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Ronald Wimberly, | 416 pages | 11 Sep 2012 | DC Comics | 9781401221959 | English | New York, NY, United States Starman: The Cosmic Omnibus Vol. 1 : James A. Robinson, : : Blackwell's

The issues, , include my first issues of Starman. A mediocre Times Past issue tells of Ted's first encounter with The - unnecessary details that didn't illuminate Nash's vengeance on the supporting players in this one-off enough to merit telling. I liked the arc a lot more this time - when I first read it, I almost dropped the series. The ending, that their selfless offer would let them go free, seemed too predictable. I've seen Oh God, You Devil! A Christmas issue, solid, and a Mikaal Times Past, again solid, follow. I enjoy them now - but to a newbie reader who'd just discovered the series a few issues before these, I remember thinking the book was all over the place and only grudgingly decided to give it a sixth issue to impress me. I tried to give a new series six issues to lay its groundwork. The final chapter included here is the one that hooked me: Jake Benetti returns from jail, tries to figure out where he fits into modern Opal City, figures he doesn't, decides to heist a bank to get thrown back in jail, and winds up helping Jack defeat the Royal Flush Gang. Good times, fun, terrific character in Jake. Oct 18, Mario Mikon rated it it was amazing. Here we have great developments to the blue guy story Also, I think this is the start of the REAL magic of the Starman run: how come James Robinson transformed old and lame characters into awesome characters? Take Wesley Dodds, the old , story arc. An old guy now, but his thought process is shown here, and his arc striked curiosity inside of me: now I want to know more about the character, and how he was when younger The christimas story was also fantastic and sh Here we have great developments to the blue guy story The christimas story was also fantastic and shows how Jack can be a great . Oct 07, Sean rated it liked it. This book gave me a bunch of mixed feelings. There is a lot to like here but I also disliked a large chunk of it as well. By far my favorite segment was the team-up between Jack and Wesley Dodds. Seeing this cross generational team-up was extremely fun. James Robinson still gets overly verbose at times and there are far too many one offs in this collection. Tony Harris's art was missing in quite a few issues here but the art was still decent. Overall, this collection was a step back from the pre This book gave me a bunch of mixed feelings. Overall, this collection was a step back from the previous books but still pleasant. I read the comic books Starman season 2 , Annual 1; relevant stories from Showcase '95 12, Showcase '96 This great book continues to be, well, great! Includes a great tie-in with the now aged 'Sandman', Wesley Dodds. Nov 16, Matt Smith rated it liked it Shelves: comics , read-in , superheroes , dc , epic-comic-series. This wasn't a come to Jesus moment with Starman so much as it reminded me of the first time I read the first volume of Starman, which was an unmitigated slog. It was long, tedious, and James Robinson's prose was out of control. I must admit that I still find myself drawn to the characters in this book, but it really suffered from lack of Jack. This volume had a lot more of the ensemble thing going on, especially in the back half, which I feel didn't have nearly enough Jack. There was some decent This wasn't a come to Jesus moment with Starman so much as it reminded me of the first time I read the first volume of Starman, which was an unmitigated slog. There was some decent Jack in the first half, but even now upon reflection it feels mired in Robinson's eccentricities. And even though Jack goes on a four issue escapade adventure with Sandman which, my god did that make me want to read the Johns run on JSA , that arc felt more about exploring the nature of Golden Age Sasndman than it did about this really interesting Starman. I get that this all feeds into the larger themes of what Robinson's going for. I get that all of this is encompassing his vision for this series and how it's about the larger universe around this one character. But three issues in this are about The and nothing else. One episode is about Mikaal. One episode is a throwaway Christmas issue, which, god, he just piled on the schmaltz a bit much didn't he? One was an annual that was about two non-Jack Knight Starmen. And it all led this to feel a lot like The one without Jesse Custer that was basically about The Saint of Killers and featured none of the regular issues of Preacher and was all about those ancillary specials that slowed the momentum of Preacher to a dead crawl and we have to get through them because on the other side we're going to get Steve Dillon and Jesse and Tulip and Cassidy back. But until then you're kind of stuck. And there was a LOT of Starman in this volume too. We're talking abut like Over a year's worth of content, and the best I can say is that we had one of those dream sequences where Jack got to hang out with David on a pirate ship. All of this compounded by the fact that this book's art felt super 90s in a way the other didn't. Sure, some of it was, but for the most part it felt very stylized and not quite so aged. But this This made me realize that I am not a huge fan of Tony Harris's art. I liked Ex Machina fine, but there's a way to his drawing that, because he traces it off pictures and photographs he stages, makes it feel stilted and stiff and posed. I love his use of lights and shadows, but overall I just And neither is most of the art in this volume. So it's a slog. Three stars because it didn't put me off reading this series in the slightest. But it DID put me to sleep two hours before my bedtime on multiple nights, took me too long, and made me worried about getting my reading list done by the end of the year. At least The Fifth Season got my brain juice blood going and made me feel accomplished and like I had grown and learned something new at the end of this. This beautiful second of six hardcover volumes of James Robinson's much talked about comic Starman the second volume of that title from the mids collects 17—29 and Annual 1 as well as Showcase '95 12 and Showcase '96 4—5. Once again primarily pencilled by Tony Harris, but with a lot of additional pencillers contributing, the volume certainly delivers fully on the promise of the first one. It opens up with "Incident in an Old Haunt" from Showcase '95 12, a brief the Shade story, which he This beautiful second of six hardcover volumes of James Robinson's much talked about comic Starman the second volume of that title from the mids collects 17—29 and Annual 1 as well as Showcase '95 12 and Showcase '96 4—5. It opens up with "Incident in an Old Haunt" from Showcase '95 12, a brief the Shade story, which helps to further establish the character's role within the series. This is followed by issue 17's "Encounters", the first of a number of single issue stories at the beginning and ending of the volume. This one sets the scene for much that is to come, the least of which not being the Shade and Matt O'Dare's joint venture in search of the villain Merritt. Other single issue stories include "Talking with David, '96" 19 , which is yet another issue devoted to a conversation between Jack and his dead brother; "Legends of the Dead Earth" Annual 1, in which the Shade is telling some stories of different Starmen to a bunch of children in a distant future setting placed between issues 23 and 24 in this volume ; "Christmas Knight" 27 , which is a fine Christmas story; and "The Return of Bobo" 29 , which introduces old-time crook Jake Benetti, just out of prison. Among the single issues are also a number "Tales of Times Past" which are usually interesting reads as they tend to be stories that expand the Starman mythos itself. Fate to counter an evil placed between issues 19 and 20 in this volume. All in all, however, the volume is dominated by two main story-arcs: First, the four-parter "Sands and Stars" 20—23 , in which Jack teams up with his father's old colleague, the Golden Age Sandman, a. Wesley Dodds. The latter is a title I have never got around to reading, and I am consequently unsure of which issues let alone volumes collecting them make up that part of the crossover. Suffice it to say, that while I would not mind reading them, they are certainly not required reading for the arc most likely because of being set in different time periods and if the afterword had not mentioned it, I would be none the wiser; And secondly, the three-parter "Hell and Back" 24—26 , which opens with an epilogue to "Sand and Stars" and then, finally, picks up the plot thread of the Shade and Matt O'Dare, and Merritt and his poster. As if all of this was not enough to satisfy a reader, there are also extracts from the Shade's Journal, an introduction by Tony Harris and the ongoing afterword by Robinson is continued. All of which, as I wrote in my review of the first volume , adds to the value of a volume already worth its price. Nov 08, Aaron rated it liked it. What an exceedingly adequate series this is. I'm two large volumes deep and just don't understand all the hype around this series. I guess if I'd read it when it came out I might have some nostalgia for it or something, but as it stands, reading this just feels like I'm reliving someone else's nostalgia. There's lots of putting Gold- and Silver-Age DC on a pedestal, revisiting these times not with a sense of hindsight, but with a sense of reverence that feels cloying and fanboyish. The idea of What an exceedingly adequate series this is. The idea of a main character who is obsessed with the past and references old movies all the time could be cool. Particularly if the point of view is centered on how clinging to the past can make you ignorant to the present, or how viewing the old with rose-colored glasses minimizes the past to an impossible ideal. But that's not what Robinson is doing here. Jack Knight is clearly meant to be interesting. He's the hero of the story. His obsession with pop culture artifacts is a defining trait of his personality, and is meant to make him relatable and arguably "cool. I truly do not give a shit about whatever old chair he's haggling over this time. Every character is like this: surface-level traits, no depth. There are about 9 characters that we flit between, and I couldn't tell you anything meaningful about almost any of them. The only character of any real depth is The Shade, and even his characterization is largely defined by what we don't know about him. We're 29 issues in at this point and have no idea why he suddenly decided to be a good guy. He keeps telling us how horrible of a guy he used to be, but since we never actually saw any of that in the series, we're not actually witnessing growth. He's just good now, full stop. This kind of lack of detail, with no arcs or real measurable growth, pervades every character. Jack Knight likes old stuff and didn't want to be Starman, but now he is and he's good at it immediately. His father, Ted, was Starman in the past and now he's just kind of around to help Jack. The O'Dares are There's like 5 of them and I couldn't tell them apart if you held a gun to my head. Also, the series mostly reads very flat. It just doesn't feel like it has anything to say. It's stuck somewhere between a character-driven indie comic like Strangers In Paradise and a classic DC superhero comic. The dialogue is overwrought and often purple, and every character speaks in the same way. They go on and on, and I find myself fully tuning out and having to re-read sections, which end up being borderline useless to the story. The only reason I'm giving this 3 stars instead of 2 is Tony Harris's fantastic art. He's coming into his own at this point, and the stories pop off the page significantly more because of this. I think at this point he might be the only reason I'm continuing with the series. I'm honestly kind of dreading reading volume 3, but I'm sure I'll still read it in an interest to have a full understanding of this iconic series. Also, I'm still rooting for this series to get good. I'm just not convinced it's going to end up being for me. Mar 08, Shannon Appelcline rated it it was amazing Shelves: comics , comics-dc. Encounters Times past: First Joust This is interesting mostly for showing how Ted interacted with Opal City in his time. But it was an enjoyable story [6. Sand and Stars This is a spectacularly good arc, which is nice after some disappointments. Legends of the Dead Earth Annual 1. To Hell and Back This is a fine adventure, though not up to the level of some of the more amazing arcs. The last issue is the best, with Matt, Shade, and Jack meeting their temptations in Hell, even if the end is a bit obvious. A nice ending too [7. 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This story is filled to the brim with touching and cathartic moments. Wesley and his wife, Dian, have such a strong relationship that warms my heart, and makes me want to read . As Jack approaches a silent Wesley peering out the window, he says what an an honor it is to meet him. Jack is the main character, yes, but the supporting cast is just as important to the saga, and often just as compelling. Overall, I think Robinson really finds his stride in this volume. Gone is the clunky narration from the early issues. Now, Starman boasts compelling storytelling and good writing in every corner. Robinson also dives deeper into DC history, and I love it. Williams III stand out. Apr 06, Michael rated it it was amazing Shelves: loeg-archives. This book contains the only Robinson-penned Starman- related stories I think I hadn't read previously - two Shade-focused short pieces that appeared in Showcase '95 Shade meets Neron, tied to Underworld Unleashed , I assume and two issues of Showcase '96 early mention of Culp and his animosity toward Shade; curious that Dr. Fate thought they would meet him - I can't recall the details of Culp's eventual emergence later in the series, but this feels like it doesn't entirely fit for some reason. Both are solid, but not exceptional. Also here is Annual 1 , part of the Legends of the Dead Earth series. Robinson smartly uses the immortal Shade in a futuristic framing sequence, but allows him to narrate tales of the past - Prince Gavyn's death and Ted Knight's first meeting with Papa O'Dare. Both are solid pieces, filling in useful background for the series. Gavyn, of