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Hinterkind Vol. 1: The Waking World

(Hinterkind #1-6)

Ian Edginton,

Francesco Trifogli (Illustrations)

3.20 · Rating details · 989 ratings · 181 reviews

The human race didn't get a happily ever after.

After 300,000 years at the top of the food chain, it took only seven months for humanity to become an endangered species.

The Blight killed nearly everyone, and changed everything. As skyscrapers sprouted forests and wild animals took over the deserted streets, the planet's new rulers emerged from their age-old hiding places: ...more

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Published April 8th 2014 by Vertigo (first published October 2nd 2013)

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Oct 21, 2014 Anne rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy, random-grabs-from-library, dystopian, graphic-novels, read-in-2014

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It was not enough, it was too much, and the art was fugly.
Does that make sense?
I'll try to explain.

Blight happened, and now humanity is on the verge of extinction.
What's Blight, you ask?
I'm assuming that it was a virus or maybe a biological weapon, but I can't say for sure, because it wasn't really explained.
It happened.
Now the characters live in a post-apocalyptic world.
And you know what every dystopian world needs, right?

A girl with an odd name who's good wi ...more

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May 18, 2015 Sam Quixote rated it did not like it

Hinterkind is the uneasy spawn of Sweet Tooth and Fables, both Vertigo books that were popular so Ian Edginton decided, why not smoosh them together? … Because you get Hinterkind, that’s why!

It’s an arbitrary number of years in the future - let’s say 300,000, why not? - and humanity has become an endangered species. The Blight, a plague that wiped most of us out, has left the cities of the world ghost towns, the foliage reclaiming the architecture so places like Noo Yawk look like those gorgeou Hinterkind is the uneasy spawn of Sweet Tooth and Fables, both Vertigo books that were popular so Ian Edginton decided, why not smoosh them together? … Because you get Hinterkind, that’s why!

It’s an arbitrary number of years in the future - let’s say 300,000, why not? - and humanity has become an endangered species. The Blight, a plague that wiped most of us out, has left the cities of the world ghost towns, the foliage reclaiming the architecture so places like Noo Yawk look like those gorgeous Cambodian temples covered in overgrown jungle.

People have started mutating into animal-type hybrids; there’s an elf queen, hundreds of years old, who’s ruling a beach somewhere; there’s another elf hunter who, together with a cyclops, satyr, and gaggle of goblins, hunt humans to be sold as food; there’s another elf, this time a punk, who’s also hunting humans because there’s no other way of tying her in with the main storyline; and because there isn’t enough loud nonsense going on, throw in some patchwork human morlocks who live underground and also do terrible things to humans and finally - vampire sky pirates!!

Too much, guys, way too much. And none of it really meshes either - it feels like Edginton had two or three different stories, stuck them together, and hoped they would sort of work, but they don’t. The post-apocalyptic humanity thing works fine by itself but the humans slowly turning into animals thing alongside it is much too similar to Sweet Tooth. Then the mythic creatures appearing feels too much like Fables but mixed in with the Sweet Tooth stuff, it’s just a mess!

Where did these fairy tale people come from? Are they the result of the plague? It’s implied they’ve been hiding away for years and only emerged once humanity perished - where were they hiding? Oh, it doesn’t matter, I don’t really care. And that’s the thing: there’s a lot of world building going on here but none of it adds up to anything original - it’s just not developed very well. It’s all stuff cobbled together from other sources that we’ve seen before.

There’s not really a plot. Prosper Monday (terrible name) is the granddaughter of Asa who decides to look for some humans that have gone missing on a hunting expedition or something. They get caught up with the various evil elf people and their associated fairy tale colleagues, and Prosper and Asa are tossed about from one group to another.

Neither characters are that interesting, nor are any of the various factions. Hunters hunting is too simplistic while the elf queen’s storyline is the same old dreary power-grab. Nobody is particularly likeable, the art is quite horrible - there are streaks in the colouring that looks awful, plus Prosper and the elf hunter Jon Hobb look very similar so it’s sometimes unclear, with the murky art, who we’re seeing in a scene. Francesco Trifogli’s covers are ok but the interior art is rushed and sketchy.

