Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!hudson!ihnp1!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:afo From: afo@pucc-k (Flidais) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Kitty and Wolverine (spoilers and alternate plot.....) Message-ID: <663@pucc-k> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 15:27:16 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-k.663 Posted: Sun Dec 2 15:27:16 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 07:20:57 EST Organization: Necromancers Local #1032 Lines: 81 (Hey! Flip that tape!) Oh, gee, and here I forgot to include anything about Kitty and Wolverine #5.... Why does this just keep getting better? Is it that during the times when the later issues were plotted, Jim Shooter was at a convention, or something? I'm not saying that these issues are works of art, but they are a lot better than this series had promised. I do see now that Kitty was planning on taking on Ogun, rather than trotting off to Professor Xavier's. So, I thought I would provide a plot synopsis on how I would have liked it to go.... (switch into heavy fantasy mode) Kitty goes home, and Wolverine finds himself to take on the Yakuza. Figuring he might need some help in the matter, he calls up Puck in Canada. Over a couple of Kirins,they decide on how to deal with the Yakuza. Of course Yukio comes along for the fun and games, after safely depositing Kitty's silly father somewhere fun (good chance for a reasonable sight gag here; I think he ought to be trussed up like the Thanksgiving turkey and deposited on the steps of the Tokyo police with a note to contact the Feds). Okay. Now, Wolvie, Puck, and Yukio break up to attack the headquarters. Yukio comes in from the roof top, while Puck sneaks in through the tunnels under the place (I'll figure out where they got the tunnels later..). Wolverine just rings the bell, and offs the doorman to get in. Yukio runs into the the Sumo wrestler, and stuffs him so full of poison blades that he falls through the glass window and splatters all over the street below. Puck runs into a bevy of the female bodyguards, and having no compunctions about fighting with women, renders them to hamburger (while regaling the readers with stories about his past exploits). {BTW, I *could* see Puck using implements other than knives and other variants of blades: the sight of Puck with a 45 Magnum loaded with hollow-heads is not too hard to imagine. I don't think that he is the type to cleanly insert bread-knives between the 5th and 6th ribs}. Anyway, Wolverine gets to the office where the old boy is; with Ogun. Ogun obligingly lets Wolverine pop his claws into the old boy (after all, he doesn't have an exclusive contact), and then congratulates Wolverine before getting into the joint and offing everyone; right before he makes the remark that it's a good time to see if the pupil has become as proficient as the teacher. A nice few remarks about the bestial nature of Wolverine, and how that ,as a hero after all, he shouldn't have let himself fall as far as his teacher (standard plot, with a different answer). Anyway, Wolverine gives the non-standard answer about having to use the tactics of whom your fighting to prevail; right before the fight scene. Now, optimally, the fight should take up about six pages or so of non-discussive text. No word balloons, just some descriptives at the bottom. Of course we need all the nifty sais, tiger claws, swords etc... However, since Wolverine does give in to his bestial nature, and doesn't 'fight fair' (like the rest of the Marvel universe), he does finally pops the claws into Ogun, who then gives a scream that alerts Yukio and Puck as to what has just gone down (besides possibly most of Tokyo). After making a closing remark on what it *does* take to kill a demon, he obligingly dies. Wolverine, Yukio, and Puck quietly survey the scene before they hear the sirens of the Tokyo police, who arrive to investigate just in time to see the threesome leap off into the night. I figure after this, Wolverine decides to stay in Japan, and he, Puck and Yukio decide to go (back?) into the mercenary business. The continuing exploits of the three would make a great series (of course the comics code people would have kittens, but we can figure that out later). Comments? (do I get my script-writng badge now?) -- Laurie Sefton {harpo,ihnp4,allegra,decvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h!afo ~As he lay out the tarot, the devil and death, two old and very dear friends of mine, appeared.~