The Heckler #2
In "Title (actual story title)," a surreal and sharp-witted tale from 1992, a nameless man known only as John Doe—literally just an outline with words for emotions—finds himself caught between the violent ambitions of Minx and a gang of mobsters. Written by Keith Giffen, Tom Bierbaum, and Mary Bierbaum, with art by Giffen and inks by Malcolm Jones III, the story unfolds with a surreal edge, where every object John touches becomes a hollow version of itself. The cover, by Keith Giffen and Malcolm Jones III, captures the chaos perfectly. When the dust settles, death isn’t the end—just a word waiting to be rewritten.
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John Doe is a completely generic person. He's nothing but an outline, on which words appear to describe his emotions or thoughts (happy, frowning, etc). And everything he touches ends up just like him; for example, a plant becomes an outline with the word "plant" on it. Minx and several mobsters are out to kill John Doe, and Heckler ends up caught in the middle. After a firefight (and general chaos), John Doe and the mobsters are dead. But then, the word "dead" on John's chest is replaced with "reincarnated". He'll be back.
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