Death's Head #6 - Yo-Yo Joe

[angelophile]

I guess Death's Head #6 could be read either as a parody of such gung-ho military titles as GI Joe or Commando, or as a tribute to them. Probably a little of both, featuring a crack military team of characters with designs so ugly they could easily have been included in the later GI Joe toy line.

Early Liam Sharp on art duty for this issue.




The mission of the week for Death's Head is this: Death's Head has been hired by Senator Letterman, to protect a valuable witness in a case against Minister Carson, a rival politician with… very Trump-like hair and attitude.



The cynical (or accurate, depending on your point of view) general there has sent his crack team, Sudden Impact, to the compound where the witness is being guarded by Marshal Lek. Lek doesn't think much of Death's Head being there, especially as he has spent most of the time in the luxury suite where they're holed up watching TV and playing chess with the nervous witness.

When Sudden Impact attack, Lek's men are pretty much wiped out, while Death's Head repeats the terms of his contract.







Death's Head viciously works his way through the commandos making Arnie-esque quips, while the group's leader, Mayhem (presumably Major Mayhem or something, yes?) calls the shots.





Eventually, after tossing an armoured vehicle around and being the immovable object to the upstoppable force of Sudden Impact, Death's Head confronts Mayhem directly.





Ah well, hopefully DH got paid half up front, right? You can't win them all.

Speaking of losers, back in Death's Head's offices, a rivalry is emerging between Spratt and the new arrival on the scene.



What's that? A future plot point? How mysterious!

Comments

[iamrman]

I see you resisted requesting that Sudden Impact make Death's Head's day.

[shakalooloo]

Given the rest of Furman's output - stuff like Dragon's Claws, The Engine and To The Death - I think we can put safely in the 'tribute to' category.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

One of these days, I'll remember not to try tapping on the images in these posts to enlarge them...

[angelophile]

Why, is there an issue I'm unaware of?

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Unlike (most?) other posts I look at here, rather than enlarge the image, it takes me to the imgbb host page for just the one image, and for whatever reason, clicking "Back" is usually a bit of a slog, at least on mobile, as reloading the page tends to take forever, sometimes requires a refresh, or just pulling up the post from my history or the main page again. Pretty sure that part is largely a Dreamwidth issue.

I did luck out last night, as clicking back brought me back instantaneously -- which is pretty rare, if it's even happened to me before.

It's just a force of habit on my part that I've thus far failed to break myself of, in favor of zooming in to read the panels instead. I'm hoping that by talking about it, maybe it'll put a trigger in my memory that says "don't do that on Death's Head" the next time I move to enlarge.

[angelophile]

Must be the image host I'm using. Any better now?

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Yes! Thank you! 😸

[super_fly]

Hmm, Carson, Letterman... I'm sure it's a coincidence.

The guy in the shadows looks more like IDK, an O'Brien imo.