Ascension Thanos, the Mad Titan, is dead at last at the hands of Drax the Destroyer... moments before activating a device that would have released Galactus and saved the universe. Knowing what is at stake, Drax gambles that one other might be able to help him to liberate Galactus from the Annihilation Wave... his herald, the Silver Surfer! Meanwhile, on Hala, the capital of the Kree Empire, Ronan the Accuser has returned with an unlikely ally in the form of the Super-Skrull. Aided by Praxagoria, the pair fight their way into the stronghold of House Fiyero. When he learns of their complicity with the forces of the Annihilation Wave, he judges them for their crimes, and seizes the reins of the Kree Empire himself.
