Jul 1999
Part 4 (of 4)
by Peter Milligan, Edvin Biuković, Lee Loughridge, Robert Solanovicz
Christopher impersonates Tom. He spends a day as Tom with Becky and her son. The next day he impersonates the Reverend Earl James and spends time with Bethany as they prepare for the funerals.
Emerald sets a trap for whomever is going to impersonate the Earl James. Chance doesn’t foresee Amber might strike again but Tom does and breaks into the church to warn him in the middle of the funeral.
Dee Noyz is at the funeral and is killed protecting "Earl James". Emerald asks Chance for a favor as she lays in his arms dying. He asks her for the name of her employer. Her last words are a repeat of what she said on the first page of the first installment in this story.
The story ends with Chris doing what he can to help Tom reestablish his relationship with Becky.
Chance doesn’t get the answer to his question. Emerald dies before talking. Does he fulfill her dying wish? Probably not. It is unclear if her husband found out the truth about how she died.
I like the way this story is wound or woven together but there are still some loose threads that leave me feeling a bit unsatisfied. I don’t recall how much follow up there is on this story (if any) in the graphic novel and the ongoing series that follow.
What was this story all about? There were a few threads running through the story.
Overall this story was good but not great. I don’t buy the transracial impersonation but I respect the commitment to it. I buy that the characters in the story and it’s creators believe in it.
I enjoyed reading this story again but I’m not sure that it lived up to my foggy memory of it. I plan to read the rest of Peter Milligan’s Human Target stories in the months and years ahead. I hope that at least some of the subsequent stories scan better than this one does.
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