Capes Volume 1 (v. 1) [Paperback]

Robert Kirkman (Author), Mark Englert (Author)

Book Description

Series: Capes | Publication Date: October 30, 2007

Capes Inc. is a business that employs super-powered individuals to protect the city of New York and occasionally the world. Bolt, Kid Thor, Knock Out and Commander Capitalism! They're all on the payroll - super-heroes who punch a time clock, take lunch breaks and get overtime.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Image Comics (October 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582407568
• ISBN-13: 978-1582407562
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Robert Kirkman is a New York Times bestselling author known for being the cultural zeitgeist of the comic book industry. He maintains one prerogative in every undertaking: quality. It is Kirkman's belief that good people who produce good writing and good ideas make comics people love. Kirkman was recently made partner at Image Comics, and continues to revive the industry with refreshing new characters. AMC is adapting his bestselling series, The Walking Dead, into a TV series (set to debut in October 2010), and his books are among the most popular on the iPhone and iPad's "Comics" app.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of his under appreciated works, July 6, 2008

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Josh Pelfrey "Rocketboy13" (North Port, FL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Capes Volume 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)

Robert Kirkman has been the architect and writer for numerous comics that are incredably good, and more than a few have reached cult status and critical acclaim, Walking Dead and Invincible being his true claims to fame. However Kirkman often is also the producer of very interesting, entertaining, high superhero genre, and above all things "fun!" comics, that are totally missed by the larger community, Marvel Team up and AntMan being the most noticable and collected by me in particular, Capes falls into this later catagory.

Numerous characters with origins and abilities ranging from the standard to the contrived run throughout, the book is both a parody of superheroes and a fresh line up of them, the main villians are vicious and powerful, and the culmination of the heroes in action is turbulent, the humor is great, but not over powering, and the book is clever. I bought it, I'd buy a sequal of it, and do to it being in the underappreciated catagory sequals being unlikely, I recomend people just buy this and hope that they enjoy it.

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Ride, December 17, 2009

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Ron (Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Capes Volume 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)

Capes is a super hero group on the city payroll. A motley group of heroes that punches time cards, gets health benefits, overtime and works on shifts like most other jobs. But there job happens to be keeping the city safe from any number of super baddies that are wreaking havoc this week. This series has much more humor than Invincible, but is not overly silly. Reminds me of a lot of Erik Larsen work. A little over the top and some fun visuals. This trade collects the 3 issue mini series and the 72 pages of back up story that appeared in the Invincible comic. I really hope to see the return of Capes in one way or another, it was a fun book with a lot of stories still to tell.