Tom Strong: Book One

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Summary: true pulp comics.
Review: This follows Tom Strong from his chilhood on a mysterious island where his parents trained him on a harsh gravity, to his most recent adventures as he nears the age of 100.
Teaming up with his wife, daughter, butler robot, and super smart ape.
The first three issues are okay, but it really works in the last four, showing one of the coolest characters of all time, the Pangean.
This is an okay book and if you like Alan Moore and have a few bucks, pick this up.

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Summary: Moore Filler
Review: This is the least interesting of his ABC comics collections. Tom Strong, a comicbook version of Doc Savage, manages to be tongue-in-cheek without being very funny. Fortunately, it doesn't take long to read through this book, since not a great deal happens. Moore has written a lot better elsewhere, both with superheroes and without.

Rating:
Summary: Moore Filler
Review: This is the least interesting of his ABC comics collections. Tom Strong, a comicbook version of Doc Savage, manages to be tongue-in-cheek without being very funny. Fortunately, it doesn't take long to read through this book, since not a great deal happens. Moore has written a lot better elsewhere, both with superheroes and without.

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Summary: "A true masterpiece" ,or,"Alan Moore latest GN"
Review: This, next to Watchmen, is one of the greatest comic books I have ever read because it has one key element that many comics lack ever since the grim and gritty age. It starts out with an interesting premise: what if a man wanted to make his son a perfect human being by educating him in the far-off island of Attabar Teru, away from societies influence.
By raising him in a low gravity enviroment with his robot nanny, Phneuman and feeding him lots of the goloka root, which gives longevity and physical prowess, he becomes as it seems throughout the book, to become a human version of superman. When Tom turns 11 a quake hits Attabar Teru, and both his parents are killed so he is raised by the Attabar Teru trbe(not very unlike peacful indians.)When he grows up, he heads off to Millenium city and becomes a super hero, or science-hero as their universe calls them.And while the story is incredible, so is the art. Chris Sprouse is the perfect guy to draw Tom Strong because Tom Strong is supposed to be an incredibly smart and, well...,strong version of the BFG, a big guy who makes us all feel safer. I also liked the brief reuniting of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in the sixth chapter. Overal, this is one of the best graphic novels of all time,suitable for all ages, and something you should read right now!

Rating:
Summary: "A true masterpiece" ,or,"Alan Moore latest GN"
Review: This, next to Watchmen, is one of the greatest comic books I have ever read because it has one key element that many comics lack ever since the grim and gritty age. It starts out with an interesting premise: what if a man wanted to make his son a perfect human being by educating him in the far-off island of Attabar Teru, away from societies influence.
By raising him in a low gravity enviroment with his robot nanny, Phneuman and feeding him lots of the goloka root, which gives longevity and physical prowess, he becomes as it seems throughout the book, to become a human version of superman. When Tom turns 11 a quake hits Attabar Teru, and both his parents are killed so he is raised by the Attabar Teru trbe(not very unlike peacful indians.)When he grows up, he heads off to Millenium city and becomes a super hero, or science-hero as their universe calls them.And while the story is incredible, so is the art. Chris Sprouse is the perfect guy to draw Tom Strong because Tom Strong is supposed to be an incredibly smart and, well...,strong version of the BFG, a big guy who makes us all feel safer. I also liked the brief reuniting of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in the sixth chapter. Overal, this is one of the best graphic novels of all time,suitable for all ages, and something you should read right now!

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Summary: Great Idea But Only Average Execution
Review: Tom Strong is a tip of the hat to many classic comic book heroes and cliches. Tom Strong is based on Doc Savage, Solomon is based on the intelligent apes that populate the DC Universe, Tom's wife is like a cross between Wonder Woman and Storm of the X-men and so on. Having said that, there is a lot of originality in the book too. Without giving anything away, there are at least two characters in this book that are truly unique. I can't think of any other like them. I think all the characters in it are interesting but I don't think the story is as well executed as it could be. It starts off well but the collection seems to become less fun as you reach the end, although its never bad. Its not the best of Moore's ABC line (according to my experience that is A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and its no where near his classic works, but its worth checking out if you are a fan. I will buy the next collection, but I don't have very high hopes for it.

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Summary: Born of Savage and Greystoke
Review: TOM STRONG is Alan Moore's intelligent take on Tarzan and Doc Savage, melding the Jungle Lord and the scientific superhuman into a new pulp hero. Mr. Strong is a fully-functional character with an astounding and unpretentious history as a brilliant inventor and a two-fisted crime-fighter. But Tom Strong is also about scientific endeavor, using the pulp fiction conventions of, say, the theory of time travel, to explore Strong's incredible history as a man who, through science and the hidden knowledge of ancient cultures, has lived 150 years worth of adventures (perhaps, though the future of Tom Strong is still conjecture at this point in the chronicles.) From Tom's World War II conflicts with genetic Nazi supermen, to his encounter with the first, and most dangerous, life form in Earth's primordial past, this book covers a mere sampling of intriguing, fascinating, and extremely heroic moments in Tom Strong's life. A completely engrossing book, whose ideas are just as powerful as the slug-fests within its pages. A great writer's addition to the lore of immortal pulp heroes.