Grendel Omnibus Volume 1: Hunter Rose By Matt Wagner

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Matt Wagner's masterpiece celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with the firstever comprehensive collection of the complete Grendelsaga! The first of four volumes presenting the entire series and following the chronology of the stories, this edition introduces millionaire Hunter Rose and his alter ego, the criminal mastermind Grendel! Volume 1 reprints Grendel: Devil by the Deed; the short story collections Grendel: Black, White, & Red and Grendel: Red, White, & Black, featuring a host of legendary guest artists; and the epic Grendel: Behold the Devil. * The complete series, collected for the first time! "Grendel is a brave and possibly even reckless experiment that has succeeded admirably." Alan Moore (Watchmen)

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Grendel has its beginnings in the early-1980s black-and-white comic book boom, a minor interest title published from March 1983 to February 1984 by the then-upstart company Comico. Ostensibly the story of an assassin-for-hire named Hunter Rose, Wagner took his inspiration from pulp characters Diabolik and The Shadow and, in the startlingly experimental and masterful back-ups of his first Mage series, The Hero Discovered (1985-1987) --itself benefiting from a significant maturation in style mid-way through its run--Wagner subsequently refashioned Rose as a criminal mastermind and celebrated author. The initial black-and-white series, which Wagner now refers to as a "rough draft" -- it was not included in the first volume of the Omnibus series, Hunter Rose (2012), though it was reprinted in the non-canon Grendel Archives, a standalone volume published in 2007, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the character's inception -- was cancelled due to Comico's financial troubles at the time.One year later, in a light-years leap forward in artistic acumen, Wagner began a series of Grendel back-ups in his subsequent Comico title Mage. These were later collected as a 48-page, European-style album-sized "graphic novel" Devil By the Deed (1985), included here, revitalizing interest in the character. After Mage concluded, Comico quickly launched a second Grendel series; a different artist was used for each "incarnation" of Grendel as Hunter Rose died at the end of the Mage back-ups (a similar method was used to great success in Neil Gaiman's Sandman): the Pander Brothers for Christine Spar (Devil's Legacy, issues 1-12 [1986-1987]), Bernie Mireault for Brian Li Sung (The Devil Inside, issues 13-15 [1987]), Wagner for the Hunter Rose stories (Devil Tales, issues 16-19 [1988]), Tim Sale for Captain Wiggins and Grendel-Khan (The Incubation Years, issues 20-23 [1988] and Devil's Reign, 34-40 [1989-1990]) and John K. Snyder for Eppy Thatcher (God and the Devil, issues 24-33 [1988-1989]).This initial volume of Dark Horse's Omnibus series, eponymously-entitled Hunter Rose, focuses on what came to be Grendel’s initial host, undeniably Wagner's most interesting and enduring character. It collects nearly all of the Hunter Rose stories, with the exception of the initial 3-issue black and white run, and the unfortunate exception of Wagner's superb Batman/Grendel one-shots Devil's Riddle and Devil's Masque (both 1993), probably not included due to copyright and/or trademark issues.As noted, the volume does happily include Devil By the Deed -- albeit the recolored version -- the entirety of the two mini-series Black, White and Red (1998-99) and Red, White and Black (2002) (written by Wagner and drawn by an assortment of illustrators; somewhat of a mixed bag), and Wagner's ultimately disappointing Behold the Devil (2007-2008), disappointing in part because it is drawn in Wagner's post-Aerialist (1990) cartoon-style, which, while it works well with some of Wagner's later superhero work, similarly marred his Mage sequel The Hero Defined (1997-99).This cartoony style jars with the expressionistic Grendel and, oddly, seems a bit of a throwback to Wagner's earlier, amateurish pencil-work on the original Grendel series and the first third of Mage. For me, the pinnacle of Wagner's achievement, both narratively and stylistically, came between 1985 and 1989, with Mage's latter two-thirds (roughly issues 6-15), Devil By the Deed, Wagner's highly experimental Rose contributions to the second Grendel series (issues 16-19) and the first Batman/Grendel crossovers (published in 1993, but written and drawn in 1988-89).To my eyes, nothing Wagner has done before or since has matched these achievements. His new style, however manga and cartoon-influenced, betrays a disastrous sense of anatomy (even by cartoon standards), and often interferes with his oftentimes complex, nuanced storytelling.And, make no mistake, Wagner is a master storyteller, even if his dialogue occasionally falls flat. Compared with the first series, Mage II perfectly illustrates this overall decline in writing and drawing, even if the story itself manages to work despite those shortcomings.Grendel is another keen example of how Wagner's imagination has strayed too far and too wide from the initial concept that made Grendel such an engrossing and thought-provoking comic. In fact, Wagner's Hunter Rose saga can be viewed in some ways as a variation on The Shadow mythos -- and, to a lesser extent, Batman, insofar as Batman is a superhero version of Lamont Cranston; Andy Helfer's sadly underrated and short-lived The Shadow series (1987-89) (see the perceptive reconsideration from Chris Winderlich) is perhaps Wagner's Hunter Rose-era's closest cousin.It makes perfect sense, then, that Wagner's post-Grendel, post-Mage career at DC found him helming such decidedly pulp-derived titles as Sandman Mystery Theatre (1993-99) and several Batman storylines, most especially his notable Faces mini-series in the Batman anthology series Legends of the Dark Knight (1992).

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