Indiana Jones Omnibus: The Further Adventures – Vol. 1
April 27, 2009 | Trades
Indiana Jones Omnibus: The Further Adventures – Vol. 1
Walter Simonson, John Byrne, Archie Goodwin, Howard Chaykin, Dave Micheline, Denny O’Neil, Kerry Gammill, Gene Day & others
Dark Horse Books
$24.95 (U.S.)
368-page paperback
*** (out of five)
If you were looking for a list of the top creators in comics in the early 1980s, all you need to do is spy the credits for first volume of Indiana Jones Omnibus: The Further Adventures.
Featuring work by comic icons like John Byrne, Archie Goodwin, Howard Chaykin, Denny O’Neil and even Canadian comic book hall of famer, Gene Day, these vintage Indy tales draw from these diverse talents and offer up more action than you can shake a whip at (and they might even be enough to banish Kingdom of the Crystal Skull from your memory).
Granted, the three-part comic book adaptation of Raiders of the Lost Ark that opens this omnibus isn’t the best work of classic creators Walter Simonson, John Buscema and Klaus Janson. It’s not pretty or even entirely faithful to the highly popular film, either.
But once you push past that, it’s over 300 pages of exhilarating, globetrotting archeological adventure sure to get you humming John Williams’ score in your head.
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