Hinterkind is just awful. A confused and boring collision of excessive, contrived, bad ideas, terrible characters, and a directionless, stop/start plot with too many strands, none of which engage. Avoid this disaster like the plague in the book - another swing and a miss from Vertigo! ...more

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May 03, 2014 Pamela rated it did not like it

Shelves: bizarre, pointless, comics, arc, confusing, disappointing, tstl, boring, clunky, derivative

When I was at PLA (Public Library Association Conference) this year, I picked up a poster from Vertigo for a comic series called Hinterkind. The poster was pretty cool, with a big monster on the front and such, so I put it up in the teen space of our library. While browsing the graphic novels available on Netgalley about a month later, what ho! Hinterkind, Vol. 1 was available, and so I started reading the ARC of the TP.

Have I committed some great crime against comic book land? I was hoping for When I was at PLA (Public Library Association Conference) this year, I picked up a poster from Vertigo for a comic series called Hinterkind. The poster was pretty cool, with a big monster on the front and such, so I put it up in the teen space of our library. While browsing the graphic novels available on Netgalley about a month later, what ho! Hinterkind, Vol. 1 was available, and so I started reading the ARC of the TP.

Have I committed some great crime against comic book land? I was hoping for something better coming off of hopeless Hopeless' mangling of Avengers Arena *massive shudder.* Okay, so this was better. I mean, it wasn't gouge-my-eyes-out-awful, but it also was not very good.

Unfortunately, Hinterkind fails in both plot and artwork (at least AA had semi-decent, rather crisp art. Mostly).

The Plot: An unnamed plague-y type event wipes out most of humanity, and in 57 years, Earth reclaims what humanity has built. Some humans, though, survived, and hide out in colonies from killer animal hybrids like zebra-deer and tiger-lions. Oddly enough, these are not called ligers.

Anyway, these people live in Central Park, and they farm stuff, and at the beginning of the comic, they all talk with a vaguely Irish accent, which is extremely odd. Odder still is that it disappears and reappears throughout the issues. Prosper is a girl who wants to go out and hunt stuff, and her BFF Angus has suddenly sprouted a tail. As you do. The leader of their little community, Asa, who is also Prosper's grandpa, decides to go and find out what happened to an outpost in Albany. As you may have guessed, this is a Bad Idea. But whatever. Nobody in this comic is smart. Period.

Of course, after Asa trots off, Prosper and Angus run away too (Angus because he is worried about what will happen when people find out he has a tail). They battle a troll (under a bridge, naturally) but are rescued by a guy who looks kinda like Robin Hood crossed with Jared Leto. They immediately trust him *massive eyeroll* but it turns out he is one of the sidhe, who are part of the titular "Hinterkind." The sidhe (elves or fae) are like the super-Hinterkind, while all the ugly Hinterkind are marginalized and scorned. They are mad at humans for existing and messing stuff up and so now they eat people. There's a Sidhe Queen out in California doing some Zen-crystal-om-om stuff and trying to keep her daughter from usurping her and OH MY GOSH THIS IS SO BOOORING. I cannot stir myself to write this summary in a way that makes it sound exciting, because it's really not exciting. It's as banal as it sounds.

The dialogue is insipid: " 'No!' 'You can't stop me!' 'This isn't about you!' " and for seemingly no reason at all, randomly borrows from Indiana Jones: "It's not the years, honey; it's the mileage." (I corrected the punctuation because I couldn't bear the comma loss in the actual comic. Ugh.) Do not bring Indiana Jones into this.

Sometimes a trite story can be saved by the art. Having seen the work of some most excellent artists in Artist's Alley at C2E2, this is rough and unpolished and confused. It tries to be gritty and elegant at the same time and that just isn't working out. The characters' faces and hairstyles change from panel to panel, and during the last third of the book, all of the battle scenes were pretty much incomprehensible except for the helpful "boom"s and "pow"s strewn liberally across the page.

It's not often that I feel stranded by a comic, but I feel mentally stranded after Hinterkind. I pretty much have no idea what just happened, or why someone felt the need to make it happen.

Needless to say, I won't be reading any more of these. Yikes.

