Wolverine is one of the best characters ever created in fiction. I blew it by not coming up with the idea first.
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| #1 | | June, 1992 |
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| Scott Lobdell |
Michael Bair |
Bruce Patterson |
First Flight Police Detective Sean Benard finds himself in an unpleasant position. He is charged with murder for shooting his corrupted colleagues, who tried to kill him.
Benard is blackmailed into joining Department H, in return he is pardoned by the Prime Minister. A secluded location in the wilderness is his new home,
which is actually the training ground for the Flight Program. The other subjects are Smart Alec, who claims to be the smartest man alive, the half-goddess
Snowbird, Saint Elmo, the Keeper of the Northern Light and of course Wolverine. In the following weeks scientists James MacDonald Hudson and Walter
Langkowski introduce Benard to the terra-forming exoskeleton that Mac designed, which earns it’s wearer the name Groundhog. Excessive training starts,
but it’s clear that The Flight members have much to learn. Eavesdropping on Hudson and Logan, Benard learns of another possible member of the Flight.
Benard investigates this, and meets Stitch, who is ego-phobic and scared of her powers, however she seems to be less withdrawn around Benard. When
Egghead and his henchmen Swordsman, Power Man, Solarr, Rhino, Eel and Porcupine threaten to bombard New York City with a nuclear missile, the Flight
is called in action for the first time. While Smart Alec is supposed to disarm the device, the others engage in physical combat with Eggheads henchmen, and
eventually take out all of the them. Only Egghead slips away in the confusion, and while Smart Alec manages to stop the missile from launching, he fails to
override Egghead‘s activation the detonation sequence. Groundhog begins building an underground shelter, while Wolverine threatens Egghead to kill him, until
Snowbird calms him down. Just as the bomb is about to detonate, the Flight are astonished to see Saint Elmo absorbing the energies of the bomb, sacrificing
his life for the sake of the team and all of Canada. Two days later, Groundhog quits the Flight, telling Hudson that if he wants someone to wear his suit, he
should wear it himself. |
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