Ripper #1 Aircel Comics, Nov 1989, b&w.
1 Ripper #1 cover Blond Aaaron says goodbye to his blond girlfriend, aerobics instructorCathy. Aaron gives change to a homeless man, one of many watching them. Agang of black kids or teens see Cathy. Lead by Pack and Griff they cornerher. The news reports this as another wolfgang pack of gangbangers on awilding. Aaaron finds out from watching TV (newsreporter Rod passes it to manon the street Bill). Kathy was raped, beaten to death, and left lying in apool of blood. Aaron cries onto her photo. Aaron, in the morning, goeslooking for weapons, telling the store owner maybe he is a hunter. The ownercan no longer sell the AK47. Aaron asks for knives. The man tells him he hasbutterfly, angle, switchblades, bayonets, hunting--Aaron just wants to seethe bastards' eyes when he kills them. Mr. Willard calls Griff and tells himif he calls attention to himself again, he is history. Willard doesn't wantattention brought to the operation. Willard has a blond and a brunette inbikinis. Night: a figure in overcoat and brim hat chokes a black addict,asking for his dealer. McHatterly reports to his chief, telling him some bigguy is roughing up the homeless, asking questions, looking for the drugpushers. Washingtom Square Park: someone chokes a black drug dealer who istrying to sell crack or speed. Aaron takes out a knife. East Harlem: Profwarns Griff not to go after a woman that has passed by. Griff, Prof, and overfour others take her up to a roof. Fat cop Larry is picking his nose andfatter Hank wonders if they heard a noise. Larry doesn't care--he wants to goget donuts. Dancing naked in a bus terminal got them assigned to this beat (areal life incident by the way). The cops go eat. In leather mask, leathertunic, shoulder pads, gloves, and boots, Aaron, the Ripper appears on theroof. Ripper drives a knife into the stomach of one black boy (who wears hisbaseball hat backwards) and rips it up and out his chest. The boy'sintestines hang out as he keels over. Griff tells Ripper the girl they killedwas asking for it...dressed like a hooker. Ripper says, "She would have beenmy wife. I'm wilding tonight." Griff sicks the bros on him with theirblades. Ripper cuts one from under the nose to the ear, almost cutting thetop part of his face off. He also stabs another under the chin and up out thehead top. One stabs Ripper under his arm in the side. Ripper kraks his elbowinto the black guy's face, an eye popping. Razz, Chevy, and Badazz are dead,"done" by Ripper. One takes out a gun and shoots bullets into him. Anotheryells, "Yeah! Yeah! Pump the dick." The gunner stands over Ripper ready toshoot him dead but Ripper, his grip on his knife, chuks across the killer'sankles, cutting them from the legs! The one with the sore eye and Griff runbut the one with the sore eye has a knife thrown into the back of his headand out his nostril and upper lip area. The body falls off the building.Griff seems to jump. The girl takes Ripper back to her place. He tells her ifhe dies, that is it--he's had his revenge but if he lives, it has just begun.Reverend Slapton, a big black man, fat, with a small moustache and lots ofhair, goes to the Chief, telling him, "They's a vigilante loose in dastreets, chief. He's killin' inncent boys." The Chief tries to tell him theyare investigating but as a leader in "dis" community he represents voters.Chief asks him not to stir up trouble but he will take it all the way.Willard wants the vigilante's ass. Aaron dreams of black men and teenshaunting him, wanting to get him, wanting his white ass. He shouts, sittingup, "No!" A black boy, little, is there, calling his sis to them. She putstitches in him. In Bed Stive, the Doc is used to treating bullet wounds.Aaron saw the world like monster, those kids that killed his girl weremonsters. He lays back, telling the pair of them that this is far from over.