Comico Comics - Grendel Tales - #40 - Special Preview - February 1990
Contains 2 stories.
This comic is bagged and boarded.
NEARMINT+ / MINT 9.8
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"Devil Redeemed/Devil Worship"
This is the final issue in this arc, and in this series. It is followed by several mini-series under the Grendel Tales title. They all take place in this same time period, however.
Now that Orion has control of the world, he shrinks back from daily governance. A woman named Laurel Kennedy rises through the ranks and quickly manages to gain great influence. Orion is getting old, and Fadi persuades him to have an heir before she dies. The manipulative Kennedy steps up and quickly marries him. However, it turns out she can't have children any more, so Orion gets himself pregnant using the technology of the time.
In addition, this issue has an entirely separate story that is printed upside down and begins at the back of the comic. It fits in the Grendel Tales line of stories, which are written by guest writers instead of Matt Wagner.
It tells the story of Marcus Brand, who is studying the history of Grendel for his Ph.D. He gets involved with some campus activists, but their politics get the attention of the Grendel Corps. The Grendel Corps kills the activists and Brand runs off. His brush with real death and violence makes him lose interest in his Grendel obsession.