Sheesh, forgot all about this over the holidays and just assumed I had posted it......

I was getting the Superman books, until a little before the launch of Doomsday; but, I can't remember when I stopped. It wasn't for more than a month or two before I started getting them again, because of Doomsday. So, maybe those, maybe not; can't recall clearly.







I always liked Mark Verheiden's The American; but, it started far better than it ended. Lost in America was interesting, in concept, but the ship had mostly sailed, by then. Enjoyed Deadface; but, the Bacchus series was the best, for me. Justice Society was terrific and was completely buried by the company and largely ignored by the audience. Great Mike Parobeck art. Peter Cannon finally apepared and I enjoyed it, for what it was; but, it lacked the spark that the Charlton stories had. Debt of Honor was a great Star Trek story, even if Claremont shoehorned Alien into it, as he was wont to do.

Team Titans sounded good on paper and I picked up the whole set, only because they had the individual character origins. I was so mad at myself afterward, when I was underwhelmed by the story and I had paid full price for half of a story, for 4 out of 5 comics. I think I stuck it out until issue 3 or 4 and dropped it. never did anything like that again, never picked up variant covers and avoided new series with gimmick launches. That is why I passed up Power Company, when it debuted, though I came to look at it later, with the whole Kirk DePaul clone thing.

They were published in June 1992 - what about July?

Those had July cover dates, and were published in May.

July 1992:

Animal Man #51
Caravan Kidd #1
Doom Patrol #58
Hellblazer #57

Dr Gillian Taylor

and the way Adam Hughes drew her............

I was already a fan of Catherine Hicks, and Hughes captured her basic physical appearance and then sexed it up a bit.

It was fun to see some of the callbacks from classic episodes; but, I could have done without the Star Trek vs Aliens plot.  Claremont was really obsessed with that; and, then, he did Aliens vs Predator:  Deadliest of the Species and I was rather underwhelmed.  Guess he used up all of his good stuff in his various "homages."

She was a Romulan, who masqueraded as a Vulcan, in their first encounter.  The main plot is Kirk assembling a team from Star Fleet, along with Kor, the Klingon character from "Errand of Mercy," and the Romulan chick, to go after the Aliens.....stand-ins.  Claremont brought back all kinds of characters, from Janice Rand, to Mr Kyle, to Jaimie Finney (whose father tried to frame Kirk for murder, in "Court Martial, Riley (from "The Naked Time"), etc.  The Romulan's name, though, made me groan:  T'Cel.  Uh-hunh.

It also has the birth of George and Gracy's calf.  Claremont also suggests that the original Klingons and the movie versions were two different racial groups, within the Klingon Empire, though that was negated by the DS9 episode, "Blood Oath", where you see Kor, Kang and Koloth, with the forehead ridges.

Karl Story did a nice job on Adam Hughes' pencils.  If memory serves, it was one of Adam Hughes' last major penciling projects, before he became almost entirely a cover artist.  Of course, they were studio mates, in Gaijin Studios, along with Culy Hammer, Jason Pearson, Tony Harris, Brian Stelfreeze, Laura Martin, Dave Johnson, Doug Wagner and Tony Shasteen.