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The Hama-verse....from the beginning. Read Along.
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04-19-2018, 11:00 AM
Sean_C
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Cover actually represents a scene in the issue, though the terrorist on the cover isn't holding a gun, maybe some code restriction about threatening kids? For all the buyer knows Shockwave is saving the boy from an abusive dad. (BTW, the cover actually gives away the twist...look at the family photo on the wall!)
The first non-Trimpe drawn Special Missions issue. Dave Cockrum does well.
Chuckles is back, and LJ is with him.
Kid's name is Mikey, because most white bread american boy name of the time, I guess.
Erich, the guy threatening Mikey has a goatee (van dyke), because this was back when only bad people had those.
FBI guy Saxon is back, but it hardly matters, characters like him only exist to make wrong choices.
The murder of the Mulvaney family caught on camera is kinda brutal for an 80's comic aimed at kids. Hama doesn't even give the killers any political motivations or backstory this time.
"Anybody can shoot poorly armed farmers! Those two downstairs are a breed apart!" Yeah, they can shoot unarmed suburbanites!
"And as much as I'm against killing..." says clean cut blond guy. This was the most deceptive line in the issue, because it has to be sarcasm.
So Hit & Run, wearing mostly white clings to the dark colored car, while Shockwave, in blue, runs across the snow field. What?
Page 17, the word of the day is revealed RICTUS. "See you at the party, rictus!"
Page 19, Lady Jaye dies...nope, she's wearing actual body armor. Chuckles goes John Woo dual-pistols mode and hits nothing, making him look like a Counter Strike noob.
22 reveals why realistic looking water guns get people killed.
Laszlo straight up kills a pretty blond lady. Hard corps. Oh, she was a psychotic killer. That's right.
Lady Jaye with her cracked ribs would not be walking around like that.
This issue was all about the twist, the reveal at the end that it was all just an ad for SEMPER FI, Marvel's USMC war comic!
In regards to the rictus twist. Clever, though Mikey is very blonde and his parents have brown and dark brown/black hair. Though, blondes get darker with age, so maybe his joker-faced dad was a blonde, too.
Hawk's arrival at the end and where he says "What do you way we make Laszlo here an honorary Joe!" seemed out of place. (This never happens.)
Good issue. There's only so many ways hostage crisis issues can go. And how many Special Missions issues involve hostages? At least 5 plus the preview in ARAH #50.
Comic pack: Snow Chuckles and Hit & Run...third figure is there is no third figure.
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