DESTROYER #142: Mindblower (2006) created by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
Sunday, 2. July 2006, 09:27:51
The second last Destroyer novel from Gold Eagle and the second last from Tim Somheil. Warren Murphy and Jim Mulhaney are due any time to announce the new publisher.Somheil gets away from the Sa Man Song plotline he's been on lately and the book is better for it. This time Remo and Chuin tackle The Hurricane, Harry Kilgore. Kilgore is an engineer who has built a super wind cannon, based on teleportation principles (which we've seen used in the Destoyer in the past).
The Hurricane is out to prove how good he really is after the academic community tried to steal credit for his invention, so The Hurricane tackles the biggest and baddest he can find, a Columbian drug lord.
Remo and Chuin try to thwart The Hurricane several times but find themselves powerless against The Hurricane's air cannons. The Hurricane even ruins one of Chuin's robes in the process, aside from killing thousands of innocent people. (Guess what is considered the worse offense in the eyes of Chuin?)
Eventually our heroes are able to defeat Kilgore and what Chuin does isn't pretty.
In a subplot Mark Howard and Harold Smith track down a government official who has gained knowledge of CURE.
Perhaps if Somheil was allowed a few more books and stayed away from the calamari, he could churn out some really good Destroyers. If I can't have more Destroyers, I'd like to see him develop his own series, Somheil has a cool pulpy sensibility which could suit perhaps new adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.
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Anonymous # 2. July 2006, 17:22
Did you get the Buckaroo Banzai comic from Moonstone yet?
AggressorBrad # 2. July 2006, 20:00
Brad
clean # 3. July 2006, 09:20
AggressorBrad # 3. July 2006, 11:00
Of course Chuin would suggest that Remo, the pale piece of a pig's ear, incorrectly did his wrist exercises.
Brad
clean # 4. July 2006, 08:29
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