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Whiteout (Whiteout #1)
by
Greg Rucka,
Steve Lieber, Jamie S. Rich (Goodreads Author)
You can't get any further down than the bottom of the world - Antarctica. Cold, desolate, nothing but ice and snow for miles and miles. Carrie Stetko is a U.S. Marshal, and she's made The Ice her home. In its vastness, she has found a place where she can forget her troubled past and feel at peace... Until someone commits a murder in her jurisdiction and that peace is shatt...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
April 24th 2001
by Oni Press
(first published 1998)
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This is the tale of a female U.S. Marshall (Carrie Stetko) banished to Antarctica. It's business as usual until a body is found and after a bit of investigation it seems to be murder. What follows is an investigation into a string of murders blended in with the extremely harsh weather of the continent. People get about in the storms on metal wires because you can barely see six inches ahead. In fact, some people have died a few feet away from shelter simply because they couldn't find the door. D...more
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Someone in Antarctica is murdering people – enter disgraced US Marshal Carrie Stetko, hot on the cold, cold trail. That’s pretty much it really. The plot is your standard cops’n’robbers template story given a new slant by setting it in the coldest place on the planet. Stetko wanders about asking questions, being overly tough because she’s a woman in a place where they’re outnumbered 10/1 and because she’s supposed to be the law. And as you would expect from a tough woman she knees some guys in t...more
Un flic (une dans le cas présent), un crime et une poignée de suspects. Whiteout ne serait qu’un polar classique de plus, si ce n’était de sa localisation géographique : la base américaine de McMurdo en Antarctique !
Pour son premier scénario de bandes dessinées, Greg Rucka réalise un coup de maître. Tout en respectant les règles du genre, son intrigue recèle d’une richesse narrative aussi impressionnante qu’originale. Les personnages d’abord, Carrie Stetko, cette marshal placardisée au fin fond...more
Pour son premier scénario de bandes dessinées, Greg Rucka réalise un coup de maître. Tout en respectant les règles du genre, son intrigue recèle d’une richesse narrative aussi impressionnante qu’originale. Les personnages d’abord, Carrie Stetko, cette marshal placardisée au fin fond...more
A whiteout is a condition that occurs in polar regions, when all visual clues to direction and distance are lost, leading to a dangerous state of disorientation It is also the name of a comic book limited series from Oni press written by Greg Rucka and drawn by Steve Lieber. The story has been adapted into a motion picture starring Kate Beckinsale.
There are two Whiteouts (not counting the correction fluid, the Japanese film or the hockey tradition): the book and the movie. And while both have t...more
There are two Whiteouts (not counting the correction fluid, the Japanese film or the hockey tradition): the book and the movie. And while both have t...more
Crime stories, noir ones at least, tend to have a love/hate relationship with their setting. Their plots are almost always dependent on them being in large cities, yet they often seem disdainful of cities - the city is seen as a hive of scum and villainy, one that corrupts those living in it. Whiteout reverses the expectations of noir, both on a visual and a story level.
The art in the book relies heavily on the use of white for negative space, which makes a lot of sense given the setting (Antarc...more
The art in the book relies heavily on the use of white for negative space, which makes a lot of sense given the setting (Antarc...more
Whiteout is an entertaining story set in Antarctica. It's a mystery of sorts though the mystery is never that interesting as we never really know all the suspects well enough to guess the culprit or culprits. What works about this story is the use of the setting to create a thrilling atmosphere. Everything is that much more dangerous in the fatally cold winds of Antarctica.
The best part of this story is certainly the two main characters who are the only females in the whole story. They provide t...more
The best part of this story is certainly the two main characters who are the only females in the whole story. They provide t...more
Yes, I pulled this out because I had seen the preview for the Kate Bekinsale movie. I haven't seen the movie, but I'm amazed at 2 items from the preview.
1. Kate Beckinsale? What? Carrie Stetko is no Kate Beckinsale (and this is a good thing in my opinion).
2. Lilly has been replaced by a male UN inspector. Again, why? Rucka was involved in the filming so I can't see why he allowed these two changes.
Whiteout is a tight little noir murder-mystery. Like most noir, the setting is a major character, w...more
1. Kate Beckinsale? What? Carrie Stetko is no Kate Beckinsale (and this is a good thing in my opinion).
2. Lilly has been replaced by a male UN inspector. Again, why? Rucka was involved in the filming so I can't see why he allowed these two changes.
