Synopsis: Clarice leads some Baluurians into a trap. Afterwards she infiltrates a guard tower, takes out some guards and sends the signal to Ahmyor to attack. The rebels swarm the tower and capture it. Clarice finds some loyalist kids who were imprisoned and tortured and it brings up a memory from her childhood, when she and Illyana were in the slave pens together. She remembers the Sugar Man coming for them, and always taking her first, presumably to abuse her, and then, in the present, she screams and collapses. Ahmyor comes to her aid.
As they talk together later, Ahmyor professes his love for Clarice, but she keeps joking about it. Then they are shot with stun bolts by snipers. Clarice wakes up to find herself in a stadium, hands tied (mostly) and Ahmyor tied to a post next to her. Blastaar addresses them from his throne. He reveals what Clarice did not know - that Ahmyor IS Annihilus! Clarice is as shocked as Ahmyor himself, who insists that it cannot be!
Review: It just gets worse and worse. This issue was so bad it's not funny. First of all, even if it wasn't terribly obvious who Ahmyor really was by now (I noted it last issue), the cover (which BTW as really cool) told you the whole plot of this issue. Ahmyor is Annihilus. Big surprise.
The art continues to be a detracting factor to this LS. Flashier or "sexier" art could make up somewhat for the lame story, but there's no saving grace here. Clarice is too chunky at points and some really strange angles blow her legs and arms way out of proportion at times. Ick. Not the jailbait cheesecake we grew to know and love in AOA. Too bad. As I've said, I think that caused much of her popularity, and it's missing here.
The one fairly interesting part was Clarice's flashback to the pens and the Sugar Man. It seemed that SM was abusing her and Illyana. Slime! Touchy subject, but a good realistic point to bring into this LS, reminding us of the horrors of the AOA.
Beyond that, the only other point is that, to be fair to Ahmyor, it seems that he himself did not know his true identity, as if he were either amnesiac himself, or suppressing it because of guilt or something. I just hope he doesn't become part of the new Exiles book. Hope that's better than this LS, too.