OK is the first description that comes to mind. Its nothing special I expect that the next few that are written by Garth Ennis are much better, myself being a fan of his Preacher series. If you are looking to buy this comic I would recomend Lucifer over Hellblazer. Lucifer is dark fantasy while hellblazer is more thriller seems to be in the comic style vain of Se7en. Anyways Lucifer is more intresting definitly a charismatic charicter, I really don't like Constantine I am halfway through this comic I just can't identify with his character.

I've read... 3 hellblazers, this is the best. Guess I'm not much of a fan of Garth, prolly I knew a Gareth once and he hated being called Garth. So, what's to say. John faces demons, fights demons, foils plots left and right, kills off people. It wasn't quite what I expected, but it doesn't rely on shock tactics nearly as much as later volumes. Also he spectacularly fails to evince any powers, save only one. I guess that's sposed to show how skilled he is. Good stuff, don't get later ones. By the by, it's a good deal darker than the John Constantine in the Sandman volumes.

I recently started reading the Hellblazer monthly comic book, and I just had to start collecting the TPBs. John Constantine is a fascinating character that I want to know more about. The only difficulty this collection (Issues 1-9) presents is some crossings with the Swamp Thing. I probably should try to get some Swamp Thing as well for the full picture. I like the horrific tone of this collection, plus the supernatural edge it has.

I almost bought this book but was fortunate enough to find a copy at my local public library. (I heartily recommend that alternative to buying the book if you have a choice.) I started reading it with great anticipation, but was disappointed off the bat by all the filler material on Bob Stupak's father, Chester. Yeah, sure, the old man was a great influence on his son, but two paragraphs would have sufficed! Next, I kept expecting to read interesting anecdotes about Vegas World, one of the funkiest gambling joints the world will ever know--the very epitome of cheesy. However, the stories just aren't there, and it is a major shortcoming. Finally, even the manner in which the author addresses the great plunge the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino took after it opened in 1996 makes that event--the repercussions of which are still felt today in Las Vegas--seem anticlimactic and irrelevant.

In short, the tower, which Stupak originally conceived as a cash cow, turned out to be his biggest folly and the instrument of his demise. That is the real story of Bob Stupak, but you won't get it in this jumbled, incoherent tome.

Most interesting...biography of Bob Stupak. Easy read. If you wonder where did the idea of the Stratosphere come from... this has the answers. Bob Stupak is a fascinating gentleman, this tells his story. I just returned from a visit to Vegas and went to the top of Stratosphere, road the High Roller Roller Coaster and took the Big Shot...came across this book while in Vegas and couldn't put it down. Gives background of several casinos and the personalities involved with them... recommend it.

Great book. Being a regular Las Vegas visitor I have always been intrigued by the incredible Stratosphere Tower and Casino, and wanted to learn a bit more about Bob Stupak, the Stratosphere creator and infamous Vegas personality. What a fascinating life Stupak has had. Everything from his motorcycle racing days, to his early struggles of trying to succeed in the cutthroat Vegas gaming industry. Here is a man with an 8th grade education that overcame staggering odds to become one of the most successful independent operators in the city. He survived a heavy handed Nevada Gaming Control Board, as well as a motorcycle accident that nearly killed him. There is a lesson in this book for all of us. The key word is DETERMINATION! I hope one day my travels in Vegas will give me the opportunity to meet Mr. Stupak, who no matter what you think of him, has left a lasting impression on the Las Vegas skyline that will be a reminder of him for years to come.

In this book Smith wrote a much better story than the hatchet job he did on casino mogul Steve Wynn. Hey John how about a book on one of the true gentleman gaming legends in Vegas, none other than Jackie Gaughan? If written in the even handed manner of your Stupak book, I'll be the first buyer in line!!

I admit that John Byrne is a hard-working fellow. He writes, draws, inks and letters most of his own work, as is the case here. The case with this book, though, is that he makes up a boring plot. Plain and simple, it's boring. B-O-R-I-N-G. And the dialogue is so corny.

Captain America and Batman meet up during the 1940s to face off against their arch rivals, Red Skull and Joker. The book has Red Skull and Joker woking together as a team, only to have Joker betray Skull because he's a Nazi. As if the giant Swasticka didn't all ready point that out. And since when does the Joker have morals? Isn't he supposed to be an insane murderer?

The most insane, cracked-out part about this book, though, has to be when Captain America faces the ultimate Nazi weapon. It's sort of a tank that's the size of huge city building. It is very well drawn, that I admit, but so totally unrealistic...and I'm talking about a comic book, where we're supposed to stretch our imaginations to believe that such things can be possible!! Captain America takes it out EASILY, no sweat!

