Review of
Indiana
Jones: The Further Adventures, Volume 1, by Dennis O’Neil, ISBN
9781595822468
Five out of five stars
The opening
story is a rendition of “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” purists will note the poetic
license taken by the creators. It is abbreviated, altered and some of the best lines
are transplanted from one scene to another. Yet, it maintains the original tale
of the great adventurer, Indiana Jones.
The remaining
stories have Indie, often with Marion Ravenwood as a sidekick, engaged in
dramatic adventures where he is routinely in grave danger, only to be saved by
happenstance or his great skill in finding a way out of trouble. Indie’s
travels take him all around the world as he searches for the greatest of
archeological artefacts and takes on a wide range of adversaries. From the now
traditional Nazis to lost civilizations to mercenary collectors and sometimes just
basic street thugs, Indie is shooting, whipping and punching his way from one
danger to the next.
In the stories,
his female sidekicks prove to be very capable at fighting and otherwise
surviving, several times pulling Indie out of what appeared to be a hopeless
situation. These stories are in the spirit of the Indiana Jones adventures, a
bit of the occult interspersed with the myths surrounding some of the most
significant missing artefacts of the ancient world.
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