Art Adams' Creature Features

by Arthur Adams

Godzilla may be King of Monsters, but Art Adams is the king of that giant lizard, and he proves it in this collection of Creature Features! Including such monster hits as Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Godzilla Color Special, a rare Monkeyman & O'Brien story titled "Trapped in the Lair of the Shrewmanoid," and "Trampling Tokyo" from the Alan Moore Songbook, Art Adams' Creature Features features all of your favorite creatures as seen through the eyes of one of your favorite comics artists! Though some of these stories originally appeared in black and white, every page of this 104-page collection is fully colored!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Horror

104 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

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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

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's been a while since I've read this and had completely forgotten the details of the Godzilla story. It's an excellent story, beautifully drawn (as always) by Adams. The Creature from the Black Lagoon adaptation is straightforward, but again, a joy for Adams' art, and also for the vibrant colors that set it apart from the film.

There are also a couple of short Monkeyman and O'Brien stories that are so welcome they make me forget how much I wish we had 100 volumes of graphic novels in that series.

[Nicholas Driscoll · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really enjoyable. See my full review on Toho Kingdom.

[Keith Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a big fan of Art Adams' art, but I really don't care about these old monster films he is adapting here. 5 stars for the art, 3 stars for the story.

[Octavi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bueno, ni fú ni fá. Lo único que merece la pena es la adaptación de Black Lagoon.