In Europe Fury’s agents, blind Irish minstrel Matthew Murdoch and femme fatale Natasha Romanova seek to safeguard a powerful weapon on its way from Jerusalem to London for safekeeping. Virginia Dare and her bodyguard Rojhaz, a burly blonde Native American, are freshly arrived from the New World seeking royal aid for the colony of Roanoke. Stephen Strange, the Queen’s physician, grows increasingly concerned about the strange phenomena that increase every day. His page, the young Peter Parquah, has his hands full running errands for Fury. Sir Nicholas Fury, the Queen’s spymaster, has his hands full foiling enemy plots. Queen Elizabeth is nearing the end of her reign, while James of Scotland waits impatiently in the wings to take her throne and Doom The Handsome of Latveria dreams of world conquest, his dungeons holding four very interesting explorers hostage for his own purposes. Strange weather haunts the earth, and the people whisper rumors of the end of the world. All is not well in the Marvel Universe in this stellar graphic novel from Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert.
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