Golden Age
DC Comics.
The Golden Age (4-issue mini; w James Robinson; a
Paul Smith). [From DC Comics: The Golden Age, under
the deceptively safe aegis of the Elseworlds logo, is a very witty dissection
of post-World War II paranoia, using those self-same teenaged creations,
the mystery men of the golden age, as the crux of the story. What James,
Paul, and Richard have done for us is to take a peek under those masks and
get behind those disarming grins - to use the charming innocence of those
beloved mystery men as a wonderful metaphor for a country still trying to
convince itself it was a land of innocent dreams.] Old Book of the
Week 1/2/04