As Heavy Metal storms Hydrobase, Sentry #459 fi ghts She-Hulk while Namor and Marrina battle TESS-One. Super-Adaptoid finds and reprograms Awesome Android, who joins the fray. The Adaptoid immobilizes Captain Marvel and hacks into the Avengers’ computers for information about his quarry, the Cosmic Cube. Machine Man has a change of heart and joins Hydrobase’s proprietor, Stingray, in attacking Super-Adaptoid, but they fail to stop him from summoning the Cosmic Cube from space. The Cube transforms into a humanoid form called Kubik and refuses to help the Adaptoid conquer the world, but the villainous robot replicates Kubik’s form and reality-altering powers.
Kubik is a manifestation of the Cosmic Cube’s maturation process, an evolution begun in Cap Ann #7, ’83.
