Tom Strong - Book 03

I skipped Volume II to get right into the action of what looked like a more exciting funnybook (now I'll go back and retrace my steps). Boys and girls, don't let the torpor of Chapter One here stop you from continuing--chapter One, the "Ring of Fire," which tells the romance of Tesla Strong and that fiery nut Val Var Garm. Don't get me wrong, Val Var Garm was great back in Book One, but in "Ring of Fire" I found his whole act very enigmatic. I couldn't understand what was going on with those Aztec salamanders turning the world to flame and if you ask me, I don't think the artists and inkers did either. How does Tesla survive without the robotic suits all the other good guys have to wear in that incalculably hot place underground? Instead she's just crawling across the floor of Val Var Garm's harem without any protection, and hardly breaking a sweat like she's just mildly exercised. Oh well, what does it matter, before long Val Var Garm has abandoned his kingdom (why?) and the Strongs swoop Val Var Garm off to Millennium City where Tesla can have sex with him all day long and all night too in "body positions many." -- English isn't his strong point, his smolder is. However the book picks up considerably with a big three-chapter sweeping saga of the giant ants coming to invade earth and turn us into farm slaves with three eyes. This story had a little bit of a Douglas Adams-Tom Robbins feel, especially with the "Weird Rider" character.

This is a non-extraordinary work of Alan Moore. And is better than 99% of the comics in the market.