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The Fly
"The Book of Revelation"
The Fly: Outbreak #5 (IDW)
Comic book
Written by Brandon Seifert & Denton
J. Tipton
Art by menton3 & David Stoupakis
Lettered by Shawn Lee
Cover A by menton3
July 2015
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Return of Martinfly.
Read the summary of the
mini-series at RottenInk
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Dr. Martin Brundle
Noelani Tanaka
Beth Brundle
(dies in this issue)
Dr. Mayweather
(dies in this issue)
Major Vurvin
(dies in this issue)
Thompson
Kemal (dies in this issue)
Didja Notice?
After absorbing Noelani's transgenes into his own body through
telepod transport at the end of
"All Hell Breaks Loose",
Martin emerges looking similar to the Martinfly form he had during
the final act of
The Fly II,
but this time with wings.
In this issue, it seems that many of the
more humanoid-looking Frankenflies that have emerged at the
quarantine facility have molted into another, more fly-like form
while Martin, Beth, and Noelani were busy in the telepod lab.
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To make Martin human again, Beth uses the telepods to
absorb his transgenes, emerging herself like a
fly-version of the Bride of Frankenstein! Bride of the
Fly, I guess! |
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| Bride of the Fly |
Bride of Frankenstein |
When Noelani shoots the Bride of the Fly, she says it's about
stopping the flypocalypse. The Book of Revelation in
the Christian Bible foretells the coming of an
apocalypse, which it describes as the complete and final
destruction of the world.
At the end of this issue we finally learn that Noelani's last
name is Tanaka.
On the last page of the story, in panel 4, the words on the card
access reader are backward.
Unanswered Questions
The end of Outbreak is pretty ambiguous. Did Martin
die?
Who is it that is speaking the narrative in the final three
panels? We are seeing Noelani in these panels still, but is it
her speaking? It doesn't seem like she wants to be turned into
something else as the narrative says: "It wants to...turn me
into something else. That's not too terrible, is it? Most people
would give anything to be turned into something else."
In the final two panels, Noelani
opens a special door at Bartok Industries with her key card and
seems to reveal one of the humanoid Frankenflies. Who is it? Is
it the one who is speaking the narrative? Is it Martin?
