There's a little too much light pollution where I live, so I don't pull out my telescope to use very often. When I do, I like to check out Jupiter or Saturn if I can, and looking close up at the Moon is always cool. It makes me think about the dark side which never faces us - who's to say there isn't a Blue Area over there, just waiting for a team of heroes to call it it their home base?
Adam Strange first met The Inhumans in STF #4372...
So, Validus was sent to The Moon to wipe out the Inhumans' second great refuge. Could this be the result of some collaboration between Darkseid and the Kree Supreme Intelligence? Whatever their motives, it certainly doesn't bode well for us Earthlings!
ReplyDeleteRe; our own interplanetary spacefaring efforts? It's a little disappointing that, more than fifty-five years since the Apollo 11 mission, we still don't have a permanent colony on The Moon. If only so we could coin a cool name for it like... "Lunapolis"!
Deleteif memory serves me correctly wasn’t Validus a child,
ReplyDeleteso he’s probably been told that the blue zone is made of sherbet !
and he wants to eat it…. those villains are so tricky…
Validus was one of the twin sons born to Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl a year or two after their marriage. But, Darkseid (whom the LSH had just defeated in a bid to take over 31st century Earth) vindictively abducted one of them and sent him back into the LSH's Silver Age past.
DeleteThere's surprisingly little activity on the Moon in comics. Marvel has the Inhumans, of course, and the Watcher. DC had the Justice League Watchtower there for a while, and inasmuch as the Ibis the Invincible is part of their canon there may be a race of humanoids made of stone. Judge Dredd's setting has Luna City One.
ReplyDeleteOf these, I think the most interesting pairing would be the Watcher visiting the Watchtower, possibly to give some kind of warning.
As for today's cover, Ross, I could pick a few nits on things like placement and angles (Gorgon is the only one that really sticks out as odd), but overall just seeing the Inhumans battling Validus is a shocking and compelling image. I'd buy this comic just to see how it all works out!
Me, too! :-)
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