Brzrkr continues the journey of Unute and Diana is now helping him on his path now that she has the power! Brzrkr #10 features an impressive cover by Ron Garney, a closeup of B.’s face, stoic, vengeful, blue eyes, and a reddish face, all with Bill Crabtree colors. The wrinkles of his face are actually people writhing in a hellish scene. We are closing on the twelfth issue conclusion written by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt. It is illustrated by Ron Garney. The comic opens with a series of horizontal panels starting with a closeup of B., his real name is Unute. He is holding his head, confused, dressed in a white test suit. Her communication is seen in blue and his replies are in white. This is not spoken dialogue, but telepathic. He is sitting on the left and Diana, the woman who was interviewing him, but now transformed by the power. She asks him what happened and Unute replies that “they” sent him back. He also knows the location of where he was born, “The Nefud Desert, Saudia Arabia.” It is known as An or Al Nafud and found in the northern part of the Arabian peninsula.
Diana identifies the strange power as the “red lightning.” She wants him to be tested emotionally and he remarks that she “turned off the Berserker.” They are being watched behind the one way window. There is military officer, Keever, a strange monitoring ball, and scientific advisor, Caldwell. Unute mentions they are in this together. In closeup, we see that Unute has only gaping holes where his eyes were set. He is regenerating, but at a slow rate. Caldwell meets Diana outside of the room and says he knows they were “talking.” Diana informs him about the location of B.’s birthplace which they say under the code, “Alpha.” Closeup, Caldwell eyes her suspiciously. Keever enters Unute’s room to inform him that he will be burned if he tries to leave the room. He asks if he is going home, Keever says no, and that he will heal in ten days. Caldwell in a monitoring room with various antiques, checking on a map of the Alpha location. Then, we see a closeup of Diana’s almost black eyes. She is in a geodome with a forst of plantlife. A very beautiful and serene scene.
Caldwell continues studying the map now on a table. He is interrupted by an officer named Oliver. He brings the news about the hyper-computer. We see Unute lying down in a bed with his arms crossed. Diana is at a workstation wtith robot arms workign with what looks like biological matter. Caldwell enters, all seen in silhouette except the doorlight and the cannisters. She is manipulating the robot arms as Caldwell asks her a question, but she ignores him. Then, Diana tells Caldwell that she is working to “free” Unute. She enters “Floral Formula Zak1” and uses a short lightinig burst from her hand. Diana mentions about getting him “to the bird.” Caldwell wants her to shut down her flower experiment and she finishes. We get closeups to Unute in his bed. Caldwell in his office speaks with the voice behind the monitoring ball who approves of the mission. Is the mysterious man somehow connected to the Babylonian warrior or even farther back into Unute’s history?
At the Perfect Cup coffee house, in silhouette, Caldwell poses a riddle to the barista. Then, has precise directions for his coffee, more than Sheldon. A normal-type scene which makes me wonder are they speaking in code. Is Caldwell giving the coordinates to a rival? The days are counted down until the mission. A satellite deploys its flaps. A radar station is set up for the “collection array.” Then, the military Alpha Base is set up when Unute opens his eye, now fully healed. We move to Saudi Arabia where there is Unute, now in a black suit, Keever, Diana, and Caldwell. Keever sends off Unute and he walks with Diana as the rest prepare for the Alpha operation. Diana takes out a water bottle to collect something that she says may have opened his mother’s mind. He drinks it and then Diana. Unute walks in pain and they appear in Unute’s destroyed village. He reels at the death of his mother and the village. Diana says he was just a child. Unute’s eyes glow blue as he says he loves her. Brzrkr #10 takes us closer to Diana’s plans and what may be Unute’s final, violent transformation!
Four Protocols out of Five!
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