Ripper #2 Aircel, Dec 1989, b&w.
1 Ripper #2 cover Skuffy, little black brother of the girl Aaron rescued walks withAaron (who wears a head rag, leather gloves, and black leather jacket withboots) in the streets, eating a hot dog. It is a month later and Aaron isstill walkin' with a limp. Two thugs watch them. One says, "He make theTerminator look like Woody Allen." The news says police deny any chargesthat the murdered youths were involved in an illegal drug operation. Rev.Slapton, interviewed by reporter Jessica Crane, views the killings as racerelated. "Course it's a racially motivated crime. You think a black man woulddress up in tights an hide out on a rooftop? He probably some kinda queerhonkey pervert." Griff tells Willard that Chevy, Hondo, Prof, Slick, Badazz,and Razz were all killed by Ripper. Griff also tells him, "Ah was in thehospital until yesterday." Willard paid the bill and owns Griff now, hesays. Willard gets a call from the spies on the street--they have spottedAaron. When Griff asks Willard if he is gonna snuff im', Willard tells Griff,"No. YOU are." A police stakeout at Willard's place said "one of the kidsthe Ripper got visited the big guy. Nothin' else." The aide also tells hisChief, "Oh yeah...a group of gay men assaulted Rev. Slapton this morning."The Chief smiles. An old black man feeding the pigeons asks Aaron if the parkholds memories for him. Aaron walks away and the old man says to himself, "Iask too many damn questions." Griff and the two spies get Skuffy. The twocops, one smoking a cigar, hear a scream. A drug thing, they figure. They arenot TNT, if they whack a druggie, the cap "busts their balls." They go getdonuts. Aaron walks under a full moon as papers blow. Aaron goes backupstairs and finds Skuffy tied up and his mouth gagged. They burned him withcigarettes til he told them where they lived. Amber, his sister, is therealone. She stopped screaming long ago. Aaron tells Skuffy to get help andgoes up past a sleeping wino. Aaron kicks in the door, shocked with horror.Griff has his knife in the girl's chest, "Hello, Ripper. We got bored waitin'for you all. Kill him boys." Aaron jumps across the room, out the closedwindow. A bullet hits his leg. He holds onto the window sill. A crook pointsa gun out the window at him but Aaron makes the crook shoot his own hand.Aaron edges along the sill and the other two shoot at him but can't reachhim. The shot one bandages his hand. They follow. Aaron pulls off a jaggeddrain and uses it to hit the one with the headband under and up his crotch.Ripped up, the headband black falls to his death, bleeding. Aaron looksshocked. He punches the next one, open handed, poking his eyes inward. Griffshoots and this one falls with a large hole in his back and out his stomachand chest. Aaron falls also, possibly getting hit also. He lands with a thickwire under his arm and it breaks his fall. Griff laughs, "I got him! I gothim! Ha ha ha ha!!" Skuffy finds Aaron amid garbage, wheels, and trash. Hetells him, "No one would come." Skuffy helps Aaron get up and walk away.