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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The First Death (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Graphic Novels 0)
Her fans have been asking for it - now, Laurell K. Hamilton delivers a look into Anita Blake's past! Written by Laurell K. Hamilton herself, along with Jonathon Green, The First Death takes place almost a year before the events being chronicled in Guilty Pleasures. Witness the first meeting of Anita and Jean-Claude, Anita's first time inside Guilty Pleasures, her first ser...more
Hardcover, 96 pages
Published
February 27th 2008
by Marvel Comics
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The First Death is just something I came across. To be honest, I didn’t even know it existed. It what written as kind of a prelude to Anita’s story before the antics of Guilty Pleasures. It plays as an introduction to many of the characters that have a part in the mass series such as Jean-Claude, Manny (poor, poor Manny), Lt. “Dolph” Storr, Edward and others that seem to have stayed from my mind. It also tells the story of how Anita received the cross-shaped scar on her wrist (it wasn’t too biza...more
Amy or "Ames"
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My first one-star rating of the year, sigh. Though I was very tempted to give Flirt the same treatment, it got off with 2 stars.
The is the first graphic novel I've ever read and boy was it bad. This is supposed to be a prequel to Guilty Pleasures. It includes Anita and JC's first meeting which DOES NOT match the story given in the series. JC says that he fell in love with Anita at first sound, saw her gun and knew she could defend herself and wouldn't wait around to be rescued - only...more
The is the first graphic novel I've ever read and boy was it bad. This is supposed to be a prequel to Guilty Pleasures. It includes Anita and JC's first meeting which DOES NOT match the story given in the series. JC says that he fell in love with Anita at first sound, saw her gun and knew she could defend herself and wouldn't wait around to be rescued - only...more
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Slayermel
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Recommends it for:
anyone who enjoys the Anita Blake series
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The first Death is an interesting enough story, put on paper. It’s supposed to be the prequel before the book series starts. Anita describes bits and pieces of what happened to her in Guilty pleasures and the following books, to explain how her arm got so mangled and how she came to posses all her scars.
So far I still prefer the novels, but I'm willing to give the Graphic novels another try. I think Laurell K. Hamilton just does such a good job explaining what's going on in her st...more
So far I still prefer the novels, but I'm willing to give the Graphic novels another try. I think Laurell K. Hamilton just does such a good job explaining what's going on in her st...more
Jody Mena
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Decent prequal to the Anita Blake series. The plot was good, and it takes care of some of the plot points mentioned in the books, like how she got her cross-shaped scar, how she made an enemy of Valentine and how she first met Jean Claude. But it would have done better as a novella than as a graphic novel. There's lots of action, which is a plus, but it all felt a tad rushed; everything happened so fast that it felt like it was over before it even began. I was especially hoping for a little ...more
Fans of the novels (which are better) won't find much of anything new in this prequel to the Anita Blake series. Anita comes across as pretty green compared to book one but I suppose this is supposed to be her before she became really tough so she seems weaker on the page when it comes to willpower. Additionally, she gets rescued a great deal more rather than getting out of the problem through her own abilities. While Hamilton is listed as one of the authors I strongly suspect she made a cursory...more
I've heard a lot about Laurell Hamilton and the Anita Blake series and these have been generally quite mixed, some people like it some don't but when I saw this book in the library and read it was the prequel to the series I thought I'd give it a go...and now I wish I hadn't. The story seemed quite flimsy and inconsistent, I thought Blake was some kind of vampire hunter not a wimpy young girl who can't cope with blood, being attacked or banter in any way shape or form. Not what I expect from a...more
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I think It's a really nice read for the Anita Blake's series fan. I really liked to discover more events that happen before Guilty Pleasure. We learn some facts we find in some books or we assist to some interesting events like the first meeting between Anita and JC. It's a fast read as the book is shared thiw the comics and the presentation of each characters.
Mon avis complet
My english review
Mon avis complet
My english review
3 ½ to 4 stars. I enjoyed the drawings very much, and happy that Marvel did such a good job on the details and colors.
What I didn’t like? That some of the men, most importantly Jean-Claude is very drawn very feminine. JC is not how I pictured him at all when I read Ms. Hamilton’s books. So, in that sense this could be a very disappointing graphic-novel for some people who have a firm picture in their head of JC.
What did I like? I enjoyed that we get to see and re...more
What I didn’t like? That some of the men, most importantly Jean-Claude is very drawn very feminine. JC is not how I pictured him at all when I read Ms. Hamilton’s books. So, in that sense this could be a very disappointing graphic-novel for some people who have a firm picture in their head of JC.
What did I like? I enjoyed that we get to see and re...more
Julia
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Genre: Graphic Novel and Vampire Fantasy
This book is the prelude story to Hamilton's best selling series, Anita Blake the Vampire Hunter. Anita Blake is a new necromancer, able to raise the dead into zombies, and a legal vampire executioner. There is a vampire killing children and Anita is called in by the police to help hunt and kill this vampire. This book I would wait for an older teen because there are graphic scenes of bodies, violence, and blood.
