Item Biography
"Evils Draw Men Together"
Ripjak is forced to show the Guardians that his intentions and reputation were ill received. After the War of the Worlds, his race died out slowly from a plague but he used the blood of Spider-Man to survive. Spending the next thousand years, he studied the plague and later started hunting down other civilizations infected by the disease, only to arrive too late but still the origins escaped him. Vance lets Ripjak know of Bubonicus and their encounter with the being who uses plagues to wipe out all life, which he sees as a plague. An uneasy truce is struck between Ripjak and the Guardians to find the common enemy and stop him. Starhawk seeks out Hollywood as the pair fight as Hollywood has no interest in helping Starhawk. As the battle winds down, Hollywood points Starhawk in the direction of the Silver Surfer as a possible place to find his answers.