LNH20: Ultimate Mercenary v20 #6

[Scott Eiler]

On 4/7/2015 5:56 PM, Adrian McClure wrote:

> And then, just as he was about to black out, another figure came racing
> down the sewer tide — an alligator with shades riding a surfboard.
> "COWABUNGA!" he shouted, punching the crocosharktopus on the nose. [Was
> this too obvious a reference? Probably—ed.] Ultimate Mercenary felt
> scaly arms grip him before he blacked out.

gee, Adrian, you totally stole an original character concept I have for 
Powernaut 1985 about cool ninja creatures who come from the sewer!  I 
guess mine shall have to not ride the surfboard!  (But he might have to 
wear shades instead of that ninja mask I was thinking of.)

And, well, your guest-star hero is an alligator.  Unless he's 
*seriously* mutated, UM will feel *claws* gripping him, because 
alligator arms don't grip.  I don't think even Teenage Mutant Ninja 
Turtles would be good at gripping.

More seriously...  I sense you are trying to portray UM as a poor lost 
guy with occasional moments of competence.  (He *did* save people from 
the crocosharktopus.)  If that's what you're trying for, you're 
succeeding.  And he's coming along nicely.

I enjoyed this issue.  And I shall have to remember what lives in the 
LNH20 sewers when Clueless Lad finally gets out of time prison.


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When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama

I know. - Archie Andrews

- from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.