Random Back Issue #10 - Chronos #4

Sir, I can assure you, wrapping a towel around your head the same color as your bathrobe does not work as a "look".

Hey, a comic from 1998! Chronos was not about the Chronos who used to fight the Atom a lot, flying around on a hoverboard shaped liked a sundial. Although that Chronos does appear at the beginning and end of this issue, discussing the negative side effects of jumping around through time.

This series was about Walker Gabriel, who built a suit that lets him freeze time to steal stuff. But things have gone wrong, and now he's being tossed through time. We start in a city called Chronopolis, where we find out that Walker helping a guy named Vyronis to build a machine called a Timesmasher last issue, he's helped that guy become Lord of All Time, or something. Demonstrated when the guy shows up and kills Rip Hunter (who I would swear is wearing a suit and tie under that spacesuit. Clearly not a trait he picked up from Booster Gold.)

So Walker's back to the 15th Century to fix his mistake, with a improved, untested version of his suit. Through the magic of Comic Book Science, the machine being hit by "particle bursts" somehow soups up his suit to where it can jump through time and space at will. Which gets him and Vyronis temporarily dumped in Kamandi's time before they return to Italy, and then Walker returns to the present, rather than let himself be arrested by the "Linear Authority", represented by one guy wearing a dumb suit of armor and a monocle.

I never thought you could look bad with a monocle, but this Traven guy managed it. Great hustle.

I don't think Walker ever makes a return trip to the confines of the 23rd Century. If I remember right, he may have stopped the wrong threat back in the 15th Century. Either that, or he's trusting the wrong person. I can't remember which. Time travel story, could be both at the same time.

[Longbox #3, 66th comic. Chronos #4, by John Francis Moore (writer), Paul Guinan (penciler), Steve Leialoha (inker), Mike Danza (colorist), Ken Bruzenak (letterer]