As Spider-Man and Ned visit Ravencroft, the entity possessing Alistair has already hooked up a tank to Ravencroft's ventilation system while having gotten a glimpse of the Shadow Realm. When the machine causes Uatu to overload it with psychic energy upon it mentioning about Knull, Kang's ship is destroyed leaving him adrift in space. Uatu finds himself in a memory-scanning machine operated by Kang the Conqueror who is trying to save the universe. He assigns Peter to work with Ned Leeds on an assignment where Alistair Smythe claims to have found a cure for paralysis. After rescuing a boy, Spider-Man shifts the symbiote into his work clothes and goes to meet with J.

In the Blue Area of the Moon, Uatu the Watcher comments to the readers about the Watchers' vow not to interfere as a blue fire hits him.

Īt Ravencroft, Alistair Smythe is visited by a figure who is borrowing the form of Spencer Smythe so that it can speak to him and proposes that it helps it out. Outside the ship, Knull is riding a Symbiote Dragon as he swoops in for an attack. Talos then informs Kalamari that his distress beacon on his escape pod is a warning that Knull is coming. After recuperating in the sick bay, Talos recaps to Kalamari about what happened on his mission that involved an encounter with Knull. Two days later, a Kree/Skrull Alliance armada headed by General Kalamari finds Talos' escape pod. Įmperor Hulkling dispatched Talos to investigate the Kree and Skrull bases that went dark with Av-Rom, Keeyah, M'lanz, Virtue, and Tarna. While thanking Zoralis Gupa for fooling the Profiteer with the bluff, Zoralis Gupa states to Super-Skrull and everyone present that something darker than Galactus is destroying the worlds and its name is Knull. Knowing that she won't make a profit, the Profiteer teleports Peacekeeper and the bio-bomb away. He tells Victoria that it's the End of Everything as different planets are starting to die in the planets owned by the Shi'ar, the Kree/ Skrull Alliance, and the Zn'rx while rendering the galactic economy fragile enough to go bankrupt. In the story, Knull and his symbiotes invade Earth, leaving Eddie Brock / Venom, the Avengers, the X-Men, and numerous other superheroes to protect it.Īt the time when the Guardians of the Galaxy were investigating the death of Zn'rx Emperor Stote during the Galactic Council's meeting at the Proscenium and find that the Chitauri Peacekeeper and the Elders of the Universe member Profiteer were responsible sometime after the events of the ' Empyre' storyline, Zoralis Gupa of the planet Silnius takes an urgent call while mentioning to the person on the other side to warn all neighboring systems. It is a continuation to 2019's Absolute Carnage, also containing fallout from 2020's Empyre.

King in Black is a comic book event written by Donny Cates with art by Ryan Stegman, and was published from 2020 to 2021 by Marvel Comics.

King in Black by Donny Cates