Garth Ennis' Dan Dare - Issue 4 and 5
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Somewhere in space, the prime minister is face down on the floor in front of the Mekon, who he has been secretly collaborating with for some time. The PM tries the usual "oh mighty such and such" routine, only for the Mekon to shut him down by stating that humans snivelling in front of him are only entertaining when he's broken them first, and considering the PM was ALREADY broken, what possible value does he have? Plus, he already has the Treens to serve him with mindless loyalty, so what use does the Prime Minister have now that he's fled Earth?
Despite this, the Mekon says that he will follow up on their agreement on letting the PM rule Earth as his underling once the occupation has been completed, but merely because it's easier than training someone else to do the same job. He then confirms that the Prime Minister has gathered the human navy together in one place like the Mekon told him before tending to the "other matter"...
Back on the planet, Dan and his people are rapidly running out of ammunition, resorting to handguns and swords to fight off the advancing monsters. In a brief break in the fighting, some of the marines suggest that, since no help looks to be coming, should they start shooting the women and children to spare the horror of being torn apart instead? Digby and Dan are apalled by this, and instead just keep fighting.
On Earth, the Prime Minister's assistant Patricia (after briefly being aghast that the PM left without her) quickly cracks and spills what she knows to Peabody. It seems that on one of the colony tours, a data disc was left in the PM's hotel room, there the Mekon told him that he was coming back and that there was no way that they'd be able to stop him. In exchange for his submission, the PM would be allowed to remain in power after the occupation of Earth rather than executed like everyone else that Mekon took a dislike to.
With this in mind, Peabody has word sent to Gibraltar Station to cancel all orders sent by the PM in order to save their fleet from the Treens' ambush, and then asks why the PM didn't even consider fighting the Mekon? Why cave and sell out his own species instead of trying to defeat him like they'd done dozens of times before? Patricia explains that the PM thought that this way would at least limit the amount of human deaths that would result from a straight-up war, particularly since the price for keeping his job was so comparitively low.
The Mekon's price? Dare.
Back with the PM and the Mekon, the Prime Minister tells his master that he had Dare placed on a damaged ship with no weapons so that he'd be easier to capture, but rather than meeting with the rest of the fleet he decided to disobey orders by going on a rescue mission instead. The Mekon sneers about how Dare's willfulness is one of the many qualities he looks forward to excising from Dare, but in the meantime he sends a warship to the planet to pick him up in person... if the monsters hadn't already eaten him yet.
Back with Dan and Digby all looks lost... until some RAF craft arrive at the last minute and start bombing the tar out of the Mekon's creatures. While the explosions provide a distraction, the surviving colonists and soldiers quickly dart onto the landing craft Christian was able to round up for the rescue mission, Digby going on one while Dan and Jikk rush off onto another.
The survivors continue up to the various ships Christian managed to convince to come with her... only for the Mekon's ship to arrive...
In the next issue, things aren't looking that much brighter for Acting Prime Minister Peabody, as the Mekon's fleet has arrived at the edge of the solar system. There they decided to make a point, and promptly used their black hole to swallow Pluto. This combined with news that the Mekon has released his genetically engineered monsters on all the planets colonised by Earth as he slowly makes his way into the centre of Earth's sphere of influence, it looks like things are going to get worse before they get better. Peabody then getting news of Digby's death immediately after this certainly doesn't help matters.
Elsewhere in the solar system, the human fleet gathers and Dan is welcomed aboard... up to a point. The Admiral in charge heavily implies that he just wants Dare to stay out of the way while he does his job, despite Dare's status as Saviour of Humanity dozens of times over. With this in mind, Dare and Christian wander off to make their own plan, while Dare makes Christian his new official second-in-command in the meantime.
This plan involves Dare commandeering a small ship and going to meet the Mekon in person.
Back with the Space Fleet, who Dare wisely decided to include on the plan it seems, are going over the photographs Dare sent back as he approached the Mekon's vessel to give them an idea where to attack. The Admiral storms off, Dare's request to have the rest of the fleet hold back while he organises this plan evidently cheesing him off somewhat.
Christian and the other assembled people, using the locater hidden inside of Dan as a reference come up with an idea to rescue him, get rid of the black hole, and hopefully assassinate the Mekon in the bargin. The logic being that the alien wouldn't be able to resist the change to gloat over Dan in person, so if Dan is there then he'd also be close by. They come up with the plan of using their faster-than-light drive to leap into the docking bay of the Mekon's ship, as arriving instantly within the ship itself being the best way to both avoid the enemy defences and hold the element of surprise.
And the plan works... sort of. Unfortunately their pilot ends up fused with a bulkhead as their ship ends up occupying the same space as one of the Treens' spacecraft while a Treen soldier finds his upper torso suddenly sticking through their floor. The royal space marines (and Christian) rush out of the craft as they begin their assault, which leads into the next issue...
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/5058188.html#cutid1
Somewhere in space, the prime minister is face down on the floor in front of the Mekon, who he has been secretly collaborating with for some time. The PM tries the usual "oh mighty such and such" routine, only for the Mekon to shut him down by stating that humans snivelling in front of him are only entertaining when he's broken them first, and considering the PM was ALREADY broken, what possible value does he have? Plus, he already has the Treens to serve him with mindless loyalty, so what use does the Prime Minister have now that he's fled Earth?
