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Fanboy Still Comes From Fanatic 0
And now for something quite different.Mark Waid's World's Finest: Teen Titans #3 - Welcome to Titanscon! is a somewhat fresh approach to the Classic Teen Titans. It is similar to Teen Titans: Year One #4 - Flash in the Pan. There is a convention devoted to Titans fandom. This feeds Roy and Wally's need for attention. It's also surprising for "fish out of water" Donna and Garth. Ultimately frightening for Karen, as Toyboy invades the Con to express his undying infatuation for Bumblebee.Once again...
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Fear Beneath The Surface 0
Mark Waid's World's Finest: Teen Titans #2 - Inside Out opens with Karen and Garth arriving at Donna Troy's, where they meet Mal Duncan. The four spend and enjoyable day together, until Titans business calls them to join Robin, Speedy, Lilith and Gnark in North Carolina. They're looking for a missing 16-year-old girl. Lilith has followed her psychic trail to Gothic mansion. It turns into a house of horrors for Aqualad, Speedy and Wonder Girl, until Garth manages to find a common solution.Waid co...
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Yesterday Is Tomorrow 0
Star Trek is an enjoyable series, and formula. Since the end of the Original Series, the concept has been expanded into a franchise. Some have been more successful than others. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds could very well be another hit.The first episode is very much familiar. Captain Pike is filled with doubt and reluctance about command. Anson Mount's Christopher Pike is very similar to the classic, memorable, Jeffrey Hunter version. There is very little of Pike, or his time as Captain of the...
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The Kids Are Alright 2
I can't believe that it has been fifteen years since Amy Wolfram's Teen Titans: Year One...Mark Waid is a very talented, enjoyable writer. He's had an extensive relationship as biographer of Wally West. I enjoyed his recent relaunch of Archie. One of my favorite stories is the 1996 three-issue Justice League: A Midsummer's Nightmare. "Nightmare" stands out because Waid reunited the Justice League in a world where the team lived civilian lives surrounded by people with super powers. Pretty cool t...
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...And In The Spotlight 2
I've been away from reading Titans, and most comics in general for awhile. The number of relaunches and reboots has been daunting. It may or may not be true and real, however, it just feels as if there continues to be one event right after another, with no pause between. That and the rising cover price has given me pause. Along comes Dawn of DC Titans. I'm not sure what event caused the disappearance of the Justice League. The last series of that title I read brought together a pretty cool line-...
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An Interesting Concoction 2
McLintock! is an interesting story. It is a Western-comedy, loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. It is also John Wayne retconning The West, and pontificating his personal beliefs and convictions.Invariably, there might be some comparisons between the comic book adaptation and the original source material. It is quite possible to enjoy the same story in different forms: as a novel, comic book, live action film, or television. The comic book adaptation of McLintock! diff...
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The Darkening 2
Martin Pasko and Len Wein put Plastic Man between a rock and a hard place. The classic situation: rescue the damsel in distress or rescue the buddy in danger. Here it's hilarious. Plas pummels The Trowel and growls all "grim 'n' gritty" (BEFORE it becomes a thing!) demanding the vile villain tell him where Brickface has taken buddy Woozy. Meanwhile, facing a forty-seven foot splat, Woozy starts gushing information - which turns out to be a perfect way of recapping what happened last issue. Plas ...
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More Than Human! 4
Paul Levitz and Steve Ditko's Prince Gavyn faces death! When Clryssa is chosen as Empress, all other heirs to the throne must be put to death to avoid any usurping the throne. On his death march, Gavyn learns with the help of Mn'Torr that he is more than he seems to be - - more, than any one else of his kind! With this knowledge, he puts "Prince Gavyn" and his cares behind him and soars among the stars as Starman!His first adventure is fun. He helps minors facing an alien pterodactyl.More than l...
