Hexagon Comics STRANGERS #14: WORLDS WITHOUT END.

 

STRANGERS #14: WORLDS WITHOUT END. 

stories by Jean-Marc Lofficier; art & cover by Roberto Castro. 

7x10 squarebound. 

96 pages b&w. 

$14.95

https://www.hexagoncomics.com/

HOMICRON, a NASA scientist whose body is possessed by a mysterious alien from planet Alpha. STARLOCK, a servant of the Towers, supremely powerful cosmic entities. GOLDEN BOY, champion of Urth, “brother” of Futura, empowered by the Great Mind... ARIANROD, a princess from the ancient Fomore race, who is also the Mistress of the Sword of Fire and Ice...

 These characters, all “strangers” to Earth, are brought together by TANKA, a former jungle lord who has been recruited by entities from our planet’s farthest future to be their agent and is now empowered to protect our world from extra-terrestrial menaces. 

This fourteenth volume of Strangers opens our fifth “season”, in which our heroes  face a terrifying new menace, one that threatens many parallel Earths: the mysterious Pentacle. This issue introduces a new superhero group: The Lightning Lords. 

This parallel Earths thing is really catching on, isn't it?  Castro gets to handle a full book of art here -in four different stories. The stories work well and it is interesting to see Tanka again and not running about the jungle. It can be quite difficult to find new stories that are original  for a jungle lord so him being used by a "higher power" here is interesting.

Lightning Lords was interesting and Londinium as the centre of resistance was an interesting touch (presumably a far better governmental n body than we've had in the last 30 years in the UK -oooh. Bit of politics there!).  

Throughout there are some very nice panels and with Strangers you never know what you are going to get from volume to volume. My guess is that if you have one person plotting, scripting then it makes it easier to draw in so many diverse characters and create a cohesive universe to mix with. With characters stretching back over 50 years there is a good enough history to build on -it is making it all seem seamlessly "one" where you might trip over but Lofficier knows his stuff!

There is far more to Strangers than that Image Comics series from...a long time ago now.  There are 14 volumes now and I would always say, if unsure, go buy the first two volumes and see if you like what you see because you would then know the next 12 volumes should be fun!

Now...my PC is making noises so off to set up the new one!