Resurrection Man
Resurrection Man (German for "Resurrection Man") is the title of two comic series published by the US publisher DC Comics .
The Resurrection Man series combine elements of horror - and elements of mystery comics. The makers of both series were the authors Andy Lanning and Dan Abnett as well as various illustrators, such as Jackson Guice .
Plot and main character
Resurrection Man's title character is Mitchell "Mitch" Shelley, a lawyer from the small town of Viceroy in South Carolina. In the course of the series - the in medias res start and the past of the main character gradually rolled up in the form of flashbacks - one learns how Shelley differing only from an obscure organization the Lab calls was kidnapped and countless microscopic, as tektites designated Robots implanted in his body: These give Shelley a bizarre gift: He is now immortal - but can be killed. In practice, every time he is killed, he is by the Tektitesis brought back to life within seconds using their futuristic technology by repairing the physical damage that he has suffered, "patching up" his body from the inside and reanimating it. Furthermore, after each return to life, he receives a new superpower that is in some way related to the nature of his last death. Shelley cannot age either, as the tektites regulate / manipulate his metabolism in such a way that his organism stays young forever.
After Shelley the Lab escaped, he initially suffered from amnesia, which further complicates his already confusing new life situation: He not only has to try to make out the meaning of his peculiar existence, but he must first even identify the past he already has has "find again" behind him. Accordingly, the first editions of the series are about how Shelley - who wanders through the United States as an aimless wanderer - gradually remembers his past, his abduction, the experiment of the Lab and the circumstances of his escape. After completing this first theme in the series, Shelley begins in the later editions of Resurrection Man to search for his destiny and to discover the deeper, real reasons for his transformation, behind which actually lie "higher forces", their powers takes place in metaphysical dimensions.
In the course of the series, Shelley also gets to do with the Body Doubles , two well-proportioned and violent young women who seek his life on behalf of the Lab and kill him on various occasions - to no avail - before finally falling on the immortal Stone Age man Vandal meets Savage, his eternal adversary, with whom he shares a thousand-year-old feud, the origins of which could not be fully clarified before the series was discontinued.
In the course of the series, Shelley also meets various other characters from the repertoire of the DC publishing house, which owns the rights to Resurrection Man, such as the seemingly omniscient Phantom Stranger , the professional killer Tommy Monaghan (Hitman) and the superheroes Batman , Superman and Wonder Woman .
Emergence
The idea for Resurrection Man came to Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning while working for Marvel Comics . They toyed with the idea of reintroducing the Great Lakes Avengers group , to which the character Mister Immortal belongs, whose ability it is not to be able to die. From this they developed the concept of a character who receives a new superpower after each death and subsequent resurrection.
Publications
The first Resurrection-Man edition appeared in May 1997. By August 1999, a total of 27 regular editions and a special 1,000,000 edition had appeared.
From November 2011 to November 2012, another Resurrection Man series appeared , which comprised a total of 13 issues. The authors were again Abnett and Lanning, this time the illustrators included u. a. Fernando Dagnino and Javier Pina.
One issue of each series was also published in German. The 1,000,000 edition of the first series belonging to the Crossover One Million appeared in the sixth edition of the JLA Special series by Dino Verlag . The anthology Suicide Squad : Until the Last Bullet , published in 2016 by Panini Comics , contains u. a. # 9 of the second Resurrection Man series.
Individual evidence
- ^ Abnett & Lanning Revive "Resurrection Man" Comic Book Resources. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ^ GCD :: Issue :: Resurrection Man # 1 [1st Print ] Grand Comics Database. Retrieved August 8, 2016
- ^ GCD :: Series :: Resurrection Man Grand Comics Database. Retrieved August 8, 2016
- ^ GCD :: Series :: Resurrection Man Grand Comics Database. Retrieved August 8, 2016
- ↑ Comic Guide: JLA Special comicguide.de. Retrieved August 10, 2016
- ↑ SUICIDE SQUAD: UP TO THE LAST BALL SOFTCOVER paninishop.de. Retrieved August 10, 2016