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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Space Hero Saturdays FLASH GORDON by Dan Schkade

There's currently a lot of new Flash Gordon material from several different publishers...


...but the one that's a must-see is the hardest to find!
Yes. visually, it's not the minutely-detailed Alex Raymond/Austin Briggs/Mac Raboy/Al Williamson "classic" series (which, for the record, I revere)!
But it is a stylized semi-reboot that King Features decided to implement after almost 20 years of reprints!
I'm gonna give you an analogy...
If the original Flash Gordon was the Neal Adams/Jim Aparo/NormBreyfogle Batman...
...the current Flash is the Bruce Timm version!
Are you gonna tell me you don't like (if not love) Bruce Timm's take on the Caped Crusader???
He's visually-different, but incredibly-respectful to the "classic" vision!
That's the near-impossible feat Schkade's pulling-off six days a week...and Sundays!
Dan believes everybody knowns the basic premise, and if you've seen the 1980 movie...
(and/or the first Buster Crabbe serial)...
...you know the plot.
The series follows-though with the history of Mongo shortly after Ming's fall, and carries on from there.
Here's a link to a superb interview with Dan from The Comics Journal.
And here's a link to Schkade's own feed on BlueSky, where he not only posts the strips every day, and offers backstory, but also interacts with the audience!
He goes the extra mile because he loves the series and wants it to find as big an audience as possible!
So do I!
Sadly, too few newspapers are carrying the strip.
So hit those links and/or go directly to Comics Kingdom!

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