Marvel Deluxe. Lobezno #3
"El Hombre del Pozo" delivers a chilling, character-driven twist on the mutant mythos, spotlighting Wendell, a quiet man whose mundane existence revolves around a grim daily ritual: firing a machine gun at a feral, healing mutant trapped in a pit. Written by Jason Aaron and Santiago García, with moody, textured art by Howard Chaykin and coloring by Edgar Delgado, the story builds tension through isolation and unease. When the man in the pit begins speaking to him, the fragile balance of Wendell’s world starts to unravel—cover by Dave Wilkins.
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Wendell is a small, average man with a pitiful life; Every day he goes to his job, sitting at a machine gun and periodically shooting a hairy, feral man in a pit to keep the savage mutant's healing factor in overload so he cannot escape; Wendell's life is not all that great but he manages to keep it under control; That is, until the man in the pit, the man he continually shoots day in and day out, starts talking to him.
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