Released by: Dark Horse Comics
Released on: February 26, 2014
Captain Midnight - fresh from being “lost†for nearly 50 years - finally reunites with his lost love, Joyce Ryan. She's also grandmother to one of his current team who's sort of bent on making this reunion happen, whether Captain wants it to or not…
The two quickly catch up, though, both very aware of their present reality - that it's been quite some time for Joyce while, for Midnight, it's only been “like two weeks.†He queries her on their former team, leaving his old best friend, Chuck Ramsey, to the last and it's his story that Joyce is hesitant to relate but knows she must.
The story heads back now, to the mid-80s, in a Mexican jungle. The fight against their main nemesis, Fury Shark, continued after Midnight's disappearance so Joyce is hunting down Shark's latest efforts when she runs into Chuck in this jungle, bent on doing the same thing. But Chuck seems more determined and has hired a noted mercenary-assassin named Helios to assist him with finally dispatching Shark once and for all.
This series keeps a healthy reverence for the original weekly serial strip while giving it a good modern twist. The action comes hard and heavy and both Joshua Williamson's script and Fernando Dagnino's artwork keep up with it all rather breathlessly. Another excellent entry in this very well-rebooted series.