Appearing in "He Who Dares part three: Poison"[]
Featured characters:
Supporting characters:
Villains:
Other characters:
- Mekon
- Officer Hawkins
Locations:
- Space (roughly in the vicinity of the planet Neptune)
- The Mekon's lunar prison
Items:
- The Mekon's phone
- Marrows
Vehicles:
- Si-Lawn spaceship stolen by Au Taween
- The Anastasia, Dare's spaceship
- Empress-sized Treen destroyer
Synopsis for "He Who Dares part three: Poison"[]
Dan Dare and his team, plus Au Taween, successfully board the Treen ship. Dan phones the Mekon, who tells Digby how to create a computer virus that can "leap the species barrier" and make all the Treens ill, so that they will abandon their vessel. This works, but Au Taween uses the ship's cannons to shoot the fleeing Treen escape pods. Professor Jocelyn Peabody stops her by knocking her out. Weeks later, the Anastasia has towed the Treen ship into Earth's orbit. Dan and his companions have caught the Treen virus and become terminally ill. They are put in quarantine in the Mekon's lunar prison. The Mekon appears to Dan in a vision, because the Treen virus has connected them telepathically, and says that he can cure the four invalids. Dan asks the prison staff to listen to the Mekon, and he makes a cure from a mutated space bacterium that was growing on his marrows. The cure is completely successful. However, when Au Taween discovers that the humans are holding a super-Treen (i.e. the Mekon) alive on the moon, she points a gun at his head, and Dare steps between them...
Notes[]
Published by Titan Comics in December 2017.
Trivia[]
The introduction to this comic describes Au Taween as an "alien warrior princess." It's true that she's an alien (from the human point of view), but her culture was pacifist to a fault (they tried to appease the Treens when they should have fought back against them) and there is no indication in the strip that she is a princess.
Recommended reading[]
The next comic in this volume.
Links and references[]
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