View all copies of this ISBN edition: Synopsis. Premium Members Get 10% Off and Earn Rewards. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. Visit this page on the Barnes & Noble website to see everything they currently have available in the series. She realized that she didnt need to do much more than change who got the close-up; instead of Luke Skywalker, its the pilot of the fighter off to his left, who actually turns out to be the important one. This oversized edition, the format is larger than the regular IDW comic editions, is truly wonderful. That speaks to how quick of a pace that this book has. Buy this for the art or to collect, but if you are into comics for a great immersive narrative experience I don't think you will find it here. Now you really can enjoy the fantastic Kaluta art even more, and with the new great digital coloring as topping. I was quite happy to see that Starstruck was being reissued. Kaluta and Lee Moyer. As important, there are no explanatory boxes of narrative copy to be found in Starstruck, urging you along, making everything obvious. I fell in love with the "Starstruck" series back in the 80's. The first truly comprehensive collection of this material in a grand, over-sized edition, this beautiful book features some of the finest art ever put to paper by Kaluta, including many pages that were never printed in the original run. It's grand scale (often hilarious) science fiction starring two of the most kickass heroines ever to grace the comic book page. This is not found in here. 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2011. Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2012. The blurb for this book says "The first truly comprehensive collection of this material" Yet the story in this collection ends one issue into the six issue 1985-6 Marvel series, with "to be continued" on page 209. Now proceed with the action. Okaywhen? In fact, its hard to tell what Starstrucks arc might be, aside from certain stray clues that put a name to the eventual climax or possibly conclusion (The Great Change). Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2011. Library Journal"Leonard Maltin has earned his stellar reputation as a film historian, movie critic, author, and yes, even celebrity. HC in pictorial boards. I've been a fan since the eighties and it What a beauty! Or you can do both, walking its pages first as a tourist and on second reading as a detective. When I was in my early teens, I'd started reading comics again, after a disastrous end to my childhood's first comics collection. The artwork is beautiful. s early professional art appeared in pulp magazines, and the earliest comic book work appeared in various Charlton Comics. Kaluta is one of my favorites. Echoes of this aesthetic are certainly evident in Starstruck, in the way pages are composed and in Kalutas approach to many individual panels. Additionally, Leonard frequently lectures on film and was a member of the faculty of New York Citys New School for Social Research for nine years. Starstruck has repeatedly gotten bigger and better without getting any farther, at least in traditional story terms of the end being farther than the beginning and the middle. A long overdue colletion of a comics classic. Starstruck|Paperback Maltin and his wife were on the permanent guest list at the Playboy Mansion in the 1990s: Hef, the author recalls, was the most gracious and generous host I ever met. It seems likely that Maltin was among the most gracious and generous of guests. Buy Starstruck Deluxe Edition by Elaine Lee, Michael Wm. I fell in love with the "Starstruck" series back in the 80's. Things have been set into motion (were always already in motion), and Starstruck is the pinball machine of history in which these things, wobble, zing, rebound, and collide, clamorously and unpredictably. Amazon has encountered an error. Look elsewhere. I didn't return it only because my kid wants to check it out. Starstruck Deluxe Edition by Elaine Lee Leonard created, hosted and co-produced the popular Walt Disney Treasures DVD series and appeared on Warner Home Videos Night at the Movies features. This is a really great performance. At any rate this is a really cool book and I highly recommend it. Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2022. When I was in my early teens, I'd started reading comics again, after a disastrous end to my childhood's first comics collection. Collecting all 13 issues of the completely remastered Starstruck series by Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta - that's 280-pages of Starstruck and Galactic Girl Guides adventures, covers, pin-ups, glossary, postcards, and so much more The first truly comprehensive collection of this material in a grand, over-sized edition, this beautiful book feature. I was quite happy to see that Starstruck was being reissued. Starstruck Deluxe Edition - The Comics Journal He loomed especially large in the early Seventies, but even then his stories were relatively few: five issues of The Shadow, eight Carson of Venus backup stories in Korak, Son of Tarzan, and roughly a dozen stories in DC horror comics. When I was in my early teens, I'd started reading comics again, after a disastrous end to my childhood's first comics collection. This direct access to top talent has proven to be invaluable in his students own filmmaking endeavors. Covers for both Detective Comics and Batman were the next step, and, eventually, the nod to draw DC Comics 1970s versions of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Carson of Venus and Pulp Icon, The Shadow. David Ferguson, Red Carpet Crash"Ive read a lot of books during the pandemic but Leonard Maltins memoir was one of my most anticipated books of 2021. So disappointed I fell for the misleading listing. Sadly, my love affair with this series would continue to be from afar for several years. Some of the reviews are confusing, so: THIS ITEM IS NOT THE GRAPHIC NOVEL STARSTRUCK, and THIS ITEM IS THE SCRIPT TO THE ORIGINAL STARSTRUCK STAGE SHOW. If you already love Starstruck, this edition not only jumps off the page, it makes the story easier to follow than ever before. Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2011. