Gold Digger 4
Summary:
Gina
has to take on Gravedigger, who now
has access to the complete armory, while Cheetah lies
paralysed for up to an hour.
Gina
uses pretty much every resource at her disposal,
from her intelligence to
displaying here to unforseen
bravery.
To trying to
appeal to Gravedigger and giving her a name and an identity of her own,
but to
no avail the curse is far too strong.
Notes: Released on
1 October 1993
Credits
:
Writer
artist Fred Perry
Editor :
Doug Dlin
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Review :
Actually
yes, Gold Digger 4 is almost as good
as the previous issues.
We get
a recap of the situation. ( And
yes, that is a Tie Fighter in the
weapons hangar, lets not forget what comic we are reading.
) Brittany is most conveniently paralysed for an hour, so Gina has to fight
her own fight against Gravedigger.
And Gina
is honestly wondering if she made the right
career choice and where she is going with her life, especially because of all her mistakes of the
last few days.
But, as
we saw in the original mini series, her
father is a master mage but she has no aptitude for magic and we learn later on that her mother, is one of
the greatest sword fighters that ever
lived and she has no aptitude for that either.
Her
father was the one who pushed her towards science, which is where she shown a born aptitude for that field.
In
dealing with Gravedigger, Gina shows her self to be resourceful. First by teleporting security robots in tot he
armoury to distract Gravedigger.
Which
are T800's and ED 209's from Terminator
and Robocop respectively.
Keep in
mind, that Robocop was 6 years old by this point in time and Terminator
7 years old.
But
Robocop 2 was only 3
years old and Terminator 2
just 2 years old, at this point in time and still hugely popular.
So it's
no wonder Perry chose to spoof them.
Gina
then shows off just how
smart and how much guts she
actually has, by confronting Gravedigger
unarmed and making her think she is
nothing but a
hologram, while she is actually
there in the flesh.
Asking
her point blank why Gravedigger has to
kill her or Brittany and she even manages to, somewhat get through to Gravedigger.
Going so
far as
to giving her a name, Brianna a
combination of Brittany and Gina,
because
that is what she is.
But Gina
also knows that Brianna can't resist the
impulses of the curse for very long and
she has got to be stopped.
Brianna's
plight is understandable, all she wants
is a life and a identity of her own, If she
can move the opposition, in the
form of Brittany and Gina aside, she can
take their place and life their lives with their memories in place.
She is cipher,
a nobody, a vessel for the curse to kill
the Diggers sisters until Gina reaches out to her and gives her an
identity.
A name
and with a name comes an identity and a
sense of self worth and eventually
memories and a personality of her own.
Not just
a combination of Gina and Brittany but Brianna
her self.
Maybe I
am reading too much in to this, but I am reviewing this comic, so I have to
look a bit deeper then what is on the surface.
And the
implications of having an identity and a
sense of self worth, when you are literally
the two halves of two people
is interesting.
After al,
where do they end and where do you as a person begin ?
Gina puts up
a good fight against Brianna, but it all
eventually proves for nothing. Even if Brianna
gloats a bit too much, but even
that is
a personality quirk set up from issue 3, where she becomes
over confident and sloppy when she thinks
she has a weaker opponent cornered, apparently forgetting that Gina
is both smart and resourceful.
Yes, the eventual resolution is a deus ex machina with
her father coming back in the nick of time, but the curse is
magic in nature so he had to make a reappearance sooner or later.
The
curse it self is rather easily dealt
with and Gina, true to her word, welcomes her
new sister with open arms in the family.
Brianna
will become a mainstay of the series and she is still around as we speak.
Maybe Perry
decided he needed another character,
another sister to play with the dynamics and instead of
having her be a third hereto unseen sister, he decided to create
her outright.
Despite
her out of left field origins or maybe because of them, Brianna's plight is an easy one to understand.
Because
who is she ? I doubt even she knows for now.
Brittany gets a bit short shrift here
in this story, because issue 4 is
Gina's show.
The priestess
from issue 2 shows up again and is finally given a name.
She
has kidnapped a unconscious
Brittany and plans to do heinous
deeds, most foul upon her when just at that
moment, prince Strype contact her
and foils her plans !!
Curses !!!
This part of issue 4 is less well done or well thought out.
It is just there to give Brittany something to do and remind us Tanya
still exists. It would be a better diversion if we just saw Tanya
brooding in her tower and
thinking of new plans to mess with Brittany
and win Strype over.
Issue 4
is yet another excellent instalment. If
issue 1 and 2 are a bit so, so. 3 and 4 redeem the series so far, the
last part with Brittany
not withstanding.
Issue 4 like it's predecessor has the right amount of
action, adventure and actual human drama, coming
out of the story and the characters themselves with out any humor forced upon them.
Most of
the humor comes from sight gags, The story itself, the comic book
science not withstanding, is played
straight.
Although
some of the humor is a bit too broad and too
silly for a story, that so far
plays it absolutely straight.
( the bowling ball sequence ) But
on the whole its a great story.
And Brianna is
more then just a
halfway point between Gina and Brittany.
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