A Cold Day in Hell/pl

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Wydano:	2 kwietnia 2014
Liczba stron:	75
Rysownik:	makani
Pisarz:	Jay Pinkerton & Erik Wolpaw

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Ze wszystkich kości wszystkich syberyjskich kostiumów ala hot dog, ja muszę zdobyć ten zrobiony ze skorupek jaj. — Skaut

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Zimny dzień w piekle (znany również jako Team Fortress Comics #3) to komiks wydany 2 kwietnia 2014. To trzecia część serii składającej się z sześciu komiksów wydawanych co dwa miesiące, którego treść kontynuuje historię przedstawioną w Nieszczęśliwych powrotach.

Treść

Komiks zaczyna się ze starą kobietą, dzieli się z Żołnierzem tym co wie o Grubym. Ostrzega ona go, by nie podążał za grubym ze względu na siarczysty mróz, jednak Żołnierz zaprotestował. Zdając sobie sprawę, że nie zatrzyma żołnierza i jego przyjaciół przed poszukiwaniami grubego, dała im płaszcze na ich podróż, ale żołnierz uważa że te płaszcze reprezentują komunizm, więc ich nie przyjmuje, pokazując swój Amerykańskiej produkcji płaszcz, mówiąc że jest o wiele lepszy. Płaszcz żołnierza natychmiast rozrywa się na strzępy, jednak nadal nie chciał przyjąć płaszczy, ku rozczarowaniu Skauta (jako że był jeszcze ubrany w czerwony T-shirt). Żołnierz, Skaut i Pyro wyruszyli w góry, gdzie na pewno powinien być Gruby.

Scena przełącza się do majątku Charlesa Darlinga, nemesis Saxton Hale'a, gdzie zaprowadziła go jego stara dziewczyna. Hale jest wściekły i staje się to coraz bardziej wyraźne, bo wcześniej nie był świadomy, że Darling był pracodawcą Maggie. Próbuje ona wyjaśnić, ale Darling przerywa jej, Twierdząc że To nie może być takie proste. Darling pyta, czy Hale'owi podobają się jego ściana, na której są przymocowane głowy zwierząt, jednak ten ostatni wyraża niedowierzanie że Darling walczył ze zwierzętami. Darling, spokojnie prosząc Hale'a by 'take his foot off the swear pedal', ujawnia, że zwierzęta na ścianie nie są martwe, tylko stoją na pudłach za ścianą, i szturchają przez nią głowami. Twierdzi on, że zwierzęta, Śnieżny Gnu i Lampart Himalajski są ostatnie w swoim gatunku, i pokazuje, że chce z nich zrobić immortal using Australium. Darling ofeuje pomoc odzyskaniu Mann Co. Jeśli da mu Australium. Hale mówi, że to będzie za łatwe, twierdząc, że jego magazyn jest tego pełen, jednak Darling wyjaśnia mu, że już go nie ma i Administratorka miała coś z tym zrobić. Hale ujawnia, że prawie nic nie wie o jej działalności, więc Darling wyjaśnia, że ukryje ona Australium na 150 lat, i pojawia się pytanie Dlaczego?.

The setting switches back to Siberia, where the Soldier (now sporting a ragged beard) is supposedly talking to "Christopher the Communist Mountain", who is merely a figment of Soldier's imagination. "Christopher" tells the Soldier that he is no closer to reaching the mountain. The mountain also claims there is food aplenty nearby, citing the wildlife (seen by the delirious Soldier as whole pot roasts), the Soldier's own hands (seen as colossal sandwiches), and even the Scout (seen as a giant hot dog) as potential meals. Soldier calmly tells the Scout that he will eat him. It is revealed that the hot dog was not imagined, but an actual costume, found on a crashed plane (supposedly piloted by Amelia Earhart). Scout claims he put on the costume to escape the cold, and Pyro continues rummaging through the plane. Soldier inquires whether there are more costumes, which there are not, and Scout tells the Soldier that the latter will likely die.

