im Starlin's Mystery in Space

[yenaled]

Interview about Mystery in Space.

Sounds pretty interesting actually, I think Captain Comet... or just Comet (I can't say that without thinking of Supergirl's horse) being a main player has me interested enough. Definatly interested enough to pick up the miniseries. The art is nice too. Don't know much about The Weird and not sure if it is in trade anywhere. But some sci-fi stuff which is not Green Lantern Corps would be quite nice.

Though it makes me wonder what happens to Adam Strange in 52!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'll check it out. I don't know much about Captain Comet or the Wire or anyone who's mentioned in the article, really, but cosmic stories are always of interest to me. I don't quite get that splash page, though. Is this Comet dude a new guy who's replacing the original Captain Comet, or is that splash page a metaphorical picture or what?

 

[yenaled]

I'm guessing it is more metaphorical because when reading the article the image doesn't make any sense.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, I figured it was just a visual out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new. Although Comet's new costume begs the question: why do so many cosmic characters' designs include holes with ambiguous, gaseous crap coming out of them?

 

[yenaled]

I don't know, it does annoy me.

It always looks like something should be plugged in there, like, phone charger or cigarette lighter or vaccum extention.

But they never do.

I guess "mysterious gassy holes" arn't something we have in the normal world so add to the space and sci-fi aspect.

He's also lost the Hal Jordan-esque grey sideburns, perhaps Parallax has been driven out of him too!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, he looks a lot younger. I hope that's explained in the story. I kind of liked the graying temples.

 

[yenaled]

Yeah same, always a fan of the "elder statesman" look gives him an apperance that "he's not going to take **** because he has been beating up people for longer than you have and he still can".

I like the way in the article they say he only apperaed in a handful of books, but some how he has become the "grand old daddy of space heroes" - representing an age of space heroes which we don't have now.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I didn't even know about Captain Comet before Rann/Thanagar War. I should look up some of his older stuff and get a better sense of the character's history. I always thought of Adam Strange as DC's grandaddy of space heroes.

 

[Spectre722]

they better not replace the classic captain comet. that dude was a bamf.

 

[Tropico]

I didn't even know about Captain Comet before Rann/Thanagar War. I should look up some of his older stuff and get a better sense of the character's history. I always thought of Adam Strange as DC's grandaddy of space heroes.

He was part of L.E.G.I.O.N. and those were his most recent appearances before Rann/Thanagar.

 

[yenaled]

they better not replace the classic captain comet. that dude was a bamf.

They say in the article it is Captain Comet, just he is going under the same kind of badasstry that they put Adam Strange through in Planet Heist.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hopefully it takes as well as it did with Adam.