Weirdworld #5 - "The War of the Weird"

[laughing_tree]

"The story is not constrained to just the fantasy genre. Imagine if you took all your favorite weird genre stories, all the best B-movies of the 1970’s, and crammed them all together into one setting. That’s Weirdworld." -- Jason Aaron

Comments

[captainbellman]

Surprisingly, I really liked this one, among all the others. Glad it's being continued outside of SW.

[bradygirl_12]

I like Crystar. A pretty shiny guy! :)

[cygnia]

I think I remember the toy line back in the 80's...

[obsidianwolf]

I looked it up last time in one of these post and the funny thing is folks assume the toy line was first and marvel just licensed it but it was the other way around. Marvel created the characters and back story and then licensed it out for a toy line but weirdly didn't publish the comic until the year after the toy line.

[cygnia]

I did not know this! Was wondering why they could use Crystar, but Rom is still a no-go...

[qalchemist]

Holy shit, Crystar.

I thought I was the only person who remembers Crystar even existed.


...my age is showing.

[jmacq1]

I remember Crystar quite well, myself. Partially because when the toy line was going under I recall basically getting the entire collection in one day (castle included!) because it'd been marked down so much.

But also because the comic series holds up really, really well. The first issue is something of an aberration/bog standard origin story, but after that it's remarkably good stuff, with some amusing and surprising cameos from the regular Marvel Universe. It's a quirky and fun series that's well worth checking out, but while I don't think Marvel's ever collected it, you can often find the backissues in the "cheap bins."

[captainbellman]

Also: is there a reason Hunter S. turns up at the end there?

[doctor_spanky]

I love the two butterflies daintily carrying a nuke in the splash page

Battleworld was destroyed?

[7dialsmystery]

That kind of blows. I wanted to see the walls come down and the alternate realities meet each other.

Okay, I really hoped that Steve "Centurian America" Rogers would get to live happily ever after with a Bucky.

[erikred]

...butterflies carrying an H-bomb may very well be the strangest thing I have seen in a long time.

And that's even after they brought back bloody Crystar.