Post by The Agent on Feb 13, 2007 6:36:53 GMT -5
Wonder Woman Vol.1 #267:
www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=96911632384%20267
www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=96911632384%20267
The Encounter:
Something strange is that Wonder Woman herself was on radar and not her invisible jet when one enemy jet tried to destroy her, to protect the secrecy of a strange land at 200 miles from Los Angeles, inhabited by free African beasts. After she made the jet crashed, she saw Animal Man who came out to pick up the unharmed jet fighter. He did attack her first, with a punch in her guts. He thought she was working for the Cartel (the evil corporation that both were looking for). He tried to escape with the prisoner, until she tossed a rock at his back. She went to double check the jet fighter who then used a sticky gas gun at her face. She was about to pass out but she used her lasso just in time. Meanwhile, the jet fighter went away. A-Man came back to his senses.
That was when she finally remembered Animal Man from the newspapers. I think it was a publicity stunt with guys in monkeys suits(?). But he revealed to her his origins... about when he discovered a space capsule with radiation that gave him his powers. He said many things from his past: his short career as a super hero, his comeback as a stuntman for movies, until a movie script friend of his was found responsable for the murder of a movie critic who was blasted by a bomb in a car. He found back the murderers. It was a command done by a producer associated with the Cartel.
The Backstory:
Wonder Woman: "(...) Then, my next question is more important, Buddy. Why to be A-Man again? And what are you doing here?"
Buddy: "Because of what some goons did to my friend Roger Denning... Roger is a screenplayer and a good one. But it doesn't take a lot to make him mad."
(Flashback panels) Roger's speaking: "Haskell, you're not a movie director, you're a BUTCHER! You've RUINED my script!"
Then, Roger made some life threats at Hawkell when he started his car engine and it blew up! The police blamed Roger. Buddy wanted to exonorate him, so it took him many weeks until he retraced the hired assassin from the Cartel. That did lead him to the man who paid for the crime, which was the producer of Hawkell himself, a shark named: Stymie Sloan. Buddy flew to his seventh floor office to crash through his window. That's when he strangled him to get more infos about the Cartel: he learned about the fake African land in the Californian desert.
Animal Powers:
Animal Man used elephant strength to punch Wonder Woman in the gut. Wrong quote from the writer about Wonder Woman when he made her say: "I'm running at my full speed..." and she couldn't catch up with him (he was using a gazelle speed and he jumped long distances the first time she saw him). Someone as fast as Hermes should be able to outrun a gazelle, i say. At least, that gave a good reason to showcase her throwing a rock skills to stop him. He showed off his flying skill later, using a goose (actually 3, they were flying by). In a flashback scene, he flew like a pigeon to Sloan's seventh floor office to crash through his window. An octopus from an aquarium nearby was convenient to strangle the villain to make him talk.
He also smelt around better like some hyenas to find out the entrance of a secret base.
Personality:
Buddy made her laugh once. He was like a clown, joking most of the time. They did a very good team up. When he discovered the entrance, she took care of the doors of steel. When they jumped over a footbridge to avoid a lot of laser beams, she used her lasso to not fall all the way down, while she said: "Take my hand...", to which he replied: "Perfect. This way, we're gonna die as friends...". When a few soldiers shot them, Wonder Woman stopped the bullets, distracting them while he jumped over to kick them.
Wonder Woman Vol.1 #268:
www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=96911632384%20268
The last issue cliffhanger was when Wonder Woman and Animal Man saw a dot on the world map, in the underground base. The dot showcased Marseille in France. They thought that clue was a trap, so they went on the beach in their swimsuits to spy on a French crime lord, ready for action. And action came to them when a submarine tank emerged from the sea to laser beam at Krispin, the French crime lord. Luckly, Diana saw it and ran so fast, at the same time changing in her Wonder Woman costume, passing through the loop of her lasso and she stopped the beams with her bracelets. Animal Man, flying like a seagull, tried to open up the electrified door at the top of the submarine tank. After saving A-Man from drowning, Wonder Woman put Krispin in her invisible jet before the French police arrived. Fed up, the secret mastermind of the Cartel have decided to hire three super assassins to destroy them: Red Fang (a Mongolian martial artist), the Mutant (an European shapeshifter specialist) and Lumberjack (a north-west Canadian). In the 18th century old French castle, Krispin was forced to reveal he became a traitor to the Cartel because he refused to cooperate. Meanwhile, outside, his bodyguards are attacked by the 3 super assassins. Wonder Woman and Animal Man went outside to stop them. While Wonder Woman took care ot the Mutant and his machine guns, she never saw a karate chop at the back of her head by Red Fang. She thought: "Zeus! Pain!... my whole spine... is on fire!". She was down for the count. When Wonder Woman got knocked from behind, she was down but not out but faked to be out, so A-Man escaped super villains by digging a hole, like a groundhog.
The assassins was there to bring back the playing possum Wonder Woman to the Cartel undersea headquarter where she met the Prime Planner (Morgan Tracy) and she took care of everybody alone.
Note:
At the beach, she let him put some sunscreen on her back - yes, Wonder Woman had a real two pieces bathing suit. Buddy was a bit a rockie at that time, because he did a mistake that almost killed him: he was electrocuted and she saved him from drowning. But they looked like they became platonic "partners", more about business to take care of than anything.
