Bad Company II: The Krool Heart, Ep 5, p 5, 2000AD #580
Artists: Brett Ewins (Penciller) , Jim McCarthy (Inker)
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Description“What waits for us might be worse than what waited for Rackman.” Well, it’s a tough call - Rackman may have been cruel, but unlike Danny and Sheeva, he never becomes Krool. Is being stretched across a nine-foot chasm worse than being psi-warped into a distended-eyeballed abomination? Or being reborn as a small and petty god? The jury’s still out.What, you may ask, is the point of Rackman’s story? He is, after all, the only member of the squad who achieves very little in the grand scheme of things. His death serves no purpose, other than to remind us of the universe’s unthinking ironies, and to give Rackman the chance to unburden himself. Maybe that is the point – that there is none. Certainly, in his narration, Danny-as-Krool-Heart is extremely cynical about both his former life’s revelations and the value of Rackman’s smile on this page. Rackman lived, he tortured, he suffered, he killed, he died – and what does it all amount to? The same thing as Danny dropping a handful of dirt near the start of 'The Bewilderness': nothing. Painful nothing. Social/Sharing |
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Julius Howe
Member Since 2012
Posted on 9/22/2013
Rackman was my favourite character. His reveal of what had happened in the Krool experimentation camps was an excellent, his death helped show that although he thought he was the master of his own pain, when that ability to control what was inflicted was taken from him he was actually very weak.
Greg Meldrum
Member Since 2010
Posted on 9/23/2013
Astute observations there. I agree that from the perspective of his characterisation, Rackman is fascinating, particularly when you re-read the series knowing his secret – as I’ve noted elsewhere, it puts a very different spin (pun intended) on the Wheel of Fortune episode. He also makes a good contrast with my favourite character, De Racine - if the way Rackman’s death is narrated suggests an ultra-cynical view that life is fundamentally meaningless, De Racine’s story is the opposite. De Racine lives with exactly that viewpoint, and then, after years of arrogant amoral ennui, suddenly comes to life for five minutes, in which he saves the day, sacrifices himself, and is happier than he’s ever been.
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