Gone for a day, runs back in like I'm coming back from a war.

Well, that wasn't so bad! Some of the remnants of my ex-table have been repurposed into keeping stuff off the ground, and I picked up a shelving unit at Lowes that took care of ten long-boxes! One more and I should be in good shape...for now, he said ominously. It's funny; for a long time, I treated stuff like longboxes, shelves, totes for toys; all unreasonable expenses that were keeping me from getting more stuff! A tirade like Peter Griffin's drug tips ("more smack in your arms") that's probably aged about as well...

But, little secret? I do enjoy the hell out of this stupid blog, and nattering on about semi-remembered comics. Like today's book!  From 1993, Dark Angel #9 "Assassination, part 1" Written by Bernie Jaye, art by Dell Barras. Cover by Bryan Hitch!

So we've seen an issue of this before (With Excalibur, of course!) and we've looked at multiple Marvel UK books, but right this very second I have no idea what Mys-Tech's end goal was? Step one: get immortality from Mephisto. Step two: spend centuries making the world awful and plotting to double-cross Mephisto somehow. Step three: profit? Dark Angel--formerly Hell's Angel for her first five issues, which all guest-star the X-Men! I don't know why the name change; if there were negative associations with the biker gang, or if the bikers had good lawyers. Anyway, Dark Angel's dad Ranulph had worked for Mys-Tech, until his death, and the Mys-Tech board was still hounding him to get some work done: they wanted his immortality research, but Mephisto had apparently killed Ranulph in the first issue, which I thought was a no-no for him. The board and Dark Angel were both looking for pieces of his soul, and the board fights through some "dead-zoners," one of whom appears to be Nighthawk, from the Squadron Supreme? We've seen other dead heroes in this series, it may have been a recurring bit.

Dark Angel gets the "Wyrd Sisters," to fight the board: they were daughters of the "Web-Spinners." Not in a Spider-Man sense, but more classical, like the Fates. The board nearly gets Ranulph's soul, which means they could then order the hit on Dark Angel's secret identity, but she fakes them out into thinking Mephisto was coming. Unfortunately, even though Mys-Tech tries to call off their hit, since Shevaune Haldane's immortality research was now needed, they can't! (I swear her civilian name is spelled six different ways in the few issues I've seen of hers! Sure enough, it's Shevaun on the Marvel Wiki.) Mys-Tech's robotic "D.O.G.s" are sniffing out Dark Angel's trail, which puts one against the X-Men at their mansion, and Dark Angel teleports in to help...to be continued, although you know what might have helped sales immensely? Maybe an actual crossover! If Dark Angel had actually appeared in Uncanny, that would've put her in front of a lot of readers.