This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog will look at Longshot, who has been repeatedly memory-wiped, rebooted, repurposed, retconned and has even been a mutant, then NOT a mutant.
LONGSHOT Vol 1 #1 (September 1985)
Title: A Man Without a Past
Villains: Mojoverse humanoids and creatures
Synopsis: Readers are dumped into events as this issue opens. A mulleted man we will come to know as Longshot is being pursued through a bizarre alternate dimension which we will come to know as the Mojoverse. His pursuers are menacing humanoids armed with rayguns, and oddly formed creatures, some of whom can talk.
At length, Longshot escapes through a random portal and ends up on Earth. We readers learn he has lost his memory and has two hearts and only three fingers and a thumb on each hand. His first superpower (aside from his incredible agility) is revealed to be incredible “luck” and that luck prevented his pursuers’ blaster fire from actually hitting him and instead hitting everything around him. Continue reading
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