NOW Comics Astro Boy - Issue Eighteen
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:35 am
Welcome back! In this issue, Brian Thomas is given full control over the series's writing, and he actually gets Astro off the Cybot Planet!
Here's the full scans, review pending:
http://s333.photobucket.com/albums/m362/astroNOWcomics/Issue18/
For users new to this series, back in 1987, an American company got the Astro Boy license from untrustworthy sources and made a comic series out of it, lasting twenty issues. The comic went in three phases...Michael Dempsey as writer and Ken Steacy as illustrator, all Ken Steacy, and then Brian Thomas, whose art you see in this issue. I discovered this series when I bought several issues when I was fourteen, and to ensure nobody buys them again, here is the complete series so far. (Ignore the album about Captain Harlock.)
My opinion on the comic:
I'm pretty sure Captain Delta is a throwback to Rock from Phoenix: Future. With the exception of the hair, it's totally Phoenix Rock. And the scene of Astro Girl and Spud waiting in the hall was actually kind of heart-warming, coming out of Brian's style...
Does anybody else love Brian?! I really, really wish he'd gotten control of the comic from the beginning.
Here's the full scans, review pending:
http://s333.photobucket.com/albums/m362/astroNOWcomics/Issue18/
For users new to this series, back in 1987, an American company got the Astro Boy license from untrustworthy sources and made a comic series out of it, lasting twenty issues. The comic went in three phases...Michael Dempsey as writer and Ken Steacy as illustrator, all Ken Steacy, and then Brian Thomas, whose art you see in this issue. I discovered this series when I bought several issues when I was fourteen, and to ensure nobody buys them again, here is the complete series so far. (Ignore the album about Captain Harlock.)
My opinion on the comic:
I'm pretty sure Captain Delta is a throwback to Rock from Phoenix: Future. With the exception of the hair, it's totally Phoenix Rock. And the scene of Astro Girl and Spud waiting in the hall was actually kind of heart-warming, coming out of Brian's style...
Does anybody else love Brian?! I really, really wish he'd gotten control of the comic from the beginning.