Elephantmen 2260 Vol. 5: Up Close & Personal

Elephantmen 2260 #5

by Richard Starkings

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL Collects ELEPHANTMEN 2260 #70, 71 & 73-76

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

144 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 2017

About the author

Richard Starkings is a British comics professional, known for writing the hit sci-fi series ELEPHANTMEN and specializing in lettering, thanks to his award-winning Comicraft lettering studio.

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

In a bit of a disjointed volume, albeit still very nicely drawn:
- Will Sahara ever forgive Obadiah?
- Hip gets caught up in time travel! No!!!!
- Some of the Elephantmen thinks it's time to get Nikken!
- And a White Elephant mystery.
A 7 out of 12, Three Star read for me.

2019 read

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love this comic, but this one was more disjointed than usual (and that's saying something for this series). The stories tend to be fragmented and jump around a lot in time, etc., but the stories in this collection were more problematic than most. Still some of the best artwork and graphic design of any series going.

[Matt Sabonis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is consistently one of my favorite weird sci-fi books. It's got consistently expressive and beautiful art, married with slow, almost dreamlike internal monologues that depict a world gone utterly mad. Just excellent (and I hope that, given the next arc is the last one, it also means that we're getting the long-awaited final chapter to Hip Flask sometime soon, too!).

[Timothy Pitkin · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very interesting combination of stories with the first one being about Hip and full group fighting over a white elephant statue then we get a time traveling cosmic being which is really the first time this series has done something like this. All of the stories just feel disjointed and unconnected. Feels more like set up for a bunch of stories down the line which makes this volume suffer.