course, returns, and the Ted Knight piece gives more depth to the O'Dare clan. The issues, , include my first issues of Starman. A mediocre Times Past issue tells of Ted's first encounter with The Mist - unnecessary details that didn't illuminate Nash's vengeance on the supporting players in this one-off enough to merit telling. I liked the arc a lot more this time - when I first read it, I almost dropped the series. The ending, that their selfless offer would let them go free, seemed too predictable. I've seen Oh God, You Devil! A Christmas issue, solid, and a Mikaal Times Past, again solid, follow. I enjoy them now - but to a newbie reader who'd just discovered the series a few issues before these, I remember thinking the book was all over the place and only grudgingly decided to give it a sixth issue to impress me. I tried to give a new series six issues to lay its groundwork. The final chapter included here is the one that hooked me: Jake Benetti returns from jail, tries to figure out where he fits into modern Opal City, figures he doesn't, decides to heist a bank to get thrown back in jail, and winds up helping Jack defeat the Royal Flush Gang. Good times, fun, terrific character in Jake. Oct 18, Mario Mikon rated it it was amazing. Here we have great developments to the blue guy story Also, I think this is the start of the REAL magic of the Starman run: how come James Robinson transformed old and lame characters into awesome characters? Take Wesley Dodds, the old Sandman, story arc. An old guy now, but his thought process is shown here, and his arc striked curiosity inside of me: now I want to know more about the character, and how he was when younger The christimas story was also fantastic and sh Here we have great developments to the blue guy story The christimas story was also fantastic and shows how Jack can be a great superhero. Oct 07, Sean rated it liked it. This book gave me a bunch of mixed feelings. There is a lot to like here but I also disliked a large chunk of it as well. By far my favorite segment was the team-up between Jack and Wesley Dodds. Seeing this cross generational team-up was extremely fun. James Robinson still gets overly verbose at times and there are far too many one offs in this collection. Tony Harris's art was missing in quite a few issues here but the art was still decent. Overall, this collection was a step back from the pre This book gave me a bunch of mixed feelings. Overall, this collection was a step back from the previous books but still pleasant. I read the comic books Starman season 2 , Annual 1; relevant stories from Showcase '95 12, Showcase '96 This great book continues to be, well, great! Includes a great tie-in with the now aged 'Sandman', Wesley Dodds. Nov 16, Matt Smith rated it liked it Shelves: comics , read-in , superheroes , dc , epic-comic-series. This wasn't a come to Jesus moment with Starman so much as it reminded me of the first time I read the first volume of Starman, which was an unmitigated slog. It was long, tedious, and James Robinson's prose was out of control. I must admit that I still find myself drawn to the characters in this book, but it really suffered from lack of Jack. This volume had a lot more of the ensemble thing going on, especially in the back half, which I feel didn't have nearly enough Jack. There was some decent This wasn't a come to Jesus moment with Starman so much as it reminded me of the first time I read the first volume of Starman, which was an unmitigated slog. There was some decent Jack in the first half, but even now upon reflection it feels mired in Robinson's eccentricities. And even though Jack goes on a four issue escapade adventure with the Golden Age Sandman which, my god did that make me want to read the Johns run on JSA , that arc felt more about exploring the nature of Golden Age Sasndman than it did about this really interesting Starman. I get that this all feeds into the larger themes of what Robinson's going for. I get that all of this is encompassing his vision for this series and how it's about the larger universe around this one character. But three issues in this are about The Shade and nothing else. One episode is about Mikaal. One episode is a throwaway Christmas issue, which, god, he just piled on the schmaltz a bit much didn't he? One was an annual that was about two non-Jack Knight Starmen. And it all led this to feel a lot like The one without Jesse Custer that was basically about The Saint of Killers and featured none of the regular issues of Preacher and was all about those ancillary specials that slowed the momentum of Preacher to a dead crawl and we have to get through them because on the other side we're going to get Steve Dillon and Jesse and Tulip and Cassidy back. But until then you're kind of stuck. And there was a LOT of Starman in this volume too. We're talking abut like Over a year's worth of content, and the best I can say is that we had one of those dream sequences where Jack got to hang out with David on a pirate ship. All of this compounded by the fact that this book's art felt super 90s in a way the other didn't. Sure, some of it was, but for the most part it felt very stylized and not quite so aged. But this This made me realize that I am not a huge fan of Tony Harris's art. I liked Ex Machina fine, but there's a way to his drawing that, because he traces it off pictures and photographs he stages, makes it feel stilted and stiff and posed. I love his use of lights and shadows, but overall I just And neither is most of the art in this volume. So it's a slog. Three stars because it didn't put me off reading this series in the slightest. But it DID put me to sleep two hours before my bedtime on multiple nights, took me too long, and made me worried about getting my reading list done by the end of the year. At least The Fifth Season got my brain juice blood going and made me feel accomplished and like I had grown and learned something new at the end of this. This beautiful second of six hardcover volumes of James Robinson's much talked about comic Starman the second volume of that title from the mids collects 17—29 and Annual 1 as well as Showcase '95 12 and Showcase '96 4—5. Once again primarily pencilled by Tony Harris, but with a lot of additional pencillers contributing, the volume certainly delivers fully on the promise of the first one. It opens up with "Incident in an Old Haunt" from Showcase '95 12, a brief the Shade story, which he This beautiful second of six hardcover volumes of James Robinson's much talked about comic Starman the second volume of that title from the mids collects 17—29 and Annual 1 as well as Showcase '95 12 and Showcase '96 4—5. It opens up with "Incident in an Old Haunt" from Showcase '95 12, a brief the Shade story, which helps to further establish the character's role within the series. This is followed by issue 17's "Encounters", the first of a number of single issue stories at the beginning and ending of the volume. This one sets the scene for much that is to come, the least of which not being the Shade and Matt O'Dare's joint venture in search of the villain Merritt. Other single issue stories include "Talking with David, '96" 19 , which is yet another issue devoted to a conversation between Jack and his dead