Chapter Summaries

Su Ming interrupted his quiet life at Kamar-Taj after learning that a Kree spacecraft had crashed in Maine. He identified the injured Mary Earl as Queen Pa'am’s agent and exposed her plan to use Earth as a refuge and leverage against the Supreme Intelligence.

• Su Ming persuaded Steve that he had done nothing wrong, and Steve explained that he would refuse to join a planned war and might look for Bucky or become a comic artist.
• Steve learned that Howard had gone to Cuba and drove off to bring him back.
• Hamill reported that an alien spacecraft had crashed in Maine, so Su Ming traveled there through a portal.
• Su Ming met the injured Kree woman and declared that Earth belonged to humanity, with himself as its protector.
• Su Ming identified Mary Earl and revealed that Queen Pa'am had sent her to establish a Kree base on Earth; when Mary reached for her gun, Su Ming restrained her with his sword.

Su Ming subdued Mary, a Kree warrior sent to build a planetary cannon, and convinced her that Empress Pa'am had been captured and her mission erased. He then took her fighter, warned Odin about the Kree civil war, and left the Asgardian to consider the danger.

• Su Ming captured Mary and told her the planetary cannon could not threaten him or the Supreme Intelligence.
• Su Ming claimed Pa'am had been captured and Mary's identity erased, then gave her money and promised identification so she could live on Earth.
• Su Ming took Mary's cosmic fighter to his secret factory for the Adjutant to study.
• Su Ming barged into Odin's Slumber and forced Odin to hear his report on the Kree civil war and Empress Apam's plans.
• Odin listened to Su Ming's mixed account and worried over the new threat after Su Ming left.

Su Ming left Kamar-Taj and spent several peaceful days in Hawaii while Steve tracked down Howard in Cuba. Steve found Howard among former Hydra scientists who had founded A.I.M. and planned to build an artificial Cosmic Cube, forcing the pair to flee through the jungle.

• Su Ming found Mordo hanging from a tree in Kamar-Taj, sent him to fetch dates, and then left after telling Hamill to contact Selene and seek Master Trickster’s help if needed.
• Su Ming met Gin in Hawaii, relaxed on the beach, and trained the Russian Girls at Spider Web headquarters.
• Steve reached Cuba and found Howard enjoying a barbecue with A.I.M. scientists in the rainforest.
• The A.I.M. leader revealed their plan to create an artificial Cosmic Cube, provide limitless energy, and then rule the world.
• Steve attacked the scientists and fled into the jungle with Howard as A.I.M. pursued them on hover vehicles.
• Steve heard a waterfall ahead and told Howard to head toward it and dive.

Steve and Howard escaped the A.I.M. pursuers with help from the bizarre mercenary Deadpool, whose business card suggested a connection to Deathstroke. Back on his private beach, Su Ming tried to avoid Wade but ultimately shot him and hurled his body out to sea.

• Steve and Howard were knocked down by explosions that destroyed the pursuing A.I.M. members.
• Deadpool introduced himself as an anonymous mercenary, gave Steve and Howard his business card, and left.
• Howard compared Deadpool’s card with the one left by the person who abducted Dr. Erskine, and he and Steve suspected a connection to Deathstroke.
• Su Ming pretended to sleep as Wade approached, but Wade squeezed onto his beach chair and clung to him.
• Su Ming set the chair on fire, then had Strangle shoot Wade in the head and threw his corpse into the sea.

Su Ming tried to enjoy his vacation, but Wade sought his help in meeting Death again after exhausting the Reality Stone. Su Ming left Gin behind and visited Death, where he asked what death meant beyond their universe.

• Wade joined Su Ming on the beach and revealed that Death had killed Thanos after Wade met her.
• Wade asked Su Ming to help him see Death again, but Su Ming stabbed and shot him without killing him; Wade then left to seek Dracula or Selene.
• Su Ming told Gin he needed to leave the Megaverse alone to find another way to travel, and Gin agreed to oversee the research.
• Su Ming met Death and told her Dream and Lucifer were trying to create a Dream Universe connected to the Omniverse.
• Su Ming asked Death what death was beyond the universe, and she described it as both a gift and a miracle.

Su Ming broke into Karazhan’s library and encountered the young Khadgar, who suspected him of being a demon and a thief. Su Ming exposed Khadgar’s secret ties to the Council of Tirisfal and proposed a deal.

