The following contains spoilers for Savage Avengers #8, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
One of Marvel’s Savage Avengers just got her very own symbiote look courtesy of teammate Flash Thompson, aka Anti-Venom.
Written by David Pepose and illustrated by Carlos Magno, Savage Avengers #8 forces the team into a losing battle against 2099’s Ultron. One by one, their ranks fall to the robot overlord, and Tandy Bowen/Dagger is forced to watch the deaths of Daredevil/Elektra Natchios, Weapon H/Clay Cortez, Flash and Cloak/Tyrone Johnson. After she loses both Flash and Ty, the Anti-Venom symbiote bonds with Tandy, and the symbiotic Dagger unleashes a maelstrom of energy against Ultron and his forces.
Unfortunately for Tandy, her massive attack is not enough to stop Ultron, who uses a tactical satellite to fire a massive laser at Dagger from Space, and kills her. One more Savage Avenger dies after Tandy, Dane Whitman/Black Knight, leaving the team’s surviving two members to make an escape from the battlefield: Punisher 2099/Jake Gallows and Deathlok/Miles Morales. Ultron does not allow the group’s fallen members to remain dead though, and reanimates them as monstrous cyborgs under his control.
Marvel’s Savage Avengers Are Now Monstrous Cyborgs
Thus, Tandy not only sports a new symbiote look in the issue, but a more grotesque appearance as well. In her cyborg form, she is fused to her heroic partner, Cloak, while Flash and the Anti-Venom symbiote are combined with robotic limbs and spider legs. Elektra, Clay and Dane are also brought back with their own metallic alterations.
After Issue #8, it seems that the upcoming Savage Avengers #9 will be a team-up between Deathlok and Punisher 2099 against their former allies. Ever since the final panels of Savage Avengers #5, the ensemble has been trapped in a version of 2099 made worse by Deathlok’s interference with history. One of Miles’ advanced, robotic arms was left behind in the Modern Era, accelerating the development of Deathlok technology throughout the decades following and causing Ultron to take over the world by 2099.
Ultron Can Soon Take Over Marvel History
However, it appears that 2099 is not the only point of time in danger anymore. Before they were all murdered, the Savage Avengers attempted to secure Doom 2099’s time-array gauntlet and travel back to their home era, but now it lies within Ultron’s possession. The villain is now using the device to power a temporal gate, but where Ultron may time travel to first with his armies remains to be seen.
Along with Pepose and Magno, Savage Avengers #8 is colored by Espen Grundetjern and lettered by VC’s Travis Lanham. The issue’s main cover art is done by Valerio Giangiordano and Chris O’Halloran, with variant cover artwork contributed to by Marco Checchetto and Marcio Menyz. The issue is now on sale from Marvel Comics.
Source: Marvel
