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61 ratings, 2.92 average rating, 5 reviews
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published
2006
by Wildstorm
binding
Paperback, 176 pages
setting
The United Kingdom
isbn
1401209947
(isbn13: 9781401209940)
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Maybe I need to be a middle-age Brit – who in his youth devoured mid-century comic books produced in the UK -- in order to fully enjoy this nostalgia-tinged “What Ever Happened to…?” retro-comic book epic.* The premise is clever enough: The daughter of one of England’s great comic book heroes goes in search of her father’s former colleagues – all of whom have been in hiding for the past several decades; hence the disbelief that they really exist outside of the printed four-color pa...more
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Not bad, but as I'm not real familiar with a lot of these characters it didn't make as big an impression on me as LoEG.
Still a fun read with some wonderfully bizarre characters. Shame Moore didn't have a chance to do more with them .
Still a fun read with some wonderfully bizarre characters. Shame Moore didn't have a chance to do more with them .
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This is to kids comics of my generation what LOEG is to Victorian/Edwardian fiction. Strangely nostalgic but new. Could Archie take Ironman in a fight? No, probably not...
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This was a terrific exercise in nostalgia for me discovering what happened to the comic heroes of my youth while I grew up
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