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| Original Title: | Howard The Duck |
| ISBN: | 0785109315 (ISBN13: 9780785109310) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Howard the Duck (2002) |
Steve Gerber
Paperback | Pages: 144 pages Rating: 3.67 | 146 Users | 18 Reviews
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So... Howard the Duck becomes a rat in his eponymous miniseries published under Marvel's Max Comics imprint. The story begins when Beverly, her companion gets a mysterious job with an unusually high salary. The company turns out to be a front for Dr. Bong's plan of getting Beverly back! And from there, well, things got way out of hand.Without spoiling anything (like how Howard became a duck), I'd say this whole miniseries is a tome of satire and parody. Elements of pop culture, religion, television media and even comic book references are here seen, discussed and portrayed in different levels of ridicule. The main story, though still being felt is being sidelined by tons and tons of metajokes and commentaries.
And you really should not care about the story, because the jokes are really hilarious. The farces are unexpected and smart. Though not as crazily far as South Park in the "how controversial can you go" department, Howard the Duck's satiric setpieces and black comedy dialogues are not for everybody. This material gets as explicit and as offensive as it can go.
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| Title | : | Howard the Duck MAX (Howard the Duck (2002)) |
| Author | : | Steve Gerber |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | September 23rd 2002 by Marvel Comics Group |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Fiction. Superheroes. Marvel |
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Ratings: 3.67 From 146 Users | 18 ReviewsCriticize Out Of Books Howard the Duck MAX (Howard the Duck (2002))
A blurb on the back of the graphic novel says: "Before it was a bad movie, Howard the Duck was a great comic book."Ironically, as bad as the movie was, the graphic novel itself has no real story; just weird, random things happening to our 'heroes' throughout. They - the heroes - face troubles that have no rhyme or reason; either due to bad luck, or twisted realities. Howard even changes to a mouse at one point.Oh, it starts off with some semblance of a story. For example, sexy redhead BeverlyPossibly better than the movie.
Gerber starts this collection as if it will be a decompressed modern comic where one story is told over the course of six issues with an eye towards collecting it into a trade and drops that in favor of episodic and craziness aimed at the state of Adult comics and the world itself.Beverly and Howard are a couple and she's not at all surprised when he touches her while they shower together. I guess Steve really wanted it to be explicit that Bev and Howard are together. She does also have a sexual
There are some interesting ideas in here, basically talking about the ways in which people can accept style over substance. Unfortunately, the same criticism applies to some of this book: there are lots of parodies, but they mostly resort to "reference humour", aka "it's funny because you've heard of it". For instance, there's a John Constantine knock-off called "Hellboozer" (rather than "Hellblazer"). Still, Dr Bong is always a fun character.
This insanely funny comic book is even better than The Essential Howard The Duck ... to start off with, it's in colour and there's more gratuitous nudity. My favourite bit is where Howard meets God in Beelzebub's Bar, but it's all great.
All the time balancing on the edge of shall-I-cease-to-read-this-through and man-this-is-good. And this end up being so-so.
Steve Gerber's official continuation from the last issue he wrote for the original series. Its slightly less good than the original series, but the freedom the adult oriented MAX line provided is a definite plus. It just feels a bit over written in parts.
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