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| The cover of Mad Max: Fury Road #1. |
Authors: George Miller, Nico Lathouris, Mark Sexton
Illustrators: Mark Sexton, Tristan Jones, Riccardo Burchielli
Publisher: Vertigo
Genre: Action, Apocalyptic
Series: Standalone
Mad Max: Fury Road Episode I: The Immortan Menace
This review is of the paperback collection of Mad Max: Fury Road #1-5.
No one knew what to make of Mad Max: Fury Road before it slew audiences and critics alike with it's unique blend of high octane, practical effects driven mayhem. George Miller hadn't made a Mad Max film in thirty years, Mel Gibson had disappeared from the limelight, and the third Mad Max film had divided fans, effectively killing all notions of, or desires for, a sequel. Then the Mad Max: Fury Road trailer dropped on the world, and all bets were off. Like a sweet, sweet slice of Anarchy Pie, Fury Road lived up to the high expectations laid before it, and even earned a Best Film of the Year award from the National Board of Review.
In the film's wake, fans began wildly speculating about the history of the film's characters, even go as far as to guess that Tom Hardy's Max was an entirely different person from Mel Gibson's. Well, now you can take all that speculation and shove it, because George Miller, and a bunch of his artist buddies, have made a comic miniseries that serves as prequel stories for the major players in the film.
