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  <title><![CDATA[Omega: The Unknown]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Add this to the list of comics from over the last year that seemingly came out of nowhere and began as impulse buys only to quickly rise in my estimation above pretty  much everything. Sure Jonathan Lethem is my literary homey with the OG Carroll Gardens/Boerum Hill comic-loving chops, but he only c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39884288">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely brilliant---probably one of the best comics I've read in the past several months. Lethem's and Rusnak's story builds off of a short-lived and very odd superhero book called, Omega published by Marvel in the early 1970's. The book begins with us seeing teenaged Alexander lose his parents, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74681305">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Wed May 13 19:59:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in the actual issues, but more or less all at once after the run had ended, so it was sort of like reading this trade...  Anyway, this is some good stuff.  Farel Dalrymple as an artist is almost as good as it gets (and it's a bonus to see his stuff in rare full color), and his kind of he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56008926">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Omega: The Unknown isn't badly done, but it suffers from &quot;Squid in the Mouth&quot; Syndrome. If you don't know what that means, look here (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html" title="http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html">http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.h...</a>), under Part Two: Paragraphs and Prose Structure. <br/><br/>This graphic novel gets three stars because there'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64951955">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <name><![CDATA[Scott]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 02 09:09:19 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 05 16:49:46 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A weird book, for sure, but that's what I liked about it. It's so bizarre that it always keeps you guessing. But it never pushes its weirdness or uses it as a crutch. Instead, it tells the story of a mute superhero trying to save the world and the teen he’s linked to, who is trying to connect with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76480061">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I blew through this one--could not put it down. The best superhero comic I've read in years, but then I am not a regular superhero comic fan; more like Alan Moore and Jeffrey Brown's <em>Bighead</em>. This is apparently a fairly faithful take-off from the original series with an updated setting and modified ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47024876">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <id>39505144</id>
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    <id>861468</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Dave]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually didn't read the hardcover but the individual comic issues. It occupied a weird alternate reality with odd superheroes, instellar robots, alien observers and nanotech invaders. I liked how the Farel Dalrymple art was odd enough and far enough from the standard Marvel heroic tradition to cr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39505144">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Novelist Jonathan Lethem’s first foray in to graphic novels is an engaging blend of science fiction, mystery, coming-of-age, parody and homage to the original 1976 Omega the Unknown comic books.  <br/>Intersecting storylines parallel and overlap with characters’ mysterious pasts and motivations...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53324060">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <name><![CDATA[James]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 01 04:16:47 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know what you're asking: how can I review a book that isn't coming out until October? Well, I have already read 9/10ths of it in its &quot;original form&quot; (the tenth issue has yet to appear, as of this writing), and I can say with some confidence that this is the best comic I've read in quite ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25995556">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <name><![CDATA[Jason]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kalispell, MT]]></location>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd never read the original Omega series but found this &quot;re-envisioning&quot; of the original to be enjoyable. There were times early on in the reading that I found myself a bit confused though this is made up for by the depth of plot that is slowly unveiled in the latter half of the story. All...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47599341">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't imagine the audience for this book is bigger than, say, a thousand people, as it starts as Lethem and company's attempts to provide a &quot;cover song&quot; of the original, ten-issue series from the '70s, and then slides into a cover tone-poem of the same. I imagine it's well worthwhile to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40489607">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is excellent.  Mr. Lethem uses a multi-layered approach to the story telling and uses comedic relief and clever narrative devices to great effect.  This is one of the best comics I've read recently.  I love Farel Dalrymple and Paul Hornschemeier was a great pick for colorist.<br/><br/>The Gar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55586830">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating resurrection of the comic cult classic.  Lethem keeps things very mysterious, not falling into typical superhero genre but more in line with Moore's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen" title="Watchmen by Alan Moore">Watchmen</a>.  I look forward to many more in this series.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47429167">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 22 13:12:23 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 22 13:14:03 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't remotely claim that this made a lot of sense, but it's still my favorite thing Lethem has ever done. Consumerism, media-saturation, franchising, blah blah blah. Punching evil robots is where it's at. And Farel Dalrymple is an incredible artist and I can't wait to see him do another Pop Gu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43962823">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Apr 03 13:42:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic book. The art is mesmerizing. Lots of play with the narrative, one that I will go out and buy to read at least four or five more times. This comic is a rehash of one done in the early 80s. It throws in all kinds of fun post modern issues along with robots. If that doesn't sell you...]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 03 13:54:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 03 14:06:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jonathan Lethem remembers a trippy and obscure Marvel comic from the seventies and apparently uses it as a take off point for his own trippy and obscure comic.  He's successful.  Plot lines that seem unconnected twist and merge in this ultimate deconstruction of the superhero genre.  Very clever.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Nov 26 12:51:49 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 23 18:37:22 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is quite possibly the worst thing I've read all year. There were superheroes, super villains, evil robots, magic salt, a labyrinth, robot parents, nanobots, and all sorts of weird elements to this story. I usually like weird, but weird didn't make this tale very good. In fact, the weird barely ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38704973">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 28 17:34:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 02 06:02:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think it might be one of my favorite Marvel Comics graphic novels of all time. Very different than anything else I've read but fitting.  I wish more superhero type comics were like this.  Reminded me of the heyday of independent comics from the lat 80s but with better writing.]]></body>
    
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    <id>103755</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Darrell]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 27 05:25:42 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 28 19:22:15 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[thank goodness for the comic buyer at the Pasadena Public Library....wouldn't have picked this up from my local comic shop even with the John Lethem name prominenetly featured...quite the book <br/> ]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 08 02:39:46 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 13 16:33:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love Lethem. Love Dalrymple. Hard to go wrong here -- and when the first iteration of this comic appeared back in the 70s for only a ten-issue run, it had to be one of the strangest ever written (probably still is). Big fun.]]></body>
    
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