Rush City (comics)

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title =Rush City
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caption = "Rush City" #0 cover art by Joe Ng
schedule = Monthly
format = Limited Series
publisher = DC Comics
date = September 2006-07
issues = 6
main_char_team = Rush

past_current_color = background:#5be85b
creators = Chuck Dixon
Joe Ng and Timothy Green II
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Rush City is a six-issue comic book limited series published monthly by DC Comics from September of 2006 until 2007. The series is written by Chuck Dixon with illustrations by Timothy Green II colored by Jose Villarrubia. DC Comics produced a special Zero issue web-comic that is available on the DC Comics website, and was packaged with the August 2006 issue of the GamePro magazine. The title features Diego Zhao, an Asian American private investigator who goes by the street name of Rush. Although the series is a crime drama, it does however take place within the continuity of the greater DC Universe.

ummary

As illustrated in the web comic, Diego was once a respected firefighter in Brooklyn, New York. One evening, Diego and his fiancée, Maggie Flynn, decided to spend an evening out on the town, leaving Maggie’s daughter Sam at home with a babysitter. Coming home later that evening, the inebriated Zhao discovered Maggie's apartment building on fire. He rushed into the burning building to rescue Sam, but the flames were too intense. Sam died, and Diego suffered massive burns that placed him into a coma for two months.

When he awakened, the guilt of losing his would-be stepdaughter consumed him. He dedicated himself towards helping others and became a privatized hero calling himself Rush.

Rumors of this mysterious new urban hero, Rush, began circulating throughout the city. Unfortunates in need began to admire him, and underworld figures learned to fear him. Anonymous posters circulated the city streets and alleys exclaiming, "Lost Someone? U Need Rush".

In one of his first recorded cases, Rush came into the employ of a woman named Syrese Daly. Syrese hired him to find her missing daughter, Aminta. Aminta was not only missing, but she was also diabetic. Without access to her regularly scheduled insulin injections, the nine-year-old girl had less than twenty-four hours to live.

Rush investigated the matter and learned that she was last seen in the company of a strange man in a nearby music outlet. He tracked the man to his home only to discover that he had since sold the girl to a criminal named Moto. Rush clashed with Moto on the streets of Brooklyn, but succeeded in rescuing the young girl in time. He brought her safely to Bellevue Hospital and reunited Aminta with her mother.

Trivia

* Diego Zhao earned the nickname Rush due to his ability to effectively move quickly through a blazing fire.

* Rush City is also the name of an actual city in the state of Minnesota.

* Gearhead appears in a cameo.

* Black Canary makes a guest appearance in Rush City #2 and 3

* Diego Zhao drives a modified Pontiac Solstice GXP.

External links

* [http://promo.dccomics.com/rushcity/ Rush City page at the DC Comics web-site]
* [http://www.dcdatabaseproject.com/wiki/index.php/Comics_Rush_City Rush City series index at the DC Database Project]
* [http://comicbookbrain.com/z022_rush_city_1_2_3_4.php Rush City] Review of the four issue series with images and information