 (Click to Enlarge) | Doomworld (Star Wars: A Long Time Ago... Volume 1)Authors: Roy Thomas, Archie Goodwin, Don GlutAverage Customer Rating: 4.33/5.00 Amazon Sales Rank: 172,543 Comic Release Date: June, 2002 Manufacturer: Dark Horse Comics View on Amazon (ISBN: 1569717540) Number of Comics: 1 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours List Price: $29.95, Amazon Price: $29.95 |
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Rating: 4 [ A Blast From the Past (When Comics weren't Just For Adults!) ]I was 6 when Star Wars was first unleashed on the public, and I was lucky enough to have a Mom that supported her young son's comic-book reading habit; The biggest problem of any comic reader in those long-forgotten days was spotty newsstand distribution- It was almost impossible to collect EVERY issue of your favorite comic.....for almost 25 years I've been wondering how Luke and company managed to get off of that Water Planet in Star Wars #14....THANK GOD FOR DARK HORSE! My wondering days are over! Doomworld collects issues 1-20 of Marvel's original Star Wars series in glorious full-color, on beautiful paper with great production values. The book opens with an incredibly faithful adaptation of the movie, then goes off into some surprising territory: Han and Chewie star in an outer-space "Magnificent Seven", where they team with a giant green Rabbit and an old man named "Don-Wan Kihotay" to face off against "Serji-X Arrogantus", a thinly disguised version of Mad Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragones; Luke and the Droids crash on a Waterworld years before Kevin Costner made that awful movie; Han squares off against a "Gaily" attired pirate and his man-hating female crony; and everyone ends up in the deep-space Las Vegas for the big cliffhanger. The stories are a bit removed from what the films delivered, but I took a bit of umbrage at the back-cover copy which calls the Marvel stories "Kitschy"; Dark Horse has published a few duds themselves ("Union", anyone...?); At least these stories are entertaining!
As a kid, I hated the artists that worked on these stories. As an adult, I can appreciate the draftsmanship and storytelling ability that they brought to the series. Howard Chaykin, Carmine Infantino, Tom Palmer, Terry Austin, Herb Trimpe, Al Milgrom...They're all legends, and with good reason. (The only gaffe, artwise, is the pairing of Chaykin and Frank Springer in chapter seven. Springer's inks are atrocious!) The art looks better than ever, thanks to the vibrant colors and slick paper. And aside from Roy Thomas' propensity for making Han say (OVER and OVER again!) "WELL then there now!", the characters STAY in character. Lucasfilm may have decided that the stories are no longer canonical, but that doesn't mean they're not fun! And the price just can't be beat! Give Doomworld a try if you're looking for something a little bit different. WELL then there now!
Rating: 5 [ What a MARVELous Collection! ]
If you grew up loving Marvel's "Star Wars Comics" you'll find this books Force irresistable-it contains the FIRST 20ISSUES OF THE SERIES!!They're better than before:the colors are mor vibrant.there are no ads so you can read the stories mor easily.This is the BEST collection of "Star Wars Comics ever!Its 370 pages will give you LOTS of reading pleasure.This is a must for any "Star Wars" fanatic!rRST
Rating: 5 [ Goofy? Probably. Fun? ABSOLUTELY! ]
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.