The Wrong Earth: Night & Day #5

[superboyprime]

"The comics of any decade are usually better drawn and better written than the ones from the decade before, and that is of course great. But there have always been diamonds in there, and ways of approaching material I wouldn't like the world to forget. We're still benefiting from the Phantom Zones and Danger Rooms and Super-Gorillas of the Silver Age, and I think we will for a long time to come." - Tom Peyer

Comments

[agharta75]

Danger Room simulation: Diamond Super-Gorillas escape from The Phantom Zone!

[blueprintstyles]

My favourite things from this issue are that the Nightwing analogue has to be drawn with a great butt, and the Dragonflys' reaction to a grown-up Stinger and that they're already protective of him.

[mazway_75]

I do love no one having the heart to point out the obvious issues with "LADY DragonflyMAN's" name.

And once more the telling stuff like how the West-styled Dragonfly is horrified at the very idea of two men married to show, for all its "great innocence," his world has its issues.

[blueprintstyles]

I thought it was less of a homophobe thing than the notion he would marry his surrogate son.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, I saw that is "But that's my kid!", not "That's inherently repugnant".

[lordultimus]

I think it was more that Stinger is still a CHILD.

[wizardru]

I have to admit, I was really ready to judge this comic (from the original mini to here) as being some sort of cheap mockery of either setting, but instead it feels much more clever and insightful than that. The regular interplay showing that each world has it's good and bad points is well done.

I'll have to grab the trades for this.