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Irredeemable, Vol. 9 (2012)

by Mark Waid(Favorite Author)
3.81 of 5 Votes: 3
ISBN
1608860833 (ISBN13: 9781608860838)
languge
English
publisher
BOOM! Studios
series
Irredeemable
review 1: This book doesn't really carry the Irredeemable saga forward much, but it does fill in a lot of the blanks from the early days. I'm not thrilled at the linking of Plutonian and Max Damage on some deeper mythic level, but their respective stories and setups are interesting, just the right amount of tweaking from classic tropes to set the characters on recognizably askew paths. All the same, you can sense the endgame appearing, and by the end I was impatient to get back to the here and now to see what is coming next.
review 2: That writer and creator Mark Waid chose to crossover his two titles published by Boom! was expected. What was unexpected was really how flat the trade read. This trade combines issues from both series Irredeemable and Incorruptible)and t
... morehis time I think it would have read better as separate trades.We do get The Plutonian and Max Damage's origins and why they can't hate each other. But, for me it fell flat. What does work is giving the reader a base for 1) why The Plutonian snapped (not an excuse but a base understanding) and 2) why Max hates him. less
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SherJ
More fun than the last few volumes, if only because of Max Damage tearing up the scenery.
Snowhawk76
Origins for both Max Damage and the Plutonian, plus their shared history.
newgirl12
Absolutely worthless to the narrative. This story has nowhere else to go.
picaweb
Possibly the only disappointing volume in the series.
elincetuo
Review of the series in volume one.
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