Not long ago, I was talking about on this blog, my intention to get me on superhero comics, because I wanted to rediscover this way of making comics, in many ways away from the characters, in large part human, made in Italy.
Well, I mentioned that I did indeed, and the comic book I chose was Captain America.
However, before you get to make that choice, I wanted to, like other times in the past, obtaining other comics of the same genus but belonging to the past.
One way, in short, to prepare the ground, to take over the latest issue of Captain America.
One thing, in fact, I had already done in the past, for example during my discovery of Brendon (character of Sergio Bonelli Editore): Before the last roll, then buy on sale, I took a collection containing two merged back issues together, and a volume of Panorama with cardboard cover dedicated to the Knight of Ventura (and containing a couple of stories about his beloved, Anja).
Now, the comic, in this case, was my return to the genre of American superheroes, was at least unusual.
unusual because, as I understand it, is not widely known.
that day, going on sale, I began to look at these American comics, when my eye was drawn to a small volume (thin publications are comics made in USA), cellophane, moreover, since there it was not even a register only, but as I quickly realized if you look carefully, together with up to 3 numbers.
Of the three numbers in question, however, viewed from outside, only 2 were clearly visible (I speak of the covers), it was enough for me to turn the volume on the other side to see the second cover, but the third, standing in the middle, was covered by the other two books, so do not viibile without opening the cellophane.
was obvious that it was comics some time ago, back together, as proved by the fact that the price was on offer.
So, I go to the cashier and pay the curious box, waiting to open it, leaving newsstand. Many of you may
shivered in my words: a real purchase almost sight unseen!
But it does not matter to me, I was willing to accept all, since, my purchase, nothing more than a preparatory move, which I would follow, on other occasions, the purchase of American comics (and superhero) more current, just as I did with Captain America.
The package I purchased contained the same series of books called January 13.
A series in which, as I understand it, the characters are victims of a laboratory experiment that has given them special powers.
The numbers in this series were just 2, but not consecutive: there was a register of detachment, not included in the package, between the two numbers of Gen 13.
I've read them anyway, although some things I have remained in abeyance, because there were many tales that would continue in subsequent issues, leaving who knows how long ago.
of this series I was struck by a scene in a particular way in which we see one of the heroines that are part of the group of Gen 13, which is dead, and appears in the comic as a ghost, and so he can spy on those who, in life, were his companions, and observing does the idea that none of his friends think more now that he's dead, but on the contrary, everyone seems to have quickly forgotten about her, taking care of their affairs.
It really is not so, his friends continue to think again, because they have not resigned his death, it's just that she, for a variety of circumstances, he stops to spy on them in those moments when they just do not seem to care about and for her.
But if there is one thing that she, though dead, and has now become ghost, can not do, is to read the thoughts of his friends who still think otherwise now understand so much to you, regretting his death.
But the book that caught my attention more, including three in the pack I bought was, curiously, the one that was in the midst of the other two, thus making it not visible when its cover the cellophane package was still on newsstands.
This is an album dedicated to Ultraverse , a series of superhero with special powers created in the '90s by the publisher Malibu Comics, which later went bankrupt and was absorbed by the much better known Marvel.
The cover of the register of which I speak is this:
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My version is actually slightly different, because this is a reissue that collects together a short episode (episode) by Ben 3 different sets of Ultraverse: The Strangers (who are the types which is dedicated the cover that I posted), Prototype, and finally Hardcase.
I will not elaborate here at each of these three series, because now I must speak only the first that I have mentioned, exactly the Strangers, as cover.
The episode that I read in the collection is the second-reissue, which allowed me to understand quite well the origins of this group, thanks to an efficient summary of the previous episode (the first) to ' internal as well as references to the first episode traced the second reading.
The Strangers (it's right in the second episode I've read that in a very choral scene, communicating with each other to give yourself that name) are the guys that, every morning, they find themselves involved in the accident and road a streetcar down the street.
struck by a strange energy, the boys soon discover that they have acquired the special powers.
The second episode seems mostly dedicated to one of these guys (besides the few pages available, only 27, and the impression one gets, and that the authors have decided to take advantage of the later episodes also to deepen the powers of the other team).
In this second episode, then, we know better Dave Castiglione, an Italian-born baker who has the power to ignite the entire body with flames of different colors, and each flame is associated with a different skills (for example, flame Yellow gives you control the air).
team is also part of the student Hugh Fox, who has the power to blow up dangerous shrapnel from his body.
student as he is also Bob Hardin, whose power is to turn things (for example, can transform the incomprehensible language of a people held captive the whole team, making it clear to all the words of the enemy) .
The team also found the little black boy Balford Leon, who has the power to run fast, like a little Flash.
Another team member is Candy, who, although having the appearance a woman is not really human, but it is un'androide with the power to control electricity.
Completing the group are Helen, who, on the successful designer finds himself involved in a superhero adventure, also in the second episode I read, takes control of the team, but I do not know if it will do so again later.
I liked The Strangers.
now is a series of past, and I'm not going to get me other numbers (although the curiosity push), but I'm glad to have known it, would certainly be nice to follow it at the time of its release in the 90s in fact.
Indeed Talks are quick and direct, designed for a young player who wants, above all, distracted.
My next step was, as I said, Captain America.
I bought a roll of the saga Reborn, who sees action in as many as 3 Captain America, what was dead, and that it was discovered not at all, then what had been his pupil, and who had took place during his absence and, finally, third Captain America, however, is acting with evil purpose, the wrong way: in short, nothing but an impostor.
But I did not like Captain America.
I found it too politicized.
A blatant glorification of American liberalism, accompanied by a clear attack on communism.
not because I am a communist (not saying that I am, nor that they are not, this is not the topic at the time), but the point is that politics should be kept well away from the comics.
As I always keep far away from my blog.
For those who like, no time (nor desire) to talk about it.
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