Whiteout is a tight little noir murder-mystery. Like most noir, the setting is a major character, w...more
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This was a gift and one I've been meaning to get to for a while. Then it got lost then I had a kid.... then I saw the preview with Kate Beckinsdale and decided it was time to read it before it got mangled in my head by the sexed-up Hollywood version.
First, it's great fun. A tight taut little mystery with a light fizz of sexual tension between Lily and Carrie. It wasn't a great work, or groundbreaking (which seems to be the word most often associate with it) but it was fun, fine, and fast. The fe...more
First, it's great fun. A tight taut little mystery with a light fizz of sexual tension between Lily and Carrie. It wasn't a great work, or groundbreaking (which seems to be the word most often associate with it) but it was fun, fine, and fast. The fe...more
With a movie forthcoming, I had been hearing a lot of buzz about this book and wanted to see what it was all about. Whiteout follows Carrie Setko, a US Marshall who has ended up in Antarctica. Things are monotonous and dwarfed by the weight and expanse of all that white. Monotonous that is, until a researcher is discovered bludgeoned on the ice. Under pressure from her boss and the changing seasons, Carrie must unravel the murder mystery before it is too late.
As a mystery, it is fast-paced and...more
As a mystery, it is fast-paced and...more
With the movie coming out this year starring Kate Beckinsale, I wanted to make sure I read it first. Before I tell you my short review, I will say that Beckinsale is a terrible choice for the lead and from reading the cast list, the movie is sure to omit some of my favorite aspects of the book.
So, onto the book. I enjoyed it. I couldn't help but be reminded of the movie "Insomnia" when reading this graphic novel. I love the art and the writing. One of my favorite parts is when a character's "bu...more
So, onto the book. I enjoyed it. I couldn't help but be reminded of the movie "Insomnia" when reading this graphic novel. I love the art and the writing. One of my favorite parts is when a character's "bu...more
Whiteout is a fun, nothing-special thriller -- that just so happens to be set at the bottom of the motha-f****** Earth! Antarctica, as this books never forgets to mention, is a harsh mistress (Well, maybe not a "mistress"... what's the word for a woman who does you brutally up the behind, then tosses you in the gutter to die?) She's bad news for the few hundred researchers, military personnel and service staff who spend months at a time down there, huddled around a handful of settlements.
Carrie...more
Carrie...more
“Steve and I did a graphic novel, and the goal was to tell a really good story in that format. Somebody comes along and said ‘We will pay you to make this movie.’ We were like, ‘Thank you! Okay!’… they had my blessing.” - Greg Rucka on having Whiteout adapted for the screen
While the story and the storytelling don’t break any new narrative ground, it is in the relationships with and the details of the environment that the graphic novel really takes hold. Relationships and details are not of any p...more
While the story and the storytelling don’t break any new narrative ground, it is in the relationships with and the details of the environment that the graphic novel really takes hold. Relationships and details are not of any p...more
I kept hearing that Whiteout is being made into a movie and since I’ve enjoyed Rucka’s work on Superman (a comic I’d normally steer clear of) as of late figured I’d give this one a shot. It helped that I managed to pick it up at BEA though only rediscovered tucked away on a bookshelf just this month. I have a fondness for the stories featuring the barren arctic (Steve Niles’ 30 Days of Night on the opposite hemisphere and Lovecraft’s epicly awesome At the Mountains of Madness being two favorites...more
Maybe you're thinking: it's winter, it's cold, I'm miserable.
Maybe you want to read a comic book set in a place where the weather is even WORSE than where you are, to make yourself feel better. Good idea.
You could truck across the futuristic Siberia of Enrico Marini & Thierry Smolderen's 'Gipsy'. You could fight off Alaskan vampires in Steve Niles & Ben Templesmith's '30 Days of Night'. You could explore shipwrecks in the icy Arctic waters of Jacques Tardi's 'The Arctic Marauder'. Or......more
Maybe you want to read a comic book set in a place where the weather is even WORSE than where you are, to make yourself feel better. Good idea.
