Avengers Forever (2021) # 3

"The Lords of Earthly Vengeance, Part 3: We Who Are About to Avenge"

Cover Date: April 2022; On Sale Date: February 2022

Writer: Jason Aaron; Artist: Aaron Kuder; Inker: Scott Hanna and Cam Smith; Colorist: Guru-EFX; Letterer: VC's Cory Petit; Assistant Editor: Martin Biro; Associate Editor: Analisse Bissa; Editor: Tom Brevoort; Editor in Chief: C.B. Cebulski; Cover Artist: Aaron Kuder

Tony Stark, the Ant-Man of Earth 818, has arrived at the prison cell to rescue Ghost Rider and Deathlok, only to learn that Robbie refuses to leave until the Black Skull is stopped. Reluctantly, Stark agrees to help, but the Black Skull realizes what is going on and floods the prison cell with his symbiote. Meanwhile, outside the castle, Stark's fellow team of Avengers take on the War Machines standing guard. Moon Knight and the Vision infiltrate the castle and discover a room filled with portals to other Earths.

While the Black Skull attacks the prisoners, Ant-Man shrinks down to microscopic size. While the Skull fights with Ghost Rider, Stark rapidly grows to giant size and punches the Black Skull through the wall of the castle. Ghost Rider, realizing that the symbiote is just another vehicle, takes control of it and purges it from the Black Skull's body. Robbie summons his Hell Charger and drags the defeated Black Skull behind him, taking out the remaining War Machines as he drives. However, inside the castle more variants of the Black Skull emerge from the mutliversal portals to avenge their fallen brother. 

Avengers Forever (2021) # 2

"The Lords of Earthly Vengeance, Part 2: The All-Rider"

Cover Date: March 2022; On Sale Date: January 2022

Writer: Jason Aaron; Artist: Aaron Kuder and Carlos Magno; Inker: Scott Hanna, Roberto Poggi, and Cam Smith; Colorist: Guru-EFX; Letterer: VC's Cory Petit; Assistant Editor: Martin Biro; Associate Editor: Analisse Bissa; Editor: Tom Brevoort; Editor in Chief: C.B. Cebulski; Cover Artist: Aaron Kuder

Ghost Rider Robbie Reyes is a prisoner of Earth 818's Black Skull, who is an expert in torture. After days of sawing, the Black Skull is finally able to remove Robbie's right foot from his leg. Ghost Rider attempts to escape but is easily subdued by the Skull, who throws him back into his cell alongside the captive Deathlok that transported them to this alternate Earth. 

The Black Skull continues his torturous interrogations of Robbie, who keeps attempting to escape. On one occasion he is brought down by Norman Osborn, the Ghost Goblin, who is the Skull's teammate on the Multiversal Masters of Evil. Osborn tells the Skull that Robbie is an anomaly among Ghost Rider and warns that they should just kill him and add his head to the Goblin's collection of Ghost Rider skulls. Deathlok attempts to keep Robbie going by reminding him of his life on Earth 616 with his brother, Gabe, unaware that the Skull is listening through his symbiote infected cockroaches inside the cell with them. Robbie is led to a large room that contains as many alternate earth variants of himself that could be found, who have all been driven insane through torture. The alternate Robbies all kill one another, leaving Ghost Rider the last one standing. This breaks Robbie's will, and when he's thrown back into his cell Deathlok recognizes that the Skull will soon learn all he needs to learn from them. Deathlok attempts to smash the cockroaches in the cell and discovers that Tony Stark, the Ant-Man, has come to rescue them.

Avengers Forever (2021) # 1

"The Lords of Earthly Vengeance, Part 1: Where 'Hope' is a Four-Letter Word"

Cover Date: February 2022

On Sale Date: December 2021

Writer: Jason Aaron

Artist: Aaron Kuder

Inker: Cam Smith

Colorist: Jason Keith & Triona Farrell

Letterer: VC's Cory Petit

Assistant Editor: Martin Biro

Associate Editor: Analisse Bissa

Editor: Tom Brevoort

Editor in Chief: C.B. Cebulski

Cover Artist: Aaron Kuder

On Earth 818, Tony Stark is the Astonishing Ant-Man and is searching underground and through the Black Skull's Venom-Ants to find the abandoned hammer Mjolnir, once wielded by Odin in prehistoric times. The Black Skull's War Machine soldiers give up their search for Stark when they are attacked by Robbie Reyes, the Ghost Rider of Earth 616 who was transported to this alternate reality by a Deathlok. Ghost Rider and Deathlok manage to stop the Crematrain, which is shuttling hundreds of people to the Black Skull's death camps. Refusing to leave them behind, Robbie pulls the train across the desert with his Hell-Charger, but is forced to stop when he reaches a roadblock commanded by the Black Skull himself. Stark watches all of this and departs with Mjolnir to his secret base, where he has gathered his own team of Avengers to fight back against the Black Skull.