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| SUPERMAN |
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ADVENTURES
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the MAN of STEEL |
| by Scott McCloud, Paul Dini, Rick Burchett, Bret Blevins,
Terry Austin, & Bruce Timm |
Paperback: 144 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563894297 |
$7.95
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| The animated-style
adventures of the Man of Steel are collected in a trade paperback! Reprinting
SUPERMAN ADVENTURES #1-6, collecting Superman's first animated-style run-ins
with Lex Luthor, Livewire, Metallo, and more, with a new, painted cover
by Bruce Timm, and an introduction by writer Scott McCloud (of UNDERSTANDING
COMICS fame). |
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| The
MADMAN/SUPERMAN |
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HULLABALOO! |
| by Mike Allred |
Paperback: 96 pages
Dark Horse Comics
Co-published with DC Comics
ISBN: 1569713014 |
$8.95
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| The Man of
Steel meets the Man of Madness as two of comics’ most unique
and revolutionary heroes cross over (and how)! In each of their respective
universes,
Superman and Madman are involved in scientific
experiments, the results of which propel the unsuspecting superbeings into
one another’s worlds. The only thing is, each takes half of the other with
him —creating two confused heroes and one big Hullabaloo! |
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New
York Daily News calls The Superman/Madman Hullabaloo!
"...a
contemporary classic!"
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Can
you imagine a Superman comic book in which another superhero, while
sitting on a swing in a park, asks Superman if he believes in God?
If you can, you might think it would be very difficult to pull off without
being entirely silly (in a bad way). Well, give Mike Allred a great
big prize for his wonderfully enjoyable and off-center comic book The
Superman Madman Hullabaloo! Not only is there a conversation about
the existence of God, this story features mutant underground street beatniks,
a super zombie, a health-food food fight, and a skyscraper with legs. That
Allred
could get away with writing and drawing such a subversive take on one of
the most tightly controlled characters in comics is, as
Matt Wagner
says in his introduction, a testament to the "Allred chutzpah."
Perhaps you are wondering what sort of hullabaloo this is. Mike Allred's
lovable hero, Madman—a chap whose real identity is unknown even
to himself, and who has no real superpowers—runs into Superman.
Literally, in a cross-dimensional vehicle, he runs into Superman.
That
collision leaves them both a bit mixed up, and they're going to have to
go from Snap City to Metropolis and back to solve this one.
It's no wonder the back cover proclaims this book is "more bizarre than
Bizarro."
—Jim
Pascoe, Amazon.com
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