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allen comrade to help them escape wow that s pretty cold they don their gear and before boarding their own ship moored outside they tie ethon into the pilot s chair of the prison ship and set the controls i have to say this next part is really rather good the main ship of the fleet is watching on and receives a distress call from the prison ship after someone on board discovers what s happened the huge vessel getting silently and ominously closer and closer is a truly terrifying sight for those watching and i think walt has done a superb job with this particular sequence which culminates on the next page of course the escape is immediately covered up as an unwarranted attack by krellik who is no longer a senator but an all powerful admiral declaring the hunt on and how much the television networks will love it he alerts the entire fleet to set out after the escaped slammers it feels like we re finally getting somewhere so adding this to the fascinating and very relevant today background politics from 4 we could be in for a treat in coming issues one film that stood out above all others in the summer of 1991 was terminator 2 judgement day i m still not sure if it s really working being split up into chunks though maybe the coming issues will prove me wrong but at the moment it may have worked better in its original form two out of the these first six chapters held real promise so if the remaining parts of the story build on those and we get a nice mix of story and action in the limited space afforded here it may prove to have been worth the wait to get to this point this issue s eye level is a particularly interesting one during the summer of 1991 cinema goers were treated to a vast array of blockbusters with everything from city slickers and the naked gun 2 1 2 the smell of fear to the rocketeer and robin hood prince of thieves but one film that stood out above all others was terminator 2 judgement day and it s the impending release of this movie that takes up the whole page with 20 facts about the film and its star while i can t find any evidence that the so called jung and freud film was ever made there are other tidbits here which i never knew about such as the fact arnold schwarzenegger was originally intended to be kyle reese in the first film and before robert patrick was cast as the new t 1000 billy idol was hired for the role i m a fan of the series the first four films anyway so it s interesting to see the contemporary coverage the best one received at the time and it s a clear indication this was a marvel uk comic aimed at the older teen audience conan the barbarian s cauldron of doom plot and art by john buscema dialogue by michael fleischer letters by janice chiang comes to its conclusion this issue and as feared it basically boils down to conan coming out of his hypnotised state and punching a few people how this happens is rather good though with slave girl nateesa coming to his rescue terrified of her mistress marielle nateesa can t get close to conan so she resorts to desperate measures and throws a stolen knife at him she s a very good shot from so far away once returned to his senses conan easily disposes of the two men guarding the cauldron filled with whatever liquid would ve killed him and seized his body into a solid statue for marielle s collection the opening dialogue box refers to her as a witch for the first time as for the villainess herself she chases after nateesa who punches her out cold and that s it it s all neatly tied up in a big bow as conan and nateesa ride off into the sunset together after the intriguing build up the interesting marielle in the first chapters and the very funny moments in previous weeks it s such a shame it has such a clichéd ending robert e howard died only four years after creating conan so he never got to see his meteoric rise at the end a caption states conan won t return until 8 no idea why he won t be in 7 yet is one of the other strips due to get extra room for some reason are special features planned who knows we ll find out in seven days as if to soften the blow of the longer than normal wait for the next conan story we get a two page feature about the history of the character written by comics historian mike conroy coming from a position of knowing nothing about conan this was all brand new information to me most surprising was how young robert e howard was when he died and only four years after creating the character so he never got to see his meteoric rise that s such a shame other surprises for me are that the original red sonja was much different than the one in the movies that she wasn t part of conan s stories and the conan movie was written by roy thomas who adapted havoc s first story from howard s books and gerry conway who blog readers may remember was the head writer on marvel s fantastic visionaries comic the feature does raise a couple of questions though namely if the us comic was still in print why was havoc using such early stories rather than the latest ones which surely would ve been a better fit also what on earth is captain carrot and his amazing zoo the final strip this week is ghost rider written by howard mackie pencilled by javier saltares inked by mark taxeira coloured by gregory wright lettered by michael heisler and it s all about that mysterious suitcase and the young gang of kids who stole it kingpin s men have tracked them down and sent in that well worn stereotype the bad guy who is so overly polite you just know he means the exact opposite of what s coming out of his mouth we must remember these stories are nearly 30 years old his hints soon turn to actual threats until one of the kids is stabbed by a flying knife new marvel bad guy deathwatch has sent his ninja like minions for the same purpose to retrieve the briefcase that kicked all of this off in 1 and all hell breaks out in the streets of the city it s clear this version of ghost rider is going to make for a very violent strip much like the rest of havoc really and despite the central character being of supernatural origin it all comes across gritty and serious i like this juxtaposition our reluctant hero danny ketch is driving about on his apparently completely normal motorbike and beginning to wonder if he imagined the whole thing from the night before he s trying to determine whether he wants to coax out whatever it was he turned into thinking it might have some knowledge to help his hospitalised sister barb however he s terrified of doing so but once he hears the gunfire and commotion the petrol cap on the bike starts to glow he doesn t want to touch it but feels compelled to he instantly regrets it i love this transformation scene danny s skin engulfed in fumes and then lit up you can feel the heat radiating off the page in that close up of his face followed by the exciting panel of him and the bike becoming one depending on how each individual story in havoc is chopped up into various lengths each issue we could get a lot of plot or a more character focussed bit of the tale and sometimes we get a quick shot of excitement which keeps us hanging on for more the following week this week s ghost rider definitely falls into the latter category and i m not complaining one bit especially when the next page ends this week s strip with this image the gang war over the briefcase has escalated to murderous levels endangering innocent lives and the spirit of vengeance is having none of it there s a lot of