Vol. 31Cancerverse and the Zombie Outbreak

Su Ming and his allies traced the Cancerverse invasion to Lord Mar-Vell, defeated him, and rescued Franklin before returning to Earth-40K. They then confronted a multiverse-spanning zombie outbreak, which ended with Cassandra ambushing Tony Stark at the hospital.

  • Su Ming traced a dead Sorcerer Supreme’s final movements to a Florida facility and identified the monster attacking Orange Town as a mad Reed Richards from another universe, whom he and Professor Xu destroyed with salt and fire.
  • Su Ming, Doctor Doom, Daisy, and Professor Xu traveled through the Nexus of All Realities into the Seventeenth Dimension and set out to investigate a Mage Tower.
  • Su Ming and Doctor Doom discovered that the Materialist Empire had attacked the mages and reopened a passage to the Cancerverse, where the team traced the invasion to Lord Mar-Vell and the Galactus Engine.
  • The group fought through Galactus’s corrupted body to his heart, where Adam Warlock appeared with the Infinity Gauntlet and attacked Deathstroke.
  • Su Ming defeated Adam Warlock, then worked with Tony, Wanda, and the others to lure Mar-Vell into an ambush near the ruined Galactus Engine.
  • Mar-Vell regenerated, warped space, and began an Autopsy Ritual, so Su Ming ordered the fighters to retreat.
  • Su Ming used the Time Stone to scatter Mar-Vell as living particles across the universe, and Deathstroke brought Franklin back to Earth-40K.
  • Su Ming and his allies investigated the spreading zombie outbreak, while Deathstroke learned that the last missing zombie had reached Tony Stark’s hospital, where Cassandra ambushed Tony.
Chapters 3005–3104 Read from ch. 3005

Arc 121The Seventeenth Dimension

After a dead Sorcerer Supreme leads Su Ming to a monster loose in Orange Town, he and his allies hunt it down and protect the town. Su Ming then gathers a team and enters the Seventeenth Dimension to investigate the source of the threat.

  • Su Ming learned that Shang-Chi had betrayed his school and planned to help A.I.M.-backed consortiums excavate Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum, and Zheng Xian quietly sent someone to deal with him.
  • A dead Sorcerer Supreme from another dimension appeared in the No Door Bar, and Su Ming traced the corpse’s last movements to a facility in Florida’s Great Marsh.
  • Su Ming and Professor Xu identified the killer as a mad Reed Richards from another Parallel Universe after he attacked Orange Town, and they destroyed him with salt and fire.
  • Datri learned that the monster had killed all seventy-five tenants in the Stump Street apartment building, while Man-Thing comforted him and promised to help protect the town.
  • Su Ming left Leonid to guard the Reality Hub passage and joined Doctor Doom, Daisy, and Professor Xu in traveling through the Nexus of All Realities.
  • Su Ming destroyed a monster in the Nexus, and Thor used Mjolnir to guide the group into the Seventeenth Dimension.
  • Doctor Doom’s Micro-Robots located a Mage Tower, and the group set off to investigate it.
Chapters 3005–3029 Summaries Read

Arc 122The Cancerverse Expedition

Su Ming and his allies traced the Cancerverse’s invasion to Lord Mar-Vell and assembled a team to find and destroy the Galactus Engine. The group reached the corrupted heart inside Galactus, where Adam Warlock appeared as an agent of the Old Ones and attacked Deathstroke.

