Traveler

Stan Lee's Boom! Studios titles

by Stan Lee, Mark Waid, Chad Hardin (Illustrator)

Legendary creator Stan Lee and best-selling author Mark Waid rewrite history in this story of a man out of time!

Stan Lee, the greatest innovator of the comic book industry, teams up with BOOM! Studios to deliver a brand new line of superhero comics. In THE TRAVELER, Stan teams up with critically-acclaimed writer Mark Waid (IRREDEEMABLE, KINGDOM COME) and fan-favorite artist Chad Hardin (AGE OF HEROES, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) to bring you a man out of time! Volume 2 continues to explore the mysterious hero known only as The Traveler as he battles the forces of evil in a time-bending thriller that finds all of history and the future hanging in the balance!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Science Fiction, Superheroes

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2011

About the author

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

Reviews

[Sean · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF! Embarrassingly bad book. Anything redeemable from the first volume is missing here. Nothing makes sense or matters. If you told me a group of 8th graders wrote this and not industry legends I would believe you. Chad Hardin had to draw this so I feel bad for him. Overall, hot garbage.

[Barry Hammock · Rating 5 out of 5]

The story of a man whose memories save the day... At a price.

[Paxton Holley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow, it got somewhat confusing at the end with all the time shifts, but a very well written and fun story. Even if it got confusing.

[Stephen Snyder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very entertaining book.

[Kevin · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first volume was great. This volume was standard fair with random alien nonsense with an anatomically well-endowed green woman. Yawn…

[Etienne · Rating 2 out of 5]

Worst than the first volume, less original and more stereotypes. I wouldn't read the third one if I didn't already have it, but honestly m expectation for it are quite low!

[Léna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Je m'attendais vraiment à ne pas aimer ce tome au vu des reviews de goodreads mais il s'avère que je l'ai trouvé fantastique ! L'histoire est, comme pour le tome précédent, hyper rythmée. C'est plutôt agréable qu'il n'y ait pas de temps mort et je suppose que, justement, ce qu'on pourrait reprocher à ce comic c'est que Mark Waid ne prend pas le temps d'explorer la personnalité du Traveler. Mais étant donné que je lis déjà beaucoup de comics où les personnages ont des moments de remise en question, je trouve ça rafraichissant de lire une aventure énergique, sans prise de tête et agréable à regarder.

[M · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stan Lee and Mark Waid collaborated to create a unique character in the first volume of The Traveler. Sadly, volume two does not capture the same magic. The time travel elements get amped up, as our hero finds himself in a lost city of Anachronopolis and meets Amelia Earhart. Things devolve from there, as a violent enemy and a mysterious portal jumper proceed to swamp the story with oddball time-travel paradoxes. Personally, I wanted to go back in time and leave it at Volume 1!

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

In The Traveler's first volume I thought Mark Waid did a good job of dealing with time travel and its inherent contradictions and paradoxes. The seccnd volume falls off in that aspect, as for much of the time it feels like we are being told that 1) Ronald Lessik is not very smart and 2) Ron is swept away to a city between time periods for torture. Well, not literal torture, but the villain's monologuing skills felt like torture to my ears.

[B.C. · Rating 1 out of 5]

proof to not judge a book by its cover. That cover is awesome. The story is not.

The characters ended up in random places that didn't make any sense and weren't explained. The story would make huge leaps with out explaining. Travler fell in love with some random girl with in a page a two.

The only reason I continued on to the 3rd is that I was committed and there was snag at the end that touched on the first book so I wanted to see if they explain it.

[Rachael · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was quite good- The Traveler is a really cool character. I'd love to see a movie or TV show about this time travelling, time-bending physicist. The art was very nice too. The only thing I have to complain about is that the story and comic panels are very confusing at times- they aren't organized in an easy-to-follow manner. Other than this, good job Stan Lee, and I eagerly await future Traveler adventures :P

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

Why have they made so much characters which had nothing to do with the story. Meh.

[Jason · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too many ideas crammed into too few spaces! We're thrown into this brand-new world with all these new characters and it's overwhelming. There are some decent ideas here, but it's all too rushed.

[Dean · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think this is the volume where the traveller is locked in a dome with important people from history.
they eacape. Amelia earhart.