The Annotated Mantooth! [Paperback]

Matt Fraction (Author), Andy Kuhn (Artist) (Author)

Book Description

They say the star that burns twice as bright burns half as long; in the case of Rex Mantooth!, he burned five or six times as bright for, like, ten minutes or so. Ape Super-Spy Rex Mantooth! blazed across three stories to inexplicable critical acclaim. These blistering bits of nonsense are now lavishly collected with corrected and re-toned art, the official text, covers, essays, scripts, annotations, pinups, and more. Featuring a foreword, a preface, an introduction, and publisher's note by some of comics' most notable luminaries and more exclusive material than anyone can possibly imagine. THE ANNOTATED MANTOOTH! is exactly like a DVD about a museum that's full of Monkey comics about stuff that 'splodes and dudes gettin' kicked. It's like if James Bond's a gorilla and Ian Fleming was drunk the whole time he wrote James Bond. With contributions from Warren Ellis, Joe Casey, Larry Young, Robert Kirkman, and Jeremy Love.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...I can't deny my love for the 'Tooth... Sure to be one of the funniest comics released all year. -- Randy Lander, The Fourth Rail

...Inside Fraction's head, nothing is sacred... the strength of Kuhn's art is surprising... -- Don MacPherson, The Fourth Rail

As I spoke in that topic of summaries; the MANTOOTH is very good. -- Hector Lima, somewhere in heaven.

MANTOOTH hits all the buttons at once just to see what happens. It appeals to the basest lizardbrain instincts... -- Chris Eckman, Ninth Art

From the Publisher

We think that we speak for all of comics fandom, its creators, merchants, distributors, and marketers of its ancillary merchandise when we say that it is very exciting to be excited. And Rex Mantooth? That’s more exciting still. Now is an exciting time to be a fan of excitement.

The amount of work that’s going into THE ANNOTATED MANTOOTH!, the amount of care, of attention to detail-- the pure LOVE that this book is being slathered with-- is far more than ever went into the individual issues.

This must be a very important book. After all, would an unimportant book require a foreword, a preface, an introduction, AND a publisher’s note? We don’t just slap those sweet babies on anything.

Hollywood came to us and tried to buy it. NASCAR wanted Rex to drive side-by-side with Jeff Gordon. The Broadway musical, the animated spin-off, the calendars, birthday napkins, decorative ashtrays-- we turned them all down. Why, you ask? Because REX MANTOOTH KEEPS IT REAL. Therefore, we too must keep it real. For Rex. For us. But most of all-- for you.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: AIT-PLANET LAR; annotated edition edition (January 6, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932051058
• ISBN-13: 978-1932051056
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #401,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!, September 8, 2003

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doughnut42 (Mobile, AL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Annotated Mantooth! (Paperback)

This book is great!

This graphic novel has Matt Fraction's annotated script side-by-side with the actual comic pages. Andy Kuhn and Tim Fisher provide the art on the comic pages, and it is excellent!

Rex Mantooth, Kung-Fu Gorilla is a secret agent who saves the world again and again with the help of his sidekick (and special lady friend), Honey Hamptonwick. They battle robot ninjas, rabid mallard ducks, lesbian she-commandos, zombie scientists, and even Hitler!

Fraction's notes on the script are just as funny, and sometimes funnier, as the actual comic pages.

There are three text pages by Fraction, one after every chapter of the main story, and a pin-up gallery in the back of the book, with pin-ups by Jeremy Love, Steven Sanders and Carla Speed McNeil.

Finally, the book also features an introduction by Warren Ellis, a foreward by Joe Casey, a preface by Greg Rucka AND a note from the publisher by Larry Young!

With all of that great supplementary material, you know this book must be important, so buy it!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He's a monkey AND a spy. What's not to love?, December 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Annotated Mantooth! (Paperback)

This concept is just too great not to give it a try. Mantooth is an international man of mystery AND he's a big ape, literally. He's also got a giant robot named "world's greatest grandpa" and saves the world many times. Andy Kuhn is rapidly becoming one of the hottest illustrators in comics and this is a breakout work for him. That Fraction guy ain't bad neither.

7 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ALMOST AS AWESOME AS FAMILY CIRCUS., December 6, 2005

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The Shawn Clark (I am in the Texas.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Annotated Mantooth! (Paperback)

If Jeffy from Family Circus were a talking super-spy gorilla in a tuxedo, Family Circus would be a much different comic strip. Jeffy from Family Circus is not a gorilla.

I think there's a gorilla in The Annotated Mantooth! That's crazy. I would not let a real gorilla into my house; but a book gorilla, maybe that's OK.

Matt Fraction has written some other comics, and he invented those mesh half-shirt things that dudes used to wear in the 80s. Does he speak Russian? I will not tell you that. You will have to answer that question on your own time.

Matt Fraction has never written Family Circus. Because of this, Mama Fraction does cry herself to sleep at night.