If you can, read the Innovation comics’s revival of Lost in Space from 1991. It’s hard to find but worth it. Great scripts by Peter David and Billy Mumy.
My favorite was the admission that Will Robinson’s puberty would be absolutely horrible:
Also, we learned more about the discovery that Aeolus 14 Umbra, the organization that hired Dr. Smith to sabotage the Jupiter II, was actually not Russian or Chinese, but aliens:
NOW-if this busy as all hell cover isn’t any indication, there are just WAY too many god damned mother-fucking characters in this book.
We got Young Justice, Naomi, the Wonder Twins, the Dial H-for-Hero..ers, and they ALL god damn TALK to each other in REALLY long conversations that take up the ENTIRE issue!
This issue is just ALL set up, there’s practically NO action outside of Superboy punching a dinosaur and feeling bad about it.
YES-there’s a nice little scene of Tim mentioning how Conner is his best friend and how he logically didn’t believe the evil Star-Labs lady, but for the most part its just way too over-whelming.
And even worse, it all falls into the same problem as ALL of Brian’s recent DC work, in that it starts out really interesting, sets up something REALLY cool…but peters into banality later on.
Its fine to build up a story something fierce, but if you can’t make the pay-off, all that build up is for nothing, and that’s ultimately Brian’s worst failing as a writer, be it Marvel or DC.
While I totally agree that Bendis should be banned from writing basically anything, but in this case Ensemble Books, it is worth mentioning that long dialogue-heavy pages seem to be an improvement for this run. In my opinion, this issue turned out to be the most coherent narration-wise, and, finally, I could get a sense of some plot happening and to get an expectation of it to unfold.It is a different matter that this plot inception would be most likely screwed up, with which I must sadly agree. It’s just like the man doesn’t have any long-time plan plotted for this team, which is probably the case, and which is tremendously unfair.Besides, an original YJ was indeed dialogue-heavy, seeing that its writer Peter David held an opinion that characterisation would gain depth and the comics pages - narrative quality if the characters themselves would interact not only in action-fueled scenes but in dialogues and even their own vocal narrations too.(and let’s face it, a substantial percentile of YJ readers have a blessed background of enjoying an original series, and probably would’ve given a limb to see Peter on the credits page again, so no complaints here about text-heavy pages).
From Captain Marvel Vol. 3 #6 by Peter David and ChrisCross. Rick hides Moondragon in the bathroom bound and gagged and blindfolded blasting Limp Bizkit (it was 2000, don’t judge) rendering her entirely sensory deprived. Also he didn’t dress Moondragon in that fetish outfit, that’s what she just wears (at the time). That’s Marlo, Rick’s on again, off again paramour looking justifiably shocked.
There’s an advance preview of next week’s HULK READING ORDER (1990-1992) on my P/At/rē0/N page, which you can see right now if you’re a ‘Beta Level’ supporter or higher! I’m loving retreading Peter David’s run on Hulk, it’s easily my favourite Marvel run of all time!
Bruce Banner personality is merged with his green & grey Hulk personas and a new Hulk is born! Allying with the Pantheon, this ‘Professor’ Hulk finds himself opposing the US Government’s X-Factor, the all-powerful Thanos , the manipulative Leader & more. But before that, his Mister Fixit persona briefly becomes a member of the New Fantastic Four!
My absolute favourite comics run of all time… Peter David’s Hulk gets it’s second reading order entry on the MARVEL COMICS GUIDE site! See the reading order, key covers and more in this chapter of the Green Goliath’s chronology.
