quote:Originally posted by Mystery Lad: SHOWCASE PRESENTS: ADAM STRANGE VOL. 1 TP Writer: Gardner Fox Artists: Mike Sekowsky, Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane, Murphy Anderson and others Collects stories from SHOWCASE #17-19 and MYSTERY IN SPACE #53-84 $16.99 US, 512 pages
This is why I love the Showcase series. Can't wait for this one. But also, the first Flash volume should be released this month.
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Okay, so after taking some time off from reading SHOWCASES, I picked up THE WAR THAT TIME FORGOT and THE FLASH today. Looking forward to getting into them this weekend!
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What's even cooler than WW2 era soldiers stuck on a Pacific Island inhabited by dinosaurs?
A WW2 era soldier stuck on a Pacific Island inhabited by dinosaurs with a robot!
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It's really amazing how appealing TWTTF is, considering every story has basically the same plot: soldiers crash on mysterious island inhabited by dinosaurs and have to fight their way off.
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Okay, so after reading something like half of TWTTF Friday and Saturday Night, I decided I had my fill of dinosaurs, and decided to start reading the Flash.
It begins pretty awesome, with a spectacular Golden Age Flash story! Then... I don't know. The first few Barry Allen stories were okay, but somehow they didn't do all that much for me.
But Grodd, Grodd is awesome!
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Some Flash thoughts:
1. Really enjoying stories where the Flash finds a hidden civilization and such; not enjoying rogue-of-the-week stories nearly as much.
2. Barry seems to have a freakish number of best or at least really good friends who make one appearance and then are never heard from again.
3. The Barry always showing up late thing get tiring after awhile, but his interaction with Iris is very 50s sitcomish (er... I mean that as a good thing ).
4. Wally rocks. He does lots of groovy stuff like prevent crooked construction companies from building new schools with inferior materials and saving kids from joining gangs and such!
5. Everything else pales before the grooviness of Grodd, however.
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Okay, so there's this freaky story where it turns out that the people of Earth are actually descended from aliens from a planet called Olimpus, and their leader Zus send this guy Posiden, master of water, down to reclaim their "lost colony". Fortunately, they are defeated by Flash and by learning about American History!
The awesomeness of Grodd is proved once more, when he super-fatasses the Flash.
Apparently, not only do aliens, people from the future, and creepy little people in bottled cities entertain themselves by watching our daily activities, but now schoolkids in other dimensions actually have classes in which they "study" Earth culture by spying on us with "photo-synths".
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Okay, so I finished up the Flash volume.
Most of the Rogues still don't do a lot for me, except Captain Cold and, of course, Grodd. I have to say that I enjoyed the volume quite a bit overall. Not the greatest of the Showcases, but a solid read. And it's of course important for the whole ushering in the Silver Age stuff.
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: 2. Barry seems to have a freakish number of best or at least really good friends who make one appearance and then are never heard from again.
That Barry was so fickle. He only liked to hang around "dangerous" friends like Hal Jordan and Al Desmond.
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Apparently, dinosaurs must *really* like the taste of American soldiers. Just put one on Dinosaur Island, and huge herds of dinosaurs will come rushing at them, ignoring all other possible prey. I mean... if I were a dinosaur, rather than rushing after that little tiny human, I might stop and devour the big carcass that was just killed by a grenade or something. Or, you know, maybe I'd take a bite of that li'l dinosaur running along next to me.
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