Written by Richard StarkingsArt by Boo Cook and Axel Medellin
This is a nice thick issue of Elephantmen, which is nothing but comics. There are no ads (yay!), and also none of the text pages that Starkings usually provides, which is a shame, because I do enjoy them. Of course, the first choice would always be to have more comics, especially when they look this good.
The main story (drawn by Cook) continues to examine Yvette, the heroine of the War Toys stories. In this issue, she continues to lead a group of human soldiers into China, pursuing Mappo's forces. Her crew capture a big Robotech like Elephantmen robot thing, and Yvette gets to pilot it. At the same time, the Mappo forces are ambushed by the Chinese tiger creatures we met last issue.
There was something that happened here that I need clarification on. I thought that the Elephantmen were not given their names until after they were rescued from Mappo, and that many of them were named by Sahara, the woman who aided in their rehabilitation. However, in this issue, Hip and Ebony call each other by those names, and show a level of concern for one another that I didn't think they would have had at this point in their story. I could be wrong (and don't have time to dig out all my back issues to check).
Cook's art looks great through here. He usually has a good command of the proportions of the characters, although I'm a little unclear about the horses that Hip and company are riding - I'm going to assume they are larger than normal horses, and otherwise enhanced, or the Elephantmen wouldn't be able to ride them.
The back up story, with art by Axel Medellin covers familiar ground, but looks phenomenal, as does the back cover.
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