The only reason why this book gets two stars is because this is probably the best showing of Byrne's art. That's as good as it gets, folks. One hundred pages of pretty good artwork, and one hundred pages of total [garbage] for a story. Don't even think about buying this.

it's awesome. John Byrne's more than beautifully detailed artwork never looks better.

The story is poignantly written. It's great to see Batman and Captain America and their sidekicks Robin and Bucky join forces to defeat their respective enemies. I liked the concept of Joker and Red Skull as the villain duo of the book.

What better team-up than this pairing? Pairing of DC's Batman and Marvel's Captain America. The duo are arguably the best fighter in his own universe.

the ending was well done with a feeling of inspiration.

This book is fun, exciting and exhilirating. Good for the Byrne fan, the comic fan, or anyone who likes a good story, powerfully and neatly told.

The story takes place in the days when Silver Surfer was still Galactus' herald. Darkseid amasses a force against Galactus unlike when the latter came to Earth and all there was to fight him were the Fantastic Four. Good premise with the promise of a big showdown between Galactus and Darkseid. Only problem is that the story and characters just seem to go through their paces and the art seems lumbering toward the end. The status quo is changed back to what it was in the beginning. There are a few surprises like Silver Surfer rebelling against Galactus and the New Gods stepping back and hoping that Galactus destroys Darkseid and his world. This book should shine but doesn't but would be a shame to ignore it, either. A must for fans of Jack Kirby's characters.

After reading this crossover, I am quite convinced that the New Gods stories that Jack created for DC, would have been much more at home in the Marvel Universe, read the dialoge between Darkseid and Galactus and you will see why.

The work is wonderful because it uses characters created by the late great Jack "King" Kirby. The creations are rendered my the master John Byrne. The work shows how dastardly Darkseid really is and how powerful Galactus is in the universe. Please try to find this book. It incredible.

Stellar art, intrigueing plotting, and a story that isn't mired in too much continuity made for an excellent read. Both characters are handled extremely well. Perfect examples being the first story's use of Doom's obsession with his mother and the second's forcing of Iron man to reluctantly use magic.The book also made excellent use of playing two characters with many intrigueing parallels off one another.
The second story suffers slightly because it comes of as a slightly more light hearted sequel of the first, but the encounters between the Doom, Iron Man and their respective counterparts in the future more than make up for it.

Hey -- if David Michelinie and Bob Layton are doing Iron Man, you can rarely go wrong! This TPB features IM and Doc Doom being transported to the past -- King Arthur's time -- and then to the future of the year 2093. (The original comics were Iron Man #149-150, and then #249-250.) The tales are wonderfully woven, script and art both.

You may also want to check out a Marvel "What If?" that detailed Iron Man's adventures if he was *stuck* in the King Arthur past.

Collection of stories in this tradepaperback from the acclaimed David Michelinie/Bob Layton run writing IRON MAN, in which the Golden Avenger clashes with the metal madman from Laveria and end up going back in time and then to the future with King Arthur and the wizard Merlin. Great reading for Iron Man fans and one hopes they make an Iron Man film someday as the character could make an easy transistion from comics to film.

Trying to follow the electrical diagrams in this book will reveal its limitations. Other sections seem a bit brief also. However, with the exception of the Volvo factory books, this is the best general reference that I have found. The factory books are purchased seperately, and are meant to go into a binder. To buy all the factory books for the 740 would cost over $3000, making this book a bargin!

Although there have been a few things that I was interested in that were not included in the book, for the most part it's a sufficient repair manual. I'm a very inexperienced mechanically, but I've been able to do quite a bit of work on my 740s using this book. It does cover stuff that I wouldn't even think of doing though---including pulling the tranny apart...

I searched the entire book and found no infomation on how to service or troubleshoot the high beam switch. I did see the turn signal portion but no information on the high beam switch.

I've read all of the stories in this Batman TPB, and while the Bat-Mite and Poison Ivy tales are OK, the first tale, "Blades" by Robinson and Sale, is spectacular. If you're a fan of "Starman" or anything else by Robinson, buy this quick. If you like great storytelling and great art by Sale, buy this quick!

I especially liked the story with Bat-Mite! HE is so cute and funny. "Hothouse" is a little confusing though, but I think I pretty mush got it down.

