TITLE: Mantra vol. 1, Issue 2
YEAR: August 1993
COMPANY: Ultraverse/Malibu Comics
Writer: Mike W. Barr
Penciller: Terry Dodson
Inker: Al Vey
Letterer: Patrick Owsley
Colorist: Moose Baumann
Editor: Chris Ulm
Warstrike is created by Dan Danko
Boneyard was created by Chris Ulm
With the eternal warrior Lukasz trapped in the body of the beautiful Eden Blake, the warrior must now deal with being a single mother of two, trying to find out what happened to the sorcerer he serves, Alrchimage and who betrayed him.
But first, the question is why has Warstrike appeared at Eden Blake’s home?
With Warstrike feeling terrible for killing the man that Lukasz was using as his body, he feels even worse that without Archimage, he is trapped in the body of Eden.
Meanwhile, Archimage is being tortured by Boneyard, more specifically the demented Notch.
As for Lukasz, he now must deal with being a woman, being a parent of two kids, Lukasz must try to attempt to get a mask that Notch and the others are after. But one she puts the mask on, she transforms into Mantra.
And both Mantra and Warstrike take on Notch and others. But now Lukasz must master the magical powers that he now has with Eden’s body and develop the new magical powers but also getting used to being in Eden’s body.
And as Lukasz knows he must play the role of Eden and be a parent to her two children, as he takes them out to the movies,a group of men show up wanting the mask from Eden. She blasts them with her magical powers and burns them alive but instead of dying, they come back alive.
As the fighting with the men lead to people in the theater to run for their lives, can Mantra (Lukasz) who is still learning his powers, defeat these evil men who are after her mask?
An interesting storyline for the most part, but issue #2 is when we actually get the first introduction of Lukasz as Mantra and we get to see the first demonstration of power that Mantra may have.