This was Patsy's post-Secret Wars (Hickman's version) ongoing. At this point, Patsy's gotten the rights to her likeness back from old arch-rival Hedy Wolfe with Jennifer Walters' legal assistance. Except She-Hulk's in a coma, courtesy of Thanos and/or Bendis, so there's no big green help when Hedy sics both of Patsy's ex-husbands on her.
So Patsy's stuck in Belial's realm where Hellstrom sent her. She runs into a fake She-Hulk, who tells Patsy this is her own fault, but that she always blames things on other people. The scene shifts to her old school, but the way it was portrayed in the comics her mother got published about Patsy, Hedy, and the rest. Patsy wants out, but keeps getting reminded of bad stuff going on back in her real life. When Patsy tries to argue none of this real, just overly sanitized fluff, fake-Buzz asks if that means she never felt anything for him.
That leads into a whole trip down memory lane of her relationship disasters, and how things are never neat and tidy. Fake-Buzz tries to blame her for his transformation into Mad Dog, and then it's on to marrying the Son of Satan. Patsy's taste in guys is legendarily terrible. Belial uses a false Hedy to makes his pitch: Patsy has a lot of mystical power in her, what with traveling between Hell and Earth a few times, and she could do a lot with it, if only she embraced her anger.
Because Patsy is not a dumbshit, traumatized teenager like Anakin Skywalker, she just kicks false Hedy in the gut, and Belial finally reveals himself. Patsy gets him to take her back to Earth, if he wants to prove he's got so much juice.
During all that, Patsy's friends, including her new assistant Jubilee (still a vampire at this point), are trying to convince Hellstrom and Buzz they got suckered and to get Patsy back here. Mostly via Jubilee verbally murdering those idiots. She points out to Buzz if Patsy really had something that could cure him, wouldn't she help Jubilee, too? And if she wanted revenge on Daimon, she could 'take the trash out.' Unfortunately, it's Belial's domain, so Hellstrom can't pull her out, no matter how much Jubilee threatens to bite him. Which may or may not make him a vampire.
That's when Patsy and Belial show up, and Jubilee immediately punches the demon in the face. Love that even Belial is offended Hellstron jumped the gun. There's going to be a lot of gossip around the, well, they probably don't have water coolers in Hell. Hot cocoa dispensers? That would be suitably cruel, right? Can't be warm beer, some people like that. Maybe warm soda? Point being, all the other demons will get a good laugh at Daimon's expense.
Belial's still determined to have Patsy, because she has too much hate in her to resist unleashing it, but her friend Ian telekinetically levitates Belial into the air, and Daimon sends him packing. Both exes apologize, and that's pretty much it. The next arc was the worst of the run, as it involved the Black Cat in her "Queenpin" phase, targeting Patsy and her friends using friggin' mind control magic or some shit. Blech.
{8th longbox, 15th comic. Patsy Walker, aka Hellcat #10, by Kate Leth (writer), Brittney L. Williams (artist), Megan Wilson (color artist), Clayton Cowles (letterer)}
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