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Death Takes a Walk 1
Here it is! Finally!Paul Levitz and Steve Ditko reveal The Origin of Starman! Channeling a bit of Baroness Orczy's Sir Percy Blakeney, Prince Gavyn enjoyed a life of luxury. Until the Emperor died. The council would then decide which heir would replace him on the throne, while all the other heirs would be EXECUTED to prevent any from usurping the throne! Gavyn would have sought to undue the long-standing tradition to spare his sister. However, Clryssa was selected Empress, and she chose to uphol...
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The Shocking Reveal! 1
Steve Ditko and Paul Levitz's Starman glides his way to Throneworld, where he hopes to uncover and thwart Lord Oswin's plan to control the newly crowned Empress. Surprisingly, Mn'Torr shows up. It's hard to tell if he's arrived to help or hinder the hero. Just as Starman discovers how Oswin plans to control the Empress, he is confronted by Lady Merria.Maybe the best way to describe what Levitz and Ditko are doing here is a sci-fi version of Robin Hood. Where know one knows Robin Hood's true iden...
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The Plot Thickens 0
In the previous issue Johnny Thunder was shot when an UltraGen hit team crashed Dr. Mid-Nite's Gotham clinic. Paramedics race him to the hospital, leaving Thunderbolt behind. Meanwhile, on their way back to UltraGen, the hitmen are overcome by the material the retrieved from McNider's clinic!At the UltraGen facility, it's all-out action for the Justice Society, with Wally West and Jesse Chambers joining in. Rex Tyler leaves his son Rick's bedside, just as Johnny is wheeled into the Emergency Roo...
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The Thrilling Conclusion 0
Will Decker has been tasked with... handling Ilia, who has now become V'Ger's probe of the Enterprise. Apparently, V'Ger considers Enterprise the be an equal, although it is infested with "carbon based units".While Decker gives Ilia the grand tour of Enterprise, Spock sets off on a covert mission to find more answers directly from V'Ger.While Wolfman and Shooter really handle the story adaptation well, Cockrum and Janson carry across the look. The Enterprise, her crew and the special effects of ...
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Bring on The Answer Man 0
Continued from the previous issue.An alien entity on course for Earth - only three days away - and the Enterprise is the only ship that can intercept! An untried ship! An untried crew! A rusty Admiral in the Captain's chair?!But wait - Spock joins the crew! He steps in and helps Scotty balance the engines to achieve warp drive. His impressions of the alien - from Vulcan - prove insightful.Kirk is ready to charge, phasers and photon torpedoes blazing.Wolfman deftly adapts the Livingston screenpla...
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Ahead Warp Factor One! 0
May 25th, 1977, the world changed. It had previously been changed September 8th, 1966.United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy launched the United States space program with the goal to put a man on the moon. This was in response to the Russian space program and the launch of Sputnik.After fits and starts, Gene Roddenberry launched Star Trek on NBC, September 8th, 1966. The final episode of the original series ("Turnabout Intruder") aired June 3rd, 1969. Star Trek continued as an animated ...
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Jump to Warp Speed! 0
Excitement!May 25th, 1977 - the world changed. However, it had been previously changed September 8th, 1966.Star Trek (The Original Series) ran for three seasons on NBC. The final episode ("Turnabout Intruder") aired June 3rd, 1969. The series continued in animation and as a Dell comic until December 7th, 1979, when Star Trek: The Motion Picture opened in theaters.What is amazing is that a story... concept, franchise or intellectual property, such as Star Trek can be enjoyed in different ways. Th...
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Quick Like a Flash! 0
Wally West races to the Ultragen lab outside of Keystone, where he finds Dr. McNider's rental car, and evidence that Doc, Al and Ted are in costume and in action.Inside, the Ultra-Humanite is monologuing. After years of body-swapping, and rejection, Humanite has grown a body - creating life! Along the way a number of experiments have created some menacing subjects, as well as a deadly "goo". Wildcat and The Atom goad Humanite into slapping them around - the along with Doc are chained, upside-dow...
