Monday 30 September 2013

MARVEL UK HANDBOOK: MOTORMOUTH

THE ROAD TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR:
THE MARVEL UK HANDBOOK

£=<{ me!  It's potty-mouthed London teen Harley Davidson (yup, the copyright-baiting Brits were at it again), tricked into becoming an inadvertent dimension-hopper by the nefarious MyS-TECH thanks to their MOPED device... craftily concealed in a pair of designer trainers.

Harley, despite the TANK GIRL comparisons, was one of the more interesting of the first wave of Marvel UK GENESIS 92 characters.  She also demonstrated Arundel House's early determination to offer something a little more distinctive than the standard US superhero fare.

Her own comic, paired with the very nineties KILLPOWER (I'll get to him), ran for only a year but Harley has the distinction of being the only British character to make a contemporary appearance in a US book (THE INCREDIBLE HULK 408-409, courtesy of Peter David), beating the transatlantic guest-shot one-way-street.

MM also has the distinction of being the only G92 strip to appear in the UK twice.  She formed one-fifth of the original OVERKILL line-up and then appeared uncut (IE the full American edit of the strip) in the pages of THE EXPLOITS OF SPIDER-MAN.

Harley was poised to make a double comeback in two new series just as the Genesis Implosion hit, leaving both unpublished.  One would have revived her partnership with Killpower whilst a second, MOTORMOUTH REMIX, would have used her dimension-jumping abilities to visit various alternate Marvel Earths with different takes on assorted established characters (WHAT IF meets SLIDERS).


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