Death's Head: The Body In Question GN

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DEATH'S HEAD: THE BODY IN QUESTION GN
by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior

FLASHBACK-IN-FLASHBACK: (45:3-46:3)
Lupex, (unknown figures, all bodyjacked by Lupex), Death's Head

Lupex, ruler of Styrakos, indulges his need to hunt over and over, taking over the bodies of his victims to sort his habit of burning his body out. To solve the last part, he builds a metal body that would be more durable.

FLASHBACK-IN-FLASHBACK: (46:6)
Lupex, Pyra

Lupex and Pyra ****.

FLASHBACK: (57:4-57:5)
Pyra, vukils, Klu

Pyra communes with Lupex's pets while he's away, and ****s Klu.

FLASHBACK-IN-FLASHBACK: (47:2)
Lupex in Klu's body, Pyra

Lupex raises his mask to reveal that he's now using Klu's body.

FLASHBACK: (58:2)
Lupex in Klu's body, Pyra

Lupex holds his mask high over what was once Klu's head.

FLASHBACK: (58:4-58:5) - creation of DH
Death's Head, Pyra

Pyra installs a mind into Lupex's metal body,...

FLASHBACK: (33:3) - creation of DH
Death's Head, Pyra

...and as she talks, Death's Head comes alive.


Book 1: Hunters
---------------

(1-3): Styrakos
"Lupex, Ty Rejutka", (unknown figure, gets bodyjacked)

Lupex hunts, someone else loses.

(4-15:1:1): NYC Oct 2nd 2020 [same universe as Iron Man 2020]
Death's Head, Rabid Rogan/Elo Rogan, Acid Alice/, (unknown cop)

MUCH later than the flashbacks, Death's Head hunts down the murderer "Rabid Rogan". He tries to flee to his former accomplice, but DH mistakes this for an attempt at hostage taking and kills him. "Acid Alice", before being arrested, damns him for hunting Rogan for fun and sport, a thought which disturbs him since it had occurred to him during the hunt.

[NOTE: References fight with IM 2020, so this must occur after the main part of DH 10. Footnote says takes place before FF ???.]

(15:1:2-23)+monitor shots in (24:1) & (24:2): Los Angeles resettlement 8162 [Dragon Claws universe]
Spratt, vulture, Pyra, Big Shot

Spratt waits for Pyra, who is none too happy he came without Death's Head and has him bound by shadow-creatures and reads his mind. As she gives up, realising he doesn't know, Big Shot intervenes. As Spratt tries to escape, she overhears him think DH may have run away through time, and realises she got the "where" but not the "when". She opens a portal to give BS the chance to kill DH and DH's ship - piloted by Spratt, with Big Shot clinging to the outside - goes straight through it.

Book 2: Mirror, Mirror
----------------------

(24): Styrakos
Lupex. On monitor: Pyra, Big Shot, Spratt-BTS, vulture-BTS and Death's Head

Lupex has been watching the 8162 events, and as the ship heads through the portal, changes channel to 2020, where Death's Head is walking through an alley and the other side of the portal is opening...

(25-35): NYC 2020
Death's Head, Big Shot, Spratt, vulture, (cops), Pyra, Lupex watching on monitor,

Death's Head is shocked and appalled that Spratt has appeared. Oh, and that a rabid maniac is obsessive enough to bother with revenge on him. BS saying they all enjoy their work stuns him for a moment, and the tables turn, with BS crushing his brain though his eyes and triggering a flashback to his first moments, before Pyra intervenes to save him. Lupex and Big Shot wonder why, and she stalls before claiming it's because she wants to kill "the Ty Rujutka Lupex", when he's teleported out. She affects horror at his escape, then smiles.

(36): Styrakos
Death's Head, Lupex

Death's Head appears in front of "Dad?"

Book 3: Hunted!
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FLASHBACK: (44:6-48): Styrakos
Death's Head, Lupex, On monitor: Pyra

Lupex fills "Body" in on their history before "the Hunt" begins, but an attempted sneak attack from DH puts an end to this, before Death's Head finds that "magik" and "techno" switch randomly on Styrakos, and he's pretty helpless in magik zones. He flees while Lupex laughs.

