Fight Girls #5 Review!

The challenges are over, candidate #4, Tora Winter, has defeated candidates #7, Xandra Blackwater in a fighting match.  Queen Regina Victoria Dore stepped down when she couldn’t have a child with the king.  Ten candidates and only two are standing.  The winner gets to be queen of the Gilmorean Empire!  The empire of Gilmore Girls?  Happy Gilmore’s empire?  Agent Matteo, sent by the prime minister, is killed by The Butcher and his colleague.  They warn Tora before she walks out to the match.   Now we pick up with the aftermath.  The cover has attendants in purple robes as they are about to put royal robes on the bloodied contestant, her face was hidden in previews, and no spoilers here until later.  At the medical plaza on the floating city of Califax, both women are recovering there.  

The news reports say Tora is being transferred to prepare for her crowning.  Xandra’s contact tell her that security cameras are on a loop and she has eight minuts to get to the maintanence hub.  She hears him on in her ear receiver.  She slips into a air vent.  The prime minister rages at the loss of Xandra by the security director.  He says they can track her through the tracking chip in her forearm.  Xandra pops out a switch blade and digs the chip out of her arm and smashes it with the blade.  She walks out of the restroom with a long, green coat and casual outfit.  At the north tower penthouse, Tora is taking a steam bath, when she is told about the arrival of the king.  She is readied by attendants and places a contact in her eye which she says was scratched in the fight.  Now with a purple robe, she walks into a room with guards outside.  Inside, there are medical doctors, Dr, Benson and Dr. Goodwin, to strap her into a chair!  

Closeup of her amazed eyes.  Then closeups of the king’s feet as his blue robe falls away and he levitates away, very like Baron Harkonnen in Dune.  The doctors are preparing Tora for “compatibility” with the king and his “royal girth.”  He see his bulky feet as he floats into the room, Tora can only stare, the doctors are going to seal off the room.  The king has pus-filled growths over his face, neck, and arms.  One doctor asks him if the magnetic harness is working.  A two panel has the doctors and Tora and the king, Rufus, on the other side. The doctors are sent away and the king licks Tora’s face, yuck, before reaching out with his massive hand.  At the warehouse disctrict, there is a ship waiting for Xandra, the agent with glasses, Nigel, who stares at Xandra and notes that she had almost sat on the throne.  Nigel is confronted by a security bot with cannons on each arm.  It is smashed by the Butcher that lands on it.  Xandra leaves on the ship.  Back at the king’s penthouse, Tora has Rufus wait while she delivers a message.   

Her message is an open palm that breaks the king’s nose.  She picks up the scalpel to be used on her and takes care of the doctors.  This a Total Recall (1990) moment, the Schwarzenegger version. Tora gives the king a knee to his face and then shatters his collar bones!  Don’t mess with a contestant!  So Tora doesn't actually become queen.  She gives Rufus a fatal message from Gina.  Slight mystery, but I put in the hint at the beginning.  Tora sets the king’s bulk against the door.  Guards are trying to burst in and use heavy blasters that vaporize Rufus’ upper body.  Tora has used the doctor’s pad to open all security locks.  She opens the balcony while informing her contact and leaps, this is a Frank Miller-like body silhouette with purple robes.  She lands on Xandra’s ship, they escape through a jump gate, safe and now Tora takes off her contact which she used to record the encounter.  They find that 3,000,000,000 credits appear in their account.  Tora says “Xandra” looked good with red hair.  We find an ending at the White Sands, Private Resort Planetoid and all things are revealed with the competition that really wasn’t a competition.  Fight Girls has been a series showcase for Frank Cho's art; strong, beautiful women, dinosaurs, creatures, and a bit of the old ultra violence!  

Five Drones out of Five! 

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