131. Young Indiana Jones #5 ... Dark Horse ...

And now for something totally different ... once upon a long ago, there was a series of adventure type movies made famous by Harrison Ford called Indiana Jones (hahaha) ... and years after its popularity has waned ... someone decided to do a tv series of Indiana Jones younger days ... it criss-crossed between his boyhood until his teenager years ... I guess it didn't do too well ... because both the tv series and this comic series got the axe not long after

As for me, I found both actually entertaining ...

In this issue, Indy is in his teens and getting caught up in World War 1 (has to be, right? After all during his movies, it was WW2) ... for some reason, young Indy became a messenger on the field of war ... and delivering messages across battlefields is not easy ... and it isn't as if it was just taking a bike ride in the countryside

As the cover already indicates, there is adventure littered with danger ahead ...

The thrill of this series is not so much about whether he survives or not as we already know he would even sire a child who takes after him ... but rather how a younger Indy would blindly get into all sorts of tight spot and get himself out of each with just his strength of courage ... it's a fun issue

The only downside is that the artwork was trying too hard to be "serious" and thus came off as somewhat dull ... perhaps it is intentional ... for those who like a bit of history, the writer include in each issue a detailed discussion somewhat like a history lesson of what life was really like during the phase each issue takes (as poetic licence had been used by the writer in the actual comic so here he is setting the facts straight)

Ratings: 5/10