Secret Warriors #3
Story: Brian Michael Bendis and Jonathan Hickman
Script: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: Stefano Caselli
Color Artist: Daniele Rudoni
Letterer: Dave Lanphear
Cover Artist: Jim Cheung

Quake leads the team to the Red Worm facility where PSI-Corp agents are quartined but are beat there by Hydra and come face to face with the ressurected Gorgon. Meanwhile, Nick Fury reunites with the Countessa over dinner.

• Continuity Notes
• Appearance by Dum Dum Dugan and the Countessa
• The Red Worm facilty seems to the current iteration of the ESPer Squad.
• Reprinted in Secret Warriors: Agent of Nothing TPB.

Review
The battle with the Secret Warriors makes for a fine reminder of how dangerous the Gorgon is and hopefully a tease of the battle to come with Fury. His line, "One day I will kill a god", to Phobos is a creepy moment. An interesting issue for long time fans of the Fury/Val rollercoaster of love with some very good dialouge shared between the pair. The dinner scene is all character and long-time S.H.I.E.L.D. readers can fill inbetween the lines of what the characters say with history from Strange Tales to the VS S.H.I.E.L.D. mini to S.H.I.E.L.D. (2). With Val in the picture, the art has to be up to snuff and Caselli and Rudoni are up to the task with their rendering of the Countessa. Interestingly she dubs Fury as "agent of nothing", the title for the first six issues. .

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