Issue: 726
Cover: Ancestor, The Supreme and Maggie are in the back
Published: October 13, 1989

Summary Added: October 29, 2001

The Supreme rushes down to find Ancestor gone with only his clothes remaining behind. Hearing some rustling in the bushes he spots Ancestor shirtless and looking to be in a state of bliss. Ancestor turns and notices The Supreme standing there. Given that he has absolutely zero respect for The Supreme he assumes that he has come to attend to him. It turns out that Maggie was only giving Ancestor a backrub but it still disturbs The Supreme to see her acting almost like a servant. Ancestor orders The Supreme to demonstrate his ability to control the sword. The Supreme begins puts on a short show and then orders the sword to return instead as he reaches out to grab it the sword flies right over to Ancestor's awaiting hand.

Meanwhile, a couple of men are poking around near the corpse of a dead bull. Suddenly the beast begins to rise up as it's flesh melts away. The bones drop revealing a large humanoid wearing the bulls' skull. It tosses the skull in to the air to reveal Strange Creature (Last seen battling Chan Ou Wan in issue 694). He takes in a deep breath and exhales a cloud of green smoke, killing the two men. He spots a lizard crawling around and spits out a long thick strand of green mucous that grabs up the animal. Drawing it into his mouth he consumes the animal whole. Next he leans his head back and and begins expelling the mucous, wrapping it around his body like a caccoon.

Elsewhere, Barbarian and Guy are continuing there search on horseback. Suddenly a blob of green goo flies towards them. Barbarian tosses a handkerchief at the slime but only manages to split it into to pieces. Barbarian and Guy manage to repel the pieces with their Kung Fu and then dismount to further investigate. The two dismount to further investigate. Barbarian stomps his foot which sends out a shockwave shatterinf a tree in it's path. High up in the tree tops is what looks like a gigantic green spider web with with a cacoon in the center. As Barbarian and Guy walk through the woods unbeknownst to them the cacoon decends towards Guy. Opening up it grabs ahold of Guy and yanks him up into the air. Barbarian leaps into the air and tears at the caccoon revealing Guy and Strange Creature. Strange Creature spits some poison slime towards Barbarian but has it blocked. Meanwhile, Guy manages to struggle loose while Barbarian punches Strange Creature right in the ribs. Barbarian leaps towards the ground to save the falling Guy but before he hits the ground Strange Creature spits out some more goo which grab Guy's ankle like a lasoo. Guy, who looks to be unconcious at this point is yanked back into the air. Barbarian begins knocking down trees in an attempt shake Strange Creature loose but creature has already fled. Guy is tossed into a coffin and kicked from a cliff towards a river below. Seeing his friend in danger, Barbarian dives right off the cliff but before he can reach the coffin his ankle is grabbed with some more disgusting slime. The river is filled with dozens, perhaps even hundreds of coffins floating downstream. Barbarian manages to break the strand of slime and holds onto the cliff face. When Strange Creature begins using the slime as a whip, Barbarian decides it's time to dive down into the river.

Issue: 727
Cover: Barbarian
Published: October 20, 1989

Summary Added: November 19, 2001

Barbarian dives into the water to save Guy. He starts grabbing up caskets and tearing their lids off but to no avail. Meanwhile Poison Devil comes riding up on the front of a speedboat driven by a pair of underlings. As he approches Barbarian he begins covering his fists in more strands of disgusting green spittle. He leaps from the boat and attacks with Wicked Dragon's Entangling Silk while Barbarian counters with his Ancient Electric Bolt Grade 32. When the two powerful opponents meet palm to palm the poisonous silk on Poison Devil hands begin to wrap tightly around Barbarian's fore-arms. With Barbarian's arms restrained Poison Devil tries to unleash a blast of poison fluid but gets his head knocked back by a kick to his jaw. Pulling himself free Barbarian delivers a punch to the stomach that lifts his opponent into into the air followed by an uppercut knocking Poison Devil into the river. Poison Devil knows that he can't stand up to Barbarian's inner power so he decides to try and extend the fight in the hope that his poison will wear Barbarian down. Barbarian on the other hand has had enough of this encounter and orders his bizaare opponent to release Guy or face having his skull cracked open. Poison Devil's tells Barbarian 'You killed my master!'. This is surprising not so much with what Poison Devil said but the fact that he said anything. Up until now I had thought he was mute. Anyway, I don't know who his master is but Barbarian uses his hovering pace to walk over the water and resume his attack. Poison Devil misses with a palm and ends up taking several kicks to the upper torso. He lands in the water again and takes a huge elbow to the back of the head. Poison Devil manages to knock his foe away but Barbarian is right back on him and punches him out of the water. Barbarian leaps from the water but misses with a strike that crashes into the side of a mountain. Poison Devil isn't looking too well and desides it's time to flee. He runs down to the river and jumps onto one of the caskets, riding it like a surfboard. Barbarian followes right along. All the caskets are flowing into a cave that contains several of Poison Devil's henchmen. As he approaches the cave, Barbarian tosses one of the caskets forward smashing into the head of one of the henchmen. Poison Devil opens a casket and reveals it's contents, a badly poisoned Guy.