return to their own time to prevent this from occurring. Unfortunately, time is running out, and Luke Cage and Skaar are in no position to aid them.

Writer: Jeff Parker
Penciller: Neil Edwards
Inker: Terry Pallot
Colourist: Frank Martin Jr.
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Clayton Cowles

Previously, in Dark Avengers: Ragnarok, Ai Apaec, June Covington and Trickshot have been put back together by the Federal Advisory Committee to the Thunderbolts as the Dark Avengers, with Luke Cage and Skaar as their chaperones. The team heads into Sharzhad, the area controlled by the omnipotent Sultan Magus, where the Dark Avengers leave Cage and Skaar to fight the Magus and flee to the Magus’ inner sanctum, unleashing a power draining mutant named Wender into the Rygelian technology within.

In the future, the Thunderbolts have discovered that the desolate wasteland that they have found themselves trapped in is a result of the Dark Avengers’ actions in the past, and have decided to try and get back to the present to stop them and save the future. And back in the USA, in the present, Songbird, Mach V and John Walker have uncovered a plot by FACT that threatens the lives of everyone involved, be they Thunderbolt, Dark Avenger, or otherwise.

Speaking at Fan Expo Canada today, Jeff Parker and new series artist Neil Edwards discussed the newest direction for the Dark Avengers series, which will see another new incarnation of the team, led by John Walker as the USAgent once again.

The only other revealed member is Moonstone, who continues to be a Dark Avengers/Thunderbolts mainstay, and Parker was tight-lipped about the exact direction the book would be taking, though he did heap praise on Edwards’ art.

It seems that once again the Earth is going to require some of its more shady characters to save it, as they have in previous Thunderbolts adventures, and continue to do so in the Dark Avengers title at the moment.

Dark Avengers #183 hits in December.

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Writer: Jeff Parker
Artists: Gabriel Hernandez Walta and Kev Walker
Colourist: Frank Martin Jr.
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously, in Dark Avengers: The Dark Avengers find themselves in Sharzhad, the country of the omnipotent Sultan Magus. Under the pretence of finding their mission objective, the entire team flees. Luke Cage is in pursuit, and not pleased. Also not pleased are the Federal Advisory Committee to the Thunderbolts (FACT), who seem to have an agenda all their own.

And meanwhile, the Thunderbolts find themselves in a strange future run by Boss Cage, a man on a flaming motorcycle with Iron Man’s repulsor tech weaponry. Trapped without a time machine, thanks to the interference of a past version of Doctor Doom, the team have no choice but to search the future for a way back to their own time, aided by a band of mutants who help save them from Boss Cage’s attacks.

Writer: Jeff Parker
Pencillers: Kev Walker and Declan Shalvey
Inker: Terry Pallot
Colourist: Frank Martin Jr.
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously, in Dark Avengers: The Dark Avengers are now a part of the Thunderbolts program, and with both Luke Cage and Skaar, son of Hulk, as their chaperones, they have headed to the desert country of Sharzhad to infiltrate the lair of the omnipotent Sultan Magus.

Meanwhile, the Thunderbolts have arrived at the beginning of time. With Man-Thing revived as the first living being on the planet due to their time travel, they rescued another time traveller, who was revealed to be Doctor Doom in disguise. Doom hijacked their time-travelling tower, and set it to explode once he had brought them back to the future.

Writer: Jeff Parker
Penciller: Kev Walker
Inker: Terry Pallot
Colourist: Frank Martin Jr.
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously, in Dark Avengers: The newest incarnation of the Dark Avengers have been recruited as the current team of Thunderbolts. Despite his objections, Luke Cage remains as team leader and manages to convince Skaar, Son of Hulk, to join the team as back-up. The completed team flies to Sharzhad, a remote desert area controlled by the omnipotent Sultan Magus.

Meanwhile, the previous team of Thunderbolts remain trapped in the timestream. With the aid of the original Thunderbolts, they discover that Doctor Doom’s time machine is their best hope of getting home. After losing the Fixer to a time-loop, they continue on in their travels to try and return to the present day.

Writer: Jeff Parker
Artist: Declan Shalvey
Colourist: Frank Martin Jr.
Letterer: Virtual Calligraphy’s Joe Caramagna

Previously…: Norman Osborn, imprisoned for his attack on the floating city of Asgard, was rescued by remnants of HYDRA, the Hand, and AIM. As their new leader, Osborn recreated his team of Dark Avengers. Unfortunately, they failed in their attack just as their prior incarnation had, and they and Osborn were returned to prison.

Luke Cage has been heading up the Thunderbolts program since Osborn’s siege of Asgard, trying to put wayward villains back on the path to redemption. He has been hindered at every turn by FACT, the Federal Advisory Committee to the Thunderbolts, and now that Cage has lost an entire team of Thunderbolts when they escaped through time, Cage has decided to step down as leader.

News has been circulating for the past week or so about the end of the ongoing Thunderbolts comic at Marvel, but recently all has been revealed. Thunderbolts, in the aftermath of their time-jumping adventure which will end with them fighting the original version of their own team, will become renamed as Dark Avengers this June.

Read on for more information!