Rick Lacy

Philip Gelatt

Indiana Jones explores exotic ancient ruins throughout the world in search of mysterious artifacts, encountering harrowing adventures, competitive colleagues, and power-hungry villains along the way.

Indiana Jones Adventures

Nick Ringwood

Still enjoyable, not quite as good as I remember, though, a couple parts of this really stuck out to me from the several times I read this as a teenager, but I’m not entirely sure why…
I suppose that says something for why certain things stuck out to you when you were younger because that was what you had.. 
Almost like you didn’t know any better, hasn’t seen much better..
But, this was still pretty good, Good dialogue, could hear all of their voices and intonations clear in my head. Good art, like a very clean version of Mike Mignola’s work on Hellboy, mixed with Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the obvious Indiana Jones and work on the Astounding Wolfman comics.

This is a prequel of sorts to Raiders of the Lost Ark (one of my all-time favorite films) and the comic ends feeling a bit like a quarter or a third of what would be a longer Indiana Jones movie, which is kind of neat, but I guess also leaves a bit to be desired.

Liked the setting, and the weight of certain things.
The dialogue, while good, felt a little cheesy at times, and while some might that off as being an homage to the time, I found it a little preachy and Indy comes off as a little more selfish and manipulative, here. I suppose that’s something to say about how he changes and grows, later on in the movies, and maybe I need to further scrutinize them again, but I just didn’t love that aspect of the book. He comes off as a good dude even in the beginning of The Last Crusade when he’s a teen, and he always has a sense of purity and pride and charm to him, that comes off as (intentionally) more desperate here.
Still, though, I remember really liking this a lot as a teenager, and I do think that that’s the intended age group that would most enjoy this, if not a little younger.

Indiana Jones Adventures

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