A digital ARC was provided by Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
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Apr 29, 2014 Allie rated it did not like it

Shelves: fiction, dystopia-utopia, genre-sff, graphics-comics, arcs-giveaways, worst

This rating/review is based on an ARC from netgalley.

Woof.

The plot was awful and the art was also so awful! This is definitely the very worst comic I've read. The only good part were the wide shots of New York City overrun by plants, and even then it is pretty cliché. The creatures were like Saga but worse. The plot was kind of like a mix of Saga, Sweet Tooth, and other dystopian junk, to make an overall uncreative mess. Also so many of the women in this comic were drawn like men! All women don ...more

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Jan 09, 2015 Ivan rated it it was ok

Shelves: graphic-novels

How can you mess up post-apocalyptic fantasy? It's like making bad chocolate.
Unfortunately Hinterkind did mess it up.Writing isn't particularly good and storyline is just dull.Only reason I didn't give it 1 star is somewhat interesting setting.

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Jan 12, 2016 Chris rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: post-apocalyptic, graphic-novel, fantasy

Long after an apocalyptic plague devastates humanity, a band of survivors eke out a living in Central Park, surrounded by overgrown high-rises and rusting cars. A young heroine named Prosper who's an expert shot with a bow, and her male acquaintance with a dark secret, decide to disobey the adults and leave the camp. They find the world overrun with creatures of myth and folktale, starting with a troll living under the ruins of the George Washington bridge; with humans in decline, these creature Long after an apocalyptic plague devastates humanity, a band of survivors eke out a living in Central Park, surrounded by overgrown high-rises and rusting cars. A young heroine named Prosper who's an expert shot with a bow, and her male acquaintance with a dark secret, decide to disobey the adults and leave the camp. They find the world overrun with creatures of myth and folktale, starting with a troll living under the ruins of the George Washington bridge; with humans in decline, these creatures emerge from the shadowed places. Led by the Sidhe, they plan to enslave and/or eat all the remaining humans.

The Greg Tocchini cover is fantastic, and part of the reason I picked this up, but the interior art by Francesco Trifogli is sketchy and line-heavy, like he forgot to erase some of his pencil marks before passing it on to be inked and colored. His art is capable but workmanlike, though it's worth noting the character designs are distinct and evocative; while they're in line with Fables, the colors seem a bit bland and muted after my recent binge on Image's crazy color schemes. Ian Edgington's writing is hit or miss; there's obviously a lot going on here, and there's the promise of world-building and an expansive plot, but there are notable flaws: the characters are generic, it's a bit talky and dialogue-heavy at times (e.g., we're introduced to the Sidhe as they engage in expository infodump), and too many elements are introduced only to seemingly be dropped and forgotten.

Vertigo seems to have established their current niche as inventive/unique fantasy, but stop me if you've read this one before: dystopic plague apocalypse, teenage heroine of destiny, fairy-tale creatures... it's easy to cast this as a mashup of The Walking Dead, Y: the Last Man, and Fables, with elements borrowed from other SFF staples. I think the back cover does it a disservice by comparing Hinterkind to Fables and The Unwritten, as each of those others broke the fantasy mold. Fables recast "happily ever after" fairytale characters as war refugees; The Unwritten is a metafictional trip, like if J.K. Rowling had a son named Barry who as an adult realized his mom's stories--starring him as the thinly-disguised Harry--were real.

Hinterkind, meanwhile, does not push any envelopes or expand the genre like those other Vertigo series. It's very content to have its main idea--apocalypse plus resurgent myth creatures--be its boldest element, where everything else falls back on the same stock Hero's Journey we've seen a billion times. While it's not terrible, Hinterkind is not exceptional---here's a volume of grade-A average, filling, hearty, and bland. It's good entertainment for a few hours, and maybe for you that's worthy of another star or two, but we're living in a golden age of SFF comics: there's a multitude of can't-miss, must-read, top-shelf series to get caught up on, like Saga, East of West, Rat Queens, and the now-completed Fables. No small surprise, Hinterkind was cancelled after 18 issues; I wouldn't be averse to reading volumes 2 and 3, but they can wait for a sale, they're not going anywhere. ...more

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Mar 19, 2014 Stephanie Cooke rated it it was ok

Hinterkind is a post-apocalyptic fantasy story that is set some time after an unspoken something happens to the earth, nearly wiping out the population of humans. You know, like what happens in post-apocalyptic stories. Except in this story, the Hinterkind happen to be a bunch of mythical creatures that have come forth to reclaim the earth and take out their vengeance on the last of humanity.

