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3.0
When Wendell Vaughn first wore the quantum bands, he became Quasar, Protector of the Universe!
After catching an appearance of his in Marvel Comics Presents years ago, I became a fan of Quasar. I've got 20-ish issues of his comic in long boxes down in the Dan Cave but there are a lot of gaps in my Quasar knowledge. Fortunately, I snagged this for $5 at a convention not long ago.
This volume contains Quasar 1-9, Avengers Annual #18, and his appearance in Marvel Comics Presents #29 that first introduced me to the character.
Over the course of the issues within, Quasar's origin is explored, he becomes Protector of both the Universe and Eon, the weird alien head thing that lives in his closet. He goes up against supervillains like The Angler, the Living Laser, the Absorbing Man, Terminus, and Modam, the female version of Modok. He also has time to neglect his personal life in the form of his fledgling security business and hot secretary Kayla and has enough time left over to get jealous of his father's relationship with Eon.
The stories are fairly typical for the time period, although Quasar's fight with Deathurge on Uranus and the short story where he gave Man-Thing a C-section, delivering Quagmire into the main Marvel universe, were the standouts for me. Knowing what I do of what's to come, it's very interesting seeing short appearances of Captain At-Las and Dr. Minerva, as well as the issues featuring the Living Laser and The Angler. The use of the Iron Man armor from the Secret Wars was also a nice surprise.
The art isn't spectacular but gets the job done, although all of the artists went on to do much better books. There's pre-Fantastic Four Paul Ryan, pre-Spiderman Mark Bagley, and pre-Batman Mike Manley. Just wait until Greg Capullo takes over sometime in the next volume!
In and of itself, Quasar: Classic isn't great but it's sets up much greater things down the road. Quasar: Classic is 240 pages of quantum-powered nostalgia. 3 out of 5 stars. The best is yet to come.
After catching an appearance of his in Marvel Comics Presents years ago, I became a fan of Quasar. I've got 20-ish issues of his comic in long boxes down in the Dan Cave but there are a lot of gaps in my Quasar knowledge. Fortunately, I snagged this for $5 at a convention not long ago.
This volume contains Quasar 1-9, Avengers Annual #18, and his appearance in Marvel Comics Presents #29 that first introduced me to the character.
Over the course of the issues within, Quasar's origin is explored, he becomes Protector of both the Universe and Eon, the weird alien head thing that lives in his closet. He goes up against supervillains like The Angler, the Living Laser, the Absorbing Man, Terminus, and Modam, the female version of Modok. He also has time to neglect his personal life in the form of his fledgling security business and hot secretary Kayla and has enough time left over to get jealous of his father's relationship with Eon.
The stories are fairly typical for the time period, although Quasar's fight with Deathurge on Uranus and the short story where he gave Man-Thing a C-section, delivering Quagmire into the main Marvel universe, were the standouts for me. Knowing what I do of what's to come, it's very interesting seeing short appearances of Captain At-Las and Dr. Minerva, as well as the issues featuring the Living Laser and The Angler. The use of the Iron Man armor from the Secret Wars was also a nice surprise.
The art isn't spectacular but gets the job done, although all of the artists went on to do much better books. There's pre-Fantastic Four Paul Ryan, pre-Spiderman Mark Bagley, and pre-Batman Mike Manley. Just wait until Greg Capullo takes over sometime in the next volume!
In and of itself, Quasar: Classic isn't great but it's sets up much greater things down the road. Quasar: Classic is 240 pages of quantum-powered nostalgia. 3 out of 5 stars. The best is yet to come.
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