Turnbull, Jack – Apollo Astro #5

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Apollo Astro #5

I love getting that second issue from a creator that I liked the first time around. Sure, the first one I read was good, but what about other work? Was the early stuff as good? How about later issues, did he/she keep it up? I’m happy to say that this issue was much better than #4, and I liked that one just fine. There are a few shorter pieces in this, but the bulk of it is the story of a boy as he grows up in a town where he’s told to stay away from the “bad people”, but by the time he’s in high school there are bad people everywhere. I don’t want to ruin it for anybody who hasn’t read it, but the scene with the 13 year old boy came as a complete surprise to me, even with the hints thrown in with the fingernails. That’s a sentence that makes no sense to the people who haven’t already read this, which is fine because you should read it. I still don’t know about his earlier issues and, after his introduction about how much he’s changed and how that’s reflected in the comic, I’m not sure that I want to. Some of the dialogue is a bit stilted here and there. That’s about as much of a complaint as I can muster. It’s $3, contact info is above, check it out! Oh yeah, and I liked the smaller stories too…