From EPIC ILLUSTRATED during Shooter's reign...




I highly recommend DREADSTAR:THE BEGINNING hardcover, reprinting Jim Starlin's very nice painted artwork from "Metamorphosis Odyssey" in EPIC ILLUSTRATED 1-9 (1980-1981), THE PRICE graphic novel from Eclipse (Oct 1981), and DREADSTAR graphic novel for Marvel (1982), along with a 24-page painted story in EPIC ILLUSTRATED 15 (Dec 1982), that served as a lead-in to the DREADSTAR comics series in 1982 (which was a return by Starlin to pen-and-ink comic art and abandonment of painted art).

About 225 pages, and exceptional story and art.



It gains a great deal in this collected hardcover format. My only complaint is it's 7" X 10", and I would have preferred it in slightly larger 8" X 11" size, as the original EPIC and Graphic Novel stories were.