DC Comics Darkstar characters always seemed to me to be second tier Green Lanterns. Issue #1 delves more into the mission and operations of the Darkstars.
What makes the series especially interesting is that after the series began a new, young artist took over the pencils. That artist, Travis Charest, would soon blossom into one of the most accomplished illustrators in the industry.
In the first issue Darkstar, Sata-breath is starting to find his occupation a bore.
He’s dispatched to a distant planet to thwart a pack of alien thugs from committing a kidnapping.
He returns home to his base and is reprimanded by his superior for his lackluster performance.
His next assignment takes him to Earth. He discovers a certain criminal organization is in cahoots with a nasty alien crime lord.
While investigating the criminal activities the Darkstar reluctantly takes on a human partner to aid him in his assignment to stop the human/alien drug cartel.
It’s a pretty cut and dry story-at first. Things get interesting in the last two pages when the police come face to face with a giant alien killer.
Darkstar had a lot of potential but never really caught on with readers. It struggled in its print run eventually disappearing from shelves.
2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV) “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
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