You could truck across the futuristic Siberia of Enrico Marini & Thierry Smolderen's 'Gipsy'. You could fight off Alaskan vampires in Steve Niles & Ben Templesmith's '30 Days of Night'. You could explore shipwrecks in the icy Arctic waters of Jacques Tardi's 'The Arctic Marauder'. Or......more
Greg Rucka, Whiteout (Oni Press, 1999)
I was completely convinced for a couple of years that I'd read Whiteout right around the time the movie was released, so I never bothered getting it out of the library again to check until about a month ago. Oops, turns out I was entirely wrong. If you've seen the movie (or heard about it), you know the drill: strong, engaging female character is forced to solve a murder in Antarctica, possibly earning herself a ticket back to civilization if she does. There...more
I was completely convinced for a couple of years that I'd read Whiteout right around the time the movie was released, so I never bothered getting it out of the library again to check until about a month ago. Oops, turns out I was entirely wrong. If you've seen the movie (or heard about it), you know the drill: strong, engaging female character is forced to solve a murder in Antarctica, possibly earning herself a ticket back to civilization if she does. There...more
Tolle Effekte, mäßige Story
Das Skript ist wirklich nichts besonderes. Ein mäßig spannender Krimi, relativ vorhersehbar und ohne wirkliche Überraschungen. Kein Hollywood-Blockbuster, sondern eher ein Derrick. Wer was anderes erwartet, wird enttäuscht werden.
Sehr gelungen und passend sind aber die Zeichnungen, und wie Greg Rucka, der Skripter, selbst in seinem Nachwort schreibt, würde die Story ohne diese Zeichnungen nicht funktionieren. Das Setting wird sehr glaubwürdig wiedergegeben und die Mens...more
Das Skript ist wirklich nichts besonderes. Ein mäßig spannender Krimi, relativ vorhersehbar und ohne wirkliche Überraschungen. Kein Hollywood-Blockbuster, sondern eher ein Derrick. Wer was anderes erwartet, wird enttäuscht werden.
Sehr gelungen und passend sind aber die Zeichnungen, und wie Greg Rucka, der Skripter, selbst in seinem Nachwort schreibt, würde die Story ohne diese Zeichnungen nicht funktionieren. Das Setting wird sehr glaubwürdig wiedergegeben und die Mens...more
I am going to openly state that I think you should see the movie. First Kate Beckinsale is pretty cute and she does a great job of playing this role.
The book is all done in black and white pages. It helps enhance the the feeling of the complete cold and desolate continent that Antarctica is. The storyline is pretty intense, Carrie Stetko is a strong female character that gets put through a lot of scary shit as the story progresses and with the added danger of being one of the only females in a...more
The book is all done in black and white pages. It helps enhance the the feeling of the complete cold and desolate continent that Antarctica is. The storyline is pretty intense, Carrie Stetko is a strong female character that gets put through a lot of scary shit as the story progresses and with the added danger of being one of the only females in a...more
A solid "who dun it" story set in the south pole. Some good art in the book that really pushes across the point of low visability with a simple story. No big twists or turns and most of the plot is handed to the reader without much investigation or difficulty but I liked it enough to plan on reading the second book in the series.
Down in Antarctica every country has various scientists located at posts throughout the continent. When an American is found frozen and murdered in the middle of what used to be a camp Carrie Stetko a US Marshal is forced to investigate. Carrie was sent down to Antarctica because of an incident that occurred while she was transporting a prisoner. Her relationship with her supervisor is tennuous and he is asking the impossible of her in this investigation in the hopes that he can punish her when...more
Mar 06, 2010
Eric
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Graphic novel buffs who value the psychological aspect of things
This black-and-white graphic novel, made into a film last year starring Kate Beckinsale, is in many ways the antithesis of the slick (but not bad) Antarctica murder-mystery movie. It is gritty, with flawed characters, and vastly different portrayals of main character Deputy U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko and others than I was expecting - I found out about the g.n. after I'd seen the movie. This is not so much a mystery as a character study of those who find themselves at the South Pole - literally a...more
I'm a fan of black and white comix, but I was initially turned off by the drawing here until my mind arranged the lines in context: Antarctica, where there is necessarily more white than black. The lines started to make sense, the starkness matching the invoked landscape, fitting the story bleak and cold.
The mystery is easy to see through and graphic novels don't provide enough space for deeper character development--which is a shame because the main character here could be very interesting if w...more
The mystery is easy to see through and graphic novels don't provide enough space for deeper character development--which is a shame because the main character here could be very interesting if w...more
So the story's not too bad, a murder mystery that's almost tense enough to keep me reading, but I wouldn't have cared if not for Carrie and Lily and who they are and how they meet and save each other and their interplay and their sexual tension (no my goggles aren't on too tight, it's THERE, there are LOOKS and it is not even subtle) and how I want to know more about them. I'll always sit up and take notice when there are ladies being fleshed out and human and central to the narrative.
