| Unofficial Martian Manhunter Vol. 2 Index |
MARTIAN MANHUNTER VOL. 2 #32
Cover Date: July 2001
Cover Price: $2.50
| < PREV | NEXT > |
Cover Credits:
Art: Tom Mandrake (signed)
|
|
Credits:
| Story | Tom Mandrake |
| Art | Tom Mandrake |
| Lettering | Bill Oakley |
| Colors | Carla Feeny |
| Editing | Peter J. Tomasi, Stephen Wacker |
Feature Character(s):
- Martian Manhunter (also appears as an aircraft pilot; Tomasso the cat; Josh Johnstone; Paolo; Goldie Johnston)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- The B'ool Sporath (first appearance)
Other Character(s):
- Foley (a police officer; first appearance)
Synopsis: - Diane Meade investigates some grisly murders in Denver, and calls in John Jones, as an act of friendship in a way. Several people have been sprayed with some sort of highly corrosive acid and their bones have been chewed. Jones has a horrible feeling about this, and follows a tunnel that 'something' used to burrow up to the streets in his guise as the Martian Manhunter. He comes across an ancient White Martian base and the terrible B'ool Sporath, bloodworms of Mars - ancient, almost legendary predators of his people.
- The creatures seem to be attracted to telepathic beings, hence they know where J'onn is even when he renders himself both invisible and intangible. They cannot, however, fly, so he chooses this route to return to his base and learn what he can from his ancestor crystals ('imbued with the memories of the Martian race'). He finds that the worms had been almost unstoppable until co-operation between the white and the green Martians ended their threat by blasting them onto the moon Phobos. It seems that some of the whites decided to keep the creatures alive on Earth; the creatures have obviously only just been re-awakened.
- Remembering that the bones of the human victims were not dissolved, J'onn coats himself with calcium and the other minerals that make up Earth skeletons so that he can face them directly. As they entwine themselves around him, he flies straight up, outside Earth's atmosphere and shakes them off, causing them to burn up and die on reentry. Returning to the ancient base, he discovers one more viable egg there. Deciding that he doesn't have the right to end the existence of an entire species, he will guard it (unhatched) along with the remains of the other worms, at a sacred spot beneath his home in the Gobi.