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The Compleat Moonshadow
by: John Marc DeMatteis, Kent Williams, George Pratt, Kevin Nowlan, Gaspar Saladino

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781563893438
ISBN: 1563893436
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: February 01, 1998
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: February 01, 1998
Sales Rank: 521805
Studio: DC Comics

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Muth's best
The first thing is Muth's delicate, expressive watercolors. Even if you look at nothing else, this is a wonderful, sustained effort in visual story-telling. It tracks Moonshadow, the hero, from before his birth into his old age and death. The style perfectly captures sensuality, fear, and the sense of the bizarre.

The second is the story. It's baffling, by design, a product of hippie culture and the whims of whimsical and omnipotent beings. That really captures a lot of a kid's experience - with all-powerful adults acting in incomprehnsible ways. It has more, though: coming of age, destroying any romance there might be around war, and loving (and being loved by) people who aren't very lovable.

This book is thin, but includes over 400 pages of generally good color printing. The original 1980s comics are all here. So, unfortunately, is a 1997 accretion. It's a newer addition to the Moonshadow ... Read More

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- Startling work, a unique masterpiece.
I'd finally tracked this down, as I'd lost out on collecting the entire series when it first appeared in 1985 (for some reason I never bought them... my loss). I wasn't ready for the storyline. It didn't resonate in the sixteen year-old that was me then, but there was something about the watercolors by Muth that did.

After art school, I found myself abandoning oils and turning to watercolors. I could work quickly and didn't require as much ventilation, but watercolors are infintely harder to master than oils. I still hadn't returned to "Moonshadow". My awakening was still yet to come.

Years pass and now I hardly ever paint, or write. I did something in goache recently for my Wife, and something clicked in my head, tiny but definitively. Ping! I found the "Compleat Moonshadow" for sale here, and bought it.

After two days of reading (fighting a chest cold), and respectfully closing ... Read More

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- Better reading
A very good read, especially for people who like a lot of Vertigo works (especially Neil Gaiman works). It's kind of a mixture between a Science Fiction story and a Fairy Tale for adults which takes you to many different roads and shows you the intergalactic journey of a boy who has had no contact with the outside world ever and is suddenly put out in the real world, with his only knowledge being the stories he read in his books of Orwell, Tolkien and Shakespeare. With great painted art by John J Muth (Sandman) and written by J.M. DeMatteis (Spiderman: The Child Within

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- Compleat Indeed!
My first experience with Moonshadow was some years ago, when a comic-adhesive friend of mine (to say he collected them would be an understatement - he seemed rather to magnetically draw them to his person) found the solitary first issue of Moonshadow in a bulk buy of his. We were both instantly fascinated with the caprice of the Gi'Doses, the wild characterization, and the whimsical tone. At the time (long before graphic novels of any kind were commonplace in our experience), we languished that this, like so many other series we had encountered piecemeal, would probably never be assembled into a single storyfor our enjoyment, and we would never learn what became of the story. Imagine my joy when, only recently, I stumbled upon the Compleat Moonshadow in a local bookstore. Gritting my teeth, I shelled out the dough, drove home, and read the entire story in one sitting. Bleary-eyed, I sent a message to my ... Read More

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