In any event, she flees without coming close to asking anyone about Tyburn's Key.Īnd then in issue #6 here it's confirmed that Tyburn's Key is another name for the drug that's also called Tokyo Eaze. I don't know if that's a reference to her jacket from the future, which was identified as being "genuine jakuza" or something about her new costume which was given to her by Mys-Tech. She's spotted by a gang that doesn't like that she's a "gaijin with nashu-moto markings". In issue #3, Motormouth is sent to Tokyo and told to ask for Tyburn's Key. On the other hand, Web and Spectacular had much more modest lifts from 211k to 298k and 207k to 261k respectively. But the numbers fnord has from last year's UXM 286 (I think) put its average paid distribution at only 460k, so clearly the X-Books, at least, had their sales jazzed up in 1992 (presumably by the shake-up resulting in the creation of Adjectiveless X-Men late in 1991 - the closest-to-filing-date number was 599k - though UXM will stay at 714k in the 1993-reported-in-1994 numbers), and last year ASM had 340k so something was lifting its boat as well. Somehow I once found Statement of Ownership numbers for other books that put the average paid distribution of X-Men at 967k, X-Force at 759k, and UXM at 731k, while X-Factor lagged at 448k. This went over the head of Abnett and Lanning because they never bothered to actually read the series, and we instead got the unfortunate Fraternity of Raptors retcon (which hasn’t gone anywhere since I might add).īecause fnord has to put this out of sequence these are the numbers in the issue cover-dated 1993, and Darkhawk and GotG are the only other books with those numbers in the project so far. Darkhawk was the first time this concept had been presented in comics, and has not been exploited since. Not only would criminals have bought them, planets would have purchased legions of them for defensive or offensive armies, their application would have been endless. Which when realised, would have been a massively hot seller throughout the galaxy. The character was conceived to be a weapon sold to the highest bidder equipped with a range of technologies able to counter the abilities of a multifarious range of superbeings, the ultimate undefeatable threat. Through coercion, he recruits: Mondu, inventor of technology that could transfer a humanoid’s consciousness into a storage facility, Mandeja, inventor of transportation technology that could replace one being with another Byron, human inventor of androids with built-in weapons Graczia, inventor of telepathic devices Kig, who had mastered a techno-virus and Ocsh, discoverer of a dimension dubbed "Null Space."Īs originally conceived, Darkhawk was pretty cool but what let the character down most was Danny Fingeroth's scripting. He gathered the most knowledgeable scientists in the universe to begin work on his project. The initially proposed origin, once you polish the shit off the story, was that years ago, an extraterrestrial crime-lord sought the means to create an army of self-repairing war-bots which he would sell to the highest bidder.
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