Logan's World #2 (plot , art & cover art)
Adventure, Aug 1991, b&w.
1 Logan's World #2 cover STORY: Prince wants Jess who tells them the truth. Ris, a black haired girl looked at Jess with a special hunger. Prince argues with Ris over Jess and another man tells Prince he will have to share if Lucrezia says so. He pulls a knife. Ris kisses Jess on the mouth. Logan goes through a burn chute using extreme muscular control. At the end he finds Dakk. Logan swallows a pellet given to him by Dakk, surrounded by the others. Logan was young again and leaning against a tree with Albert 6, Logan wearing slippers, a tank top, and shorts. Logan with Dakk has on a sleeveless leather vest over a dark top and dark pants with boots and belt. Logan experiences the Warden, Lilith, Ballard, Karenya naked caressing him. Logan tells her Francis is waiting. Logan sees Jess with him. Then Doyle who tells him it is alright, Jess is his sister. Logan has sex with Karenya naked and she says, "Wild me, sandfella!" But he is dressed. Box is there wanting to immortalize the moment. Logan grabbed Francis, "There's no use to any of it, is there?" Francis tells him they have the best of everything, jewels, food, women, narcotic. Whale, "Ask him for how long." Box. Holly who leads Logan to get a new face, "Everyone changes. It's the thing to do." Rutago. Doc. The auto governess, telling Logan to leave. The Watchman with no face. Logan telling it he had nowhere else to go. Harry 7 with the Ice Dagger. Logan looked down at the body. It was bathed in flames. Someone tells Logan he needs to be cleansed of his sins. Sharps, "Absolutely correct." Cubs whirling, ripping, dodging him, their shirts off or open vests revealing bare stomachs and chests. Logan sees all the faces calling to him. "Wild me." "Obey me." Box saying, "Pose for me!" Albert 6 saying, "Talk to me!" Francis, "Run from me!" "Spare me!" And more. Jaq saying, "Cure me, father!" A prime lift. It is time for Logan to die. Prince shoots the coming out boy--Jaq came out to see what was going on and his naked chest gets a hole in it from Prince's gun. He falls, in his underwear or shorts. Jess goes to him but then attacks Lucrezia who told her he should have stayed in his room. Lucrezia punches Jess in the stomach and takes her with her troupe. Dakk tells Ritter not to fire at Logan. When Dakk was a Cub in the Angeles Complex he remembers Logan coming after runner Doyle but the Cubs including Dakk killed Doyle first...cutting him to pieces. Dakk lets Logan go free. Logan killed Charming Billy in the cathedral. If Logan didn't, Charming Billy would have killed Dakk. The debt repaid, Dakk tells Logan not to come back. Logan returns and finds Jaq dead, chest charred and ripped, skin like cool wax. He yells, "No!" Logan blames himself...he should never have left them alone. He uses his sandman training and analyzes the area. A girl no older than 7 years old has a doll that she makes talk--the doll is Judee 3 and the girl, Bet, throws her voice to make it talk. They saw the beautiful people and they were lovely. Bet's lifted on C, that's why she is this way. He slaps the girl to get the info out of her. She tells Logan they took the girl--Jess. 9 males, 3 females including the leader, dressed in ancient costumes. In tank top, Logan goes home and although he swore he would never use it again, takes out his Sandman gun, "But I will find the ones who killed me son. I'll kill them all." Jonath tells Logan they call the Outlanders that took Jess the Borgia Riders. They killed 1 of their men and raped several of their women. Human life means nothing to Lucrezia. Jonath tells Logan Jessica may still be alive. Logan says, "There is no reason to hope for that." Outlanders often trade females they abduct. Jess might be traded to a rich man or a market group. Outlanders are prime suppliers to these groups. Jonath believes in telekinesis, telepathy, brain expansion, clairvoyance, ability to summon up visions. An old man called Andar who escaped the Sandmen lives off the Western Coastline, they call him the Gifted One. He is blind but sees. He can read objects. The mind of the blind man is tapped into what he calls a cosmic energy source. One object gives him a direct link to another. The much taller Jonath puts his arm around Logan's back and onto his shoulder. Logan thinks this power is insane but he will go. Logan flies over the ragged Black Rocks, ruins of the San Fran complex. It is several frustrating days later. Dia, a long black haired girl saw Logan coming. She, too, is blind, without pupils. The old man helps whoever comes to him. Logan lands near the house, it built out of bridge parts. Logan knew that Andar has two daughters. Andar's entire body surface has been affected by atomic fallout. His skin is radioactive and he remains isolated to avoid contaminating others. Logan sits on a body cushion. Dia's sister is Liath and she is still on the shore. Both are blind since birth but see with an inner eye. Logan gives him Jess's clasp from her tunic. The old man reads vibrations. The girls can send and read thoughts but the old man cannot. She tells Logan he is a parotelepath, mentally conversant with one who is gifted. Steinbeck Cape in the Florida Keys. Logan can find them now.