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An actual paper comic book

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2014

Sad when actual paper is considered a flashback. I looked for this for my wife while at San Diego Comic(?) Con. Hollywood took over loading docks and mom and pop stores are hard pressed to bring lower priced books to pay shipping costs.

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David Waweru

Bedazzled

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2020

It's definitely a product of it's time. A Surprisingly adult themed book. While it is a book about a mutant, it's really a look at how easy it is to take advantage of people trying to reach their dreams.

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Ryan Macri

This is a Waste of a fantastically talented Artist!

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2018

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While the artwork in this book is gorgeous, I found the storyline to be GROSS! Alison "Ali" Blaire is an aspiring singer who has just moved to Los Angeles. She is a kind person who cares about other people. She is athletic and teachers a dance class. At first, book represents her as a strong independent woman while men objectify her and offer her the quote opportunity to sleep her way to the top she defends her dignity until those creeps to back off. However, a few pages after that a disgusting, lecherous, womanizing, old washed up record producer - Breaks into her apartment and attempts to force himself on her!!! Such a creepy scene! Anyway, she fights him off, however, the next day he convinces her to go to dinner with him and within three pages there in love.

One of the most disgusting things about the book was when she decides for no reason that she's in love with this lecherous creep and she uses the same dialogue that he used when he was trying to basically rape her to seduce him. When all this weirdness first started happening I thought it was some kind of weird mind-control thing like the way Thanos's brother Eros can make women fall instantly in love with him. But it wasn't and the next thing Ali is smoking and drinking and no longer taking any care of herself either physically or emotionally. She lets this old washed up creep buy her everything and she becomes completely dependent on him. This is a GROSS nasty book which reads like a disgusting sexual fantasy of a creep like Harvey Weinstein! In the time when this kind of disgusting behavior is getting national attention, Marvel should create a follow-up to this book In the same way that they retroactively tried to fix the rape of Carol Danvers. Call Chirs Clarmount! Gross James Shooter just gross!

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James Quinn

Jim Shooter's Vanity Project

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2013

I guess this graphic novel is basically the pitch for a movie that was never made about this character.

To me Dazzler represents much of what was craven about Marvel during the Jim Shooter, Editor in Chief, era. Dazzler was a character created specifically to be cross-promoted with Casablanca records. Shooter had immense difficulties getting any of Marvel's talent to work on this ego-driven schlock project. Casablanca kept demanding changes to the character, and then backed out of the whole deal before she even appeared in comic form. Shooter, a dangerous idiot and pathological liar, pushed forward on the project pretending Dazzler was not a failed cross-over product but rather an example of how Marvel Comics was not afraid to address controversial contemporary topics, . . . such as the problems pretty blond women have earning respect as disco singers?!?!

Continuing to try to sell Dazzler to a film production company, Shooter forced writers across Marvel to feature the character in cross-over appearances in their comics and the whole mess was embarrassing to the company and resented by the creators and reading audience. I guess this book was Shooter finally pulling the martyr card, "If Hollywood is too "conservative" and "safe" to make a Dazzler movie I at least will release the story as a comic so as not to deprive the reading public of this important cultural statement about how we all should be more accepting of hot blond teen disco singers/movie actresses."

Shooter is just a hideous person who made the world a measurable worse place through the damage he did to the comic industry. The fact that he forced Marvel employees to work on a graphic novel he basically self-published about a pet-project as vapid as Dazzler just to feed his stubborn ego reveals quite a bit about his character.

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