brother; "Legends of the Dead Earth" Annual 1, in which the Shade is telling some stories of different Starmen to a bunch of children in a distant future setting placed between issues 23 and 24 in this volume ; "Christmas Knight" 27 , which is a fine Christmas story; and "The Return of Bobo" 29 , which introduces old-time crook Jake Benetti, just out of prison. Among the single issues are also a number "Tales of Times Past" which are usually interesting reads as they tend to be stories that expand the Starman mythos itself. Fate to counter an evil placed between issues 19 and 20 in this volume. All in all, however, the volume is dominated by two main story-arcs: First, the four-parter "Sands and Stars" 20—23 , in which Jack teams up with his father's old colleague, the Golden Age Sandman, a. Wesley Dodds. The latter is a title I have never got around to reading, and I am consequently unsure of which issues let alone volumes collecting them make up that part of the crossover. Suffice it to say, that while I would not mind reading them, they are certainly not required reading for the arc most likely because of being set in different time periods and if the afterword had not mentioned it, I would be none the wiser; And secondly, the three-parter "Hell and Back" 24—26 , which opens with an epilogue to "Sand and Stars" and then, finally, picks up the plot thread of the Shade and Matt O'Dare, and Merritt and his poster. As if all of this was not enough to satisfy a reader, there are also extracts from the Shade's Journal, an introduction by Tony Harris and the ongoing afterword by Robinson is continued. All of which, as I wrote in my review of the first volume , adds to the value of a volume already worth its price. Nov 08, Aaron rated it liked it. What an exceedingly adequate series this is. I'm two large volumes deep and just don't understand all the hype around this series. I guess if I'd read it when it came out I might have some nostalgia for it or something, but as it stands, reading this just feels like I'm reliving someone else's nostalgia. There's lots of putting Gold- and Silver-Age DC on a pedestal, revisiting these times not with a sense of hindsight, but with a sense of reverence that feels cloying and fanboyish. The idea of What an exceedingly adequate series this is. The idea of a main character who is obsessed with the past and references old movies all the time could be cool. Particularly if the point of view is centered on how clinging to the past can make you ignorant to the present, or how viewing the old with rose- colored glasses minimizes the past to an impossible ideal. But that's not what Robinson is doing here. Jack Knight is clearly meant to be interesting. He's the hero of the story. His obsession with pop culture artifacts is a defining trait of his personality, and is meant to make him relatable and arguably "cool. I truly do not give a shit about whatever old chair he's haggling over this time. Every character is like this: surface-level traits, no depth. There are about 9 characters that we flit between, and I couldn't tell you anything meaningful about almost any of them. The only character of any real depth is The Shade, and even his characterization is largely defined by what we don't know about him. We're 29 issues in at this point and have no idea why he suddenly decided to be a good guy. He keeps telling us how horrible of a guy he used to be, but since we never actually saw any of that in the series, we're not actually witnessing growth. He's just good now, full stop. This kind of lack of detail, with no arcs or real measurable growth, pervades every character. Jack Knight likes old stuff and didn't want to be Starman, but now he is and he's good at it immediately. His father, Ted, was Starman in the past and now he's just kind of around to help Jack. The O'Dares are There's like 5 of them and I couldn't tell them apart if you held a gun to my head. Also, the series mostly reads very flat. It just doesn't feel like it has anything to say. It's stuck somewhere between a character-driven indie comic like Strangers In Paradise and a classic DC superhero comic. The dialogue is overwrought and often purple, and every character speaks in the same way. They go on and on, and I find myself fully tuning out and having to re-read sections, which end up being borderline useless to the story. The only reason I'm giving this 3 stars instead of 2 is Tony Harris's fantastic art. He's coming into his own at this point, and the stories pop off the page significantly more because of this. I think at this point he might be the only reason I'm continuing with the series. I'm honestly kind of dreading reading volume 3, but I'm sure I'll still read it in an interest to have a full understanding of this iconic series. Also, I'm still rooting for this series to get good. I'm just not convinced it's going to end up being for me. Mar 08, Shannon Appelcline rated it it was amazing Shelves: comics , comics- dc. Encounters Times past: First Joust This is interesting mostly for showing how Ted interacted with Opal City in his time. But it was an enjoyable story [6. Sand and Stars This is a spectacularly good arc, which is nice after some disappointments. Legends of the Dead Earth Annual 1. To Hell and Back This is a fine adventure, though not up to the level of some of the more amazing arcs. The last issue is the best, with Matt, Shade, and Jack meeting their temptations in Hell, even if the end is a bit obvious. A nice ending too [7. Times Past: The Return of Bobo Jan 20, Lissibith rated it really liked it Shelves: paranormal , superhero , comic-trades. Let's start this off with a tl;dr - I don't think this collection is as good as the first collection, but I still think it's a fantastic collection, stories full of heart and reality and a consideration of what the best and worst in a human can be. The art continues to be vibrant and pretty awesome, with a fantastic style that really sets it apart from anything else on my shelf. Okay, that out of the way Christmas is a lovely time of year, and I love stories set around there, but they all have a certain level of emotion that ranges from touching Christmas Carol, Garfield Christmas to blatant emotional blackmail Hello The Christmas Shoes, and may you never darken my TV again. So you sort of expect it, and it becomes a little hard to separate Christmas stories' emotion from just plain old good story emotion. But this? This just had good story emotion. Christmas provided a backdrop, but the real strength of this story, and the cultural notes it wove in, would have made just as much sense at any other time. The only thing the holiday does is kick it off. Jack spending the night helping a man who'd been robbed of the only reminder her had of his family was just the right mix of superhero and plain old good guy. The man them pulling out his medic training from his time in the armed services to save the life of someone else really added, and the final scene of the O'Dares welcoming him into their home and offering him connections, to make him feel less like an outsider, was really well played. Also well done? The entire To Hell and Back arc, though I think my favorite bit was when Matt, Jack and the Shade are all facing down manifestations