Honey West #2 - Requiem for Anne Francis
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scans_dailyI wasn't really planning to post any of this, which came out a few weeks ago. But I just found out Honey's portrayer Anne Francis died Monday, so this seemed a fitting way to recognize.
You may recall in issue 1, Killer on the Keys Part 1: Bikini Death, ocelot-owning P.I. Honey West was hired to go undercover as a go-go dancer at the Purple Pussy to find out who killed the accompanist and the waitress he was canoodling with. Another dancer landed in the hospital after dancing in a bikini treated with poisoned day-glo paint, a bikini meant for Honey!
When we left our heroine, she had stormed off to confront the hippie-chick dressmaker Velvet who made the bikini, only to be sucked into a Happening that left Velvet shot dead with a prop gun meant to contain only blanks. Issue 2 picks up with hunka-hunka burnin' JUSTICE Lt. Mark Storm arriving on the scene to find Honey standing over Velvet's body in "Killer on the Keys Part 2: Requiem for a Dressmaker."
Honey leaves the station and heads to Velvet, where the 'mourning' hippies have a feeding frenzy divvying up Velvet's belongings. Ain't anti-materialism grand? She heads back to the office...
It's her client, Mimi, who's being squeezed by her silent partner in the club: Velvet's boyfriend Nick, the drug pusher. So it's about time for endgame.
Nick gleefully confesses to using the PP as a front for dealing the hard stuff, oh, and he recognized Honey right off, and to arranging Velvet's tragic accident. Honey begins seeing double, then triple, and he tells her that despite her caution he's managed to drug her drink with a psychedelic. Oh, and he's got her purse and gun. Cue some off-balance martial arts and a foot-chase through a melting rainbow backstage. Nick gets the drop on her, but the cavalry's right on his heels.
With Lt. Storm wrapping Nick up tight in handcuffs, Honey has a wrap-up meet with Mimi, who offers her a full-time job as a dancer. "You want me to give up being a private eye? Give up being attacked by a drunken go-go dancer, getting hauled into jail for a murder I didn't commit? Getting drugged and almost killed with my own gun?"
"...Let me get back to ya on that." *clinks glasses*
4 pages out of a 22 page story. R.I.P., Anne. May your forever abode be filled with slinky catsuits and leopard-print sheaths, cool cocktails, and plenty of tall, dark and handsome strangers to trade entendres with.
You may recall in issue 1, Killer on the Keys Part 1: Bikini Death, ocelot-owning P.I. Honey West was hired to go undercover as a go-go dancer at the Purple Pussy to find out who killed the accompanist and the waitress he was canoodling with. Another dancer landed in the hospital after dancing in a bikini treated with poisoned day-glo paint, a bikini meant for Honey!
When we left our heroine, she had stormed off to confront the hippie-chick dressmaker Velvet who made the bikini, only to be sucked into a Happening that left Velvet shot dead with a prop gun meant to contain only blanks. Issue 2 picks up with hunka-hunka burnin' JUSTICE Lt. Mark Storm arriving on the scene to find Honey standing over Velvet's body in "Killer on the Keys Part 2: Requiem for a Dressmaker."
Honey leaves the station and heads to Velvet, where the 'mourning' hippies have a feeding frenzy divvying up Velvet's belongings. Ain't anti-materialism grand? She heads back to the office...
It's her client, Mimi, who's being squeezed by her silent partner in the club: Velvet's boyfriend Nick, the drug pusher. So it's about time for endgame.
Nick gleefully confesses to using the PP as a front for dealing the hard stuff, oh, and he recognized Honey right off, and to arranging Velvet's tragic accident. Honey begins seeing double, then triple, and he tells her that despite her caution he's managed to drug her drink with a psychedelic. Oh, and he's got her purse and gun. Cue some off-balance martial arts and a foot-chase through a melting rainbow backstage. Nick gets the drop on her, but the cavalry's right on his heels.
With Lt. Storm wrapping Nick up tight in handcuffs, Honey has a wrap-up meet with Mimi, who offers her a full-time job as a dancer. "You want me to give up being a private eye? Give up being attacked by a drunken go-go dancer, getting hauled into jail for a murder I didn't commit? Getting drugged and almost killed with my own gun?"
"...Let me get back to ya on that." *clinks glasses*
4 pages out of a 22 page story. R.I.P., Anne. May your forever abode be filled with slinky catsuits and leopard-print sheaths, cool cocktails, and plenty of tall, dark and handsome strangers to trade entendres with.
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Date: 2011-01-04 09:56 pm (UTC)I wasn't super-impressed with this first two-parter plotwise, but it's got a great retro feel and tons of potential. Kinda love the art - feels like early John Byrne in places, before he got so overembellished.
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Date: 2011-01-05 10:39 am (UTC)MARK: We got Nick. He was happy to talk. Just wanted us to get that tiger off him.
HONEY: Yeah, I brought that cat up right.
coolest. secret weapon. ever. :D
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Date: 2011-01-05 12:22 pm (UTC)