I will freely admit that there is a certain kind of adventure story for which I am a sucker, and this is in every way, that kind of story. This could actually be that story's grandpa. The art in this was fun and broad and expressive, and Millar's writing - which can go fucking anywhere - went to the most satisfying place it could go. Read this and hand it then to someone younger, which is what I just did.

Something very different for Millar. Such a sweet ode to classic swashbuckling space opera. It's a classic story, honestly not all that original made extra lovely by the striking art of Goran Parlov. A perfect little SF tale. Could be one of the year's best collections.

This comic doesn't get nearly all it could out of its main gimmick.It takes an old-fashioned two-fisted planetary romance hero into another heroic outing when he's old and washed up and a legend of the people he saved... but in spite of numerous reassurings of such, he doesn't feel old. He's precisely as capable as any young hero of a story like this would be, physically fit, not remotely forgotten his old skills or instinct, and the character shield is still fully active all around him. I wish

I love Millar but this one didn't really grab me.

It's nice to read something from the days, when Millar could actually write, and was able to deliver story with point. It has everything that it should - action, emotions, good guys saving the world, bad guys getting their ass kicked in cool ways, small boys getting their revenge and oppressed people back their freedom. Partially it was homage to the old stories from 50'-60' but also swift and modern enough for today's readers craving for some space adventure. All in simple but beautiful and col...

a very strong 4 stars for issue #1. a story both melancholy and wondrous. Millar parallels the current life of an old man in the prosaic here & now, mourning his beloved wife and missing his self-absorbed sons, with that old man's fabulous earlier life as a Flash Gordon type hero, saving a brightly hued fairy tale planet from its oppressor, having amazing adventures, and then leaving it all to travel back to Earth, to his girl. I loved how Starlight shows that those amazing adventures were equal...

4.5*Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.Duke McQueen is a disgraced ex fighter pilot who in his 20's told a tale of travelling to another world, Tantalus, and battling evil forces to save an alien race from destruction. Only his wife believed his story and he has spent the last 40 years being ridiculed. After losing his wife to cancer he finds his children have no time or respect for him and he is left pondering what life has left for him...

Starlight is Mark Millar’s love letter to Space Age adventure stories.Starlight introduces readers to Duke McQueen, a one-time air force test pilot. 40 years earlier, Duke flew through a worm hole and wound up on the planet Tantalus. After months of adventures, he overthrew the tyrant ruling the world and then returned home. Duke told his story to the world, only to be branded a liar and a lunatic. His beloved wife Joanne was the only person to believe him.Following Joanne’s death, Duke is at a

Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths ReviewsI’ve always loved swashbuckling sci-fi adventures – stories in the mold of Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter, Robert E. Howard’s Almuric, or Michael Kane as penned by Michael Moorcock. These tales about earthmen being swept across the galaxy, deposited upon alien worlds, and having to vanquish all the evil natives in sight has always entertained me.Now, before anyone says it, I know these type of stories are sugar-coated testosterone fantasies with large

3.5 stars if I could.Above everything - this was a fun story to read. No, the story wasn't original, and yes, it was all very predictable. Despite those two glaring flaws, however, it was still a heck of a fun romp through a pulpy universe that throws us back to the Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers days.I loved the whole premise of the aging hero having to stand up to his adversaries. I loved the complexities of Duke McQueen struggling to regain the glory from his youth.Really, I just flat out loved

Millar writes a good comic, and that's why I picked this one up. It was based on his name alone, I didn't need to know anything else.Normally in my stories, I like realism. It's what I strive for in my own writing, and I appreciate it when I find it in other work. What's more, I'm often bothered by the lack of realism in stories, whether they be comics, books, or movies and TV shows.But there are different types of realism, and some of them I care about more than others. I don't care as much if

As a much younger man, Duke McQueen saved an alien world called Tantalus from the baddies and became their hero. Then he returned to Earth and no-one believed him, not even his own family. Today, Duke’s a grandfather whose wife has passed away and his kids have grown up and started families of their own. Then a spaceship arrives on his front lawn and a young boy from Tantalus steps out – they need Duke McQueen to help them again. I quite like the setup, which is a twist on the adventure pulps of...

Bullet Review:I think the strongest elements of this were in the first 2 issues. The rest is just kinda cheesy and by-the-books (particularly the traitor - that was weird).That said, I did enjoy myself immensely; it was a lot of fun to read, as long as you turned off your brain and didn't think too hard.

This graphic novel is Mark Millar's love song to Edgar Rice Burroughs' pulp science-fantasy adventures of a century ago. It was as inventive and subversive as Millar's past successes Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service, and Superman: Red Son, which all took familiar tropes and shook them upside-down to see what would shake out. I was engaged right from the start of the story. A fighter pilot named Duke McQueen is transported to another world, where he saves them from a tyrant in a series of s...

The dining table scene from issue 1 broke me.

This was another recommendation from Omnibus collectors group.A quick short read, and wish it extended beyond the six issues. Essentially we have Duke McQueen, who 40 years go saved a planet, a was asked to stay as a hero. However, he returns to Earth, and is scorned, as no one believes his story. Now an old man who has just lost his wife, and is alone, as his children are grown and preoccupied with life. Well all of a sudden , a spaceship shows up and then....This one had a wonderful old fashio...

The art looks like it was drawn using Microsoft Paint and the story is dull. I'm not sure if I have to say much more. The plot concerns an old man who no one believes went on a crazy space odyssey to save a distant planet. Then one day a young boy from that planet comes to find him - that planet is in danger again from a tyrant ruler! So off we go to save a planet... and then a bunch of random, dull things happen and nothing not totally predictable happens.The art does have it's moments of beaut...

I'm honestly kind of surprised I liked this one, because Mark Millar's shtick tends to grate on me, but this had Goran Parlov art and a premise (Unforgiven, but with Buck Rogers, more or less) that I liked. Basically, Duke McQueen, now in his 70s, was once a test pilot who became a hero on an alien world. He returned home and nobody, except his wife, who has just died, believed him. Now he's left alone with two ungrateful sons and bratty neighborhood kids who taunt him for his "delusions." Until...

Brilliant. I really enjoyed this. They really packed a hell of a lot of story into only six short issues. I loved that the Hero was an ex-air-force captain turned family man now in his sixties and still able to kick ass.

Its one of the best reads I have had, its about this guy named Duke Mcquinn who in his younger years went to a planet called Tantalus, a very Flash gordon like adventure and when he came home and told others this, how he saved that world and was hailed a hero, and no one believed him except his wife and 40 years later we have him with his wife passing, his sons busy with their life and until one day when he is feeling down, he goes on one last adventure to fight this new threat on Tantalus vs a