This is a fantasy story with lots of ambition and even though it’s set on earth, it’s set in a different Hinterkind is a post-apocalyptic fantasy story that is set some time after an unspoken something happens to the earth, nearly wiping out the population of humans. You know, like what happens in post-apocalyptic stories. Except in this story, the Hinterkind happen to be a bunch of mythical creatures that have come forth to reclaim the earth and take out their vengeance on the last of humanity.

This is a fantasy story with lots of ambition and even though it’s set on earth, it’s set in a different earth than we know and that requires world building. World building in comics can be a little easier than in novels since you can see what’s going on in and you don’t have to rely on lots of details on what the characters are seeing, but it seems that in lieu of having to build up all of these images for everyone, Edginton has set out to make this book as difficult to follow in every other way possible.

Six issues into this book (aka the first volume) and I have yet to come across a character that I like. A certain selfishness comes along with being the remaining survivors in a post-apocalyptic world; survival of the fittest and such. Somehow these characters manage to be whiny and entitled each in their own way, making it hard to enjoy reading about them. There are a few groups of characters that we follow in the first volume (with different, intertwining stories) and I don’t know which one I like reading about less. Consequently, I don’t really have any interest in learning what happens to any of them. The part of the story where mythological creatures actually exist and are coming back to reclaim the land is a neat premise but there’s nothing given to me from that drawing me back into the larger picture.

The art is mostly good and I find myself enjoying it generally and then something will be off and it throws me a bit. The art is definitely the better half of the equation between that and the writing. It’s also worth mentioning that the incredible cover for the first issue by Greg Tocchini and Francesco Trigolfi is what initially drew me in.

As fewer and fewer Vertigo titles seem to be hitting shelves (although more than not too long ago), I really wanted Hinterkind to knock it out of the park. It had a lot of potential to be great and maybe it still will turn out to be something worthwhile, but right now with so much to read out there, I don’t have time to continually invest in a series that’s forgettable at best.

VERDICT
Pass. As much as I would love to recommend this series, it just misses the mark on all fronts. Hinterkind feels like a mediocre first issue throughout the entire first arc and unless someone recommends the following issues after this, I don’t think I’ll be carrying on with the series. ...more

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Jan 11, 2015 Scott rated it it was ok

I'm not terribly impressed so far. The beautiful Greg Tocchini cover artwork is merely a bait and switch for the sketchy art of Francesco Trifogli, and Ian Edgington's writing is simplistic. It's like reading a 1940s anti-Jap comic with cuss words and modern slang in it. The Hinterkind are all levels of bad, whether they wanted to kill or enslave humans--not so different from a World War II comic. It's all about revenge and survival, and the fantasy twist doesn't brighten anything up. It eschews I'm not terribly impressed so far. The beautiful Greg Tocchini cover artwork is merely a bait and switch for the sketchy art of Francesco Trifogli, and Ian Edgington's writing is simplistic. It's like reading a 1940s anti-Jap comic with cuss words and modern slang in it. The Hinterkind are all levels of bad, whether they wanted to kill or enslave humans--not so different from a World War II comic. It's all about revenge and survival, and the fantasy twist doesn't brighten anything up. It eschews complexity for a simplistic good vs. evil story. That's not to say there are no nuances, but it's a shocking throwback to a time even before Stan Lee started the process of sophisticating comics back in the 1960s. The characters are not well developed, and seem created to advance a not terribly interesting post-apocalyptic plot. While I'm often underwheled by emotional impact in comics, I honestly did not care about anyone here. It's all Kill! Enslave! Make money! Survive!, and the younger Hinterkind seem like punks.

At one point, Prosper Monday's grandfather, Asa, praises her for being able to make a literary reference to the Eloi of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine . Apparently, this is Edgington being full of himself, because the leader of some Frankensteinian, ultra-right-wing patchwork survivalists is called Colonel Doctor William Godwin, sharing a name with Mary Shelley's father. Hardy har har--that's so clever I could never have thought of it, but I wouldn't use it unless I were writing comedy.

