If you’re not familiar with the plot of the film, these three humans and one robot barely escaped their universe’s Cygnus with their lives, then watched it torn to pieces by space debris and sucked in to an unknown, Heironymous-Bosch-inspired fate. Then, their ship is captured in a strange bubbles and pulled back to a very familiar spacecraft: The USS Cygnus! Having traveled through the black hole, the surviving crew of the Palomino immediately finds the laws of nature to be rejected, with their course passing through a sun with no damage, finding that size and disatance are meaningless, even finding their own duplicates traveling through space. This issue picks up the only way the story could: By completely ignoring ALL of that… So it was with the ongoing monthly comic book adaptation of ‘The Black Hole’, a film which ended with a bizarre and impressionistic sequence involving heaven and hell on the other side of the titular collapsar. Back in those pre-streaming days, we couldn’t watch films over and over, which forced us to read the novelizations and comic book adaptations of our favorite films, which could be… Let’s say “mixed” in their quality and fidelity to the source material.

Previously in The Black Hole: Thanks to an impulse purchase this week (and the film being available on Disney+), I’ve been thinking about 1979’s ‘The Black Hole’ again.

Once upon a time, when I didn’t know what comic books were, I encountered one that still haunts my mind… Your Major Spoilers (Retro) Review of The Black Hole #3 awaits!

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