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Missile Man Stalking Horse original art by Wes CraigRelease Date: November/December 2008


"Stalking Horse"

Writer: Christos Gage
Artist: Wes Craig
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Synopsis:

"Missile Man: Stalking Horse-Chapter 1"

In post-Armageddon Delaware, a man who the locals call Missile-Man rambles on about he knows that Armageddon happened because of something that happened in 1945. A kid shows up offering him booze in exchange for the story Missile-Man claims to know.

Missile-Man recounts that he's not sure how he got his powers but when he did, he found he could fly and was impervious to harm. He joined the war effort after Pearl Harbor and got recognized by the U.S. after the war for his efforts. However, shortly after it became apparent that the government was becoming weary of the number of superhumans in the world.

But Missile-Man stayed on with them trying to do his part until he received orders to check out a crash in the desert. He arrives to find a crashed Daemonite ship.

"Missile Man: Stalking Horse-Chapter 2"

The hero known as Missile-Man continues his story about the crashed alien ship in the Nevada desert in 1945. Once inside the ship, he finds a crew of Daemonites; most of them dead. After some investigating, the government officials realize that the Daemonites used stasis tubes that created a virtual reality where they could 'exist' during their long space voyages. They also realize they could use this as a virtual prison for the growing super-criminal population. They recruit Missile Man to begin rounding up as many villains as he can. But what Missile man doesn't know is that the government plans to put him in the program along with the villains when his work is complete.


"Missile Man: Stalking Horse Chapter 3"

After he has rounded up all the villains, Miles Craven begins sending Missile Man after heroes to introduce to the Number of the Beast program. Reluctantly, Missile Man agrees until he's ordered to capture an old flame named Ingenue. He decides to go A.W.O.L. and take Ingenue with him. Unfortunately, Ingenue found out that the government was after her and decided to commit suicide than be introduced to the N.O.T.B. program. Missile Man grieves for his lost love but then heads after the man he blames for her death...Miles Craven.

"Missile Man: Stalking Horse-Chapter 4"

Missile Man confronts Miles Craven about the super-powered beings he's holding in the Number of the Beast program. Craven tells him that it was necessary to keep the world safe. When Missile Man tries to attack him a young Gabriel Newman stops him. As Missile Man loses consciousness he hears Craven tell him that he'll introduce Missile Man into the program.In the future, Missile Man finishes telling the inquisitive stranger his story and tells him that when he woke up from the program, the world had ended. Plus he found out that Miles Craven and Gabriel Newman were dead.

But the stranger tells Missile Man that Miles Craven is alive and that he was only one of the people who had held superhumans imprisoned this way. He tells him that Craven and others like him planned all of this and Armageddon was only the beginning. He tells Missile Man that he represents The Paladins and asks him to join their fight against the powers that imprisoned them. Missile Man eagerly agrees.

Notes:
  • This back-up story originally appeared in 4 parts in the following titles:
  1. Wildcats: World's End #5
  2. The Authority: World's End#5
  3. Gen 13: World's End #25
  4. Stormwatch P.H.D. #17
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