“Great cosmic weirdness.
It’d be a perfect book, BUT because of the caprices of publishers at the time, we’ve got a few issues here, a few there, and they have to re-tread a lot of what is, admittedly, a complicated story before things settle into a more regular comic book format. It feels like it’s formatted like this for completionists, but maybe the rest of us could get a version that omits all that (sort of how I always think they should put out a version of Harry Potter meant to be read straight through, so you don’t have to remind us how Quidditch works and shit like that every time).
The initial issues are in black and white and still some of the best art I’ve ever seen in comics.
Okay, it’s a little weird that the character is named “Vanth.” It sounds like someone trying to say “Vance” with their tongue between their teeth, so it’s kind of goofy. But then his last name IS Dreadstar, so I guess that probably makes up for it. If your first name is Killmeister, your first name can be Lenny, right? If your last name is Danzig, your first name can be Glenn?
I do love that an evil government tried to breed the ultimate warriors by combining cats and humans, and instead ended up with terrible warriors. Cats gonna cat, and the surest way to make sure your cat doesn’t become a ruthless killer is to encourage him to do be one. Put a cat brain on a warrior’s body, shove a sword and a gun in his paws, and he’ll be like, “Eh, maybe I’d like farming,” a thing cats have NEVER done or shown interest in EVER. That’s what you get for screwing around with cats.
The skull face robot man is the most metal thing ever. His friendly team banter, on getting a friendly ribbing from a team member, is like, “I’m going to do medical experiments on him one day…” That shit’s hilarious. Really ramping it up from 0 to 160 there. Someone says something about you being bald, and you are like, “I’m going to open up your body cavity and poke around for the sheer pleasure of it.” And this is your friend. “