Really, I can't imagine this panel being in anything other than a Starman story. Anyway, I need to let you all know that the Absorbascon is now on hiatus. I've enjoyed it and I hope you all have, too.

No, really; Starman saved Shakespeare from being kidnapped. Starman doesn't go in for abstracts or metaphors.

The Golden Age Starman didn't mess around, boy. Here he is telling a suspect to confess or he'll use the gravity rod... to RIP HIS FACE OFF. Really; you did not want to mess with Starman.

Do you think Starman is dependent on the gravity rod? "I-- I swear, Doris: this has never happened to me before!" That he would be helpless without it? You know, if this were anyone else, I'd say that sounded almost like... panic. But it can't be...