Monkeyman y O'brien

by Arthur Adams

What do you get when you mix the beautiful daughter of a brilliant scientist with an extra-dimensional radiation bath? You get Anne O'Brien, half of the dimension-hopping, monster-battling team of Monkeyman & O'Brien! Together, this super-intelligent gorilla and this uber-woman are the only things standing between the people of earth and the menace of living gargoyles, frogs from space, and the Shrewmanoid and his army of monsters! To put it succinctly, they're two rays of hope in a world gone mad! Join Art Adams for nonstop, eye-popping action in this science-fiction adventure.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Superheroes, Graphic Novels

85 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1997

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Arthur "Art" Adams is an American comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the American comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries Longshot. His subsequent interior comics work includes a number Marvel's major books, including The Uncanny X-Men, Excalibur, X-Factor, Fantastic Four, Hulk and Ultimate X, as well books by various other publishers, such as Action Comics, Vampirella, The Rocketeer and The Authority. Adams has also illustrated books featuring characters for which he has a personal love, such as Godzilla, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Gumby, the latter of which garnered him a 1988 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue.

Reviews

[Devero · Rating 2 out of 5]

Si, Arthur Adams è bravo ai disegni anche se dopo un poco diventa stucchevole. Ma le storie è meglio che se le faccia scrivere da altri perché proprio non c'è mordente e la trama fa acqua ovunque.
Arriva alle due stelle solo perché come disegnatori era uno dei migliori sulla piazza in quegli anni.

[Drew Canole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Arthur Adams's attempt at an independent comic first ran as a backup feature in the first Hellboy miniseries. Here there's 3 comics each telling a short tale although I suppose the final two blend. Rooted in Silver Age - specifically Kirby's FF with a very obvious Mole Man analogue.

The writing needs a bit of work, a lot of unnecessary text and dialogue. The artwork is of course really good, I really like Adams's creature design. Not sure I really got into O'Brien and Monkeyman as characters, but they were alright. I did the story overall with its verse-conquering baddy, Adams's version of the Negative Zone. The world-conquering frog aliens in issue 2 were quite funny.

[Tiago Andrade · Rating 4 out of 5]

Art Adams tries his hand on the "scientific hero" genre that would give us Planetary and Tom Strong. The stories are a bit more simple than these later examples, mostly because there's not enough of them to build a more complex universe, but just as fun. Also, it's a comic book illustrated by Arthur Adams, so of course it looks GORGEOUS.

[Seth Tucker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun comic adventures from Art Adams. Monkeyman and O'Brien is one of the best comics I've read in a long time. If you are a fan of Atomic Robo or classic scifi comics this is a great read for you.

[Richard Rich · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun, funny, exciting sci-fi adventures by one of the greatest living artists- Arthur Adams!

[Dony Grayman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tomo del efímero sello Legend en su edición española a cargo de Norma.

[Rudo Fierro]

mONOMAN Y oBRIAN :o

[Jamil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gorgeous looking book

[Victor · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 1/2 stars. Early, gorgeously wrought Silver Age homage/revival. Knowing, hilarious, and heartfelt.

[***Dave Hill · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a blast from the past, a 1997 collection of Adams' pulp adventure tales, sadly never continued. I've always been a fan of Adams' art, and these tales of a scientist's daughter and an interdimensional genius who happens to look like a gorilla, up against enemies that would be perfect matches for the monster comics of the 50s (one of Adams' personal kinks). Fun stuff, and always worth a re-read.

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3/20 UPDATE: Yup. Still good. Goofy, and intentionally so. I'm bummed only that the series didn't take off to do better (and that the Gen-13 cross-over was never collected).

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't read this book in probably twenty years (maybe 24?!), but it's every bit as good as I remember - just fun Silver Age-style fun with goofy, fun scifi monster villains, and terrific artwork. I'll take a star off because Adams set up so much fun and then never followed through on it. My eight-year-old also read it, and his first question was: "Where's the next book?"

[Little Timmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great art and story. Good humorous plot. Very recommended