There was a monster called Rex-O.
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scans_dailyHe'd been sent after some kids.
They'd been saved from him by the psiot Livewire, looking into what Toyo Harada'd left behind.
She wanted to know more about Rex-O, so she dove into the dark web.
" Rex-O. What is your story? "
" I WAS DEAD. "
" But you're alive again. "
Her question went unanswered by the disconnection.
In the real world, in the migrating community known as Little Morocco, the kids - Nikki and Owen - were also pursuing the mystery of Rex-O.
Cheapjack greeted her.
(She'd grabbed one of the knives Rex-O'd chucked at them.)
" Wait. " said Owen. " You can tell me the original owner of things? "
" Yes. "
" Of anything? "
Owen and Nikki left.
He thought out loud about how his powers of conjuring weren't taking objects from other people, but giving him things that were his.
A phone nearby rang. Owen picked it up.
It was Livewire.
" Rex-O is on the move. Meet me at Lincoln Park.
" Hurry. "
They arrived in time to see the monster menacing a friend of theirs, Avi, another psiot Harada'd rejected.
(Avi's inadequacy was that his " stoneskin " power gave him the mobility of stone as well.)
Nikki sicced her bird friends on Rex-O.
Rex-O pulled a compact flamethrower on them.
" Leave my friends alone! "
(Rex-O is well-armed.)
(It's safe to assume she knew he could reflexively trigger his powers.)
Rex-O pinned them down with more ersatz kunai.
(Rex-O'd crushed Avi's glasses under his foot after knocking them off.)
Livewire (Amanda) turned to Owen, and got him help- a friend of hers.
Back at the old theater she was working out of, the kids considered their situation.
Avi wanted to leave - he'd never wanted to be one of Harada's psiots.
He had a life outside that man's grasp now, one he intended to keep.
He walked away, leaving Amanda and Nikki and Owen, and the problems of Rex-O and the Scavenger.
That night, as the kids slept, Amanda wondered who the Scavenger was, and what exactly he wanted.
(Yes, this is hairbun-and-glasses from the first issue.)
(Yup, that's a bird up there.)
(Yeah, that's Martin from the first issue in the fridge.
Pagecount's just under 8 of 24 from Secret Weapons #2 back in 2017.
Writing's Eric Heisserer, and art's Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín.
Lettering's Martín too.)
They'd been saved from him by the psiot Livewire, looking into what Toyo Harada'd left behind.
She wanted to know more about Rex-O, so she dove into the dark web.
" Rex-O. What is your story? "
" I WAS DEAD. "
" But you're alive again. "
Her question went unanswered by the disconnection.
In the real world, in the migrating community known as Little Morocco, the kids - Nikki and Owen - were also pursuing the mystery of Rex-O.
Cheapjack greeted her.
(She'd grabbed one of the knives Rex-O'd chucked at them.)
" Wait. " said Owen. " You can tell me the original owner of things? "
" Yes. "
" Of anything? "
Owen and Nikki left.
He thought out loud about how his powers of conjuring weren't taking objects from other people, but giving him things that were his.
A phone nearby rang. Owen picked it up.
It was Livewire.
" Rex-O is on the move. Meet me at Lincoln Park.
" Hurry. "
They arrived in time to see the monster menacing a friend of theirs, Avi, another psiot Harada'd rejected.
(Avi's inadequacy was that his " stoneskin " power gave him the mobility of stone as well.)
Nikki sicced her bird friends on Rex-O.
Rex-O pulled a compact flamethrower on them.
" Leave my friends alone! "
(Rex-O is well-armed.)
(It's safe to assume she knew he could reflexively trigger his powers.)
Rex-O pinned them down with more ersatz kunai.
(Rex-O'd crushed Avi's glasses under his foot after knocking them off.)
Livewire (Amanda) turned to Owen, and got him help- a friend of hers.
Back at the old theater she was working out of, the kids considered their situation.
Avi wanted to leave - he'd never wanted to be one of Harada's psiots.
He had a life outside that man's grasp now, one he intended to keep.
He walked away, leaving Amanda and Nikki and Owen, and the problems of Rex-O and the Scavenger.
That night, as the kids slept, Amanda wondered who the Scavenger was, and what exactly he wanted.
(Yes, this is hairbun-and-glasses from the first issue.)
(Yup, that's a bird up there.)
(Yeah, that's Martin from the first issue in the fridge.
Pagecount's just under 8 of 24 from Secret Weapons #2 back in 2017.
Writing's Eric Heisserer, and art's Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín.
Lettering's Martín too.)