Aesthetica...more
Aesthetica...more
This was a really good, intense noir mystery.
The heroine Carrie Stetko, is believably flawed and imperfect, while also being profane, kick-ass, and awesome.
And Antarctica--Antarctica is way more than just a setting for this story; Antarctica is a character. This is reflected really vividly in the art as well as the writing, both of which are outstanding.
I also really enjoyed Carrie's uneasy partnership with British agent Lily Sharpe--they have great dialogue and I enjoyed seeing two very diff...more
The heroine Carrie Stetko, is believably flawed and imperfect, while also being profane, kick-ass, and awesome.
And Antarctica--Antarctica is way more than just a setting for this story; Antarctica is a character. This is reflected really vividly in the art as well as the writing, both of which are outstanding.
I also really enjoyed Carrie's uneasy partnership with British agent Lily Sharpe--they have great dialogue and I enjoyed seeing two very diff...more
Whiteout is a pretty standard crime drama--greed, murder, conspiracy, and a U.S. Marshal with a painful history--nothing out of the ordinary. The reason I gave this a 4 instead of a 3 is, for one, the art is absolutely gorgeous. Being able to DRAW cold and have the reader really feel it is not easy. The setting of the story also takes the drama to the next level. Antarctica, a place most people know little to nothing about, gives this real-world drama a fantastic edge (and it seems like the Ruck...more
I was inspired to reread this after watching the movie version. Aside from some character names, a few fingers, and the Antarctic, the two have almost nothing in common (though it's a decent enough movie). The book is a much better, grittier, more realistic-feeling mystery and procedural, giving a feel to life on the Ice. Rucka does his usual versimilitudinous best, and Lieber's art is good black and white, snow and shadow. A solid book, which deserves a movie (or perhaps miniseries) of its own....more
Read this over two days, off and on, finishing yesterday. A mystery set in Antarctica -- what's not to like? As my husband said, it's a locked-room mystery on a larger canvas.
The imagery complemented the story perfectly, very stark in the choice ofblack and white, but impressive in the range of textures provided. Carrie disappearing into the whiteout has to have been complex to figure out the mechanics for showing it.
Overall, an enjoyable read. Not the most difficult or challenging murder myste...more
The imagery complemented the story perfectly, very stark in the choice ofblack and white, but impressive in the range of textures provided. Carrie disappearing into the whiteout has to have been complex to figure out the mechanics for showing it.
Overall, an enjoyable read. Not the most difficult or challenging murder myste...more
Nov 21, 2007
Noah Soudrette
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Rucka fans, lesbian lit. fans, graphic novel lovers everywhere
Shelves:
graphic-novels
I have been a long time fan of Greg Rucka’s work in comics, ever since he started writing Gotham Central, DC’s NYPD Blue meets Batman series. As a younger lad, I was a huge fan of the Batman animated series. In that series, one of the original characters introduced was the character of Renee Montoya. Montoya was a Hispanic police officer who regularly crossed the path of Batman. Years later, when Gotham Central started, Rucka introduced Montoya into the DC universe as one of GCPD’s best detecti...more
A good mystery in a great location (Antarctica) helped along in the plot by striking black and white art that proves you don't need color to make an impact. Rucka writes an interesting mystery, scatted among the various military installations that exist in Antarctica, and Lieber provides a distinct, interesting look for the book that brings the whole thing together very nicely.
There's tension and some gruesome moments intermixed well with genuine humor and interesting characters. If you like a...more
There's tension and some gruesome moments intermixed well with genuine humor and interesting characters. If you like a...more
This graphic novel collects the four-issue mini-series published by Oni Press. The story is by Greg Rucka, illustrated by Steve Lieber with additional artwork by Frank Miller, Matt Wagner, Mike Mignola, and Dave Gibbons. Rucka’s tale about a U.S. Marshall serving in Antarctica and investigating multiple murders on the ice, is lean and taut. The black and white artwork fits the stark location and the main character’s personal demons nicely.
Published in trade paperback by Oni Press.
Published in trade paperback by Oni Press.
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Greg Rucka, is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman: Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.
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