Captain Marvel #3 Mar 2000
"One Down, Wendigo"
This issue continues from
issue #2, with
Marlo panicking
and talking to the camera of her mockumentary,
where she finds the other girl, Lorraine, dead.
Meanwhile, Wendigo is grabbing
Rick Jones, as Genis tells him
to slam the nega-bands together to release him,
but he can’t because Wendigo has a hold on him.
The Hulk then orders him to put Rick down,
but Rick tells him that Wendigo will not be able to understand him.
Wendigo then surprises him by explaining that he has manipulated
the curse so that he can both be a monster and think and talk rationally.
At that moment, a blast comes from the nega-bands, knocking Wendigo down and releasing Rick.
Genis explains to Rick that his body cannot handle the discharge or funneling of the nega-energy through the bands,
but that he
Genis was still able to generate enough energy from where he was to release Rick.
Rick then slams his nega-bands together, bringing forth Captain Marvel, as Hulk attacks Wendigo.
Marlo then comes up to Captain Marvel, thankful to see him.
Captain Marvel welcomes her and even gets a little flirtatious, which does not please Rick.
Meanwhile, Moondragon is in Rick’s apartment waiting for him, when Drax comes to earth looking for her.
He finds her and flies though a wall of the apartment.
There, Drax asks Moondragon why she left Titan, and she explains because Genis needs help.
He then reminds her that he’s her father and she promised to help him get smarter.
Back in Canada, Hulk and Wendigo continue their fight under water,
when Captain Marvel comes down and hits Wendigo, while grabbing Hulk up to the surface.
Elsewhere, in another part of Canada, two hikers find a man with no clothes.
They ask if he’s okay, and he says he’s never been healthier because the Wendigo is gone.
Back to our battle, Wendigo comes up and sees Marlo.
She immediately recognizes him as Larry, from last issue, when he speaks.
He explains that he studied the curse for years and that he found a way to tap into the
power of the Wendigo while being able to control himself as the Wendigo at the same time.
After a few words exchanged, Hulk grabs Wendigo and tosses him across the woods.
Captain Marvel, though, then sees Wendigo grab Marlo and devour her.
Seeing that its just his Cosmic Awareness, he tells Hulk to wait, but Hulk
charges forward anyway, until he stumbles on to the body of Lorraine.
He has sympathy for her, which causes him to change into Bruce Banner.
Right at that time, Wendigo charges at him.
Captain Marvel, though, hits him,
but when Wendigo climbs back up he grabs Marlo.
Just as Wendigo is about to eat her, Captain Marvel asks him if he would like the power of his Nega-Bands.
Hulk then comes stomping down between the two, but Captain Marvel asks him not to do anything.
Wendigo then proposes a trade: Marlo for the nega-bands.
But before they can, Marlo grabs an object earing of some sort off his ear and tosses it into the water.
The water causes Wendigo to transform back into Larry, but with no conscience.
Instead, his conscience goes inside the fish which devoured the earring.
Back in another region of Canada, the man the hikers found turns back into the Wendigo monster.
Script by Peter David.
Pencils by Chris Cross.
Inks by Anibal Rodriguez