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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fun and playful supplemental to Chabon's very good book The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, or some such. In this book, Chabon and his coterie of artists follow the Escapist comic through a series of different styles, more or less covering the Golden and Silver Age of comics, as well as M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24809712">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun book, that gives the history of the fake comic book characters that the characters from <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Michael Chabon" title=" Michael Chabon"> Michael Chabon</a>'s book <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" title=" the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"> the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay</a> made up (the Escapist, Luna Moth, etc).  It also gives, basically, a history of the comic book and, to illustrate the evolving comic book st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3228572">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not really one for comics/graphic novels, but having read 'Kavalier and Clay' earlier in the year, this was a must. Nice to see both The Escapist and Luna Moth in drawn form. I would have liked to see the Luna Moth story regarding her origins, but maybe that will be in one of the later books? ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Kavalier &amp; Clay years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it, so was pleased to pick this up and tear through various artists take on the Escapist. It makes me want to go back and read Kavalier &amp; Clay again, to get all the references.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the Adventures of Kavalier and Clay a million years ago.  It never occurred to me that the Escapist comics would be published.  There is no cohesive storyline in the book. It is just a bunch of different versions of the The Escapist, all of them interesting and with their own merits.  There i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56313650">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very charming.  It was cool to be able to read the Escapist comics after reading <em>about</em> them in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" title="The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay">The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay</a>.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great for light metro reading, if you liked Kavalier &amp; Clay.  The Luna stories are well done.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The comic character from &quot;The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay&quot; comes to life. Chabon does the introduction, where he says that the following material was dug up from archives and personal collections, and draws you into the adventures of the Escapist and Luna Moth in full colour. D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28905722">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Comic books based on the graphic novels mentioned in Kavalier and Clay by Chabon. Pretty great and utterly satisfying.]]></body>
    
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