Every so often a comic book publisher comes up with an utterly amazing title… At the beginning of one of those “Ultimate Final Crisis Wars” DC Comics decided to try something weird. They took a 1940’s hero and reinvented him for a more modern age (at the time it was the mid 90’s). This had been done before, but there was something about this character and what they did, the homage they paid to the past, made it something special, and something I really liked.
Maybe it was the fact that Jack was an artist and junk dealer who never wanted to be a hero. Maybe it was his relationship with his father, maybe it was the wonderful cast of characters, the annual “Talking with David” issues, Shade’s Journals… I don’t know, but I know I shed a tear when that last issue came out, not just because it was a wonderful ending- but because it was an ending, something you don’t normally find in comics. You knew after reading that last page, that Jack Knight wouldn’t be back- ever. No matter what Starman was something special. 80 of (in my opinion) some of the best comics out there.
People always ask me what my favorite hero is… It’s easy to say “the Flash” but I think it might actually be Starman.