They shot down her pterodactyl? That never happens to Taarna...

Wait, it probably does? Been a bit since I've seen the original; getting serious Heavy Metal vibes from this one. Or maybe South Park...from 1993, Death's Head II #6, "Borgz 'N The Hood!" Written by Dan Abnett, pencils by Simon Colby, inks by Andy Lanning.

I've admitted before that I didn't warm to DH II since he didn't have the charm of the original, but if you think of him as a new regeneration ala Doctor Who, you might start to embrace the possibilities. For another, in typical Doctor fashion, DH II had a winsome female companion, Tuck; who looked like a Red Sonja-warrior woman type, but really was a cybernetic, artificial being. (DH II calls her a "replicated organic" later in the book.) An illegal cybernetic being, on her rather medieval homeworld of Lionheart, which she had inexplicably been returned to. Trapped in a keep, "one woman in a garrison of fourteen hundred lonely guys," she was in a running battle to keep any number of terrible things from happening to her, culminating in stealing a pterodactyl for her escape, but is shot down shortly thereafter...

Nearby, Death's Head II was also up to his robot neck in brawls, looking for Tuck and generally being offended over being considered "banned." While Tuck crash-lands into a theater troupe, where the playwright is overjoyed to have a proper female lead for a change; DH II hits up some local corpses for information, which works better here than most places. But, then comes a rematch with local law Major Oak: DH II describes him as a mutant with some kind of impact-absorbing power, and considers them almost evenly matched, if Oak wasn't as dumb as his namesake. DH II has him on the ropes, until the king's necromancer distracts him with a spell, changing a tombstone to "Here Lies Death's Head!" Which could be the case, as Oak turns the tide...

I just grabbed a small stack of these, and this issue anyway was sort of readable? Moreso than I had expected, anyway. The letters page mentions Death's Head II's now-regular series had been a hit, so Death 3, Battletide 2, and Dark Guard were all coming shortly. Ah, leave it to mighty Marvel to strike while the iron is hot ride that gravy train into the ground.