willing to give the story in Adventureman a pass simply because the Dodson's artwork is so freakin' stunning, This is an extralarge book that belongs on every coffee table for passersby to peruse, You don't even have to read it to admire the gorgeous lines, colors, and characters,
And maybe don't read it Matt Fraction's scattered story dims the beyond stellar art, The first two issues are an exciting introduction to two worlds: the world of Adventureman, a classic pulp hero and his team of adventurers, and the world of Claire, a modern woman with a big extended family and a son who loves the Adventureman stories.
After the second issue, the two worlds collide in an increasingly unpredictable fashion,
Fraction's endnotes help explain why the story descends into confusion, Apparently, Adventureman has been in the works for more than a decade and Fraction is notorious for changing names/plots at the last minute.
Clearly, an editor needed a firmer hand on this production, Nonetheless, Adventureman is well worth a look for the art alone, All right the rating is maybe a little high, In one of the floppies' afterwards Fraction talks about wanting to do pulp, but pulp with a more modern take, I'm not going to use the term "new" pulp because outside of the Weird Heroes series I think a lot of "new" pulp recycled pulp.
But Fraction knows something about pulp stylings, With Ed Brubaker on The Immortal Iron Fist they did a damn good job of bringing some pulp style to parts of the story the legacies, and especially the Orson Randall tales as examples.
Here working by himself, and with a stated goal, Fraction hits the mark, I was a little surprised, because Fraction's solo work ex: Casanova hasn't always been to my taste,
Some of the tale is arguably told via flashback, or is it a flashback or another dimension just tossing it out there, when Claire gifts her son Tommy an Adventureman book he hasn't read.
That is how we are introduced to Adventureman and his multiethnic team in what appears a Doc Savage type of tale,
Then the scene shifts to Claire's extended family and their traditional Friday Sabbath dinner, Her family is, well extended and unique, Things happen, now we can question what is real, what is fiction and who is Adventureman
Kickback and settle in for the ride.
A super fun, original, and surprising story by Matt Fraction full of unexpected turns of events, with incredibly gorgeous art by Terry and Rachel Dodson.
Nowadays I readof my comics digitally, but I'm glad I got the oversized hardcover edition of this one, because it is a thing of beauty.
A great experience from beginning to end! Super cute, Easy to read.
And hot damn Adventureman
I really only understand a touch about what's going on, But really, that's the whole point, No one knows what is happening within the story either,
Old school adventure meets the present day, well not really present day, cause this sure isn't taking place in, let me tell you Loved it! Great fun reminiscent of Doc Savage and the old pulp adventures.
Matt Fraction's writing plus Terry amp Rachel Dodson's art is a match made in comic geek heaven! The story opens with pulp hero Adventureman and his colleagues in Adventure, Inc.
preparing for their greatest battle against Baron Bizarre and his own team of villains, The story seems to end with Adventureman about to die at the hands of Baron Bizarre, but surely this is just another cliffhanger ending.
Alas, that was the last story, . . until today when single mom Claire and her son Tommy are reading the adventures and some strange things start happening to Claire, such as seeing an Art Deco skyscraper that no one else can see, suddenly growing over a foot taller, and finally, going missing.
While Claire's father and sisters don't seem too concerned, Tommy thinks of a plan to find his missing mother, but it will mean following her to the greatest unknown!
Fans of The Shadow, The Rocketeer by Dave Stevens, Tom Strong by Alan Moore never mind his recent comments about comics, or any pulp fiction adventures from the first half of theth century will surely enjoy Fraction's amp the Dodsons' latest! 'Adventureman, Vol.
: The End and Everything After' by Matt Fraction with art by Terry Dodson is a graphic novel about a fictional team of heroes that may or may not be all that fictional.
Claire and her son are fans of Adventureman, They read and collect the adventures, Claire starts to find weird things happening to her and around her, Her lifelong hearing loss is suddenly healed, and now there is a building in the city that was never there before but looks very familiar.
When it was all said and done, I liked it, but it took over half for me to warm to it.
Once I did, I enjoyed the ride, The art was a lot of fun and I really liked the perspectives and angles to it,
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review, Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel, WHERE HIS STORY ENDED HER STORY BEGINS! Everyone knows the story of how ADVENTUREMAN, the greatest pulp hero of ended in a heartbreaking CLIFFHANGER with our hero facing execution an the eve of the MACABRAPOCALYPSE.
. . now learn the startling truth about how, eighty years after his seeming demise, single mother Claire and her Adventurefan son Tommy seem to spark his RESURRECTION! Can these inheritors of the Adventureman legacy rise up to face down the evil that bested the original
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I feel like there really wasn't enough story here for a full arc, Fraction's storytelling is obtuse at times, leaving me somewhat lost, I do love the pulpy feel and the Dodsons' art is gorgeous, However, there's is a lot thrown at us in theseissues and none of it is really clear other than the broad strokes of there was a Doc Savage type teamyears ago that everyone forgot and somehow Clair and her son are starting to remember them through a book they found.
