Timespirits #1

By Steve Perry

Uncommonly, I read the last page where Steve Perry confesses to not having mentioned this to anyone helping to produce this comic, which was he'd found the only known copy of Cusick's Pamphlet of Knowledge, this ever changing illustrated story being copied by him to create the piece we now have here, how darling. Especially after learning of this guy's personal real drama of having gotten cancer then murdered over a $10 million lottery ticket!

Doot, from the Wawenoc, considers how much more often the old ways had been practiced before the white man turned up by the people who speak Algonquian. Tribes had been temporarily sane even after the white man came. Despite the point when tribes were seen as useless, so were being killed off along the coast, but by 1633, the British were overtaken and Doots older bro had gotten warriors to collect the remainder of overpowered Britains. His older bro, Three Birds was waiting for Doot to be ready to stand with him when making peace treaties. As they chat, they see a bear get lifted in the air, an old man in a tree falling to the ground.

When they return to their camp, they see men raiding and killing their people, he deciding Doot and he should run opposite and meet at the ocean. As King Freddie, as the british call him reaches the cliff, he contemplates how white men keep lying about wanting peace, and pray to his ancestors of doing anything to be rid of the harmful schmucks. The men after him with their muskets, are turned around by the old guy using his magic to get the muskets to go off at the white men. When they're alone, the old man says all the knowledge he held was available to him at a price like the amount of he mentioning any price.

Before the amount is settled on, the old man pulls out a gheebe, the last hope of Three Birds, it looking like an eyeball attached to a stick bug. Meanwhile, at a different time, Doot is running stealthily through the forest, until he's reminded of all his slaughtered people, this stopping him, and giving 2 fellas time to pop some shots at him, before getting chased onward. Doot is coaxed by the old magic man to where he points out the points of power or magnetic poles which help him use the sacred grounds as the 2 fellas catch up and ready to scalp Doot for bounty. The old man confides of being older than he looked, he having a British accent, but looking indigenous, and finally introing himself as Cusick the Tuscarora, learning what he hasn't learned and selling what he has.

King Freddie has taken the Gheebe for power, Doot now hoping to save him, but Cusick saying it'd require giving up his spirit. The boy threatens to shoot Cusick with his bow to know where his bro was, and Cusick shares for liking Doot. Cusick relates he'd been around the corner on the mound, Three Birds speaking of being able to see the good in people, like Doot. King Freddie works hard to unite the tribes against the white men, and the more they succeeded, Doot felt he was losing his bro for all the deathly retribution he was havoc-ing.

From the start of the story, Three Birds holds out a young blonde boy for Doot to kill as a young female protested nearby, snapping the boy's neck as he declares of getting rid of da white man. King Freddie threatens to kill Doot if he didn't kill the girl, walking off as Doot trips out when seeing the boy's body change to skeleton then turning back and the boy waking. Doot carries him to where the girl had fled, she thanking him as he gets the boy and she on a boat, hoping he could save his bro next. King Freddie isn't happy when he confronts him back at the burning camp party, King Freddie confessing his hate for Doot, since the girl had informed more white men who were now heading for them by ship.

As he kicks Doot around, he becomes a temporary skeleton before King Freddie tells him to biff off. Doot collapses after many hours running, dreaming about the body count King Freddie was gaining. Three Birds blasts the ships with eye lasers, this being one of the powers of the old ways. When Doot wakes, Cusick tells despite Doot wanting to save Three Birds, he wouldn't be able to do more than stop him, but would have to pay. Doot decides to go for it, Cusick not wanting to corrupt the boy, but also wanting his soul, so now they must crack the shell of reality.

1st, Cusick must find the ointment necessary to begin the process of transferring Doot's soul, but the boy gets ethereal early, flipping time, and succeeding to save his bro, Cusick impressed and excited by how good Doot had accomplished this task when even he hadn't, yet. Cusick is tripping out by how good Doot could become if properly trained, the boy accepting the offer to be taught everything. So, Cusick shares an alchie drink he'd perfected over 200 years, and the 2 disappear via green mist.

1 helluva start, I wish Goodreads had this 1 up there so I could rate it 5 stars! The art is as good as the cover, I'll hate to finish this bunch, but will want to find the rest of Coyote, as well, since they share a label! Onwards!