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Don't look now, but the best comics of this summer have been going back in time.
Iron Man visits the 80's in Iron Age. DC Retroactive visits several eras. Both have brought some of the greatest creators from the past to the party. And Megaman proves you can go home again. Yes it's true. For the past three months Megaman has been the most fun you can have in a comic book.
Are any of these books recreating the wheel? No. They just show that good writing and good art are all you need.
Special props to 80's Retroactive Wonder Woman. I have had the chance to see the inestimable Rich Buckler draw again before one of us dies from old age. Buckler never achieved the level of fame that Perez and Byrne enjoyed, but he was and is every bit as good. He must have done literaly thousands of covers back in the day, and he was always somehere in the DCU making everything the best of the best.
Maybe it was because he was always the pinch hitter working everywhere in the DCU instead of getting his own regular title, that he was overlooked, or that back then DC didn't focus on individual creators the way Marvel did. Something that changed when Giordano became EIC. But please run out and check him out now.
Megaman also sports some old school creators in Gary Martin and John Workman backing up the new kids. This book has clean panel work, and some of the most beautiful coloring in a while.
And there was nothing funnier to me than Tony Stark's ego. Stuck in the past. Does he go see Reed or the Avengers. Heck no! This ego maniac goes to see himself. Too bad early days Stark is too drunk to help future Stark. But along with the comedic moments are also some sad points, where Tony runs into dead friends and wishes he dared to change the future.
So here's to the future. Maybe it is in the past after all. Just not in the way mainstream editorial at Marvel and DC think it is. These little stealth ninja titles are where the fun is at.