The Last Honest Man

[arbre_rieur]

Cynical billionaire Hayes Bellamy has promised Max that he'll fund a city manager to help restore order on one condition: Max has to find one honest person to fill the position.



The person Max has his eye on is a federal prosecutor named Mike Whelan, who had made it his mission to bring Max to justice.



So they track the guy down.

Comments

[freezer]

Awkward!

[superfangirl1]

Yikes. Yeah very awkward indeed.

[crabby_lioness]

Yeah, that does kinda sour the milk a tad.

[cypherfdp]

Well gee, Max, maybe you should have mentioned to the cop that you killed the guy's son.

[cricharddavies]

I will bet you a nickel that it isn't anywhere nearly as simple as outright killing him.

[starwolf_oakley]

Indeed. Mark Waid is "old-school" enough that being indirectly responsible for someone's death is the same as murder, at least in the eyes of the family of that "someone's" family.

[icon_uk]

Except didn't we have an issue already with Max not effectively differentiating between levels of criminality, so he causes citywide property damage to stop a very petty sneak thief.

He may well have killed this guys son, and genuinely doesn't see it as a stumbling block.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

I dunno, Max has got to have some murders on his rap sheet. I don't think it's a lock that Waid will wuss out, and have Max responsible for some murders.

[proteus_lives]

This sort of thing should come in any good face-turn story.