He does them in a fun, innovative way, always different from issue to issue, and I am sure they worked great when a reader had to wait a month "in-between" issues.
The artwork shines, even the early pages from Strange Tales vibrate with energy.and I love his Warlock costume re-design! And the story ideas that are developed in these few issues have had an enormous effect on decades of Cosmic Marvel (soul gem, the In-Betweener, Gamora, Pip, Magus, a more fleshed out Thanos.).Ī warning to folks who are reading this for the first time: the one thing that is a little odd bit of "an artifact of it's time", are the story recaps that Starlin does at the beginning of every issue. I also think Starlin never gets enough praise as an artist/sequential storyteller. In fact, this story, even though inspirational to many other storylines and many other creators, has never been successfully imitated. The time loop (basically the same scene with the same dialogue) between Warlock 11 and Avengers Annual is a brilliant bit of storytelling that has never been done before (or since!). The story is great, with really interesting ideas about ideals, madness, who/what the future holds, and what it means to be the master of your own destiny. I know it might be nostalgia talking, but I think the story holds up after all this time!
I am taking the purchase of this edition as an opportunity to re-read the story. Every original page has appeared in the IDW's Cosmic Artifact Edition. I am ready to get rid of all my other printed think the "special thank you" for be for the scans of original pages in the back of the book. Before the Gallery Edition, I thought the best reproduction/color was to be found in the 80's Baxter reprints, but now my vote is with the Gallery Edition. Featuring the first-ever assembling of the Infinity Gems, the debuts of Gamora and Pip the Troll and an all-out struggle to save the universe X joined by the Avengers, Captain Marvel and Spider-Man! And now, the full grandeur of Starlin's saga is unleashed on the oversized pages of a Gallery Edition! Collecting STRANGE TALES (1951) #178-181, WARLOCK (1972) #9-15, AVENGERS ANNUAL #7 and MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE ANNUAL #2.Brownest great job at doing a page-to-page comparison, it really shows off the quality of the book. Forced to confront an evil version of himself and the nihilistic menace Thanos, Warlock's conflicts weren't just knuckle-grinding throw-downs X they were existential struggles for his very soul. Warlock By Jim Starlin Gallery Edition HCĪt Marvel in the 1970s, no one mastered the startling scope of cosmic adventure like Jim Starlin! In this star-spanning spectacle, Starlin evolved Adam Warlock to the next level, imbuing the character with the inner demons of a man-god on the brink of insanity.
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