Magpie
22-08-2005, 02:03 PM
Now I know there’s a couple of comics geeks wondering round the forums, so I thought I should recommend a series that I honestly believe is better than Gaiman’s Sandman.
Ted Knight was Starman, intelligent enough to create a device that allowed him to fly but not above getting his hands dirty in a fistfight. He was one of the greatest heroes of the 1950’s Justice Society of America.
But now he has grown old.
Over the years a few people have tried to take up his mantle, they’ve all met bad ends. But now his son David Knight is old enough to become Starman. David is Ted’s perfect son with a chiselled jaw and a love of Science! A week into his job David takes a bullet to the brain and plunges from the rooftops.
Enter Jack Knight. Ted’s less respectable son, a geeky tattooed junk store owner. Jack really is not what anyone would want in a superhero but he finds himself becoming Starman to protect his beloved Opal City and to battle Nash, the daughter of The Mist, Ted’s greatest rival.
For those who love the DC universe you get lots of flashbacks to the JSA days as well as appearances by Batman, Superman, Solomon Grundy, Sentinel, Copperhead, the Royal Flush Gang and the enigmatic Shade.
For those who read comics for the fantastic elements there is travel through time and space, a freak show full of mind controlled monsters, a murderous dwarf, ghost pirates, a disco dancing crime fighter, flying Nazis, a possessed poster and a reincarnated cowboy.
And for those who just want a good story it is a truly moving tale about two children one a villain the other a hero both trying to live up to their fathers’ reputations.
I’ve tried my best to explain why Starman is pure awesome but I am nowhere as good as Robinson so if you love superhero comics I really would recommend investigating the first issue “Sins of a Father”.
Ted Knight was Starman, intelligent enough to create a device that allowed him to fly but not above getting his hands dirty in a fistfight. He was one of the greatest heroes of the 1950’s Justice Society of America.
But now he has grown old.
Over the years a few people have tried to take up his mantle, they’ve all met bad ends. But now his son David Knight is old enough to become Starman. David is Ted’s perfect son with a chiselled jaw and a love of Science! A week into his job David takes a bullet to the brain and plunges from the rooftops.
Enter Jack Knight. Ted’s less respectable son, a geeky tattooed junk store owner. Jack really is not what anyone would want in a superhero but he finds himself becoming Starman to protect his beloved Opal City and to battle Nash, the daughter of The Mist, Ted’s greatest rival.
For those who love the DC universe you get lots of flashbacks to the JSA days as well as appearances by Batman, Superman, Solomon Grundy, Sentinel, Copperhead, the Royal Flush Gang and the enigmatic Shade.
For those who read comics for the fantastic elements there is travel through time and space, a freak show full of mind controlled monsters, a murderous dwarf, ghost pirates, a disco dancing crime fighter, flying Nazis, a possessed poster and a reincarnated cowboy.
And for those who just want a good story it is a truly moving tale about two children one a villain the other a hero both trying to live up to their fathers’ reputations.
I’ve tried my best to explain why Starman is pure awesome but I am nowhere as good as Robinson so if you love superhero comics I really would recommend investigating the first issue “Sins of a Father”.