Matt Fraction, who has done exceptional work in superhero comics, has decided to go allin with the pulp in his latest Image title, now that Sex Criminals is officially over.
In Adventureman, the eponymous pulp hero, along with his fellow heroes of Adventure, Inc, fights off a supervillain invasion, Eighty years after his apparent demise, single mother Claire and her Adventurefan son Tommy seem to be the only two people alive who recall the heros history, which now exists as adventure novels.
However, this memory will spark the return of both the heroes and villains from decades ago,
sitelinkPlease click here for my full review, Ok, so, wow, that was good, I loved this, I don't know if it just hit me at the right time, but I think it's more that this was really good.
It was fun, a rollicking good time, So much pulpy goodness! Pulp fiction actionadventure heroes and heroines are fighting the evil bad guys, all seems lost then the book ends.
Not this book, the book in the story that the mom is reading to her son before bed, The mom that runs a book store, that a mysterious woman brings a super rare book to, gives it to the mom, tells her to read it.
It's a compendium of sorts about the main hero of the book she's just finished with her son, Adventureman, Then the weirdness shows up, the world of Adventureman et al, starts bleeding into the mom's world, and hell is literally trying to break loose, This was a wild ride, I could not put it down until I finished, and omg when is the next volume coming out! The art is gobsmackingly beautiful, just stunningly gorgeous, and fits the story perfectly.
Seriously, though, next volume please Приятен комикс от "новата генерация", Разбирайте, вътре има теми, сравнително "модерно представени". Което не винаги предпочитам, но тук ми хареса. С интерес бих чел следващите броеве и се надявам Артлайн да ги публикуват : Както подозирам/се надявам, че ще стане с голяма част от изданията от ултимативната поредица, нямах никаква представа кой е Адвенчърмен. Сега вече имам.
Макар и конфликтът да е съвсем стандартния "добро срещу зло", останалото е доста оригинално. Личи си, че комиксът е създаден с голям мерак, внимание към детайла и без бързане. Артът е много добър, постоянно се играе с цветовата гама. Откъм текст на моменти е почти неразбираем не поради ниско печатно качество. Не знам колко идва от оригинала и колко е в градинката на преводача.
Нямаме завършена история, а само началото на такава, както е и обяснено в един от много интересните бонус материали в края на книжката. Броевеса издадени между Юни и Октомвриг. , като следващитеса след пауза Септември, Октомври и Декемвриа. Надявам се да видим "Адвенчърмен брой" догодина като част от поредицата на "Артлайн", която да се окаже много успешна и дълга!
Заради това, че тук имаме само начало макар и доста добро, и защото думите по страниците на моменти са неразбираеми като смисъл:,I got intrigued by this because someone said it was supposed to be a kind of updated, revised, twisted take on Doc Savage.
Full disclosure: Im a huge fan of sitelinkThe Man of Bronze, And this is only the briefest most infinitesimal way hmm only a quantum of seed can be followed back to Doc Savage.
This is NOTHING like a
Doc Savage adventure, But this is pure, unadulterated escapist fun in the tradition of pulps just not really Doc Savage, Actually, I suppose it has far more in common with contemporary comic books and manga than anything from the pulp era, Sigh. So, at least in that regard, I was devastatingly disappointed/,
On the other hand this IS a fastpaced, freewheeling, wild ride of nonstop action and adventure, In fact its so PACKED with action, that there are times that the storytellers forget that the rest of us lowly readers still havent a clue whatthebutts is going on.
The reader is presented with concepts and characters and kitchen sinks at a speed that only and I do mean this literally contemporary comics and manga can deliver.
Why Because the readers of todays comics and manga are able to keep up only because the entire medium is, and has pretty much always been, presented in this way.
Comics, at least the really good ones, the really exciting ones, never slow down to bother with explanations Doctor Who is the only TV show I can think of that comes anywhere near the same level of this as do comic books.
This is a formula, and a genre convention, that really only works in this particular illustrated medium, Okay, fine, whatever, so where does that leave this bookvolumecollection A mess, This is a new world, a new characters, a new history, and a whole new narrative, The overall result is that this narrative feels more than a little chaotic and more than a little disconnected, a little ungrounded, and more than a tad discombobulated.
Theres so much, almost too much, being thrown into the Adventureman blender and just hitting amalgamate doesnt really make the whole thing perfectly digestible.
Maybe volume two will take care of cleaning some of this mess up, Maybe. But Im not holding my breath, .
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