This is how it all began! The cosmic superhero epic is back and this collection is chock-full of all the "cosmic" you could ask for! Experience the glory of Commander Adam Archer, the enigmatic alien Maxim, the wacky Basil Cronus, the evil Discordia, the confusing Freidrich Nickelhead and that's just scratching the surface! If you want cosmic, we've got cosmic!
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Casey and Scioli have decided to ignore whatever are the latest trends in the world of superhero comics and create a book that brings back a subgenre that most would have thought dead by the late 1970s, the cosmic superhero epic. The story features a floating skull in a jar who is a junkie for cosmic enlightenment, a superhero so popular he's a top television pitchman, and a giant talking alien dog-creature. Those and other strange characters all play a role in the life of Adam Archer, the book's hero along with his three sisters. Casey injects plenty of fun by giving each character distinctly hyperbolic speech patterns of the type not seen since Stan Lee. Casey may or may not be trying to channel Lee, but there is little doubt Scioli is keeping the spirit of Jack Kirby alive with the artwork. The thick lines, dramatic closeups and electrifying space-age action all have that flavor of the father of all cosmic superhero epics. The artwork is as exhilarating as Casey's writing as it crams so much action and information into each page. Gødland is a refreshing break from the grim, gritty world of contemporary superheroes. (Feb.)
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Check out Godland!,
This review is from: Godland, Vol. 1: Hello, Cosmic! (v. 1) (Paperback)
Joe Casey and Tom Scioli deliever the goodsin this tale of cosmic drama that goes down like a glass of cool fresh water. If one would like a FREE full-issue preview of issues #1 and #8 they can check them out at newsarama.com. I read issue #1 and that was enough for me. Gorgeous art, smart story -telling and a "great" price for the collected trade make for a sweet deal! Who needs Infinite Crisis? Recomended!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Great for what it is ... but does it want to be more?,
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This review is from: Godland, Vol. 1: Hello, Cosmic! (v. 1) (Paperback)
if the intent was to produce a fun throwback to Kirby's late career - the New Gods/Kamandi/Eternals/Detroyer Duck era - while putting a little bit of a contemporary spin on the "Kirby genre," then the book is an unqualified success, in large part because of Casey's cleverness as a writer and Scioli's sincerity as an imitator/reinventor of the Kirby style. It is for this reason that I plan to read all the G?DLAND trades as they come out, personally. But I'm certain that that is not the intent - that Casey and Scioli mean to do more. There's a podcast interview on Wordballoon.com, where Casey mentions that G?DLAND is supposed to be more than a nostalgia kick, specifically pointing to the relationships between the protagonist, Adam Archer, and his sisters, as an example of the complexity and contemporary nature of the work. Yeeks. If anything, the relationships between Adam and his sisters remind me of the weak, childish characterizations you might see in any typical Silver Age comic book - there's one sequence, between Adam and his sister Neela, for example, that reminds me of the poorly-done "feminist" version of Lois Lane from the late 1960's/early 1970's (if you're not familiar with those books: the only difference between the feminist Lois and the pre-feminist Lois was that pre-feminist Lois was always grateful when Superman rescued her; feminist Lois was always pissed off by the rescue; neither of them, though, was able to survive on her own, without rescue of some sort or another). When I was reading it, I thought: "Fun! He's playing with that old campy helpless-but-bitchy pseudo-feminist stuff." But, well, in light of his statements about the book, and about his goals - it seems that, maybe, um, he wasn't. If the real intent is to step beyond pastiche into something that stands on its own, outside of its references to old comics (Kirby or otherwise), and can be taken seriously as a character study, or even as a meaningful action-adventure, then Casey and Scioli have a long way to go.(Above is excerpted from my review at graphicnovelreview.com)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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RETRO LEE & KIRBY!,
This review is from: Godland, Vol. 1: Hello, Cosmic! (v. 1) (Paperback)
No, Godland isn't a long lost Jack Kirby story that was recently found although no one would fault you for jumping to that conclusion. Rather it's Joe Casey and Tom Scioli's tribute/reset on Kirby and Stan Lee work of the 60's, combining elements of the Fantastic Four along with Kirby's cosmic work of The New Gods, and the Eternals/Celestials, and that's just for starters. The pair hit on various Lee & Kirby creations ranging from the late 1950's through the 1970's, albeit with a more complex storyline for 21st century audiences.As a meteor crashes near the Great Wall of China, the cosmic hero Adam Archer flies to investigate as we learn about his origin in a series of flashbacks. He was an astronaut on a mission to Mars and the lone survivor when their ship crashed. Near death, he stumbled upon an ancient alien machine and transformed into a being of awesome cosmic power by a group of alien minds. This harkens back to the days of the creation of beings such as the Silver Surfer and Adam Warlock. Investigating the meteor, Archer finds it contained a life form...a giant reptilian dog-like form that looks like one of those monsters created by Kirby in the pre-hero days of Marvel/Atlas comics that had names like Groom or Grok. A battle ensues but soon the arch villain Basil Cronus arrives on the scene and has his own designs on the alien mutt. Cronus is another great throwback to the 60's...a humanoid body with a skull floating in a vat of fluid for a head. While all of this is going on, America's most cherished hero "Crashman" has gone missing and been captured in the Arctic Circle by a villainess named Discordia. There's a part in Godland that really made me laugh...as Archer battles the alien dog he chides himself for trash-talking while fighting...which of course is something that Stan Lee loved to have his heroes do in his stories. Very clever. Tom Scioli does a great job imitating Kirby's art style. I will note, however, that the Kirby he's replicating is more the mid-70's Kirby as opposed to the 60's "classic" Kirby. Still for Kirby fans it works as a wonderful tribute to the old master and Scioli obviously put in a lot of time studying Jack's work. He's got a lot of the nuances down pat, such the multitude of spots in Archer's "cosmic powers" right down to the facial expressions of the characters. The only short-coming for me was the plot which was far more complex than anything Kirby and Lee would have created. I realize that audiences are more sophisticated today than they were 35 or 40 years ago, but I think it would have worked a bit better if the story were also kept in the Lee style. Still, it was a fun retro take on 60's material. Reviewed by Tim Janson
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