Re-Reading: Solar #18

[xoken]

I thought we could do a book a day (that way people can read one every day or catch up on weekends), talk about it on its own, in the context of whats next, in regards to what expectations it creates and vote on how good it is. I don't have to be the one that posts everyday. If I miss a day or if someone wants to take over please do

For voting think of your single favourite comic book (not just VALIANT) as the benchmark - thats a 10 - and grade according to that.

Make sure to mention what you like'd about the book, what you didn't, what you wish they would have done, your favourite panels, lines of dialogue, little bits of trivia etc.

Solar #18

[magnusr]

Now we're really seing Solar adjusting to his new life. Still, the good old stuff is not completely cut off, there's a huge nod to Alpha & Omega.

/Magnus

[Daniel Jackson]

Not much action in this one and the story is kinda bland. I liked the part in the beginning where Eric tells Phil he would make a decent Barbarian.

[Todd Luck]

This is more like it. Solar dealing with the real-world problems with nuclear power is interesting and it makes sense. It's iconic (Solar being a nuclear god) and goes along with what they've already eestablished.

The nervous technician tapping on the emergency light was darkly comical. It was nice how Solar thought of way to alert them of the problem without revealing himself. And Grau does an excellent job drawing all the machinary in the plant.

The only flaw was the last two panels were John and Solar wonder if saving an entire city was the right thing to do. Of course, it was you idiots! It felt like a rather forced way to make a clear cut story morally ambigious. If they wanted to end on an ominious, ambigious note how about the fact that this means that ALL the plants that had problems in A & O have problems in this reality? How will Solar fix them all without revelaing himself or hurting anyone in the process?

Oh well, I'll ignore the last couple panels and give this solid little story an 8.

Continuity Notes: The possible problems with the other reactors are never followed up on to my knowledge.

Since Solar phases through a lot walls here, I thought I'ld out that Perlin drew Solar as being made of plasma. Everytime he turned to light and phased through something he would first turn into plasma first. Going from plasma to light made a little more sense than going from his solid human form to a beam of light. Here he's just shown as phasing or converting to light, no plasma involved.

[jedimarley]

Good issue. Good story and art. I like the last few panels at the end of the story between Phil and John at the end.

Solid 8

[Zaphod]

The only flaw was the last two panels were John and Solar wonder if saving an entire city was the right thing to do. Of course, it was you idiots!

The question is merely a philosophical one...and a valid one in my opinion. Doing this, they are playing god. They are messing with the concept of fate. It is not far from the question "If you had a chance to kill baby Hitler, would you?"

Could someone who would have been killed in this meltdown do damage to the space-time continuim.

at least that is what I took from it.