Icons: Issue #3 - The Midnight Men... Slugfest!

 

Pencil and ink by Chris

In this issue the Midnight Men went down into the sewers looking for the missing children from issue #1. Down there we fought robots called Hunter Killers. 

Hunter Killer Robot

With some quick thinking, Dr. Midnight made an EM pulse that shutdown the HK s. Afterwards we found some kids that were hooked up to strange machinery and being drained of their psychic energy. However, one child was missing - Malcolm Graybridge. 

Malcolm is a child prodigy, gifted in computers and programming. In issue #0, Black Bolt met Malcolm's parents and swore to bring him back alive. One of BB's Qualities is Sworn to Protect so, suffice to say, he was not a happy golem.

Returning to the surface we spoke with some of our contacts/ persons of interest: Frank Stargell (The Red Wasp; retired; Knightley Community Centre manager), Paul Krevitz (Wrathmaster; retired; owner/operator The Crepes of Wrath restaurants), SCPD Capt. Jesus Ramirez and August Pickman, founder and CEO of a chain of private schools, St. Phillips Academies.

Soon after, while the Midnight Men were in downtown Stark City, a giant tear in space opened and through this rip we could see a pinkish sky and a desolate landscape.  GateKeeper determined a rift had opened and another dimension was starting to cross over into our own. Off in the distance we could see a huge black tower.

That's when we were confronted by:

           

In typical villainous fashion Dr. Deimos said:

"So, Stark City's best has come to the rescue? Well, you've finally met your match, heroes! Get ready for the...Ooofff!!!"

Just then, Dr. Midnight SMASHed Dr. Deimos in the chops, Ragtag had a SHOCKING encounter with Black Bolt, and Pulsar was BLASTED by GateKeeper then hammered by Masked Justice and finally pounded into the ground like a tent peg in a team coordinated BEAT DOWN!

It turned out these villains had been hired by an anonymous source to stop all from crossing the dimensional rift.

Our heroes pressed onward venturing into the desolate dimension towards the dark tower, in the hopes of rescuing Malcolm Graybridge; if he had not been killed already by whatever evil forces that lay ahead!