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A little heavy-handed inking it seems.

Um, ah, when did Garth find out about Mekt possibly having a twin? Did I miss an issue or is LSH #1 the first time this has come up? Seems like Garth would go home and talk to his parents, wouldn't it? I mean where do you go to find out about a heretofore unknown sibling, you go ask Mom and Dad what happened, right.

What I'm asking is why take your kids from your parents planet and drop them off with the wife and then go scouring the universe looking for Mekt's twin? What does that accomplish? It seems to me that those circumstances, finding out that you have a grown sibling that you hadn't heard about before, would require some intense family-time WITH the wife and kids by your side. Not that I'm trying to say anything, I'm just saying, it seems to me.

Mekt, imprisoned on New Takron Galtos, claimed that he had a twin in Adventure #2, and asked Garth to find that twin. Last panel we see Garth racing off to Winath, presumably to grill his parents.

We don't know if Mekt is lying or telling the truth at this point.

Beautiful Yildiray pencils!

You would think that was a reasonable course of action but perhaps he is working off the experience of his own children where they had no real idea that Graym had a twin until some time later.

Come to think about perhaps Mekts twin is the new Validus?

Oh my God, I'm so confused now!
*groan*

For someone who comes from a planet full of people who live and die by their family connections, particularly to their twins, Garth sure does want to handle stuff alone a lot, doesn't he?

Mekt spends his life running to the sort of relationships that Garth spends his life running away from.

Seeing the pencils again, I feel the inker really kind of botched things a bit.

Garth and Ayla (and Mekt's) parents died when their space cruiser collided with an asteroid waaay back in Bates/Grell days. his "folks" that Imra mentions must be aunt's/uncle's or other relatives. given that Saturn Queen is on the next cover, i'm wondering if Mekt's "twin" is his adult, time-stream-hopping, LSV counterpart. or maybe he considers Cosmic King to be his true "twin", or maybe the whole thing is BS to lure Garth into a trap.

Those pencils are as good as or even better than much of the stuff that was published when I first started collecting in the early '80s. And far and away better than almost everything published in the Liefeld years of the '90s.

More Yildiray pencils:

Wavy-haired Tinya is soooo cute!

It's very hard to retain the spontaneous feel of pencils when you "make the crossing" to inks. I used to have the same reaction all the time in art classes, when I'd see a pencil sketch for a famous painting and I'd end up liking the sketch much more than the "real" work.

Give it some time, huh? It will probably get better. I've certainly seen much worse match-ups than this.

Great drawings!

I'd love to get the entire story in pencils, every month!
Thanks, lil'rhino for just these!

That last page just knocks my socks off!!
Brainy calmly walking thru all the destruction as the p.o.v. slowly zooms closer until you can see debris bouncing off his force shield.
Very cinematic!!

I just picked up the Variant Cover issue of LoSH#1 for cover price! at a local SF Book Store. Since I got that so cheap I also bought the 2nd Paul Levitz / Steve Lightle LoSH trade paperback.

Maybe this is just me, but it seems disrespectful to me that PG is phasing thru a fallen comrade's statue, just to razz Brainy about talking to himself (who doesn't?). In an emergency, sure, but that's clearly not the case here. It would be like walking on a loved one's grave in real world terms.

I thought it looked a bit weird, too, but I like the "ghost in the graveyard" aspect of it.

Good point. I suppose one could argue that Tinya wasn't sure where she would emerge from the wall. To me, the scene looked as if it were intended to be symbolic -- a "phantom" emerging from the statue of a dead Legionnaire -- but symbolic of what I couldn't say.

Hadn't really thought about it. I'd be inclined to say that not every culture venerates the dead in exactly the same way and leave it at that.

I'd hate it if my friends & teammates felt they couldn't phase thru my memorial statue!!
I'd want them to laugh & reminisce & feel free to be themselves!!