Quasar #26

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The Eight Billion Year Funeral

| Solicit = Fresh from his defeat of the Cosmic Assassin, Quasar returns to Four Freedoms Plaza to check in with his friends. He makes it clear to Kayla that he would like to pursue a relationship with her. Moondragon interrupts, saying that Kayla isn't worthy of a relationship with the universe's most powerful man, and that Moondragon herself has all the prerequisites to be the ideal woman for him. Quasar disagrees, he says relationships and love are about feelings, not ideals or prerequisites. Moondragon angerly leaves and goes in search of allies to help her gain Quasar's affections.

The cosmically empowered Her, notes Moondragon's starship, but pays it no heed. She goes in search of her ideal mate as well.

Quasar returns one last time to the Eonverse to pay his last respects to his fallen mentor. He says a few words of regret for its passing, but is interrupted when he detects energy readings within the Eonverse, noting he's not alone, he goes to investigate.

Finding a starship that more resembles a cathedral than a ship, he is greeted by what appears to be an alien cadre of priests. They claim they have arrived to mourn the loss of Eon. Quasar can detect no weapons aboard the ship and they seem to be forthright so Quasar allows them to carry out their ritual.

Their representative, Fath, tells Quasar that the funeral will begin in 3.14 days, so Quasar goes to take care of his personal life, helps the Avengers, and continues repairs upon his office inflicted by the Presence.

He returns to the funeral to find an image of a tree-like creature that has many faces. Quasar surmised that this is Eon's true form.

Quasar is directed to sit and during the eulogy find that he is more moved by fath's word about Eon than he was over the priest's words at his father's funeral. It is then that Thanos appears and disrupts the proceedings. Quasar tells him to leave, and it devolves into a fight quickly. Despite the fact that Thanos possesses the Infinity Gauntlet, he has no interest in killing Quasar (not yet, anyway), so, Quasar holds his own and directs 100 megaton blast right between Thanos' ears.

Unbelievably, Thanos reforms and says he: 'has other more interesting enemies to fight', with that Thanos grows four entities from Eon's dead form. They are: The Stygian Starbender, Eon's first Protector; former Protector, Ree of the long dead Archepeians; former Protector Trantra of the Trill, Marvel Boy, the first human to wear the Quantum-Bands. They all have fully functioning replicas of the Quantum-Bands and have all been in instilled with the need to kill Quasar, the last one surviving will be Thanos' Protector of the Universe until the end of time.

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Quasar)

**Supporting Characters:** * Moondragon) * Makkari) * Kayla Ballantine) * Ken Tanaka) * Mourners) ** Fath)|-|Quasar Vol 1 35 ** Sardan) ** Wayopex) ** Multiple unnamed Mourners * Lisa Vaughn)

**Antagonists:** * Thanos) * Quantum Banders ** Stygian Starbender) ** Marvel Boy_(Earth-616)) ** Trantra) ** Ree)

**Other Characters:** * Mephisto) * Her) * Death) * Living Tribunal) * Lord Chaos) * Master Order) * In-Betweener) * Time-Keepers ** Ast) ** Vort) ** Zanth) * Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)) * Eon)

**Races and Species:** * Humans) * Eternals) * Demons * Abstract Entities * Interdites * Kodabaks * Korbinites * Kamado * Megans * M'Ndavians * Reptoids * Deonists * Entemen * Glx * Betans) * A-Chiltarians * Alpha Centaurians * Zenn-Lavians * Guna * Xartan Deviants * Reptoids * Korbinites * Kamado * Kawa * M'Ndavians * Archeopians * Stygians) * Trill * Other unidentified alien species **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * New York) ** New York City *** Manhattan **** Greenwich Village ***** Sanctum Sanctorum **** Four Freedoms Plaza **** Moondragon's penthouse ** Sanctum Sanctorum * Eonverse * Wisconsin) ** Oshkosh **Items:** * Quantum Bands * Four fully-functional replicas of the Quantum-Bands * Infinity Gauntlet **Vehicles:** * Moondragon's ship * Mourners' cathedral/starship

| Notes = | Trivia = * Thanos tells Mephisto that it was Eon who brought Drax the Destroyer) into being. However, Drax was actually created by Kronos). * Quasar is wearing his new costume in this issue but in the Infinity Gauntlet series he is still wearing the old one. * On page 8, Thanos and Mephisto mention the "halving of the universe's population" as if it was something that had already happened. However, on page 12, Eon's funeral takes place three days later without any indication that half of Earth's population has disappeared. Furthermore, on page 17, the Silver Surfer tells Her that half the population of the universe is "at risk of being destroyed," confirming that it hadn't occurred yet. So what's the deal with page 8? * A footnote in Quasar Vol 1 30 establishes that, due to the events of Infinity Gauntlet Vol 1 6, Quasar has no memory of meeting Thanos in this issue and Infinity Gauntlet Vol 1 3. This suggests that the point to which Nebula) reset the universe must have been before Thanos crashed Eon's funeral on page 14. | Recommended = * Infinity Gauntlet | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Mark Gruenwald

Interior art: Dave Hoover

Color: Paul Becton

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