Legacy Of The Invisible Man
by Dave Ulanski, Art Nichols, Doug Klauba
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Author: Art Nichols, Dave Ulanski, Doug KlaubaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-12-02
ISBN: 0972166815
Number of pages: 48
Publisher: Moonstone
Book Reviews of Legacy Of The Invisible Man
Book Review: Pretty Average Comic Book Sequel to H G Wells' Classic Novel
Summary: 3 Stars
This a very thin comic book, no thicker than the old superhero comics you probably read as a kid that takes about 20 minutes to finish. Certainly is not the length of most other aimed at adult market comic books (or graphic novels as they are sometimes called) such as the Friday the 13th comic book sequels.
This is a fairly basic story, I guess the word count (or page count whatever comic books use) meant the authors couldn't really take it anywhere other than pretty much a skeleton plot outline. The outline is basically a young man named Wayland is told in the last breaths of his grandfather that there are some diaries that have been passed down from generation to generation. These belonged originally to Griffin (the scientist who was the invisible man in H G Wells' classic novel. Since the authors or publishers probably figure a lot of their readers haven't read that book they spend quite a few of the small number of pages in this comic book rehashing that story. Anyway he decides having an invisible man for the hotel he has just inherited will really fill it up so tracks down some long lost relative of Griffin's in America and hires him to make sense of the diaries and make an invisible man. Of course greed and betrayal mean nothing goes smoothly.
Not much really happens at all in this story, unless you're a huge invisible man genre fan, I'd give this a miss. If you want an interesting spin on Wells' novel check out the, The Invisible Man movie which although a bit different to the book still follows the basic plot. Also check out the novels Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H. F. Saint and Smoke by Donald E Westlake. Memoirs also has an 1980s Chevy Chase movie based on it which isn't bad (see Memoirs of an Invisible Man). It's probably the best of the invisible man films out there.
If it's junior fiction you're after then the best of this genre are My Best Friend Is Invisible (Goosebumps) by R. L. Stine, You Are Invisible: CYOA #48 by Susan Saunders, The Invisible Day by Marthe Jocelyn, Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex, you can even get an illustrated version of H.G. Wells 1897 classic The Invisible Man (Great Illustrated Classics).
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