“Yesterday’s” Comic> Lucky Comics Free Comic Book Day 2018

“Oh god, my spine!”

Lucky Comics Free Comic Book Day 2018

Lucky Comics (May, 2018)

SELECTED COVER ART: Arkade Draw

LETTERER: John M. Helmer

EDITOR: Michael Waggoner

Beetle Girl: “Tales Of The Green Knight”

WRITER/CREATOR: John M. Helmer

ARTIST: Eric Douthitt

Doctor Titan: “Is There A Doctor In The House?”

WRITER/CREATOR: Eric Kent

Beetle Girl gets a police alert from her flying drone, Doc, that an armored car robbery is underway…by a dude who stops the car by punching it! Our villain is called A.W.O.L., but he’s stopped by Green Knight, an armored hero who has been chasing him for months. Too bad Beetle Girl takes down…Green Knight, allowing the robber to get away? What? When Green Knight gets mad at her she tells him to send a warning in the future because Hilltop City is her city.

This is our second visit with Beetle Girl and she is really looking like a screw-up. Apparently she beats her villains by annoying them so much they get fed up and leave. Last time the monster handed her a whuppin, and this time she attacks another hero for being on her turf. He wasn’t even trying to kill A.W.O.L. (nice name, he said sarcastically), unless that one energy blast was supposed to be lethal and there’s no indication one way or another. Attack the actual robber you just complained about a few minutes ago, and then argue turf. Even Batman has that sense. There’s also a typo in the “form months” dialog. Sorry, Dan, but your daughter is not following your footsteps very well if these Free Comic Book Day specials are any indication.

In our second tale, Doctor Titan travels to another dimension to gather a piece of something called the DaVinci Diorama. Attacked by anti-plasma he escapes by turning his gun into a knife. Not sure how that works. Back home, his pro wrestler brother Todd tells him some guy named Wergeld stopped by looking for Doc, which he considers bad news because they’re after the same thing…only Wergeld is the “I’ll kill you for it type”.

With two stories in a ten page Free Comic Book Day offering, I can forgive more in this story because Titan comes off as competent. In five pages we get banter with his brother, a very brief idea of the concept (though not room for a lot of explanation, this works as a teaser), and some fair action. If only I was interested in this genre, I might be interested.

That’s why Lucky Comics isn’t showing me anything all that interesting in these two offerings I’ve reviewed thus far. Beetle Girl is the opposite of a Mary Sue and the second story is not in a genre I’m interested in. The whole variant cover deal is already annoying for me in physical comics, but when you do it in a digital comic, I have to wonder what you’re thinking. My DriveThru Comics library has a few more to go, so maybe things will get better, but at this stage I’m not all that impressed.