Seymour
the All-Seeing Astrologer studies his star charts and other professional
paraphernalia and concludes that Los Angles will sink into the sea at noon that
very day. He tries to inform the news media but no one believes him….
At
the 1988 Los Angeles Manufacturers Exposition, Hawkeye has been hired by politician
Richard Obadiah Johnston to guard the fabulous diamond the Star of Angels as it
sits atop a scale model of the city. A gang of crooks after the diamond invades
the hall and their leader fires a concussive blast at Hawkeye’s back wrecking
his quiver of arrows, rendering him weaponless (or so they think). Using his
smarts, some odd trick arrowheads, and an intact arrow he finds, he is able to
hold off the bad guys. Meanwhile, Seymour has entered the convention hall and
pleads with Johnston to evacuate the city. Hawkeye sets off a giant flash
camera, blinding himself and most everybody else. The bad guy leader has
grabbed the diamond, Hawkeye shoots him with a smoke arrow, knocking him
backwards into the city diorama and pushing it into a tank of water. Johnston
realizes that this fulfills Seymour’s prophecy and the astrologer becomes the
hit of the Expo, attracting the attention of the media. Seymour predicts that
Richard Obadiah Johnston will be President someday and, judging by Seymour’s
track record, Johnston wonders “President of what? “
“Token
Sacrifice” 2.5/5
Writer:
Dan Chichester, Margaret Clark. Art: Lee Weeks. Colors: Paul Becton. Letters:
Jack Morelli.
Synopsis:
Doctor Druid is in the subway with his agent, on their way to tape an
appearance on the David Letterman show when a train pulls in heavily damaged
and covered with graffiti. Druid recognizes the graffiti as constituting an
ancient Celtic spell. A woman emerges from the train, detects Druid’s powers,
and warns him to stay away or die; she captures an old man and vanishes in a
flash of light. Druid changes into his work clothes and dashes into the tunnel,
to the despair of his agent. He battles the minions of the sorceress
Stonecutter and finds the tunnels have been changed into a Celtic maze of
power. He comes to a recreation of Stonehenge made from subway cars where
Stonecutter is about to sacrifice the old man. Druid summons an earthquake but
his powers are dampened here and it results in only a small tremor but enough
to disrupt the ceremony. Druid hypnotizes her minions into fighting each other
and confronts the priestess. She makes to stab him with the sacrificial knife
but the earthquake finally kicks in and topples some of the railway cars,
breaking the circle. Stonecutter morphs into an aged troll-like hag and Druid
allows her to get away in order to rescue the old man. The old man asks why
Druid made that choice, Druid responds that he cannot allow anyone to die
before its natural hour….