Captain Collision Halloween Special

(Monkey-Boy Totem and Cap in Jotunheim)

Published in 1999 by Groovy Comics, the Captain Collision Halloween Special was, in my humble opinion, a very successful experiment in anthology storytelling. All of the credit for how the finished book turned out has to go to my good friend Reg Stacey. I won't go into it too much here, but the basic premise was that each creator should start and end their story segment with a transitional black panel to allow Reg to order the stories as he saw fit once they had been submitted. He then essentially constructed an overall narrative by ordering the pieces and adding a suitable ending. For more info on this book, check out Reg's website.

As for my contribution, I submitted a one page set-up and a six page feature. The Set-up page casts Monkey-Boy as both shaman and totem spirit to the good Captain, and is basically just a set-up for a 3 panel gag in the feature. I have to admit tho, that I really had fun with the 3 panels after Captain Collision smokes the peyote.

The idea for the feature came from an old coverless dog-eared copy of Thor that I had, that reprinted his origin story. In it, Dr. Blake was vacationing somewhere in Norway when Earth was attacked by giant aliens. While trying to hide from the invaders, Blake breaks his cane and falls down a hole into a cave where he finds a gnarled old walking stick. The stick of course turns out to be Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor. Blake eventually discovers that the hammer turns him into Thor, and he then goes off to kick some giant alien butt. Anyway, the obvious connection between Cap. Collision's hammers and the hammer of Thor bit really just gave me an excuse to have some fun with a super-heroic beat down. I felt kinda bad for the giant tho, he doesn't really do anything to deserve the Cap's wrath.

Prelude

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Last updated: Dec 7/05