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Grant Morrison, | 112 pages | 03 Apr 2012 | VERTIGO | 9781401232214 | English | New York, United States Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery HC (Deluxe Edition)

Enlarge cover. As these two stories are progressing alongside each other, reality and fiction begin to merge and you're in classic Morrison territory. This book is absolute insane-pants and I have no idea how a human being wrote it. There are very few writers who can get away with this, and Morrison is one of the chosen. From what I can discern when I researched this story, Flex Mentallo as a character came from that series, created by Morrison himself in an issue, and who was then expanded as more than just a side character he originally appeared to be as. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. The illustrations are well-defined and rendered with great detail. After reading this you will either be inspired or want to take a Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe, possibly both. Now Flex Mentallo, Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe Man of Muscle Mystery, returns to investigate the sinister dealings of his former comrade, The Fact, and a mysterious rock star whose connection to Flex may hold the key to saving them both. A narrator ODing in an alley who meets Flex at different ages yet in a short timespan although Flex used to be an illustration but now he's real kind of like Pinocchio and fights a giant robot with five heads and hunting Rorschach-looking mystery men who throw not-real cartoon bombs and are pixelated while his partner The Fact MUST be found but HE might not be real and a castle in space that the little-boy version of the narrator is on sometimes and a herd a flock? Flex Mentallo isn't Morrisson's only leap into the metaphysical, but I find it to be his most concise. Flex MentalloThe Hypersigil Trilogy 2. It takes a story from good to greatness. He can hear it, why can't anybody else? I would recommend a lot of other comics to friends and family before this one. Once he was Hero of the Beach Luckily, Flex feels Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe for moonface-teenage-Wallace and helps him. I would rather support work by someone that could either be absolutely consciousness-alteringly amazing or unintelligible crap than someone who basically writes the same story every time with different characters. But this is the first time I've read the book directly after reading all of Morrison's Doom Patroland because I still hate thinking about Flex as a 'hypersigil' comic not as much as I hated it inbecause wow! I know my own appreciation of this book only increases on every subsequent read, and I like that. Wonderful book all around! But this Real World is not, in fact, our real world, because it has some historical incongruities mainly concerning the character of Flex, which we'll get to later. Sheboygan Graphic So the big , after years of obscurity — is this book worth the wait? Thanks, Josh! That one story he did early on in life, where he is in Ireland, Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe really Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe. Harry comes to life again and Flex defeats Moonface. I surely left a lot of things without comment that dreamy world, with that castle above it. Like I mentioned earlier, it is quite difficult to review a book like Flex Mentallo. Having watched the aforementioned documentary, it's funny reading the dramatization of the writer's self-confessed memories of his parents who were freedom fighters who protest against The Bomb to even masturbating at his own illustrations of nude women. For example, we use cookies to conduct research and diagnostics to improve our content, products and services, and to measure and analyse the performance of our services. In a word, Morrison at his finest. FLEX MENTALLO: MAN OF MUSCLE MYSTERY DELUXE EDITION

