A really great pulp science fiction adventure today, featuring a flying saucer, a relatively useless female character, plucky aliens, and, of course, a very manly hero.
I'm being facetious of course, though the story does have many of the classic tropes of early pulp science fiction. What we have is simply a very cool old school sci-fi adventure from an era that predates human exploration of space. These kinds of stories are always interesting as there's just so much speculation as what things will be like, and what we will encounter. While we understand space as infinite, it seems to me it was far more so narratively before we had some idea of what was out there.
Well, not hat we really know, but you know what I mean.
I'm glad to have discovered the art of Bob Powell. His characters are super-dynamic, though given the scarcity of reprint comics like this one, it might be a challenge to track down more of his works. Which, honestly, sounds like a lot of fun.
More to come...
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