Issue(s): Avengers #389
Cover Date: Aug 95
Title: "Message from home"
Credits:
Bob Harras & Terry Kavanagh - Writer
Fabio Laguna - Penciler
Scott Koblish - Inker
Matt Idelson - Assistant Editor
Ralph Macchio - Editor

Review/plot:
Digital review warning.

Deathcry is being pursued by Mandroids...

...but she's rescued by the other Avengers.

It turns out that the Mandroids were sent by Henry Peter Gyrich, who says that Deathcry is a "dangerous extraterrestial" that he needs to take into custody. As proof of her danger, he says that he's been monitoring the wormhole at the end of the solar system that leads to Shi'ar space, and four ships have recently come out of it. Deathcry was seen at the landing site of the fourth ship. When the Avengers ask her why she never told them about it, she says she didn't know and breaks down into angry tears because no one would "believe another alien". She runs off. The Avengers try to find her before Gyrich does. But Hercules waits in her bedroom, and she returns as he expected.

It turns out that a drone ship has been delivering messages from Deathcry's nursemaid, K'rin, the woman who raised her. The most recent trip has K'rin's final message, but it's damaged and doesn't say why it's the last. A final page shows that Lilandra is aware of the drone's trips through the wormhold but the Shi'ar have been unable to stop it, and she says that she prays that the message doesn't reach its destination.

Quality Rating: D

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• Black Widow wonders why Gyrich is approaching the Avengers instead of Raymond Sikorski, since Sikorski has been their liaison since Gyrich "was assigned to Starcore". A footnote says it happened "so long ago, even we don't remember". Me neither. I mean, Sikorski became the Avengers liaison in Avengers #235 when Gyrich was reassigned to Project Wideawake, so maybe that's what Widow meant. However, there have been a lot of ups and downs for the Avengers - losing Security Clearance, working for the UN - since then, and maybe subsequently Gyrich was assigned back to the Avengers and then away again, this time to Starcore? Alternatively, maybe the Avengers were never told about Project Wideawake and that's why they've never done much about the government's anti-mutant activities?
  
• Hercules has a scar from when Zeus took away his immortality in Avengers #384.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A