There aren’t any technical errors that I noticed in the art, but it seems merely functional. The artwork also seems to fit to an animated cartoon template, with blocky, simply-delineated figures against minimal backgrounds. As a result, not much actually happens over the course of the twelve pages: this is manga pacing without the space needed to make it work. I assume that the French animated cartoon adopts an anime style, as the fight scenes contain a lot of striking of poses and shouting of random nouns. The story is rather confusingly told, and no-one has any identifiable characterisation. The plot involves the Alpha Teens protecting an old enemy, now in prison, from a group of ninjas who are killing members of his old covert operations unit, to which the father of one of the teens also belonged. The toys, by the way, are unrelated except by name and manufacturer to the Action Man military dress-up dolls of my youth (this was the brand name in the UK of the US GI Joe dolls, themselves long since replaced). The final battle between the Alpha Teens and the Serpent's Tale occurs and Lioness and Axel share their first kiss.Action Man ATOM Alpha Teens On Machines issue 23 “Deadly Shadows!” by Ed Caruana (script and editor), Jack Lawrence (pencils and inks), Jason Cardy & Kat Nicholson (colours) and Alex Foot (lettering), Panini Magazines,, 12 pages of strip (out of 36), £1.99Īll I knew about this comic, when I picked it up out of a desire to see what was available by way of adventure comics in the UK these days other than 2000AD and superhero reprints, was that it was based on a line of toys by way of a French animated cartoon. Hawk goes up against a cyborg version of him self designed by the Serpent's Tale to eliminate the team. Madia, a new girl who Shark has a crush on joins the team as they face an all new more powrful enemy from her past named the Phantom Ryder with the ability to absorb souls, but the team soon discover that he was responsible for the death of Madia's older sister. Meanwhile, Guan is almost assassinated twice and it turns out that during a battle between the Alpha Teens and the Serpent's Tale, Guan's new weapon causes Axel to lose his memory and the rest of the team to get teleported to Guan's new base, which is halfway between the surface and the planet's core and all this causes Dragon to believe that the team are dead and it is revealed that he is the one trying to assassinate Guan. Following that he formed the Serpent's Tale as a means to dominate the world.Īxel losess his memories of the last 24hours and tries to find the rest of the team. Lee reveals that when the Serpent's Tale confronted him to work for them, it wasn't the first time that he confronted Guan as he revealed that years before Guan formed the Serpent's Tale he and Lee where friends and worked together to create a better future by after a horrible accident where his wife was murdered, Guan turned to a dark master named Snake who placed the spirit of the serpent inside him which caused Guan to lose his memory and become evil. Garret finds a way to re-open Guan's portal and when the team enter it they find that it is a portal to the past the day that Axel was born and find that Guan attempts to kill Axel's mother before she gives birth. Phantom Ryder (Andre Braugher) - has the ability to absorb souls, and was responsible for the death of Madia's big sisterĪ ghost of Axel's father appears before him at night and warns him about a monster that Guan plans to resurrect.Īxel sneaks of during the night and finds Guan opening a portal and follows him in.Ĭonclusion: The team wonder where both Axel and Guan had disappeared to.Vixen (Andrea Baker) - Guan's second in command.Guan (Eric Bauza) - the leader and main antagonist.Snake (Bruce Greenwood) - true main antagonist and the one who turned Guan into his servant.Madia (Maggie Blue O'Hara) - wears a pink suit, she's sometimes a clutz.Lee has disappeared, but Guan is still out there with the Serpent's Tail army.
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