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Bestselling writer Tom King is back with a new epic that reinvents one of DC's classic science-fiction adventurers, Adam Strange, examining whether his actions were heroic or disgraceful. Named one of ALA GNCRT's 2022 Best Graphic Novels for Adults! This new science fiction epic written by bestselling author Tom King reinvents one of DC's classic adventure characters, Adam Strange. Born on Earth and hero of the distant planet Rann, Adam Strange is famous throughout the galaxy for his bravery and honor. After leading his adopted home to victory in a great planetary war, Adam and his wife, Alanna, retire to Earth, where they are greeted with cheers, awards, and parades. But not all is as it seems, as the decisions Adam made during battles on Rann come back to haunt his family. It will take an investigation by one of the most brilliant heroes in the DC Universe, Mr. Terrific, to uncover the truth and reveal whether Adam Strange is a hero or a disgrace. The Mister Miracle team of writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads are joined by fan-favorite artist Evan "Doc" Shaner to bring you an epic tale in the tradition of Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, and DC: The New Frontier--a story of blood, war, and love that readers will be talking about for years to come. Collects Strange Adventures 1-12. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dc Comics; First Edition (December 14, 2021)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 376 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1779512031


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 31


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.96 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.97 x 0.77 x 10.47 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #353,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #662 in Mystery Graphic Novels #777 in DC Comics & Graphic Novels #4,128 in Superhero Comics & Graphic Novels


