Just as Jack Knight was one of DC Comics’ more interesting second-generation superheroes, the book that chronicled his saga from 1994 through 2001 was one of the more literary-minded and ambitious mainstream superhero comics of its time. And that ambition is on full display in issues #9-16 of the series, as collected in Starman: Night and Day, by James Robinson and Tony Harris!
Having reluctantly accepted the mantle of Starman from his father Ted, Jack Knight puts a decidedly Gen-X stamp on the role, complete with tattoos, a leather jacket and a staggering knowledge of obscure pop-cultural ephemera. But all that edgy ’90s attitude can’t keep the past from encroaching on the present as he contends with Nash, the vengeful daughter of his dad’s arch-nemesis, the Mist!
Can Jack, Ted, the blue-skinned alien Mikaal Tomas and the red-haired O’Dare siblings survive as Nash cuts a swath of murder and destruction through Opal City? And can this story blow the mind of that Starman waitin’ in the sky we like to call … The Comics Canon?
In This Episode!
- Stargirl
- Zero Hour
- Aliens with human-sounding names
- Jack Knight is kind of a jerk
- High Fidelity
- Quentin Tarantino and all those pop-cultural references
- Do you know any good sci-fi lit podcasts?
- A few science fiction writers we like
- Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.
- Green Lantern: Rebirth
- JSA: The Return of Hawkman
- James Robinson’s Airboy
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