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This review is for Captain Johner and The Aliens, published by Valiant in May 1995.
Originally appearing as a back-up strip in Dell Comics Magnus Robot Fighter, these short strips, around 4 pages, were produced by Russ Manning and tell the story of Man’s first encounter with intelligent alien life.
After the Human and Alien ship meet by chance in space, the crews agree to swap some of their members, so Captain Johner heads home with some of the Aliens on his vessel.
What follows is a parable of tolerance toward different races and cultures. The two reprint issues from Valiant offer fourteen of these strips, the complete run of the strip was 28 issues but the last half of the run is yet to be reprinted.
These reprints by Valiant are nicely packaged, but a common bug-bear with me is the addition of modern colouring techniques. Simply put, I don’t get it, I think it looks terrible.
I’d still recommend this reprint as a great example of Manning’s clean and simple style, that focuses on storytelling rather than showmanship.
Mad Thinker Reads………..
Half of a Great Run.
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