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The Hama-verse....from the beginning. Read Along.
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04-09-2021, 05:23 AM
J James
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issue 238
Wild Bill and Lift Ticket love to live dangerously. Flying so low they become targets of Morays, not antiaircraft measures.
It's the undercover Sneak Peek in Darklonia storyline. Roadblock, Jaye, Flint, Sneak Peek, and Spirit. Roadblock says "every team needs a shaman" when Spirit is singled out as maybe not belonging on this team, and I find that a kind of ridiculous exchange. It's like Larry wanted to tell the reader that Spirit was a badass shaman, but instead of just saying that he had a character call into question why Spirit was there.
Their resistance contact turns out to be Katya, Sneak-Peak's ex. Brief firefight with Morays v Tomahawk as Roadblock is the only reliable means of returning fire aboard.
In Springfield, nosey neighbors have informed on the Collins family and the adults are arrested while Heather evades detection.
Dr. Mindbender continues to portray to the reader just how poorly Cobra is doing in general right now. He's telling Cobra Commander they are almost without allies, and this is just after the recent reintroduction of Destro, Baroness, and Zartan as kind of "co-equal" Cobra leaders. I didn't like that plot device (and still am not hot on it) but it feels like a good evolution in terms of demonstrating the current weakness of Cobra Commander and the organization in general.
We see that Cobra Commander is using big Revenche Bats now instead of Crimson Guards for security. No surprise after his betrayal of the Crimson Guards. I can’t actually remember if they make more plot appearances after this point. He tries to assassinate Destro, but Destro is able to use his new "Go-Go-Gadget Hands" to survive. Surprised he doesn't just kill Cobra Commander outright at this moment, since he doesn't have the excuse of "Cobra is best kept ineffectual with Cobra Commander left in charge" now that he's in co-charge.
We get to see the recently-mentioned Obon Festival in flashback form. Snake-Eyes escorts Obake Obaasan into town and they get jumped by Tenchu Raiden ninjas on the walk home. A "horse-killing" sword is used in battle and the POV panels make it obvious that it has a shockingly long range. We are not sure why it was a night that Dawn should "speak no more" of, except perhaps that it was apparently a bloodbath and probably political. Finally we see that Dawn is returning to Springfield.
Zartan, fresh from a brutal injurious defeat at the hands of "vengeful wraith" Dawn, drives Storm Shadow and Sean into Springfield. Zartan believes that Dawn is darker and more violent or malevolent than Snake-Eyes ever was, which Tommy disagrees with. Considering the flashback I tend to agree. We're being shown the side of Snake-Eyes that I as a reader first saw in Borovia after the near-death of Scarlett. Emotionless killing machine.
In Tommy's follow-up to Dawn's flashback, we see Obake Obaasan together with Hard Master and Soft Master for the only time that I am aware. It sounds like Snake-Eyes might have eliminated the whole opposing clan.
Sean's costume is continuing to be drawn with all the heavy accessorizing which I like. Sets him apart.
Overall this is a good issue which focuses on one concept using a few voices as narrators from differing points of view. Obake may have said "don't ever talk about this night" but everyone else sure will.
In the letters page White Clown asks for the return of Raymond, and addresses the first mention of the flashback events of this issue as having been in issue 234.
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