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Pigs #2
Pigs, Volume Two
The second-generation KGB Cuban sleeper cell saga continues. The Pigs break into San Quentin Penitentiary to kill a criminal, but find an entire army of neo-Nazis waiting for them!
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112 pages, Paperback
First published July 3, 2012
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January 1, 2013
Andy Diggle is an amazing writer at times. He's had a few missteps in his career, but it really started with a bang and here he... wait... this isn't 'The Losers'? Sorry. I could have sworn it was. I mean, damn, it's like the exact same deal in this, what is it called, again? PIGS? Ok.
Pigs is a terrible book. Nate Cosby has little to no idea how real humans interact with one another, and has very little understanding of what real dialogue sounds like. I can't say this enough. I know I've said it over and over, ad nauseum, but what drives a crime story is the dialogue. Because your premise will not carryh you through an entire ongoing series, and sooner or later, we will get tired of what you as the writer think are 'plot twists'. And we need to have a connection to the dialogue, it needs to be something that cracks like a whip or speaks directly to us. And we need the characters to connect to each other, especially if we don't connect to them. There can't just be some vaghue notions and a few blurry flashbacks to some childhood trysts to help along the connection. It feels phony. Fake. It just doesn't cut it. And just knock it off with all psturing in this book. The bad-assery that's here comes off feeling forced.
On top of all that, there are scenes in this book that are taken DIRECTLY out of Sin City books. Seriously? WTF.
As far as the art goes, there isn't a damn thing redeeming about it. Everything feels flat, terrible shading, muted colors, and thiick lines with hardly any variation makes for a boring read.
Writing: D
Art: D
Pigs is a terrible book. Nate Cosby has little to no idea how real humans interact with one another, and has very little understanding of what real dialogue sounds like. I can't say this enough. I know I've said it over and over, ad nauseum, but what drives a crime story is the dialogue. Because your premise will not carryh you through an entire ongoing series, and sooner or later, we will get tired of what you as the writer think are 'plot twists'. And we need to have a connection to the dialogue, it needs to be something that cracks like a whip or speaks directly to us. And we need the characters to connect to each other, especially if we don't connect to them. There can't just be some vaghue notions and a few blurry flashbacks to some childhood trysts to help along the connection. It feels phony. Fake. It just doesn't cut it. And just knock it off with all psturing in this book. The bad-assery that's here comes off feeling forced.
On top of all that, there are scenes in this book that are taken DIRECTLY out of Sin City books. Seriously? WTF.
As far as the art goes, there isn't a damn thing redeeming about it. Everything feels flat, terrible shading, muted colors, and thiick lines with hardly any variation makes for a boring read.
Writing: D
Art: D
December 17, 2018
And crap! The series is left at 8 issues with a cliffhanger. Since 2012! I hate it when that happens, especially since the 8th issue was the best of the bunch.
The sleeper team is tasked with breaking into San Quentin to kill an inmate. Felix offers another option: to pay another inmate to do the job.
The sleeper team is tasked with breaking into San Quentin to kill an inmate. Felix offers another option: to pay another inmate to do the job.
January 24, 2022
2.5 stars
From about half-way through this volume the art improves, and given the ending that I didn't expect, it got an extra half-star; but is that it...?!!? I can't see that any further collections were published, but I can't say I'm very surprised...
From about half-way through this volume the art improves, and given the ending that I didn't expect, it got an extra half-star; but is that it...?!!? I can't see that any further collections were published, but I can't say I'm very surprised...
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