![]() ![]() The O’Dares, Opal City’s first family of law enforcement, are here, and readers will discover what became of the hinted-at attraction, revealed so many years ago, between Hope O’Dare and the Shade.Īah, the Shade. As I read this comic, I realized that this one character is what turns Robinson’s writing from maddening to enchanting. James Robinson has a gift for writing dialogue. Unfortunately, he also seems to have a penchant for convoluted prose, flowery descriptions, and British turn-of-the-century Victorian slang. When he doesn’t have an adequate outlet for all those individual styles, the result is a garbled mess-much like his scripts for SUPERMAN. However, within the pages of STARMAN, the Shade becomes the perfect vessel for Robinson’s more florid writing, thus leaving the other characters to speak in more-or-less contemporary English. In other words, Robinson gets his fancy writing fix worked out of his system when he’s writing the Shade, and the rest of the comic is much improved because of it.Īfter reading this issue, it becomes apparent that STARMAN, certainly an impressive achievement for its time, still has a richly layered world that is capable of producing some damn entertaining stories. VolumeIcon.icns, $Recycle.I for one would love to revisit this little corner of the DC Universe from time to time. Hence,Constructed-in assist for deleting. ![]()
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