Lost Universe and Project Fire Complete
Suspended Animation Classic #314
Originally published January 1, 1995 (#1)
(Dates are approximate)
Lost Universe and Project Fire Complete
By Michael Vance
Gene Roddenberry’s “Lost Universe” #s 1 & 2/$1.95, 20 and 22 pages from Tekno Comix/words: Lawrence Watt-Evans; art (#1) James Callahan, (#2) Mike Harris/available on newsstands, in comics shops and by mail.
Those are the goals of the writers and artists of “Lost Universe”: to go where no comics artists or writers have gone before … within the confines of Gene Roddenberry’s vision.
They didn’t go far. However, if their goal was to produce average, unoriginal, barely entertaining comic books, they shall live long and prosper.
“Lost Universe” is about “a planet, a world far removed from … Earth … that’s been devastated by a natural cataclysm”. A sort of United Nations of planets sends folks to see what happened, comprised of a biologically engineered woman, a scientist, and his clone.
Without reading an interview in the second issue, none of this is knowable. There’s an old axiom that if a joke needs explaining, it’s a poor joke. If a story has to be explained …?
The story, although unoriginal, is readable and not without charm, although the technobabble in the text pieces of each issue is silly. (If there’s a message on my e-mail, but I don’t read it, does it exist? Pul-ease!!)
It’s the unpleasant responsibility of reviewers to judge work done, not work promised. Although possibly compromised by a reported family tragedy, the premier issue of “Lost Universe” suffers from supposedly realistic art that bares little resemblance to real human anatomy, and lacks perspective as well.
A new artist at the helm of the second issue steers clear of these mistakes. Hopefully, he will stay the course.
Certainly, Roddenberry fans will trek to newsstands on the promise of his past successes. What they will find is a concept soon to be lost in space … rack space, reserved for better voyages into imagination.
MINIVIEW: “Project Fire Complete”. An English professor stated, ‘An A in High School is a worth a C in college’. What you C is what you get in this “realistic” fantasy about spies.
Lost Universe and Project Fire Complete
Suspended Animation Classic #314
Originally published January 1, 1995 (#1)
(Dates are approximate)
Lost Universe and Project Fire Complete
By Michael Vance
Gene Roddenberry’s “Lost Universe” #s 1 & 2/$1.95, 20 and 22 pages from Tekno Comix/words: Lawrence Watt-Evans; art (#1) James Callahan, (#2) Mike Harris/available on newsstands, in comics shops and by mail.
Those are the goals of the writers and artists of “Lost Universe”: to go where no comics artists or writers have gone before … within the confines of Gene Roddenberry’s vision.
They didn’t go far. However, if their goal was to produce average, unoriginal, barely entertaining comic books, they shall live long and prosper.
“Lost Universe” is about “a planet, a world far removed from … Earth … that’s been devastated by a natural cataclysm”. A sort of United Nations of planets sends folks to see what happened, comprised of a biologically engineered woman, a scientist, and his clone.
Without reading an interview in the second issue, none of this is knowable. There’s an old axiom that if a joke needs explaining, it’s a poor joke. If a story has to be explained …?
The story, although unoriginal, is readable and not without charm, although the technobabble in the text pieces of each issue is silly. (If there’s a message on my e-mail, but I don’t read it, does it exist? Pul-ease!!)
It’s the unpleasant responsibility of reviewers to judge work done, not work promised. Although possibly compromised by a reported family tragedy, the premier issue of “Lost Universe” suffers from supposedly realistic art that bares little resemblance to real human anatomy, and lacks perspective as well.
A new artist at the helm of the second issue steers clear of these mistakes. Hopefully, he will stay the course.
Certainly, Roddenberry fans will trek to newsstands on the promise of his past successes. What they will find is a concept soon to be lost in space … rack space, reserved for better voyages into imagination.
MINIVIEW: “Project Fire Complete”. An English professor stated, ‘An A in High School is a worth a C in college’. What you C is what you get in this “realistic” fantasy about spies.