Golgo 13 4
Posted: February 4, 2008 Filed under: Golgo 13 1 Comment »I don’t know, it will be kind of hard to top this volume as far as insane stories go. But what do I know, I’d love to see something even more over-the-top than this.
In the first story, Golgo 13 is hired to snipe a satellite out of orbit. He is hired by the president, and wires one of the people in on the project before appearing in front of our own Gerald Ford. Gerald Ford and some generals tell Golgo that there is some sort of armed spacecraft that will fire on a Russian spacecraft unless it is knocked out of orbit. This situation arose after the US craft was damaged and all the crew aboard was killed combined with an insane system of fail safe devices approved by Kennedy during the Cold War. So Duke Togo is shot into space with a modified M16, specially designed to be fired in space, and gets one shot to snipe the craft out of orbit so that it doesn’t see the Russian craft.
In case sniping a satellite out of orbit was not quite intense enough for you, the second story features Duke Togo hired on by the English government (or something, I wasn’t too clear on this, maybe just a political party) to kill Dodi Al-Fayed. As you can imagine, things lead up to the night Al-Fayed was killed. Something new I learned about was an undetectable syringe that gets one immediately drunk.
Both these stories were so ridiculous and over-the-top that it was impossible to put this down. Duke Togo doesn’t meet with any pleasurable company this time around, but the same one shot for each job rule applies, along with a bunch of his other very eccentric rules. I was just amazed with this volume. Golgo 13 really does get himself into a little bit of everything. I was a little shocked that the Al-Fayed story appeared in the original magazine about 3 months after he died, because that seems like it would have still been a very touchy situation, but I guess it is only a comic book.
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