http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/the-champions-classic-vol-1/ reading material to get excited about Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/the-champions-classic-vol-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6998 The Champions Classic: Vol. 2 » Bookgasm Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:01:37 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=873#comment-6998 [...] Picking up where VOL. 1 left off, the first couple of issues continues the initial run’s bent toward the dimension-hopping fantasy world, which means lots of evil sorcerers, winged demons and overwritten dialogue that rarely registers. The title starts to differentiate itself and pick up some much-needed steam in a two-parter that has The Champions battling hordes of killer bees. It’s so over-the-top and disaster-film-schooled that I figure its only reason for existence was to ride the coattails of Irwin Allen’s THE SWARM. Though the movie bombed, the comic wrings much mileage out of the premise. [...] [...] Picking up where VOL. 1 left off, the first couple of issues continues the initial run’s bent toward the dimension-hopping fantasy world, which means lots of evil sorcerers, winged demons and overwritten dialogue that rarely registers. The title starts to differentiate itself and pick up some much-needed steam in a two-parter that has The Champions battling hordes of killer bees. It’s so over-the-top and disaster-film-schooled that I figure its only reason for existence was to ride the coattails of Irwin Allen’s THE SWARM. Though the movie bombed, the comic wrings much mileage out of the premise. [...]

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