Review: Popular Mechanics, Popular Electronics & COMICS!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2013
Welcome to the thrilling, chilling comic book world of yesteryear.Growing up I read Popular Mechanics and Popular Electronics but I also read Batman & Superman comics. I even read some Archie comics.This Retro comic book is interesting because it is the first one that I've purchased on Amazon. It is also a derivative work. In other words the author started with an original comic with characters and plots and developed a new story or episode. I believe that in a TV series this would be called a Treatment.I enjoyed it because the author disclosed the different challenges facing her as she developed this comic. She couldn't just take the different frames from the original comic and plop them into a new one just altering the dialog. It's an interesting process. Read all about it.Finally, the story brings to mind a passage from a T.S. Eliot poem (The Hollow Men) which reads in part, "...This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." You will have to read the book to understand the "why" of this.