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scans_dailyPeople become known by the works they do.
They become symbols of them. What exactly those symbols represent depends on who's regarding them.
X the vigilante, for every criminal in the city of Arcadia, is judgement.
He's a warning if he marks you once. He's your death if he marks you twice.
Issue #9 of his recent series, written by Duane Swierczynski and drawn by Eric Nguyen, focused on someone who understood X as judge, jury, and executor of Arcadia's bad.
It focused on someone who understood him as that, someone who wanted to pass through his one-man court.
It opened on why that someone wanted that.
It opened on the docks, when a man was holding a gun to another man's head.
The latter pled and begged to the former to look in his wallet, to see that it was him, it was-
The former pulled the trigger.
At home, he looked himself in the mirror, stuck his gun in his mouth, tried to pull the trigger- he couldn't.
It wasn't that this act had shattered any illusions he had about himself, so that this was where he was now- it was what he felt about what he'd done.
So it was that he came to X, marked all over, taking out the vigilante's latest target for him.
He made himself known to X, said he was a killer many times over, told him to " .. skip the warning, one-eye, and kill me now! "
X and his " sidekick " (a muckraking blogger who'd become his assistant) made their way back to their waterfront lair.
She found that there wasn't a ready next one at the moment, that many low-level Arcadian criminals were responding to X's warnings and skipping town.
To lure X out, the man who wanted him went after one of them, catching him just as he was about to catch a train.
X showed up, telling the madman to let the guy heeding his warning go.
The self-marked man grabbed the freaking-out guy behind him.
He cut one slash into his hostage's face, to provoke X.
Before he could cut another, X tackled him.
X dropped the broken man off with a cop he knew.
That one asked him why this surprisingly-still-alive criminal rated this attention.
" He has a death wish. "
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They become symbols of them. What exactly those symbols represent depends on who's regarding them.
X the vigilante, for every criminal in the city of Arcadia, is judgement.
He's a warning if he marks you once. He's your death if he marks you twice.
Issue #9 of his recent series, written by Duane Swierczynski and drawn by Eric Nguyen, focused on someone who understood X as judge, jury, and executor of Arcadia's bad.
It focused on someone who understood him as that, someone who wanted to pass through his one-man court.
It opened on why that someone wanted that.
It opened on the docks, when a man was holding a gun to another man's head.
The latter pled and begged to the former to look in his wallet, to see that it was him, it was-
The former pulled the trigger.
At home, he looked himself in the mirror, stuck his gun in his mouth, tried to pull the trigger- he couldn't.
It wasn't that this act had shattered any illusions he had about himself, so that this was where he was now- it was what he felt about what he'd done.
So it was that he came to X, marked all over, taking out the vigilante's latest target for him.
He made himself known to X, said he was a killer many times over, told him to " .. skip the warning, one-eye, and kill me now! "
X and his " sidekick " (a muckraking blogger who'd become his assistant) made their way back to their waterfront lair.
She found that there wasn't a ready next one at the moment, that many low-level Arcadian criminals were responding to X's warnings and skipping town.
To lure X out, the man who wanted him went after one of them, catching him just as he was about to catch a train.
X showed up, telling the madman to let the guy heeding his warning go.
The self-marked man grabbed the freaking-out guy behind him.
He cut one slash into his hostage's face, to provoke X.
Before he could cut another, X tackled him.
X dropped the broken man off with a cop he knew.
That one asked him why this surprisingly-still-alive criminal rated this attention.
" He has a death wish. "
(Pagecount's 7 of 22.)
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Date: 2017-01-28 03:48 am (UTC)