I truly would like to recommend "Sacrificed Sheriff" more strongly. It provides a wealth of factual information about John Behan, the Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, when the city of Tombstone reached its pinnacle of fame as the site of the so-called Gunfight at the OK Corral and the surrounding events. Behan's reputation, as Bob Alexander vehemently protests, has long been assailed through innuendo and an unfairly selective use of evidence, painting him as a weak and corrupt opponent of Wyatt Earp and his brothers. In Alexander, Behan has at last found a very sympathetic biographer, perhaps a biographer too sympathetic to objectively view the historical questions involved. While Alexander repeatedly (and rightly) protests the negative assumptions and interpretations of evidence used in the past against Sheriff Behan by various writers, Alexander himself falls into the same trap, seemingly never missing an opportunity to paint Wyatt Earp in the darkest colors, repeating sketchy rumors and always promoting the most negative answer to any question.

I confess a particular personal aversion to some stylistic choices made by Alexander, most notably the lavish use of italicized words and exclamation points throughout his text. Reading this, I could not help but feel that the author is displaying an unseemly indignant petulance not at all appropriate for anyone attempting an objective history. In the end, I think that Mr. Alexander has eroded the effectiveness of his own book by such devices and through a blatant display of partisanship in his unceasing attacks upon Wyatt Earp at every opportunity (extending to creating such opportunities even where the narrative text about Behan, supposedly the focus of the book, does not logically involve Earp at all). At times, Alexander seems to confuse the opinions of earlier authors of an "anti-Earp" bent with actual evidence, citing with relish almost anything unflattering ever written about the man whom popular history has chosen, instead of Sheriff Behan, to be at the center of Tombstone's story. I believe that "Sacrificed Sheriff" would have benefited greatly from a strong editor who would have toned down Mr. Alexander's all too evident antipathy towards Wyatt Earp and kept the book's focus more clearly on its supposed central subject.

Do I encourage persons interested in the controversies surrounding Tombstone in its glory days to read Alexander's book? Yes, I do. But I caution them to read it for the facts given about John Behan's life rather than for the interpretations the author makes about Behan's opponents.

The "Sacrificed Sheriff" is an excellent and well documented read. It provides a wealth of factual information about John Behan, the Sheriff of Cochise County, AZ. Behan's reputation, has too long been outright lies and innuendos. The footnotes in this text indicate it is well researched and make for easy confirmation of Alexander's story, unlike the so called auto-biographies of Wyatt, Virgil and Josephine Earp. Behan is nothing less than a partiot who served his country well while the Earps were seeking personal wealth and self-agrandized fame. You should read all the Earp texts before delving into this factual account of Arizona history.-Bill McLennan, San Antonio, TX

Novelist Greg Rucka came aboard the Batman books during the groundbreaking "No Man's Land" epic. I loved that story arc, but since then, I've found Rucka's work, both on Batman and other comics (Whiteout, Batman/Huntress, etc.) to be either hit or miss. He is capable of great work, as the Two-Face story in this book shows, but when he's off his game.....oh boy.

The biggest problem here is Editorial; When DC rebooted Detective Comics, post NML, they made a few awful decisions- Artist Shawn Martinbrough's work is boring and nondescript, and it's made even worse by the "Limited" Colors used. The book looks like someone spilled a mug of Hot Chocolate on it. Just awful. Why bother to color it at all? It would be much more palatable in black and white.

An Editor should also have stepped in to stop Rucka from using a ridiculous designer drug as his plot device; The drug doesn't just addict, it turns it's users into animals. Literally. Snakes, Wolves, etc. After years spent trying to keep The Batman books (Semi)believable, the sight of addicts turning into snakes had me howling with laughter. Is this the best the great Ra's Al Ghul could do? Pathetic! Ra's Al Ghul is not my favorite Batman villain, but I think that's why he never used to turn up much: It took a really talented writer to do something with him. Rucka was not that writer. After all of that buildup, the story doesn't end, so much as stop. It's almost like Rucka ran out of writing paper....

With the great array of Batman books out there, you can't really be in bad enough shape that you'll want to waste your cash on this....

Great read. Not so great art work but you can't blame that on rucka can you. Rucka did a great job with the villans i think. i purchased this along with batman broken bat. Broken Bat was a little better cause of the art work. BUY THIS BOOK!

Frank Miller, Jeph Loeb, Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka. What do all of these guys have in common? Apart from being absolute masters of the comic book medium, and also being able to tell cracking good mystery tales, they have the distinction of being able to give us the BEST Batman tales. Greg Rucka's take on Batman/Bruce Wayne is at once both believable and fantastic! Do yourself a favour and check this book out. The story flows along at a brisk pace and the art is done in a psuedo film nior style. Very groovy.

Pretty uninteresting stories with the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight living different lives in alternate histories. Nothing new about them, but it does see how comic book writers have run out of creative stories to do with these two heroes.

I liked the Batman story. It was kind of laid out like a movie. The Superman story was a little weak.

I thouroughly enjoyed this collection of new takes on the dc comics mythologies. The piratwe \\ Joker was the best!!!!!