Three Characters in Search of an Exit
I was really really looking forward to this. I love a good anthology, and the retro b-sci-fi lover gobbled up the concept of something called Weird Worlds albeit for a limited time. The first story is the Lobo one, the only character of the three to not make a debut in this issue. The Lobo story is a run of the mill space bounty hunter affair, that I would have carried about much less had it not featured Lobo. The cliffhanger didn't do much in the way of getting me to bite my fingernails because it builds up to what will probably just be a typical comic book fight. The next story features an obvious Swamp Thing knock-off inspiringly called Garbageman. I forgave the inherent tackiness and found a very cliched story, that frankly I have no interest in. So far we have a Lobo tale that would score a 3/5, and a Garbageman yarn going for 2/5. The final story was my favorite and featured TANGA. This story had the best art of the three in my opinion which was only helped by an attractive main character. She reminded me of a cross between Bendis' Scarlet and the Silver Surfer, in that she's a red haired fiery chick with cosmic power who just seems to be wandering. Her cliffhanger had me raise an eyebrow of interest, but frankly there's not enough in Weird Worlds, to get me hooked to run back to the store. If money was no object, I'd humor this venture, but desperate times call for the omission of mediocre comics from your shopping list, and this was marginally better than mediocre.
