- Linkara: "Kamandi" time again! Let's recap. Previously on the "Kamandi at Earth's End" reviews, Kamandi was just a boy, a mere boy of thirty, judging by the looks of him. A computer made him go onto the post-apocalyptic surface to murder Superman, and he met a guy named Sleeper Zom and a woman named Saphira. Zom taught him about dinosaurs and their war with humanity in the early '90s, while Saphira taught him that books are full of thinking. They're being chased by the chicken robots of Ben Boxer, who I guess hates the amount of thinking that books contain. After dealing with mutants and wannabe M. Bison, the characters have finally reached their target: a bearded idiot who is supposed to be Superman. So let's dig into "Kamandi at Earth's End #5" and see if Bearded Idiot is as much of a hypocritical dumbass as he was at "Superman At Earth's End".
- Linkara: The cover is BLACCH: Kamandi and Bearded Idiot running on top of some kind of mechanical floor. Well, I say "running", but more likely, Bearded Idiot is hobbling. His legs are gigantic, each one almost as thick as his torso. Hell, one leg doesn't even resemble a leg. Looks like some kind of hideous growth from his hip. I also love how there's this yellow outline around his arm to differentiate it from his leg, since the thing is so overmuscled and thick that you wouldn't be able to tell where the arm starts and the leg begins without it. Although, maybe his legs aren't actually that big and he's just wearing really huge parachute pants. This was the mid-'90s; he could have just been a huge MC Hammer fan. It would also explain why there's unnecessary black rectangles and red lines on the pants. Hey, dumbass artists! Superman's classic costume is one of the most perfectly balanced superhero outfits ever created, with just the right amount of blue and red. Tweaking stuff like the Superman logo? Yeah, that tends to work out fairly well. But adding stupid flourishes like black rectangles to his pants? You're not innovative, you're just obsessed with random geometry! Actually, having some kind of geometry fetish would explain a lot of the artwork of the '90s.