Showing posts with label Jack Herbert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Herbert. Show all posts

Friday, September 13, 2013

Issue Review: Miss Fury 5

In 1942, Captain Chandler's plane explodes on a bombing run in the South Pacific.  In Manhattan of the near future, the time traveling Nazi air force is bombing the city.  Miss Fury listens as Schauberger explains what has been going on.  Harmon is really Hermann, a Nazi spy, who was a rival of Schauberger's.  When Hermann killed Schauburger, and then Miss Fury fell through the skylight into the time machine, their paths through time were linked.  He hands her a strange ball and tells her to travel through time and kill Hermann.  Schauberger tells Fury to shoot down the planes coming at them, but she refuses.  She's had enough killing, and enough of people controlling her.  Schauberger rages at her, telling her that Hermann rigged Chandler's plane to blow up, and Miss Fury then takes control of her time traveling and sends herself back to 1943.  There, she confronts Hermann, and says she won't kill again... after this. Then she shoots him, and destroys the crown and the time machine that started it all.  Finally she travels back to 1942, to the train platform, so she can see Chandler again. But he's not there.  And Schauberger, watching from the side, leers at her confusion and travels in time once more.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Issue Review: Miss Fury 4

Miss Fury battles an army of Nazi robots in the year 2013.  As the battle rages, the Nazis Pinkston and Schauburger argue.  Schauburger throws a glowing sphere into the sky and a portal opens, teleporting in a giant Nazi battleship from World War II.  Miss Fury jumps off the battleship onto a roof-top, where she tries to attack Schauburger, but the two of them vanish through time while behind them, the battleship plows through Washington, D.C.  Next a flash-back shows Marla kissing Captain Chandler good-bye as he boards a train to go back to the War.  Later we see her receive a telegram that he is dead, and she faints.  Back in the future, Miss Fury battles Nazi robots, but then flees into the basement of St. Patrick's Cathedral.  There Shauberger explains that he is dead, killed right before Miss Fury fell through the timeline.  Schauburger claims that Agent Harmon is also moving through time, and that Harmon is the real villain  Back in 2013, Harmon confronts Pinkston, whose legs were severed by the passing battleship, and asks him where the time machine is.

Monday, September 9, 2013

Issue Review: Miss Fury 3

Miss Fury continues to travel back and forth through time.  In 2013, she flees across the streets of Washington DC, trying to get away from Nazi robots.  She grabs a motorcycle from a passing biker, gets on it, and tries to run over the robots.  Back in 1943, as Marla, she gets drunk after receiving the telegram that Captain Chandler was killed, and jumps from the top of a building, saving herself and her drinking partner by grabbing onto an American flag hanging off the edifice.  Back in 2013, she works with Harmon to discover who the time traveling Nazi is.  They discover that he is Erhard Schauberger, a Nazi scientist who disappeared in 1942.    Harmon sends her to capture billionaire Mel Pinkston, who has been replaced by a Nazi spy.  Miss Fury sets up on a rooftop, firing a sniper rifle at the guards as Pinkston gets out of a limo.  Then she attacks him and grabs him, but he tells her that America is already in Nazi hands, and when she turns around, everyone on the street around them is a Nazi robot.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Issue Review: Miss Fury 2

Miss Fury stands in bombed-out Manhattan facing down a pair of Nazi jet airplanes with a sniper rifle.  She fires, taking out one of the pilots, who crashes into the other one. She leaps into the cockpit of another, previously-downed plane and pulls the ejection seat to get out, landing unconscious on a roof.  Then we switch timelines and she is being interrogated by Harmon, in 2013, now working for the CIA, not the OSS, and claiming never to have met her (or lived during World War II).  She tries to break out of the interrogation room, but is tasered.  Next she's back in 1942, having a romantic interlude with Chandler, a wounded solder, and is clearly falling in love with him.  Back in 2013, she is sent to assassinate a Congressman whom she is told is secretly a Nazi. She kills him,  but the people surrounding him turn out to be Nazi robots and turn to attack her.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Issue Review: Miss Fury 1

The story begins with a battle on a museum rooftop between Miss Fury and some Nazi agents, but one of them tells her that he can travel in time.  An OSS agent, Harmon, saves her from the time-traveling Nazi, but when she looks through the museum skylight at a jeweled crown, the skylight smashes, and she falls down into a glowing machine that then teleports her to 2013 Manhattan.  From this point on Fury keeps switching every few pages from one time to the other, first the 1940s, then 2013, then back to the 1940s.  In the 1940s, she plans to steal the jeweled crown. She flashes back to when she got her powers, during a magic ritual in Africa, and to the word on the ship back home that her father died. Then at the museum party, as she scopes the place out to steal the crown, the time-traveling Nazi touches her, and she ends up back in 2013, with modernized Nazi warplanes bombing New York.