Silver Star #2 - Darius Drumm

The "Visual Novel" continues this issue, where the main focus is on the villain, Darius Drumm. But first we catch up with Morgan Miller, ten years later, and how his powers of atomic manipuation have developed. They're then attacked by projections of Drumm, who also attacks Silver Star's government minder in his car.



This issue gives us the origin of Drumm, the first born of those with the genetic gifts from Bradford Miller's experiments. Kind of creepy, as we find he was talking and evil at birth, his father was head of some cult, the "Foundation for Self-Denial", until Darius turned the cult on him. Drumm attacks the Miller home again, and we find out that Tracy Coleman has been in "stasis" for the last ten years, and there are others among the Homo Geneticus that Drumm fears.

Still a lot of set-up, but Drumm is an effective character, if a bit over the top, and his story is among the creepiest things Kirby ever wrote.

Mike Royer inks the 20-page story, while Mike Thibodeaux inks the cover. Back-up story has the Mocker by Ditko.

Published 1983