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Starstruck Deluxe Edition Hardcover – April 5, 2011

by Elaine Lee (Author), Michael Wm. Kaluta (Artist)

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Collecting all 13 issues of the completely remastered Starstruck series by Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta — that's 280-pages of Starstruck and Galactic Girl Guides adventures, covers, pin-ups, glossary, postcards, and so much more! The first truly comprehensive collection of this material in a grand, over-sized edition, this beautiful book features some of the finest art ever put to paper by Kaluta, including many pages that were never printed in the original run. Additionally, Kaluta painstakingly added approximately 20% of art to nearly every page to ensure the aspect ratio of the comic would be consistent and correct. The end result is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, a head-spinning, synapse-snapping, soul-searing ride to a world like no other... the world of Starstruck!

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360 pages
Language

English
Publisher

IDW Publishing
Publication date

April 5, 2011
Reading age

16 years and up
Dimensions

8.1 x 1 x 12.1 inches
ISBN-10

1600108725
ISBN-13

978-1600108723
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About the Author

Elaine Lee has had incarnations as an EMMY-nominated actress and playwright, artistic director of a theatre company (Wild Hair Productions), comic book writer and color artist, animation writer and story editor, video game writer, and art director for a music company. Specializing in sci-fi, fantasy and horror, Elaine has created six original comic series (BrainBanx, Skin Tight Orbit, The Transmutation of Ike Garuda). She is best known as writer/creator of Vamps. She has written animation scripts for Niolan, A-Film and Stardust Entertainment/Hallmark Entertainment.

Michael Kaluta's early professional art appeared in pulp magazines, and the earliest comic book work appeared in various Charlton Comics. DC Comics was the Kaluta's main focus of the 1970s; drawing interiors and, eventually, covers for their House of Mystery and House of Secrets comic books. Covers for both Detective Comics and Batman were the next step, and, eventually, the nod to draw DC Comics 1970s versions of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Carson of Venus and Pulp Icon, The Shadow. The new century saw a Madame Xanadu five-issue comic book story arc, and Chaos King, a special 30-page stand-alone book in Marvel's Chaos War.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ IDW Publishing; Deluxe edition (April 5, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1600108725
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1600108723
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.75 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.1 x 1 x 12.1 inches

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Mgnostic

Starstruck!

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2011

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I was quite happy to see that Starstruck was being reissued. I read most of the comic back in the 80's (Never could find issue 5) and wished that it could have kept going. I snagged the graphic novel and so was tickled to see that this version was being released. The artwork is beautiful. Kaluta is one of my favorites. The additional material is a great bonus.It can really be seen that he did a lot of additional work and the story is fleshed out with a lot of details. The only complaint that I have is that some of the material from the first comic books isn't included.I suppose it may be an issue of who owns the rights. At any rate this is a really cool book and I highly recommend it.

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The Holy Grail!

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2013

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For years, Starstruck has always been at the top of my reading list -- when I could get my hands on an issue. I never suspected that a compilation would run to 360 pages. And what a compilation it is: impeccable printing, glorious color, each page so complex you can stretch it out for days of reading, and at the end, start over again. It is also a perfect present for anyone you know that likes comics -- I gave two away last Christmas!

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Mike Madrid

A long overdue colletion of a comics classic

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2011

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I fell in love with the "Starstruck" series back in the 80's. I'm so happy this collected edition is available, with tons of extra material. This is a gorgeous edition that showcases Kaluta's art, perhaps the best of his career. It's grand scale (often hilarious) science fiction starring two of the most kickass heroines ever to grace the comic book page. Absolutely enthralling. The perfect comic to lose yourself in (and how often does that happen anymore?).

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Bjorn Bergstrom

Awesome edition

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2011

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What a beauty! This oversized edition, the format is larger than the regular IDW comic editions, is truly wonderful. Now you really can enjoy the fantastic Kaluta art even more, and with the new great digital coloring as topping. I've been a fan since the eighties and it can't get better than this.

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Jonathan B Whitcomb

To be continuted? Really?

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2011

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The blurb for this book says "The first truly comprehensive collection of this material..." Yet the story in this collection ends one issue into the six issue 1985-6 Marvel series, with "to be continued" on page 209. Okay...when?

I hate to give this collection a bad review, because what is here is spectacular. But the promotional material calls this "comprehensive", and this simply isn't.

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Lee McIlmoyle

Sci-Fi Comics at Their Finest

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2011

When I was in my early teens, I'd started reading comics again, after a disastrous end to my childhood's first comics collection. It wasn't long after my reintroduction to comics that I became hooked, and found I was particularly drawn to any comic story that was uncommonly otherworldly in tone. So when I stumbled across the first bits of news mentioning the mainstream reprinting of a special comic series called Starstruck, I was riveted. Sadly, my love affair with this series would continue to be from afar for several years. Eventually, I learned that the series had begun its print life in North America featuring in the pages of Heavy Metal, and as I had by that time become a frequent reader of HM, I started my quest to track down these original issues (which was easier than tracking down the Epic or even the Dark Horse issues). Sadly, this quest too was cut short, and for several years, I languished under the impression that I would never get to read this story in its entirety.

