Various, Indiana Jones Omnibus: The Further Adventures, Volume 1
***
A tasty lasagne of retro cheese covering vintage cheese. It was impossible to discern sincerity from sarcasm, even as Indy genocides and pillages ancient cultures to their face, but it was enjoyable nonsense regardless, particularly the enthusiastic and unnecessary narration. ("A foot now achieves what a hand could not...") ("A journey that is both grueling, invigorating, tedious and beautiful.")
1928 / Audiobook / 192 pages / UK
***
Duller than the first book, largely for its determination to establish a new breakout character, though this seems to be where most references and adaptations come from, so maybe people like it for the memes.
1997 / Ecomic / 64 pages / USA
***
This elusive straggler from Stefan Petrucha's worthwhile X-Files run was inevitably a bit of an anticlimax, riffing on over-familiar themes with a sentimental message, but it's been a while.
1997 / Audiobook / 168 pages / USA
**
The writer of some of the more worthwhile 'Trek comics, I thought I might as well finally get around to trying out his pioneering literary spin-off, not realising that the first book only amounts to a quarter of a pilot episode. It's more of the same if you need it, but doesn't especially persuade me to keep watching any more than the modern-day Treks.
2012 / Ebook / 89 pages / UK
**
This double sequel to two books from different authors that I haven't read likely wouldn't make any more sense if I had. Seemingly purpose-scribbled as free bonus content, it's unfettered by such conventional demands. He probably had fun writing it, that's the main thing.
