Challengers of the Unknown #8
In *Challengers of the Unknown #8* ("[Last Days, Part Two] Beginnings and Endings"), the original team—Rocky, Marlon, and the others—face off against mercenaries in the Mojave Desert, their memories fractured by a mysterious light and a five-year disappearance. Written by Steven Grant and illustrated by John Paul Leon with inks by Shawn Martinbrough, the story unfolds as the Challengers confront their past and the enigmatic Dr. Carcosa, with cover art by Leon and Martinbrough capturing the tension in stark, vivid detail.
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In the Mojave Desert, Rocky, the original Challengers and Marlon duck mercenaries. (Kenn, Clay, and Brenda are dematerialized in their car.) Both teams say they saw a bright light, both planes crashed, and both saw a second light. June and Prof state they weren't killed in the explosion of Challenger Mountain, but transported to another planet. They lived there until zapped into Dr. Carcosa's lab. They escaped, signaled their friends and met, and were winked out again -- for five years. They infiltrate Dr. Carcosa's base and are ambushed but Saxon the Anti-Challenger guns down the mercenaries.
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