• Khadgar woke in the night, found his bedroom door open, and went to warn Medivh about a possible intruder.
• Khadgar discovered the library’s magical lock had been cut and confronted a one-eyed figure floating inside.
• Su Ming introduced himself as Deathstroke, the Sorcerer Supreme, and explained that he had come seeking Medivh but found him absent.
• Khadgar accused Su Ming of stealing a book, and Su Ming revealed that Khadgar was a Council of Tirisfal spy.
• Su Ming returned the Chronicles of the Continent to Khadgar, teased him about denying the accusation, and asked whether he wanted to discuss a deal.

Su Ming, calling himself the Sorcerer Supreme, confronted the young Khadgar in Karazhan and offered to trade answers for favors. After Khadgar's attacks failed and the tower's defenses remained silent, Khadgar tried to teleport away, but Su Ming interrupted him and knocked him down.

• Khadgar feared Su Ming was a demon or Old God, while Su Ming demonstrated his weapons and joked that heavy armor, a staff, and a greatsword were the true essence of magic.
• Su Ming offered to answer Khadgar's questions about the Council of Tirisfal and Medivh in exchange for favors sworn to Elune.
• Khadgar ambushed Su Ming with Frostbolt, but Su Ming blocked it with a drink bottle and used Khadgar's spells to chill beverages and cook barbecue.
• Khadgar claimed Karazhan's alarms would summon its magical servants and Medivh, but no help arrived as Su Ming waited and ate.
• Khadgar accused Su Ming of killing the absent staff and attempted to teleport to Stormwind City, but Su Ming interrupted the spell and knocked him to the floor.

Su Ming revealed that Medivh was preparing to help the Burning Legion invade Azeroth and persuaded Khadgar to become his disciple. Khadgar agreed to seek Su Ming’s help in protecting Azeroth, while the location of Medivh’s ritual remained uncertain.

• Su Ming made Khadgar sign an agreement to owe him five favors in exchange for information about Medivh.
• Su Ming told Khadgar that the Burning Legion’s invasion was underway and that Medivh had left Karazhan to prepare its final step.
• Su Ming explained that Medivh might be in the Tirisfal Glades, the Swamp of Sorrows, or the Tower of Shadows beneath Karazhan.
• Khadgar concluded that the Burning Legion posed the greatest threat and asked Su Ming to help stop it.
• Su Ming agreed to teach Khadgar as his disciple, and Khadgar asked him to help protect Azeroth.

Su Ming led Khadgar through Karazhan’s Tower of Shadows, teaching him to hunt demons while challenging his assumptions about the Council of Tirisfal and Medivh. At the terrace, Su Ming destroyed a Fel Warship with one slash, and Khadgar learned that his teacher’s lesson was simply to never look back at explosions.

• Su Ming guided Khadgar through the Tower of Shadows, killing demons and showing him how to harvest useful materials from Felhounds and Abominations.
• As they passed the corpses of Karazhan’s servants, Su Ming urged Khadgar not to judge Meryl Winterstorm by his appearance and explained that Medivh’s kindness had served Sargeras’s plan.
• Khadgar realized that his choices could have endangered Azeroth, thanked Su Ming for teaching him, and accepted that he might have died without his intervention.
• Su Ming and Khadgar reached a terrace and found a Fel Warship bringing demons into Azeroth after Medivh had already left.
• Su Ming transformed the Chicken Leg Staff, flew to the warship, and cut it in half, causing it to explode and destroying the Eye Demon aboard.
• Khadgar asked how he could learn to perform the feat, but Su Ming told him the lesson was to be a real man and never look back at explosions.

After Karazhan’s destruction, Su Ming guided Khadgar through his grief and convinced him to become his student. They reached Stormwind Keep, where an emergency drew Archbishop Alonsus Faol and Archbishop Benedictus inside, and Khadgar spotted his friend Windsor.

• Su Ming told Khadgar that Medivh’s soul had vanished and that the body now held Sargeras, then took enchanting formulas and blueprints from Karazhan.
• Khadgar searched the empty town below the tower and returned with a doll, grieving the vanished residents and asking why the Burning Legion destroyed worlds.
• Su Ming explained the Legion’s plans and the threat of the Void Lords, and Khadgar accepted Deathstroke as his teacher and asked to learn weapons.
• Su Ming and Khadgar arrived outside Stormwind Keep and saw Archbishop Alonsus Faol and Archbishop Benedictus entering amid a palace emergency.
• Khadgar spotted Windsor behind the guards and called out to him to let them inside.

