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    <body><![CDATA[Vivid, violent, vengeful Vikings!  Sven receives a messenger on his way back to his homeland telling him that he must return to Grimness immediately and remove his uncle Gorm from power.  Sven hears him out, then, ruthlessly murders him – he’s already on his way back.  He hasn’t really decided...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44449565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good art, interesting themes, and the crappiest writing ever.  <br/>A)Brian, do your fucking research.  Oh, your women are going to Valhalla?  Sons are inheriting their father's kingdoms?  I think not.  You fucking hack.<br/>B)Brian, women are not just holes and tragedies.  Feel free to include ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77824457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frankly, a disappointment compared to his work with DMZ.  It might be an accurate depiction of what life was like for a Varangian returning home to reclaim his birthright in a Norse town in Orkney--but I'm not really sure what the author is trying to communicate except brutality and how old ways are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64511217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because A. I love Brian Wood's other series DMZ B. It was cheap, and I was broke and D. Because I was the only person in a small ass comic book store, and I would have felt bad for not getting anything. Well I liked it. I didn't love it. The art work is solid, and it's everything yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73926729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Vikings.<br/><br/>Okay, that isn’t true. I LOVE Vikings; I think they are, without question, one of the most fascinating groups of people every to rape and pillage their way across Europe (there’s a surprising amount of those, if you think about it). <br/><br/>All joking aside, howeve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37779931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who thought comic books don’t always have to be about men and women in tights? (Although that can be a pretty sight, I will admit.) Brian Wood shows us again that this medium is capable of just about any genre. And successfully, I might add.<br/><br/>Take one part Hamlet, stir in a generous help...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49424898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brian Wood and Davide Gianfelice's <strong>Northlanders</strong> is a story of clashing cultures, the Saxons against the Vikings, Viking clans against one another, pagans against Christians, and so on. Sven the Returned is an exile come to reclaim the birthright usurped by his uncle, and his quest is is a trail of g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49468141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One viking goes back to his home island north of Scotland to kill another viking (his evil uncle) to get his gold.  The plot's amazingly well-developed with violence, tactics, culture, and character development.  My favorite issue was Sven's back story on how he made it all the way to Constantinople...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68470670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fkn awesome. Everybody knows that vikings are badass warriors and there's certainly a lot of badass battles in this book. I didn't know about the Varangian Guards in Constantinople before and this book got me interested in finding out about them more. The author seems to have done a lot of historica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61473600">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, a lot of people seem not to have liked this one very much, but it looks like they all read DMZ first, which I didn't, so maybe that's why? The art is gritty and cold and gorgeous, and I very much enjoyed the story. I get so bored with super hero comics, and I thought this was a fantastic altern...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78846017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this.  Wood tells a sweeping, epic tale of inheritance, honor, and love without going over the deep end.  By the conclusion, enemies are friends, friends are dead, and beliefs about the ways of the Norse warrior get turned on their head.  Though the ending could be construed as a stereotyped &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57869995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://parkablogs.com/content/northlanders-vol-1-sven-returned"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_lDc7gcIupuA/Svr3PSyBnEI/AAAAAAAACfU/sovjMN9eyu8/s576/3065086618_b23425c2c1.jpg" alt="Northlanders Vol. 1: Sven The Returned" width="400" class="escapedImg"/></a><br/>(More pictures at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://parkablogs.com/content/northlanders-vol-1-sven-returned">parkablogs.com</a>)<br/><br/>Northlanders tells a savage tale of a warrior, Sven, returning back to his homeland to take back what belongs to him, or whatever that's left. In his path, he looks at his exile, sleeps with ridiculously beautiful enemies, and takes down all who opp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48878407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[NORTHLANDERS, VOLUME 1 BY BRIAN WOOD AND DAVIDE GIANFELICE: In a new graphic novel series from Brian Wood, author of DMZ and Demo, and illustrated by Davide Gianfelice, comes Northlanders, Volume 1: Sven the Returned.  Northlanders offers up a fresh historical graphic novel, like that of Eric Shanow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36453852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend of mine loves Wood's <em>DMZ</em>, but since I came into that series too late, I tried this one. It was a bitter disappointment for something I really tried to enjoy. Angsty people in cool costumes kill each other and rut in this unnecessarily long Viking story. Brian Wood put a lot of historical re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22619952">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A very long time ago...in the lands we call home...these things happened.&quot;<br/><br/>So begins the first volume of Northlanders, the tale of Sven, a Viking warrior in 980 CE who leaves his plush Mediterranean lifestyle to claim an inheritance from the harsh cold lands of the North. But o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42848499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brutal story. I enjoyed the progression of the lead character - Sven. The book allowed his story to come through, from being a dislikable character to someone who you saw emerge into a mature figure. I did find the dialogue at times jarring, the use of modern vocabulary not fitting into the contex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79274589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All in all, this first graphic novel was a let down. Like another reviewer, my biggest issue was that I never actually liked Sven, so I really didn't care whether he lived or died or just sailed off yonder. Wood just skimmed the surface of the character's depth, and he could have done so much more. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65903266">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was so good! It was so much better than I expected. If you like battle and blood you'll definitely enjoy it, but the depth of emotion of the characters was what I hadn't expected. This is one man's story from beginning to end so I'm anxiously awaiting volume two to find out who's story will be ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46754749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brian Wood has done amazing work before: DMZ, Channel Zero...  This wasn't it.  Northlanders is a mediocre action comic with a vaguely tortured hero who's one part Hamlet, one part Wolverine, and one part Keanu Reeves.  Which makes the book sound better than it actually was.]]></body>
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