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scans_dailyHe awoke in her New York, out of a demon tempting and into her appealing as she had before.
" I see a power in you that perhaps you do not fully see yourself.
" A power whose limits you have not fully discovered.
" Channel it in the proper direction, Peter-
" And you could rule the world! "
" Really?
" Uh.. how do you know I haven't already? "
(He'd woken up in bed with her.)
The man lashed out at him.
Peter swept him aside, into another oncoming.
Then a third struck him from behind: " Evila? "
Others massed.
Peter ran from the swarming thralls.
He was surprised.
He was pulled aside.
He appeared in the apartment of his personal assistant.
(He cleared up the " seemingly died fighting a dragon mech " thing with her before this.)
Peter left to figure things out.
He knew that his secret - his having created a dragon to threaten the world, to unify it against a common enemy, and then staging its defeat at his heroic hands to accelerate the process - was all but out.
He made his way back to Aida's.
He was confronted by angry dogs, which he subdued.
" My apologies..
" You should be up and growling in a few hours. "
She stood before him.
(Pagecount's 7 and just under 2/10ths of 22 from Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #8 back in 2013.
Writing's Steve Darnall and Alex Ross, art's Jonathan Lau, colors're Vincius Andrade, and letters're Simon Bowland.)
" I see a power in you that perhaps you do not fully see yourself.
" A power whose limits you have not fully discovered.
" Channel it in the proper direction, Peter-
" And you could rule the world! "
" Really?
" Uh.. how do you know I haven't already? "
(He'd woken up in bed with her.)
The man lashed out at him.
Peter swept him aside, into another oncoming.
Then a third struck him from behind: " Evila? "
Others massed.
Peter ran from the swarming thralls.
He was surprised.
He was pulled aside.
He appeared in the apartment of his personal assistant.
(He cleared up the " seemingly died fighting a dragon mech " thing with her before this.)
Peter left to figure things out.
He knew that his secret - his having created a dragon to threaten the world, to unify it against a common enemy, and then staging its defeat at his heroic hands to accelerate the process - was all but out.
He made his way back to Aida's.
He was confronted by angry dogs, which he subdued.
" My apologies..
" You should be up and growling in a few hours. "
She stood before him.
(Pagecount's 7 and just under 2/10ths of 22 from Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #8 back in 2013.
Writing's Steve Darnall and Alex Ross, art's Jonathan Lau, colors're Vincius Andrade, and letters're Simon Bowland.)