After King Llane was mortally wounded by Garona, Khadgar told Sir Lothar that Medivh had been possessed by a demon. Deathstroke agreed to help hunt Medivh for a fee, and the party prepared to depart for Karazhan.

• Sir Lothar led Khadgar and Deathstroke into the throne room, where King Llane lay dying from poison after Garona stabbed him.
• Sir Lothar ordered Windsor to gather the Brotherhood of the Horse and prepare the Griffins for an attack on Karazhan.
• Khadgar told Sir Lothar that Medivh had been possessed by a demon and suggested Garona might have been controlled.
• Deathstroke offered to help kill Medivh for five hundred Silk Pouches, and Sir Lothar accepted the deal.
• Windsor reported that the troops had assembled, and Griffins began beating their wings beyond the throne room.

Su Ming helped Lothar defeat Sargeras and let the Dark Portal open, then negotiated with Chromie and returned to Marvel after spending time with the Bronze Dragonflight. Back on his Hawaii beach, he agreed to help Deadpool find Santa Claus so Wade could wish for his own death.

• Su Ming guided Lothar, Khadgar, and their forces to the Dark Swamp, where he met Chromie and offered to discuss terms.
• Su Ming helped defeat Sargeras in Medivh's body, but the Dark Portal opened and hundreds of thousands of orcs entered Azeroth.
• Su Ming spent two months on Azeroth, visiting the Caverns of Time and teaching Khadgar and Varian to use Whirlwind before returning to Marvel.
• Deadpool emerged from the beach sand and asked Su Ming to help him find Santa Claus so he could wish to die.
• Su Ming and Deadpool used the Time-Space Belt and Time Stone to travel to Wade's era, then searched for a good child to use as bait.

Su Ming accompanied Wade through New York on Christmas Eve, where they encountered Hydra Bob and his timed bomb before following Wade to his odd-jobs agency. There, Negasonic Teenage Warhead argued with Wade and kicked him through the agency’s walls and out into the night.

• Wade rode the subway with Su Ming and reunited with Hydra Bob, who revealed that he was carrying a timed bomb.
• Wade, Su Ming, and Bob passed the bomb back and forth while chatting until the train reached Bayek Park.
• Wade led Su Ming through a rundown mall to his Deadpool Odd Jobs Agency, stopping to collect a plush rabbit from Jimmy’s shop.
• Wade introduced Su Ming to Negasonic Teenage Warhead, who ignored Wade and then angrily explained how he had tricked her into working for him.
• Wade exposed the rabbit in his crotch, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead kicked him through several walls and out into the night.

Su Ming visited Negasonic Teenage Warhead, learned more about Wade’s plan to capture Santa Claus, and asked her to suggest a suitable child. After she left, Su Ming found the injured Wade and began punishing him for what he had said behind his back.

• Negasonic Teenage Warhead told Su Ming that Wade planned to betray his Santa Claus contract by capturing Santa alive and negotiating with him.
• Su Ming asked Negasonic Teenage Warhead to name a good child for the plan, and she suggested Spider-Man before recommending that Su Ming use Xavier’s Brainwave Amplifier to locate Santa.
• Negasonic Teenage Warhead left to visit Yukio and repeated Wade’s insults about Su Ming as she departed.
• Su Ming found Wade crawling through an alley with shattered bones after Negasonic Teenage Warhead’s kick.
• Wade claimed he had fallen into a sewer, but Su Ming recognized him and attacked him with Godslayer.

Su Ming and Deadpool went to Peter’s house on Christmas Eve, where they watched Tony Stark flirt with Aunt May before Peter and May sat down to dinner. The chapter left Su Ming peering through the window at the family meal while Deadpool lay wounded behind him.

• Su Ming tested whether Deadpool could be killed by strangling him with his own intestines, then sent him to clean up at a car wash.
• Su Ming and Deadpool reached Peter’s house and hid in the bushes as Tony Stark visited Aunt May and flirted with her.
• Tony flew away in his Iron Man armor, and Aunt May warned Peter not to imitate his womanizing ways before they went inside to eat.
• Deadpool claimed Tony owed him money for defeating Thanos, and Su Ming pointed out that their supposed agreement had only been trash talk.
• Deadpool suggested disguising himself as a woman to seduce Tony, but Su Ming dismissed the plan and stabbed him with Godslayer.
• Su Ming watched Peter’s family dinner through the window while Deadpool bled on the ground behind him.

