The Last Phantom Vol. 2: Jungle Rules

As a long time phan of The Phantom this TPB put my teeth on edge. It doesn't try and pour old wine into a new bottle, it takes the wine and pours it into the toilet and then smashes the bottle against the wall. The movie "The Phantom" was the real rebooting of The Phantom and if it had relied less on Asian locales and supernatural themes, it might have lead to something good. The first volume of this tale (also crap on its own and in conjunction with its sequel) reads like the beginning of the story of The Phantom's son, the 21st not the 20th. He's married, married to a native African wife and has a son that actually looks like a native African. Not Diana Palmer, American, and not Kit and Heloise, blonde like their grandmother. He has dropped the mantle of The Phantom and his father has disappeared. His wife and son are brutally murdered by "invisible" mercenaries. The plot gets worse from there and slides into the "modern" 20th Phantom meeting the "modern" Diana Palmer with his "resurrected" father, the 19th Phantom putting in an appearance. Save your money and buy Dave DeVries and Glenn Lumsden's 3-comic "Ghost Who Walks" series instead. A great imagining of the 21st Phantom more grounded in reality than Phantom 2040 and more realistic than the current daily strip. It moves in the direction that The Phantom Chronicles should be heading by making Bangalla and Africa the center of the stories like the Dynamite and Moonstone stories did. If nothing else you'll love the art in the 2nd and 3rd issue. DON'T BUY THIS.

I don't know what was here to like. They gave a few nods to the history, but most of us already know it and those who don't will be thoroughly confused. I was hoping this was going to be great as they got Alex Ross to do coers, well that eventually peters out and you get a so-so comic at best.

Wish they had more

comic did not meet my expectation because the story did not flow well as compared to old comics of 1960-70s.

Rather than focusing on the (admittedly bad) storyline from the previous volume, this book looks back at the origin of the Phantom. The sections that deal with the 21st century Phantom are howlingly bad as Kit Walker tries to keep a wolf and a horse concealed in Manhattan. Kit Walker has no compunction in slaughtering dozens of bad guys, but allows the mastermind who plotted the death of his wife and child to live to continue scheming against the Phantom.A craptastic mess with the Alex Ross covers providing the only virtues in this sorry endeavor.

Great Job !

very nice