This book is absolute insane-pants and I have no idea how a human being wrote it. A narrator ODing in an alley who meets Flex at different ages yet in a short timespan although Flex used to be an illustration but now he's real kind of like Pinocchio and fights a giant robot with five heads and hunting Rorschach-looking mystery men who throw not-real cartoon bombs and are pixelated while his partner The Fact MUST be found but HE might not be real and a castle in space that the little-boy version of the narrator is on sometimes and a herd a flock? The Fact knows where Wallace is and gives him a now solved crossword sheet with the magic word that breaks the Nanoman-Minimiss quantum weave and activates the superhero world into ours, bringing the superheroes into reality. View all 10 comments. Or anything. It started in reasonably coherent fashion with a shrink trying to locate a suicidal patient. I don't know what to tell you. It takes a story from good to greatness. I certainly recommend it for fans of , Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe anyone who has some level of interest in comic books in general. I would recommend a lot of other comics to friends and family before this one. Yes, it's clever. Nov 09, Alysson Bessani rated it really liked it. His sense of self and his telepathic imagination are slowly unraveling as the pages continue, and his part of the narrative is important but also alienating for someone like me who isn't as acquainted with Morrison outside of his Batman works. When Wally grows up, he became a rockstar named Wallace Sage. It was missing because DC Comics saw fit to keep it out of print for fear of some ridiculous lawsuit from the Charles Atlas people which would have been completely unfounded, it must be said. As the book concludes the penultimate panel is a call to the waking reader to "look up" to a sky filled with benevolent saviors that love us. But, when he tries to put the treatise of superheroes flying through a hole in the reality to save the world with imagination or whatever, everything gets fucking dumb. What is confusing are the scenes featuring the psychic child who created Mentallo and co. Timelines get twisted and re-arranged, while realities both "real" and fictional merge together, to the point where you don't quite know for sure what is supposed to be happening or what you should make of it. Like I mentioned earlier, it is quite difficult to review a book like Flex Mentallo. This is one of the best, and most complete, books that Morrison has ever done. I made your whole sad, scabby little world to entertain myself with and now I'm going to destroy it". I'm going to guess "brilliant" Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe maybe read it again in a year. This is not an easy read by any matters, but it's an amazing re-read or re-re-read. He accomplishes something in four parts that he doesn't in the voluminous Invisibles series or the thirteen part, . And the worst thing is that because no one else in comics is clumsy or inelegant enough to write these kinds of comics, Morrison also literally believes he is some kind of comic book magician for writing them. The story is a bit more convoluted than what you get in but for fans of comics as a medium, it's cool to see a comic book expert like Morrison touch on changes in storytelling between these eras. This isn't Morrison's first time breaking the fourth wall, see the end of his run on , but this is arguably the most effective use I've seen of that story-telling device in comics. RileyArmpit32 says:. In particular it looks at the concept of the superhero through the decades and asks what purpose they serve us. The superheroes seem to be a stand in for the gods, secretly observing humanity from the heavens above, or wandering the earth in disguise, only observed by the insane. But I sure want this review to prepare first-time readers who may be inclined to pick this up one day. This book has a really amazing Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe that kind of reminds me of Peter Milligan's Enigma, and Quitely's art here is amazing as usual. It connected with me on so many levels but it is hard to explain about every idea, opinion, and revelation that happened during my experience with this series; I just got it. I read Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe book twice and probably I'll read it again, because there is always more to learn in its multi-layered structure. Such a great read! In parallel to the "main" plot, Morrison tells us the suicide attempt of the adult Wallace Sage. I hope to one day come back to this comic and have it all make sense but for now I'll have to mature before I read it again. More Details However, that Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe word seems to exist only in that fictional state, as the solution to a crossword in Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe hands of a misterious shazam-like retired superhero. So can those people who live in Morrison's Real World. The world is fine as it is, it's the people who need saving. Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe Edition (Hardcover) There's also the theories of other worlds, parallel worlds, and how comics are our true selves Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe to remind our Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe selves that we are more powerful and incredible than we think we are, that we're superheroes who've forgotten we're superheroes. The illustrations are well-defined and rendered with great detail. A quick skim of the back half doesn't look promising anyway. Showing I read this book twice and probably I'll read it again, because there is always more to learn in its multi- layered structure. I've wondered why so many people have raved about Morrison's Flex Mentallo, and I think the reason I Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe tell a comics fan to read it is simply this. Quietly nailed it completely… probably one of his best works. The more I read about it, though, the more I want to give it a try, if only to say that I have read it. Wally, who is really the story's main character, is Morrison's stand-in for telling the tale. Basically - read it, get a headache, read it again, marvel at the beautiful art, read it one more time and start to love it. But another character created by Wally, called The Fact, believes that the fictional world created by Wally deserves to be saved. Refresh and try again. Flex Mentallo dates back to these teen years when he created him as a parody of the Charles Atlas characters from the 30ss. But, overall this is a tale of a young boy who became a comics fan and his feelings about comics, and at times life, while growing up. Once he was Hero of the Beach. Hornhead says:. It might be. I wasn't a fan of this story, I like Grant Morrison too, but the story jumped around a lot and was not very easy to follow. The art was absolutely amazing, but I felt this was too self indulgent of Morrison and it lost me. Mar 26, Aaron Williams rated it it was amazing. This is everything Morrison has ever stood for, condensed into a short four-issue miniseries that is deeply personal, smart and thoughtful. On a pure craft level, Frank Quitely's art is captivating and tactile, and the way that the different layers of story reality bleed into one another is impressive. Feb 20, Matthew Quann rated it liked it Shelves: new-weirdgraphic-novels-comics-with-reviews. It's either brilliant or terrible. Having watched the aforementioned documentary, it's funny reading the dramatization of the writer's self-confessed memories of his parents who were freedom fighters who protest against The Bomb to even masturbating at Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe own illustrations of nude women. The heroes manifest to Wally at critical points in his life, like a possible child abuse experience. Details if other :. See all users who pulled this comic. No matter how good the writer, to see a cohesive, fully realized body of work by both artist and writer is just so much more special. Friend Reviews. The Fact is very special. Like, I have no idea how Grant Morrison is continually able to turn utter cockaboo rambling brainpuke into these cogent sequences of scenes and character and dialogue and story that do, in fact, build on each other in an associative if not exactly logical way. In short, this is the kind of story that convinces me that Grant Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe is a genius and not just a madman. This is one of the best, and most complete, books that Morrison has ever done. Before everything collapses, however, the superheroes develop a plan to at least save themselves somehow by self-mailing to a new kind of reality outside their doomed polyverse and within The Absolute. Flex Mentallo is amazing and brilliant, and I am a fool for not reading it sooner — or maybe I read it exactly at the right time to really enjoy it, who knows. Close X. Not-so-simply put, Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe he flexes his muscles he can alter reality. The lettering brought me right back in time. A side benefit of closing out the storage unit is finding stuff I meant to read and finally getting around to it the downside is the trashing, donating, selling end of things is so damn time consuming. What did the iFanboy community think? We can notify you when this item is back in stock. I picked this up not knowing much about it, and was floored by the end. The narrative is a surreal dose of metafiction peeking at how fiction invades our own reality. Now Flex Mentallo, the Man of Muscle Mystery, returns to investigate the sinister dealings of his former comrade, The Fact, and a mysterious rock star whose connection Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe Flex may hold the key to saving them both. Oct 22, Shannon Appelcline rated it it was amazing Shelves: comicscomics-dccomics-indy-super. The other half of the book, however, follows a grown-up Wally, who's a drug-addled musician attempting to commit suicide.

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