![]() A crowd-pleaser, then.īarry’s sample art shows a joyous moment opening ‘Thunder in the Orient’ showcasing his skills. Indy is accompanied by a glamorous mystical archaeologist, Nazis present a constant threat, and there’s even a scene of Indy using a whip to good effect. ![]() In a pre-internet era plenty of visual research was required to follow Indy’s globetrotting, and Barry’s beautifully rendered environments are accompanied by meticulous period detail, which applies whether it’s a 1930s American city or an ancient Mayan temple. Perhaps the constant changes of location might betray the game origins, but otherwise it’s a thrill ride from start to finish. It’s based on a computer game written by Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein, adapted by William Messner-Loebs with Dan Barry on art, then taking over the writing also. For fans, then, this 2008 Omnibus is very welcome for supplying ‘Thunder in the Orient’ and ‘Arms of Gold’ for the first time in book form.īefore them, though, there’s ‘The Fate of Atlantis’, a story that was compiled as a graphic novel. ![]() In hindsight it seems unusual that Dark Horse would issue Indiana Jones comics, yet not compile them into graphic novels, but so it was in the 1990s. ![]()
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