Issue 2.18: Zen(Kai) and the Art of Planetary Subjugation

The Vanguard have restored the one true timeline. The present of the Vanishing Point Event no longer ever existed, yet is believed to still exists somewhere in the infinite multiverse. The allies and enemies made in that world were spared thanks to the brillant genius of Janitor Robot, or they weren't. That is the problem with untested time travel theories. The questions and echoes that remain from the Vanishing Point event must be ignored for now however. There are still two cosmically powered chakra stones to recover. Luckily both can be found back on Earth. But what awaits the crew of the Comet (Dr. Robot, Scartax, Adela, Somber Quinn and Amanda Talbot) back on Earth is anyone's guess. The presence of three of Maxillian Mar's race testing the boundaries of the forbidden zone is not an optimistic sign. The Vanguardis about to learn about...

Inside the Forbidden Zone

Despite her withered and diminutive frame the old woman before you radiates unbelievable cosmic power. You have never faced an entity this powerful since you were visited by the face of Norn. Unlike Norn, Sensei Qqaba doesn't not hide her ancient form.

Flanking her is the Zenkai warrior you recently encountered beyond the Forbidden Zone, Zathura. She clearly hasn't forgotten you or your ship. She flexes in rage, flaring the crackling waves of energy cascading around her lithe form.

Floating behind them both is a gigantic robot made of blackened metal straining against the cosmic forces barely contained within it. It immediately reminds you of the Tellax, but Gargantua is clearly a different more aggressive model.

The Council of Robots

A Familiar Face

The Prime Robot

Liam Lagrasse stands before you. His holographic body just opaque enough to see the obvious silhouette of its robot endoskeleton beneath. In one hand he holds a martini, in the other a universal remote. Behing him the mummified remains of Amanda Talbot sits primly on the only piece of furniture in the otherwise featureless white room, an overstuffed red leather sofa. Behind him on every wall surface are millions of small screens.

Issue 2:17 The God Complex

When we last saw our vigilant heroes they weren't exactly themselves. Adelia Karinsdotttir found herself in a brand new timeline surrounded by familiar but strangely different versions of her teammates. Doctor Robot was now Janitor Robot while Startax was no longer the Crown Prince of the Moon. Instead he was Captain Scartax, Pirate Prince of Planetoid X. Weirdest of all Adelia herself found she was in the energized form of the Chambermaiden, a woman co-leading a tiny resistance against the dominant Robot Government that now controlled the entire galaxy and had wiped the memories of all biological second class citizens of the Chaos Times that had come before the robots took power.

Adela also discovered that her resistance cabal also consisted of several supervillains from her original timeline; including Prof. Gorillapocalypse, The Big Brain, Lady Deathtrap and, to her horror, Alex Kaspar... who in this timeline is calling himself the Chamberlain and is apparently her husband. 

In their attempts to solve the Vanishing Point event this all new, all different Vanguard has discovered the existence of the original Liam Lagrasse Robot and have created a clever plan to return the timeline to its original state. Unfortunately Alex Kaspar has reservations about the plan.

The question is now what he is going to do to stop them. Does a timeline shift really change the core of a man? Has Alex truly reformed or is he still suffering from...

The All New, All Different Vanguard