Thus far, I pretty much think of this as my masterwork within the EL Comics frame — less influenced by Action Comics and more by Finnegan’s Wake, though without not only ever having read Finnegan’s Wake, but without even knowing of its existence. Or James Joyce’s. I think I knew about Ireland, though.

How to explain this adventure? I can’t, so I don’t. If life is a series of seemingly random events that are forced into a psychological equation that adds up to us, then Capt. Fantastic #10 surely reveals the secrets of Capt. Fantastic as a character — and as with Bergman or Dennis Potter, these pieces are presented to the audience to put together with their own experience as the instruction manual.

And, no, I have no idea if that is The Flame from Funtastic Four or something else entirely.