Black Hammer, Vol. 1

Posted on 14 August 2018 by Jeff Lemire

Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien now lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which there is no escape But as they employ all of their super abilities to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure Collects Black Hammer 1 6.The first chapter in Jeff Lemire The Underwater Welder, The Complete Essex County, Animal Man and Dean Ormston s Lucifer acclaimed series New Read [ Black Hammer, Vol. 1 ] Author [ Jeff Lemire ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I didn t necessarily dislike this first volume, but for the most part, there was a whole lotta nothing happening for the vast majority of the issues Alright, so basically each issue features one of the main characters, focuses on their individual problems, and gives a bit of their origin story The backstories all look a bit old timey golden age, silver age, whateveryou get the drift I liked it.It wasn t really until the end when I got to Madame Dragonfly s stuff that I found mysel I didn t necessarily dislike this first volume, but for the most part, there was a whole lotta nothing happening for the vast majority of the issues Alright, so basically each issue features one of the main characters, focuses on th...Picked this up because I ve read work by Jeff Lemire before and enjoyed it I wasn t disappointed The writing, characterization, and worldbuilding were all top notch It s got superheroes in it, but it s not a superhero comic in any conventional way Like most good stories, it s all about the characters It s just that some of them happen to have cool powers Best of all, it doesn t require any previous knowledge of existing mythologies to make any sense.If I had to describe it, I d say it s so Picked this up because I ve read work by Jeff Lemire before and enjoyed it I wasn t disappointed The writing, characterization, and worldbuil...Very entertaining Black Hammer is kind of an old school comic that mixes some elements of the golden age comics like The Escapist and characters loosely inspired by the big ticket ones like Invincible, with a brilliant original story The superheroes are stranded in a sort of para reality for reasons not quite explained in this first volume Abraham Slam, Barbie, Dragonflyreally clever fun names After an initial introduction, we have some vignettes to fill in backstory to the principal char Very entertaining Black Hammer is kind of an old school comic that mixes some elements of the golden age comics like The Escapist and characters loosely inspired by the big ticket ones like Invincible, with a brilliant original story The superheroes are stranded in a sort of para reality for reasons not quite explained in this first volume Abraham Slam, Barbie, Dragonflyreally clever fun names After an initial introduction, we have some vignette...4ish stars.Combining retro superhero comics with modern indie sensibilities, this first volume is seriously cool First of all, superheroes, duh, who doesn t love superheroes These superheroes, however, have a lotin common with the Golden Age heroes of old than with the ones we see on big screens across the world Each issue in Secret Origins focuses on a different character s backstory in this mysterious family of heroes To be honest, we re really only given the briefest of hints at 4ish stars.Combining retro superhero comics with modern indie sensibilities, this first volume is seriously cool First of all, superheroes, duh, who doesn t love superheroes These superheroes, however, have a lotin common with the Golden Age heroes of old than with the ones we see on big screens across the world Each issue in Secret Origins focuses on a different character s backstory in this mysterious family of heroes To be honest, we re really only given the briefest of hints at how these people ended up the way they ended up As far as plot goes, it s basically all set up, which seems like it would be frustrating after six issues not to have a clear indication of what s actually happening but it s okay because there s some great character wor...Read twice now, this is still one of my favorite Jeff Lemire comics for its world building, humor, and sentimentality This is a love letter to superhero comics By examining the origin of these borrowed characters and forcing them into his classic rural existentialism, Lemire somehow humanizes and emboldens them He examines Golden Age comics, horror comics, comic tropes like DC s Crisis, and characters that are akin to Adam Strange, Mary Marvel, Captain America, Martian Manhunter, Raven, and Read twice now, this is stil...Superheroes are transported to a mysterious farm and get new identities for no reason and that s Black Hammer You know what this title needs A STORY This first volume is all table setting which is mostly why it s so unsatisfying Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston introduce their Golden Age superheroes, all of whom are derivative knockoffs offamous characters Abraham Slam Captain America , Colonel Randall Weird Doctor Strange , Talky Walky a generic robot , Mark Marz Barbalien J onn J Superheroes are transported to a mysterious farm and get new identities for no reason and that s Black Hammer You know what this title needs A STORY This first volume is all table setting which is mostly why it s so unsatisfying Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston introduce their Golden Age superheroes, all of whom are derivative knockoffs offamous characters Abraham Slam Captain America , Colonel Randall Weird Doctor Strange , Talky Walky a generic robot , Mark Marz Barbalien J onn J onzz Martian Manhunter , Golden Gail Mary Marvel , Madame Dragonfly Madame Xanadu , Black Hammer Steel , and the big bad, Anti God The Anti Monitor Fair enough so does this mean Lemire has a new take on superheroes or a fresh commentary subversive interpretation of these characters, like a 21st century Watchmen Nope It s a bad soap opera full of depressives instead Gail s acting out at school b...I initially picked this book up because I loved the cover I went into it with some degree of wariness and cynicism, though, because it looked like yet another Watchmen wannabe book.While it does hold up a funhouse mirror to the superhero genre, I really enjoyed it because it isn t attacking or ridiculing the genre but rather shows great affection for it There were enough t...If you love that Jeff Lemire trademark formula of loneliness and hopeless yearning induced by separation of worlds, mixed with a healthy dose of weird family lover drama, you will definitely love Black Hammer And its first volume is a slow paced and carefully written introduction to a team of superheroes who somehow are imprisoned in a country town in what might be another universe Secret Origins focuses on the what and the who about the characters, while deliberately postponing the answers If you love that Jeff Lemire trademark formula of loneliness and hopeless yearning induced by separation of worlds, mixed with a healthy dose of weird family lover drama, you will definitely love Black Hammer And its first volume is a slow paced and carefully written introduction to a team of superheroes who somehow are imprisoned in a country town in what might be another universe Secret Origins focuses on the what and the who about the characters, while deliberately postponing the answers to the why and the how they got into that place.Black Hammer s ...I didn t know what to think about this series, but saw a lot of my friends on GR reading it I figured..why not I am glad I did.This is a weird tale about a bunch of Golden Age Super Heroes that saved the earth, but somehow managed to get trapped on a farm in a country setting that they can not leave Their struggle to fit into a small town life that they are ill suited for The entire team is composed of semi misfits from a Martian warlord to a 55 year old woman with Shazaam like powers trappe I didn t know what to think about this series, but saw a lot of my friends on GR reading it I figured..why not I am glad I did.This is a weird tale about a bunch of Golden Age Super Heroes that saved the earth, but somehow managed to get trapped on a farm in a country setting that they can not leave Their struggle to fit into a small town life that they are ill suited for The entire team is composed of semi misfits from a Martian warlord to a 55 year old woman with Shazaam like powers trapped in a 9 year old girls body Or the Colonel who is astrally projected into another universe This cast goes through the trials of trying to fit into a small country community without revealing what they are and the fact that they are trapped in the town area Truly cool and original.The artowrk is also very interesting It wor...Lemire is well know name in comic book world and since I started wonderful Descender, Vol 1 Tin Stars I been curious about other work Was Descender just a fluke, moment of inspiration of otherwise mediocre writer, or do we truly quality writer Currently I m leaning heavily towards the latter Black Hammer is combination two very different things, golden silver age superhero comics and character driven drama This graphic novel menages to give courteous nod to many classic superhero comics wh Lemire is well know name in comic book world and since I started wonderful Descender, Vol 1 Tin Stars I been curious about other work Was Descender just a fluke, moment of inspiration of otherwise mediocre writer, or do we truly quality writer Currently I m leaning heavily towards the latter Black Hammer is combination two very different things, golden s...

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14 August 2018

Jeff Lemire