This third issue of Tempest opens with the grand, insidious plot of Slizzath revealed:
Suddenly, a couple of beings--moving so fast they can't really be seen--swoop in, knock the undead attackers over, grab Tempest, and disappear! They carry him miles away, into a remote cave. Tempest reawakens, shocked to see who rescued him:
Garth is enraged about being lied to for so long, and gets even more mad when the subject of Aquagirl is brought up. Before the argument goes any further, a giant pillar of rock shoots out of the ground, followed by dozens more, causing massive sea quakes.
Tempest heads into the Idyllist's armory--and while its small, its all they have. Some of the Idyllists--completely against violence of any kind--refuse to join Tempest in fighting Slizzath and his army off. Tempest's response: "That's not pacifism, folks. It's cowardice."
Moments later:
On the letters page, there's a letter from future F.O.A.M. member Daria Brooks--I always love seeing connections to The Aquaman Shrine before it ever existed.
Be back in a few hours to see how Tempest wraps up!
2 comments:
Still an enjoyable series and good seeing Garth on his own, in a way.
Oh, I wrote a LOT of letters back then, Rob! Once Aquaman #1 debuted, I fired off a letter begging for Garth to be sent back to his people to demand his birthright and to discover his link to their healing powers. If I recall editor Kevin Dooley's response correctly when he printed it in issue 5, he thought it was a silly notion without merit. Luckily, wiser heads prevailed! What preceded and followed was a series of lengthy missives on the old DC/AOL boards and dear, patient Phil Jimenez, always one to appreciate a good chin-wag about favorite comics characters, waded through all of that and was happy to give feedback. How that man ever withstood the onslaught of the Tempest Troika (that would be me, Leah and Ciji), I will never know, but we three had a grand time kibitzing until we got the Garth tale we so desperately wanted. It was kind of Phil to say "thanks" to me (as well as the other two pecking hens) at the back of issue 4, but I assure everyone that the pleasure was all mine.
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