Space Ghost #9
Space Ghost #9 wraps up the Metallus arc with a battered, but not yet beaten, Space Ghost with Metallus while Jan, Jace, and Blip take on the ships and robotic minions threatening to destroy yet another world. Rewriting Space Ghost's history to make Metallus responsible for the death of Space Ghost's own world and family (thus creating the spacegoing vigilante) ups the stakes in the issue (even if the tease of our hero contemplating taking the villain's life isn't solid in a way for it to be possible to take seriously).
In terms of taking the goofy characters from the old cartoons and turning them each more serious, Metallus works pretty well and certainly comes off far more dangerous and deadly here than in the original show. The kids, with a good assist from Blip, get to do a bit more than be simply distractions with their crippling attack on Metallus' ship provides Space Ghost the opportunity to attack and put an end to the villain's scheme.
[Dynamite Entertainment, $4.99]
- Title: Space Ghost #9
- Comic Vine: link
- Writer: David Pepose
- Artist: Jonathan Lau
