"The Death of Riley"

"The Death of Riley is the second issue of the first series, and second issue over all. Despite the title, Riley doesn't die in this issue, he died last issue and dies again in issues 4, 4 again, 8, 11 and 14. This issue continues the Dark Lord story arc and the Riley arc.

## Plot

#### Previously

Shows images from issue 1, of Jack punching th fly, the Hyperion arriving, the 3 books, the free ice cream in book three, Riley first exiting into space, the Dark Lord telling Riley he will suffer, the Cyberman zapping Dylan, the Dark Lord ordering Riley's Death, and Riley's death itself.

*The story continues...*

#### Main Story

Finners is angry about Riley's death as the Dark Lord, Hyperion and Cyberman bck away into a portal. Riley's ashes are buried, and Finners visits Dylan in hospital. Dylan is dreaming about Riley's death, which wakes him up, where we learn he saw Riely's death take place in a last moment of conciousness.

A mysterious man jumps put of a portals, and walks to Riley's grave. He states hat he has come to do what must be done, and the Dark Lord on his throne choes the same, insinuating a deep connection with the two characters.

Next we see Dylan has recovered, and is consulting Jack and Finners on how to find the Dark Lord. Finners tells them that when they found Riley before, he was with the Dark Lord, meaning they know the location of the base. This is told though a flash back, featurning the panels of Finners finding Riley, and Dylan being angry. Finners now questions why Dylan was angry Riley was not there, and it is revealed that he needs his eye scan for the chocolate vault, angering Finners.

The man walks away from the grave, having finished whatever he has done. We next see the Dark Lord tell a Hyperion to stop Dylan and Jack, but to keep Finners alive, where it is then revealed the Dark Lord has a photo of Finners, and cares bout him greatly. The Hyperion teleports down and kidnapps Finners, bringing him back to the Dark Lord, who tells Finners he is back home.

The army gives Dylan and Jack a super awesome weapon, and they teleport away.

The Dark Lord is asked by Finners who he is, but instead he asks Finners if he knows who the strange man is, and he doesn't. THe strange man then states that it is time, We then see Riely's ashes grow eyes, and state that seomeone needs him, showing us the tombstone, saying "Riley I need you", as on the cover of this issue. The grave starts to glow. The Dark Lord is angry Finners doesn't know who the man is, so states Finners will die. A portal opens, and Dylan and Jack go through it, knowing it is a portal to the Dark Lord. They come through and hold him at gun point. He gets angry at his weak postion and reveals what is uner the cloak, revealing he is a cyborg.

Riley comes back as a ghost, and flies towards the pyramid, asking who said they needed him. The man owns up that he did it, because he needs to kill Riley, as he is a time bomb which will destroy time. Dylan notes that the books he saw told the truth, and remembers the ice cream, coming to the conclusion it is the onlyy way to defuse Riley, but the man decides it would be better if he died, so he can get revenge. The Dark Lord orders a hyperion to destory Earth, and it shoots a lava beam towards it. Dylan desorys it beofre it can do more damage, and takes Jack's coffee to kill the Dark Lord. The issue ends with Earht being hit and burnt.

#### Next Time

We get a small version of next issue's cover.

## Characters

* Dylan Marshall
* Riley Doherty
* Jack Doherty
* Finners
* The Dark Lord
* General
* Cyberman (1)
* Hyperion (2)
* Hyperion (3)

## Mistakes

#### Errors

* Many more spelling mistakes.
* Continues is scribbled out and fixed.
* On the back page, the "ne" of next time is written at the top, like last issue, but scribbled out, prsumably when i decided to change it to a cliffhanger and small preview.
* Fire is burning in space with no oxygen.

#### Continuity Errors

* Once again, a portal is used, this time twice, to go from one point in our owrld to another point in our world.
* The man's hands change from robotic to real when he points at Riley.
* Finners loses his wheel trolly when teleported to the Pyramid.
* Dylan and Jack teleport away to Finners, but then on the next page, they are still on Earth, and only go to the Pyramid when a portal opens up, again, breaking the yet to be set rules of the portals.
* The Dark Lord cares deeply about Finners, yet decides to kill him randomly.
* The Dark Lord rgains his hood for a single frame after it had been destroyed last page.
* Riley needed to be killed, and the man and Dark Lord wanted him dead, but this was already acomplished, yet they brought him back as a ghost just to kill him again, taking away from their entire goal.

## Notes

#### Continuity

* Riley's shirt does not change in this issue, but this isn't the end of it changing.
* Excluding all flashbacks, Finners has his speech format of ">speech<" 12/19 speech bubbles, giving it a frequency of 63% aprox compared to the 75% last issue.
* The issue connects directly from the last one and straight into the next one.
* This issue continues the Dark Lord arc and Riley arc.
* The coffee and chocolate plot points both wrap up in this issue.

#### Facts

* The cover is significantly different to the one on the back of issue 1, the difference being the Dark Lord has a full body, the rose is gone from the next time cover, and the general scale of things are different.

#### References

* The Hyperions are from Doctor Who.
* The Dark Lord is identical to the one from Crossy Road.