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Wyrd : The Reluctant Warrior
This book collects all six issues of comics legend Jim Starlin’s latest epic, Wyrd, the Reluctant Warrior. This fun and pointed satire of magic versus big business in a sci-fi world not far removed from our own did well with Jim’s formidable fan base. For the many people who complained to us that they couldn’t find copies of it, this is a chance for them to get the whole series so don’t be caught short-handed! Wyrd should join the list of Starlin-created fan favorites and perennial sellers.
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Published May 1, 2000
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Jim Starlin
1,336 books444 followersJames P. "Jim" Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider; Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self; and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine.
In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. Starlin also drew "The Secret of Skull River", inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974).
When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character,[citation needed] Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by the company itself. (
In the late 1980s, Starlin began working more for DC Comics, writing a number of Batman stories, including the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.-Nov. 1988), and the storyline "Batman: A Death in the Family", in Batman #426-429 (Dec. 1988 – Jan. 1989), in which Jason Todd, the second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed. The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation. For DC he created Hardcore Station.
In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. Starlin also drew "The Secret of Skull River", inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974).
When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character,[citation needed] Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by the company itself. (
In the late 1980s, Starlin began working more for DC Comics, writing a number of Batman stories, including the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.-Nov. 1988), and the storyline "Batman: A Death in the Family", in Batman #426-429 (Dec. 1988 – Jan. 1989), in which Jason Todd, the second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed. The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation. For DC he created Hardcore Station.
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November 23, 2010
Free from SLG Publishing.
Some of the humour in this one was funny & a tiny bit of the story was alright, but overall the topic was a tired one. Also, if you are going to generate images by computer, it would be better, I think, to make them easier on the eyes, & not appear so doctored.
Some of the humour in this one was funny & a tiny bit of the story was alright, but overall the topic was a tired one. Also, if you are going to generate images by computer, it would be better, I think, to make them easier on the eyes, & not appear so doctored.
September 25, 2018
There's a quote by Jim Starlin from an 2006 interview floating around that goes "I’m still proudest of The Death of Captain Marvel followed closely by various Dreadstar stories, Warlock, Kid Kosmos Kidnapped, The Thanos Quest and a series next-to-nobody ever read, called Wyrd, the Mystic Warrior...". I’d been somewhat mystified about what this "Wyrd" was about (and also Kid Kosmos which I haven't read yet). Finally having read it, I find it weird that Jim put this at the same level of The Metamorphosis Oddysey or Death of Captain Marvel. It's a pretty funny satire, but this is no High Society or Howard The Duck. Also, the computer generated backgrounds look really weird and in a few cases are a detriment to the story. I’d recommend this to Jim Starlin fans like myself, but you're not missing out on some underrated classic.
July 26, 2011
Jim Starlin is repeating himself. Everything in this book is familiar from his past work, and rather less interesting. This one is only for those who liked WARLORD and CAPTAIN MARVEL, want more of the same, and lack discrimination.
September 2, 2012
jim starlin is one of my favorite comic guys to read even though when i have to give anything a 1-5 rating he'll probably never get a five. maybe the dreadstar comic series. also i haven't really read much of his early stuff either.
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