"GALACTIC MOURNING"
Writers: Bob Harras & Cefn Ridout | Penciler: Jeff Moore | Inker: Mike Sellers
Letterer: Michael Higgins | Colorist: Nel Yomtov | Editor: Richard Ashford
Group Editor: Ralph Macchio | Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Writers: Bob Harras & Cefn Ridout | Penciler: Jeff Moore | Inker: Mike Sellers
Letterer: Michael Higgins | Colorist: Nel Yomtov | Editor: Richard Ashford
Group Editor: Ralph Macchio | Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
The Plot: In their hidden compound on the moon, Galen Kor and his troops monitor the nearby crash-landing of a capsule from Kree space. The warriors retrieve and activate the device, which is revealed as the final recording of a Kree historian. He recaps the events of the Kree/Shi'ar war for Galen Kor and his followers, explaining to them the Avengers' complicity in the detonation of the nega-bomb, as well as their assassination of the Supreme Intelligence. Kor vows to make the Avengers pay. Meanwhile, on Earth, Vision monitors the arrival of the capsule as well, and wonders what it could mean.
Continuity Notes: This is apparently a hard issue to place in continuity, though I can't figure out why it should be. The AVENGERS: THE GATHERING OMNIBUS places it before AVENGERS ANNUAL #22, and thus directly between AVENGERS #364 and 365 -- so it's set just prior to the Avengers' battle with Galen Kor. But the AVENGERS EPIC COLLECTION: THE GATHERERS STRIKE! volume has it at the very end, after all the issues in the book -- therefore putting it between AVENGERS nos. 366 and 367, after the encounter with Kor but before "Bloodties". And the good people at the Marvel Chronology Project list Galen Kor as appearing here after his last appearance in AVENGERS #366 as well, but there's no way to know exactly where they would stick it, since his next appearance is a year later in the upcoming in issue 378 (spolier alert).
