It’s an action-packed week from the folks at Dynamite comics. The Space Ghost Annual hits comic shops this week, and right alongside it is Captain Planet #2.
Jumping right into the action, a series of environmental related events bond five strong-willed individuals, passionate about their causes, together in surprisingly tense situations. An approach is taken where these individuals do not know each other at all, complete strangers, yet are brought together by circumstance.
These circumstances all center around the first pages of the issue, where the last High Priestess, Gaia is held captive by Lucian Plunder, the corporate monarch seemingly behind the privatization of natural resources. As each elemental wielder is brought closer into the fray, the bearers of fire and wind collide in what might turn out to be a disastrous effect.
However, as Earth and Water elementals escape their predicament, they are abruptly thrust into a standoff with the two other ring bearers.
Before things really get worse, a shadowy figure encourages an individual with Heart – the final element to unite them together to call upon the guardian of the globe, none other than…
You guessed it.
While new audiences of Captain Planet might roll eyes at “Plunder” as a villain, but that’s right from the cartoon. The whole “save the planet” was just as important then as it is now. I will say the appearance of this new C.P. is very different, taking a more gruff and aged appearance than the original.
I imagine much like Space Ghost where David Pepose takes the bones of the original lore but brings it to an appreciative old and new audience. Bringing the story to like is artist Eman Casallos, colorist Jorge Sutil, letterer Jeff Eckleberry, and Joe Rybandt.
Don’t pass this one up folks. Judging by how Dynamite is knocking it out of the park with their line of nostalgia titles, this is likely to be another big hit.