Despite this, the Mekon says that he will follow up on their agreement on letting the PM rule Earth as his underling once the occupation has been completed, but merely because it's easier than training someone else to do the same job. He then confirms that the Prime Minister has gathered the human navy together in one place like the Mekon told him before tending to the "other matter"...
Back on the planet, Dan and his people are rapidly running out of ammunition, resorting to handguns and swords to fight off the advancing monsters. In a brief break in the fighting, some of the marines suggest that, since no help looks to be coming, should they start shooting the women and children to spare the horror of being torn apart instead? Digby and Dan are apalled by this, and instead just keep fighting.
On Earth, the Prime Minister's assistant Patricia (after briefly being aghast that the PM left without her) quickly cracks and spills what she knows to Peabody. It seems that on one of the colony tours, a data disc was left in the PM's hotel room, there the Mekon told him that he was coming back and that there was no way that they'd be able to stop him. In exchange for his submission, the PM would be allowed to remain in power after the occupation of Earth rather than executed like everyone else that Mekon took a dislike to.
With this in mind, Peabody has word sent to Gibraltar Station to cancel all orders sent by the PM in order to save their fleet from the Treens' ambush, and then asks why the PM didn't even consider fighting the Mekon? Why cave and sell out his own species instead of trying to defeat him like they'd done dozens of times before? Patricia explains that the PM thought that this way would at least limit the amount of human deaths that would result from a straight-up war, particularly since the price for keeping his job was so comparitively low.
The Mekon's price? Dare.
Back with the PM and the Mekon, the Prime Minister tells his master that he had Dare placed on a damaged ship with no weapons so that he'd be easier to capture, but rather than meeting with the rest of the fleet he decided to disobey orders by going on a rescue mission instead. The Mekon sneers about how Dare's willfulness is one of the many qualities he looks forward to excising from Dare, but in the meantime he sends a warship to the planet to pick him up in person... if the monsters hadn't already eaten him yet.
Back with Dan and Digby all looks lost... until some RAF craft arrive at the last minute and start bombing the tar out of the Mekon's creatures. While the explosions provide a distraction, the surviving colonists and soldiers quickly dart onto the landing craft Christian was able to round up for the rescue mission, Digby going on one while Dan and Jikk rush off onto another.
The survivors continue up to the various ships Christian managed to convince to come with her... only for the Mekon's ship to arrive...
In the next issue, things aren't looking that much brighter for Acting Prime Minister Peabody, as the Mekon's fleet has arrived at the edge of the solar system. There they decided to make a point, and promptly used their black hole to swallow Pluto. This combined with news that the Mekon has released his genetically engineered monsters on all the planets colonised by Earth as he slowly makes his way into the centre of Earth's sphere of influence, it looks like things are going to get worse before they get better. Peabody then getting news of Digby's death immediately after this certainly doesn't help matters.
Elsewhere in the solar system, the human fleet gathers and Dan is welcomed aboard... up to a point. The Admiral in charge heavily implies that he just wants Dare to stay out of the way while he does his job, despite Dare's status as Saviour of Humanity dozens of times over. With this in mind, Dare and Christian wander off to make their own plan, while Dare makes Christian his new official second-in-command in the meantime.
This plan involves Dare commandeering a small ship and going to meet the Mekon in person.
Back with the Space Fleet, who Dare wisely decided to include on the plan it seems, are going over the photographs Dare sent back as he approached the Mekon's vessel to give them an idea where to attack. The Admiral storms off, Dare's request to have the rest of the fleet hold back while he organises this plan evidently cheesing him off somewhat.
Christian and the other assembled people, using the locater hidden inside of Dan as a reference come up with an idea to rescue him, get rid of the black hole, and hopefully assassinate the Mekon in the bargin. The logic being that the alien wouldn't be able to resist the change to gloat over Dan in person, so if Dan is there then he'd also be close by. They come up with the plan of using their faster-than-light drive to leap into the docking bay of the Mekon's ship, as arriving instantly within the ship itself being the best way to both avoid the enemy defences and hold the element of surprise.
And the plan works... sort of. Unfortunately their pilot ends up fused with a bulkhead as their ship ends up occupying the same space as one of the Treens' spacecraft while a Treen soldier finds his upper torso suddenly sticking through their floor. The royal space marines (and Christian) rush out of the craft as they begin their assault, which leads into the next issue...
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Date: 2015-01-26 03:16 am (UTC)I mean, maybe he just wanted her to be pissed rather than frightened as she exploded, which is kinda like having good intentions, but...
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Date: 2015-01-26 03:46 am (UTC)I don't think we can hold Digby accountable for reverting to type in his last moments of life, either.
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Date: 2015-01-26 05:13 am (UTC)But it's true, Digby's got his own reasons not to be the world's most effective therapist at the moment.
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Date: 2015-01-26 05:52 am (UTC)I thought the scene worked for that reason. He wasn't trying to be condescending, he was trying to be her surrogate father.
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Date: 2015-01-26 09:33 pm (UTC)