Some super-powered, talking tigers have been on the rampage killing accountants at City Hall. The Mayor wants Cage to investigate.
Cage's reaction?...
Yeah. Fuck that talking tiger shit bro'. Get the Avengers on it.Of course there's a moment in every Luke Cage story where Luke finds out that the half assed super-villain jive is for real. In the case of Hero for Hire #13, that moment comes when Cage is attacked by the very same cats that he's been so keen to pooh pooh...
It takes something as painful as a tussle with multilingual tigers to wake Cage up to reality, but once he's onside there's no holding him. He pummels the big cats into submission while at the same time delivering the coolest speech ever given by a man punching an animal...
whupping safely delivered, the cats slink off leaving Cage to recover. Once he's rested up he gets down to some detective work. Ever the sceptic, he's still keen to find a rational, jive free answer to the puzzle of the talking tigers. And, after a bit of digging around in City Hall, he manages to link the death of an accountant at the hands (or paws) of the big cats to a crazed Spanish teacher with a passion for the circus and an axe to grind about education cuts.
Here's our man...
That's Cage's speech bubble in the bottom right hand corner. Even after seeing the talking tigers at close quarters he's reluctant to believe they're for real. It takes a classic bit of exposition from the baddie to finally convince him that this cat and his cats are what they say they are...
Yeah, yeah. Heard it all before mate. Doctor Doom you ain't.
Needless to say Cage isn't impressed by all this either and delivers a few rudimentary lessons of his own to Lionfang accidentally killing him in the process...
Oh well, shit happens.
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