Cloak And Dagger Omnibus Vol. 2

Cloak And Dagger Omnibus #2

by Bill Mantlo, Peter B. Gillis, Terry Austin

As Cloak discovers the hideous secret of his hunger for light, Nightmare seeks to use him to destroy Doctor Strange! Elsewhere, the horrific Mr. Jip unleashes his minions, Day and Night! Cloak and Dagger face the Punisher and Mayhem. But when Tandy is corrupted, can X-Factor help save her soul? Then, Dagger deals with the loss of her sight and the apparent death of her crimefighting partner - while the villainous Ecstasy wears Cloak's cloak! But rumors of Ty's death have been greatly exaggerated! Plus: Doctor Doom! Acts of Vengeance! Inferno! And Spider-Man and Ghost Rider join Cloak and Dagger for a final fight against Mephisto! Collecting MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL: CLOAK AND DAGGER - PREDATOR AND PREY, STRANGE TALES (1987) #7, MUTANT MISADVENTURES OF CLOAK AND DAGGER #1-13, CLOAK AND DAGGER (1990) #14-19, and material from STRANGE TALES (1987) #3-6 and #8-19.

Genres: Marvel, Comics, Superheroes

800 pages, Hardcover

First published June 25, 1991

About the author

William Timothy Mantlo is an American comic book writer, primarily at Marvel Comics.
(source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[OmniBen · Rating 3 out of 5]

(Zero spoiler review) 2.75/5
I've had this sitting on my shelf for some time, thinking that volume two was nothing more than crossovers with other characters, with their series proper being in volume one. Turns out I was wrong, with this containing the second half of all their solo material, so I cracked it open and was initially rather impressed, especially at having Brett Blevins on art. The man is criminally underrated, with his New Mutants material being amongst the best of the teams entire run. Sadly, Mantlo and Blevins leave the book early on and its a very mixed bag from then on, though one that never recaptures the early style and themes the book opens with. It picks up somewhat at the very end, although with a different artist and writer on each issue before the series ultimately ended, it was rather obvious the title was being passed around the office like a rather fetid hot potato, with no one either willing or able to do anything with the characters, which is a shame, because they remain one of Marvel's most enigmatic and underutilised duo's out there. And given my chance to write a Marvel book, I'd pick Cloak and Dagger long before I chose Spidey of an X title.
This book is just begging for some well written, mature supernatural type storytelling which was what we initially got. Then it turned into a dog's breakfast of half baked idea's and mediocre at best execution.
Given that volume one is very OOP, and volume two offers up little in terms of overall quality, this is one best to be avoided, though if you can find a way to read the early Mantlo and Blevin's work (and probably the volume one material), I doubt you will be disappointed. 2.75/5


OmniBen.

[Victor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Virtually an object lesson in what happens when there's zero editorial creative direction over a couple of solid characters that should have been put to better use. Preferably a single use, instead of multiple atmospheric and internal history retcons.

[Andrew Seaton · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was inclined to give it two stars but I’ve gotta hand it to them for sticking the landing. This book ends on a super high note.