There's a strong implication that this first volume is setup for something better, but if the second volume is no improvement on the first, I'm dropping this. Of course, I could be hurting myself. I though Fables was pretty lame and predictable until around volumes 7 or 8, and I didn't care too much for Transmetropolitan until volume 3 really kicked the plot into motion. At least Fables had nice artwork and Transmetropolitan had intricate enough artwork to keep me wanting to make return visits in spite of being unimpressed. ...more

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Mar 27, 2014 Alan rated it really liked it

First off my thanks to NetGallery and the publisher for providing me with a copy to review. With that said as much as I enjoyed the first TPB in this series it does feel somewhat derivative of many current dystopian science fiction trends.

A plague hits the world and technology takes a huge tumble. Much of the human race has died off, and what remains has set up agrarian communities. Bows and arrows have pretty much replaced guns, and communication between settlements is maintained, but not witho First off my thanks to NetGallery and the publisher for providing me with a copy to review. With that said as much as I enjoyed the first TPB in this series it does feel somewhat derivative of many current dystopian science fiction trends.

A plague hits the world and technology takes a huge tumble. Much of the human race has died off, and what remains has set up agrarian communities. Bows and arrows have pretty much replaced guns, and communication between settlements is maintained, but not without difficulty. What has come out of hiding with the humans mostly gone are the Hinterkind, Sidhe, orges, etc. want their place back in the sun.

Enter young adults Prosper Monday and Angus. Prosper is working towards becoming one of the New York City settlement's hunters. Angus is her best friend. Her grandfather Asa is a medical doctor, possibly one of the few left. NYC has been unable to contact Albany for months, and Asa convinces the leadership to let him go on the two month round trip to find out what has happened to Albany.

To avoid spoilers, something leads Angus to leave the settlement and Propser uses this as an excuse to follow her grandfather. Along the journey we meet branches of the Hinterkind, who see humans as nothing more than food, and humans who have survived, if you can call it that, the plague.

In some ways the events and politics that we witness at the Sidhe high court are more interesting.

The story and characters in many ways just bring back too many memories of the The Hunger Games and the television show Revolution. There is little to differentiate Prosper from Revolution's Charlie or Hunger Games Katniss (except Katniss is much more psychologically damaged). Asa reminds me of Revolution's Miles and the world building again brings back memories, at least current ones of Revolution.

Despite all of that I do believe I can recommend this TPB. The world building and characters setup is well done. The plot threads that will lead into the next collection, are for me, worth following. Along with Coffin Hill and FBP which I hope to catch up with soon I have hopes that the Vertigo line is undergoing a mild resurgence. ...more

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Apr 11, 2014 Elena rated it liked it

Shelves: graphic-novels, reviewed, first-reads, urban-fantasy-paranormal, dystopia-apocalyptic, new-adult

3.5 stars.

The bad reviews for this book almost scared me off. I thought the premise sounded pretty awesome--sort of The Walking Dead meets Fables--but a 3.3 average GR rating? Ouch. (And yes, I rounded down to 3 stars, but I'm harder on my books than the average GR reviewer so I would normally expect this to have around 4 stars. :P) I probably wouldn't have picked it up if I hadn't happened to win it in a First Reads giveaway, but I'm glad I did because I ended up quite enjoying it. It's a fun, ...more

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Jan 04, 2014 GrilledCheeseSamurai (Scott) rated it really liked it

Shelves: vertigo, comics

I don't know why, but I had been putting off reading this. Now that I have finally read the first arc, I feel kinda silly for waiting so long.

When Vertigo went through their little change up a while back, I kind of thought it was the death rattle of the glory days. However, with new titles like this, I can feel the hope inside of me bubbling up with excitement.

