Buck Rogers Returns With A… Whimper?

The first issue ofDynamite Entertainment‘sBuck Rogerspromises a potentially bright future ahead … as long as we can all get past the difficult launching . Spoilers ( and venomous bears ) in advance !

In many ways , Buck feels like a mixture of the badly - fill out 2007 Flash Gordon SciFi Channel serial and Geoff Johns ’ Green Lantern reboot for DC Comics – and not just because it ’s about midway less successful than GL and more successful than Flash . Like Flash , it tries its best to update the classic concept as quickly as possible so as to get to the activity that everyone ’s expecting but , in doing so , reduces almost every character involved to cyphers that it ’s tough to sympathize with , in situations that are n’t entirely clean and feel more like the resultant role of a writer trying to make everything seem exciting and eventful from the Good Book go than anything convincing or constitutional . Not the estimable start to a storey , really .

And yet , there ’s something about Scott Beatty ’s Anthony “ Buck ” Rogers – the soubriquet comes from his bucking confidence , we ’re evidence – that appeals , despite the matt that surrounds him in the 21st one C ; he ’s save , fairly much , as the same anti - authority hoagy ( and , to an extent , butch jerk ) that has been a science fiction basic since Harrison Ford first talked about how fast his starship was , and take a shit him a buffer brings to listen Johns ’ Hal Jordan very quickly . It ’s not a unfit idea , and helps the contemporary fit hap relatively painlessly . Even if he is n’t any more fleshed out than anyone else around him , he still seems more … exciting , perhaps ? more interesting , at least , and someone we ’re willing to come after around for for a while .

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The story really becomes interesting as Buck ends up in the future , but again , that ’s not because of the characterization . No , this time it ’s the optical maser - toting cyborg bears that make things ridiculous enough to be entertaining , and secret enough to keep reading . Although we do n’t learn why they have laser or who or what made them cyborgs by the end of the issue – although we do learn that they can talk , of course – the very fact of their macrocosm suggests enough of a sense of humor that ’s been miss in the rest of the egress that bodes well for succeeding stories .

Deciding to stay on with Buck as he discovers more of the twenty-sixth century is , at this degree , as much an human activity of faith as anything else ; organized religion in writer Scott Beatty and artist Carlos Rafael , but also in publishing firm Dynamite Entertainment . And it ’s that last one that is the most muscular , perhaps – Dynamite have managed to successfully breathe new spirit into The Lone Ranger and Zorro , so why not Buck ? He may seem quaint and old - fashioned in this day and age , but that ’s not necessarily a drawback : he ’s always been a man out of metre , after all .

Buck Rogers # 1 is available now .

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