It’s moments like this when I wonder what the Hell I’m doing here. Writing an entire post about an 8-page comedy story about Paladin, a character most people have never heard of, and who will almost definitely never appear on a TV show.
Paladin is a mercenary. He’s hired to go to Dallas to rescue a rich guy’s kidnapped daughter who, it turns out, was a volunteer not a victim—pretending to be kidnapped to get her daddy’s money and use it to protect the environment from her dad’s polluting business practices.
Already this is a more complicated (morally) tale than 8 pages could possibly handle. And it ends with aliens.
Ambitious and well-written, I think this is the first time I read anything in Marvel Comics Presents that left me wanting more.
And it’s about Paladin!