Space! No ants up here, unless maybe they're moon ants. Giant, chittering bastards that I just now scribbled down as a plotline even though nobody in their right mind wants ants in their porno.
Remember when I said Futureman Otho is usually described as wearing nothing but a belt? Well, I was wrong. I flipped through the first story Captain Future and the Space Emperor and the exact description is a "metal harness," for what purpose I can't fathom. It looks vaguely electrical and I'm picturing it being used as some sort of kinky fetish gear.
Captain Future Star Trail to Glory is shaping up with a more exciting plot, despite the return to "suspects gathered in a room" formula. I'm liking the world-building. They've been previous mentions of types of spacecraft as though they're car models and in this novel we get to meet the big manufacturers, though I groaned a bit since we already had big magnates of some industry creating a monopoly by destroying each others' businesses at least twice already. At this rate I'll be cheering when Ul Quorn comes back in Magician of Mars though if he tries to create a monopoly in that story I may go all kaiju on my neighborhood.
We meet a group of test pilots called Rocketeers and I have a feeling there's some sort of spin-off series with these guys because there seems to be a lot more backstory than with some of the other characters. They're trained, given their comet emblems and sent off in a ship to make sure it works properly before it's sold and of course some guy blows up first thing and the new Rocketeers get yelled at for being upset about it. It's like they didn't know they were disposable when they signed up.
We also have the strange development of Joan Randall suddenly becoming Action Girl, determined to go on whatever dangerous mission that comes up, so long as Capt. Future is involved. She also somehow knows how to fly his fancy ship. Apparently Danger!Joan must've escaped from the pod people and done in Cardboard!Joan.
Anyhow, they now bicker and argue like they're in some first-season episode of Cheers I've seen a million times already and at one point she insists there's a romance, though his reaction was the same as mine, namely he just goes, "Whuh?" Don't worry Capt, I don't know how it happened either; none of us do. It's as though he'd picked up some weird chick in a bar and after a couple "dates" he finds a box of tampons under the bathroom sink and she's telling everyone she's his girlfriend and he has no idea when in hell this happened but he decides to roll with it.
Soon he'll find her handmade doilies everywhere because the Brain's case scratches up the furniture something fierce and Grag will be sent to the garage with the ship and the rest of the machinery. She'll also find a way to put pants on Otho...
Run for your life, Captain.
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