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Galaxy Quest: Global Warning

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Occasionally the artist screws up, and someone is recognizable. It was difficult to tell from page to page who I was looking at. One of the main characters? Which one? Perhaps an extra with a speaking part?

Arguably this wasn't a bad thing, it gave me something to think about other than the plot, which wasn't exactly much of a surprise. It is still possible to put a novel spin onto an old story, Illegal aliens put a street gang into the same situation, a twist not unlike putting actors into the roles they played. Unlike Galaxyquest, this story really isn't much about actors at all. They don't behave any differently than their roles when the time comes.

Attention to detail is non-existent. I was especially entertained by the Army colonel wearing the four stars of a full general, in a helicopter kind of painted in Army colors with Navy written on the side. Was this intended to be humor? If so, it went right past me. Given the quality of the art, I'm just unable to tell if it was intended or not.

Galaxy Quest: Global Warning! (2009) collects the 2008 five-issue miniseries of the same name, which was written by Scott Lobdell and illustrated by Ilias Kyriazis, and which features the characters from the excellent 1999 Galaxy Quest film.

Lobdell, best known for his work on Marvel's X-Men titles, mishandles the Galaxy Quest characters and world from beginning to end. In sharp contrast to the film, this comic takes itself so seriously; compounding matters, the dialogue is cheesy, and it isn't funny at all. The characters are, to varying degrees, moronic caricatures; it's a good thing Lobdell copies and pastes so much dialogue from the movie, or you'd hardly know you were supposed to be familiar with these people. The story isn't any better; it spends too much time unnecessarily filling in blanks that anyone who's seen the movie and has a basic familiarity with science fiction can figure out, what little plot there is doesn't get going until two-thirds of the way through, and the resolution is feeble and asinine.

As other reviews attest, Kyriazis's artwork is also a problem. His most egregious offense is his faces: they're generic and so inconsistent from page to page that the reader really has to work to tell who's who. There's little attention to detail, either: the colonel wears general's stars, and the Army helicopter says "Navy" on the side. Kyriazis's loose style only exacerbates these problems.

If you're not a Galaxy Quest fan, there's really no reason for you to read Galaxy Quest: Global Warning! (it certainly isn't going to make you a fan); if you already are a fan, you're going to be disappointed. Either way, don't waste your time.

Being a huge fan of Star Trek I loved the movie Galaxy Quest. So I was excited when I found out that they made a comic book sequel to it.

This didn't even remotely match up to the movie, let alone top it. The artwork is okay but (as another reviewer said) it's really hard to tell who's who. The story is basically about some aliens that come to destroy Earth. The "crew" of the Protector take their ship up there and stop the aliens. To be honest, I really didn't catch how they stopped them. I didn't feel like re-reading the ending so guess I wont know until a VERY rainy day.

The only good point I can see to this was that they showed how the Army covered up the crashing of the Protector at the end of the movie. Oh, and Gwen being decontaminated. (Sprayed down naked.) Other than that this left me with bad feelings about Galaxy Quest in general.

I think I'm going to need to watch the movie again so that I wont equate Galaxy Quest with crap.

If they were going to make a comic series they should have:

(A) Made a GOOD sequel with more accurate artwork.

or

(B) Made a series based on the Galaxy Quest TV series shown in the movie. (Either the old episodes or the new ones.)

OR

(C) They should have left the movie alone and not tried to make any sequel whatsoever!