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| Essential Man-Thing Volume 2 TPB (Essential) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Steve Gerber, Michael Fleisher, Chris Claremont, Dickie Mckenzie, J. M. Dematteis, Annette Kawecki, Ralph Macchio, Tony Dezuniga, Alfredo Alcala, Rico Rival, John Buscema, Jim Mooney, Bob Wiacek, Don Perlin, Larry Hama, Ed Hannigan, Val Mayerik, Ron Wilson, Mike Ploog, John Byrne
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Sales Rank: 107790
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 560
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0785130667
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780785130666
ASIN: 0785130667
Publication Date: September 3, 2008
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A book burns on amazon October 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
At last, the rest of Steve Gerber's superb run on Man-Thing is out in the essential format.
The first half of this book really is essential, as it showcases some of Gerber's best work on this strip, including the classic stories 'The Kids's Night Out' & 'A Book Burns in Citrusville' ( dealing with school bullying & censorship respectively ). Most fun is Steve's last script on the regular series 'Pop goes The Cosmos', where he guests himself alongside the mindless muck monster, a tricky proposition in a lesser writer's hands.
Gerber was writing comics for adults decades before it became fashionable, and this is one series that should always be in print, in my opinion.
For art buffs, you also get the likes of Alfredo Alcala, John Buscema, Tom Sutton & the massively underrated Jim Mooney, whose sedate, mannered art always bounced brilliantly off of Gerber's insane surrealism.
Unfortunately, after the halfway mark, the quality takes a bit of a nosedive.
Marvel brought back Manny in the '80's, and at first gave him to longtime Jonah Hex writer Micheal Fleisher, who contributes some interesting scripts for the first three issues, but then they gave the book to Chris Claremont....
Claremont has always been my least favourite writer, his work at best soporific, and at worst, plain cringeworthy.
His time on the book seems to be spent doing lame riffs on Gerber's original stories, bringing back characters and then having no idea what to do with them. He even closes the run the exact same way Gerber did, by clumsily inserting himself into the story, but by that point I'd had enough of him.
No one but Gerber ever seemed to know how to write Man-Thing properly, but he somehow could always make mindless creatures compelling. ( See also Essential Tales Of The Zombie! ) Just one reason why he was great.
Buy this absolutely, I can't recommend the first half too highly, but after the Fleisher stories, you don't need to read anymore.
( As a sidenote, I notice on this volume that Marvel are now copying the DC Showcase look on the spine, which now makes the Marvel part of my bookshelf look really crap. Should've stuck with what you had, boys...)
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