mystery still around the main flaming character and danny is only slowly beginning to realise this could be his life now it s building momentum it s pace is quickening but it s also taking time to establish its characters as a result this feels like the most bedded in strip in havoc plus that s just a really cool image to end the issue on we come to the end of another brilliant edition but instead of the usual full page next issue promo we ve got our first letters page in the shape of cry havoc at last i d forgotten all about the fact we even had one i don t recall ever writing in but given the short life of the comic i probably never got around to it the letters here are all very positive and that s the feeling i come away with if this was the summer of 91 i d be thinking this appears to be a very successful new comic such is the reception on display here there are definitely a couple of recurring themes on this page for example a few mentions of the punisher and more received according to an answer and his cancelled comic which leads on to the other theme of hoping havoc isn t another short lived marvel weekly sadly at the time it did seem like every decent new comic didn t last long unbeknownst to us havoc was to be yet another casualty but i m enjoying it while it s here one final note jim black s letter mentions the five pointed star motif and i asked paul chamberlain who designed it if this was related to the fact there were five strips it was actually just a happy coincidence watch out for a chat with paul here on the blog soon there are more havoc comics to review first though so join me again in one week the review of 7 will be here on the oink blog from wednesday 17th august 2022 issue five issue seven havoc menu alan grant dwayne mcduffie gregory wright howard mackie jackson guice butch javier saltares john buscema kim demulder lee sullivan louise simonson steve white walter simonson comic reviews havoc havoc 5 damaged psyches 3 august 2022 phil boyce leave a comment with this only the fifth edition of the superb havoc weekly we re already halfway through its run not that we knew this as readers of course so let s concentrate on the issue at hand and ghost rider makes his second appearance on the cover after 2 leaving the star slammers as the only characters not to grace the front page that s because these covers are reprints of marvel us ones and the slammers never had their own title appearing in an anthology series instead so danny ketch and the flaming skull are the main draw for new readers and as you can see the title logo not only changes colour each issue but the headline strip does as well this issue danny s hellfire alter ego also has a special one page feature replacing eye level for one week but let s kick things off with the first story and it s alex murphy inside robocop in the first part of his second story which takes pole position just as conan did when he began a new tale in 3 it s still written by alan grant with pencils by lee sullivan inks by kim demulder colours by steve white and letters by richard starkings murphy s law nice begins with robo battling a group of new nixcops programmed as his replacements they believe our hero is now impersonating an officer and must be destroyed and his prisoner taken into custody in reality his prisoner dek kyng could expose the corruption at nixco and so the bosses are using their new cops to put an end to robo s investigation his internal thoughts alongside the readouts of his systems are very similar to deathlok s but this isn t a complaint alex is much more in control of his systems they are him so it s different to the other cyborg strip it s nice to see his prime directives come into play here when he ends up putting himself in even more danger to protect innocent passersby but the nixcops have no such qualms and one of the citizens is killed as alex makes a run for it his head is filled with doubt he keeps playing the word failed over and over his computerised half seeking cover while his human half thinks there s no point anymore he should just give up he s failed his third directive and broken his own laws this shows how how binary his thoughts can still be despite his human side in the original film and tv show his outward speech wasn t as free flowing and natural as it reads here which of course was very deliberate it made his internal thoughts memories and the times he d act with surprising humanity all the more important to the character because they were so jarring with the machine cop he was presented as it s what made him unique i m glad to say while the strip has him speaking more like a regular human these moments filled with doubt are superb and somehow still maintain that jarring feel the weight of breaking one of his prime directives is almost too much for him these are core to his very existence and because of this it s almost too much to bear for his human brain most action heroes would shrug it off until later when they d manage to get revenge for the killing but robocop struggles straight away he s just about able to commandeer a flying garbage droid and make his escape but i m really interested in seeing where this goes next week the whole spirit of vengeance thing was brand new at the time next up is that ghost rider feature it s rather strangely designed with a huge title and just a teeny tiny picture of the character almost cropped off the bottom of the page but it reads very well i d always assumed the original version of the character had the same modus operandi as this 90s reboot but it appears i was wrong the whole spirit of vengeance thing was brand new at the time my knowledge of the character is very limited but with the movie sequel having this title while being based on the original character i had just assumed i m sure reading this feature excited me as a teenager with how it hypes the strip as a new ghost rider for the 90s it certainly reads like the kind of page that would ve pumped me up even further for the character and the future of the comic i was so sure this was just the beginning of a long and happy journey with danny ketch and his spirit on to the story itself and reading this now i m reminded of just how much i preferred reading the american strips on these larger marvel uk pages not just marvel but also things like dc s batman in their larger uk editions and i have to say i m loving it ghost rider life s blood is written by howard mackie with pencils by javier saltares inks by mark texeira colours by gregory wright and letters by michael heisler we begin this issue by catching up with marvel villain wilson fisk aka kingpin as he trains his large size certainly not slowing him down the mysterious briefcase apparently contains something which poses a great danger to kingpin s organisation but we re not told what it is not even when we see the gang of kids open it in their cemetery hideaway just that it contains little canisters the main thing to happen here though is danny finally arriving at the hospital to check in on his sister barb greeted by his mum a friend and her dad captain dolan the events of the night finally prove too much the story picks up later and after danny tells the police captain he can t remember much of the monstrous man who the police think was responsible we can see how they re being positioned for future conflict with each other we get a tender scene of danny watching over his unconscious sister the bleeping 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