The name and costume would develop over time the Grendel becoming different people, and eventually becoming a political movement and even a religion. What I find so interesting about this series is it started out about a young punk who wanted to be a crime boss and how he adopted the identity of Grendel. Then there was a second Grendel series that ran 40 issues all written by Wagner and drawn by a variety of artists, including the Pander Brothers, Jay Geldhof, Bernie Mireault, Tim Sale, John K Snyder III, Patrick McEown, and others. The story of Hunter Rose (the first Grendel) also ran as a back up in the pages of Mage. Grendel was first published by Comico back in 1982 in Comico Primer #2 and it was followed by a three issues miniseries. What are these three stories? Well they are Matt Wagner’s Grendel, Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s Nexus and Don Rosa’s Uncle Scrooge. Strangely, two of these epics are from Dark Horse Comics and the third is from Fantagraphics. All three of these stories take place over a period of time of at least 20 years of publication and all of these stories are available in reasonably priced collections. Any single issue may not have any importance to the big picture, but all of the stories together tell an amazing tale. These are stories that, over time, tell a larger story. Surprise! I am going to write about three epic story lines that are not a single issue or even an event such as Marvel’s Secret Wars or DC’s Doomsday Clock. But alas, Marvel Epic collections are not what I am going to write about today. My only real complaint is the volumes are not printed in order so you get stories from the 1960s one volume and the 1990s in the next volume. It is no secret that I am a big fan of Marvel’s Epic collections, and I truly hope they stick with them and reprint their entire (well, most of) library over time.
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