LADY ACTION – The Sands of Forever
By Ron Fortier
Airship 27 Productions
91 pages
Guest Reviewer – Bob Deis
Ron Fortier has a long and distinguished career as a writer
for comics. I’ve been a fan of his work in that realm for years, especially his
contributions to the Green Hornet and Terminator series published by NOW
Comics. In 2006, Fortier created his own publishing company called Airship 27.
At that point, he became a pioneer in publishing “new pulp” novels and story
anthologies that are inspired by both classic comics and old pulp magazines.
THE SANDS OF FOREVER is a short novel that has genes from
both realms. It features the character Nicola Sinclair, a beautiful,
butt-kicking international spy code-named “Lady Action.” Although she comes
from the popular Captain Action comics series, you don’t really need to know
anything about that series to understand and enjoy THE SANDS OF FOREVER. It’s a
self-contained action/adventure romp that takes Nicola to Libya to find
another agent who has gone missing. He was searching for the mysterious “Tree
of Life” mentioned in the Bible, which was said to have tremendous powers and
be hidden somewhere in the Libyan Desert.
The search-and-rescue mission soon turns into a fight for
survival. A local, colorfully-evil Arab sheik has also heard of the magical
tree and wants it for himself. This leads to a series of bloody fights between
Nicola and the sheik’s henchman, a wild car chase through the streets of Tripoli, a race across
the desert and a final confrontation in an ancient underground maze of tunnels
full of deadly giant scorpions. It’s a fun read with a quick-paced, cinematic
style: kind of a novelistic mashup of Lara Croft, Indiana Jones and James Bond
with its own unique characters and flavor. I enjoyed it and look forward to
reading future Lady Action novels by Fortier.
1 comment:
LOL, I had a Captain Action action figure when I was about 8.
I don't remember him having a figure like that, though.... :-D
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