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scans_dailyFrom Excalibur Annual #2 back in 1994. This was about eight years after Cypher was killed, and about three months after Douglock was introduced in the pages of "The Phalanx Covenant", and was perhaps meant to provide a primer..
We open with Kitty Pryde in Excalibur HQ, receiving a parcel in the post. Her mother had found some old thing of Kitty's from 'her Westchester days' and forwarded them on. Kitty hasn't been on the best of terms with either of her parents since their divorce, so she is not enthused, especially when she see's that the computer discs included in the box were packed loose in a plastic bag. Basically thinking "What the hell..." Kitty boots up her computer to see what's on the them (If they haven't been accidentally wiped by EM exposure or the like)
She is not prepared for what she finds on the disc. It IS from her Xavier days, but they aren't HER files.
As I recall, the only verbalisation we ever got of the above process was "Wow?!?", and that doesn't look like it was a "Wow?!?" moment to me, but I suppose I've never actually bodymerged with a technorganic alien so who knows...
That's.... quite the haircut there Dougie boy...
I like that last page, not least because I happen to own it! :) (Click on the image above to see the inked page)
Doug then covers the period when Warlock left the team to chase after a runaway Sunspot, about how abandoned and betrayed he'd felt by that. About the nightmares he'd had, and the fear he felt all the time because without Warlock to protect him and make him useful in combat, why was he still on the team?
Kitty decides there's only one thing to do with these files. She passes Kurt (Who knew about the package) as she goes looking for new Excalibur member Douglock. and asks him to scan the discs... (Douglock had been busy cross referencing all the sentient AI's he could find, hoping to understand his own Phalanx-derived nature better... just think, if she hadn't interrupted him we might have had Avengers AI twenty years ago!)
With that, polite but uninterested, he turns back to what he was doing. Kitty wanders away, heartbroken, to find Kurt waiting for her.
So she shows Kurt Doug's files too, and he finds the last entry...
"No katzen" he replies, as Douglock watches from the hall outside, "...only human."
Awww... :(
I think my only issue with this story is that it's all about Kitty, which seems fair enough I guess, but Douglock, who already has something of an identity crisis about looking like someone who had already died as far, is more or less tossed aside the moment he's said anything remotely germane to the discussion. No one asks him how he's doing after the umpteenth comparison to Doug (The name didn't help I suppose).
We open with Kitty Pryde in Excalibur HQ, receiving a parcel in the post. Her mother had found some old thing of Kitty's from 'her Westchester days' and forwarded them on. Kitty hasn't been on the best of terms with either of her parents since their divorce, so she is not enthused, especially when she see's that the computer discs included in the box were packed loose in a plastic bag. Basically thinking "What the hell..." Kitty boots up her computer to see what's on the them (If they haven't been accidentally wiped by EM exposure or the like)
She is not prepared for what she finds on the disc. It IS from her Xavier days, but they aren't HER files.
As I recall, the only verbalisation we ever got of the above process was "Wow?!?", and that doesn't look like it was a "Wow?!?" moment to me, but I suppose I've never actually bodymerged with a technorganic alien so who knows...
That's.... quite the haircut there Dougie boy...
I like that last page, not least because I happen to own it! :) (Click on the image above to see the inked page)
Doug then covers the period when Warlock left the team to chase after a runaway Sunspot, about how abandoned and betrayed he'd felt by that. About the nightmares he'd had, and the fear he felt all the time because without Warlock to protect him and make him useful in combat, why was he still on the team?
Kitty decides there's only one thing to do with these files. She passes Kurt (Who knew about the package) as she goes looking for new Excalibur member Douglock. and asks him to scan the discs... (Douglock had been busy cross referencing all the sentient AI's he could find, hoping to understand his own Phalanx-derived nature better... just think, if she hadn't interrupted him we might have had Avengers AI twenty years ago!)
With that, polite but uninterested, he turns back to what he was doing. Kitty wanders away, heartbroken, to find Kurt waiting for her.
So she shows Kurt Doug's files too, and he finds the last entry...
"No katzen" he replies, as Douglock watches from the hall outside, "...only human."
Awww... :(
I think my only issue with this story is that it's all about Kitty, which seems fair enough I guess, but Douglock, who already has something of an identity crisis about looking like someone who had already died as far, is more or less tossed aside the moment he's said anything remotely germane to the discussion. No one asks him how he's doing after the umpteenth comparison to Doug (The name didn't help I suppose).
