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The Thrilling Adventure Hour
The Thrilling Adventure Hour: Martian Manhunt
Based on the popular Hollywood stage show and podcast, The Thrilling Adventure Martian Manhunt follows fan favorite character Sparks Nevada.
Shine your astro spurs and don your robot fists! Justice rides a rocket steed across the crimson plains of the fourth planet, where one man brings hope to humans who make this frontier world their home. He is...Sparks Marshal on Mars. Alongside his trusty Martian sidekick Croach, Sparks protects Mars from robot outlaws, alien invaders, and any galactic threat foolish enough to target the red planet.
Written by the creators of the wildly popular Hollywood stage show and podcast, Ben Acker and Ben Blacker (Deadpool, Star Wars Adventures), and illustrated by J. Bone ( The Brave and the Bold), The Thrilling Adventure Martian Manhunt is a rip-roaring adventure that harkens back to the heyday of old-time radio entertainment. Collects The Thrilling Adventure Hour Sparks Marshal on Mars #0-4.
Shine your astro spurs and don your robot fists! Justice rides a rocket steed across the crimson plains of the fourth planet, where one man brings hope to humans who make this frontier world their home. He is...Sparks Marshal on Mars. Alongside his trusty Martian sidekick Croach, Sparks protects Mars from robot outlaws, alien invaders, and any galactic threat foolish enough to target the red planet.
Written by the creators of the wildly popular Hollywood stage show and podcast, Ben Acker and Ben Blacker (Deadpool, Star Wars Adventures), and illustrated by J. Bone ( The Brave and the Bold), The Thrilling Adventure Martian Manhunt is a rip-roaring adventure that harkens back to the heyday of old-time radio entertainment. Collects The Thrilling Adventure Hour Sparks Marshal on Mars #0-4.
112 pages, Paperback
Published February 19, 2019
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June 17, 2019
This is a very pretty graphic novel collecting the individual comics I've already read. I thought it would be something new and was a bit disappointed that it wasn't.
It's fun to see Croach and Sparks "in the flesh" so to speak but it feels a tiny bit flat. I think some of the quick wit or the Marks's delivery and banter were missing.
If this was my first time reading it, I'm sure I would have loved it. It does bring to life a colourful, fascinating landscape of Mars-meets-Western, and it's nice to have it all in one graphic novel.
It's fun to see Croach and Sparks "in the flesh" so to speak but it feels a tiny bit flat. I think some of the quick wit or the Marks's delivery and banter were missing.
If this was my first time reading it, I'm sure I would have loved it. It does bring to life a colourful, fascinating landscape of Mars-meets-Western, and it's nice to have it all in one graphic novel.
March 21, 2021
The fun continues in this installment of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, which delightfully mashes up old-time Westerns, John Carter from Mars and the astro-retro-futurism of 1950s pulp fiction. The writing is really funny, the artwork is just perfectly suited for the story, and the whole thing comes together in such a way that the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. There's no deep story here, no piercing moral. Just a thrilling adventure hour that is so perfectly done, you want to re-read it immediately after finishing. Bravo.
March 25, 2020
I loved the Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast, so I was excited to see the graphic novel adaptations.
This was a fun, quick read that provided background information on the meeting of Croach the Tracker and Sparks Nevada. It's also nice that you don't actually have to have any context about the storylines from the podcast in order to make sense of what is happening in the graphic novel.
This was a fun, quick read that provided background information on the meeting of Croach the Tracker and Sparks Nevada. It's also nice that you don't actually have to have any context about the storylines from the podcast in order to make sense of what is happening in the graphic novel.
February 16, 2019
A terrific collection telling a piece of backstory to one of the more obscure episodes of the podcast/ stage show that this is based on. I'm stupidly invested in these characters and their situation anyway, so I loved it. The best part is being able to imagine Mark Evan Jackson (Sparks) and Mark Gagliardi (Croach) saying the lines so easily. Roll on a regular series, please!
May 18, 2019
I had read this in single issues years ago. A big fan of the podcast, the visuals do not make up for the loss of the interesting voices and characters that had been developed in the live show. The story is interesting enough but even as a fan I found myself losing interest as it went on. Not sure how much someone unfamiliar with the characters would connect with it.
July 30, 2021
Bought this on a clearance rack at my local gaming/comic book store. Didn't know a thing about it, except that "Sparks Nevada" is a great name for a marshal located on Mars, the planet.
Easy to read, I laughed right out loud in several places, the characters have me hooked and I'll be searching out and buying other volumes in this series.
Easy to read, I laughed right out loud in several places, the characters have me hooked and I'll be searching out and buying other volumes in this series.
April 10, 2019
Sparks Nevada & Croach the tracker backstory! Like Beyond Belief, this translates well to the comic media.
June 2, 2019
I'm curious how this would read to somebody not hearing Marc Evan Jackson's voice.
June 16, 2019
Still a hella fun ride, even if it is awkward to read on phone screen...
September 8, 2022
This was perfectly fine but I’m guessing the podcast comes across as a more enjoyable experience. I’ll have to listen to it someday!
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