Caspian Porter #4
Mars, circa 500 million BCE; the red planet is a brave new world full of life... and death!
In Caspian Porter - Part 4: The Battle of Rooster Valley by writer Drew D. Lenhart and artist Juan Fleites, our titular non-heroic protagonist, former cargo freighter pilot and all-round master of disaster, finds himself in the middle of a war zone... of his own making.
In the previous issues we learned of the mysterious wormhole above Mars that has sucked in many unsuspecting space travellers from the 21st century and marooned them in the deep past, like a perilous spacetime Sargasso Sea... on a Mars that is covered in lush forests inhabited by carnivorous dinosaurs.
Over the years, with very little technology, the survivors have eked out a rustic, tribal civilisation complete with domesticated saurians and archaic weaponry. Two separate camps coexisted more or less peacefully until Porter - having fallen out of the sky after fleeing problems of his own making in the year 2086 - promptly proceeds to create a diplomatic incident that catapults the humans into full-on conflict.
Part Four dives right into the action, with Porter dodging arrows, spears and the jaws of ravenous reptiles as he struggles desperately to save his own skin. Once again, fate intervenes to rescue him from impending doom over and over, his undeserving hide plucked from the frying pan and subsequent fires by a hair's breadth.
This is a 48-page romp with plenty of action right from the get-go, with a variety of weaponised prehistoric beasts waging battle, illustrated with gusto and humour by Fleites.
By a strange series of twists, and despite his conspicuous lack of courage, Porter nevertheless finds himself thrust into the position of hero of the hour. Can he - against all odds, and very much against the qualities of his deeply, deeply flawed character - save the day?
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