Review: Caspian Porter #3
At least you can console yourself with the supposition that, at some point, things cannot get any worse... Right?
Cargo freighter pilot Caspian Porter has escaped the frying pan of 2086 - in which he was pursued by enforcers working for the angry husband of the woman he drunkenly bedded following a card game on a space station in which he lost his entire cargo (which also belonged to said angry husband) - by falling through a random wormhole and crashing on Mars 500 million years in the past. At this point in time Mars has a thriving ecosystem - complete with slavering dinosaurs - and a population of fellow stranded time travellers.
In Caspian Porter #3: The Merciless Pirates of Mars by writer Drew D Lenhart and artist Juan Fleites our antihero is welcomed into the fold, but it is not long before he is back to doing what he is best at: getting blind drunk and making terrible decisions. This time the stakes are even higher, however; Porter's ineptitude could spark a civil war...
Porter heads back to his crashed ship only to find it in the process of being dismantled by a gang of scavengers from another settlement. Fisticuffs ensue (with Porter backed up by his trusty, long-suffering robot companion CRB), but the consequences of this confrontation may be a lot more serious than they realise.
Plus, the two security guards sent by Angry Husband have fallen through the same wormhole and - work ethic unfazed by their radical change of scenery - are still in hot pursuit.
Does our hapless protagonist have any hope of surviving this time?
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Zak Webber
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