Books by Fred Van Lente
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review 1: For some reason, and despite what I'd heard, I didn't really expect to like this series very much. But I repent. Van Lente's big lovable dumb guy, which he polished so well on Hercules, is great here. But Archer--an ultra-naive muscle mimic assassin raised by fundamentalists--...
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review 1: More zombie fun in this alternative universe.This book focuses more on the villain side of the issue.Machine Man…er… Aaron is highlighted with his unique brand of humor.This book has some creative surprises but the gore and tasteless humor may be too much for some readers.NotesWe...
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review 1: I think this volume generally gets a bad rep because it uses so many fairly obscure Marvel characters. I for one enjoy when obscure characters from decades ago get pulled up used in a modern setting, so I was okay with it here. The art didn't feel quite as mood specific, but ag...
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review 1: Love the noir concept and some of the art was really stunning. However it reads as if someone cut 50% of the dialog, blindly- without actually editing for clarity or continuity. So essentially I spent most of this story trying to figure out what the hell was happening. The art on...
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review 1: This book is incredibly fun, with lovingly crafted dialogue perfectly reflective of the already complex characters. The plot rides along at a breakneck pace, at times stretching the limits of suspension of disbelief, but considering the four issue limit, it gets the job done rema...
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review 1: Definitely the goofiest of the lot, but I enjoyed it I think because of that. The art and story were all over the place, but again it seems to add to it's quirky demeanor and the ending story where it is fully aware of having "jumped the shark" kind of makes up for the weird dir...
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review 1: The book has, at rare points, hilarious and insightful jokes (as opposed to lame Thomas Aquinas fat jokes). This does not make up for the many errors in the text which will leave people just being introduced to philosophy (the book's target demographic) with factual misinformatio...
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review 1: This volume was gross. I mean, it was so gory and bloody and violent that the previous two volumes don't compare. Folks get slashed in half and bitten into and smashed and blasted and endure every sort of injury a superhero can deliver. But it was also tightly written and had a l...
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review 1: "X-Men Noir" is a comic book (or a graphic novel, as all the cool kids call them these days) with an intriguing concept: what if everyone's favorite X-Men lived in the gritty noir world of the 1920s? And what if they didn't have superpowers?The book's creators (writer Fred Van Le...
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review 1: The Season One "original graphic novels" (I never liked referring to comics as GNs) were a promising concept that quickly grew tedious, in no small part because they tell familiar origin stories with minor tweaks to fit the current continuity. They are priced beyond its page coun...