Strange Adventures: The Deluxe Edition Hardcover Overview

[@williamlee2182]

For everyone that bought the standard, thank you for your sacrifice.

[@FlossyBottoms]

You're welcome!

[@maximusmagni1]

It's a shame for them. When the standard HC was announced, I remember thinking "Screw that. I will wait for a deluxe. Forever if need be."

[@vincentimbesi3947]

🤣🤣🤣

[@amorbavian]

Lol

[@supercard9418]

Hope The Human Target can get the deluxe hardcover treatment soon.

[@da5idnz]

I'd buy it!

[@NichoMania2]

14:07 pocket universes is the best way to describe Tom King's work, it makes the stories a lot easier to read and enjoy. I do hear he's also going to be 'integral' to James Gunn's DC movies so.....bit worried on that, given his penchant for writing characters OOC to fit his narratives, but... here's hoping it all goes well. Fantastic vid as always, Omar. 👍

[@supercard9418]

Wait seriously? 💀 I suppose he could do something with The Authority…but please, keep him far, far, FAR away from Supergirl

[@DrLynch2009]

At this point King should go and do his own universe where he can externalize all his traumas for been involved in the CIA enhanced interrogation program during the ocupation of Irak.

[@NichoMania2]

@@supercard9418 Ironically, the Supergirl movie is definitely based on his Woman of Tomorrow book, so, out of all the movies, he's definitely going to be most pivotal to that one. 😅

[@NichoMania2]

@@DrLynch2009 I'd say at this point he may as well have already done so, with how many of his stories get stated/treated as non-canon by DC, even after he himself says they are.

[@UltimatePower01]

A character can’t be written OOC when it’s a different continuity. You are comparing one continuity/earth with another, they are two different characters. Comparing character A’s version “main continuity” with an else world version can literally never be considered OOC because they’re different people.

[@Karmix03]

Cool deluxe edition, however I prefer the standard size book design. I love that it resembles an actual copy of Adam’s book, worn-out and vandalized

[@karenperkins8775]

same

[@gqd1975]

I read this a month ago. Great art. Solid story if you consider this outside of regular continuity.

[@StegoKing]

Mad love for the Prydain and Narnia mentions!

[@pasourw]

I loved this story and their use of 2 artists

[@nathanwalters4867]

Ordered this from IST. So psyched. I love what Tom King does. He's number 4 on my all time favorite comic writers list. I have all the other deluxe editions of his stories and I hope DC keeps doing them all. Take care and peace everyone.

[@seito1276]

You must not have read many comics if he’s number 4 all-time. 🤔

[@nathanwalters4867]

I've read a lot of comics in my time. A lot. And he's number 4 on my list 😉

[@seito1276]

@@nathanwalters4867 all good! Just love to troll. 😂😂😂

[@nathanwalters4867]

@@seito1276 It's cool. Gotta have some fun in life. Haha

[@seito1276]

😂 💯 😜

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

Tom King's writing is so uneven... Glad you mention it.

[@Rodimusprimerib]

Going in Blind on this one, cant wait for to to get here.

[@drewb9620]

The Terrifics so good! Heard Gunn plans a movie with those guys too. Vol. 3 is peak Mr. Terrific.

[@christophknopf629]

Love tom king - looking forward ti this! I do take this more like an elseworld approach and go with his new takes. With this in mind i loooved mr. Miracle and was shocked by riddler! (Positive)

[@Thundercus98]

Just bought this yesterday from my local comic shop!

[@colt45_TCG45]

Deluxe HC are the best way to enjoy Tom King's runs to get the full story tbh

[@Krypton_Ken]

🍿 sits down with a bowl of popcorn to read the comments 🍿

[@varazadi]

Would you consider doing an updated Daredevil reading order

[@TheUnstoppableBar]

Wish they went with the standard hardcover dustjacket design for this. This dustjacket is kind of boring next to that. I had a lot of fun with this series.

[@goosey235]

I agree - as much as I really like the Deluxe Editions, I sometimes find the cover choices - and also title font - a bit of a head scratcher (Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow is an example)

[@NotMyGumDropButtons.444]

SOLD

[@shenal1369]

These books aren't apart of canon and presented through Black Label for a reason, but you have that vocal minority still screaming and crying at any mention of Tom King's books.

[@amac203]

A PART

[@animeshadow2]

Looks like a fun book.

[@toeknee1505]

This DC Black Label Strange Adventures: The Deluxe Hardcover looks very interesting, Omar. I liked your overview of it. Thanks for the video, Omar. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@TheAdorableBrentHogan-gn3ht]

The Adam Strange Omni was my favorite Silver Age collection, by far. If this and Between Two Worlds are in an Omni one day, I hope they include all of the Green Lantern backups and Paul Pope’s story from Wednesday Comics.

[@odan-urr]

This is an awesome review, but I do wanna mention that Black Label is an age rating, not a determination if something is out of continuity. Not all Black Label books are out of continuity

[@NearMintCondition]

I thought about the age rating thing too, but the language is censored in this book for example.

[@eagleal]

"He kind of writes his own pocket universe". Omar you have just described Brian Michael Bendis and his treatment of characters! I've not read this version Adam Strange by Tom King (I did like Vision though), but I've heard criticism enough of it (and his Batman and Human Target). Actually I'm not sure why Marvel or DC really let certain writers get away with writing characters in this way (IE: can't be bothered to clue up on the characters they are writing). They might as well invent new characters to tell whatever the story is. Still, I'm a little intrigued by this though.

