I ask you.
What is one of your favorite comic runs from the 1990s and why is it James Robinson’s Starman?
It was so odd to be the weird kid drawn to the JSA, All-Star Squadron, Infinity, Inc. and all of those Golden Age/Earth-Two characters of the 1970s and early 1980s to have it all taken away from me in 1985 with Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Yes, Crisis dis some wonderful things for many characters, especially if you happened to originally have been from Earth-One or Earth-Four.
But if you were from Earth-Two you were more likely shit upon for years. (I’m looking at your Kara Zor-L!)
And if you were the JSA… oh… Zero Hour would shit all over you again!
But then… in 1994… spinning out of that Zero Hour shit, one of the single greatest comics in DC history dropped: “Starman” by James Robinson (and various artists).
Every issue was a love letter to the Golden Age and the JSA and others, with Tony Harris dropping some of the best covers out there!
For the first time in 10 years, long after Roy Thomas had stopped writing for DC, the old heroes were given a new spin and or new lives.
The legacy story of Jack Knight, taking over from his father Ted Knight, the original Starman of the 1940s, was beyond what anybody could possibly expect in the monthly books.
I’m currently rereading the whole series, but this amazing cover with Ted and Sondra Knight, the original Phantom Lady, really took me back to the 90s.
Starman was one of the books that I eagerly waited for every month.
In an era of nonsense extreme comics shit, Robinson told great stories that more than often hit you in the feels pretty damn hard.
I highly recommend anyone looking for some entry into comics to not be afraid of this series and all of its lore and characters. Really… it is a gorgeous and beautiful run. And Jack Knight is 100% not what you’ll expect in a super hero comic. I guarantee that!