Well, more of this. At least there’s only one more. Tombstone’s heart attacks weirdly stopped being a plot point for half of last issue, we’ll see if they come back. Now we’re at Johnny Ohnn’s parole hearing, and he’s talking about how he betrayed Tombstone and told guards about his plan to kill Kangaroo as part of proving he’s ready to be released. Man. Johnny Ohnn, The Spot. Remember when I first put that together? I thought I was losing my mind.
Still having fun.
Still being racist.
Oh, cool, now we’re making fun of gay people, too, this is a great work of literature. Meanwhile, Tombstone is perhaps dead, since they weren’t giving him his medicine, and is rushed to medical, where it’s decided he has to be shipped back to the mainland for surgery as soon as possible, and may already be in a vegetative state. Then the other members of Tombstone’s gang are brought in all beaten unconscious, to the glee of the guards.
The one guard and Kangaroo talking about getting Tombstone killed before he can be transferred, blah blah blah. This comic sucks and I’m tired of it. Meanwhile, Tombstone’s pet guard arranges for Kangaroo to get setup, tricking him into getting stuck in an air duct and then going to see the homophobic cartoons from earlier. Then he pretends to have diarrhea, or maybe really does, who cares, so Kangaroo’s pet guard can be put with Tombstone.
Jesus Horatio Christ, this comic is a hate crime. Tombstone and his tormentor are loaded into a hummer, which then gets on a boat. Wasn’t he brought in by chopper? Why a boat?
The Spot and I are both put out of our misery. The Spot next appears 3 years later in Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr’s Wolverine run, where no one explains how he’s alive and then he’s immediately killed a second time. He then appears in a filler tie-in to the Civil War event in 2007, alive and unexplained, and is then just alive from then on. That’s comics in the 21st Century. Pretty pathetic, really.