I've been eager to get back into the Now Comics series from 1989 so we'll do that now, but we're going to split the issue into two posts for a couple of reasons which we'll get into later.
The story begins in early November of that year. The Reid Country Estate looks like it's taken substantial fire damage. A masked man enters the house and begins looking through personal documents belonging to Britt Reid.
Speaking of Hayashi Kato...
Britt makes an appearance and introductions and evening plans are hatched. For Britt and Kato, that means an after-supper excursion in the Black Beauty.
The Hornet boldly interrupts a money-for-guns exchange between a balding fat ass named Wilson and a clown in a sleeveless shirt who is referred to a Captain Larsen.
Larsen makes reference to the guns being delivered "as promised" to someone named Garrick, who would then be this Wilson's employer. I have to assume that name will appear in future issues.
That's the cue to throw down. Larsen gets the gas gun treatment from GH and Kato makes short work of the goons.
As the various thugs scramble to run out of the barn in which the meeting takes place, the Hornet produces a remote control device with which he ensures that the Beauty gets in on the action.
The police will be called in to pick up the various ruffians, and that ends the night's festivities. But on the way home, Britt is feeling nostalgic. He reminisces about their start in 1968 and...that's where we'll veer off.
From here on in, it might as well be a whole other issue. The artist changes, as do the focus and setting. It'll get its own little spotlight a little bit down the road.
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