Bah Humbug!
That's what I say to the TV show Space Ghost - Coast to Coast. It took an awesome hero, a mysterious man of bravery and audacity and transformed into a post-modern irony-drooling goof!
Space Ghost was the perfect pitch hero rendered by the late great Alex Toth and quickened by the animation of Hanna-Barbera. He was a truly enigmatic superhero who nonetheless cared for two orphans, like a big brother and a father to boot.
He was the very essence of sci-fi adventure. The comics about him have been mixed bags for sure, with the early efforts catching the flavor of the cartoons, but not the magic. I'll admit I've never read the elusive and expensive Gold Key one-shot, but I've seen the other H-B Gold Key outings. Then Steve Rude gave us both in his wonderful Comico one-shot. Then we had Archie getting into the act when they held the H-B license for a short time. And more recently DC gave us an "origin" for the cartoon superhero, one that seemed not to have the right tone exactly to match the mystery. It answered questions, but in a context that raised more hackles than it should have.
I've got hold of the original cartoons, and the holidays seems the perfect time to bust them out and give the original run a heady viewing.
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