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pyrotwilight (pyrotwilight) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-12 23:08:00

Entry tags:

char: green lantern/hal jordan, char: manhunter/kirk depaul, char: manhunter/paul kirk, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: skyrocket/celia forrestal, creator: bob layton, creator: christian alamy, creator: dan jurgens, creator: joe staton, creator: kurt busiek, creator: tom grummett, title: power company

The Power Company! Skyrocket and Manhunter!

Celia lived in St. Lous 7 years ago and recounts the tale of when she met Green Lantern and became a superhero...

Oh and she works for the Navy.

Celia meets one of her buddies Dave but despite it being a happy reunion she decides to go straight to her parents house.

Where she daydreams with her parents about her Grandpa.

Oh right and her parents are super scientists. XP

Then we see her testing the suit with her parents. The suit can absorb any type of energy and then convert it to another (such as electromagnetic energy or pure kinetic energy) or redirect the energy. A rather unique power with the only other person that I can think of having the same power is the later Gazelle of the Threeboot Legion of Superheroes.

She decides to test it in another way and....

Aww. She's flying and...that is a very good example of things not to say.

The people who did the attack are named Scorpio and wanted the harness of course. They run after they hear GL's on the way and decide to make a run for it and come back later. Celia survived of course thanks to the harness.

Team up time!

Good lord, did Hal just make an effective plan?

And later after the scum are arrested Celia of course mourns for her parents at their funeral.

And the story ends with Celia donning the suit with patriotic colors and the such (as shown on the cover) and setting out to be a hero.

And now her bonus personnel file.

The story begins with a flashback to the dead of Paul Kirk the (original?) Manhunter and how he died. And yes I LOVE this page. Also if anyone can post the original version of that story I'd be delighted since I've NEVER seen it which is a shame.

Nightwing of course tails him and quickly realizes what Kirk DePaul is.

Most of the issue is simply Nightwing and Manhunter pitting each other against their best skills and being fairly even.

Nightwing has been tailing him since DePaul was going to sell weapons grade plutonium to some very bad people in Kenya and Nightwing has no reason to think otherwise but then...the Plutonium shipment...vanished?

DePaul is one of those really complicated characters Ican't help but love even though I can never tell what they might decide to do.

He's in many ways one of those bastards you can't help but love ala Vril Dox II from L.E.G.I.O.N or at least to me, Triumph.

Some may remeber him from Kate Spencer's Manhunter series where he was eliminated by a man hunting Manhunters. He's supposedly dead but I have a theory he's actually been brought back to life recently....

And now his personnel file.

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aaron_bourque
2009-09-13 04:10 am UTC (link)

The first Manhunter, over at Quality Comics, was a guy named Dan Richards. He was basically a cop who did some vigilantism on the side. Not too long after, DC's Manhunter showed up, and I've always preferred that original costume (the one they used in The Golden Age. The 70s version always looked weird and unwieldy. No way those shoulder pads or strange sleeves would be useful in a fight.

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	shanejayell 2009-09-13 04:14 am UTC (link)
	They brought Dan back in the Millenium crossover, too. With a robot dog! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pyrotwilight 2009-09-13 04:17 am UTC (link)
	Annd his dog is now Kate Spencer's son's pet. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-09-13 01:47 pm UTC (link)
	It wasn't that they were or weren't useful, it's that he was good enough that they didn't matter. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-09-14 03:28 am UTC (link)
	Probably. Still looks unwieldy. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Seconding a Paul Kirk post... robogeek 2009-09-13 12:07 pm UTC (link)
	I consider it one of the best works in comics ever. I mean, how cool is it that the run is so repected that Busiek asked PERMISSION to use a clone? (Reply to this)

	sanbell 2009-09-14 02:31 am UTC (link)
	Do you have the Sapphire issue? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	pyrotwilight 2009-09-14 03:53 am UTC (link)
	As I believe I said in a previous post (my Bork and Striker Z one) I will be posting them all but slowly. The next post will be Sapphire and Josiah Power. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashtoreth 2009-09-14 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	Wouldn't mind seeing the issue where the original met the rogue clone. (Reply to this)