About this title: Greatly influenced by the work of "Astro Boy" creator and 'God of Manga' Osamu Tezuka, McLoud created "Zot!" more than two decades ago at the tender age of 23, making it the first manga-inspired American comics ever. Zachary T. Paleozogt, popularly known as Zot is a blond haired, blue eyed teenage hero from an alternate Earth - this alternate reality is a retro-futuristic technological utopia where flying cars, robots and interplanetary travel are common and nearly all of its inhabitants benefit from peace, prosperity and a marked lack of conventional social ills. Jaunting back and forth ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC Country = UNITED STATES
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061537271ISBN:0061537276
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 576 pages. Zachary t paleozogt, known as zot is a teenage hero from an alternate earth. jaunting back and forth between the worlds seems exciting for zot at first, but there are subtle differences in the essential nature of the two pla*n*e*t*s that take some getting used to. nevertheless, zot eagerly takes on earth's challenges with the most amusing outcomes. black and white graphics throughout (Paperback) read more
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061537271ISBN:0061537276
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Date published: 2008
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Date published: 2008
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Date published: 2008-08-01
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Date published: 2008
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Date published: 2008-08-01
ISBN-13:9780061537271ISBN:0061537276
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"Zot! was something I bought because of the fame of the writer juxtaposed with a 40% off coupon at Borders. This book is worth the MSRP of $25, though.
It gets a little like a stereotypical hero comic every once in a while, but it manages to tell wonderful stories about life, love, happiness, innocence, and what being a hero really means.
I laughed, cried, and cursed the author for being a bastard. You'll know exactly where at if you've read it for that last one.
If you like science fiction in the slightest, pick this up and you won't be disappointed."
Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991
Reviewed by David on
2009-12-14 00:00:00.0.
Zot! was something I bought because of the fame of the writer juxtaposed with a 40% off coupon at Borders. This book is worth the MSRP of $25, though.
It gets a little like a stereotypical hero comic every once in a while, but it manages to tell wonderful stories about life, love, happiness, innocence, and what being a hero really means.
I laughed, cried, and cursed the author for being a bastard. You'll know exactly where at if you've read it for that last one.
If you like science fiction in the slightest, pick this up and you won't be disappointed.
Rating: 5
"I wasn't sure what to expect with Zot! But in every bookstore there is always one seriously abused looking copy of Zot (Joe told me this once, since then I have been checking and it appears to be true).
Zot is a super hero from another dimension, with a planet called Earth that has all of the good things and none of the bad. He is friends with Jenny from our Earth and meets all of her other friends. The first half of the book focuses on Zot and his adventures facing super villians in his world. It is discovered that there are several things such as songs that shouldn't be in Zot's world because the acts the works are based on never occurred there. Zot and his Uncle Max plan on coming to Earth to decipher which Earth is the true Earth and which might be a copy, but Zot gets stuck on our Earth and Uncle Max gets left behind. Then the book focuses on Jenny and her friends, their lives and experiences in school and at home.
The stories are wonderful,however I kind of wish they had gone back to working on which Earth was the copy. I feel like that could have been an interesting story too."
Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991
Reviewed by Rosalia on
2009-10-19 00:00:00.0.
I wasn't sure what to expect with Zot! But in every bookstore there is always one seriously abused looking copy of Zot (Joe told me this once, since then I have been checking and it appears to be true).
Zot is a super hero from another dimension, with a planet called Earth that has all of the good things and none of the bad. He is friends with Jenny from our Earth and meets all of her other friends. The first half of the book focuses on Zot and his adventures facing super villians in his world. It is discovered that there are several things such as songs that shouldn't be in Zot's world because the acts the works are based on never occurred there. Zot and his Uncle Max plan on coming to Earth to decipher which Earth is the true Earth and which might be a copy, but Zot gets stuck on our Earth and Uncle Max gets left behind. Then the book focuses on Jenny and her friends, their lives and experiences in school and at home.
The stories are wonderful,however I kind of wish they had gone back to working on which Earth was the copy. I feel like that could have been an interesting story too.
Rating: 4
"The disappointing collection of a late 1980's+ black and white comic. It has been called retro-sci-fi. Zot comes from an alternate earth where he is a superhero and interacts with a human girl on our earth. The dialogue is bad, the stories not very compelling, but the art is okay. Truth, i did not read all of this, so maybe it gets better, but I just didn't like it. Plus, the first ten issues aren't included here, so you are plopped right into an already existing storyline without the background. Annoying."
Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991
Reviewed by Ryan on
2009-05-17 00:00:00.0.
The disappointing collection of a late 1980's+ black and white comic. It has been called retro-sci-fi. Zot comes from an alternate earth where he is a superhero and interacts with a human girl on our earth. The dialogue is bad, the stories not very compelling, but the art is okay. Truth, i did not read all of this, so maybe it gets better, but I just didn't like it. Plus, the first ten issues aren't included here, so you are plopped right into an already existing storyline without the background. Annoying.
Rating: 1
"This book was unexpectedly loaned to me by a friend who works in the same shopping center that I do. I've read Understanding Comics and its sequels, and was only sort of vaguely aware that Scott McCloud had done an actual comic series before writing them.
This wasn't really my thing, but I think it was largely a product of the time it came out of. There was a 'very special episode' quality to some of the more serious stories (a fact that McCloud acknowledges in his commentary), and the less serious stuff was ohmygosh kind of silly and lighthearted in a way that I didn't really know what to do with.
Actually the commentary was really worth reading. For one thing, McCloud is one of the best writers-about-comics that I've read, he's aware of the shortcomings of his youthful endeavors, and his discussions of the areas that he was not pleased with were interesting. I also really enjoyed his breakdown of the six main villains in the story (though I was surprised that he thought the 'ghost in the machine' characters were more frightening and likely than the 'capitalism run amok' ones).
Also, I think McCloud's academic approach to comic making is evident in his drawing and panel layouts. It was cool to see things that he's written about, elements of visual storytelling that I recognize because I read 'Understanding Comics', and go, ooh! Look! He's doing that thing! Although I sometimes found that the inclusion of those elements did make the comic feel more academic and less natural."
Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991
Reviewed by Alana on
2009-04-28 00:00:00.0.
This book was unexpectedly loaned to me by a friend who works in the same shopping center that I do. I've read Understanding Comics and its sequels, and was only sort of vaguely aware that Scott McCloud had done an actual comic series before writing them.
This wasn't really my thing, but I think it was largely a product of the time it came out of. There was a 'very special episode' quality to some of the more serious stories (a fact that McCloud acknowledges in his commentary), and the less serious stuff was ohmygosh kind of silly and lighthearted in a way that I didn't really know what to do with.
Actually the commentary was really worth reading. For one thing, McCloud is one of the best writers-about-comics that I've read, he's aware of the shortcomings of his youthful endeavors, and his discussions of the areas that he was not pleased with were interesting. I also really enjoyed his breakdown of the six main villains in the story (though I was surprised that he thought the 'ghost in the machine' characters were more frightening and likely than the 'capitalism run amok' ones).
Also, I think McCloud's academic approach to comic making is evident in his drawing and panel layouts. It was cool to see things that he's written about, elements of visual storytelling that I recognize because I read 'Understanding Comics', and go, ooh! Look! He's doing that thing! Although I sometimes found that the inclusion of those elements did make the comic feel more academic and less natural.
Rating: 2
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