Brzrkr strikes again with issue #7 getting closer to the truth of his nature with an organization desperate to unlock his power! The cover by Lee Garbett features B. With a spiked mace and tire iron leaping from a helicopter and explosions! The creative team continues with Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt and art by Ron Garney. It is in the middle of a countdown, B. is plugged in by several tubes, and straining with his glowing blue eyes! Voices are heard to eager watchers who want to see his power. We shift back one week, B. is in a blue shirt, he brings in historical documents that he corrected. It is a study with a Greek statue of Athena, preserved animals, and books and art pieces. He is speaking to Caldwell, an academic in a suit with glasses and moustache. Caldwell reminds me a bit of Cain from Sandman, except without the moustache and adding in winged tips of hair.
Caldwell congratulates B. on his mission with Keever. B. examines a box from the mission. Caldwell relates its story moving to 2010 and explains that it turned up at the arms dealer in teh back room. He was also tracked it to 1944, a storehouse of antiques that Caldwall says was found by soldiers killing the Nazis guarding it. Russians attack the Nazi position. Then, Caldwell rolls back it to 1941 where Nazi gunmen take the box from trucks of civilians. Then 1700, we see the box hanging from a chain in a Mediterranean marketplace. Next, 1453, a bearded warrior cuts through enemies wearing the box. He is part of a cabal that believes in the power of the box, Pandora’s box?, a power connected to B.? Then, we see a line of camels crossing the Saharan desert, the setting is 750 B.C. A bearded man in red robes wears the box, this panel reminds me of the lines of Estaban Maroto.
The cabal took it from this “shadow caravan.” This moves up to 760 B.C., we see the box attached to a rope. At the “Nubian capital of Napata”, three men cut their hands in a ritual with the box on a table. The trip through history continues to 1026 B.C. A bearded warrior in golden armor wears the box and kills his enemies. This is the man Caldwell calls the “original owner.” 2299 B.C., we find the Babylonian warrior who owned the box presneting it to his king that he recovered from the battle from the past year. 2300 B.C., a closeup of the elaborate sword, flecks of blood, wielded by B. The page has B. in a tunic tearing through armies. His arm is severed by aaother sword. Caldwell notes that this turned into a religion that worships him.
The warrior reaches for the severed hand and brings B. the box. This sect through time had wanted to become B. The organization that is experimenting on him! The box opens to see the preserved remains of his hand. It was used for various purpose by the sect until the small box carries the greyish pieces of B.’s hand. A series of vertical panels, Caldwell points out that B.’s DNA is very important and he is asked how he got involved. We see in black and white flashback, Caldwell asking about his father at work on desk filled with antiquities. I like the use of color by Bill Crabtree. The flashbacks continue with Caldwell saying that he was hired by the sect and we see him killing three people working with ancient objects. He admits the sect uses his knowledge in exchange he has their “resources.”
Caldwell shows the tracking of everything known and studied about B. To track his movements through the world and time. It looks like the scan of a half of a brain. Caldwell tells B. That he is the one who kept knowledge from civilizations that went extinct. He kept the world going with knowledge. We see a closeup of B.’s eyes and then a prehistoric time where is swathed in cloth. On a snowy cliffside, he faces a massive, white saber-tooth tiger! Caldwell shows B. carvings on a stone circle that he says B. can read. B. says he wasn’t everywhere. Caldwell points out that B. was in the Dryas Period, 12,000 years ago! He wants to know about B.’s civilzation. He is sitting in his robes with a bloody spear. There is the corpse of the saber-tooth tiger ripped open with a bird pecking at it. I’m suspecting the unknown writing is from B.!
Caldwell asks if it was the Olmecs who may have had telepathy. He is there with an another man in meditative poses. B. tells Caldwell that he promised never to talk about it. Caldwell suspects he is joking. B. Has not gotten hsi answers and Caldwell tells him about the new protocol, Protocol X. The protocol will pressure his mind and body. Caldwell notes that he has perfect memory, but didn’t know his locations. A bomb drops, we see a plant, and then an explosion, symbolic? The previous sessions with Diana has unlocked a new power. Caldwell believes that Protocol X can find his birthplace! They can’t find the exact location. B. wants to know why it is called Protocol X. Caldwell says that “X marks the spot”, joking? The countdown is running down and looks like the truth will be revealed next issue! A bit of a gap between issues with last issue on December 15th. Still, we are ramping up to Brzrkr’s birthplace, the nature of the sect that has been following him, and what will happen when B.’s secret is taken by others!
Five Protocols out of Five!
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