Comics quote: We didn’t have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child By: Jessica Hagedorn Read more to view detail, some with related videos clips.
COVER BY: FAREL DALRYMPLE & PAUL HORNSCHEMEIER
WRITER: JONATHAN LETHEM
KARL RUSNACK
PENCILS: FAREL DALRYMPLE
PAUL HORNSCHEMEIER
THE STORY:
The story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny — and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have been sent from afar to hunt the two of them down. Created in 1975 by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes, the original Omega the Unknown lasted only ten issues, but was a legend to those who recall it — an ahead-of-its-time tale of an anti-hero, inflected with brilliant ambiguity. One of Omega’s teenage fans was award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem, who has used the original as a springboard for a superbly strange, funny and moving graphic novel in ten chapters. Collecting OMEGA: THE UNKNOWN #1-10.
Rated T+ …$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3052-9
Trim size: standard
PRICE: 29.99
IN STORES: September 10, 2008
IMPRINT: MARVEL UNIVERSE
FORMAT: HARDCOVER
RATING: RATED T+
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