Alpha Flight #15

Puck faces Marrina’s dark side for a second time.
 
Judd asks Marrina to check out to see if she can find whatever’s killed at least seventeen people so far. She investigates while he stays behind. She returns two hours later reverted back to the savage beast he last saw in Alpha Flight #2…which put him in the hospital. He manages to evade her attack until Namor arrives, who assumes Judd’s attacking her and knocks him out.
 
Judd wakes up just in time to get put back into unconsciousness by the Master.
 
Notes of Interest: 
1) Judd spent a year in with Papa Hemmingway, which was roughly 1937 to ’38.  

2) During his time in , Judd trained to be a bullfighter, and defeated a bull in the ring despite his size.
 
3) It appears he read Alpha’s files about their activities while Judd was in the hospital, because he knew of the team’s first encounter with the Master.
 
4) This is the first meeting of Judd and Namor, and (naturally) they fight.
 
5) Judd quickly deduces that Namor intends to marry Marrina.
 
6) It seems Judd was in prison when he was approached to join Department H.
 
7) Judd was never a member of Gamma Flight. He was paroled straight into Beta.
 
8) His suspicions of a connection between Marrina and the creature in the lake are confirmed.
 
9) Judd has some skeletons in his closet…dead ones…that he killed apparently.
 
WTF? Moment: I liked the connection between facing a changed Marrina and Judd’s bullfighting past. It shows that he’s one tough guy. But having him pass out not once but twice? I can understand it when Namor hits him, he’s the freakin’ Sub-Mariner for crying out loud. Judd’s lucky his head didn’t come clean off, but the Vulcan nerve-pinch thing afterward? After spending so much time crossing and re-crossing the planet, wouldn’t he have experienced the nerve-pinch before, and learned of some way to beat it?