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By Darwyn Cooke with Dave Stewart (DC Comics)
ISBN 1-84576-064-6
In the concluding volume of Darwyn Cooke’s tribute to the glory days of DC comics and idealistic Americana, the world teeters on the brink between a new age or ultimate destruction as a reptilian alien the size of Manhattan Island prepares to replace humanity with its own spawn. Only the small, brave band of heroes willing to defy a US Government banning order stand between humanity and a new holocaust.
This bright reworking of the 1950s, seen through twenty-first century eyes, and featuring all the stars of DC’s early Silver Age, manages to leaven our righteous cynicism about a truly dark, hypocritical and paranoid era of American history with a bright, child-like hopeful enthusiasm for a better tomorrow defended by better heroes. It is an absolute delight to see a worldly-wise but upbeat heroic tale.
It looks good, it reads good, and By Golly, it does you good!
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