A wonderful collection by Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse featuring the achingly beautiful watercolour covers of Alex Ross, telling the story of home grown super man Tom Strong. Strong's parents raised him in an isolation tank under high gravity on a remote island Attabar Teru, aided by the machine Strong's father built, the steampunk Pneuman, a proto robot powered by steam and voiced by wax recording cylinders. After marrying the beautiful fearsome princess of the island Dhaula they split their time between Attabar Teru and the Millenium City in America, a utopian stratospheric city connected by cable cars. They fight supervillains with their daughter Tesla and Strong's successful experiment in augmenting gorilla intelligence, King Solomon.
But Tom Strong is more than its parts, each character and each story are both brilliantly written and drawn, Moore and Sprouse blend the golden era of 1960s comic heroes without jingoism, expressing an essential humanity under the superhero exteriors.
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