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King of the Road 0
My Favorite Martian 3 is unique. It is that rare occasion where Tim and Uncle Martin have and adventure outside of Tim's apartment, neighborhood, The Los Angeles Sun, or even the city of Los Angeles! "It's A Small World", when Uncle Martin tags along with Tim to a rare jewel exhibit at The Museum, he discovers that it's really compressed Martian fuel, discovered in Africa. A bit of fast talking with Mr. Burns, and The Sun pays the expenses for Tim and Uncle Martin to head to Africa to see if the...
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A Blast From The Past! 0
Me, I would have guessed that the Mystery Guest was Johnny Thunder. Should've known. Different Johnny. I still am a fan of All-Star Squadron. The Best part was the core line-up of Amazing Man, Firebrand, Johnny Quick, Liberty Belle, Robotman and The Tarantula.Johnny Quick is back and he catches Al, Jay, Alan and Ted up on all the highs and lows that he's been experiencing lately. Johnny's company has a rivalry with Ultragen. There's a connection between Johnny's company and an acquaintance that ...
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Still Got What it Takes 0
Heading to meet Alan Scott and Jay Garrick at the new JSA HQ in the GBC Building, Ted Grant and Al Pratt show off that they still have what it takes to be heroes. Al's feeling a little awkward and out of place. Like anything, being a super hero is a young person game.From Egypt, on a video conference call, Carter Hall urges them "...to 'keep the faith' as they used to say. There's lots of ways to be hero, if you look for them!"Al, Jay, Alan and Ted jump back into action after a call from Alan's ...
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...And Now, For Something Different. 0
Plastic Man is such a fun, silly, irreverent character. As a fan of "serious" super-heroics and teams, Eel O'Brien is such a refreshing difference. Plastic Man, and sidekick Woozy Winks, launch a new direction for Adventure Comics. Their debut adventure by the Weins, Staton and Smith, Oda and Levitz is hoot! At the headquarters of the NBI, in the DIP offices, top men are reviewing Plas' latest assignment. The "stretchable sleuth" has been tasked with bringing in informant Carlton Canary (a.k.a. ...
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Things Quickly Get Out of Hand! 0
One sunny day, Uncle Martin and Tim O'Hara are out for a walk. They happen to pass by Tim's old high school, where they see the school baseball team practicing. In the bleachers, watching practice is George Smith. He has crush on Jane. Jane only has eyes for Bill, one of team players. Uncle Martin decides to play cupid and share some of his "Martian power" with George to help him make the team and win Jane's attention. Unfortunately, wackiness ensues. Once Uncle Martin "shares" his power, he can...
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The Robinson Run Revisited 0
COIVD-19 2020 is the perfect opportunity to revisit James Robinson's run on Justice League of America. (I'm on of many fans of his work on Starman.)Someone is chasing Bluejay through the Trophy Room. He is overrun and overpowered. He needs to warn the League that something bad is coming. He's stopped before he can.In Happy Harbor, Vixen has called together Dr. Light, Red Tornado and Plastic Man. The conference room shows pictures of "better" times for the team; notably, their first encounter wit...
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Social Commentary Through Science Fiction 0
H. G. Wells' The Time Machine is a timeless classic. It is also more than science fiction. It imagines a future populated by two distinct types: a peaceful, yet useless aristocracy in the Eloi, and an unhappy working class, in the Morlocks. Time may change, but people do not. Wells could also quite possibly be envisioning a zombie apocalypse in the Morlocks, and how they cannibalize the Eloi!Wells' fantastic future is faithfully adapted by writer Lorenze Graham and artist Lou Cameron. The machin...
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The Great Divide 0
Round Three - issue three of DC Versus Marvel/Marvel Versus DC had Access introduce the Amalgam universe, a combination of the DC Comics and Marvel Universes. Batman and Wolverine became Dark Claw. Superman and Captain America became Super Soldier. Wonder Woman and Storm became Amazon. A number of one-shot titles were released out of Round Three. The question comes up, was that the point of the competition? Answers may vary. Marvel came out on top in the fan voting to decide the winners of a num...
