"This never happened. We were never here." Where they come from, no one knows. Where they go when their crime-fighting work is done is a mystery. They are the Nevermen, the greatest heroes who never existed -- in the mission they never expected! One of the Nevermen is missing, taking with him the only clues to a plot that has the criminal underworld in turmoil. With homicidal monkey butlers, disembodied living heads, the diabolical League of Crows, and the mysterious villain known as Clockwork arrayed against them, the remaining Nevermen find themselves seeking the help of one of their former companions now turned free-lance avenger -- The Murderist -- in order to stem the swelling tide of evil that threatens not only the Nevermen's beloved city, but the very fabric of time and space! This definitive collection of the four-issue series also includes the hard-to-find Nevermen tales from Dark Horse Presents!
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Rarely is a comic-book world as claustrophobic as that of Phil Amara's The Nevermen. The dark city is filled with gloomy alleys and capped by drafty rooftops; its citizens are all clothed in mystery and seem to have business outside the book's plot. The title characters are five nearly identical trench-coated crime fighters scouring their city of evil and searching for their missing partner. The beautifully drawn villains are too numerous to keep up with. From the fez-wearing Cthulhoid gentleman to the zombie crime lord, they usually exit as swiftly as they appear. The story falls just short of living up to its Phil Dick-inspired promise, but it is nevertheless satisfying and well worth a dozen readings. --Rob Lightner
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Dark Horse editor and esteemed comics writer Phil Amara is a young veteran of the comics industry who got his start in the business as a freelance writer for a variety of comics news publications. During his college years, Amara produced a weekly comics-oriented radio show through which he interviewed legendary comics creators such as Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Moebius, and others. A graduate school internship with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle creator Kevin Eastman eventually blossomed into a full-time job at Kitchen Sink Press in the early 1990s. Amara's Kitchen Sink years allowed him to edit an astounding array of top-caliber books and creators including Will Eisner's The Spirit, Alan Moore's From Hell, and Mark Schultz's Xenozoic Tales. Amara joined Dark Horse as an editor in 1996 and, as a writer, has contributed a steady stream of great stories for Dark Horse titles including Star Wars, Aliens, Scatterbrain, and Dark Horse Presents, in addition to editing SpyBoy, Planet of the Apes, and Sock Monkey, among others. In 1999, Amara teamed with artist Guy Davis on the creation of The Nevermen - a fantastic and critically-acclaimed "sci-noir" tale recently released as a graphic novel by Dark Horse.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
So Soreal, So Beautiful,
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This review is from: The Nevermen (Paperback)
This book is set in a surreal world, with the 50's movies gone high on Gothic Punk. The heros, in trench-coats and hats, try to keep the peace in streets filled with inhuman villans, who are strangely human, much more so than the heroes themselves, in many ways. The haunting tale goes back and fourth in time, showing fragments that only at the very end combine into a complete picture.Especially recommended for fans of a slightly bizzar Film Noir.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cryptic, Beautiful, Thrilling,
By "lallybodkin" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Nevermen (Paperback)
The above are all too often hinted at in comics, but not let loose in their full, bewildering flower. Nevermen manages to be at once the most cryptic and the most exciting comic I have read in recent memory. Guy Davis captures the nightmarish, stylish underworld that the reader fills in, her mind sparked by his examples. The story is yes, not obvious-- but isn't everyone a little tired of obvious? If it were all spelled out, then where's the fun? Well, if it's too mysterious, then no one cares, but it's a hard-hearted reader that can pick up the Nevermen and not be intrigued. I was also impressed at the writing- so spare it is beyond belief-- I too, like another reviewer, would find myself turning back to see what I had missed- but I loved it! I loved having spaces left in the story for me to wonder and work- I will never complain if I am given enough elements of a story and a compelling vision-- I'm happy to wander in those spaces. Read Nevermen- it will draw you back, like a poem or a painting, where part of the story is part of you.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Overwrought, beautiful, and cryptic,
This review is from: The Nevermen (Paperback)
This is, as another reviewer said, something just oozing with potential. Guy Davis, as always, does a fantastic job with characters and weird creatures. But, similar to his own written-and-illustrated release, "Danse Macabre", this work, written by Phil Amara, is hard to follow, laughably scripted, and eventually nonsensical.
It's a sad thing to witness: characters like Murderist and Manboulian are certainly compelling, and the infusion of noir-era dialog is entertaining, but many of the characters speak only in short, psuedo-pithy phrases that signify nothing, requiring multiple re-reads and a good deal of hair-pulling. One can't help but wonder if Mr. Amara felt he was being clever by writing in such a cryptic fashion; I can safely say that he wasn't. There's a herculean attempt to weave the actions of six characters into and out of one another during the story, but it's undercut by the near-identical appearance of no less than FIVE of them. As gimmicky as it might have been to give the titular characters sharply different appearances, the opposite is no more helpful. This is a comic that I wanted desperately to love, but ultimately, the near-lethal lack of exposition and the inclusion of short-lived, useless characters (Samek, anyone?) drags it down completely. It's something to "appreciate" more than anything else, a nice picture book with lots of hints at significance and deep passion, but it just can't execute it. Still, it's loads better than Danse Macabre.
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