This blue paper wasn’t an aesthetic choice. As I recall, I came into a pile of different blank paper that I started to use for my  comics – hence the tan paper of the previous issue that was also different from the more usual lined notebook paper and the blank white paper. I’m fairly certain it was a pile of paper that one of my parents procured from somewhere and handed to me, and I rather like the unpredictable paper phase that I went through.

On the other hand, I’m less fond of the incoherent story phase. While the previous issue was unexpected in this realm, this one is just … confusing. Well, I mean, I get it up to a point. Capt. Fantastic seems to be showing off to his friend Bob, but then it’s revealed that it’s all part of a plan to introduce Bob to the fact that he is destined to become Capt. Fantastic’s lesser. The part about tripping over his cape is funny, though something I ripped off from Captain America, during the period he became Nomad in the 1970s. You know, the Man Without A Country? This would put a date on this actual issue – really soon after Watergate.

Unfortunately, I don’t get the final page. Who disappeared? Bob as Capt. Fantastic Jr.? The parachutist? Why? And doesn’t Capt. Fantastic care enough to pursue the matter further? Was Bob the parachutist? Clearing I have some writing workshops to attend.