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Hard to Believe 0
Ron Marz and Peter David write Robin-Tim Drake and Jubilee cute. They have a budding romantic relationship that is kinda complicated by having to fight for the fate of two universes. That pretty much sums up DC Versus Marvel/Marvel Versus DC - characters that might be friends have to fight for the survival of their home universe. There's no option to try to find out who or what is behind the competition. That's really what fans and readers want: an opportunity to see Aquaman versus the Sub Marin...
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Mirror, Mirror 0
What happens when you bring together Peter David, Ron Marz, Claudio Castellini, Dan Jurgens, Paul Neary, Joe Rubinstein, edited by no less than Joe Andreani, Chris Duffy, Mark Gruenwald and Mike Carlin? You get Marvel Versus DC/DC Versus Marvel.It's grand. It's epic. It's monumental.It's an opportunity to give fans what they want. Battles that have probably been the topic of conversation by fans in comics shops around the world. It's pretty cool seeing Wolverine take on Killer Croc. Same with Ca...
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"I've Got A Bad Feeling About This..." 0
Cosmic chaos. Twin brothers seperated across two parallel universes. An old homeless man holding back the energy contained in a refrigerator-sized cardboard box. Axel Asher.What do they all have in common?Ben Reilly facing The Joker in Gotham City. The Juggernaut in Metropolis. Deadshot in The Batcave. Tim Drake in Jubilee's room at the X-Mansion. Perry White fired and replaced by J. Jonah Jameson as editor of The Daily Planet. Steel facing the Absorbing Man! Kyle Raynor facing the Green Goblin!...
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Going Out With a BANG! 0
Christine Elaine Hantzopulis' script, "One Giant Leap", For Quantum Leap 13, also known as the Quantum Leap Tim and Space Special, is an enjoyable story. After the two-page opening recap, Luke Ross' artwork finds Sam where no one has gone before. The Page Four Splash Page reveal is a nice touch. It's enjoyable to see the build-up to the reveal. While Sam is confused; so are Al and the rest of the Project Quantum Leap team in New Mexico.Al sees that alien that Sam has displaced.To leap, Sam must ...
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Oh, Heck to the Yeah! 0
Sam leaps into an illiterate curmudgeon who owns and operates a gas station in the California desert. The Leaper is literally stuck in BFE. Lucky is a quiet loner. He likes being where he is, not bothered by people. He averages two customers a month; and all he offers is fuel. No friendly conversation. So, why has Sam leaped into Lucky's life?No one knows! Not Al, not Ziggy - and certainly not Sam, with his Swiss cheese memory.Scott Rockwell's script is amazing. What it does is it gives Sam and...
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When we Become Blinded By Fear 0
Sam leaps into Dr. Sam Epstein, stationed at Fort Claridge, Kentucky in June, 1958. Dr. Epstein and Dr. Roger DeLuca, Sam Beckett's uncle are part of a covert military operation: testing the affects of LSD as part of interrogation. The military is concerned that the Soviet Union of the '50's is using the drug as an interrogation technique. The medical team is administering the drug through punch at a cocktail mixer and through other covert means, and then observing the affects on unsuspecting vi...
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Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before... 0
Peter Quinones, "Too Funny For Words" finds Sam as stand-up comic, Manny Todd, inspired by the legendary comedian Lenny Bruce. Todd, like Bruce, has been arrested on obscenity charges. He's being harassed by police and intimidated by the judge he faced. This is June 13th, 1966, just as the Supreme Court delivers the decision in the Miranda V. Arizona case, where police must advise a criminal suspect of his or her rights before interrogation.Quinones' script, however, focuses on Todd's friend, le...
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Y'Say Y'Wanta Revolution, Well Y'know... 0
Andy Mangels writes a very special sequel to the Quantum Leap second season episode, "Goodnight, Dear Heart". The episode inadvertently portrayed a lesbian in a negative light. Mangels' story "puts write what once went wrong". He uses the character Stephanie Haywood and The Stonewall Riots to show that the GLBQT community needs the same rights as women and minorities.The story opens with Stephanie just released from prison after serving her full sentence for manslaughter. The judge gave no optio...
