Spratt
Spratt was an associate of the Freelance Peacekeeping Agent Death's Head in the year 8162. (COMIC: Death's Head Revisited [+]Loading...["Death's Head Revisited (comic story)"], etc.)
Biography
Spratt was a member of the Chain Gang in Greater Britain, and spent years scavenging for resources for the group. (COMIC: Contractual Obligations [+]Loading...["Contractual Obligations (comic story)"]) He first met Death's Head when he repaired him after the freelance peacekeeping agent was damaged in an encounter with Dragon's Claws. (COMIC: Death's Head Revisited [+]Loading...["Death's Head Revisited (comic story)"]) The Chain Gang was disbanded after another encounter with Dragon's Claws, leaving Spratt without any ties to the area. When Death's Head left, Spratt snuck up on him, something no one else had ever done, and volunteered his services as a partner, arguing that he could help Death's Head with the business side of freelance peacekeeping. Death's Head declined, which Spratt ignored. (COMIC: Contractual Obligations [+]Loading...["Contractual Obligations (comic story)"])
Spratt continued to stick with Death's Head on a flight to Los Angeles. When animal rights activists attempted to hijack the plane, Spratt dramatically took them down singlehandedly, leading Death's Head to reluctantly give him a chance. (COMIC: High Stakes [+]Loading...["High Stakes (comic story)"])
In Los Angeles, Death's Head took on a contract to take out a corrupt businessman named Ogrus; Spratt committed the prospective reward money as down payment on an office. Spratt got underfoot when Death's Head tried to get information from a target about Ogrus's location. When the unwilling informant threatened to kill Spratt if Death's Head didn't back off, the peacekeeping agent told the man he'd be doing him a favour and stood there until the informant gave in. A furious Spratt attempted to attack the informant but was thrown aside by Death's Head. This chain of events led Spratt to realise that Death's Head didn't particularly respect him, and when Death's Head's attempt to take down Ogrus seemed to be going south he attempted to intervene. Ultimately he succeeded and helped knock out Ogrus. (COMIC: High Stakes [+]Loading...["High Stakes (comic story)"])
While Death's Head worked to draw out a target known as the PlagueDog, Spratt went to look over their new office. Unbeknownst to him, the office space was the home base of the PlagueDog, which attacked him. After a desperate fight Spratt killed it, and tiredly greeted Death's Head when he arrived. (COMIC: PlagueDog! [+]Loading...["PlagueDog! (comic story)"])
Spratt soon had to share the office space with the vulture, who would peck at him whenever he tried to answer the phone. On one such occasion the vulture answered a call from Pyra. (COMIC: Sudden Impact! [+]Loading...["Sudden Impact! (comic story)"])
Spratt tagged along on the pursuit of a shapeshifter named Photofit, volunteering to look around his last known location at a TV studio while Death's Head went to get a device that could identify him. Spratt found a body stuffed into a storage closet, and assuming that Photofit had taken on the dead man's appearance set off to find him... only to run onto the set of a live game show. The show host enlisted him as a competitor, and Spratt almost won until Photofit, who wanted the winning prize of a trip to Rio, threatened to shoot him. Fortunately for Spratt Death's Head crashed through the wall at this point. Photofit attempted to escape but was taken out by an explosion, and Death's Head and Spratt looked to see if they could find enough of him to claim the bounty. (COMIC: Shot By Both Sides [+]Loading...["Shot By Both Sides (comic story)"])
Spratt finally managed to answer the phone by punching the vulture out of the air, to another call from Pyra. He lied that Death's Head would meet her at the docks at midnight, instead going there himself in an attempt to ascertain just what her relationship with Death's Head was. (COMIC: Clobberin' Time! [+]Loading...["Clobberin' Time! (comic story)"]) Once at the meeting place he began to second guess this plan, but before he could leave he was swooped at by the vulture, who had followed him. The two of them then came face to face with Pyra, who used majik to interrogate Spratt as to the whereabouts of Death's Head. When she determined that he didn't know, she made as if to leave him to be consumed by shadow creatures, but was interrupted by Big Shot, who had been tracking Spratt for days as a means of locating Death's Head. Spratt took advantage of the distraction to summon Death's Head's ship, and he and the vulture escaped into it, pursued by Big Shot. (COMIC: The Body in Question [+]Loading...["The Body in Question (comic story)"])
The ship went through a dimensional portal and arrived in the year 2020, where Spratt reunited with Death's Head, much to the latter's disappointment as he considered Spratt's absence one of the upsides to being stranded in that time period. (COMIC: The Cast Iron Contract [+]Loading...["The Cast Iron Contract (comic story)"]) Big Shot attacked Death's Head, and Spratt cheered the latter on from the sidelines, suggesting various gruesome murder methods. He and the vulture both looked on in dismay when Big Shot dealt a crushing blow to Death's Head. Spratt continued to observe as Pyra arrived on the scene, saving Death's Head and making as though she would kill him herself until Ty Rejutka Lupex teleported him away. She then placed Spratt and the vulture under her thrall, keeping them still until Death's Head returned. As she left, a perplexed Spratt asked why Death's Head was just letting her go instead of killing her. (COMIC: The Body in Question [+]Loading...["The Body in Question (comic story)"])
At some point, Spratt died. When Death's Head II was trapped in cyberspace, Death's Head reflected that he would have saved him if he could have. (COMIC: The Incomplete Death's Head [+]Loading...["The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)"])
Behind the scenes
The individual who repairs Death's Head in "Death's Head Revisited" is only identified as Spratt in the Incomplete Death's Head reprint of the story, and does not match later appearances of Spratt in either appearance or personality.