I liked this graphic no...more
This book is the prelude story to Hamilton's best selling series, Anita Blake the Vampire Hunter. Anita Blake is a new necromancer, able to raise the dead into zombies, and a legal vampire executioner. There is a vampire killing children and Anita is called in by the police to help hunt and kill this vampire. This book I would wait for an older teen because there are graphic scenes of bodies, violence, and blood.
I liked this graphic no...more
If you're going to invest in the comic books, which exceed this book in retail cost, don't bother getting this unless you simply want it for the companion info this book comes with, which I think is well done and helps a person pick up on everything if they're not already a fan of the series and author.
Not thinking anything of it initially, and in the long haul spending less between the comic book purchases on Ebay as well as this book which I also got on Ebay for $6, I'm sort of gl...more
Not thinking anything of it initially, and in the long haul spending less between the comic book purchases on Ebay as well as this book which I also got on Ebay for $6, I'm sort of gl...more
My first ever graphic novel I've read. Having read all of Laurell K Hamilton's books I really wanted to give this a go as my first GN, mainly as I knew some of the background already and would have an idea of what was to come. I really enjoyed this. Easy read, action packed, fantastically drawn; I was impressed and won't turn my nose up again when someone suggests I try something new. I'll be doing the other Anita GN's shortly.
This was fun! Its a back story from the first Anita Blake book Guilty Pleasures. It shows how Anita and Jean-Claude met and how she got her cross scar. The best part is the character bios at the end, that alone was worth the read. But the way how they drew every one's hair made me crazy! Everyone had a big piece of hair flopping right between their eyes, it drove me nuts!
I was really amused by this story. Set prior to the book series and pre-"let's all have magical sex", it was fun to return to the more repressed but tough as nails Anita. There is still gratuitous nakedness and plenty of sexual jokes, but they're more entertaining in this medium. Visually Edward isn't quite as I pictured him, but he grew on me.
it was interesting learning about the hunt with Valentine when it happened. i always wondered what had happened on that night from when he first came into the Anita Blake novels. i thought it would be about when Anita first meets Edward with the title being First Death and Death being Edwards name...alas that wasn't the case. it was good but not great.
While I don't like some of the drawing likenesses, I did like the story. In so many of the books we have heard about the events in this book, but it was nice to see them laid out, the first meeting of Anita and Jean Claude, Edward and Anita working together for the first time, and Dolph asking Anita to go to the vamps for info.
This takes place before Guilty Pleasures. I was expecting some extra insight or details on Anita or any of the other characters but it is REALLY short. In a nut shell this short story is about the case where Anita first meets Valentine. I was disappointed. To top it off, nearly half of the book is filled with character bios and details for all the people that appear in Guilty Pleasures. I’m not sure it’s really worth the effort.
Useful as it includes a collection of quotes from various characters in the book as well as a sort of, kind of prequel to the first Anita Blake (it includes Jean-Claude! so how can it truly be a prequel?), Guilty Pleasures. Buy it only if you are a die-hard fan with an obsessive need to have the complete collection.
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I'd really hoped this graphic novel was going to expand on the events described in Guilty Pleasures, but I didn't really even feel like everything truly even matched up.
wasn't really that happy with the story for i think there are some plot mistakes. but then again i've read the first anita blake book about a year ago...
I definitely enjoyed seeing the back story of Anita. Especially this particular story since it really is a defining point in Anita's life and something that she's mentioned numerous times. I noticed the art was a little different, characters looked not quite the same as in the other graphics, but nonetheless it was great!
This book was OK, since I'm not a big fan of graphic novels. It was written by the author of the original novel series, I was curious how she physically saw the characters.
I'm a pretty big fan of the vamps, and I like graphic novels, so I thought I would try my first read of Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series with this one. I was not impressed...I thought the art was just ok and the writing fairly poor. There wasn't much going on in the story and I didn't finish it feeling like I learned much about the series or the characters at all really. Also, it took me several sittings to get through this which really shouldn't happen with a short graphic novel- but ...more
I thought this was a fun read. Nothing intelligent, but entertaining. And I really enjoyed the drawing of Anita with the X-men zombies! lol
I love the artwork in this book and I think it's a great prequel. It explains a lot of things I was curious about in the first book.
This comic is awesome. It finally introduces all the background info that was only alluded to in the first few books of that series.
I loved seeing Anita meeting Jean Claude for the first time. He's just simply breathtaking! I loved the story with Edward too.
The ABVH comics are fun and First Death was good. You got to be there when she first met Jean Claude.
A little light, but enjoyable. Don't expect it to be the same artist as the Guilty Pleasures series.
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Laurell K. Hamilton is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two series that mix mystery, fantasy, magic, horror and romance. Her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels from Berkley Books began with GUILTY PLEASURES and continues to thrive with over sixteen volumes to the series and an comic adaptation. There are now more than 6 million copies of Anita in print worldwide, in 16 languages. Hamilt...more
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