Coming up on 10% of the series blogged!

I'd be legitimately surprised if we got to much more than 20%, 25%. Do I even own more than that? Do I like any of the issues enough to keep blogging them? Not really on both counts! From 1990, Marvel Comics Presents #52. Wait, the series was bi-weekly, was this issue the two-year point?

This didn't have the flip covers that would come later in the run, so we open with "The Wilding Part 2: The First Cut Is The Deepest" Plot and art by Rob Liefeld, script by Fabian Nicieza. Separately, Heather Hudson and Wolverine are on the trail of former Gamma Flight trainee, Wild Child, who had gone psycho-killer. Wild Child takes down Heather, disabling her power-suit, but Wolverine arrives in time to save her. Still, Wild Child considers his old mentor old, slow, and "human," and thinks he can take him. This also features a plot point I don't think anyone liked even at the time: this was during the X-Men's Australia stint, and Heather still thought Logan had died in Dallas. Logan even admits he should correct her: Heather, like Kurt and Kitty over in Excalibur, was very much on the shortlist of people the X-Men probably could've trusted, huh?

Next, Comet Man, which I don't think I had ever read before! "A Family Affair, part 3 of 4: Reunion" Written by Bill Mumy and Miguel Ferrer, pencils by Kelly (Kelley) Jones, inks by Gerry Talaoc. The titular Comet Man, Dr. Stephen Beckley, finally finds his son Benny, who's had a pretty bad time of it: kidnapped, his mother killed by an electric fence in an escape attempt, then experimented upon to get powers like his dad. Stephen uses his powers to block Benny's traumatic memories, if not erase them completely; then his alien pal Max stops by. Max had revealed his existence publically, and was enjoying a rock-star's life. Stephen was still looking for his brother, the "Superior," but Max asks why, you're living in his house? His friend Jonathan Gallager, was actually the brother his mom gave away, and crazy as hell. (I actually thought Mumy and Ferrer were related; so I was wondering if that figured into that plot!) The conclusion in the next issue might have been the last mention for the character in the Marvel universe until Civil War: Front Line #8 in 2006!

Feels weird to have Rick Jones and Hulk shorts in the rest of the issue, that aren't related to each other. Rick has to save a Puerto Rican resort from a masked extortion racket, in "Last Resort," story and art by Richard Howell. Rick spends most of the story in a jean-jacket vest and Reed Richards' speedo? Then, the grey Hulk has to launch into space with "fortified rocket springs" after alien kids launch an asteroid at earth as part of a game. ("Kids Will Be Kids," story and pencils by Ron Wilson, inks by Tom Morgan.)