Radiant Black by Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa
This one is a recommendation due to its sheer ambition alone. I heard the author Kyle Higgins talking on a podcast about his Massive-verse through Image comics. His log line hooked me.
Power Rangers with adult problems.
It's in the "tokusatsu" transforming hero genre with others like Ultra Man, which I have fond memories of watching as a kid. I read the catch-up 16 page comic on www.radiant.black (best use of a non dot com ever), and decided to give it a whirl.
With the 6th trade paperback. Halfway through the Catalyst War story line. I do that sometimes.
I didn't quite understand the objectives of the invaders, or what their win condition was.
But I really dug the dual timelines where the Marshall character went dark and amassed power and the other where he was powerless and his friend, Nathan, was Radiant Black instead.
This is not for everyone. But I think I'm going to dive into the back catalogue on this.
I love discovering new comics series that I enjoy with a ton of back issues.
Icons Unearthed on Amazon Prime
The Nacelle Company of Toys That Made Us fame has a bunch of limited series on Prime that dive into the back stories of a bunch of movie series.
Some are better than others.
The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars ones had some interesting tidbits of which I wasn't aware. Anthony Daniels recollections of working on the original trilogy are especially compelling. BTW- His name is pronounced "An-tony" without the "H", which was news to me.
The Batman one was okay, but it really threw the old 60s TV show under the bus to prop up the Burton movies. Basically saying it was worthless. I think it has value as a comedy. And they spent next to no time on the 90s animated series, which is probably the best version of Batman in my reckoning.
So your mileage may vary. Still, if you're into multi-part docu-series, you could do worse.
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