Back Issue comics to consider

Comics worth a read
By Alex Ness
3rd Week of September

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GIANT MONSTERS AND GIANT ROBOT DEFENDERS

One greatly fun theme was one that comic book readers understood without much exposure to comics, sci fi, movies or books, it is "What happens when Giant Monsters fight Robot defenders?" Sometimes the story is sympathetic to the monster, or focused upon the robots, or, somewhat more commonly, the humans guiding the robots, or piloting them if they have humans driving them.

I do have appreciation for them, but I would now have more if I had been allowed to buy the Shogun Warriors that I wanted. But my parents said, you need to save your money. Well from age 12 to age 18 I held jobs. I had enough that while my brother got five dollars a week as an allowance, I was making enough to save and spend. Go Nagai deserves a great deal of credit for his Mazinger Z and other giant robot series.

DEAN MOTTER, MISTER X AND MORE

Dean Motter wrote numerous series about unusual characters and settings. With so much more going on than the reader might know, his works always make one both an appreciator of the protagonist, and wonder what the hell is going on throughout the works. In all of his works I am swept away by the intelligent stories in impossible or fully odd and fictional settings. Perhaps the most appreciated story by others was his work based on the Prisoner intellectual property. I never saw the television series, and only read his adaptation, it was interesting. His works are quite enjoyable.

PAX ROMANA: Time Travel in modern and ancient form

I don't wish to spoil the concept of the series' conceit. The purpose of the events involve time travel or trying to plug a hole in the river of time. It involves the Roman Empire, so if you have read me before, you'll know that is an immediate yes for me. As a comic book story, the writing is tight and well done, and the art well illustrates it. For me, there are few comics this good about such under appreciated subject matter areas and genres.

A 70s celebration of The Great Disaster

The 70s were a moment in our modern media that at last could fully imagine and display the horrors of modernity's technology and poor choices. Jack Kirby was unleashed in many tales. From the One Man Army Corps, last man standing before the Great Disaster, to Kamandi the first hero of the world of the aftermath of apocalyptic end, Kirby invents and adapts, and creates a world some people felt were too weird. DC allowed a variety of series that happened in the end of the world setting, not by Jack Kirby. For me, a kid who couldn't find enough of the stories, it is a perfect setting. 

FINAL

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Katya and Sophie greeting me after I was out side shoveling for an hour. They thought I must have died or something. So different from the world of life and so very loving. They are both gone now, and a hole exists in my heart where they lived. Permanently.