These poor old Gold Key characters have been bouncing around between publishers for decades, from Western to Voyager to Acclaim and now to Dynamite. I've picked up an issue or two from their various incarnations but never found them to have much appeal. Well, maybe Turok a little way back in the day.

This is the first time I've sampled Dynamite's take, and apparently I started in a bad place because this seems to be their version of Crisis on Infinite Earths and like that DC relic, if you don't know the heroes going in, you'll be pretty lost in all the sound and fury. The point of the series seems to be to eliminate all the various incarnations and get the characters back to something closer to their original roots. Or maybe not. I don't know. It's a confusing mess, and I doubt I'll ever try any of the other Dynamite books.

I'll just wait for the next publisher's stab at making these guys viable. ( )