The Stop Button
blogging by Andrew Wickliffe
Category: Half Past Danger
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Mooney brings Half Past Danger to a reasonably good conclusion, though the whole thing just feels like a setup for a sequel series. Hopefully, if Mooney does a sequel, it won’t end with a setup for another series. The issue is all action until the epilogue. The good guys each have their own adversary (or…
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About half the issue is a submarine adventure, which is very cool. Mooney sure does figure out how to work all sorts of genres into a comic about dinosaurs (there actually aren’t any dinosaurs visible in this issue). And then there’s a big surprise at the end, which I wasn’t expecting–Mooney does really well hinting…
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Big surprise this issue. Mooney’s apparently real good at not painfully foreshadowing. This issue is exactly how an all action comic should be done. Mooney keeps up a brisk pace and his panel compositions are complicated and sometimes breathtaking. He clearly wanted to do complex action set pieces and figured out how to best convey…
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Mooney gets a little rushed on a few pages. He brings it all together for the big finale though–how has no one thought of ninjas versus Nazis before? You’d think it would be its own genre. There’s not a lot of action until the finish, just a lot of drinking. Noble–the superman–and Flynn get drunk…
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Not only does Mooney up the ante with a ninja, he gives him a camouflage outfit out of “G.I. Joe.” It’s strange but cool, just like all of Half Past Danger. Of course, he also implies the big blond captain guy is a super soldier. Not sure what else Mooney could possibly add–the British secret…
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I’m really impressed. I’d never even heard of Stephen Mooney before Half Past Danger–I hadn’t heard of him so much I thought the names were separate (based on the cover credit). I’m shocked to see it’s just one guy doing this comic and one I haven’t heard of. Danger is highly derivative. Little Sgt. Rock,…