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April 2010 "Team History" |
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The current Justice League chases
villains and alien artifacts. They’re not sure why. But the
artifacts have a long history... In an earlier issue, circa 1777, we
saw Tomahawk’s Rangers find British redcoats slaughtered.
Unearthed was a weird metal object. Tomahawk touched it and went
berserk, suffering fearsome hallucinations… |
Fast-forward
to the 20th Century. In their yellow uniforms, somewhere in the
mountains, the Challengers stand “winners” over Kra, Multi-Man, and
Volcano Man. “But, if I’ve learned anything, when you challenge the unknown… the unknown has a bad habit of becoming the unexpected.” |
Then,
“a strange addendum”. The brawl had uncovered an exotic
device. “Alien maybe. Like nothing I’ve ever seen.”
(And considering the Challs’ career, that’s pretty weird.) “Ace touched it… and changed.” |
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Ace goes nuts. “GrrAhhh!” His buddies grab
him, but can barely contain him. “It took three hours to stop him.
Two more before his madness ebbed.” (The audience knows he probably
hallucinated, same as Tomahawk.) Even Challengers need help
sometime. They call in Doc Magnus and his Metal Men. The
robots haul away the villains to jail. And, unaffected by
madness, pick up the artifact. |
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Doc is glad to help. His robots have been a
little stir-crazy lately. And whether robots can feel emotion is
becoming his “life’s work”. As for the device, Doc knows a “research facility. New, but already doing great things…” |
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And that’s the last the Challs see of the infernal device. The facility is STAR Labs. In the
present (as seen earlier), Darwin Jones examined the piece and – like
Tomahawk and Ace – almost fried his brain. The artifacts’ diabolical purpose is yet to be determined… |
Comments Interesting
to see an "addendum" to a brawl, a nice real-life image. And that
we missed the brawl itself. And that Ace moved right in, as
usual, and touched something unknown and got zapped for it.
Terrific to see the Challs finally meet up with the Metal Men! |
