In the present Pantha reflects on being asleep for thirty years and waking up to find her husband dead, she takes it in her stride while Tom seems sad. We start with Pantha and Tom Strange having a shared memory about having a moment back when they first teamed up in the jungle before her husband and Tom's friend found them. So let's continue with a second visit to Terra Obscura. This adventure brings a new character into the fold, Princess Pantha, who was Nedor's 'Jungle Girl' character and spins a cool story of mysterious time anomolies and hi-jinks in outer space. If you want to know more about the various heroes featured, their wikipedia page deals with both their Nedor and ABC era biographies and is a very interesting read.

After this was sorted out using punching and diplomacy, the heroes decided to restart their old superhero team and so the 'Society for Modern American Science Heroes' was reborn. In the first book they dealt with an attempt by the Egyption God Set to destroy all the technology of the world and turn the people into his slaves. The heroes are in fact public domain ones from the defunct Nedor comics stable that were in action during the forties and co-writers Alan Moore (plot) and Peter Hogan (script) have bought them into the 21st century with care and respect. The backstory is that Terra Obscura is an alternative Earth where the heroes ended up in suspended animation in the late sixties and were brought out of it thirty years later thanks to the combined efforts of Tom Strong and Tom Strange his Terra Obscura counterpart. A quick recap, this twelve issue series, split into two arcs spun out of a Tom Strong storyline which unfortunately due to cost issues I have not been able to get a hold of.

This month I have decided to have another one devoted to comics which either have women as the main characters or playing a significant role in a mixed cast of men and women, a caveat I added so I could cover Book 2 of Terra Obscura. I had to fall for a guy who likes adventures' - Pantha

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