Havoc 01

⭐ Issue Number 1 - Dated 13th July, 1991 ⭐
STARMEN  ●  HOT-HEADS  ●  ICE MAIDENS  ●  CYBORGS  ●  BARBARIANS

“Today’s test is a simple one. Twelve top mercenaries versus Deathlok. He will be carrying a gun that fires harmless paint pellets. To make things interesting, the mercenaries will be carrying real weapons."

☆ Deathlok: Test Run ☆

Script: McDuffie / Wright | Art: Guice / Wright

It begins with an origin story. The angry looking cover star Deathlok is referred to as the "ultimate war machine".

Like a walking corpse with metallic limbs, it's the brain of a respected Colonel housed inside a high-tech cyborg body.

Anyone who's ever read an action comic or watched a science fiction movie before will maybe have predicted by now that something happens to make the cyborg slave's programming go awry, leading to independent thought.

With just eight pages of story for the character in the first issue, we learn very little about the cybernetics program, its creators or controllers, and even less about the man whose brain sits inside the casing, Colonel John Kelly.

But it ends on a cliff-hanger, effectively setting a hook with the kind of bait that's served anthology comics well for years before Havoc came along, and still does today.