of the devil and agree to the terms without hesitation. For Jack, it feels natural, but that moment is a lot more powerful coming from the other two, who have more than a few real black marks on their records. And of course, Jack fighting side by side with one of his father's old contemporaries was just a real pleasure to behold. But I still enjoyed the heck out of it and am super excited to receive my copy of the third collection. As with the first, there are a number of plot threads left loose at the end of this book which I assume will get woven back together in the next. Apr 01, Adam Graham rated it it was amazing. The book collects Issues and Annual 1 of Starman along with three stories from Showcase '95 and ' The book has a great amount of balance. The book has some noirish moments and a few edgy stories but at the same time offers up a big helping of nostalgia particularly with flashback stories to Ted Knight, a guest appearance by an aging Wesley Dodds who goes back into action as the Sandman and the book also This Second Volume of Starman stories really finds Jack Knight coming into his own. The book has some noirish moments and a few edgy stories but at the same time offers up a big helping of nostalgia particularly with flashback stories to Ted Knight, a guest appearance by an aging Wesley Dodds who goes back into action as the Sandman and the book also includes a class Christmas issue. At the same time, the stories have a very modern edge with well-done art particularly for the era as well as some fascinating characters. The Shade continues to be an eminently fascinating anti-hero. They battle some solid villains including a serial killer and an evil demonic poster although the resolution of that plot was a bit non-sensical. More importantly, Jack progresses as a character and begins to embrace his heroic side. Overall, a very satisfying second Volume of this series. Nov 14, Fizzgig76 rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels-and-trade-paperbacks. Reprints Starman , Annual 1, Showcase '95 12, and Showcase '96 Starman teams with Wesley Dodd and fights a demonic poster for the souls it has collected. The neat thing about Starman is that it feels very weighty. The character has a long history, and Robinson often dipped into the history to make the stories interesting. The cross generational story about his father's encounter with the Sandman and his encounter with an older Wesley Dodd was especially interesting at the time it w Reprints Starman , Annual 1, Showcase '95 12, and Showcase '96 The cross generational story about his father's encounter with the Sandman and his encounter with an older Wesley Dodd was especially interesting at the time it was released due to the Sandman Mystery Theatre with chronicled Wesley Dodd's old adventures which ran at the same time. Robinson's Shade character also allowed more DC historical context and has fun ties to other histories such as making Merritt the owner of the demonic poster the basis for Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Still a solid read. Most of the issues collected here are an improvement on those of the previous volume, the writer obviously feeling more confident and less inclined to slather on the verbiage. It helps that the promise of pulp revivalism is somewhat fulfilled and a stricter adherence to the pulp tropes shifts the focus on action rather than dialogue. However the later issues descend to the level of the first volume, where the writer tried hard to prove as "interesting" as Gaiman and Morrison, but failed to find Most of the issues collected here are an improvement on those of the previous volume, the writer obviously feeling more confident and less inclined to slather on the verbiage. However the later issues descend to the level of the first volume, where the writer tried hard to prove as "interesting" as Gaiman and Morrison, but failed to find a unique voice. The art is interesting throughout, and Tony Harris proves able to articulate evocative designs even in single panels, without recourse to the constant splash pages of the fisrt year. The guest artists are also a treat, with John Watkiss knocking it out of the park. Mid-Nite , Charles McNider. When David Knight, son of the original Starman, is drawn back in time, he takes over the identity from McNider for a brief period. In Detective Comics , a villainous Star-Man appeared to menace and whose super-strength waned in the presence of a Tibetan belt worn by Batwoman. He was in his early twenties and worked as a magazine copy editor. He first appeared in Starman vol. He regularly annually appeared to Jack after his death, providing guidance for his brother. Toward the end of the series, his ultimate fate was revealed to have been different from what was previously believed as noted above for the Starman of In Starman vol. He unsuccessfully targets Hope and Mason O'Dare , and then confronts Shade , who pulls him into the Shadowlands, imprisoning him there. During their confrontation, the Black Lantern mentions his plan to lure Jack into another "talking with David" scene before killing him, a reference to David's prior role in the series. He wields a cosmically-powered staff, but refuses to wear a costume, instead preferring a T-shirt, leather jacket with star emblem on the back , a Cracker Jack prize sheriff's star, [8] and light-shielding tank goggles. A reluctant hero that took up the mantle after David died, he is the protagonist of the comic book series written by James Robinson. Danny Blaine is a DC Comics superhero of the near future whose identity but not his full story is revealed in the s Starman series. He originally had powers similar to Superboy , but later lost them and retained only his innate ability to increase the mass of nearby objects. Thom takes on the mantle of Starman in the 21st century with the full knowledge that he will lose his life there. He accepted, asking only a cure for his addled mind in exchange. Hailing from the original Legion of Super-Heroes universe, where he was known as Star Boy, [10] he received from Brainiac 5 of the Three Worlds a complete map of the Multiverse , printed on his star-clad suit, to use in a mission meant to save the entire space-time continuum. It was implied that his addled status was actually a deciding factor in his choice, since his borderline insanity was meant to prevent telepaths or skilled interrogators from gaining any information from him. However, he got stranded on Earth, the Kingdom Come universe, thus witnessing the dramatic events on that Earth and receiving added to his frail mind, worsened by the lack of the advanced medication to which he had had access in his own time. He later decided to take the name of Danny Blaine, after his favorite pulp adventurer from Xanthu, [11] a situation that paid off when his mental sanity was restored to him by the literal-minded Old God Gog. Unable to ensure the absolute secrecy of his mission while being Starman all the time, he accepted a job as a gravedigger in Metropolis. The crystals recharged Conner's Superboy life force; thus bringing on his resurrection 1, years in the future as seen in Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds — the penultimate chapter of The Lightning Saga. He is a