Something strange is that Wonder Woman herself was on radar and not her invisible jet when one enemy jet tried to destroy her, to protect the secrecy of a strange land at 200 miles from Los Angeles, inhabited by free African beasts. After she made the jet crashed, she saw Animal Man who came out to pick up the unharmed jet fighter. He did attack her first, with a punch in her guts. He thought she was working for the Cartel (the evil corporation that both were looking for). He tried to escape with the prisoner, until she tossed a rock at his back. She went to double check the jet fighter who then used a sticky gas gun at her face. She was about to pass out but she used her lasso just in time. Meanwhile, the jet fighter went away. A-Man came back to his senses.
That was when she finally remembered Animal Man from the newspapers. I think it was a publicity stunt with guys in monkeys suits(?). But he revealed to her his origins... about when he discovered a space capsule with radiation that gave him his powers. He said many things from his past: his short career as a super hero, his comeback as a stuntman for movies, until a movie script friend of his was found responsable for the murder of a movie critic who was blasted by a bomb in a car. He found back the murderers. It was a command done by a producer associated with the Cartel.
The Backstory:
Wonder Woman: "(...) Then, my next question is more important, Buddy. Why to be A-Man again? And what are you doing here?"
Buddy: "Because of what some goons did to my friend Roger Denning... Roger is a screenplayer and a good one. But it doesn't take a lot to make him mad."
(Flashback panels) Roger's speaking: "Haskell, you're not a movie director, you're a BUTCHER! You've RUINED my script!"
Then, Roger made some life threats at Hawkell when he started his car engine and it blew up! The police blamed Roger. Buddy wanted to exonorate him, so it took him many weeks until he retraced the hired assassin from the Cartel. That did lead him to the man who paid for the crime, which was the producer of Hawkell himself, a shark named: Stymie Sloan. Buddy flew to his seventh floor office to crash through his window. That's when he strangled him to get more infos about the Cartel: he learned about the fake African land in the Californian desert.
Animal Powers:
Animal Man used elephant strength to punch Wonder Woman in the gut. Wrong quote from the writer about Wonder Woman when he made her say: "I'm running at my full speed..." and she couldn't catch up with him (he was using a gazelle speed and he jumped long distances the first time she saw him). Someone as fast as Hermes should be able to outrun a gazelle, i say. At least, that gave a good reason to showcase her throwing a rock skills to stop him. He showed off his flying skill later, using a goose (actually 3, they were flying by). In a flashback scene, he flew like a pigeon to Sloan's seventh floor office to crash through his window. An octopus from an aquarium nearby was convenient to strangle the villain to make him talk.
He also smelt around better like some hyenas to find out the entrance of a secret base.
Personality:
Buddy made her laugh once. He was like a clown, joking most of the time. They did a very good team up. When he discovered the entrance, she took care of the doors of steel. When they jumped over a footbridge to avoid a lot of laser beams, she used her lasso to not fall all the way down, while she said: "Take my hand...", to which he replied: "Perfect. This way, we're gonna die as friends...". When a few soldiers shot them, Wonder Woman stopped the bullets, distracting them while he jumped over to kick them.
Wonder Woman Vol.1 #268:
www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=96911632384%20268
The last issue cliffhanger was when Wonder Woman and Animal Man saw a dot on the world map, in the underground base. The dot showcased Marseille in France. They thought that clue was a trap, so they went on the beach in their swimsuits to spy on a French crime lord, ready for action. And action came to them when a submarine tank emerged from the sea to laser beam at Krispin, the French crime lord. Luckly, Diana saw it and ran so fast, at the same time changing in her Wonder Woman costume, passing through the loop of her lasso and she stopped the beams with her bracelets. Animal Man, flying like a seagull, tried to open up the electrified door at the top of the submarine tank. After saving A-Man from drowning, Wonder Woman put Krispin in her invisible jet before the French police arrived. Fed up, the secret mastermind of the Cartel have decided to hire three super assassins to destroy them: Red Fang (a Mongolian martial artist), the Mutant (an European shapeshifter specialist) and Lumberjack (a north-west Canadian). In the 18th century old French castle, Krispin was forced to reveal he became a traitor to the Cartel because he refused to cooperate. Meanwhile, outside, his bodyguards are attacked by the 3 super assassins. Wonder Woman and Animal Man went outside to stop them. While Wonder Woman took care ot the Mutant and his machine guns, she never saw a karate chop at the back of her head by Red Fang. She thought: "Zeus! Pain!... my whole spine... is on fire!". She was down for the count. When Wonder Woman got knocked from behind, she was down but not out but faked to be out, so A-Man escaped super villains by digging a hole, like a groundhog.
The assassins was there to bring back the playing possum Wonder Woman to the Cartel undersea headquarter where she met the Prime Planner (Morgan Tracy) and she took care of everybody alone.
Note:
At the beach, she let him put some sunscreen on her back - yes, Wonder Woman had a real two pieces bathing suit. Buddy was a bit a rockie at that time, because he did a mistake that almost killed him: he was electrocuted and she saved him from drowning. But they looked like they became platonic "partners", more about business to take care of than anything.
Written by Frank Fournier.