Issue(s): Micronauts: The New Voyages #8
Cover Date: May 85
Title: "Death and transfiguration!"
Credits:
Peter Gillis - Writer
Kelley Jones - Penciler
Bruce Patterson - Inker
Ralph Macchio - Editor

Review/plot:
All of the Micronauts have succumbed to radiation poisoning, the delayed result to exposure in the earliest issues of this series.

Huntarr had already mutated as a result of the exposure and he's otherwise unaffected so he and Bug's new girlfriend Solitaire are left trying to find a cure. The denizens of the planet Confluence, where everyone is staying, are sympathetic but unable to help, other than assigning some "Death Watch" minions to guard the room.

In a strange turn of events, however, the radioactive egg that Huntarr brought back to power the Micronaut's ship hatches...

...and the creature inside tracks down the dying Micronauts, faces off against Huntarr...

...and causes him to mutate further...

...and emit a fluid that rebuilds everyone from scratch...

...even to the point of healing Commander Rann's missing hand.

I thought this was going to result in the death of Huntarr, since he was kind of angsty earlier...

...but he turns out fine too.

It's left a deliberate mystery if Huntarr's mutation was deliberately triggered by the hatchling or an accident.

Weird stuff.

Quality Rating: B-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• The Micronauts were exposed to radiation and aquired the egg in Micronauts: The New Voyages #1-2. Rann also lost his hand in issue #1.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A