[@DrLynch2009]

My worst fears is one day King would want to pull one of this "Black Label" character assassination series on Superman.

[@devanbarrios9216]

I mean, he did write a Superman story for those Walmart exclusive comics. It's called Up In The Sky. And, as someone who doesn't really like Tom King's work, I thought it was really good.

[@Syncratci]

Up in the Sky exists and it's one of the better modern Superman stories.

[@CAPS0L]

Why is that a fear? If its out of continuity , who cares what happens to the characters? I think it's awesome to see these characters reimagined in a non continuity book. After seeing what he did with Supergirl, Id love to see Tom King write a 12-issue Superman mini series with real stakes.

[@devanbarrios9216]

I read Strange Adventures when it was coming out and I thought it was all around pretty good. I wish the ending was a bit more morally gray. [SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING] I thought it was dumb to kill Adam in the second to last issue. It felt like a last minute story change. I also wish we never got a clear answer on if Adam was working with the Pyykts.

[@komiksowyswiat7807]

Nice film

[@thechinchillachannel8457]

I bought the original HC and almost lost consciousness from boredom. I think I read approximately 2/3 of it and quickly skimmed the rest because I could no longer willingly subject myself to torture.

[@simpleton_dc2149]

While Tom King is a very polarizing comic book author, my biggest issue is the fact that DC has labeled this 400+ page book a deluxe edition and it doesn't have a sewn threw binding. It's essentially just another trade paper back that's been cased in. I have other things I'd rather spend my money on.

[@collectingmemoriesyt]

Yeah, with this page count and the price of it it really should have sewn binding.

[@andyking8524]

It’s not glued binding. It is sewn binding but DC put so much glue on it that it looks like glue binding but it you look carefully you can see the thread passing through the pages joining the blocks together.

[@simpleton_dc2149]

@@andyking8524 If it was sewn through binding the book would lay flat when open and you would see the spine of the book "threw up" which is the proper term for the shape the spine makes when open. I believe Omar refers to this shape often as the eye of the book. You also don't get any gutter loss with a book that has a sewn binding. With sewn binding the thread can be seen in the middle of each signature (a section of collected pages that has been folded in half) running parallel along the spine. There shouldn't really be any glue inside the pages of a book that is sewn, it should all remain on the outside spine of the signatures. It could be possible that some perfect binding machines kerf the spine of the book block and lace thread in the kerfs. If that's the case the thread would run perpendicular to the spine. My guess is the only sewn hardcover books DC actually sells are the omni's and the absolute editions, but that's just a guess.

[@simpleton_dc2149]

@@andyking8524 if you look at 19:41 you can see how the signatures of the book look more pointed than round... that's probably an indication that its a glued binding. A perfect binding machine grinds the spine before gluing to promote adhesion.

[@niccoloproia3678]

Another Deluxe edition wasted on an horrible Tom King book. The reason why all his mini-series are black label is due to the fact that even at DC they realized that King is basically unable to write a character properly therefore let's gonna put it in the black label category and call it a day. Adam Strange becomes a war criminal, Mr.Terrific was ruined by doing a completely 180 on his most important moment (like if Spider-Man would say that he's glad that Gwen Stacy died) and Strange's wife becomes the typical Tom King's female character: the boss mommy wife married to an incompetent and whiny man. Tom King can be appreciated only by people that know nothing on the character he's writing, that's why Gunn appreciated this series, i can assure you he's never read anything related to Adam Strange or Mr.Terrific (or Supergirl)

[@Funkey_Monkey31]

Supergirl is garbage only the art made me continue reading it. one bad day riddler and gotham year one were ok, the only book I enjoyed was the human target.

[@TheUnstoppableBar]

I don’t know much about Adam Strange so can’t say much about that, but I know Supergirl, and Woman of Tomorrow is one of the best Supergirl series. I got to speak about it with a bunch of die-hard Supergirl fans, who absolutely loved it. Woman of Tomorrow is probably one of his best works.

[@niccoloproia3678]

@@Funkey_Monkey31 One Bad Day Riddler is probably Riddler's worst story ever (and i thought that O Neil's The Question couldn't be beaten). Just the fact that he writes a Riddler that doesn't need to use riddles and that sees them just as his shtick is an enormous red flag, Robert Kanigher understood how to properly write the character and he did it in the freaking 60's but Tom "pretentious" King can't wrote a Riddler that doesn't seem a watered down version of the Joker. The Human Target had amazing art but that's it, how King massacred my boy Martian Manhunter is simply horrendous

[@supercard9418]

Vision and Human Target are the only books of his I like. But I understand how many hate Human Target because of the way he writes Manhunter and Gardner. But yes if you’ve read one Tom King story, you’ve read them all-Mister Miracle, Supergirl, Human Target, etc. all have the same alcoholic protagonist. I will say that Tom King always gets great artists. His Supergirl, Batman, and Mister Miracle are dogshit. DeMatteis is THE ultimate Mister Miracle writer

[@DrLynch2009]

Nailed.

[@brunobillion3435]

Probably the worst story Tom King wrote for DC along with Heroes in Crisis, although Danger Street is also a strong contender