ianbanks's review
4.0
A fantastic mix of the absurd, the undergraduate and the meta. Howard mixes with the likes of Spider-Man, Man-Thing and several Roman-a-clef characters from our own world. Howard is probably Marvel's most bizarre and literate character that ever got his own long-running comic. It's a load of fun but shows the signs of author fatigue very early on. If there's a major problem it's that it can't decide if it wants to tell original stories or pastiches of other, more famous Marvel titles or even reject a lot of the tropes that Marvel has created or become famous for to bite the hand that feeds it. Undisciplined in places but has its own manic energy that makes the pages very easy to turn.
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