Never Ending

by D.J. Kirkbride, Adam Knave, Robert Love (Illustrations)

Fighting crime isn't superhero Charles Baxter's main problem—it's fighting time! Trapped for decades in a superpowered body that never ages but is now driving him insane, Chuck's only hope for a "permanent cure" is to team up with his archnemesis Archibald McCrae. He just needs the evil scientist to stop hitting him before a dark, devastating arrangement can be made! Collects the three-issue miniseries.

* Robert Love's superheroic follow-up to Number 13 !

* An Eisner and Harvey Award-winning writing team!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comics

80 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2014

About the author

D.J. Kirkbride is the co-writer and co-creator of AMELIA COLE, an ongoing digital comic book series from Monkeybrain Comics (published in print by IDW), as well as the Dark Horse mini-series NEVER ENDING. He won an Eisner and a Harvey as an editor and a contributing writer for the POPGUN anthologies from Image Comics and has also contributed stories to TITMOUSE MOOK volume 2, FIRESIDE MAGAZINE issue 1, and OUTLAW TERRITORY volume 3. In addition to his comics work, D.J. went and wrote a book of ninja poetry called DO YOU BELIEVE IN NINJAS? (Creative Guy Publishing).

Reviews

[Leo · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5/5

This is the story of Chuck. Who just so happens to be a superheroe. This comic is only three issues long and although I would have liked to read more, I think it's perfect as it is.

The books jumps to different years showing us different periods of Chuck's life not in order. I think this benefits the story, first we get invested in the character and then we start learning more things about his life. There are a few powerful sequences in the book but I won't say which ones because otherwise I'll be telling you the story. I suggest you people make some time to read this, it won't take long and it's extremely rewarding.

P.S: Right after I finished reading it, I headed to the "comic store London tour" and I found it. Cool.

[Bill Coffin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great concept, flimsy execution, threadbare story and a cop-out ending. Sorry to be so harsh on this, but it had a seed of greatness in here that just never quite took to root. Plus - do we really need a five-page sketchbook at the end of a 72-page story that is already light on designs? That and cover reprints really just feels like padding.

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not so good art.
Mildly interesting story with a deeper message that almost works.
Sappy ending that is a bit of a throwback to older, less dark comic book days.
Since I bought it for cheap I gave it 3 stars. It was not bad, but there was really nothing special either.

[Corinna Bechko · Rating 5 out of 5]

A poignant, thoughtful superhero tale that that dares to leave some things ambiguous and doesn't solve problems just by punching them.

[Royce Rasmussen · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story was just okay for me. The art was pretty bad with no real knowledge of page layouts, body composition, or the ability to tell a story.