Starship Down

Starship Down

2020 • 98 pages

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15

I feel like this was the victim of the pandemic. I read the first issue just before lockdown started, and it was great - corny, maybe, but that kind of science fiction corny you enjoy. A spaceship is found buried in the ice, the final panel of the issue ending with WHAT, NEANDERTHALS ON ICE?!?

That first issue would have earned a five-star rating because it scratched all the right, fun itches. Every other issue of this miniseries knocked it down a star. Storylines left unfinished, the mystery of the spaceship undramatically resolved with some handwaving “the aliens created us - we're their failed experiment!” I'd like to believe that this series had more going for it, but the restrictions and restraints of a pandemic gripped world stifled this project. I'd like to believe that. It's more believable than what this storyline turned into.

April 29, 2021