It is not easy to find different proposals in the field of superheroes. When you buy a comic with a hero’s own name on the cover, everything tends to have the same aroma which, over time, can get boring.
This is not the case of Adam Strange, the hero who names this volume; Strange Adventures, which brings together the twelve issues of the original limited series signed by the screenwriter, Tom King; which we remember from another awesome book like “Mr. Miracle” or his last step in Batman and the Illustrators Evan ‘Doc’ Shaner and Mitch Gerads.
Strange Adventures questions the figure of Adam Strange, a “space” hero who publishes an autobiography to tell his story, but who has won many detractors and enemies after being labeled a war criminal or a murderer for stories which tell of his home planet, Rann.
To clarify what happened and try to clean up the image, Batman (who is unwilling to take over the investigation due to his inability to be impartial) tasks Mr. Terrific with finding out the whole truth about Adam Strange.
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Thus begins one of the freshest comics of the superheroic sphere that you can find on the shelves of bookstores. A comic that will show familiar faces from the DC universe such as Batman or Superman, but will succumb to this slow and very interesting development, which reserves the action to very specific moments. strange adventures It’s billed as the best work Tom King has given to date, making it very difficult for him to break his own record again.
Next to King, the illustrator repeats Mitch Gerads who already accompanied him in Mr. Milagro and made his debut Evan “Doc” Shaner sensational. Together, they pull off one of the best artistic displays we’ve ever seen in a DC comic. This comic, which navigates between flashbacks, memories and present, calls on the two illustrators to create different styles that vary according to the narration and which oscillate between the impeccable classic style of American comics to arrive at a cutting photo-realism “romantic “. , great for other story points.
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In short, Strange Adventures is an exceptional comic; a must buy both for those with their noses in the DC Universe and for those who simply want an interesting read like few others and an exquisite art section.
