![]() ![]() I’m a comic reader who’s not a fan of Neal Adams, so perhaps it’s my evaluation credentials that are suspect. Which means “hideous to behold.” No insult intended to Mr. Frank Robbins provides the pencils on this one (inked by The Tribe), and it’s your typical Robbins output. The first - with art from Tom Sutton and Sonny Trinidad - has a recounting (note the irregular WE’RE IN A FLASHBACK panel outlines) of the SENSES-SHATTERING ORIGIN of the Man from Atlantis. He did the wordifying on both of the features in this premier issue, and neither will grab you. ![]() This early work, however, belongs more to his Woodgod phase. (If you want good undersea TV action, best to seek out Sea Hunt.) But I expect more from Bill Mantlo, who delivered many a solid script in his years at Marvel. The television show was a dud, with a lame premise and languid, un-thrilling underwater derring-do. Granted, there’s not much to build on here. The comic followed in this proud tradition. Even the “exciting” opening seems designed to put you in a coma. I’ve only ever seen bits and pieces of the show - and TV movies - and it doesn’t look all that good. ![]() Which sounds like Morrissey and The Cure formed a superband to drive millions of music fans into the Stygian arms of suicidal depression. NBC’s Man from Atlantis starred Duffy as Mark Harris, the sole remaining survivor of a lost Atlantean civilization, one that can (of course) breathe underwater and whose hands and feet are webbed (GROSS) He was found by and subsequently glommed onto an oceanic research team, which made the series sort of Namor/Aquaman meets s eaQuest DSV. Hey, didn’t Partick Duffy star in a really bad sci-fi series in the mid to late seventies? And didn’t said series have a Marvel tie-in book? Yes and yes. REVIVAL?) Both these things got me to thinking. Two, I’ve been watching a lot of the NBA playoffs on TNT, and that network has been saturating the airwaves with commercials for the new Ewing-centric Dallas revival. One, a few days ago I mentioned Bobby Ewing and his Dallas dream death on here while talking about an old Thanos-infused Silver Surfer comic. A couple of things have conspired to drag this old relic out of mothballs. ![]()
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