{"id":1288,"date":"2007-10-23T14:25:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T14:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2007-10-23T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T14:28:23","slug":"tom-strong-book-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/10\/23\/tom-strong-book-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Strong Book 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tom<\/p>\n

By various (America’s Best Comics)
\nISBN 1-84576-148-0<\/p>\n

A light touch is something sadly scarce in super-hero comics these days, so the third compilation of Science’s Ultimate Hero (collecting issues # 15-19 of the monthly comic-book) is a welcome distraction as it features a few old friends and foes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and plots. ‘Ring of Fire’<\/em> by Moore and Sprouse with inking by Karl Story sees the living volcano-man Val Var Garm entice the strong Family into his under-Earth city before joining them on a more formal basis as Tesla’s live-in boyfriend (see Tom Strong Book 2<\/strong> for more information and thrills).<\/p>\n

A three eyed galactic drifter then turns up just ahead of a three part Alien Invasion in a tale first hinted at in ‘Lost Mesa’<\/em> (Book 2<\/strong> again). Summoning all the help they can the heroes head for interplanetary space to destroy an armada of giant ants in ‘Some Call Him the Space Cowboy’<\/em> and ‘The Weird Rider: Gone to Croatoan’<\/em>, ‘Ant Fugue’<\/em> and ‘The Last Round-up’<\/em> all by Moore, Sprouse and Story.<\/p>\n

The follow-up was another short-stories issue with Howard Chaykin illustrating Moore’s adventure of Sexual Impolitics in ‘Electric Ladyland!’<\/em>, Leah Moore, Shawn McManus and Steve Mitchell reviewed the last moments of arch-villain Paul Saveen in ‘Bad to the Bone’<\/em> and Alan, Chris and Karl close the book with surreal fourth-wall-ery as Tom and Tesla become trapped inside a comic-book in ‘The Hero-Hoard of Horatio Hogg!’<\/em><\/p>\n

With an extended section of pin-ups, this knowing, clever pastiche of a simpler time in comics is a fine way to reminisce with some thing new.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a9 2005 America’s Best Comics, LLC. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By various (America’s Best Comics) ISBN 1-84576-148-0 A light touch is something sadly scarce in super-hero comics these days, so the third compilation of Science’s Ultimate Hero (collecting issues # 15-19 of the monthly comic-book) is a welcome distraction as it features a few old friends and foes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and plots. ‘Ring of Fire’ by … <\/p>\n

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