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By Alan Moore, Peter Hogan, Yanick Paquette & Karl Story (America’s Best Comics)
ISBN 1-84576-193-6
This second volume of stories featuring the alternative heroes from an Earth duplicate situated at the other end of the galaxy continues the heady blend of wonderment and soap-opera as archetypical superman Tom Strange begins a romance with a widowed Jungle Queen just as an old comrade returns.
Of course said comrade – Captain/Colonel Future – is returning from beyond the solar system in a spaceship that has been twisted and malformed by the hideous mysteries of deep space. And, naturally, said homecoming has precipitated a catastrophic series of time-slips that has re-inflicted the events of Pearl Harbour on modern Hawaii and threatens to A-bomb Hiroshima one more time. Super-heroes are popping out the mists of time to fight their counterparts and heirs and the world is generally reduced to a state of utter higgledy-piggledy.
Couple that with the last word in super-heroine (can I still say that?) zombie stalker plots and you have a well-drawn piece of retooled retro-nonsense that will please the already converted but will utterly baffle the casual reader and sadly make no new converts to our little corner of the entertainment market.
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