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Josh flanagan, conor kilpatrick, and staff writers sonia harris and paul montgomery discuss the book in depth, and really talk about the things that work and dont work in the story. Starman 80page giant, which is an entertaining journey across the years of starmans existence. Starman was one of the finest series to come from dc comics in the 1990s, and its great to see it collected in deluxe form. The art is only getting better from the last volume, and robinson obviously loves the characters a great deal. A wicked inclination, as well as a number of tales of times past, in which the adventures of starmen of previous eras are set out. In this volume, starman stands shoulder to shoulder. The superheroic legacy of starman is renewed in these stories, in which jack knight antiques collector and dealer inherits the name and.
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