- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Dark Horse (Dec 18 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1593078315
- ISBN-13: 978-1593078317
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.3 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 581 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #490,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Wizard Top Ten and multiple Eisner Award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughan tells the tale of three aspiring comics creators with big dreams, small cash, and publishing rights to one forgotten Golden Age hero - The Escapist! Inspired by Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, this is Vaughan's love letter to his chosen medium, a story about what it takes to start out with nothing in Cleveland, Ohio and end up with a comic so hot a major corporation wants to steal it from you! Brilliantly interweaving the lives of the creators with the world of their creation, artists Steve Rolston and Philip Bond bring the comic-booking trio Maxwell Roth, Case Weaver, and Denny Jones to life, while the inimitable Jason Shawn Alexander and Eduardo Barreto illustrate the thrilling trials and exciting extrications of the new - and old - Escapist!
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4.9 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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The Amazing Adventures of Roth, Weaver and Jones, Mar 21 2008
By Steve Fuson "comics geek" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Escapists (Hardcover)
In Michael Chabon's Pulitzer-Prize winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," two teenagers create the comic book character The Escapist in the forties. Since then Dark Horse comics has been featuring comics about the Escapist and other characters from Chabons book. This book, however, is actually a sequel to the original book.Just in case you're unaware, Amazon offers a "Search Inside" feature. If you go up to the image of this graphic novel above and click on it, you can read the first six pages of the book. Go up and read it. Seriously. Those pages sold me on the book.
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After his father's death, Maxwell Roth discovers his collection of Escapist comics. We see young Max's geeky, awkward youth. We meet his equally awkward but much bigger--and therefore bully repelant--friend Denny Jones. When Max's mother dies, she leaves him an inheritance which he uses to buy the rights to the Escapist. He bumps into Case Weaver, a cute starving artist, who he approaches to illustrate the book.
After months of work and a publicity stunt gone horribly right, they achieve a modicum of success, but a big businessman is interested in reacquiring the rights to the now popluar character, and he has the money and the lawyers to do it.
Broken down that plot sounds like a cheesy eighties movie, but the characterization is done well so you don't notice, and the story doesn't play out in a predictable or sacharine fashion. Through some major highs and major lows, the book ends with a simple but strong ending.
If you haven't heard of Brian K. Vaughan, you should know he's one of the top comics writers of his generation. This book proves why.
"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" used the comics industry of the forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies as a back drop. This book uses the present. While this story and its characters aren't as complicated (and to be fair it has less than half the page count, and Michael Chabon uses more words in one sentence than most comics have on a page) The Escapists is still a great book, and really shows what the medium of sequential art can achieve while holding onto and honoring its superhero roots.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
BKV does it again, Oct 19 2008
By Robert Nunez "coolrobert" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Escapists (Hardcover)
Brian K. Vaughan is so predictable. Predictable in the sense that his stuff is always the best f what comics can be. Pride of Baghdad, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways. I've been reading comic for over 30 years and BKV makes me more excited about the medium than I've ever been.This book is beautiful. The story is exciting, moving, personal and, most of all, fun. It works as a sequel to Michael Chabon's delightful The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
A collection of extremely talented artist take on different aspects of the story and it really works. Instead of feeling disjointed, the various art styles take us to the different moods and states of mind the story weaves in and out of. Word and pictures here work like the music and lyrics of a beautiful song. Masterful.
If you love comics and good storytelling, you'll love this book. I sure did!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
BKV strikes gold., Jan 14 2008
By N. Maldonado - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Escapists (Hardcover)
Beautiful, dialog and character driven story. The artwork was amazing on all accounts, with Bond and Rolston making a near flawless transition that could not have been pulled off better. i Can't read this book enough. This is just one smart and fun read for anyone who likes reading about a major character from the past who never existed.
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