Man with No Name Volume 2: Holiday in the Sun

Man with No Name (collected editions) #2

by Luke Lieberman, Matt Wolpert, Diego Bernard (Illustrator)

Starring the ultimate anti-hero, and under the helm of writer Luke Lieberman, Matt Wolpert, and artist Diego Bernard, Man with No Name Volume 2 continues the epic saga based on Sergio Leone's modern masterpiece of Western cinema!

Genres: Graphic Novels

144 pages, Paperback

First published February 9, 2010

About the author

Luke Lieberman grew up in Weston Connecticut where the woods were a playground for his imagination. After graduating NYU film school, he moved to LA to apprentice Stan Lee, who mentored him in the art of storytelling. He left Stan's employ to relaunch the Red Sonja comic book franchise where he serves as licensor and executive editor to this day. Luke has personally written over 50 issues under the title, including this years Red Sonja: Birth of a She-Devil mini-series.

After graduating Loyola law school and joining Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susan to practice intellectual property law, Luke collaborated with his friend and mentor Stan, as well as Ryan Silbert and Kat Rosenfeld, to co-author Stan Lee's Alliances: A Trick of Light. This project has been a dream come true.

These days Luke does his best writing at the family cabin on Flathead Lake in Montana. Home is where the heart is. He is a brother of four, uncle of 11, father of two, and husband to one Shannon Lieberman, who is the joy of his life.

Reviews

[47Time · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story is as convoluted and muddled as the artwork. The first arc was ok, but this arc is skippable.

Noname agrees to help a man named Tuco to recover his stolen fortune from his former partner Holliday. Between flashbacks, the duo track down the dangerous Holliday who has left all who oppose him in the dirt.

[Steve Howells · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent story

[Sam Nicholson · Rating 4 out of 5]

8/10

[Drew's Book and Tea Reviews · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun volume, that makes a neat little expansion to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The story isn't tremendously difficult to follow, but sometimes moments of action get muddled. This graphic novel is inspired by a classic in film - a visual medium - and can't quite consistently translate the action to another visual medium.

The other thing is that this book brings the slightest insight into the Man with No Name and where he comes from, which I'm not entirely sure I wanted to see, since Blondie/the Man with No Name is a character built around the mystery of who he is and where he comes from. This insight isn't huge, and it won't change the way you enjoy the Dollars trilogy, but I've always felt that the lass we know about Blondie, the better.

That being said, the firefights are mostly good, the villain is interesting, and the art is good. A good read if you're a fan of the film.

[Timo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not too bad but all the flashes from the past made things a bit messed up. But good western fun.