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. She pulls off the coup, engineers the genre sex-change, without our even noticing. A fine copy, w/o dust jacket as issued. A genial, entertaining memoir." This oversized edition, the format is larger than the regular IDW comic editions, is truly wonderful. Kaluta is one of my favorites. Art by Michael Wm. Appropriately, they call it Starstruck: The Expanding Universe. When he was 15, he began to submit pieces to Film Fan Monthly, soon buying, writing for, and editing the magazine himself. The classic galaxy-spanning comic series has been a renowned stage play, audio drama, and now, the setting for a tabletop RPG actual play series!Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey brings the universe of Starstruck to the popular TTRPG actual play show, Dropout.tv's. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. And while Starstruck steers almost completely clear of confirming that sex has taken place anywhere, it also gives you the feeling that it might be happening everywhere, in any number of permutations. Starstruck by Elaine Lee, Susan Norfleet Lee, Dale Place, Paperback Starstruck Deluxe Edition by Elaine Lee Now you really can enjoy the fantastic Kaluta art even more, and with the new great digital coloring as topping. Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. I missed this when it first came out in the 1980s, but I love Mike Kaluta's stuff, especially the old DC Shadow issues. I was quite happy to see that Starstruck was being reissued. Everything adds up, even if you cannot figure out what it might mean or where its headed. 13). | Contact this seller. Nonetheless, this enjoyable anthology will be a welcome addition to the bookshelves of classic film fans. Publishers Weekly "I have read it, as in every word, as in reading nothing else till it was finished, as in being sorry when it was finished, because I could as much have enjoyed 400 more pages of Hooked On Hollywood's delve into sagas of past film all new to me, indeed unknown to anyone before Maltin dug his customary deep to find lost lore regarding movies we all love." About this title. I'd waited more than thirty years for it, and I was not disappointed. I would draw classic movie studio logos or try to list all 75 of Bogarts films. When he was 17, a teacher put him in touch with a book editor, who assigned him to write a movie reference guidea task that established his reputation for a career that, even then, seemed inevitable. I fell in love with the "Starstruck" series back in the 80's. I snagged the graphic novel and so was tickled to see that this version was being released. His memoir is a delightful collection of relatively short and breezy chapters indulging some of his favorite stars (Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Jerry Lewis, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gloria Stuart, Harlan Ellison) and subjects (such as jazz). Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood - Barnes & Noble But unlike Moore and Gibbons clockwork narrative machine, with its inexorable march toward a singular culmination and conclusion, Starstruck is not concerned with getting to the end. Absolutely enthralling. The additional material is a great bonus.It can really be seen that he did a lot of additional work and the story is fleshed out with a lot of details. A large percentage of the storys pages are designed to inspire reader desire (mostly but not exclusively for the female body). Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2011. He is less interested in creating a page in which the action and eye tumble from left-to-right and top-to-bottom, than he is in capturing a series of discrete moments elegantly, or in asking the reader to slow down and contemplate the page as a whole, or spend a good long time inside a panoramic panel. This is not found in here. His fan letters to admired performers led to unexpected correspondences, then to interviews and publication of his own fan magazine. [emailprotected], 7563 Lake City Way NE The bulk of the text consists of interviews with Hollywood performers and filmmakers conducted between 1967 and 2010. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Don't miss it! 1st Printing. has had incarnations as an EMMY-nominated actress and playwright, artistic director of a theatre company (Wild Hair Productions), comic book writer and color artist, animation writer and story editor, video game writer, and art director for a music company. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and accessing 1930s and 40s movies hitting the small screen. This is a gorgeous edition that showcases Kaluta's art, perhaps the best of his career. If you missed Starstruck in the 80's and 90's, this is a great opportunity to get in on it. Softcover, Book Description 1st edition. 1st edition. Outside USA: 206-524-1967, The Magazine of Comics Journalism, Criticism and History. More importantly, its a legitimate question whether Starstruck is in fact currently incomplete or whether it can be completed or whether it should be. It's grand scale (often hilarious) science fiction starring two of the most kickass heroines ever to grace the comic book page. Search for all books with this author and title, Collecting all 13 issues of the completely remastered. I snagged the graphic novel and so was tickled to see that this version was being released. (A gallery of Kaluta's Seventies DC work can be found on my bloghere. Some of the reviews are confusing, so: THIS ITEM IS NOT THE GRAPHIC NOVEL STARSTRUCK, and THIS ITEM IS THE SCRIPT TO THE ORIGINAL STARSTRUCK STAGE SHOW. For an artist made album, I expected more. I didn't return it only because my kid wants to check it out. Visuellement incroyable avec normment de recherches visuelles et de construction de monde (world building), une panoplie de personnages, de situations, d'absurde et de loufoque, mais ultimement un peu mlangeant et confus la lecture, on a beaucoup de mal comprendre ce qu'il se passe dans la premire partie et l'action se droule toujours trs rapidement. I read most of the comic back in the 80's (Never could find issue 5) and wished that it could have kept going. Most of the pages (the 'to be continued' first 208 pages) have lots of pictures, but in a rectangular grid pattern of black lined illustrations with to much of reflective white between them.

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