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Quote1 I don't want to hear your Raymond-Chandler-novel of the day, Howie. I just want to hear about your money and how it's going to be my money. Quote2
Vulture (Adrian Toomes)

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Vulture Robbers (First appearance)
  • The Hand (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
    • Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
    • Numerous Unnamed Ninja Monkeys (First appearance) (Only in flashback)

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

  • Humans (Main story and flashback)
  • Anthropomorphic Animals (Main story and flashback)

Locations:

  • Battleworld (Main story and flashback)
    • New Quack City (Main story and flashback)
      • Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
        • Connors' Pub (First appearance)
        • The Cat Lady's Penthouse (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
        • Hen's Kitchen (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
        • Chinatown (First appearance) (Only in flashback)

Items:

Vehicles:

  • Howard's '85 Catlass (First appearance)
  • Numerous NQPD Police Vehicles (First appearance)

Synopsis for 1st story

In the Battleworld domain of New Quack City, a Howard the Human is a private investigator who is the only known human living there. Upon being approached by Adrian Toomes of the Vulture Robbers, to whom Howard owed money, in Connors' Pub, which is owned by bartender Curt Connors, Howard started to tell them the tale of what had happened to him earlier that day.

Howard had been hired by the Cat Lady to find a spy inside her organization, but someone was able to find him before Howard, and killed him. The Cat Lady then gave Howard twelve hours to find the assassin, otherwise she would kill him.

Howard sought the help of Mouse Murdock, who figured out that the informant was playing possum on orders from a Wilson Fisk who wanted to take his main rival, the Cat Lady, down. As he didn't want anyone messing up with his plan, Fisk ordered his Hand monkey ninjas to kill them, and Howard was knocked out, but Murdock managed to defeat them all alone.

After regaining consciousness, Howard was given a piece of paper with the information he needed to solve the case by Murdock, who told him he himself would deal with Fisk afterwards. With the authorities soon arriving, Howard, who was running out of time on the Cat Lady's deadline, took his car and fled the scene to Connors' Pub as the paper had instructed.

Back in the present, the Cat Lady entered the bar with her gang to kill Howard for not completing his mission, but in the nick of time, K-9 Police Officers arrived, arresting both Hardy and Toomes, as well as their henchmen.

Ultimately, the informant, Peter Possum, revealed himself to have been hiding in the back room at Connors' Pub all along, and when Felicia asked Howard why he had done what he did, when he could had turned the spy over to her and walked away with a lot of money, he replied that Toomes would have taken his money if he had done it that way, so he decided to turn the informant over to the district attorney, take the reward offered for his capture, and allow him to testify against the Cat Lady instead.

Solicit Synopsis

• Spend a day with Howard, a private investigator and the only human living in city full of animals. But not, like, criminals and lowlifes. We’re talking elephants, apes, ducks and kitty cats. Catching a case, grinding a few gears, dodging some bullets and almost getting killed by an anthropomorphic monstrosity. It’s just another Monday for Howard the Human brought to you by Skottie Young (ROCKET RACCOON) and Jim Mahfood (MIAMI VICE REMIX).

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