The Black Hole

 

The Black Hole #3

 

 Once , when I didn't know what comic books were, I encountered one that still haunts my mind-the main spoilers (retro) black hole review #3 awaits

Black hole #3

Author: Michael Teitelbaum
Pencil: Al McWilliams
Inker: Al McWilliams
Color: not supported
Author: Al McWilliams
Western publishing publishing
Cover price: 40 cents
Current semi-mint pricing: $12.00

Back in the black hole: thanks to this week's batch purchase (and the movie is available on Disney+), I was thinking about the 1979' black hole ' again.  Back in those pre-broadcast days, we could not watch movies again and again, forcing us to read novels and comic book adaptations of our favorite films, which could be Let's say "mixed" in their quality and fidelity to the source material.  So it was with the ongoing monthly adaptation of the comic book 'Black Hole', a film that ended with a strange and impressionistic sequence involving heaven and hell on the other side of the titular collapse.  This problem captures the only way the story can do: by completely ignoring all that

Black hole # 3 review

Having traveled through the black hole, the surviving Palomino crew immediately found that the laws of nature are rejected, with their path passing through the sun without any damage, they found scale and disintegration meaningless, they even found their duplicates traveling through space.  Then, their ship is caught in strange bubbles and pulled into a very familiar spacecraft: the USS hen

Black hole # 3 review

If you are not familiar with the plot of the film, then these three humans and one robot barely survived the chicken of their universe with their lives, and then watched it torn to shreds by space debris and sucked into an unknown fate inspired by Bosch.  Their suspicion of Reinhardt and his robot enforcer is understandable, given the death of two of their crewmates at their hands and/or terrible pliers, but their counterparts in the parallel universe focus instead on the mysterious "lights".  And speaking of twisted repetitions

Black hole # 3 review

He is wrapped visually and figuratively, he seems to have been molded from clay by Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, and then left to spin at the wheel for a very long time.  Regardless of his charm (which, I must say, bothered me even when I was nine and knew nothing about comic book art), he shares the intelligence and resourcefulness of the main universe, helping the crew to formulate an escape plan. It depends on the guards being stupid enough not to realize that the flying robot has been flying all this time

Despite all my complaints about P. O. P., The V. I. N. cent representations in this issue are very strong, which makes me think that the artist had one of the Migo games for visual reference, and McWilliams does a very good job with human faces and some spaceships.  (Mostly the ones that feel retro / flash Gordonian, but still, they look really classy.) However, he does not have the same handle on the terrifying Crimson death robot named Maximilian

Unlike the protracted fighting that made up a significant part of the last chapter of the film, this film ended in one panel, where the crew of Palomino managed to sabotage the fighting ships that this chicken inexplicably owns and escape in a ship reminiscent of lost in space Jupiter 2

Sharp-eyed readers may recognize this ship as the very one that the crew saw in the opening pages of this issue, which makes it seem as if time in this world is as complex as space.  It is a puzzle that is never completely disassembled, as Issue # 4 is incredibly difficult to track down, as it is only available in multiple packages and in very limited numbers.  Black hole # 3 (sometimes known as 'beyond black hole #3' thanks to the cover dress) is a book that doesn't exactly appeal to me as a die-hard fan, but also doesn't seem like it will attract any new ones, with good art and a troubled story making for a kind of disappointing 2 out of 5 stars overall.  For my part, it's worth the price, but again, I haven't found this particular issue sells for more than a few dollars, so the mileage may vary, as always
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There is something endearingly human about our ability to take the most surprising ideas and treat them into trivial stories. Take, as an example today, the idea of black holes in outer space and the Walt Disney story "the black hole"

The concept of black holes has now reached from the Ivory Cambridge towers to the American scientific milieu and finally to the funny pages: there may be special places in the universe where collapsed stars have set up gravitational fields so dense that not even light can escape from them. So we have a "hole" in space that we cannot see by definition. Since light (which cannot help moving at the speed of light) cannot get out of the hole. . . Will a falling object be accelerated beyond the speed of light? And what will happen next
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The possibilities are mind-boggling. One of them, much preferred by science fiction writers, is that black holes are tunnels in space, and that if we fall into one, we may get out (maybe a little burned) from a "white hole" some. Nowhere else in the universe. Since black holes are "singularities" that do not correspond to the models of the universe created by Einstein or anyone else, they also wonderfully inspired the concepts of the apocalypse. My favorite is that they are intergalactic bathtub drains, that one day we will spin them and appear in the sewer system of the neighboring universe

That would be even better than what happens in Disney's "black hole", which takes us all the way to the edge of space only to immerse us in melodramas telling about mad scientists and haunted houses. A space mission to a black hole found that another ship had arrived earlier: the hen, which disappeared 20 years ago. The Explorers board the plane and discover that the entire crew of the hen has disappeared, except for Dr. Reinhardt (Maximilian Schell), who explains that he is about to try a daring dive into the hole. Visitors are not charmed. But one of them (Anthony Perkins) is stuck in Reinhart's crazy vision, and a journalist (Ernest Borgnine) wanders around the giant chicken and discovers much more than meets the eye. Then Reinhardt turns into a mean one

Meanwhile, the" black hole " rotates in outer space and is glimpsed from time to time through the vents. Physics is not my best subject, but I somehow doubt that we can actually see a rotating black hole, and my objection comes in two parts: I don't think we can see the hole at all, and it certainly won't rotate at the approximate rate of a ferris wheel

It doesn't matter. The movie stays mostly inside the hen, which resembles the spaceships in "Alien" and "Star Trek" in one key feature: although the cost of launching and maintaining a spacecraft is incredibly expensive and every square foot counts, the hen is as spacious as a country manor, with long hallways, high ceilings and spacious command decks
Why is all the extra, empty interior space? Maybe to give the special effects artists their chance to go berserk on the visuals. "Black hole" was designed by veteran effects artist Peter ellenshaw, who avoids the look of most previous cinematic spaceships (wall-to-Wall computer displays reposition meaningless information on non-existent screens). Instead, his interiors consist of structured patterns of primary colors, arranged on control panels

Then there is a vast porthole overlooking space, much as Captain Nemo's giant porthole surveyed the ocean in ellenshaw's designs for "20,000 Leagues Under the sea."The chicken, in fact, looks more like a fictional spaceship for Nemo than like the trendy high-tech so beloved in most movie spaceships. It is inhabited by a crew borrowed from gothic thrillers and " Star Wars."There are strange, hooded, zombie-like figures swinging everywhere. Then there are the robots

The friendly robot looks like a c3bo, from "Star Wars", and tweets brave little sayings while rolling its beady little eyes. The tallest robots of Darth Vader were cut. And when everyone gets into a shootout, we are left for the umpteenth time with the reflection that armed clashes will definitely be obsolete in outer space. (Can you imagine a technology that could venture to the edge of a black hole, and yet equip travelers with side weapons that inflict only flesh wounds?)

The fundamental problem with "black hole" is that it doesn't really face the challenge of being a fantasy about a black hole. The black hole exists, well; the characters look at it and make solemn statements, and Maximilian Schell seems correctly obsessed with it, but we are not surprised. There is no awe. The hole is a gimmick that the movie can cut, between the plotting and the intrigue on the plane, and at the end of the movie there is an exciting visual bonus. But somehow it comes too late: the events that led to this were so trivial and full of cliches that the film does not reach its climax. So you know Daya? Black holes retain their reputation: nothing can escape from them, not even this movie