Hmm. We blogged the next issue a bit ago, and I know I have the one before the first chapter, but not the first chapter? Wait, let me start again. From 1992, Marvel Comics Presents #110.
So of course I bought MCP #101 to #108, because that was the Wolverine/Nightcrawler serial with the Sam Kieth covers, Gene Colan art. I don't know that I've ever had #109, which would've had the first chapter of "Typhoid's Kiss" and the last chapter of a Young Gods serial...that I would've been eight chapters into by that point. Guessing I wasn't as invested in that one. (EDIT: Actually, I did have #101-107, #109, and multiple copies of this one up at my parent's house! Need to bring a #108 up there, as well as the last half of Infinity Gauntlet...) This chapter, a programmed killer's musings are juxtaposed with Mary and Logan's first meeting: the killer wonders if putting them together "...wasn't a bit like throwing a live grenade at a time bomb and yelling 'catch!'" Mary is trying to figure out the holes in her memory, the odd gaps, and Logan seems to identify with her. In fact, they're supposed to be doing this to help someone else, whom Logan seems to have forgotten about already, as he kisses Mary in her apartment. ("A Killer's Rights" Written by Ann Nocenti, art by Steve Lightle.)
Even though he had been in the main feature just recently, Nightcrawler gets an 8-pager here: I think this was his last appearance in the series, though. In London, a modern-day Jack the Ripper was killing pimps--wait, killing pimps? And...that's bad? Kurt puts a stop to that, also scaring a pimp into honest work, but he also seems resigned to "people will always exploit other people for money." Meh. ("Night of the Ripper" Written by Barry Dutter, pencils by Mark Runyan, inks by Tim Tuchy.)
The rest of this issue is the Ghost Rider/Werewolf and Thanos serials; they were okay.
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So Mary is Typhoid Mary, but with memory loss...for now. How tragic, because just based off those panels Nocenti REALLY hits home the whole amnesia bit. Tragic.
Ha ha, poor Kurt. You'd think England, with all its diverse races and cultures, AND the fact that he was in Excalibur, that the locals would treat him better than Americans do. Guess not.
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