The Victorian is a 25-issue comic book

Comic book

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 series

Ongoing series

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 published by Penny-Farthing Press

Penny-Farthing Press

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 and starting in 1999

1999 in comics

-February:* February 3: Pioneering editor Vin Sullivan dies at age 87.* February 26: John L. Goldwater, co-founder of Archie Comics, dies at age 82.-March:* Incredible Hulk is canceled by Marvel with issue #474.-May:...

. The brainchild of creator Trainor Houghton, the series included a number of notable script writers and illustrators, including Len Wein

Len Wein

Len Wein is an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men...

, Glen Orbik

Glen Orbik

Glen Orbik is an American illustrator known for his fully painted paperback and comic covers, often executed in a noir style. He studied art at the California Art Institute then located in Encino, later Calabasas, California and currently located in Westlake Village. He studied under the school's...

 and Howard Chaykin

Howard Chaykin

Howard Victor Chaykin is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his innovative storytelling and sometimes controversial material...

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Plot

The story deals with two men, both of them more than 100 years old thanks to an anti-aging serum, both of them members of a secret society devoted to the teachings of Nietzsche. Over time, one of the men becomes convinced the world would be a better place if it were reduced to chaos so that he can take over as its savior; the other dons superhero-like armor and suit and assembles a team of followers to fight his old friend.

Collected editions

Penny-Farthing Press has released the entire run of the series in a series of five trade paperbacks

Trade paperback (comics)

In comics, a trade paperback is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme from one or more titles...

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• Act I: Self Realization (collects The Victorian #1-7, 192 pages, December 1999, ISBN 0967368316)
• Act II: Self-Immolation (collects The Victorian #8-13, 192 pages, March 2002, ISBN 0967368383)
• Act III: Self-Estrangement (coolects The Victorian #14-18)
• Act IV: Self-Overcoming(collects The Victorian #19-22)
• Act V: Self-Exsoulment (collects The Victorian #23-25)

External links

• The Victorian at Penny-Farthing Press

Reviews

• Review of The Victorian Act 1, Act 2 and another Act 2 review, Act 5, issue #19 and #24, Comics Bulletin
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