The Nevermen - Softcover

Amara, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569715750 ISBN 13: 9781569715758

Publisher: Dark Horse Books, 2001

Synopsis

"This never happened. We were never here." Where they come from, no one knows. Where they go when their crime-fighting work is done is a mystery. They are the Nevermen, the greatest heroes who never existed -- in the mission they never expected! One of the Nevermen is missing, taking with him the only clues to a plot that has the criminal underworld in turmoil. With homicidal monkey butlers, disembodied living heads, the diabolical League of Crows, and the mysterious villain known as Clockwork arrayed against them, the remaining Nevermen find themselves seeking the help of one of their former companions now turned free-lance avenger -- The Murderist -- in order to stem the swelling tide of evil that threatens not only the Nevermen's beloved city, but the very fabric of time and space! This definitive collection of the four-issue series also includes the hard-to-find Nevermen tales from Dark Horse Presents!

About this title

Review:

Rarely is a comic-book world as claustrophobic as that of Phil Amara's The Nevermen. The dark city is filled with gloomy alleys and capped by drafty rooftops; its citizens are all clothed in mystery and seem to have business outside the book's plot. The title characters are five nearly identical trench-coated crime fighters scouring their city of evil and searching for their missing partner. The beautifully drawn villains are too numerous to keep up with. From the fez-wearing Cthulhoid gentleman to the zombie crime lord, they usually exit as swiftly as they appear. The story falls just short of living up to its Phil Dick-inspired promise, but it is nevertheless satisfying and well worth a dozen readings. --Rob Lightner

From the Publisher:

Dark Horse editor and esteemed comics writer Phil Amara is a young veteran of the comics industry who got his start in the business as a freelance writer for a variety of comics news publications. During his college years, Amara produced a weekly comics-oriented radio show through which he interviewed legendary comics creators such as Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Moebius, and others. A graduate school internship with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle creator Kevin Eastman eventually blossomed into a full-time job at Kitchen Sink Press in the early 1990s. Amara's Kitchen Sink years allowed him to edit an astounding array of top-caliber books and creators including Will Eisner's The Spirit, Alan Moore's From Hell, and Mark Schultz's Xenozoic Tales. Amara joined Dark Horse as an editor in 1996 and, as a writer, has contributed a steady stream of great stories for Dark Horse titles including Star Wars, Aliens, Scatterbrain, and Dark Horse Presents, in addition to editing SpyBoy, Planet of the Apes, and Sock Monkey, among others. In 1999, Amara teamed with artist Guy Davis on the creation of The Nevermen - a fantastic and critically-acclaimed "sci-noir" tale recently released as a graphic novel by Dark Horse.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dark Horse Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1569715750
• ISBN 13: 9781569715758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• Illustrator: Davis Guy