Marvel Girl: Like A Phoenix, page 15

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The main speaker at the rally is the father of Fish, the “I was watching sports!” guy, who turns out to be a forty-year-old overweight balding guy named Larry.

LARRY: My son died because of this.

Panel 2
Larry continues to talk.

LARRY: My home was broken into by a mutant, my sanctuary violated. The kid thought it was just some stupid prank. This mutant bullied my son at school every day. That’s the kind of people they are, folks. Bullies. And they want our sympathy!

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Larry continues to talk.

LARRY: This mutant had the ability to make small inconveniences happen. I know, it sounds ridiculous. But it’s true. I am not a careless man, folks. I am master of my domain. The night my son died, everything went wrong. My television randomly switched off CourtCenter and started playing An Everyday Affair, which I can guarantee you I had never watched a day in my life until that night. Maybe my wife did. But never again, not after that night, folks.

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Larry continues to talk.

LARRY: My son was special.

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Larry continues to talk.

LARRY: He excelled at everything he did. He was an Olympic caliber swimmer. I swear he was amphibious, as comfortable underwater as he was in a classroom, where he was an A student, in everything he pursued. His classmates were in awe of him, and not a day goes by since his murder that one of them doesn’t come up to me with another precious anecdote about him.

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Larry continues to talk.

LARRY: And a mutant took him from me.

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Larry continues to talk.

LARRY: Now, the irony of all this is that God had finally passed judgment on them. God had finally seen fit to wipe their scourge from the face of the planet. God had sent a plague upon them. And they went into their homes to finally die, in private.

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Larry continues to talk.

LARRY: But of course they weren’t satisfied with that. They weren’t satisfied with the almighty judgment leveled against them. They still couldn’t behave themselves! They still had to unleash their plague against us!

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Larry continues to talk.

LARRY: And it was my son, this time, who paid the price. This is what we are fighting, folks. Never forget.