Logan's World #4 (plot , art & cover art)
Adventure, Nov 1991, b&w.
1 Logan's World #4 cover STORY: Logan chases Brandith 2 on a ledge a building, a former glass dancer. Logan had his gun set on Ripper which must be shot at close range unlike the Homer. She kicks Logan and is about to kill him by tossing him off the ledge. But Logan slashes up the heel of his left hand at her neck, crushing her windpipe and she fell, gasping blood. Logan felt like a failure--he failed to Homer a quarry and he lost his gun to a mere runner. Egypt was a bore. Logan was 8 and took a Robocamel to the Pyramids with his best friend Evans 9. They had been to Japan earlier that morning but Kyoto was dull with restored temples and fat dieties. Evans tells Logan they should put up new temples and pyramids, "Old things aren't worth saving." Logan agrees, "Old things are ugly." That night they took the maze car to Uganda. Logan was sleeping with a girl of blond hair who wanted to pair bond with him until the bond goes bad and then she'll leave. When she finds out he is a sandman she shuts up. A Sandman cannot function effectively if he is pair bonded, no emotional ties. The robot doctor asks Logan to show her his hand when Logan is 6 and in black tights only. He is afraid to leave the nursery, he loves his talk puppet---the world is so big and he is so little. He tells this to the Robot Doc. The Robot Doc wants Logan to take a candee to make him feel good. They make him feel sleepy so he doesn't want to take one. The robot yells at him and must report it to the Auto Governess when he won't take one. He says, "I don't care!" The Auto Governess punishes him and after it, he is to be given candee. Lacy asks Stile, the guard, how long Logan has been under. Two days. Minor convulsions, slightly irregular heartbeat. Francis teaches Logan to fight in the Angeles Complex , Logan admits Francis is better. In the needle shower, Logan noticed Francis has hundreds of scars. Francis tells Logan he doesn't party when Logan tells him there is a lift party at Stanhope's. Logan is in a skin tight gray outfit, off duty. Francis tells him a Sandman is never off duty..they can be called as backup. Logan tells Francis he is not quite human. He gives up trying to have a good time with Francis. Logan wonders what he does in his free time. Logan is with another and takes a hoverstick to get a dangerous runner who has stolen a fuser. The other Sandman, a dark haired youth, leaves to get back up. Missouri River: just past Jefferson: Logan flies and nitros the paravane. Logan and Jess are waiting on the Dark Side where their rocket was being readied for the jump to Argos. Jess thinks about living to 30, 45, even 50. Logan wants a son and they plan to have one who will have his own children and they will be...Logan asks her what they call them. Grandparents. Grandma and Grandpa. Logan cannot believe this is all real. Jess wishes Ballard came with them. Jaq is 5--they gave him a special party with only spaceborn children. The kids could never hear enough about Earth. Logan tells a girl that the Sandman were really bad but they were taught to be and that some of them were able to change. The girl asks Logan if he was bad. He tells her for a little while. Jaq hugs him, "NO! Logan was never bad!" Another boy asks, "Can we play now?" Logan is in a very deep sleep. Lacy wonders what his gun will pay for on the Black Market. Stile tells her he will never trade it. She tells him they will have to kill him. Logan has tetrahyde piped into his lungs...ten minutes of life. Dia calls Logan telepathically and tells him to come out of it. Logan has memories jambled all together, "And Jessica was, "Mother loves you," said Ballard, Who was Francis, Who was Jaq only, five but he, kissed her deeply knowing they were never going to." Dia's calls get Logan out. He uses the gun to nitro blast his way out. Dia is in the street below the giant. Logan tears Stile, the ex-Sandman, apart with a Ripper charge. Logan runs past Lacy who yells, "Stop him!" Logan kicks one, punches another, and shoots another dead. Another surprised Logan but missed. Logan shoots him dead. Jonath told Dia where to find him and the man with Dia volunteered his paravane. Logan is very grateful. The man shakes hands with Logan, "Will you be coming back? Jonath misses you." Logan tells him Dia and he will be going west. Dia wants to take Logan home and her passion radiated from her mind with each thought. Logan wonders if he can ever give Dia more than gratitude. He still wants Jessica and Jaq. Liath was waiting on the shore. The Pacific Ocean nearby the cliffs. When Logan thinks about how they can navigate the cliffs, being blind, they answer him. He smiles, "You steal my thoughts!" They go to a coral castle. A press of a section of coral and a fire lights up in the center of the floor. The girls love Logan and are lonely. One of them is almost always with their father. They alternate. They tell Logan they love him. Logan finds joy again with the two girls, takes baths with them, naked. Dia wants Logan to see with his inner eye but he has to remove a barrier to it. She tells him to gaze upon the heat shield in the castle. Logan could not sleep that night. He would not stare at the heat shield and lose his physical eyes. He wonders why. Logan trusts them and in ten seconds more at the next noon, he will make himself blind. He is about to do this when a paravane comes down, pulling Logan away from the sun shield and Logan looks up. Jonath returns and tells him Jessica is alive. Evans 9, an ex-Sandman told Jonath that Jessica is alive. He also told Jonath that he became a runner because of Logan. Evans couldn't find Ballard's people so he was hiding out when they penetrated the Sanctuary Line at Steinbeck. Later he teamed up with a man named Gant. After the Thinker died, Evans 9 just gravitated back to the only group he knew--Sand Men. Gant is the worse of the Sandmen. He hates Logan. Gant was in charge of the Angeles Complex when Logan ran. His escape was a personal embarrassment to Gant. Logan was the only Sandman to ever reach Sanctuary. Evans left Gant's group. He wanted Jonath to know that Gant bought Jessica on the open market. The Borgia bitch lied to him, Logan tells Jonath. The girls worry for Logan--Gant will try to kill him. Logan tells them, "He can try." Logan wants to know where Jessica is from Jonath.