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Avengers West Coast # 67 February 1991
"Converging Trajectories" The Reaper And The Robot: Part Three pg 14
Inks over pencil on Marvel Comics board
Pencils: Paul Ryan
Inks Danny Bulanadi
Letters: Bill Oakley

Two of the Avengers' most dangerous foes, Ultron and the new Grim Reaper, continue their unholy alliance with a plan to turn the world's populace into robotic slaves or psychic food- unless the West Coast Avengers can stop them!

Grim Reaper locates Ultron’s secret base, and watches as Ultron proceeds to robotize the captive Hawkeye, Tigra and Quicksilver, while spouting off about his plans to turn the entire population of the planet into robots - and extension of himself. While that is happening, Iron Man encounters a group of civilians who have also been affected by Ultron’s robotizing process, and after they attack him, he eventually takes them down. All of this was “watched” by Ultron and his prisoners, before the Grim Reaper reveals his presence - but too late, as Ultron attacks him, displaying his new ability to reform himself, while commenting on how…dead…the Grim Reaper now truly is.

Ultron and the Grim Reaper fight for some time, before making a deal after Ultron fuses the Grim Reaper’s scythe with the remains of his body. The heroes are fully robotized, and the Grim Reaper agrees to serve alongside Ultron in the new world. Meanwhile, Hank Pym and the Scarlet Witch are greeted by the frosty Dr. Jennifer Falk at UCLA, where they have been granted to use the high-tech computers to analyze the information they have in their quest to uncover why robots have replaced farmers, and what the mysterious metal rash is. While Hank analyzes the data, the Scarlet Witch is lost in her thoughts. Hank discovers that some kind of light may reverse the metallic rash, before the robotized Hawkeye, Tigra and Quicksilver appear, and proceed to knock Hank, the Scarlet Witch, and also Dr. Falk out. Ready to destroy the computer equipment, the robotized heroes are soon confronted by Iron Man, USAgent and the Wasp. Both sides battle well, and Wonder Man soon shows up to turn the tide, and the three robotized heroes are soon captured, and Iron Man proceeds to use his uni-beam on them, testing out various lights - and discovers that infrared light knocks the robotized heroes out. After the heroes receive a brief lecture from Dr. Falk, Iron Man tries different concentrations of infra red light on their robotized friends - while the Scarlet Witch concentrates hard, straining for her mutant hex power to return in order to help Iron Man find the right concentration of infra red. Whether her power has returned or not is unknown, but Iron Man does manage to find the right concentration, and Hawkeye, Tigra and Quicksilver are returned to normal - all except for one of Hawkeye’s hands. Hank swears that they will cure Hawkeye, while Iron Man puts Dr. Falk in her place when she tells them that they can no longer use the UCLA computers. Meanwhile, Ultron and the Grim Reaper discuss their plans further, and Ultron reveals that he is going to have his first mass-robotizing of humanity at the Rose Parade in California - which is currently in procession!