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Return of the Dapper Men Hardcover – November 30, 2010

by Jim McCann (Author), Janet Lee (Illustrator), Tim Gunn (Foreword)

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Return of the Dapper Men garnered 5 Eisner nominations and received the Best Graphic Album award in 2011.

Welcome to Anorev, a land that has no concept or understanding of time because time itself has ceased to exist. A world where children have never grown up, machines have forgotten if they were built by humans or if they built humans themselves, and all clocks have been stopped at the same time since time itself stopped. This has been the way of things for longer than anyone can remember, until 314 dapper-looking gentlemen rain down from the sky to start the world anew.

Now Ayden, the only boy to still ask questions; Zoe, the robot girl all other machines hold dear; and the Dapper Man known only as "41" must repair whatever it was that caused time to stop, understand their true place in this world, and learn what "tomorrow" really means. But destiny is not always easy and choices must be made that will decide the fate of this land. The sun is setting for the first time in memory, and once that happens, everything changes!

The Return of the Dapper Men is a visually stunning fairy tale that combines steampunk with fantasy and science fiction with Renaissance style, brought to life from the minds of award-winning playwright and comic book writer Jim McCann (Marvel's Hawkeye & Mockingbird) and critically acclaimed visual artist Janet Lee. Together they have created a world where J.M. Barrie, Lewis Carrol, and Maurice Sendak meet Jim Henson and Tim Burton. All sharply dressed in a pin-stripe suit and a dapper bowler hat.

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Series: Return of the Dapper Men
Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Archaia; 1st edition (November 30, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1932386904
ISBN-13: 978-1932386905
Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 9.8 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #794,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2100 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Fantasy Graphic Novels
- #17406 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Graphic Novels
- #48809 in Books > Teens

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Not your typical comic

By DelusionalAngel VINE VOICE on February 21, 2011

Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase

As a big kid who prefers Young Adult books and comic books generally... As someone who still buys toys, for herself... etc. Well, it's not often that my mom pipes in to let me know I've made a made a mistake. No, not in making a purchase. Instead she wanted to let me know I had it sent to the wrong house. Mine. I clearly meant to send it to her house when I ordered this one. She took one look at the preview of this one and decided comics aren't all bad. Needless to say, she somehow magically does have it on the way to her door as well. I don't think she'll be disappointed.

This is definitely a book for kids of all ages. Whether it's comics you love. Or art. Or getting lost in a world that makes no sense. I happen to love all of these things, which caused a real dilemma. I'd read a panel but ooh now I have to exam the art closely and maybe re-read the panel after really looking at the art so closely. Yeah, it's that kind of a book. There are enough recaps of the story itself available, that I'll spare you that in my review.

I will say that it's also beautifully bound (hardcover is all that is available as I write this), reminiscent of an older style of book, and for a price I often see much lesser paperbacks sell for.

Definitely a must have if you love this medium or if you need that one comic to prove to someone that yes, there's even one for THEM, like my mom....

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35 of 58 people found the following review helpful

All that glitters is not gold

By Trevor Burnham VINE VOICE on January 29, 2011

Format: Hardcover

This is one of the most frustrating books that I've ever met.

Let's start with the writing. Everyone speaks in the same oh-so-clever, shades-of-meaning manner. The kids have the excuse that they've lost the ability to tell reality from dreams, but the narrator and the Dapper Men are even worse. Some of it just doesn't make any sense:

"Imagination was reality, and reality was not tolerated." Huh?
"Shhh. That is for only you to know, for only you could know." But...
"In his hands, the leaves dried as quickly as they'd grown, completing their cycle, revealing their true purpose." Seriously?

Direct questions are ignored:

"Where have you been if not here?"
"We can't be everywhere at once. Well, we could, I suppose." Double-huh?

And the few times a character points out the nonsense, the nonsense is simply reasserted:

"You are simply asking questions which have slept so long in the mind that the answers escaped, scurrying away to be found again"
"They're answers, they're not alive! They don't just fly away or fall from the sky."
"Sometimes... that's exactly what they do."

The "scurrying away to be found again" is, I suspect, an error ("never to be found again" would make more sense), and there's at least one other pointless aphorism with a typo in it: "It's part of the discovering. My favorite parts [sic]." The dialogue's nuances certainly aren't enhanced by rendering it in LARGE CAPS.

Then there's the art.Read more ›

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

A wonderful fairytale for any age!

By K on May 31, 2011

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I bought two hardcover books in my last Amazon order. this one and a more adult-themed graphic novel called Asterios Polyp. They had one thing in common: both of them play with HOW a story is told through pictures.

Actually, come to think of it, they have something else in common: both have a lesson about destiny and the things you can, and cannot, control in life.

While Dapper Men's art looks a bit odd at first glance, as you begin to read the story, the doughy look of the people works better in context than at a glance. Over all, the artwork, which seems to be a mix of paint and pen and ink is as lovely as the story and characters are interesting and engaging.

After I read the book, I bought one for a teenage niece of mine. Even a stubborn teenager enjoyed the story and the beauty of the art.

Plus, it's a beautiful cloth HC piece of work with a ribbon bookmark -- something you don't see much of these days.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Lovely art

By Susan (Arizona) on August 25, 2013

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Truly lovely art. I was, however, tremendously bored by the story and I was impatient with the, I don't know, self-consciousness of the writing style. It wanted so hard to tap into some magic of childhood but perhaps that world is too long closed to me to see if it was successful. Perhaps if I was a child it would have resonated more. You know how some things work on several levels, both for adults and children? This was not that for me.

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful

Nicely illustrated and bound tripe

By Zorro on September 11, 2011

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After all the glowing reviews, I assumed this would be a creative and enjoyable read. Not at all. It's pretentious, trite, uninteresting nonsense. The dialogue is stilted, the ideas derivative at best, the characters thinner than the paper, and the wit precisely as nonexistent as the conflict that should have driven the plodding story. The story itself is entirely incoherent. Incoherence, commonly confused with creativity by the obtuse, is not charming. It is torture. The book does have beautiful illustrations going for it, and it is nicely bound, for which it gets a star.

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