- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: REBELLION/2000AD; GRAPH edition (11 Sep 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905437773
- ISBN-13: 978-1905437771
- Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 18.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 403,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Available for the first time in paperback, these are the adventures of Ace and his cosmic crew of misfits as they keep on truckin' across the universe.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Ace Garp was one of the biggest idiots ever to appear in the pages of 2000AD, and this collection does the pointy headed moron proud! Inspired by the CB Radio craze of the early '80's, he's an alien space trucker plying his trade from planet to planet and landing himself - and his long suffering crew - in one bungled disaster after another. Massimo Belardinelli's beautifully deranged artwork suited the strip perfectly and the whole collection is a laugh from start to finish.
Eventually Wagner and Grant - writing under their regular pseudonym of Grant/Grover - ran out of steam and got so fed up writing the strip that they turned Ace into a fairly nasty piece of work and then killed him off, but in this collection they were still on top of their form and clearly enjoying themselves. As with all Rebellions reprints the pages are smaller than they originally appeared in 2000AD, but the artwork hasn't suffered in the slightest. In fact the print quality is much better than in some of the other trades they've released - no blurred pages or artwork with half it's lines missing here. All in all Rebellion are doing a fantastic job of bringing these old strips back to life after long years of neglect.
Reading this transported me back to the halcyon days of my childhood... for a few hours at least. Recommended!
Eventually Wagner and Grant - writing under their regular pseudonym of Grant/Grover - ran out of steam and got so fed up writing the strip that they turned Ace into a fairly nasty piece of work and then killed him off, but in this collection they were still on top of their form and clearly enjoying themselves. As with all Rebellions reprints the pages are smaller than they originally appeared in 2000AD, but the artwork hasn't suffered in the slightest. In fact the print quality is much better than in some of the other trades they've released - no blurred pages or artwork with half it's lines missing here. All in all Rebellion are doing a fantastic job of bringing these old strips back to life after long years of neglect.
Reading this transported me back to the halcyon days of my childhood... for a few hours at least. Recommended!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The Ace Garp stories haven't been reprinted in many years, so I was extremely pleased to finally find a collection of some of them, here. They were incredibly funny and one of the charms of the stories was the almost incomprehensible, mangled trucking-slang that Ace Garp used. The Ace Trucking Co stories are definitely in the top 5 of all 2000AD stories, given the wild artwork and the brilliant stories - a must-buy.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I was INCREDIBLY happy to find Ace Garp again and grabbed this without a second thought.
However, The low grade paper and small print size taints the reading experience a lot.
The book is comic size but the print only covers about two thirds of the page. There are no glossy or colour pages and the powdery paper is horrible.
SQUINTING TO READ A 2000AD COMIC ON THICK DUSTY LOO ROLL IS NOT FUN.
So far, this issue denies Ace access to a new generation.
It should be re-issued properly.
However, The low grade paper and small print size taints the reading experience a lot.
The book is comic size but the print only covers about two thirds of the page. There are no glossy or colour pages and the powdery paper is horrible.
SQUINTING TO READ A 2000AD COMIC ON THICK DUSTY LOO ROLL IS NOT FUN.
So far, this issue denies Ace access to a new generation.
It should be re-issued properly.
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