The Avengers Message Board spoiler thread seems to have vanished, apparently due to a lack of spoiler tags and for some mild profanity. I kind of suspected that would happen, so I saved the text of the message. Here’s an invisible version. Click and highlight to see:
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First of all, [worker] has seen MOST of the pages for Avengers #503, but was not able to see all of them because of the restrictions of [his/her] actual job, AND the order and the (sometimes reverse) way that a number of pages [in the folios] were printed for this issue.
AND, he has ONLY a GENERAL knowledge of the Avengers and Marvel Comics.
[He/She] says…
The Chaos storyline all ties into Chthon’s 4th attempt to return to Earth.
It involves the Scarlet Witch and her attempt to restore her children.
The nether dimension where Chthon resides—after fleeing Earth and (Atum the god-killer?)—was later breached by The Sentry/Void (The Avenger’s GREATEST FOE! bah!) apparently in the Sentry Mini Series. Wanda’s mutant powers have always been bonded with Chthon’s residual energies in Wundagore Mountain and with Chaos magic. Chthon uses the hidden fears, hatreds, etc of Wanda’s closest friends, the Avengers, and allows these inner thoughts to destroy them from within. This includes things like Pym wishing that Hawkeye was dead after sleeping with “his wife,” and, get this, Jocasta to take revenge on Stark, apparently since Jocasta’s brain waves are Janet’s and because of other “mistreatments”? Receptionist? Damn weak.
Guest appearance at the end by…the Void, who, apparently has been the hero all along, and it was The Sentry who was banished to Earth. WTF?
Oh, and that’s not Iron Man in the armor on the preview pages. It’s Magda, Wanda’s mother. I s___ you not! In yet another retelling of Wanda’s origin (it’s all done in the tradition of the Avengers, though!).
I can hardly wait for the next nine days to read this epic.
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Or, just e-mail me, and I’ll send the text to you. Oh, and apparently the next issue of Wizard spoils the reveal with some preview pages.