Captain America and Black Widow #639 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

I'm pretty much just running out the clock on this title, but I will admit that Bunn finally makes this arc almost interesting here.

First, we learn what happened to the junk world where Cap and the two Widows have found themselves over the last two issues.  This world's "Hydra and the Defiance League" went to war, using weapons supplied (presumably) by Vennema Multiversal to defeat this world's superheroes.  (Vennema Mutlinational then apparently harvested the battlefield for their bodies, explaining how they're able to make all its clones.)  This world's Lizard used his Lizard formula to transform the population into lizards, so they'd be able to live in the harsh post-apocalyptic conditions.  However, Lizard acknowledges that it was a futile attempt to prolong the inevitable, since the world is dying.

This backstory fuels the next phase of the arc, since Cap promises to help save this world if Lizard lends evil Widow his lab so that she can fix their time-traveling device, which she does.  I'm still a little confused by what happened exactly, though, once the device is repaired.  Evil Widow reveals that she couldn't completely fix the device, so the group will have to jump randomly from world to world (hello, "Quantum Leap") until they find the correct one.  As she informs Cap and good Widow of that fact, we see a number of scenes of the three of them in a variety of alternate realities, making it appear like they had started jumping.  However, they either wind up returning to Lizard's world without finding the correct world or they never start making the jumps in the first place, since we see the device struck from evil Widow's hand by the same assassination squad that we saw appear before she started her narration.  Bunn really should've made it clearer what happened here, since I finished the issue not entirely sure where they were.

But, despite this confusion, I'm intrigued by the issue, thanks to the end.  Here, we learn that it was another Kashmir Vennema, leading her own group of Avengers, who hired evil Widow to take out Vennema-Prime (as I like to think of her).  We learn that she did so because Vennema-Prime killed her husband and child, significantly upping the stakes for next issue.

As I've said, I'm not a fan of what Bunn has done with this series or the overuse of Vennema, but I can't deny that next issue promises a pretty damn good fight to conclude this series.