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Marvel 1602 TPB (Quill Award Edition)
by: Neil Gaiman
by: Andy Kubert

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785123118
ISBN: 0785123113
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: March 08, 2006
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Studio: Marvel Comics
Sales Rank: 18208

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- Strange things are stirring in renaissance England...
The skies are in upheaval; there are whispers of a growing storm ferocious enough to end the world. Strange creatures (the witchbreed) are stalking the woods and hillsides, and a young girl and her burly native protector are undertaking the long and dangerous voyage from the american colonies back to england, bringing strange, awesome powers and warnings of a terrible fate back to the dying Queen Elizabeth. Against this background, the brilliant, twisted Count Otto Von Doom and the puritanical, mysterious Inquisition pursue their own terrible agendas...

Sound exciting? It is. I really love this book. It's a huge, wonderful "What if..?" story, but one like i'd never read before. The transposition of Marvel Comics' colourful cast ... Read More:

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- 400 years ago, but still works!
Neil Gaiman is an excellent writer. Anyone who's read Neverwhere, American Gods or Anansi Boys should pretty much agree. He doesn't make things easy, his premises for writing are pretty off the wall, but he's worth the effort.
My girlfriend, god love her, bought me this as I was reading his books, and I love comics. I was unsure whether he could tranlate the suspense of his novels into comic-book format, but I have to say he's done it.
The artwork is of a high quality, not always as varied as I would like, but it is visually enticing, and compliments the story very well.
It is a good story too. The characters are almost seamlessly inter-woven with history, and readers of his novels will totally appreciate where his ideas ... Read More:

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- World 311
Although I'm not a great follower of Marvel comics, or any comics for that matter this was the first 'Graphic Novel' I've picked up and read. However this book caught my eye because my exposure to the television Marvel. Gaiman has taken some well known and adored marvel characters and placed them in 17th century england. The plot is thick and needs the reader to treat certain events separate from others for full understanding. The reader must also remember not to judge the charecters by there modern World counterparts (from earth 616).

This being the first Graphic Novel I've read i may be slightly biased to say i adore it, But i think with all the characters appearing the Graphic novel it allows fans and readers of all kinds to ... Read More:

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- Cluttered Storyline, Mostly Awful Art
The only Gaiman work I've ever read was his novel American Gods, which I didn't particularly care for, and my only exposure to the Marvelverse is via the various film adaptations of the last few years. This book caught my eye because of the amazing cover and the premise, which appealed to me as I had recently finished reading a non-fiction book about Elizabethan England. Gaiman has taken Marvel's "Silver Age" (pre-1969) characters and placed them in Europe at the dawn of the 17th-century. Some of them are now operatives of the dying Queen Elizabeth, some are independent entities, Magneto is a Spanish Inquisitor, and mutants are known as "witchbreed." It's a time of great uncertainty, as James lurks up in Scotland waiting to ascend the English ... Read More:

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- Neil Gaiman puts Marvel's superheroes 500 years in the past
Admittedly expectations were going to be high when Neil Gaiman was signed to do a Marvel Comic. Gaiman's decision to create a unique vision of the Marvel universe set four hundred years in the past during the last days of the reign of Elizabeth Tudor, which certainly whetted my appetite to read this trade paperback collection of the mini-series. When you see Scott McKowen's scratchboard covers that ups the ante even more, and while there is certainly nothing wrong with Andy Kubert's art it is hard to look at those covers and not imagine the entire series done that way, even if it would take McKowen the rest of this decade to get it done.

So "Marvel 1602" begins in the throne room of Elizabeth, by the Grace of God Queen of England, ... Read More:

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