BOOK: Charlton Premiere #2COMPANY: Charlton Comics
TITLE: Children of Doom
EDITOR: Dick Giordano
SCRIPT: Sergius O Shaugnessy
ART: Pat Boyette
GOING PRICE: $14.00
I first looked into this issue by word of mouth. Mark Evanier, writer of Groo, did an article a while back in Comics Buyers Guide #1291 August 14, 1998. What actually inspired me to seek out this book, besides my lust for Silver Age, was to see this artist from the 60's name Pat Boyette. From what I learned, this Pat Boyette was the 'go to' guy. He was the man that Dick Giordano, editor of Charlton Comics at that time, would go to for a crunch. Pat Boyette pumped out this comic in four days, from I learned by reading Evaniers article. Now that you've been debriefed, here's my review:
I'm not very atistically inclined, so unless they are really aweful, I pretty much enjoy all artists. Right off the bat I really enjoyed Pat Boyettes style. I put it right up there with Jim Steranko and Neal Adams. I really enjoy the cutting edge 60s artists. The story. Oh man, did I love this story. Do you know that there are few comics now aday that contain the magic and imagination like these old classics? Right away, I felt like I was caught up into a Twilight Zone episode written by Isaac Asimov. A sci-fi story written about a world in fear of nuclear destruction. So a scientist builds a machine that will destroy the world if it detects even the slightest trace of atomic energy in any fashion. Peace was with the world it would seem, except for the fact that some third world country created a weapon that was not of atomic energy. Said weapon gets a little out of hand and destroys the majority of the planet anyways. Many years go by and the world starts to become a better place without the threat of atomic weapons. Several years later an American space ship, orbiting the planet before the ensuing world war, decides to land and see if anyone lived through the war. Well, the spaceship, with its 'atomic' engines sets off the Dooms Day device... and that's all I need to say. It ends with a pretty good plot twist, but I'm not going to give it away to you!
- Shane
|
|
|
April 21, 1999 April 14, 1999 April 8, 1999 March 31, 1999 March 24, 1999 March 19, 1999 |
| Add your review |