Su Ming and Deadpool secretly watched Peter at home, then sneaked into his room and startled him. May walked in on Peter and Deadpool wrestling and ordered them both downstairs for a talk as Su Ming slipped away.

• May shared dinner with Peter while Su Ming and Deadpool watched from outside.
• Su Ming and Deadpool entered Peter's room and read his online plea for advice about a rich man harassing May.
• Peter startled at the sight of the two men and tried to hide them from May, who misunderstood his actions when she entered the room.
• Deadpool teased Peter about his love life, and the two wrestled on the bed until May returned.
• May caught Peter and Deadpool wrestling, ordered them downstairs, and Su Ming retreated through the bathroom.

While Deadpool and Peter were being scolded, Su Ming used Peter’s computer to check the Future’s public news and snoop through his social media. He pranked Peter by posting a photo of expensive wine, then rejected Tony’s friend request after learning Tony had been monitoring Peter online.

• Su Ming searched public news and company records, confirming that Wilson Enterprises was thriving and that Kamar-Taj remained unknown to the public.
• Su Ming found Peter’s files of Spider-armor driver backups and noted that Tony had left a backdoor capable of shutting down the armor.
• Su Ming used Peter’s saved social media account to post a photo of Skywalker 1925 Vintage, prompting Ned, Harry, and Michelle to message him about the wine.
• Su Ming drank the wine and posted that he had finished it, causing many people to withdraw their messages and unfriend Peter.
• Su Ming rejected Tony’s friend request after Tony offered more wine and asked Peter to bring his aunt to Stark Tower.

After Aunt May warned Peter about the company he kept, Peter decided to find Santa Claus and invite him to visit her. Su Ming joined Peter’s search, while Peter planned to use S.H.I.E.L.D.’s records rather than ask Tony Stark.

• May sent Deadpool fleeing after mistaking what he and Peter had been doing, then worried that Peter’s friends would lead him astray.
• May comforted Peter, who explained that he hoped to make his questionable superhero companions better, and Peter decided to stay home and find Santa Claus for her.
• Peter returned upstairs and found Su Ming waiting in his room after Deadpool had escaped; Su Ming had secretly taken a sample of Peter’s hair and skin.
• Peter changed into his Spider-Man suit and told Su Ming that he wanted to invite Santa Claus to visit Aunt May.
• Su Ming said he and Wade were also looking for Santa Claus, and Peter proposed checking S.H.I.E.L.D.’s records instead of asking Tony Stark because he feared Stark wanted to date May.

Su Ming brought Spider-Man and Deadpool to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s New Triskelion on Christmas Eve, where he met Nick Fury and said he was there to observe the two heroes’ search for Santa Claus. Fury assigned Natasha to accompany them, but Su Ming asked for Coulson instead, and Fury said Coulson had died.

• Su Ming found Deadpool hiding outside Peter’s home and brought him and Spider-Man to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s New Triskelion.
• Peter and Deadpool bickered on the rooftop until Nick Fury arrived with Natasha.
• Su Ming told Fury he had been on Earth during Thanos’s threat and had come to observe Spider-Man and Deadpool looking for Santa Claus.
• Fury said S.H.I.E.L.D. had no plans against Su Ming or Deadpool, then offered Natasha as their contact.
• Su Ming asked for Coulson instead, and Fury left after saying Coulson had died in the line of duty.

Su Ming, Deadpool, and Peter traveled to the Arctic to investigate Santa Claus and found him alone in a cabin, apparently drinking and taking medication. After questioning what they saw and noticing the absence of reindeer, gifts, and helpers, they reconsidered their assumptions, but Santa Claus heard them outside and approached the door with a shotgun.

• Natasha secretly provided Su Ming, Deadpool, and Peter with Santa Claus's home address.
• Deadpool and Peter bickered and played in the snow while the group traveled to the Arctic Circle.
• Su Ming, Deadpool, and Peter saw Santa Claus in his cabin with liquor, medicine, and a syringe, prompting Peter to doubt the story he had grown up with.
• Su Ming pointed out that Santa Claus's reindeer, sleigh, presents, and Little Dwarves were missing, while Deadpool noticed Santa's gift bag was empty.
• Su Ming cautioned Peter not to trust appearances, and Peter thanked him for the lesson.
• Santa Claus heard the three outside, picked up a double-barreled shotgun, and headed toward the door.