1247 Flamin' Hell

After a six week break (likely due to the artist being slow) Carver Hale returns to end his one and only tale. I refer you back to the entry for 1236 for the exact story of this thrill.

Also concluding this issue is the controversial return to mars storyline for the Abc warriors. Thrill power overload tells the story much better but even back then I could tell there was some serious meddling in this story. One minute Mek quake is dying of a computer virus and crashing a ship. Next minute he is hale and healthy with the rest of the warriors…

The story as a whole is a complete and utter car crash and almost killed the warriors as a strip. Luckily they came back stronger than ever…but that’s a tale for another time.

1236: We all have our Demons...

Mike Carey's short-lived series Carver Hale grabs the cover of this prog. Anyone living under a rock may not know this but Mike Carey is the writer of sandman spin-off Lucifer. The truly astonishingly good Unwritten and one of the major writers in X-men at the moment His turn in 2000ad was short lived due to an exclusive deal he signed with dc to write amongst other things the already mentioned Lucifer.

Our hero of this story is Carver Hale. A criminal who is wiped out by rival crims He is brought back to life and is mixed into some complicated demonic goings on when he discovers those rivals have made deals with demons. He now shares his body with one of these beasties and decides to get revenge on those who killed him.

It is a tragic shame this story was put out to pasture after this one story arc. If there was one single story thrill from this time (and there was a lot) that deserves to be revisited it’s this one. Of course if Carey didn’t take that exclusive we may not have got the unwritten so it is a good sacrifice.

Next slog: ABC WARRIORS oooh boy…