Logan's World #3 (plot , art & cover art)
Adventure, Sep 1991, b&w.
1 Logan's World #3 cover STORY: Logan approaches rusting rocket gantries, deserted bunkers, raw concrete blockhouses, the Cape. Lifeships lay charred, hulls rusting from nitro blasts. Logan saw the glint of the Outlanders jetcycs. Rocket Pequiod--Logan kraks a half drunk guard's neck from behind, hoping this one didn't kill Jaq, this was too fast. Logan grabs another around the neck as the big man walks down the hall, "Talk to me or I will kill you." Logan kicks the man's back and kills him as the man tries to get away, "You should have talked to me...although I would have killed you anyway." Logan has two burn weapons (fusers) now. Logan goes into the room and asks which leads. Prince comes forward, "I am Prince. I lead." Logan shoots him down and the Prince that hits the floor has a charred skeletal face. Another male says Jess wanted to go with them, begged them to take her along with...Logan blasts this male's chest and back out. "Someone else talk but only tell me the truth." Ris tells him. She tells him Prince killed the boy. A male blasts Logan's shoulder and two other males raise their weapons. Logan kills them all. Logan bit hard into the round of muscle below the thumb to find a new pain center to counteract the agony in his shoulder. Lucrezia drops her dagger and tells Logan the others were a stupid lot. She will not tell him where Jessica is unless he promises to let her leave the ship alive. She knows Logan is a man of honor and won't kill her anyway. He tells her he will let her live and then says, "Your Jessica is dead." Lucrezia tells him that Prince killed her and burned the body...Jess was troublemaker and stubborn. Lucrezia tells him she tried to save her but couldn't. Logan says, "Die, you inhuman bitch!" He blasts her into a skeleton. Logan returns to the struggling colony. He withdrew into himself. Logan asks Jonath for the drugs--it is the only way he can ever see Jessica again but the dosage will draw him completely into the past. He will be a prisoner of his own mind. Logan needs R-11 compound. Logan will get it at Market. Without Jess and Jaq, Logan is dead already, he feels. Jonath tells Logan he'd rather not see him do this. He also will deal with anyone to help the people of this camp--they are his responsibility. Jonath will help Logan because he realizes there is no stopping him. Logan is glad he realizes that. Carolinas: summer heat, humid. Even worse when the cooling machines died. Rawls 7, a long haired man had a malfunctioning slideway cut off his legs. Once his sexual exploits had been the envy of all the males in the glasshouse. He can still feel both his legs. Logan asks him where to find the quantum of R-11. Rawls 7 tells him NY. He bangs on a drawer and gives him the name from it of a contact in NY. Logan gives him jewels, Skin Jewels---change color with your mood. Logan leaves. Green Giant is larger than the World Trade Center, dwarfing it in fact. It was to accommodate 300 million. Logan meets the guardsman and notices his eyes were pitiless: Sandman's eyes. Logan can leave the paravane here but cannot take weapons inside. He needs to see Lacy 14, an Oriental. She insists he drink a fruitwine from Spain. Logan has a stack of mooncoins to give her but she wants her to come first. She touches a clasp and three bald women come out, "They are for you, Logan. And you are for them." Later, Logan has his leather jacket open, no shirt beneath. Logan wonders if it what Lacy wanted was to watch him enjoy himself with the females---to watch him pleasuring them so she could pleasure herself--why won't she give him the quantum. Logan needs Jonath to administer the R-11 and he needs his ship to get back to his camp. She tells him he could stay with her, she can administer the R11 which could kill him. Logan takes his belongings out of the paravane--now Lacy owns it. Logan insists with the guard that the gun go with him. The guard makes an exception and lets Logan take it in. Logan tells the guard he can have the fusers if he wants them. Logan will have water injected into his system. He doesn't want to be observed. A normal dosage of quantum is almost microscopic. Usually as much as Logan is taking is taken in several stages. She never saw anyone take a pearl. Logan does--the re live parlors died with the cities. Lacy tells him, "Good luck." She tells him to take it on his tongue--let it dissolve directly into the tissue. It is effective immediately after ingestion.