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    • Black Label view of Adam Strange
Damn you Tom King… This was a very good and wrenching story about Adam Strange…SPOILER- This story was actually a romantic- adventure- sci fi tragedy… Adam Strange is one of my favorite characters and his fate in this volume was indeed tragic. The art was great-the two styles used for present and past events was a masterful touch. If you were ever a reader of Strange Adventures, read this collection. Just be aware King does classic heroes no favors-that part I did not care for, ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024 by grumm
    • Masterpiece
Such a great graphicnovel, wonderful art and story telling, finished it in one read
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024 by Mitchell
    • Real drama
Tom King wrote a wonderful, captivating story, with the hero you think you know. It's so compelling, I literally couldn't let it go until I finished reading. It has drama, twists, and you get a glimpse on how far a man can go for his family. Mr Terrific plays the perfect Sherlock Holmes type for this story and oh, yeah... Batman and Superman make brief cameos... but don't let that discourage you. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2023 by Ricardo Cardoso Reis
    • Really interesting but predictable
This was a beautiful and fascinating book, but the story is one that sort of writes itself. The whole time, I was thinking, “Okay, so a hero of the ‘old school’ who seems virtuous, whom everyone admires and seems to exemplify traditional virtues. There’s only one way this is going to go—he’ll turn out to be a total hypocrite and monster.” It would have been more interesting if (spoilers) I was proved wrong. I wasn’t, of course. Throughout this book, little pot-shots are taken at the Trump administration—places where Adam Strange is painted as a kind of Trump Lite (albeit better-looking and more decent). But what writers of this type of narrative usually don’t realize is that these sorts of stories are precisely why we got Trump. Because when you train people to be cynical, to assume that every traditionally virtuous man is (in actual fact) toxic and, essentially, putting on an act—and your political opponents come to believe you, at least about national figures, what is left? I’ll tell you—mere thirst for power and hatred for political enemies, without any insistence whatever that your own heroes adhere to any standards besides pure partisanship. The only truly revolutionary story right now would be the one that causes us to believe in heroes again. I think an argument could be made (against mine) that this is a tragedy. But that’s not quite right. While it is about the fall of someone who was once a good man (?), his past goodness (if it existed) is overshadowed by his present hypocrisy. There is nothing interesting about his goodness—nothing compelling about it. A real tragedy is a good man who is destroyed by some sort of flaw, so that we identify with him and feel something has really been lost. But there is nothing terribly good about Adam Strange to begin with. He’s Willy Loman, not Oedipus. The art is beautiful. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2023 by C
    • Not Your Golden Age Adam Strange
Tom King does it once again with Strange Adventures. This is yet another example of the masterful way that King can craft a story about things that many of us may experience throughout are lives, masked behind a universe that features epic space battles, gods, and superheroes. This time around King tells a split narrative, showing the brutality of war in contrast to a detective narrative where we see themes of lies, truth, and perception. Evan “Doc” Shaner does the art for the past narrative which focuses on Adam Strange's time on Rann fighting a war against the Pykkts. Shaner draws this in a style that evokes the golden age of comics that almost tricks the reader into believing that this is going to be the lighter hearted segment of the book. Throughout the end of the book, as more is revealed, we see Strange grow more and more cynical, and by the end he is not this happy-go-lucky superhero that we thought him to be. Shaner depicts this in narrative but also in the way he draws Strange. At the start of Shaner’s portion of this book, Strange is a clean-shaven man; however, as we see him go through the trials and tribulations of war, Strange stars to grow this gnarly looking beard. The beard is symbolic of Strange becoming almost just like the ‘savages’ that he is fighting. By the end of the book, the past narrative, while looking reminiscent of the golden age, is almost more hardcore and horrifying than the present. This idea of ‘savages’ ties into the meta narrative of the idea of the “white savior” which has been present in many works of past fiction such as “Lawrence of Arabia” and “John Carter of Mars.” Throughout the narrative, Strange is required to build an army made up of the natives of Rann. The Rannian royalty repeatedly refers to the other groups on the planet as “savages” because they are shown to live in ways that the Rannians consider unconventional. The irony here is that even though these groups are repeatedly thought of as savages, they are instrumental in the war against the Pykkts. Even after their value is proven, the Rannians still end up just using these other groups as cannon fodder, showing that the Rannians are the true savages. This flips the “white savior” narrative on its head, showing that the wealthy and “more advanced” civilizations are not always the saviors that they think they are. The other narrative we see is the crime, noir narrative that Mitch Gerads draws. This takes place in the modern day and focuses mainly on the characters of Alanna Strange and Mr. Terrific. Mr. Terrific’s journey mirrors that of Strange’s in that he also had gone through a traumatic instance in his life and has never really come to terms with it. Terrific never dealt with the death of his wife and daughter and instead had convinced himself that he never wanted a daughter in the first place, and then buried himself in super heroics and science. Terrific’s journey in this story is learning from the mistakes of Strange and learning to move past the lies he has told himself, in ways that Strange never could. This mirrors Alanna’s story, who has basically dedicated her life to her husband. She has almost become a shell of a person since the death of her daughter and has overlooked many of the horrible things that her and her husband have done because of that. It is revealed later in the store that Strange had faked his daughter’s death in a deal with the Pykkts so that Rannians would look like they won the war, with Strange instead aiming the Pykkts at earth. It is revealed that instead of being the hero of two worlds, Strange is the destroyer of two worlds. These revelations shape Alanna into a headstrong character that by the end strives to be the hero that everyone (including herself) thought her husband to be. In Gerads’s sections, the story, like many of his other works with King, becomes very interpretive. Gerads has a very impressive way of making characters appear in a way you may expect, while the story is going in a very different direction. The first two-thirds of the story often leads you to believe that Alanna has villainous motives, with Gerads depicting her as a heavy smoker, almost in a fem fetal role, while she avidly fights against the Justice League’s accusations of her husband. She is shown making poor deals with political figures, and in essence “drinking the Kool-Aid” of her husband’s load of lies. By the end we see that Alanna was being manipulated by Strange but in a way that he felt was justifiable. Gerads makes sure to present Alanna as headstrong but flawed. More so than any character in Strange Adventures, Gerads chooses to always position Alanna in ways that make her motives ambiguous. Strange Adventures is a tale of truth, lies, and perception. With the backdrop of a superhuman epic, King, Gerads, and Shaner tell a fantastic story of what can happen when we refuse to deal with our past, and instead lie out way to the top. There are shades of the strong opinions that became so strongly formed in a 2021 Post-Trump political society, as well as the publics inability to see beyond bias; however, at the end of the day, Strange Adventures is about truth always coming out, and the toll that a traumatic event can take on people’s lives. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2022 by Amazon Customer

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