Yep, it’s the long awaited last issue of Capt. Fantastic. What I distinctly remember about this is that I conceived of this as a 12 issue series that would end with exactly the death featured in this issue. That’s pretty weird – an eight-year old plans the death of his comic book alter ego as the grand finale. It’s weird enough to me that I would plan an ending in the first place – superhero comics were not known for their finite storylines, you wouldn’t find anything to stop the franchise from moving on – same with television. The inclusion of “Chapter” with each issue, though, was pulled from my preoccupation with old movie serials – did I talk about that before? – and they did have endings. Not really groundbreaking endings – usually the villain is defeated, that sort of thing, nothing terribly life-changing – but conclusions nonetheless, and being film, there was no guarantee of a second sequel with that hero.

By the way, I believe that’s Thor that Capt. Fantastic meets with – apparently he is disrupting the lightning somehow. I’m not really clear on that – the economy of words to an eight-year-old and all that. I think this might be the only time Thor makes an appearance in EL Comics – Hercules was a much bigger deal for me – but we shall see – I can’t be expected to remember all of my creations!