Based on the popular Hollywood stage show and podcast, The Thrilling Adventure Hour: Martian Manhunt follows fan favorite character Sparks Nevada.
Shine your astro spurs and don your robot fists! Justice rides a rocket steed across the crimson plains of the fourth planet, where one man brings hope to humans who make this frontier world their home. He is...Sparks Nevada: Marshal on Mars. Alongside his trusty Martian sidekick Croach, Sparks protects Mars from robot outlaws, alien invaders, and any galactic threat foolish enough to target the red planet.
Written by the creators of the wildly popular Hollywood stage show and podcast, Ben Acker and Ben Blacker (Deadpool, Star Wars Adventures), and illustrated by J. Bone (Batman: The Brave and the Bold), The Thrilling Adventure Hour: Martian Manhunt is a rip-roaring adventure that harkens back to the heyday of old-time radio entertainment. Collects The Thrilling Adventure Hour Presents: Sparks Nevada: Marshal on Mars #0-4.
Thrilling Adventure Hour gets the award for making me laugh the most this week. It was so absurdly hilarious it was impossible not to laugh out loud while reading it. Seriously, if you were facing imminent danger a la vampire threat, would you do everything to save your butt, or would you argue semantics with said vampire? Well I’m sure you can guess which option our heroes went with. I won’t spoil it for you, other than to say that I greatly enjoyed the debate. They also revealed more about the bigger picture during the argument, so it made the whole thing worthwhile and funny. I will say that the vampire system used is one of the more classical types; all the tropes and flaws one would expect. The application of some of these flaws was a bit more liberal, and some vampire aficionados may take offense to it. But it was all in light fun, so I didn’t mind it. I wasn’t expecting that certain ghost character to stick around, but it looks like he may end up being one of our sources of information. As it stands I think he knows more than the lovebirds do…at least by all appearances. Those two are so calm all the time it’s actually quite impossible to tell how much they know about any given situation.
