Issue 9

Issue 9 "God save the Queen, making the Metropolitan, part four" Script: Doselle Young Pencils: John McCrea Inks: Garry Leach Colours: Ian Hannin Editor: John Layman

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Plot

Flashes. They say. When you die. Your life. Flashes

Alabama, 1977, and while baby Jackson King telekineticlly plays with building blocks, His father tells him to aim big, to go for the jugular. Manhattan, 1999, and King is talking with his psychiatrist about his moods, his brother, and his state of mind. In the year 2000, in the wake of what happened on the Carrier, Jackson and Christine lie in bed, knwing what has just happened to them has changed their lives forever. Four Months ago, and King comes to his brother Malcom asking for help, when Malcom says no, Jackson telepathically says "Deploy", and malcom falls into a coma.

They say when you die, your life flashes. Flashes. And then it's gone.

Farmer and the team return Jackson's body to Christine, who wants to know exactly what happened. the Last Angel is floating over LA, Possessed by Chichinikia, killing cops who were beating up an innocent man. In his mindscape, last angel is revisiting the LA Riots, the night he became a suerhero, until he talks to a very stange bag lady-chichinika , who grabs him with her snake-heads
Back in the Crown, While Christine talks to Jackson's body, begging it to get up, The rest of the team decide that they have to help Bram, while he's having a spirit quest in his mindscape, his possessed body is tearing up LA. the team leap into action, with condition Red using his spirit rifle and Union atacking physically to keep Last Angel off balance, and Farmer uses his dimensional shifting powers to enter Bram's mindscape. He encounters Chichinika, now with bram embedded in her chest, and attacks. He pulls Bram out of her, and convinces him that he has a choice to make: to be a beat-up upon minor hero, or be part of something better. he also calls bram by his First name: Abraham Dusk. He bonds with Chichinika and the Metropolitan is born. Christine tells the team tells the team that they are all keys o the solution, and it's time they opened the door.

At Chimera, the Alienist, a Doctor Analog reports that King is dead, and the Chimeran leadership, all Authority analogs, decide to attack Earth...

Unsolved Mysteries

• What did king deploy into Malcom's mind,was it to stop anyone else using him if he couldn't?
• How will Bram control Chichinika?
• why is Jackson's body being kept in state and not interred?
• will Bram betray the team, like the C-Space Dusk did?

Analysis

• Jackson spells 'Firefly' with the building blocks in 1977. fireflies are a metaphor for superheroes in the Monarchy
• King talks to his therapist in a combinaton of telepathy and speech.
• Addie has joined the team on a permanent basis/
• Jackson's psyche has been moved to Panaccia by somebody.
• Alienist is an old term for Psychiatrist.