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The Hama-verse....from the beginning. Read Along.
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07-14-2021, 06:12 PM
J James
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issue 252
A Baroness special mission. Hosted by our pals Saw-Viper and Frag-Viper. Curiously, this Saw-Viper is clearly a modern v4 version of the trooper. After some research it is apparent that this is also the Frag-Viper from the same collector's set. Trivially this was a Night Force set but they will not appear in this issue.
Cobra is consulting with Darklonian military in the present day. Baroness (still back with Cobra for the moment) is ostensibly there as an advisor to Darklon himself although he will not be in this issue.
This is Sneak-Peak's rebel faction they are up against here.
Flashback to Baroness' childhood. She lives in a castle and her father is an aristocratic nightmare. She does not live up to his expectations.
We learn that Sneak-Peak's girlfriend Katya has put up such a dang fight that the Darklonians don't know what to do. Their dialogue is the classic welcome Hama revolutionary propagandistic nonsense. The bleary Marxists with their cow dung exterior and their thesaurus interior.
Katya is taking sniper shots at the Darklonian army and Baroness from a bell tower. She kills the Frag-Viper with a head shot. Baroness moves to a better position to strike, finding new cover and bringing the bell tower into focus. Katya pats herself on the back and assures herself there will soon be one less oppressor.
We learn that Baroness was a fencing pro at school in Bern (where she later would have plastic surgery) and she meets James McCullin at Edinburgh during college. She beats him at fencing.
A parallel has been drawn between the woman that younger Anastasia used to be, compared to Katya. It is suggested that Baroness is no longer that revolutionary of the early issues of the Marvel half of the series and that she has accepted being the stronger power trying to tamp down dissent.
There is a distraction, as a girl who owes Baroness gratitude shows up in the middle of the tense showdown. Baroness pivots to shoot a Darklonian who intended to shoot the girl to save their position, then swiftly pivots and hits the emerging sniper scope. The bullet is heard ricocheting in the background.
The Saw-Viper and Anastasia journey up to the bell tower. The sniper nest is empty, she did indeed score a direct hit on the scope of the opposing sniper Katya however Katya had left the rifle and fled.
The implication is that Katya witnessed Baroness save the child by shooting her own subordinate, and changed her mind about Baroness' character.
Destro arrives in an Aspid and Baroness informs him that she had met her match and may have been outclassed.
James approaches Anastasia about coming away with him. His father is dying and he will soon don the mask of Destro. She refuses his proposal, because she has found her purpose and calling already.
They engage in one final duel, this time without dueling masks. He is angry at her for not quitting her silly political activism, she is mad at him for not turning his back on his corporate oligarchy past. She cuts his face in the duel and he leaves her behind.
Perhaps this is why she faints when she sees him in their sewer tunnel meeting. This is actually a pretty solid piece of Baroness back story, as far as I can tell it fits in quite nicely with her existing history. This story also gives us a much more clear understanding of Katya as a person than we have seen before.
In the letters page, a reader appreciates the PTSD look at Stalker. Then a letter asks Larry about the recently-mentioned "sword shrine incident" at the Arashikage compound. This stood out to me a few issues ago as well, and Larry acknowledges that he hasn't written it yet.
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