Friday, March 23, 2007

In Darkness, A Light can be seen



Written by Kal-El


Anybody remembered the Marvel pair of Cloak and Dagger? I did. This was a story of teenagers, an African American boy and a Caucasian girl born from Ohio. They go by the name of Tyrone Johnson and Tandy Bowen, as these teenagers are both runaways, Tyrone ran away to New York City when his speech impediment had led to his best friend's death, and Tandy's mother who is a rich multimillionaire Supermodel, who didn't pay any attention to Tandy, a mother that was too busy with her own career and social lifestyle. These two teenagers accidentally met when Tyrone was attempting to steal Tandy's purse for which someone else stole it first.

Tyrone and Tandy only found out about their true powers later on after an experimental drug was given to them against their own will by the agents of Silvermane. The truth reveals, Tyrone and Tandy are both Mutants, Now Cloak with his special gained ability to access the "Darkforce Dimension" through his extra dimensional clock, will give out fear and often stir the victim as crazy as catatonically insane. Where as Tandy now becomes Dagger with a symbol on her right eye, gained to ability to generate a powerful light that light sometimes can be offensive as "Light daggers" that could stun and cause burns, sometimes even heart attack.

Cloak and Dagger now tend to live in Churches, They both face trouble cause mostly by the likes of the super villain known also as Dr.Doom and Dr.Jip. Cloak and Dagger often run away many time, whether it's distance or even dimensions. Dagger is the only person that could use her light powers in Tyrone's darkness cloak. Cloak and Dagger have become romantically involved, though their relationship has ups and downs, you could say they’ve stuck through thick and thin together.

In a story from Maximum Carnage series, Dagger was incorrectly believed to have been Murdered, and Cloak’s insanity drove him to find her killers in this story, This short lived characters from Marvel in the end have joined up with several teams like Spiderman, Daredevil, Moon knight, The Black Widow, The Power Pack, The Avengers, S.H.E.I.L.D. and now defunctional "Marvel Knights".

Cloak and Dagger's life story is all about stopping Drug dealers, Terrorist and saving the world from villains taking over.

I guess everyone deserved each other even in its darkest hour...like Cloak and Dagger.

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