Happily, IDW has been taking steps to correct this oversight, with Elaine Lee and Michael W. Kaluta, two of my biggest comics heroes, returning to put the finishing touches on what now serves to be the first installment of the definitive Starstruck series. With the help of master letterer Todd Klein and the colouring and design work of master illustrator Lee Moyer, the series looks better than ever, and is every bit as Byzantine and mind-bending as it ever was. I can't wait for them to finish the series in this fashion.

This book would be a perfect book for any science fiction reader who appreciates the headier works of Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Philip K. Dick, Theodore Sturgeon, Samuel R. Delaney, and other writers (male AND female) who have proven track records for taking hold of our preconceived notions of what comics and/or genre fiction are capable of, and turning them neatly on their heads, over and over and over again. The series bears repeated reading, too; I've just about to start over myself. You may find yourself divided as to whether you actually enjoy the book or not (I certainly did), but you won't have ever read anything quite like it, particularly in comics form, and truly, I don't think it could exist in any other format and be as compelling. You owe it to yourself, as a citizen of the universe, to give this series a try, and it doesn't get any easier or better than purchasing this gorgeous hardcover collected volume.

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Joe frazier

Love it!

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2019

This is a really great performance. You don't have to have read the comics, but it will help to get the references and larger story.. It's as close as i'll probably ever get to seeing the stage show.

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M. W. Kaluta

"It's a tough Universe! Someone's gotta live in it: it might as well be you!"

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2007

This is the Play Script for Elaine Lee's STARSTRUCK, A Space Opera (no singing is necessary). Full cast includes 11 members: 8 women's parts, 3 men (though, of course, that's up to the discretion of the director). The script is enhanced with 12 black and white full page illustrations by M.W.Kaluta, plus 8 pages of color photographs from both NYC productions.

The play takes place a short while after the end of the Starstruck Graphic Novel (Heavy Metal, Marvel, Dark Horse Comics), and brings together many of those disparate story lines in an on-stage romp: Hot Suns! Hot Guns! Join Galatia 9, Brucilla "The Muscle", Erotica Ann and Sister Bronwyn of The Cosmic Veil as they lock wits and force shields with the inimical Verloona Ti and her minions: Rah El Rex and Phillipe Cesare Kalif Alexander Bajar.

Almost a Lost Classic, dig in, laugh and try to find someone else to talk to about it.

Published by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc, in 1985, the book is a large, square bound trade paperback with color covers.

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Grimmy

A tad self-indulgent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2012

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Well, I dunno....
I missed this when it first came out in the 1980s, but I love Mike Kaluta's stuff, especially the old DC Shadow issues.
The artwork IS sensational, as is the conceptual vision, but I find the story/writing pretty hard going. The scripting is clunky, lacking flow. It's kinda dialogue by characters that are clearly well developed in the mind of the writer, but they are not known to us, and their dialogue is just topical stuff that they are saying. But good comic writing is more than that: it should be introducing and developing characters for us, it should be propelling and expounding the story, complementing the artwork, to produce a seamless whole. The best kind of comic writting is when you don't even notice it. But this stuff just stands there in the way, yelling look at me but not telling us very much while the visuals go off in 20 different directions in each frame. It's kind of like a Terry Gilliam film (think Brothers Grimm or the worst bits of Baron Munchuasen, rather than Brazil). I will revisit this review when I have acualy managed to read this through, but while the art beckons me further the writing is a turn off.
Buy this for the art or to collect, but if you are into comics for a great immersive narrative experience I don't think you will find it here.

Kindle Customer

Beautifully put-together

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2011

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This is a long-overdue re-release of the 1980s series, with all its nouveau artwork, hilariously OTT story-line and almost over-whelmingly multi-level/-textual output still relevant today.

The book itself contains the original artwork, now beautifully recoloured, and collected together with the glossary that suffixed each issue, and a (previously unknown to me) collection of "Brucilla the Muscle - Galactic Girl Guide".

Be warned / advised however - this book does NOT contain the full and complete Starstruck series, instead it ends, strangely, at the end of the first issue of the Marvel Starstruck comic series (released Feb 1985), with the two women hiding out "on the planet Alias".

The subsequent 5 issues are not included; instead, the following page has a big "to be continued" sign on it - and then it's on with the multiple extras.

I'm assuming (and fervently hoping) that this means there's another deluxe Starstruck coming out in due course. The story needs its proper ending, with all its multiple and baffling threads currently spiralling out being drawn back in. Perhaps there are more installments beyond the 1985 comic series that I'm not aware of...

Don't hold back though - this series is a bona-fide cult classic and should not be missed, and the book itself is superbly and reverently put-together.

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Lee McIlmoyle

Truly Starstruck

Reviewed in Canada on September 23, 2016

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Elaine, Mike and the team that worked on this book (Lee Moyer and Todd Klein) did a tremendous job of making this objet d'art a true gem in my collection. I'd waited more than thirty years for it, and I was not disappointed. Can't wait to get the follow up.

Dungeon Master

Beautiful_I love it!

Reviewed in Canada on September 4, 2011

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Great quality book & great stories. Only problem it ends in a cliffhanger. I hope they release volume 2 shortly!

Dan

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