Adventureman, Volume 1: The End and Everything After

by Matt Fraction, Terry Dodson (Artist)

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534317123
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	12/15/2020
Pages:	168
Sales rank:	259,495
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 12.40(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	13 - 16 Years

About the Author

Matt Fraction started creating comics with the smaller publishers, like AiT/Planet Lar and IDW Publishing. He is also known for his work on The Five Fists of Science and Casanova, as well as a number of series for Marvel Comics. Fraction is currently working on Marvel's Uncanny X-Men, Thor and Invincible Iron Man, the latter of which led to his consulting work on the set of the film Iron Man 2. He lives in Portland, OR.

Editorial Reviews

12/01/2020

After separating from the New York Police Department following an incident resulting in almost complete hearing loss, Claire Connell is satisfied with a mild life built around the used bookstore she inherited from her mother, raising her rambunctious son, Tommy, and weekly Shabbat dinners with her father and six sisters. She and Tommy share a love of Adventureman, a classic pulp hero and subject of a series of novels detailing his and his companions' battles against Baron Bizarre, a villain determined to destroy all life on Earth. When a mysterious woman gives Claire a heretofore unknown installment in the series, she and Tommy are perplexed to discover details that differ from previous volumes, including the address of a publisher that doesn't seem to have ever existed. Upon investigating, Claire discovers an art deco skyscraper only she can see, filled with impossible artifacts. Stranger still, she grows 15 inches overnight and begins experiencing what might be hallucinations or memories of past adventures. Meanwhile, in an interdimensional void, Baron Bizarre rallies his forces and summons Abbathexiddion, Beast-God of the Ultra-Void. VERDICT An immensely engaging cast, compelling mystery, and intriguing cliff-hanger ending will have readers excited for future volumes in this ongoing series.

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