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Escape Tomorrow 0
Quantum Leap was a smart time travel series. It focused more on being an anthology, set in the recent past and present. Brilliance came in not focusing too much or giving away too much detail on the future, where Same leaped from - prematurely testing the Quantum Leap Accelerator. Less was more there.Bill Spangler's Quantum Leap 8 script, "Getaway", finds Vic Starkey in the Nevada Desert, where Project: Quantum Leap is located. He's cuffed down in a chair in a high-tech room in a high-tech above...
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Quick Shots 0
The downside of an issue featuring two leaps is that there is very little breathing room for story development. The pacing is much brisker, the story moves along quicker toward a simplified, tidy resolution. It's all "badda-bing, badda-boom".The first leap finds Sam as a golf pro, Joe "Chokin'" Cochin. Apparently, he and his manager, Max, have been gambling on his performance. They've been netting against him and Joe has been losing, for a cut of the stake. Joe's marriage is shaky. He's not arou...
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Double The Adventure, Double The Fun! 0
Double Mint Gum used to advertise using twins.Patty Duke in a dual role on The Patty Duke ShowActress Hayley Mills starred in the original The Parent Trap in 1961. The concept came to the small screen with The Patty Duke Show. Lindsay Lohan revived the concept with a '90's remake of The Parent Trap."A Tale of Two Cindys" finds Sam leaping in to Cindy Anderson, just before the annual Valentine's Day school dance. George and Becky Broderick's script doesn't give a where that Sam has leaped to. Eve...
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Up, Up and Away! 0
Let's just take a moment with the cover to Quantum Leap #5 - Seeing Is Believing. By series cover artist C. Winston Taylor, Sam is in a store room, with Al looking on. A plane is going down outside the window. Sam believes he should be changing from a newspaper reporter into a superhero. Unfortunately, there's no super suit under Sam's shirt and tie. The image is very comic book. an homage to The Man of Steel, switching identities in a store room and zooming off to the rescue.It fits perfectly. ...
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Beat The Clock 0
Ken Jennings is the highest-earning game show contestant of all time, winning seventy-four consecutive Jeopardy games in 2004. Sam Beckett admits that he was once a five-time Jeopardy champion.Sam leaps into Dan Morgenstern, a contestant on The 50,000 Quest, August 15th, 1958. Like most Quantum Leap stories, Steven Dorfman's script is reminiscent of the film Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford, starring Ralph Fiennes as Twenty-One contestant Charles Van Doren. Sam and Al happen to see Van Dore...
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Breaking Format 0
Quantum Leap follows a pretty familiar, typical format. Sam leaps in. He's confused. Al shows up and gives Sam some bullet points to get started. Then, Al gives Sam the "kicker"; which is, the near impossible challenge of what needs "fixing" or "righting" in order for Sam to leap out. Or so Al and Ziggy guess. Some leaps have a surprising reveal, maybe something totally unrelated to the situation Sam finds himself in.John Holland's "He Knows If You've Been Bad or Good..." breaks the format of a ...
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The Fourth Estate 0
Another fine mess...Sam leaps into a black man about to be executed for murdering his wife, and the white man he found her in bed with. Robert M. Ingersoll's script has Sam's quantum field disrupting the electric chair, causing it to malfunction. Sam, as Willie Jackson, is taken back to his cell, to wait on a stay of execution or another date. While waiting, Al and Ziggy try to figure out what Sam has to do to leap out.It turns out that a colleague at the Cleveland Sentinel is in court for the t...
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If I Had A Hammer... 0
First, take a moment to appreciate the C. Winston Taylor cover. It's pretty cool. Sam leaping, with both Leaper and Observer looking on.Mark Jones and George Broderick, Jr. lay out the series premise across a couple of pages before jumping into the story. The title comes from the Donovan song from August, 1967, There is a Mountain. Donovan captures the Buddhist theme in the lyrics. Originally from Quingyuan Weixin, the saying goes, "Before I had studied Chan (Zen) for thirty years, I saw mountai...
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