Suddenly, the sound of bears nearby interrupts them. Soldier claims that the bears must have been attracted by something, citing the two potential attractors as honey or menstruating women. He berates the Pyro, at first humorously implying the Pyro is a menstruating woman, but promptly explains that he just needs the Pyro to stop blocking the plane's door. He realizes there are several crates of honey on the plane, which must have interested the bears. Soldier forms a plan to eat all the honey, thus losing the bears' interest, but that plan goes awry and they all get sick to their stomachs with a huge quantity of honey left. They come up with a Plan B- fix the plane- but the bears arrive before they can attempt to do so. A bear swipes at the Scout, causing a shower of bones everywhere, but the Scout is revealed to be fine, claiming those were the bones of Earhart that were stuck in the costume. The bear attacks again and the Scout swings a legbone at it, making a pun by stating he was going to 'relish' this. The bear is defeated, but the bone snaps, and two more bears soon approach. Soldier decides to strip nude and cover himself in honey, planing to grapple the bears. Soldier snaps the neck of the second bear. The third bear, seen by Pyro as a friendly camp guide who claims 'fire is nobody's friend', is viciously ripped to shreds with the Fire Axe. All the bears are now defeated, causing a celebration among the trio that soon catches Heavy's attention.

Heavy states the bears were babies. Scout expresses disbelief, claiming the Heavy calls everyone a baby, but Heavy reveals he was being serious and that they had angered the mother of the bears. Heavy prepares to fight the bear as the Scout begins bleeding out, and the Soldier and Pyro eagerly look on.

A voice states 'the bear killed every last one of them', and it is revealed to belong to the clueless mayor of Teufort, but it is revealed that he was not talking about the merc's predicament, but the origin of Teufort. According to him, the founder survived a bear mauling by hiding under his wife's corpse, and started a town called Hugginsville on top of where her body lay. Two rowdy teenage bullies forced him to rename it Two Farts, and out of fear, the founder never fully changed the name back, hence the name Teufort. The mayor concludes reading the story, asking the librarian if all the books are about Teufort. The librarian replies no, and the mayor tells him any books not about Teufort must now be burned. Gray Mann enters, asking the mayor for the genealogy records from the 1850's, but the mayor tells him they were all burned by a mysterious woman, and Gray becomes agitated, grasping the burnt tatters of Helen's genealogy certificate.

The comic returns to a close-up of the bear, who, upon a zoom-out, is revealed to be dead and on the dinner table of Heavy and his family. Soldier sits at the table (still naked), where the Heavy's mother stands polite and attentive and asks if he needs anything. Heavy is heard in the background, telling Soldier he needs to put some pants on. Soldier is then offered soup, and is suddenly greeted by the ghost of George Washington, ordering him to resist the soup's temptation. Another ghost, this one of Benedict Arnold, appears, telling Soldier that the greatest crime he had committed before dying was not eating soup, which Washington confirms. Arnold urges him to eat the soup, but Washington objects, leaving the Soldier torn at this moral decision. A ghost of the Scout's hot dog costume appears and interrupts the other ghosts, claiming that it was never eaten but that eating the soup could save its soul. The Heavy's mother turns to her son, incredulous, stating the Soldier had been screaming for five minutes over a simple bowl of soup. Scout's scream is heard then, revealing that he survived. Heavy's mother reveals that a woman named Zhanna (later revealed as one of Heavy's three younger sisters) is ministering to him, to which the Heavy expresses his objection.

Scout awakes from a nightmare, claiming that in the dream, the Spy was his dad. He panics, but soon realizes that it was merely a dream and relaxes, questioning where he is. He is greeted by Zhanna, who tells him she has not seen a man in twenty years. She expresses a desire for intercourse with Scout, which he promptly agrees to, but as he undresses, he hears the voice of Miss Pauling in his head, asking if Scout had forgotten about her. Scout objects, saying that in the six years that he knew her, they hadn't even gone on a date, but Pauling says that she would find it 'sexier than anything' if he waited patiently for her to change her mind. Scout agrees with her point, rejecting Zhanna much to her disappointment. She then picks up the Soldier, and it is implied that the pair make love.

Heavy's two other younger sisters, Yana and Bronislava, return from hunting, and Heavy greets them, saying they have company. The sisters begin picturing over-romanticized versions of Sniper and Spy, however they are let down when they find the Scout, who loudly proclaims that he is "taken", the Pyro, burning a napkin, and the Soldier, wearing a frilly pink dress and claiming he "has a girlfriend now". Scout begs for the Heavy to return, but he rejects, saying he must protect his family from danger, but Bronislava claims she's sick of the cabin and tells him the family can fend for itself now. Heavy doubts that, worried that the family would be taken to a gulag once more, but Yana tells him that an attempt was made to send them to one but they killed the men sent to do it. Heavy is shocked, realizing his sisters no longer need him and that they have grown up. Heavy turns back to Scout, asking if the mission was dangerous, if it paid well, and if they would get to destroy evil men. When Scout replies yes to all three, but unsure that they will be paid since he did not ask Miss Pauling, Heavy happily agrees to rejoin the mercs, with everyone present cheering.

