Doctor Spectrum: Full Spectrum TPB

Doctor Spectrum #1-6

by Sara Barnes (Writer), Travel Foreman (Artist)

Spinning out of Supreme Power, hot newcomer Travel Foreman and Joe Straczynski's handpicked writer, Sara "Samm" Barnes, bring to light the secret of Corporal Joe Ledger's dark past, and the plans the crystal has for him!

Collecting: Doctor Spectrum 1-6

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Superheroes

144 pages, Paperback

First published August 3, 2005

About the author

Sara "Samm" Barnes, though born in Great Britain to Michael and Bridget Barnes, was raised in Canada, first in Ottawa, then Toronto and finally Vancouver
(source: Wikipedia)

Librarian note:
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of Travel Foreman's earliest works, features Supreme Power, Squadron Supreme member Doctor Spectrum and reveals a lot more about his alter ego Corporal Joe Ledger's dark past, and the plans the crystal has for his future. 7 out of 12.

[Brent · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read in individual issues, courtesy of my local comics shop.
Great covers. Cheesy story.

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know if this was really a Max book?

I mean it had the sex and child-murder. And probably some genitals, I don't recall.

But it seemed like a pretty standard "I kill people because of my abusive childhood and still try to be a good guy" story.

I'm not sure how much it ADDS to the Doctor Spectrum background to know that he's like this. Or why we care about Doctor Spectrum outside of his relationship to Amphibian and how the crystal will eventually fight him.

[Ethan Speiser · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book was super good. I like how Joe has a conflict within himself. My favorite part of this book was Joe talking to the crystal, and eventually giving in and accepting who he truly is, a killer. My only complaint is I wish they had another issue where we got to see Joe figuring out his powers. I like that it took 6 issues to finally have him wake, I didn’t think it was slow, but I wish there was more. Great book overall.

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Stars

This wasn't on the same level as the main Supreme Power series. It's basically the story of what was going on while Doctor Spectrum was in a coma (you'd have to read Supreme Power to know that part) and it also shows Spectrum's life story through an odd inner dialogue. This series basically takes place "off camera" during the Supreme Power series.

I liked it, but it seemed a little superfluous and considering how great Supreme Power is, this didn't really fit in.

[Bill · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm making space on my hard drive so I want to read things before deletion. This held my interest but, even if you want to know all about Straczynski's Squadron Supreme, reading this is hardly necessary. I read it as individual issues and I have to say I found the tribute to Bob Haney (co-creator of Metamorpho) at the end of one of the issues more affecting.

[Shawn Ingle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pleasantly surprised with how good this was. Initially, I was only going to read the volumes written by JMS but quickly discovered doing so would leave the Supreme Power storyline incomplete. While this isn't essential to the greater narrative, I found it to be an excellent backstory of Joe Ledger.

[Zachary King · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fine, forgettable. Doesn’t add much to Doctor Spectrum that we didn’t already glean from the main series.

[Devero · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quando la Panini ha tradotto in Italia lo Squadron Supreme di Strackzynski saltò, inspiegabilmente a mio avviso, questa miniserie che è decisamente meglio di quelle dedicata a Hyperion e Nighthawk.
Mi piace come Barnes ha affrontato il sergente che è il Dr. Spectrum, possessore del cristallo alieno che gli conferisce i poteri, ma anche posseduto da questo cristallo che è, probabilmente, una intelligenza artificiale creata per servire la specie di Hyperion e Power Princess. I disegni sono decisamente sufficienti, a tratti buoni.

[Jedhua · Rating 2 out of 5]

ABSOLUTE RATING: {2+/5 stars}

STANDARDIZED RATING: <2/5 stars>