Russ Manning
Birth date: January 05, 1929
Died: December 01, 1981
Russ Manning's Books
You can tell that these were a product of the late 70s and early 80s. I lost count of how many times Leia needed to be rescued. True, she was more active than your average damsel in distress, but still got really annoying, especially when she did things that were out of character. The later stories ...
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, along comes volume 2. Why am I such a sucker?
I read this for the sake of completion. Thought I might find something to like in this volume. I didn't.
To say these haven't aged well is an understatement. The only thing I enjoyed was some of the art.
Magnus, Robot Fighter is so much fun, but in hindsight I may be glad that I started with the third volume, the beginning is pretty crazy, but definitely leans more toward "crazy and ridiculous," without quite as much "awesome." (But still plenty of it.)Still, the whole idea of showing humanity's ove...