Everyone decides to leave together, with Zhanna and Soldier agreeing to return to America after the job is finished. Bronislava wants to visit Paris, and Yana expressed desire to see New York. Heavy's mother wishes them good-bye, giving them a sack of bear meat for the trip, but Heavy decides his mother will come with them. Mother and son embrace each other happily.

The focus shifts once more, to Gray Mann and the under-renovation Mann Co. (being renamed Gray Mann Co.) Gray is talking to an unseen man, claiming that he had failed to deliver on his promise of finding the mercs. The man is then seen, revealed as the Heavy from Team Fortress Classic, and he asserts that he has already found the mercs and knows where they are going next. Gray questions why they haven't attacked, but is cut off as the TFC Heavy assembles his entire team, save for the TFC Medic. TFC Heavy questions where the 'new guy' is, and it is revealed that the Medic from Team Fortress 2 has replaced the TFC Medic. Medic questions their decision to leave so soon, saying he had yet to finish implanting baboon uteruses into the team. TFC Heavy grows angry and expresses fury at this experiment, and Medic simply points to the TFC Demoman, apparently named Greg, and says he implanted three into him and Greg hadn't complained. Greg panics, unaware that the Medic was doing anything but filling a cavity. Medic asks TFC Heavy where they are going, to which the reply is hunting Medic's team. Medic, rather than objecting, sees this as a chance to pit his new experiments against his old ones, and claims it 'won't be a problem at all'.

The plot returns to Hale and Darling, with the latter confirming he had arranged travel for Hale and Maggie. The action switches to Scout on the phone with Miss Pauling (traveling with Demoman and Spy), confirming they had recruited Heavy. Pauling is pleased, telling them to get back across the border and report to the plane she had chartered in Kotzebue. Scout questions whether she thinks the Sniper is there in Australia, to which she confirms that it is certain. She expresses her hope that Sniper is happy to see them. The comic ends with the Sniper's iconic scope overlay aimed directly at Miss Pauling.

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Ciekawostki

• The title page is a reference to the cover page in the first issue of "Action Comics"
• On page 5, the Soldier is seen with a torn right sleeve, but on page 6 it is fixed. It returns to being ripped again on page 12.
• On page 13, Christopher the Communist Mountain is a reference to Ismoil Somoni Peak (пик Коммуни́зма), which was called Communism Peak from 1962 to 1998.
• On Page 22, The Soldier stating that menstruating women can attract bears is a reference to Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy, in which Brick Tamland says that a Woman's Menstruation blood can attract bears.
• On Page 29, the line "Of all the bones in all the hot dog costumes in Siberia, I gotta get one made outta egg shells." the Scout says is a reference to Humphrey Bogart's line in the 1942 movie Casablanca in which he says: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
• The bear on page 32, Smoulders, is a reference to Smokey Bear, a well known fire hazard mascot.
• On page 41, the mayor reads about the founder of Teufort, Claude Huggins. Claude Huggins is a minor character in the Left 4 Dead series as someone mentioned in wall graffiti. The writing that mentions him says "CLAUDE HUGGINS / YOU ARE A COWARD / AND YOU LET YOUR CHILDREN DIE".
  • Interestingly, according to the book The Mayor is reading, Claude Huggins family was killed by bears, possibly another reference to the graffiti message, which states Claude let his children die.
• On page 42, an old woman in the library is reading a dictionary under the letter P, with a concerned look on her face. In the previous comic, she stated that she was going to find out what the word pedophile meant.
• On page 53, the character on baby Scout's shirt is a cartoonized Francis the Talking France.
  • There is also a doll of Poopy Joe visible in the bottom left corner.
  • The baby Scout has blonde hair, suggesting it changed to brown from aging, or he uses dye.
• Page 58 contains an error; the Heavy says "It was was not planned".
• The Heavy's backstory, referenced on pages 60-62, was first alluded to on page 4 of Meet the Director.
• Throughout the comic, the Soldier's beard disappears and reappears twice.
• The original mercenaries from Team Fortress Classic appear for the first time in the TF2 universe, although much older, and missing their original Medic, who is replaced by the modern Medic.
  

  Image showing which TFC character is which

• In the comic, it is revealed that the Heavy's name is Misha (a short form for the Russian male name of Mikhail).
  • It is also revealed that he has 3 sisters: Yana, Zhanna and Bronislava.
• Medic's plan to attach baboon uteri to the classic mercs is a reference to Meet the Medic, where the Medic replaces Heavy's heart with a "Mega baboon" heart.

Linki zewnętrzne

• Zimny dzień w piekle (angielski) na oficjalnej stronie internetowej TF2.

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