[ Sunday, June 27, 2004 ]
Comic Series story synopsis (continued):
Book Three: Heroes
Chapter One: Please, Mr. Gravedigger
Told by an old gravedigger n to a young man: Gabe’s in the Wild West as “The Paradox Kid.” He joins forces with a scarred bounty hunter/former confederate soldier and a gay gunfighter to save an Indian tribe whose shaman has promised him a healing elixir, which
they do in classic Seven Samurai fashion. Old man recalls how, in the last moments of the fight, men seemed to start falling even before the Kid fired. He could actually shoot first and ask questions later. Gabriel fluxes away, having tried the elixir and
discovering it to be “snake oil” sold by a traveling salesman.
Chapter Two: The Supermen
Told by an old woman in a nursing home who may be a little crazy, we see the middle decades of the 20th century, as a costumed Paradox Kid battles Nazis and dopplegangers (1940s France) and inspires a little girl; Commies and more doppelgangers (1950s
Czechoslovakia) with his teen sidekick, the incredible Clockstopper; and finally The Man (and dopplegangers)coming down on the People (1960s San Francisco), alongside an older French woman named Clockstopper, who takes him to bed with her. He’s an enigma to her because his memory was full of strange holes — in
fact, he is experiencing these things in a different order, as will be shown. The heroes of each era know him because of his work in previous times to which he has yet to flux. We see at last, that the person she’s telling the story to is Gabriel. She’s the aged and crippled Clockstopper, at the end of her days. He tells her about another clock stopper he knew, named
Daisy.
Chapter Three: Starman
Told by a super-hero of the 31st century, where the legend of the Paradox Kid is revered and where the population is fighting a war against invaders from other times. Gabriel arrives and joins the heroes in an assault on an invaders’ base; they steal a fluxpod
and bring heroes of other eras to the battle, including Clockstopper. Finally destroy the invaders’ OmniChron and wipe them from ever having existed. But the story remains, and is just as true, even if it never happened.
Interlude: Always Crashing in the Same Car
In the museum rests a damaged 1957 Chevy, license plate number TVC15. Gabe, age 12, stole it for a joyride and found himself trapped in a recurring time loop as father worked on an experiment in his lab. Gabe keeps reliving the day’s events, disastrously.
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