As America prepares to bomb Hiroshima to end World War II, a bunny scampers into the arms of the little girl who owns him. She cuddles him close as the bomb falls. When the blast clears, the girl was vaporized, but the bunny survives within her shadow and has no apparent injuries. American soldiers then reach the island and the bunny is found by Sergeant Calvin “Cal” Freling. Freling adopts the bunny and takes him home.
Scientists analyze the bunny and discover it was almost completely unharmed by the blast. The bunny also demonstrates enhanced intelligence, super strength, and a variety of other superpowers. The military thus gives the bunny, now known as USA GI intense military training until he’s one of the foremost warriors in America’s forces. Freling continues to be both USA GI’s owner and partner, and the military includes Freling in a new commando unit called ‘Black Hops’ which exists to support and reinforce USA GI as he goes on missions. This state of affairs continues for many years.
USA GI’s powers prevent him from aging, but Calvin eventually grows too old to continue serving. His son takes over as USA GI’s partner, handler, and trainer, but when he too grows old, none of his children want to enter military service. USA GI thus leaves active duty and goes to live with Calvin’s youngest grandchild, a park ranger and rancher named Penelope.
In the present day, a military officer visits Penelope, who says that USA GI is in the woods by Calvin’s gravesite. The soldier finds USA GI and tells him that he’s needed for a mission: Kim Jong-Un is going to launch a nuclear missile just off the coast of Hawaii, but the missile is notoriously inaccurate and there’s a good chance the missile will hit Honolulu and kill hundreds of thousands of people. A previous team sent into stop the missile has vanished and USA GI is now America’s only hope. Though reluctant, USA GI agrees to the mission.
USA GI parachutes into North Korea alongside several boxes of humanitarian aid. He activates his power to camouflage himself before approaching a nearby sentry outpost, gripping the hilt of a knife in his mouth, and slaughtering the soldiers. The North Koreans manage to get a few shots off and this (as well as the soldiers’ subsequent disappearance) is reported to a local commander, Officer Joon Dae-Jyung, who suspects the soldiers just ran off to hunt game. He authorizes the release of Korean water deer, better known as ‘vampire deer’ because of their fangs, to investigate and deal with any problems.
USA GI talks to a local rabbit and gets directions towards the launch site. He’s then attacked by the deer but manages to give them a good chase, trick one into tackling another, and kicks the third with legs powerful enough to send the deer flying back several feet. The other deer retreat and USA GI continues on until he reaches another patrol, which he slaughters with a grenade from his backpack.
Jang Song-Thaek, Kim Jong-Un’s uncle, tells Kim that they may be under attack by American commandos. An exasperated Kim orders the release of a unit of tigers to hunt down and kill the commandos, and also orders electronic countermeasures to disrupt their communications. The soldiers release the tigers and Dae-Jyung praises the tiger leader, a white tiger named Eun whom he raised and deeply cares for. USA GI is distracted by the electronic countermeasures for long enough that the tigers and their handlers get the jump on him.
USA GI battles the North Korean force, including by kicking one tiger into a soldier, tricking another tiger into accidentally attacking a second soldier, and using a bevy of weapons and attacks to whittle down the rest of the team. Eun survives and manages to fend off USA GI, who retreats into the woods. Jang hears of the casualties and again reports in. Kim, saying they’re too close to the launch to take any chances, orders an airstrike on the area even knowing it will kill his own troops. When Jang protests, Kim threatens to kill him, and Jang acquiesces.
Eun and USA GI continue to battle as North Korean bombers start their bombardment. Joon rushes forwards to tell Eun to retreat away from the bombs, but he’s too late; the bombs hit and devastate the local landscape. Joon is killed along with his men and Eun is maimed; USA GI drags Eun out of the flaming crater and Eun tells him how Joon raised him since birth and how they loved each other. USA GI gets Eun over to Joon’s body so the tiger can die by his master, then reflects on an aged Calvin preparing for his inevitable death and telling him how much he cares for him.
—Calvin Freling
USA GI continues towards the rocket launch site as Jang gets a report about the bombing. Jang orders a high alert for the launch site and also asks about Kim; he learns that the dictator went to the launch site in person and brought some kind of dangerous monster with him. He’s finally told that Kim wants him to guard the site personally, and that the launch’s success is his responsibility.
A patrol spots USA GI, who lures them near some snakes and then has the snakes attack the men. With the soldiers down, USA GI digs into the launch site, uses his camouflage to vanish from site as he lies down on the road, and hides himself in the undercarriage of a truck that passes over him. This gets him into the base and he captures a passing Jang by jumping onto a shoulder and holding a knife to his throat. Jang gets him into the base and USA GI forces Jang to enter a janitor’s closet; the bunny then kills Jang and continues on.
Kim is awaiting the launch when he sees an image of USA GI on a security camera and recognizes him. He sends his pet Tatzel to attack the bunny. USA GI runs for his first target, a missile’s radar installation atop the base and fights through more soldiers in a desperate attempt to destroy the installation before the missile launches. However, while he’s able to set up some explosives, he’s jumped by Tatzel — now revealed to be a Tatzelwurm, a legendary monster with the head of a cat and the body of a snake — before actually setting them off.
USA GI fights the monster but can’t defeat it. The Tatzelwurm smacks USA GI around and then spits acid on the explosives as well as USA GI’s remote, destroying them and making it impossible to blow up the radar. Soldiers appear and begin to shoot, though they’re hampered by fear of hitting the radar or the Tatzelwurm, and USA GI scampers to dodge while the missile launches.
Despite all seeming lost, USA GI realizes there’s still a way to win. The Tatzelwurm continues to spit acid as the rabbit runs around the radar apparatus. The acid misses and hits the radar station itself, corroding its base and eventually causing it to collapse. The missile’s safety overrides kick in as it loses its ability to aim and its warhead deactivates. Meanwhile, the corroding radar installation falls into the rest of the base and building starts to collapse. Kim flees as his subordinates are killed by falling debris. Moments later, the building explodes.
USA GI uses a balloon to ascend into the sky and is picked up by a plane. The missile lands in the ocean near Hawaii, setting off the Emergency Air Alert System
, but it doesn’t explode and nobody is harmed. The Tatzelwurm escapes from the launch site and vanishes into the wilderness. For his part, Kim realizes that if he couldn’t even beat a rabbit he has no hope against the American military, and so he publicly abandons his nuclear program and makes peace with the Americans at a summit.
USA GI returns home and rests with Penelope, back on leave… until he’s needed again.
This comic contains examples of the following tropes:
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Aluminum Christmas Trees: Korean water deer really do have big fangs, and they really are known as 'vampire deer' because of it. - And the Adventure Continues: USA GI returns home to rest, but the narration makes it clear he’ll be called on again when circumstances require it.
- Been There, Shaped History: It seems that USA GI caused both the 2018 Hawaii false missile alert and the 2018 Trump-Kim summit.
- Enemy Compassion: USA GI feels empathy for Eun and Joon, comparing their close relationship to his own relationship with Calvin.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Kim gives up on his nuclear plan after his troops, bombers, and even his pet monster fail to defeat a single American rabbit.
- Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: USA GI has to fight a tatzelwurm, a monstrous creature spoken of in folklore from the Alpine region.
