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Synopsis
Best-selling comics writer Alan Moore's pulp hero Tom Strong returns! Born on a remote South Seas island, orphaned by his scientist parents and raised by a steam-powered robot butler, Tom Strong is both superhero, inventor and pioneer.In this sixth and final volume, Tom travels with dimension-hopping pirates; voyages deep inside his robot butler; enters the fictional world of Samakhara; meets and old flame turned cold; and, finally, meets Promethea and the rest of the America's Best heroes at the end of the world!This book offers a veritable feast of fantasies, written by luminaries including Michael Moorcock (Elric), Joe Casey (Superman), Steve Moore and, of course, Alan Moore himself!
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Review
As his 1980's masterwork Watchmen proved so magnificently, Alan Moore's greatest talent is taking a classic format and re-imagining it with a fresh perspective. After years of heated animosity with the comics industry while chucking out the odd masterpiece (From Hell), Moore returned to the mainstream with a vengeance with "America's Best Comics", writing no less than five titles a month at the turn of the Millennium. Headlining ABC is Tom Strong, Moore's supremely enjoyable take on the "Thrilling Tales" pulp comics of the 1930s and 40s. A square-jawed hero of the classic mould, Tom Strong is the peak of mental and physical perfection, raised on the mysterious island of Attabar Teru after his parents became shipwrecked there in 1899. A century later, he's the saviour of Millennium City, still fighting fit thanks to the age-defying powers of the "Goloka Root" and aided by his wife, daughter, his steam-powered butler Pneuman and an intelligent (English) ape called King Solomon. In these first seven issues Moore provides a wonderfully rendered homage, with Tom constantly leaping into danger with a sense of selfless heroism that would make Superman envious. Whether it be alien threats, ancient curses, the fiendish plans of Tom's nemesis Paul Saveen or struggles facing the lethal landscape of Prehistoric Earth, Moore weaves short, sharp and undeniably thrilling stories that are free of the tired grim'n'gritty cynicism so common in comics. With such high-calibre storytelling, and Chris Spruce's engaging art, you cannot fail to enjoy such an honest, engaging re-telling of throwaway adventures as seen through Moore's ever-incisive and beautifully observant gaze. --Danny Graydon
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"* "All the ABC comics by Alan Moore are phenomenal." - Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer)."
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- PublisherTitan Books Ltd
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1845763866
- ISBN 13 9781845763862
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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