| Heroes Comic: War Buddies Part 7 - Coming Home |
| Tuesday, 19 February 2008 | |
 This week's issue of the Heroes Graphic Novel is like a plastic peg leg: cheap and tacked on, but useful nonetheless. If the title isn't a dead giveaway, this is the 7th part of a story arc (long since over) in which Noah Bennett contacts Hana Gittleman and tasks her with a mission to retrieve a very important file from the Company. In the file is the account of two soldiers in Vietnam (who turn out to be Arthur Petrelli and Daniel Linderman) on a covert mission to destroy an enemy asset. In their first meeting, Petrelli is injured in battle and Linderman heals him. Later, Linderman discovers their their true target isn't an enemy base, but a young Vietnamese girl with the amazing ability to instantly grow food from the soil. Linderman tries to save her, but in the ensuing battle she is shot and killed. Upon returning from the mission, Petrelli reports the truth about the incident and is silently drummed out of the Army as a crackpot. Years later, Linderman tracks him down and offers him a chance to join a very special group, one with the goal of tracking and helping people with special abilities: The Company. This week, we find out that there's more to the story than we thought.  Bambi's Mom... Nooooo! Upon returning home from Vietnam, Linderman tries to escape his past and disappear, and very nearly succeeds. Taking refuge in a small town gas station as an attendant and driver, Linderman lies low and keeps to himself until a beautiful stranger named Linda arrives and invites him to join her at her campsite. Then, before you can say "come and get one in the yarbles (if you have any yarbles)", he's met her at their rendezvous, spouted some standard "woe is me, war is hell" wartime hardship B.S. and taken her back to her tent for the old in-out, in-out. Waking up in the morning (presumably after some eggiweggs), Linderman and Linda take a stroll through the woods, and happen upon an injured deer on the path. Linderman, tired of hiding who he is and what he can do, heals the deer with Linda watching. But rather than freaking out, Linda is surprisingly pleased.  This is why you never corner a rabid Smurf. Heartbroken, Linderman takes her journal, burns her body, and again heads on his way. We learn a final twist when Linderman examines her journal and finds the name and current address of an old friend: Arthur Petrelli. Now we know how Linderman tracked Petrelli down, but there are more mysteries to solve. Who is the "she" that Linda referred to? Who is helping her track down people with abilities? Is Arthur Petrelli in her notebook because he has a power too? Or even more sinister: is he in her notebook because it was one of the Petrelli's that sent Linda after Linderman? My money is on Angela Petrelli being the "she" in question, but why? We know that Linderman was a disciple of Adam, and Angela was willing to help Linderman, so maybe this was her way of helping her husband attain a position of power? Maybe she was looking out for her children? I get the feeling that we're bound to see a part 8, and it gives me a nice warm vibraty feeling all through my guttiwuts. You can download the PDF of this issue from the main Heroes site (www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels ) or read it online with their flash viewer HERE . Personally, I don't like either and prefer to read it in .cbr format using a freeware program called CDisplay (downloadable here ). WARNING: Downloading files is wrong and evil and illegal and makes you a terrible person. No one should ever download a file for any reason whatsoever. This website does not endorse illegal down- loading or file-sharing, P2P or otherwise. You should only download files from the original website in whatever crappy and useless format they deem worthy for the likes of you. Also, you should always pay the owners your hard-earned money, because that's how they make their living and if you don't pay them they will starve and their families will be forced into slave camps. However, if you'd still like to know where you can download this file (y'know, strictly for educational purposes), you can highlight the text in the box below . Or don't. http://rapidshare.com/files/93094302/Heroes_073__2008___heroes.nbc.com_.cbr Comments (0)
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