#03 Origin Finale
#03 Origin Finale
This is the end of the Doll Origins Trilogy. It took an intense nine months of work to produce these 102 pages. Colwell would restore himself by travelling to Italy to see the great art of the Renaissance, by finishing a large oil painting that has been waiting for the comic passion to subside and by spending some time with nature.
Back to our story. Murphy realizes that Glib may have conned him by not securing a contract before letting Sid take off with Doll, so he calls one of his fixers to locate her.
Wiley consoles Evergood, who despairs of ever getting Doll back, but Joanie and Alicia offer to go talk to Glib themselves. Meanwhile, Murphy’s fixer locates Sid, who is letting his friends sample Doll’s talents. After they leave Murphy’s goons, who have infiltrated Glib’s house, steal Doll back after trying out her body themselves. Joanie and Alicia show up to see Doll being loaded out a back door.
They follow the goons to a bad part of town where some punks steal Doll right out of their car. The punks take Doll to their hideout where they use her for what she was meant for, then take her for a ride where they run into Murphy and his thugs. They give chase with and run the punks off the road.
With Murphy once again in possession of Doll, Crespok desperately plans to burgle Mal’s house to try a last-ditch effort to retrieve Doll. Murphy, waiting for him, berates and insults him and Evergood, who it turns out is very sick, collapses. Murphy’s staff, disgusted with his behaviour, take Crespok to a hospital while Murphy consoles himself he still has Doll.
At the hospital, where Wiley and his friends find out how desperate Evergood’s case is, Wiley swears to get Doll back for him in order to save his life, which is hanging by a thread but which might be saved by emotional healing.
He returns to Murphy to find him burning files and preparing to flee the country. Apparently his erstwhile staff have reported him to the authorities and now he’s on the run from the IRS and other government entities. He tells Wiley to go ahead and take Doll, he no longer cares, and Wiley triumphantly returns Doll to Evergood.
Evergood experiences a last, pleasurable fantasy with Doll on his bedside, imagining her animate and in love with him. Then he dies.
Back at the studio Wiley and his friends debate the pitfalls of sex and relationships and the danger Doll poses to men and their weaknesses. Finally, Wiley decides that instead of destroying her, he will use her to make a memorial art piece for Evergood, which he displays at his new show.
This ends the main origin trilogy.
However, this is not the end of Doll, many more adventures will follow in issues 4-8!
#03 Origin Finale
