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8. Knowhere, Part 1

Writers: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Artist: Wellinton Alves

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the Marvel Universe the single greatest comic book character of all time. Joining the ranks of the MU is Cosmo, telepathic Russian Space Dog!!! And he’s an extremely good boy.

Following the previous issue’s events, Richard floats on the outer edges of all of space, and is sucked up in the celestial riptide. He blacks out and awakens somewhere weird. It’s a strange techno-organic space haunted by victims. Welcome"¦to Knowhere. Knowhere is the decapitated head of a Celestial, bouncing through space's uncharted zones. Richard immediately runs into some Nightmare Fuel courtesy of Suspensor, one of the greatest heroes of Xarth.

She attacks him and melts. It’s horrific. Fortunately, Rich's next encounter is with Cosmo, who is – as previously mentioned – a very good boy. He explains Knowhere to Rider, and tells him that the heroes of Xarth have brought something monstrous aboard the vessel. And it's now loose.

WellintonAlves's art is really strong in this issue. It doesn't feel like a huge departure from Chen and Denham, but his drawings of Cosmo are shockingly good. Drawing dogs is hard.