Warblade realizes that Ripclaw has been rendered an amnesiac beast and manages to extend the fight long enough to pry away the dart fueling his fugue state. Warblade #2 picks up with their showdown. Unsurprisingly, the two plots collide, when Ripclaw gets himself abducted only to find Warblade undercover with Pillar and tasked with killing Ripclaw to prove his loyalty. Intercut with this story is a story of Ripclaw visiting his home reservation and discovering that young men are being promised work in the outside world only to be brainwashed and abducted. Warblade can’t bring himself to gut his old teammate, so he plays along with his possessed former teammate with the promise of bringing down a splinter faction of Daemonites helpfully called the Faction.
He finds something else – an old Cyberdata compatriot named Pillar who was possessed by the first Daemonite that Warblade and Ripclaw met in battle. He’s not there to win – he’s an orphan who lost his parents to Daemonites seeking out any further hints of his family. Who knew?! We see him in a very Wolverine knock-off scene, dominating in a Kendo tournament for the seventh year running. In Warblade #1, the first big revelation about Warblade is that he is Japanese. Need the issues? None of these issues have been collected, so you’ll need to hunt them down as singles (though Grifter and Rarities are actually both perfect-bound books): Warblade: Endangered Species ( Amazon / eBay), Grifter: One Shot ( Amazon / eBay), and WildStorm Rarities ( Amazon / eBay), which is a perfect-bound book with a spine. Tomorrow, finally, it’s back to Stormwatch with#17-21 & Special 02! Plus, while I’ve got a copy of WildStorm Rarities handy, I’ll cover the other stories from that issue – which occurred quite some time ago in continuity. Here’s the schedule for the rest of this month’s WildStorm re-read.
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Want the full details? Keep reading for a deeper breakdown of the plot. It’s these little human moments that WildCATs had been missing – but, it also didn’t have a master like Mark Waid writing it. It’s a quick tossaway tale about Maul catching a runaway jet in his hands, but it makes clear that even in his smaller iterations as Maul the intelligence he has as Jeremy is inaccessible. He was highlighted in an original story by Mark Waid called “Thinking Big” in Wildstorm Rarities.
It feels like the worst sort of Marvel book, that adds in layers of complicated history just because it can and then is quickly ignored (usually because, like this one, it kills all of its interesting new characters).įinally, we come to Maul, the art-loving romantic who is also the WildCATs’ biggest bruiser. The story adds a useless layer of backstory in addition to Zealot’s training and Team 7. Steven Seagle spends as much time having Grifter think about women as objects as he does having him show any kind of charm or expertise. His output isn’t quite up to that par, with his figures getting increasingly gawky starting in issue #3.īy contrast, Grifter has been the breakout star of WildCATs from their first issue, which makes his flaccid one-shot a puzzler.
Scott Clark’s name is welcome sight on pencils, having disappeared for several months after his stellar work launching Stormwatch.
Steven Seagle delivers solid workmanship and well-structured issues, which is exactly what WildStorm needs in growing out its cast of characters. He can be cool and analytical, but he’s also not the best tactician, which leads him into unfortunate situations when his rage takes over and he prepares to strike. He isn’t ruled by rage at all times as we’ve seen in the heat of so many battles. Hearing Warblade’s internal monologue across four issues helps to solidify his character.
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Maybe that’s why Warblade needed his own series so badly – because his narrative arc had been treading water ever since Killer Instinct. At least Maul has the dichotomy of being a modern art loving nerd by day and a massive purple hulk on the battlefield. While Grifter eventually getting his own title was fait accompli, at this point it feels like Warblade is the least deserving of all the WildCATs who merited their own sideline series. Today I’ll tackle the three WildCAT spinoffs published to date – Warblade’s mini-series, a Grifter One-Shot, and a Maul solo story in Image Rarities.
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