Friday, August 31, 2018

The Railroad Saboteurs (Nickel Comics #7)

As alleged accidents occur on the city's transportation system, Jim discovers corrosive acid on a piece of demolished truck indicating foul play. Reporting this first to his number one fan Susan, then officially to her father Sargeant Kent, Jim... and we the audience... are introduced to the owners of two of the city's main transportation companies. Grenville owns the large company, Kort the smaller. Each is panicking over the potential loss of revenue... forget loss of life... that each of these self-centered business magnates is experiencing.

First saving passengers traveling the rails through a tunnel under a river and then a rail traversing above ground, Bulletman is able to save scores of lives while racking up property damage on scale with the saboteurs. It is revealed that Kort was the man behind the scenes manipulating these attacks, in order the cause Grenville's company stock to fall allowing him to buy controlling interest in it. *Yawn*

Bullet Buddies: Jim is in serious need of some male friendships, and this evidently won't come from his police station compatriots. Don't worry Bullet, your buddies are coming here shortly.

Rocketing Romance:  When Barr asks Sergeant and Susan if after seeing Bulletman they've learned who he is, Sarge says "No- I never saw anybody who even looked like him" while Susan replies "Nobody could. He's wonderful!". 

Bedeviling Bulletman: Kort falls into a disturbing trend of fairly obvious criminals masquerading as law-abiding paragons of industry.

Powerful Projectile:  Toppling over a massive clifftop in order to divert the flow of a river, and tearing tracks from their foundation and supporting it while a carriage rolls over it, is impressive.

Fawcett Facts: Wondering if in the Fawcett Universe, vision coverage is carried on insurance plans.

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