distant descendant of Jack Knight's and the Mist 's son. Farris commands an alien artifact called a "quarvat", similar in function to the "cosmic rod". He lives on a space station in the orbit of Uranus from which he monitors the artificial sun Solaris. He asserts that being the descendant of the Mist as much as the Knights, he was predisposed to villainy, and Solaris eventually corrupts Farris. The man arranges for the defeat of the two JLAs and travels back in time to kill the originator of his hated responsibility, Ted Knight. Meeting Ted, however, changes his mind and Farris ultimately sacrifices himself to save the modern day Earth from Solaris' machinations, his lost quarvat apparently going on to be found by his own great-grandfather resulting in its existence being a temporal paradox. Introduced in Jonah Hex vol. His name was Victor Sono. His father tried to get work as a sheriff , but the group of lawmen with whom he interviewed mocked and killed him for being crippled. Young Victor later found his body hanging outside the building and decided to avenge his death. He pickpocketed a pistol and fired on the group. Before he could do much damage, however, the owner of the pistol, Jonah Hex , who was in town collecting a bounty, knocked him out and took his gun back. He nearly left the boy to the "lawmen", but after recalling his own terrible childhood, came back and rescued Victor, whom he left at an orphanage. He had dedicated his life to killing unjust lawmen and adding their sheriff's stars to his coat. Starman vol. The series was published from October to April The series was written by James Robinson with art primarily by Tony Harris from issues 0—45 and Peter Snejbjerg from issues 50— Starman included a number of signature thematic and stylistic elements, which helped make it distinctive. One was the importance of collectibles and collecting. James Robinson was an avid collector of a number of different things and transferred this interest to the hero, Jack Knight, who ran a collectibles shop. Many of the guest characters would also discuss their collecting interests. The book also dealt with the past and nostalgia quite frequently. One manner was through the irregular appearance of "Times Past" issues set in a different time period. These usually, but not always, focused on one of the other Starmen or the Shade. Text pieces, dubbed "The Shade's Journal" and dealing with that character's adventures over his long life, also appeared irregularly instead of a letter column. In addition, most of the characters who appeared in the book had some connection to a legacy from the past. They were either immortal, had inherited a role from a family member, or were the reincarnation of a previous hero. The book also featured a number of discussions and meditations on age. Another stylistic theme in the book was the often impressionistic approach to violence and conflict. The lead up to and aftereffects of violence were generally much more important in the Starman book than the violence itself. A number of confrontations that Jack Knight had with "villains" ended peacefully, such as an early encounter with a bounty hunter who broke into Jack's shop looking for an enchanted shirt. After a short scuffle, Jack, seeing no reason not to, agrees to sell the man the shirt. When violence was depicted, it was often much more impressionistic, instead of the highly choreographed and detailed violence seen in many superhero comics. Finally, a sense of place informed many Starman stories. James Robinson has stated his appreciation for the fictional cities of the DC Universe. With Starman, he attempted to develop the setting of Opal City as a real place with a distinct character. Robinson and artist Tony Harris developed maps of Opal City and came up with a fictional history of it. Characters would often make mention of specific locations in the city and small bits of its history. Commenting on the character and series, comic writer wrote:. During the mid '90s, during the height of revamping and reintroducing characters since everything, and unfortunately anything was selling , Starman hits the stands. Among all the knives and guns, shoulder pads, and line-filled art, Jack Knight looked out of place. There were no "Bad Girl" pin- ups or brutal vigilantism, just a regular guy flying around in his jacket and sneakers. A guy who would rather see Browning's Freaks than put on a cape and stop crime. But it worked. It totally worked. Starman (comics) - Wikipedia

This listing has ended. Ships to:. This amount is subject to change until you make payment. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program terms and conditions - opens in a new window or tab This amount includes applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program terms and conditions - opens in a new window or tab. Start of add to list layer. Add to Watchlist Add to wish list. Sign in for more lists. See original listing. Oct 21, PDT. Jack Knight likes old stuff and didn't want to be Starman, but now he is and he's good at it immediately. His father, Ted, was Starman in the past and now he's just kind of around to help Jack. The O'Dares are There's like 5 of them and I couldn't tell them apart if you held a gun to my head. Also, the series mostly reads very flat. It just doesn't feel like it has anything to say. It's stuck somewhere between a character-driven indie comic like Strangers In Paradise and a classic DC superhero comic. The dialogue is overwrought and often purple, and every character speaks in the same way. They go on and on, and I find myself fully tuning out and having to re- read sections, which end up being borderline useless to the story. The only reason I'm giving this 3 stars instead of 2 is Tony Harris's fantastic art. He's coming into his own at this point, and the stories pop off the page significantly more because of this. I think at this point he might be the only reason I'm continuing with the series. I'm honestly kind of dreading reading volume 3, but I'm sure I'll still read it in an interest to have a full understanding of this iconic series. Also, I'm still rooting for this series to get good. I'm just not convinced it's going to end up being for me. Mar 08, Shannon Appelcline rated it it was amazing Shelves: comics , comics-dc. Encounters Times past: First Joust This is interesting mostly for showing how Ted interacted with Opal City in his time. But it was an enjoyable story [6. Sand and Stars This is a spectacularly good arc, which is nice after some disappointments. Legends of the Dead Earth Annual 1. To Hell and Back This is a fine adventure, though not up to the level of some of the more amazing arcs. The last issue is the best, with Matt, Shade, and Jack meeting their temptations in Hell, even if the end is a bit obvious. A nice ending too [7. Times Past: The Return of Bobo Jan 20, Lissibith rated it really liked it Shelves: paranormal , superhero , comic-trades. Let's start this off with a tl;dr - I don't think this collection is as good as the first collection, but I still think it's a fantastic collection, stories full of heart and reality and a consideration of what the best and worst in a human can be. The art continues to be vibrant and pretty awesome, with a fantastic style