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Bigfoot: Sword of the Earthman Vol. 1
The foot-stomping epic collecting issues 1 – 6 is finally here! Earth’s legendary sasquatch battles to defeat the ruthless emperor of a barbarian planet! This is not the story of how Bigfoot became a myth on Earth… this is the saga of how he became a legend of the stars.
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188 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 20, 2016
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February 8, 2024
I bought this because it was billed as a sword & planet graphic novel set on Mars, and featuring Bigfoot. It mostly was, although not quite what I was hoping it might be. It collects the first six issues, I believe, of the story.
I'm going to have to go with about 3 1/2 stars. The Idea was quite good. Bigfoot somehow gets transported to an ancient Mars and becomes a hero. The art was good as well, although I'm not really familiar with how to read comics so I couldn't always tell what was going on from the art. Maybe readers more familiar with the art form could. The story has a tremendous amount of narration from the point of view of a Martian character who follows Bigfoot through the tale and relates the events, but he's pretty clearly an unreliable narrator, which makes it difficult to know what is really happening. Bigfoot doesn't talk at, which was fine for a while but began to get a little old as the tale continued.
It's called Sword of the Earthman, that being Bigfoot, but there's very little sword slinging action through most of the book. Only in the last chapter do we really see Bigfoot cut lose and there is a lot of action. I was prepared to go with 3 stars until that ending chapter, which had much less narration and much more action, and some pretty good emotional moments as well as a surprise ending. If more of the book had been like that last chapter I'd have ranked it higher.
I'm going to have to go with about 3 1/2 stars. The Idea was quite good. Bigfoot somehow gets transported to an ancient Mars and becomes a hero. The art was good as well, although I'm not really familiar with how to read comics so I couldn't always tell what was going on from the art. Maybe readers more familiar with the art form could. The story has a tremendous amount of narration from the point of view of a Martian character who follows Bigfoot through the tale and relates the events, but he's pretty clearly an unreliable narrator, which makes it difficult to know what is really happening. Bigfoot doesn't talk at, which was fine for a while but began to get a little old as the tale continued.
It's called Sword of the Earthman, that being Bigfoot, but there's very little sword slinging action through most of the book. Only in the last chapter do we really see Bigfoot cut lose and there is a lot of action. I was prepared to go with 3 stars until that ending chapter, which had much less narration and much more action, and some pretty good emotional moments as well as a surprise ending. If more of the book had been like that last chapter I'd have ranked it higher.
August 21, 2019
Bought this comic book compilation (#1-6) online and sight unseen. Attracted to a fictionalized account of Bigfoot and a supposed local connection. I must say, for me, this was a bad purchase. Gave it 2 stars for the illustrations and novel setup but the story was all over the place and the excessive exposition was fatiguing.
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