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Femforce 33

FEMFORCE #33

COVER: Meugniot

EDITORIAL CONTENT: Stardust pin-up centerfold.

MILESTONES: None

Story: Scattered Moments (4 chapters, 30 pgs)

Credits:
Chapter 1: Bill Black, script / design / edits; John Dell, pencils; Mark Heike, inks; Walt Paisley, letters.
Chapter 2: The Count, story / layouts; Bill Black, pencils; Mark Heike, pencils / inks; Walt Paisley, letters.
Chapter 3: The Count, story / layouts; Bill Marimon, pencils; John Dell / Mark Heike, inks; Walt Paisley, letters; Bill Black, edits.
Chapter 4: Don Secrease, story / pencils / inks; Bill Koch, inks

Synopsis:
These four chapters are really separate stories that provide a brief interlude before the plunge into the Shroud war.

Chapter 1 We catch up with some of the Vault heroes, as Jet-Girl meets an airborne Ms. Victory and tells Jen of her husband Rocketman's new microchip jet-pack designs. Meanwhile, Catman, a.k.a. Capt. David Merryweather, finds himself an instant millionaire through decades of army back pay. Captain Flash enjoys an emotional reunion with his former boy sidekick Ricky Davis, and the Green Lama broods with Dr. Jonathan Weir over the impending war with the Black Shroud.

Chapter 2: In a lonely, painful evening at Femforce HQ, Nightveil's bitter sweet memories of Dan Barton get the better of her, and she retreats to the solitude of her Everglades sanctum. Midway between wakefulness and slumber, her mystical power inadvertently brings a startled Dan Barton to her room. Laura takes the opportunity to try to magically wean Dan from his V-45 addiction, but the withdrawal pains are so agonizing to Barton that Nightveil has to abandon the effort. Tearfully she sends him away, again leaving her alone and lonely.

Chapter 3: As She-Cat and Stardust shower up at FF HQ, She-Cat quickly realizes that Stardust's viewing of TV soap operas is giving her a distorted view of the Earth male / female relationship. She-Cat offers to show Stardust the human mating ritual first hand, and the two dress up for a night on the town. On the Orlando streets, the two run into Detective Briggs, who is investigating a murder scene. Briggs is contemptuous of She-Cat's "amateur" status, and a heated fight breaks out between the two of them. Stardust, looking on, is puzzled by this "mating" demonstration.

Chapter 4: Val Kirk, having reached a crossroads in her life following her dismissal from the Femforce, seeks the counsel of psychiatrist Brian Renner. Through Renner's taped recollections, Colt spins out her life to date, focusing on her identity crisis following her beloved Kevin's death and her obsessive need for fulfillment by becoming Colt in his place. The psychiatrist's tape soon is revealed as a suicide note however, as he confesses to killing his brother James during an argument over some gambling debts. As Colt and the police arrive at his office to question Brian, they hear a shattering of glass from inside. Renner has left his last farewell to Val, whom he has fallen in love with, and then has thrown himself through his tenth story window.

Heroes / Heroines

Last App

Next App

Captain Flash (Keith Spencer)

FF 31 (1)

FF 36

Catman (David Merryweather)

FF 31 (1)

FF 34

Colt (Val Kirk)

FF 29 (1)

FF 34

Colt I (Kevin Kirk) (F)(C)(D)

BD 2 (2) (C)(F)(D)

FF 68 (2) (C)

Commando D (Page Connors) (C)(F)

FF 29 (1)

FF 34

Green Lama (Jethro Dumont)

FF 31 (1)

FF 34

Jet-Girl (Pat Carson)

FF 30 (1)

FF 34

Ms. Victory I (Joan Wayne)(C)(F)

FF 29 (1)

FF 34

Ms. Victory II (Jen Burke)

FF 32 (1)

FF 34

Nightveil (Laura Wright)

FF 32 (C)(F)

FF 34

Paragon (Charles Starrett)(F)(C)

FF 32 (F)

FF 34

Rocketman (Tech Carson)

FF 31 (1)

FF 34

Scarlet Scorpion (Mike McCluskey)(F)(C)

FF 29 (1)

FF 34

She-Cat (Cass/Cleo Angora)

FF 32

FF 34

Stardust (Mara)

FF 32

FF 34

Synn (Silva Synn)

FF 30 (2)

FF 34

Tara (Tara Fremont)

FF 29 (1)

FF 34

Dr. Jonathan Weir

FF 30 (1)

FF 34

Villains / Opponents

Black Commando (Dan Barton)

FF 29 (1)

FF 38 (1)

Byron Foulger

1st app

FF 43 (2)

Iron Jaw (C)

FF 32 (C)

FF 34

Lady Luger II (C)

BD 3(2)

last to date

Masquerader (C)

NV 7 (2)

last to date

Montague Moon (C)

FF 32 (C)

FF 35

Pinto (C)

BD 5 (2)

last to date

James Renner (D)

only app

Trailblazer (C)

Colt Spe 1 (1)

FF 35

Supporting Characters

Det. Briggs

1st app

FFUC 4 (1)

David (C)(F)

only app

Prof. Rick Davis

1st app

AC Ann 4

Dr. Brian Renner (D)

only app


Others

Military Lieutenant; Rick's secretary; police officers; Val 's dad (F)(C) Renner's Secretary; woman witness(C); other Colt / Femforce villains

Geography

Skies above Orlando; California; Washington, D.C.; Glendale, CA Upstate New York; Everglades

Sites

Carteque Industries; Paymaster's office; Glendale College (Rick's office); Weir Asylum; Femforce HQ; Nightveil's Sanctum; Black Commando's lair (C); Brian Renner's office

Time

Present; all stories are retroactive to before FF 29 (see introduction for more details); 1940's(F)(C); Val Kirk's past years (F)

Magic & Technology

Flight disc; jet packs; Purple Claw; V-45; Colt's clipper

Notes:
Chapter 1:
Jet-Girl and Ms. Victory begin a long-running friendship in this story.... Byron Foulger, Carteque's CEO in Tech's absence, vows to retain control of the company through murder if need be.... Dr. Weir's Purple Claw signals the beginning of the war with the Shroud; most likely it is this moment that he refers to in FF 26 (2) when he, Nightveil, Paragon, and Tara arrive at Jungle Island.

Chapter 2: Laura's fears about losing touch with her humanity are completely unfounded when she endures emotion-wrenching episodes like this.

Chapter 3: Stardust, being a Rurian, currently has no physical interest in men (in fact she admitted an attraction to Nikki Latimer in Arm Fact 1 ), but she has the capacity to experiment, as shown in this story and in her brief romance with David Burke beginning in FFUC 2.... The subplot of the baseball bat murders is picked up again in She-Cat's FFUC 4 (1) story.... She-Cat apparently has some romantic interest in Briggs, since she seemed to be seeking him out that night, and Stardust comments on the human mating ritual, implying that she would be able to watch it between those two; She-Cat's angry response is as much from being hurt as from being angry.

Chapter 4: This is the first story that mentions Kevin Kirk assuming the Colt identity before Val .... The skeleton-garbed villain surrounding Colt in the cameo panel is one of the assassins that tries to kill the Vice-President in the Black Diamond 4 back-up story, "The Jackals of Twelfth Night".... Colt's father is said to have been in the military, and Kevin is said to have been part of an elite trio, although no details on the other two members are given.

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Based on The Official Guide to The AC Universe by Ken Kerouac
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