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Black Adam: The Dark Age
Collecting all six issues of the Black Adam: The Dark Age miniseries. Spinning out of the weekly series 52 comes a new epic that follows Black Adam, the new über-villain of the DCU -- and he'll go to any lengths to resurrect his wife, the deceased super-hero called Isis.
With the power of the gods stripped from him, Teth-Adam is on a quest to find both the magical word th
...morePaperback, 144 pages
Published
June 10th 2008
by DC Comics
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First of all, I completely missed the events leading up to this mini-series (Infinite Crisis, 52, & World War III). I went into it blind, because normally you can pick up a miniseries and just join into the story. I was able to glean a good bit of info about prior events from it, at least enough to know what was going on, so it actually achieved this aim alright. As for the story, it was decent if you are into the true anti-hero story. It's about a man obsessed with his true love and on a qu...more
The character of Black Adam was nearly an unknown to me until I read the series 52 by DC Comics. Since then I have really enjoyed him as a character and here is no different. Peter Tomasi delivers a truly sad story about what someone will do to get his love back, no matter where it is. Adam is a remarkably scary yet believable protagonist and antagonist at this same time. Doug Mahnke draws some amazing panels here that I like better than a lot of his Green Lantern run. The only thing the book la...more
This is a really well done comic. I feel that Tomasi is at his best when he fosters the darker side of comics. And this is one of those comics. I often find that the villain is far more interesting than the hero. That the while we look at the relationship between the hero and the villain, like Black Adam, While many of his intentions are noble, its his willingness to do harm that makes him the villain.
Mahnke's art as usual is brilliant with defined lines and and detail make it visually wonderfu...more
Mahnke's art as usual is brilliant with defined lines and and detail make it visually wonderfu...more
Apr 21, 2008
John Wiswell
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Comics fans, fans of the bad guys, Fantasy readers
This book is clearly for DC Comics readers. New readers will get the basics of the story, but the writer clearly expects you to know the history of Black Adam (especially in his relationships to Albert, the Marvels and Isis), and of aspects of this world (the Lazarus Pits, the secret societies, the JSA and JLA).
Beyond that... This is the morbidly engrossing story of a villain’s obsession with his one redeeming virtue: his love of a truly good woman, who was taken before her time. In this period...more
Beyond that... This is the morbidly engrossing story of a villain’s obsession with his one redeeming virtue: his love of a truly good woman, who was taken before her time. In this period...more
It was mostly good until the end, which was a little disappointing. Kind of leaves a few things up in the air. They were probably resolved at some point. Otherwise it was a good story of a man willing to do anything to save the love of his life.
A dark, well written story, that demands a sequel.
DC's best anti-hero.
Excellent storyline.
After 52 and WWIII
Really dark book as Black Adam runs around slaughtering the DC Universe in efforts to bring his bride back to life.
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Peter J. Tomasi is an American comic book writer, best known for his work for DC Comics.
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