Ever since Jim Starlin's Mystery in Space with Captain Comet, I've been interested in DC's "space heroes", and so I've followed their adventures from there to Countdown to Adventure and thence to here. (DC hasn't created an ongoing for them, but with some kind of limited series always running, there's essentially one anyway.) But none of the subsequent volumes have been quite as good as that first volume of Mystery in Space. It's nice to see all the space heroes in action here, but there's almost too many of them-- no one gets a role sizable enough to be interesting, aside perhaps from Comet. (Though it is nice to see Tyrone, the Weird, and Chief Justice Max again; Starlin seems to do the best with his characters.) And the story isn't that great, feeling mostly like a series of fight scenes.

I was all set to complain about Ron Lim's art, but then I realized the problem wasn't him; it was Rob Hunter's inks. When Scott Koblish takes over inking in issue #4, the art is much clearer and nicer. The best art in the book, though, is Starlin's own work in the "Hawkman Special" interlude. Shame that its story is just a bunch of meaningless retcon continuity gubbins. I'll pick up volume two of this title, but it had better be dang good to keep me journeying with the space heroes; as much as I like them in principle, the execution is often lacking.

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