Gil’s a spaceship captain, hauling goods from one place to another, and joining him on his latest assignment, because he couldn’t get a sitter and his wife is gone, is his lil boy Kadyn. Something happens! And they’re separated. Dad’s gotta find his boy - but it looks like a misfit band of aliens has gotten to him first. Boy oh boy, what’s gonna happen next???
Jason Aaron and co’s newest comic is Sea of Sentimental Smoosh! Only one issue in and I can already tell where it’s all headed. The tagline at the back pretty much says it all: “A father. A son. And a whole lot of space between them.” Get it? Both literally AND emotionally cos they’re dealing with wife/mom’s death. And the aliens who find Kadyn - it’s like Timon and Pumbaa, Bagheera and Baloo, etc. This is such a corny Disneyfied comic.
And just as an aside - Dennis Hallum. Marvel readers have probably seen his pseudonym “Dennis Hopeless” on a buncha books - I knew it couldn’t be his real name, and it wasn’t. But what an idiot - the point of working at Marvel is to establish your name with the widest possible readership before trying to take it with you when you do your creator-owned stuff. Changing it AFTER YOU LEAVE Marvel defeats that point completely! How doofy of him - how… hopeless!
Sea of Stars #1 is not a bad comic, it’s just not my cup of tea. The writing and art is fine but the story doesn’t appeal at all and this first issue hasn’t made me want to read more. I’m sure comics-reading dads will love this one to bits though.
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