COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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X-Force 108
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0231247010
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Owner:
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kaholo1256
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Published: November 2000
KEY ISSUE: Nope but it is certainly a sharp issue.
Warren Ellis & Ian Edginton story
Whilce Portacio, Lan Medina & Gary Alangullan Art
Salvador Larocca & Vince Russell Cover
Another book that only has two issues graded in this set. Great thing though, I own the 9.8SS OAK of the group as opposed to the 9.8 Blue Label. Nothing against blue but its always fun to own the only Signed book ever.
Story Title: Murder Ballads: Part 3
SUMMARY:
Domino is back…and she’s not alone. She is being hunted by an implacable killer possessing the mutant gene for murder. She has turned to her former pupils and teammates in X-Force - Sam Guthrie, Tabitha Smith, James Proudstar and Jesse Aaronson - for help. However, the young mutants are pupils no longer, but genetic renegades on the front line of a covert war, fighting for the rights of mutant kind. It was for this reason that X-Force turned their back on Domino six months ago - and it for this reason that she now needs them more than ever.
Inside X-Force’s temporary headquarters in San Francisco, Domino stands with her back to the young mutants, her shirt is removed, and she reveals a large creature - with a very big eye - on her back. ‘So, what do you think? Beats having a tattoo, huh? Problem is you gotta die to get one’ Domino exclaims. ‘EEYSSH!‘ Jesse Aaronson a.k.a. Bedlam exclaims, while James Proudstar asks if it hurts. ’Yeah, sometimes when it moves, squirms around at night, mostly’ Domino explains. ‘There’s squirming? Yuck!’ Bedlam exclaims. ‘You are such a girl!’ Tabby “Meltdown” Smith tells him. Bedlam frowns at Domino and asks her if she wants him to scope it out. Domino tells her companion that she would appreciate it, as she would like to know exactly what kind of monkey she has got on her back.
Bedlam reaches out and places two fingers on the green creature, warning Domino that he is liable to hurl at any second, before announcing that it is weird, that he is sensing some kind of energy field in both electro and biomagnetic spectrums. Jesse suddenly pulls his hand away, and declares that the creatures knows he is here. ‘I’m scanning it and it’s scanning me right back!’ he exclaims. Domino remarks that the creature mustn’t like getting prodded, and tells Bedlam to leave it alone, before thanking him for trying. Domino buttons her shirt up while Meltdown ushers the boys away: ‘Okay, nothing to see here, just an old lady getting dressed. That means about-face, guys!’
Sam “Cannonball” Guthrie asks Domino what they do now. He points out that they are still flying blind. ‘You say this thing appeared after you died. That’s some kinda bombshell. Care to enlighten us a little?’ Sam remarks. Domino replies that there is not much to tell, and announces that after realizing she was Marcus Tsung’s mark, she went underground, but needed to be able to move freely to find out why she had been targeted.
Domino reveals that she altered her appearance, posture and body language. She dyed her hair blonde, changed her eye color with contacts and even exculpated her cheekbones with dental putty. But, it still didn’t make a difference, as Tsung found her. Domino explains that it was a beautiful spring morning in Paris when a virtual bullet blew a fist-sized hole in her spine, and she collapsed onto the pavement, dead before she even hit the ground. Domino didn’t even see Tsung, unaware that he was just nearby on the street, face hidden by a newspaper.
The next thing Domino knows, she is in a pathology lab, naked, with some guy about to start the midline incision of her autopsy. She managed to persuade him otherwise as she grabbed his throat. She took a lab coat and left, but the device, or whatever it is, had grown out of the wound on her back, resurrected her somehow, but that isn’t all - it returned her hair to its natural color, and years of incidental wounds and scars were erased.
PERSONAL COMMENTS:
Taken to Wizard World St. Louis to be signed by Salvador Larocca and to complete the goal of having this set signed by as many creators as possible. This one was amazing to get seeing as it was the only one Salvador ever worked on. Getting it signed was amazing but even more so to retain its high grade. Happy, Happy, Happy…
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