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Friday, November 04, 2005
"For, if I fail, all life falls with me!'
Joe Casey's column on '70s cosmic comics has updated with a look at Jim Starlin's Warlock. The chracter was overexposed in the '90s with the whole "Infinity Gauntlet/Crusade/War/Watch" business (I guess DC is glad Marvel didn't have a book called Infinity Crisis) but back in the '70s when Starlin was kicking ass on Stragne Tales and later Warlock he was coming up with some great space opera. I like how Casey goes over Adam Warlock's tortured soliloquies which I always felt were one part Hamlet, two parts Flash Gordon. If you can find the "deluxe" editions of these stories (one series came out in the '80s and another in the '90s) I suggest you pick them up.
One issue that I always felt was special was Strange Tales #181, collected in the second issue of the deluxe edition. It's a testament to how freewheeling Marvel was at the time when Starlin could come up with a damning statire on Marvel right in one of their own books. If I remember correctly the plot concerns Warlock encountering a bunch of clowns whose job it is to go through these mountains of sludge and when they find a diamond in the cosmic rough they throw it out. The story is dedicated to Steve Ditko.
The comics also features one of my favorite credit boxes. The bottom of the opening splash page reads: "Al Milgrom -Inks, Tom Orzechowski -Letters, Len Wein -Editor, Jim Starlin -MADNESS" You know you're reading a good comic book then.
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