Ruthless Ro-Man (comic story): Difference between revisions

| image1=Kaza019 Adventurers Club ka-foom.jpg

| caption1=Kaza & Gwenna's dinner at the Adventures Club is rudely interrupted

| hero(es)=[[Kaza]]<br>[[Gwenna]]

| featuring=[[George Wimberly]]<br>[[Commissioner Smedley]]<br>[[Deena Hancock]]<br>[[Fred Hancock|Fred "Junior" Hancock]]<br>[[Stardust the Super-Wizard]] <small>(flashback)</small><br>[[Dynamo]] the superhero<br>[[Hezton]] the alien gorilla

| setting=[[Naked Jungle]], [[Buranda]], [[Reality Z-25 31-H]]

| length=36 pages

| series=[[Kaza's_Mate,_Gwenna_(series)|Kaza’s Mate, Gwenna]]

| writer(s)=[[Jay Epps]]

| artist(s)=[[Jay Epps]]

| original_link=https://kaza-and-gwenna.thecomicseries.com/comics/14/

| released_in=2011

| seriesnav=[[Kaza's_Mate,_Gwenna_(series)|Kaza’s Mate, Gwenna]]

| previous=[[The Serpent Sorceress (comic story)|The Serpent Sorceress]]

| next=[[The Danger, The Diamond, and the Dowager_(comic_story)|The Danger, The Diamond, and the Dowager]]

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'''Ruthless Ro-Man''' is the second story in the [[Kaza's_Mate,_Gwenna_(series)|Kaza’s Mate, Gwenna]] web comic.

==Plot==

The story opens with Kaza and Gwenna at home, getting dressed in formal clothes. They are picked up by Wimberley and driven to [[The Adventurers Club]], where [[Commissioner Smedley|The Commissioner]] is already waiting to tell them of a surprise.

Two of Gwenna’s friends from high school are here, [[Deena Hancock|Deena]] and [[Fred Hancock|Junior]]; Gwenna delightedly greets them and introduces them to Kaza. (In the background can be seen [[Jenny_Everywhere_(Reality_Z-25_31-H)|Jenny Everywhere]] and [[Sven Allestädes]] at one table and [[Herbie Popnecker]] at another.) They only begin to chat when the wall of the building explodes, revealing the [[Ro-Man|Ruthless Ro-Man]], a ray-gun wielding extraterrestrial who announces that he has returned for revenge upon Kaza.

After a brief inconclusive skirmish Kaza is knocked unconscious and Ro-Man makes off with Deena as bait, to lure Kaza and his allies into coming after him.

When Kaza recovers consciousness he agrees that allies are necessary but so is speed, so heads off to follow Ro-Man. Gwenna brings everyone up to speed on the situation, explaining that Ro-Man is an alien who tried to invade Earth several years earlier and was repelled by a gathering of heroes, the Space Patrol, and [[Stardust the Super-Wizard]]. She calls up a satellite view on her laptop and finds Ro-Man’s flying saucer only a kilometer away.

Wemberley drives Gwenna and Junior out to the spaceship, where they find a giant lizard. It spits acid and is bulletproof but the timely arrival of the superhero [[Dynamo]] keeps things from getting out of hand.  

Dynamo explains that Ro-Man is an energy being, only riding the gorilla shaped alien body for convenience, and the helmet shields it from outside electromagnetic influences. Meanwhile Kaza has found Ro-Man’s former host Hezton and has been filled in on this as well; Ro-Man has moved on to possess Deena.

Ro-man attacks but Deena’s body is not accustomed to combat; at four to one odds Ro-Man is soon overwhelmed and attempts to move to another body. Dynamo’s superpowers disrupt Ro-Man’s energy form and Junior catches him in the discarded shielding helmet.

Hezton is helped back to the flying saucer, where his injuries can be tended, and the ship automatically leaves for home.  

 

Gwenna has light brown hair in this story, intermediate between the black hair she wore in The Serpent Sorceress and the red hair she would have in the rest of the series.

 

Surprisingly, Gwenna is addressed as “Miss Davis” by both Wimberly and Hopkirk, despite being married. It may be that “Mrs. Kaza” sounded silly and that Kaza doesn’t use the name Kyle Elsworth in the jungle – or perhaps their marital status had not been settled at this point.

 

[[File:Kaza018 Ruthless Ro-Man 05 Jenny Sven and Herbie cameos at Adventurers Club.jpg|thumb|Kaza in a suit, Gwenna in a nice dress, and some people we know in the background]]The restaurant scene includes cameos of [[Jenny_Everywhere_(Reality_Z-25_31-H)|Jenny Everywhere]], [[Sven Allestädes]], and [[Herbie Popnecker]], but none of them have any influence on the plot of the story.

The story can be read on the ''Kaza's Mate, Gwenna'' webs starting [https://kaza-and-gwenna.thecomicseries.com/comics/14/ here].