Marc flattens his back against the wall by the window, taking a moment to breathe and listen. There’s another clatter and Marc lunges, turning to face out the window, gun at the ready-
Yelena and a young woman in some kind of purple tactical getup with a bow and quiver on her back freeze from where they’re standing on the slender ledge outside the window.
Marc curses violently in Ladino (Steven keeps meaning to pick up a dictionary). The three of them stare at each other.
“Well?” Yelena demands, just loud enough to be heard through the glass. “Aren’t you gonna invite us in?”
“Why are you outside my window?” Marc hisses back.
“You were closest!”
“Why are you even here?”
“Besties road trip,” the girl next to her whispers.
This panel is indicative of this whole crazy issue where Merlin comes back from a 1000 year sleep to try to take over the US. He reveals he’s no magician at all but actually a mutant, hunts for JFK who was the president (shown in this panel) and fights Thor, who’s hammer for some reason is depicted with a long handle through this whole issue. It’s filled with a trip to Cape D’Or, a random bus saving at the beginning, cops who don’t believe he’s Merlin, the Washington momument turned into a javelin… This is a comic!
Journey Into Mystery #96 from 1963 Story by Stan Lee, Script by R. Burns Art by Joe Sinnott
