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The Thrilling Adventure Hour: Martian Manhunt by Ben Blacker, Ben Acker

eujean2's review

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4.0

Sparks Nevada & Croach the tracker backstory! Like Beyond Belief, this translates well to the comic media.

jkubenka's review

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5.0

Bought this on a clearance rack at my local gaming/comic book store. Didn't know a thing about it, except that "Sparks Nevada" is a great name for a marshal located on Mars, the planet.

Easy to read, I laughed right out loud in several places, the characters have me hooked and I'll be searching out and buying other volumes in this series.

billcoffin's review

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5.0

The fun continues in this installment of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, which delightfully mashes up old-time Westerns, John Carter from Mars and the astro-retro-futurism of 1950s pulp fiction. The writing is really funny, the artwork is just perfectly suited for the story, and the whole thing comes together in such a way that the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. There's no deep story here, no piercing moral. Just a thrilling adventure hour that is so perfectly done, you want to re-read it immediately after finishing. Bravo.

cortjstr's review

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4.0

I'm curious how this would read to somebody not hearing Marc Evan Jackson's voice.

inferiorwit's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

ianbanks's review

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4.0

A terrific collection telling a piece of backstory to one of the more obscure episodes of the podcast/ stage show that this is based on. I'm stupidly invested in these characters and their situation anyway, so I loved it. The best part is being able to imagine Mark Evan Jackson (Sparks) and Mark Gagliardi (Croach) saying the lines so easily. Roll on a regular series, please!

masscrafter's review against another edition

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5.0

I love the Thrilling Adventure hour podcast and the graphic novel didn't disappoint. Specially when you are hearing the cast's voices as you are reading the parts.

ulexic's review against another edition

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adventurous funny fast-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0