West Coast Avengers 31 The Friday Night Frights!
Published: April 10th,
1988
Writer: Steve
Englehart Penciler: Al Milgrom
Cover Artist: Al
Milgrom
The Texas Twister is mad with grief over the loss of his
girlfriend Vicki "Shooting" Starr, who turned out to be a demon a
while back. And he's teamed up with the Phantom Rider, who seems to be
possessed by the spirit of his ancestor, the Night Rider that Mockingbird
dropped off a cliff after he raped her. Together, they try to summon a denizen
from the spirit world to help them, and it turns out to be Arkon.
Back at the West Coast Avengers compound, Iron Man picks a
fight with Moon Knight for making out with Tigra in front of him. Hawkeye asks
what that's really about, and Iron Man refuses to open up, but asks Hawkeye to
continue to trust him. This is spillover from the Armor Wars storyline in Iron
Man, and it continues when Henry Pym comes running with news that the East Coast
Avengers are on the line. It turns out that they just found out that Iron Man
recently got into a fight with (the former) Captain America.
Before they can
follow up on that, though, they are attacked by Arkon, who is mad that Wonder
Man appeared in a movie featuring him. Arkon has a nuclear device that he says
he'll detonate if the other Avengers interfere in his grudge match. While the
rest of the Avengers are enjoying the fight...
...Mockingbird is lured away by Phantom Rider, and they get
into their own fight.
Wonder Man eventually convinces Arkon that he'll convince
the movie studios to stop making Arkon movies, and Mockingbird gets defeated by
the Phantom Rider, but he opts to not kill her yet, and instead leaves her
dangling off a cliff. She's able to rescue herself.
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