Telling "House Style" to go take a hike. This was Marvel going outside of its comfort zone and doing a miniseries using "indie" artists. Some of these artists sell better than anything Marvel puts out--but they just aren't suitable for "mainstream comics".There's a lot of hit-and-miss in this collection. I'd ultimately be much more impressed if the art styles made it into traditional comics, as fill-ins, guest appearances or flashback/dream sequences rather than accentuating how "strange" this a...

I liked most stories. I heard of this book because Jhonen Vasquez contributed a comic to this book, so that is how I heard of it, because Jhonen is AWESOME! His comic was really cool, and so as many other comics in this book. So, four stars.

Funny but uneven. Some of the strips didn't make any sense to me at all (but I also don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of D-list Marvel characters, so maybe that's it).

Face front, true believers! This collection was one hell of a 'Marvel'ous steaming mess!Other GR reviewers have used the phrase and/or variations of 'hit or miss, with more misses,' and I couldn't agree more. Strange Tales is a big mood-whiplash anthology - featuring an eclectic line-up of artists and their styles - which uses a boatload of sophomoric humor to poke some fun at a number of Marvel's flagship characters and their attributes . . . while also including a handful of oddly serious segm...

Not worth the time it took to write this.

As a child, my primary exposure to comics came from the Marvel stockpile with a sprinkling of DC, Archie, and Richie Rich. Being an Air Force brat living overseas for many of my prime being-brainwashed-by-comics years, I had access to The Stars and Stripes bookstore on base, and not much else. It was only as a teenager that I became aware of such things as independent and/or underground comics. For years, I was forced to "make mine Marvel". Now, that's not a bad thing. I really enjoyed Thor, Con...

This collection is hit and miss, mostly miss. What's good is very good, but most of it is mediocre at best. Indy artists making Marvel parodies that are commissioned and published by Marvel are never going to be as subversive or transgressive as they need to be to be interesting.

Strange Tales mixes classic Marvel characters with indie artists and the results are strange — yet it works, for the most part. Paul Pope (Batman 100), Molly Crabapple, Jhonen Vasquez and Jeffrey Brown (Incredible Change-Bots, Bighead) are only some of the artists and writers brought together for this project.In turn, they focus their unique perspectives on Dr. Strange, The Punisher, Iron Man, Spider-man, the Hulk and other Marvel mainstays. More often than not, the results are comedy gold like

Good stories by Pope, Mizuno, Cloonan, and Sakai, but not really enough to warrant paying the HC price. There is a kind of disappointing snobbery in how a lot of the creators approach the material, and some weird obsession with how superheroes eat.

Various independent comic book artists get their hands on the most popular Marvel characters in this anthology book. While usual superhero comics tend to be repetitive narrations these short stories are daring and fresh. Mostly more hit than miss...

3.5 starsA fun experiment that includes a ton of well-known indie cartoonists from the mid-00s. Not every story is great, and I enjoyed the absurd and silly takes way more than the few serious ones, but it’s solidly entertaining to see each creator tell a Marvel story with their distinct (and usually weird) visual aesthetic and tone.

A fun, very silly compilation of short comics in the style of Marvel's What If? but with an absurdist twist. There's some really funny stories in this and ones that are just a bit silly. Since humour is very subjective, I think it's worthwhile for Marvel fans to check out and find something they'll like. Oh, great mix of artists on this too!

Marvel characters being drawn and written by indy icons and favorites in an irreverent manner? yes please!This volume is a collection of stories that range from absurd, to exciting, to drab, to not so good at times. For the most part the volume is a success, with each vignette unrelated to the previous or next vignette, forming a cavalcade of cool snippets. This is almost like the newspaper funnies, but with Marvel characters. Some have fun, cartoony art, some have amazingly detailed art. Some a...

The book takes the same premise as DC's Bizarro books where well known comic book heroes appear silly and go on daffy adventures. It's the comic book equivalent of going on vacation. So with that in mind I was looking for a good time, some jokes, some light entertainment. And most of the book is just this. I enjoyed James Kochalka's Hulk scripts where he has Hulk fight Rain (yes the weather) and write a diary. Jason's Spiderman is insecure that he hasn't ever been in a bar fight and so goes out

A strange blend of largely nonsensical stories involving Marvel comics characters. Glad I only paid $3.00 at the local Goodwill bookstore.

I like many of these creators (and I am sure they can use the paycheck from Marvel/Disney), but I don't get the impression that they have many interesting things to say about Marvel superheroes. Kochalka's hilarious Hulk shorts were the only contributions that really worked for me - especially the one that has him taking on the rain that falls from the sky: his most epic battle yet!

This is a great anthology featuring the best creators from independent and alternative comics. It is a hardcover collection that is sure to have a story or two that would entertain even the most discriminating comics connoisseur. I am very pleased that this book has rare Marvel work from my favorite non-mainstream favorites like Paul Pope, Stan Sakai and Becky Cloonan. It is also a good primer for sampling the work of other independent and alternative stalwarts as they handle and skewer familiar...

Like in any anthology, the content of Weird Tales from Marvel can be hit or miss. To be fair, I totally forgot about all of the all-star talent they were able to bring in for the book. Basically, a slew of indie creators were brought in to do their own unique takes on Marvel Superheroes. Most of them are really strange, outlandish, or just a different perspective.I bought this anthology about a decade ago, and that’s probably the last time I read it. However, I did not remember that this collect...

This was awful. Why is this even a thing that exists.

The Short of It: A mixed bag, wherein the good is REALLY good and the bad is just so-so.I reread this collection every now and again, and always for the same artists: Jason and Peter Bagge. As a matter of fact, they are the reason why I heard of Strange Tales in the first place. I was idly searching my library's card catalog, trying to find books of theirs I'd yet to read, and I found this. Not normally a Marvel comic reader, I decided to check it out anyway. Strange Tales is a bevvy of spoofs,