that really sets it apart from anything else on my shelf. Okay, that out of the way Christmas is a lovely time of year, and I love stories set around there, but they all have a certain level of emotion that ranges from touching Christmas Carol, Garfield Christmas to blatant emotional blackmail Hello The Christmas Shoes, and may you never darken my TV again. So you sort of expect it, and it becomes a little hard to separate Christmas stories' emotion from just plain old good story emotion. But this? This just had good story emotion. Christmas provided a backdrop, but the real strength of this story, and the cultural notes it wove in, would have made just as much sense at any other time. The only thing the holiday does is kick it off. Jack spending the night helping a man who'd been robbed of the only reminder her had of his family was just the right mix of superhero and plain old good guy. The man them pulling out his medic training from his time in the armed services to save the life of someone else really added, and the final scene of the O'Dares welcoming him into their home and offering him connections, to make him feel less like an outsider, was really well played. Also well done? The entire To Hell and Back arc, though I think my favorite bit was when Matt, Jack and the Shade are all facing down manifestations of the devil and agree to the terms without hesitation. For Jack, it feels natural, but that moment is a lot more powerful coming from the other two, who have more than a few real black marks on their records. And of course, Jack fighting side by side with one of his father's old contemporaries was just a real pleasure to behold. But I still enjoyed the heck out of it and am super excited to receive my copy of the third collection. As with the first, there are a number of plot threads left loose at the end of this book which I assume will get woven back together in the next. Apr 01, Adam Graham rated it it was amazing. The book collects Issues and Annual 1 of Starman along with three stories from Showcase '95 and ' The book has a great amount of balance. The book has some noirish moments and a few edgy stories but at the same time offers up a big helping of nostalgia particularly with flashback stories to Ted Knight, a guest appearance by an aging Wesley Dodds who goes back into action as the Sandman and the book also This Second Volume of Starman stories really finds Jack Knight coming into his own. The book has some noirish moments and a few edgy stories but at the same time offers up a big helping of nostalgia particularly with flashback stories to Ted Knight, a guest appearance by an aging Wesley Dodds who goes back into action as the Sandman and the book also includes a class Christmas issue. At the same time, the stories have a very modern edge with well-done art particularly for the era as well as some fascinating characters. The Shade continues to be an eminently fascinating anti-hero. They battle some solid villains including a serial killer and an evil demonic poster although the resolution of that plot was a bit non-sensical. More importantly, Jack progresses as a character and begins to embrace his heroic side. Overall, a very satisfying second Volume of this series. Nov 14, Fizzgig76 rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels-and-trade-paperbacks. Reprints Starman , Annual 1, Showcase '95 12, and Showcase '96 Starman teams with Wesley Dodd and fights a demonic poster for the souls it has collected. The neat thing about Starman is that it feels very weighty. The character has a long history, and Robinson often dipped into the history to make the stories interesting. The cross generational story about his father's encounter with the Sandman and his encounter with an older Wesley Dodd was especially interesting at the time it w Reprints Starman , Annual 1, Showcase '95 12, and Showcase '96 The cross generational story about his father's encounter with the Sandman and his encounter with an older Wesley Dodd was especially interesting at the time it was released due to the Sandman Mystery Theatre with chronicled Wesley Dodd's old adventures which ran at the same time. Robinson's Shade character also allowed more DC historical context and has fun ties to other histories such as making Merritt the owner of the demonic poster the basis for Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Still a solid read. Most of the issues collected here are an improvement on those of the previous volume, the writer obviously feeling more confident and less inclined to slather on the verbiage. It helps that the promise of pulp revivalism is somewhat fulfilled and a stricter adherence to the pulp tropes shifts the focus on action rather than dialogue. However the later issues descend to the level of the first volume, where the writer tried hard to prove as "interesting" as Gaiman and Morrison, but failed to find Most of the issues collected here are an improvement on those of the previous volume, the writer obviously feeling more confident and less inclined to slather on the verbiage. However the later issues descend to the level of the first volume, where the writer tried hard to prove as "interesting" as Gaiman and Morrison, but failed to find a unique voice. The art is interesting throughout, and Tony Harris proves able to articulate evocative designs even in single panels, without recourse to the constant splash pages of the fisrt year. The guest artists are also a treat, with John Watkiss knocking it out of the park. Jun 14, Abed rated it it was amazing. Top notch comic book writing. As far as superhero books go, for me, this was a tremendous leap forward at the time. So vibrant and true to the ages before. Jack Knight is your quirky everyman. A little William Powell, and just a dash of bravado in the old Hollywood fashion. He's one of my favorites. These issues prove it. While other comics put their heroes on pedestals for all of us to marvel. This guy's one of us. He's no hero, and because of that he's pretty amazing. Side characters, and the art Top notch comic book writing. Side characters, and the art is some of the very best I've ever seen, too. Tony Harris makes each page look like a beautiful stained glass mural. I can't say enough good things, these issues are in this book's prime in my opinion. When Harris left the book, sadly so did I. Aug 21, Matt Sadorf rated it it was amazing. Robinson and the artists that illustrate his scripts further the mythology of Starman, and I fall further in love with it all. This volume was the first with material that I had never seen before, and it was a joy to read and experience. I truly love Opal City and watching how things unfold within it's limits, but of course, we can't forget neighboring Turk County. The areas where the adventures take place have stories of their own, and Robinson masterfully shares those with us as we make our wa Robinson and the artists that illustrate his scripts further the mythology of Starman, and I fall further in love with it all. The areas where the adventures take place have stories of their own, and Robinson masterfully shares those with us as we make our way forward page by page. It is a joy to read these words and look upon these illustrations, and I am trucking right along