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Even Lorelei's love potion isn't enough to force Ben to actually kill someone... which really kinda should have been a thing Malekith expected...

Also, Ben's facial wound is really random every time we see it. You think someone would have set like a precedent, and they would stick with it, but sometimes it's just a little thing, or sometimes we get this HUGE veiny thing we got going on here.

So the person who talked Lorelei into all of this was Malekith, and as soon as Ben has the Mead, Malekith takes over Lorelei's projection and has Ben drink the Mead instead.

Anyway, she sends him after the love mead she made for Thor when she was alive, and Ben, instead of knocking, just busts down the door to her old apartment...

Sitting in Hel, Lorelei has decided that no she actually does love Thor, but she then mentions wanting him to come save her from Hel, and like I have a feeling that want is driving a lot of that love... also someone is kinda stirring her up and getting her into trouble, but they have him cast in shadows...

Yowza... it doesn't feel normal for Sif to be rocking an outfit like this, but I'm not complaining.

Torn on this one... It's not great, but it is miles better than the God Pack drivel we have been getting fed in this book for a while now...

At the very end, we come back to Rina, who has another jump forward in time, where she sees Speedball die... and so she makes it her goal to warn the Warriors about what is coming, in the hopes they can change it...

I do like Vance's new costume, though...

Rich acting like he is willing to kill to get his powers back, but Sall instantly calls his bluff... also, we see they 100% did not stop Vlox..

So even though Dwayne has left the Warriors, he still has that team mentality on his mind, so he has decided to take over as the new leader of the Psionex instead...

Anyway, he heads into this closed-off area and instantly falls for a trap.

Justice isn't so sure about bring a depowered Rich along with them into battle but Rich is correct that he is kinda the only one that knows what is going on with Saal... but he is wrong that Thrasher was just some guy, dude trained like multiple hours a day for years and has special armor, Rich is lazy and is wearing a flannel on top of a band tee.

So Vlox here is actually like, the Dire Wraith matricarch... and she has captured Saal and plans to use him to destroy the Earth, but also to pull all of her children back out of Limbo...

The New Warriors and their Super-Orgies

to no one's surprise, throwing himself off a building doesn't bring his removed powers back, and he is only saved by the timely intervention of Turbo.

Since Rich's own book got canceled, we have to wrap up his story in the New Warriors book.