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Angelman: Fallen Angel

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Easily the funniest super-hero comic to come down the pike since Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood's Superduperman, Angelman is Austrian cartoonist Nicolas Mahler's sardonic take on super-heroes, their fans, the businessmen behind them, the current media obsession with them, not to mention fancy-ass Ultimate collections of dopey super-hero comics.

Created by Korporate Comics in a flash of money-grubbing cynicism appalling even by their standards, Angelman's powers prove less than adequate to deal with the sinister threat of the insane plastic-surgeon villain Gender Bender or for that matter with the fickleness of fashion, the rapacious super-heroine Lady Dentata, the increasingly desperate re-boot attempts by Korporate Comics, his oddly twin-like wife, a disastrously bad movie adaptation that single-handedly brings the vogue for super-hero movies to a screeching halt all delineated in Mahler 's trademarked ultra-minimalism , and with his drier-than-dry wit.

Includes a special checklist/price list of Angelman comics, a gallery, and extensive historical and explanatory footnotes by the author, this book will occupy a place of pride on the bookshelf of any comic book geek or anyone who just likes hilarious comics.

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Release: June 11, 2012

ISBN: 1606995340

ISBN 13: 9781606995341

Angelman: Fallen Angel

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Easily the funniest super-hero comic to come down the pike since Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood's Superduperman, Angelman is Austrian cartoonist Nicolas Mahler's sardonic take on super-heroes, their fans, the businessmen behind them, the current media obsession with them, not to mention fancy-ass Ultimate collections of dopey super-hero comics.

Created by Korporate Comics in a flash of money-grubbing cynicism appalling even by their standards, Angelman's powers prove less than adequate to deal with the sinister threat of the insane plastic-surgeon villain Gender Bender or for that matter with the fickleness of fashion, the rapacious super-heroine Lady Dentata, the increasingly desperate re-boot attempts by Korporate Comics, his oddly twin-like wife, a disastrously bad movie adaptation that single-handedly brings the vogue for super-hero movies to a screeching halt all delineated in Mahler 's trademarked ultra-minimalism , and with his drier-than-dry wit.

Includes a special checklist/price list of Angelman comics, a gallery, and extensive historical and explanatory footnotes by the author, this book will occupy a place of pride on the bookshelf of any comic book geek or anyone who just likes hilarious comics.

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Release: June 11, 2012

ISBN: 1606995340

ISBN 13: 9781606995341

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