I’m A Monster
Buster has had to deal with feeling like a monster for a long time. When his hand was first bit off it was replaced by a hook, which left him unable to do many things that normal sons do (like backrubs and unzip their mother and such).
When Buster gets hurt while working for the Army, he gets a big hand from the United States. Literally, a large hand. It’s better than his hook, kind of. Buster tanks his rehab since he doesn’t want to get back in the game and hurt people again. Sadly, he isn’t able to crush a cat and so he gets kicked out of the Army and sent looking for a place to live. Fortunately, he is seen by Herbert Love’s wife, who adopts him in an effort to create a Blindside-like story for Love’s campaign.
Eventually things don’t work out with the Loves and Buster the monster is again sent out into the world, only to be constantly reminded that he is indeed just a monster, and that means he doesn’t have to be good. Which he isn’t, when he uses his super-strength to knock out Herbert Love.
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