League of Losers (Marvel Team Up, 3) (v. 3) [Paperback]

Robert Kirkman (Author), Cory Walker (Author)

Book Description

Grade Level: 4 and up

The heroes of the Marvel Universe are no more. Spider-Man? Wolverine? Captain America? Iron Man? Gone - but the people of the world still need saving; they still need heroes. Make way for The League of Losers! Plus: The team-up you thought you'd never see! Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker's Invincible bounces over to the Marvel Universe for a visit! Collects Marvel Team-Up #14-18.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Marvel (June 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785119469
• ISBN-13: 978-0785119463
• Product Dimensions: 1 x 1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,443,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars So-so superhero outing, July 17, 2006

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This review is from: League of Losers (Marvel Team Up, 3) (v. 3) (Paperback)

This was okay, but given the calibre of Kirkman's other writing, a bit of a disappointment. The lighthearted, one-off team-up between teen heroes Invincible and Spider-Man is fairly flat, especially the goofball repartee between the two, which felt pretty forced. More successful was the fast-paced "League Of Losers" tale, in which (spoiler alert) an invasionary force from the future comes back to wipe out all the superheroes at once, and take over the world. The only metahumans left are the "Losers," minor leaguers who never made it into the history books and who, thus, were not in the databases used by the future-world baddies. It's a good premise, and filled with the sort of second-string super-dupes that filled the pages of the original '70s "Team Up". The execution was fairly entertaining as well, although I missed Scott Kollins' artwork. An okay read, not as engaging as the earlier Kirkman MTU stories.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ho hum., November 14, 2006

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Victor R. Casados "VRC" (Grass Valley, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: League of Losers (Marvel Team Up, 3) (v. 3) (Paperback)

I am sorry to say that there is nothing special here.
A mildly interesting team up or two. Some romance.
A very run-of-the-mill story with some continuity problems.

Worth having at garage sale/thrift store prices. But even at Amazon's discounted price, I wouldn't call it a good value.

It simply didn't appeal to me, and I am unlikely to read it a second time. Others may enjoy it.