(37-44:5): Styrakos
Death's Head, Lupex

DH is in serious trouble, and barely manages to escape Lupex by burying himself briefly as the zones switch. Lupex's current body is now degrading, and he realises that he should have got a new one, but enjoys the risk too much. He switches to techno weaponry and goes off in the wrong direction, while DH thinks back to what he said earlier.

(49-56:5): Styrakos
Death's Head, Lupex

Lupex comes back and zaps DH as the latter's beginning to regroup. DH moves, taking a risk by going into a majik zone, but judges the zone shift just in time, as Lupex is about to take his body and stabs him. As Lupex backs off, DH is about to leave him to suffer, but thinks better of it - deciding it would make him too much like Lupex. He declares he kills only for profit or survival as he beheads Lupex with his spike.

(56:6-59): NYC 2020
Death's Head, Pyra, Spratt, vulture, Big Shot

Pyra teleports him back, where Spratt and the vulture are hypnotised. She admits she knew he wasn't Lupex all along, and had programmed him - with the idea that he would refuse to be taken over, and kill Lupex to give her revenge for Klu - with his "business-like" attitude, but doesn't know who stole him before that could happen (DH doesn't want to know any more). She hunted him down to finish the deal, and promises to leave him be now as she walks away.

*=edit
**=delete
***=add


LUPEX
**(delete all pre-existing)
***DH:TBIQ (45:3 - 46:3)-FB-FB
***DH:TBIQ (46:6)-FB-FB
***DH:TBIQ (47:2)-FB-FB
***DH:TBIQ (58:2)-FB
***DH:TBIQ (1 - 36)
***DH:TBIQ (44:6 - 48)-FB
***DH:TBIQ (37 - 59)

PYRA
**(delete all STRIP issues)
***DH:TBIQ (46:6)-FB-FB
***DH:TBIQ (57:4 - 57:5)-FB
***DH:TBIQ (47:2)-FB-FB
***DH:TBIQ (58:2)-FB
***DH:TBIQ (58:4 - 58:5)-FB
***DH:TBIQ (33:3)-FB
{DH 7}
DH 9
***DH:TBIQ (1 - 36)
***DH:TBIQ (44:6 - 48)-FB
***DH:TBIQ (37 - 59)

DEATH'S HEAD
**(delete all STRIP issues)
***DH:TBIQ (45:3 - 46:3)-FB-FB
***DH:TBIQ (58:4 - 58:5)-FB
***DH:TBIQ (33:3)-FB
DH 1-FB
[...]
DH 9
DH 10 (1 - 20)
***DH:TBIQ (1 - 24)
*DH 10 (21:1)
***DH:TBIQ (25)
DH 10 (21:2)
***DH:TBIQ (26:1 - 26:4)
DH 10 (21:3 - 21:4)
***DH:TBIQ (26:5 - 36)
***DH:TBIQ (44:6 - 48)-FB
***DH:TBIQ (37 - 59)
[...]

***SPRATT
[...]
***DH:TBIQ (1 - 24)
***DH 10 (21:1)-BTS
***DH:TBIQ (25)
***DH 10 (21:2)-BTS
***DH:TBIQ (26:1 - 26:4)
***DH 10 (21:3 - 59)

***BIG SHOT
***DH:TBIQ (1 - 24)
***DH 10 (21:1)-OP
***DH:TBIQ (25)
***DH 10 (21:2)-OP
***DH:TBIQ (26:1 - 26:6)
***DH 10 (22)
***DH:TBIQ (27 - 59)

KLU
**STRIP 20-FB
***DH:TBIQ (57:4 - 57:5)-FB
***DH:TBIQ (47:2)-FB-FB
***DH:TBIQ (58:2)-FB

***RABID ROGAN/ELO ROGAN | 2020-VERSE
***DH:TBIQ

***ACID ALICE | 2020-VERSE
***DH:TBIQ

[Col_Fury]

Awesome, thanks Somebody!

Just so people know, we're deleting STRIP from the MCP. Currently, only Death's Head characters are listed for STRIP, because the story in this GN was serialized in STRIP (all other serials in STRIP were straight reprints). However, the first issue of STRIP to have DH:BIQ was published weeks before the GN was released, then every other issue of STRIP was published after the GN was released. We're going to treat STRIP 13 as a preview of the GN, and then STRIP 14-20 as reprints.