Ha, that was a direct quote from the interview.

Wicked pissah!

The Adam Strange mini was set in current continuity, with the established past (including adventures with the JLA; but, we learn that the populace view him as a neanderthal and Sardath brought him to their world because they were sterile. It basically was an attempt to darken up the space opera hero and it doesn't work very well. There are conspiracies and fakes, and a look at Adam's dark past, on Earth and if you had read the older Adam Strange stories, it just urinated all over them. Not much was done with him after, though this was supposed to be kind of the new status quo and I think it was likely because longtime fans hated it and the rest ignored it. The Kubert art is as great as you would expect but I hated the basic premise and execution. James Robinson fixed the worst of it with Starman: To the Stars, with Jack and companions on Rann. That kind of re-established Adam as a science hero, who used his brains and saved the people of Rann.

Bolland also took forever on Camelot 3000 and the last few chapters were horribly delayed. It was on schedule through the 5th issue; then, there was a 3 month gap, before the next issue, but they got three out on a monthly schedule. Issue #9 was 3 months later, and a 3 month gap between 9 and 10. It was 4 months before #11 came out, then 9th months before the final issue hit the stands. So it took 2 1/4 years to put out 12 issues.

Some of Bolland's other material was reprinted in several venues. His Mr Mamoulian originally appeared in the prozine, Escape, then the stories were reprinted in Cheval Noir, at Dark Horse and Negative Burn, at Caliber, and possibly another venue, as I seem to recall. He did The Actress and the Bishop, for the A1 anthology and that was later reprinted in a collection of his stuff. He drew a Zirk story, with Steve Moore, in Warrior #3. That's besides his Judge Dredd and related work.

Digital Justice should have been called Digital Garbage.  The story and the art are both atrocious.  

Atlantic Chronicles was Peter David and Esteban Maroto on the history of Atlantis/pre-history of Aquaman.  Maroto's art is very pretty.  It's been a LONG time since I've read the story though.  

I feel like I bought the first issue of Tempus Fugitive and didn't like it nearly enough to spend that kind of money on the remaining three.  I'm not a huge Ken Steacy fan though, although I don't know that I knew that at the time.  

Digital Justice was done on an Amiga computer system, which had the best graphics package available, at the time.  It was a step up from Mike Saenz' work, in my opinion and I thought the art was fine, though not nearly as good as Moreno's linework.  The story is pretty thin, though I wouldn't go so far as to call it "garbage."  I've seen much worse and it wasn't for lack of ambition.

Moreno, for those unfamiliar, is a Spanish artist who previously worked in line art and had a couple of works published in Heavy Metal (Rebel, plus a couple of short stories, later collected in Zeppelin).  Rebel was a graphic novel about a dystopian future with a repressive government, medical crises (as well as everything else) and a band of freedom fighters who try to protect their communtiy, in the New York environs.  Zeppelin was a collection of short works, the central story was kind of similar to The Final Countdown, as you see a modern F4 Phantom II launch from a carrier and then get swallowed up by some alien machine/ship, and emerge in another time period, where it turns out to be the source of a historical event, which I won't spoil.

DC also reprinted the long serial he and Archie Goodwin created, for Epic Illustrated, Generation Zero.  It features a group of young men, who are sent on an expedition to link up with other groups.  They come across a group of fascists, in North Africa, who control a group of oil wells and refineries, who end up launching an attack on their home citadel, in the climax.  One of the adventurers has a missing father, who is alluded to be with the fascists.  Goodwin provides an excellent story and it features Moreno's best line work, in my opinion.  

After Digital Justice, he moved into the gaming and digital art world, pioneering many techniques.

Atlantis Chronicles is the deep back history to Aquaman and Atlantis, with exquisite Esteban Maroto art.  It's an epic story, though I was lukewarm to some of the elements, at the time, given my history with the 1970s Aquaman stories.  it felt like an attempt to darken up Aquaman, though that would come, even more so, a little later).  Fans lobbied DC for years to reprint it; but, they wouldn't while they were at odds with David.

I liked Tempus Fugitive and love Ken Steacy's art.  It features an air crash, where one of the pilots is a freedom fighter from the future, who has traveled back in time to try to prevent his dystopian world from coming to pass.  It's mostly an excuse for Steacy to go nuts with different period aircraft and designs and high octane action, in his airbrushed style.  He could draw a map to his house, for a party and it would be a work of art, to me.

Believe me, you didn't miss much. The graphics are very other-worldly and Tron-like, and the story is utterly forgettable. Really didn't work for the tone of Batman at all.

My into to Adam Strange was in his appearance in JLA, in the early 70s.  I loved him immediately and he became my favorite character, with Red Tornado a close second (and who had more stories).  The main one of that period was his team-up with the JLA, as they battle Kanjar Ro, which leads into his wedding, to Alanna......



(Love the fact that her "wedding dress" is done in her usual colors of blue and yellow)

Now, Imagine stating with the character like that and seeing Alanna killed off without a second thought.  I only bought the remaining issues because of the Kuberts...and the vain hope that the story would somehow come back from this.  That was when I started to greatly sour on a lot of mainstream superhero comics, until we started getting some lighter stuff, like Waid's run on The Flash and Robinson's Starman.  JLI was about the only regular comic that kept my sanity.  Grim & gritty was fine in The Question and Green Arrow (as long as it was Mike Gell writing it); but, not every damn book, especially stuff like Adam Strange or the Green Lantern characters.