into the next volume! Oct 03, Mark rated it liked it. The nice hardback edition with the slick paper is good - but I'm still only so-so on the storyline. There are some great moments the Christmas story with Pete the Santa and some interesting plot twists the poster, the Sandman storyline, the letter from Mist 2. Here, I'm just w The nice hardback edition with the slick paper is good - but I'm still only so-so on the storyline. Here, I'm just watching the story go by Sep 10, John rated it really liked it Shelves: owned , in-storage. It's clear to see why people were talking about this in the 90's. It touches on some of the introspective themes and styles that made the likes of Gaiman and Moore stand out, but feels a little more self-effacing, a little more closely grounded to classic superhero fun. I enjoyed it enough that I will be diving directly into volume 3, and ordered volume 4 immediately so that I wouldn't have to wait when 3 was done. Aug 16, Jdetrick rated it it was amazing Shelves: genre-superheroes , genre-comics , own , publisher-dc , genre-prose , creator-james-robinson. I kind of wish I hadn't given the first volume five stars, or that I could give this one six stars, because all of the awkwardness, all of the roughness of the first volume, both in story and art, is gone in this volume. Beautiful stories, both in words and pictures, and ample proof why this is one of the best comic series ever published. Dec 23, Matt rated it it was amazing. I can't say enough how much I love these omnibus editions. The structure appears to have been well- planned, framing two larger stories within great done-in-ones to make for a satisfying singular reading experience within the larger narrative. Great stuff. Aug 14, Steve rated it it was amazing Shelves: comics. Oct 09, Matt rated it it was amazing Shelves: . Excellent stuff, and absolutely worth reading. Jun 04, Pturingan rated it it was amazing Shelves: borrowed , comics , superhero. I get it now. I understand now why this series was many people's favorite comic in the s. The Sandman team-up storyline was the best part of this volume. Made me want to resume collecting the Sandman Mystery Theater volumes. The writing in this series is really good, and the mix of artists is enjoyable. I enjoyed the theme of old mixed with the new, of the past working with the modern. There are some great appearances by Dr. Publishing thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world. Skip Navigation and go to main content Bestsellers Books. Print this page. Starman: The Cosmic Omnibus Vol. Deadpool Kills the Marvel Unive Cullen Bunn, Dalibor T Thor by Jason Aaron.

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Includes delivery to Germany. The superheroic legacy of Starman is renewed in these stories, in which Jack Knight--antiques collector and dealer- -inherits the name and powers of his father's old Starman identity from his older brother, who has been assassinated. Reluctantly adjusting to his role, Jack reinvents the look of Starman, ditching the traditional red and green in favor of black leather and aviator goggles. But Jack has inherited more than a heroic identity from his brother Jack also must come to grips with the Shade, the morally ambiguous former villain who decides to become Jack's mentor. Entertainment and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. Publishing thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world. Skip Navigation and go to main content Bestsellers Books. Print this page. Young Victor later found his body hanging outside the building and decided to avenge his death. He pickpocketed a pistol and fired on the group. Before he could do much damage, however, the owner of the pistol, Jonah Hex , who was in town collecting a bounty, knocked him out and took his gun back. He nearly left the boy to the "lawmen", but after recalling his own terrible childhood, came back and rescued Victor, whom he left at an orphanage. He had dedicated his life to killing unjust lawmen and adding their sheriff's stars to his coat. Starman vol. The series was published from October to April The series was written by James Robinson with art primarily by Tony Harris from issues 0—45 and Peter Snejbjerg from issues 50— Starman included a number of signature thematic and stylistic elements, which helped make it distinctive. One was the importance of collectibles and collecting. James Robinson was an avid collector of a number of different things and transferred this interest to the hero, Jack Knight, who ran a collectibles shop. Many of the guest characters would also discuss their collecting interests. The book also dealt with the past and nostalgia quite frequently. One manner was through the irregular appearance of "Times Past" issues set in a different time period. These usually, but not always, focused on one of the other Starmen or the Shade. Text pieces, dubbed "The Shade's Journal" and dealing with that character's adventures over his long life, also appeared irregularly instead of a letter column. In addition, most of the characters who appeared in the book had some connection to a legacy from the past. They were either immortal, had inherited a role from a family member, or were the reincarnation of a previous hero. The book also featured a number of discussions and meditations on age. Another stylistic theme in the book was the often impressionistic approach to violence and conflict. The lead up to and aftereffects of violence were generally much more important in the Starman book than the violence itself. A number of confrontations that Jack Knight had with "villains" ended peacefully, such as an early encounter with a bounty hunter who broke into Jack's shop looking for an enchanted shirt. After a short scuffle, Jack, seeing no reason not to, agrees to sell the man the shirt. When violence was depicted, it was often much more impressionistic, instead of the highly choreographed and detailed violence seen in many superhero comics. Finally, a sense of place informed many Starman stories. James Robinson has stated his appreciation for the fictional cities of the DC Universe. With Starman, he attempted to develop the setting of Opal City as a real place with a distinct character. Robinson and artist Tony Harris developed maps of Opal City and came up with a fictional history of it. Characters would often make mention of specific locations in the city and small bits of its history. Commenting on the character and series, comic writer Geoff Johns wrote:. During the mid '90s, during the height of revamping and reintroducing characters since everything, and unfortunately anything was selling , Starman hits the stands. Among all the knives and guns, shoulder pads, and line-filled art, Jack Knight looked out of place. There were no "Bad Girl" pin-ups or brutal vigilantism, just a regular guy flying around in his jacket and sneakers. A guy who would rather see Browning's Freaks than put on a cape and stop crime. But it worked. It totally worked. While most gun-toting anti-heroes and bad girls faded away, Jack Knight became an instant classic. And to a lot of readers, Starman had become "the" favorite hero. Most of the Starman vol. The entire Starman vol. 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