The following review originally appeared in the "New in Print" column in Back Issue #10, p. 83 (June 2005). Edited by Michael Eury.
Some Back Issue readers have remarked to me, in letters or in person, that they find many current comics continuity-saturated and utterly impenetrable. If you're in that camp and yearn for an accessible series with verve and a sense of humor, then you've got to give Randy Reynaldo's Rob Hanes Adventures a read. I'm a stickler for Jonny Quest-type adventures and Rob Hanes Adventures is, from my eye, Jonny fifteen years later. From the few issues I've seen, soldier-of-fortune Hanes is one of the most adaptable heroes in comics, hopping from a submarine voyage in issue #6 to a locked-room mystery in #7...and an African adventure awaits in the forthcoming issue #8. Reynaldo's characters are snappy and well-defined, and his crisp storytelling is reminiscent of Ty Templeton by way of Alex Toth.
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