  • Su Ming and Doctor Doom entered the Mage Tower, identified the Materialist Empire as the force that had attacked its mages, and reopened a passage to the Cancerverse.
  • Su Ming led the group into Earth-10011, explained how the Many-Angled Ones had transformed its people, and arranged for Deadpool to bring Tony Stark, Carol Danvers, and Monica Rambeau to the team.
  • Deathstroke met Vision, Ultron, and the Supreme Intelligence, learned that Lord Mar-Vell had killed Deaths from other universes, and decided to lure him out with a trap.
  • Deadpool brought Tony and Carol to Monica through Hero Coffee Shop, while Deathstroke recruited Batwoman and explained that Deadpool might serve as an agent of the Old Ones.
  • The team learned that Mar-Vell and the Vindicators had turned Galactus into a living ship, then followed the Supreme Intelligence’s lead to the Galactus Engine.
  • Monica distracted the monsters as Carol opened a route into Galactus, and the team fought through his corrupted body to reach the heart.
  • Deadpool found his Earth-10011 counterpart, Machine Deadpool, and saw that Vanessa had become a deformed monster.
  • Deathstroke approached Galactus’s heart, where Adam Warlock appeared with the Infinity Gauntlet and claimed to have converted him after using the Stones.
Chapters 3030–3054 Summaries Read

Arc 123The Mar-Vell Ambush

Su Ming’s group lured Lord Mar-Vell into a trap while Deadpool and Luthor approached him from another direction. Mar-Vell escaped the initial ambush, then faced Thanos and the assembled fighters as he began an Autopsy Ritual.

  • Su Ming defeated Adam Warlock, took his head, and joined Doom and the others as they prepared Galactus’s heart for an Immolation.
  • Su Ming and Tony entered Galactus’s head, used the Galactus Engine’s messages to lure the Vindicators, and recruited Wanda, who revealed Mar-Vell’s connection to Carol Danvers.
  • Deathstroke’s group killed several Vindicators, while Su Ming ordered Wanda to sabotage the Galactus Engine and made Carol the bait for Mar-Vell.
  • Deadpool met Luthor aboard the Divinity, then carried Vision and Ultron’s heads to Mar-Vell as a supposed birthday gift while Luthor scavenged Mar-Vell’s bedroom.
  • Wanda attacked Mar-Vell near the ruined Galactus Engine as Su Ming’s group prepared a ritual to investigate Deadpool’s connection to the Dream Dimension.
  • Thanos arrived and fought Mar-Vell alongside Tony and Carol, forcing Su Ming to send more fighters into the battle.
  • Mar-Vell regenerated from Deathstroke’s attack, warped space, and began an Autopsy Ritual, so Su Ming ordered everyone to retreat.
Chapters 3055–3079 Summaries Read

Arc 124Zombies Across Worlds

Su Ming and his allies ended Lord Mar-Vell’s threat, rescued Franklin from the Cancerverse, and returned to Earth-40K. A zombie outbreak from another universe then spread, drawing S.H.I.E.L.D. into the hunt while Cassandra ambushed Tony in the hospital.

  • Su Ming used the Time Stone to reduce Lord Mar-Vell to living particles scattered across the universe, then searched Mar-Vell’s home with Doctor Doom.
  • Doctor Doom found Susan and her children in Latveria, while Deathstroke learned that Franklin was building a universe in his Pocket Universe and offered him a place in the 40K multiverse.
  • Franklin agreed to travel with Deathstroke, and the group returned to Earth-40K as Deadpool recovered from his encounter with the Old Ones.
  • Deathstroke arranged for the Spider-Men to train with Taskmaster, recruited Star-Lord to retrieve Hala’s research, and watched Nick Fury establish A.R.M.O.R. with Howard the Duck.
  • Su Ming and Natasha found Luke Cage as a zombie, and Luke explained that survivors from his Earth were entering through doors Reed had sent across the multiverse.
  • Deathstroke traced the zombie’s route and ordered affected blocks sealed, while Sophie and Oleg reported that a zombie they had brought home had attacked them.
  • Su Ming tracked infected victims, tested the zombies’ abilities, and explained the outbreak to Coulson’s team after they encountered him fighting undead in a supermarket.
  • Deathstroke confirmed Black Panther was a zombie and warned the heroes about the infection’s unknown origin, then learned the last missing zombie had gone to Tony Stark’s hospital, where Cassandra ambushed Tony.
Chapters 3080–3104 Summaries Read
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