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Summary: Finally, vintage comics you can actually READ!!
Review: That's right, forget all those old original issues of the Marvel Star Wars series that you may have sealed up in plastic bags, locked away in storage boxes, never to see the light of day again. Now these wonderful stories from childhood are FINALLY available again, in a nice, THICK book, printed on sturdy paper, able to stand up to countless readings. In this first volume, you get the first 20 issues of the Marvel series, starting with the movie adaption. According to rumour, these re-issues were originally going to be in black & white, but thank GOD they came to their senses, and gave them back to us in FULL, glorious color. My advice? Put all those original issues up on an internet auction site, then use the money to score this volume AND the rest of the future SIX volumes in this AMAZING set!
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Summary: 20 stories all in one hugh book
Review: This is a review of Star Wars - A Long time Ago... Doomworld, also referred to as volume I, which collects issues 1 through 20 of the Marvel comic series Star Wars. This is ISBN 1569717540 published June, 2002; made in China.
First the binding. Because Dark horse has had trouble with the TPB's bindings that are made in China, and because this is 369 pages, my copy has excellent binding. I actually read it without the comic falling apart in my hands!With the exception of the binding problems, Dark horse has been producing comics that are visually awesome in terms of the inking and reproduction quality. You can still argue about the artwork and pencil work itself, because they use so many people and try different styles. There are those artists whose style I just don't care for. I say that to remind one that these are reproductions of comics that marvel created A LONG TIME AGO... Dark Horse has actually enhanced the original quality. The quality of the pencil work varies here by story, but generally it was not bad. You'll have little trouble identifying who is who. Generally the artwork is a D to a C when compared to what DH produces today. However the inking is excellent. I recall no story where the color appeared to be washed out. As for the stories themselves, I read these with my son, and he likes the ones with lots of action and vibrant drawings. You get both here, because with 20 different stories you do get variety. This is a 2.5 star rounded up to 3 for the effort that DH put into improving the quality of this comics visual elements.
Rating:
Summary: 20 stories all in one hugh book
Review: This is a review of Star Wars - A Long time Ago... Doomworld, also referred to as volume I, which collects issues 1 through 20 of the Marvel comic series Star Wars. This is ISBN 1569717540 published June, 2002; made in China.
First the binding. Because Dark horse has had trouble with the TPB's bindings that are made in China, and because this is 369 pages, my copy has excellent binding. I actually read it without the comic falling apart in my hands! With the exception of the binding problems, Dark horse has been producing comics that are visually awesome in terms of the inking and reproduction quality. You can still argue about the artwork and pencil work itself, because they use so many people and try different styles. There are those artists whose style I just don't care for. I say that to remind one that these are reproductions of comics that marvel created A LONG TIME AGO... Dark Horse has actually enhanced the original quality. The quality of the pencil work varies here by story, but generally it was not bad. You'll have little trouble identifying who is who. Generally the artwork is a D to a C when compared to what DH produces today. However the inking is excellent. I recall no story where the color appeared to be washed out. As for the stories themselves, I read these with my son, and he likes the ones with lots of action and vibrant drawings. You get both here, because with 20 different stories you do get variety. This is a 2.5 star rounded up to 3 for the effort that DH put into improving the quality of this comics visual elements.
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Summary: Goofy? Probably. Fun? ABSOLUTELY!
Review: This is Star Wars when Star Wars was fun. I was 9 years old when Star Wars came out and, in my lowly opinion, the stories in this anthology still capture the "WOW!", "No way!", and "What the-?" I remember as a kid sitting in the movie theater. If you like your comics in the "darker, edgier" vein, this book may not be for you. But if you can chuck disbelief out the window and hang on for a thrilling ride, give this book a shot. You get the original Star Wars comic adaptation plus some pretty wild departures (made even wilder by today's concern for "canon" - which IS spelled with one "n", by the way). There's an innocence, and a sense of real fun, to this collection that has been absent from the franchise in recent years. I'll take these stories (and the Williamson/Goodwin comic strips) over the entire "Expanded Universe" as it exists today. But I guess I'm weird that way. Hats off to Dark Horse for making these stories widely available again.
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