This story has some great characters, an intriguing world, wonderful plot development and some very pretty pictures. These first six iss ...more

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Dec 08, 2017 Colona Public Library rated it it was ok

Shelves: graphic-novel-young-adult, graphic-novel-adult, ashley

I was admiring the cover and that's what made me pick up this book series, I've gotten the next 2 volumes of Hinterkind and all of them have amazing cover art. It got me really excited to read them after seeing the cover of the book so, when I finished reading the book and I was completely disappointed. This throws us into a world with no explanation and just comes off as completely confusing. The opening I thought was nice setting up some dystopian type future. I like that central park, a place ...more

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Apr 07, 2014 Jim rated it it was ok

Shelves: reviews, first-reads, comics

Received in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway.

Nature has reclaimed the Earth and humanity has been decimated due to an unexplained catastrophe called the Blight. Creatures of myth and legend, hidden for millennia during mankind's era of dominance, have emerged from the shadows and formed factions with the aim of ruling this new, old world.

There is not a lot new here. Hinterkind reads as the bastard child of Fables and Game of Thrones, with a liberal dash of Saga, mixing post-apocalyptic fiction w Received in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway.

Nature has reclaimed the Earth and humanity has been decimated due to an unexplained catastrophe called the Blight. Creatures of myth and legend, hidden for millennia during mankind's era of dominance, have emerged from the shadows and formed factions with the aim of ruling this new, old world.

There is not a lot new here. Hinterkind reads as the bastard child of Fables and Game of Thrones, with a liberal dash of Saga, mixing post-apocalyptic fiction with elements of fantasy and political intrigue. Our main characters have not shown much depth, their actions largely predictable. Many seeds are sown for future stories (a boy with a tail, a deadender military faction, who will wear the Sidhe crown?), but it feels derivative, even compared with stories built on the bones of centuries-old folktales like the works cited above.

The political content is sledgehammer-subtle, including persecuted fairies who try to "pass" and are labeled Uncle Toms (yes, really: "Uncle Toms"). The boy with the tail fears being exiled or worse for the crime of being different, but look at the muscleman posters on his bedroom wall and you'll read the gay metaphor in mile-high letters. Equally heavyhanded is the foreshadowing: "Someday you may have to make a choice," sayeth wise grandfather to plucky heroine, mere pages before she is put in that very position.

The artwork by Francesco Trifogli, a new name to me, is above average. Both his page and character design help in the storytelling and in keeping the myriad characters straight. His figures remind me of early Guy Davis before he inked his own work, or of Vince Locke. Rough in places, but effective. (My major pet peeve: Colorist Cris Peter has a maddening habit of depicting characters in shadow with these horizontal lines going through them, as if the figures were reflected in a streaky mirror. She really needs to stop doing that.)

Maybe it's that fantasy isn't my preferred genre, or that I have already read plenty of (better) fiction mined from the same material as this. There are elements here to recommend the series to the completely uninitiated reader. But I won't be revisiting Hinterkind anytime soon. ...more

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May 05, 2014 jordan rated it it was ok

As a rule, I'm prepared to give new works the benefit of the doubt and assume that what might otherwise earn the label "cliche" might just be the repetition of a classic trope or even a bit of homage. Cliche's come so fast and furious in "Hinterkind," one cannot avoid the "C" word.

The plot? Decades after an unnamed plague wiped out much of humanity, a settlement of survivors scrapes by in Central Park. A pair of teens (pretty girl who shoots a bow with flawless aim and boy who secretly loves her As a rule, I'm prepared to give new works the benefit of the doubt and assume that what might otherwise earn the label "cliche" might just be the repetition of a classic trope or even a bit of homage. Cliche's come so fast and furious in "Hinterkind," one cannot avoid the "C" word.

The plot? Decades after an unnamed plague wiped out much of humanity, a settlement of survivors scrapes by in Central Park. A pair of teens (pretty girl who shoots a bow with flawless aim and boy who secretly loves her and hides terrible secret) sneak out of Manhattan against the adults wishes. At first they think they're encountering mutants, but no, creatures of magic that were previously hunted to near extinction are reasserting dominance. Since we can't just learn about this following the Pseudo-Katniss and Companion, we're dragged to the West Coast. There an ageless elf queen (called "Sidhee" after the Irish myth) is struggling with her hot headed ageless but still slightly younger daughter who wishes to wipe out humanity. Oh, and of course there are pockets of crazy soldier types bent on doing evil and...well you get the idea.

In the end, there seems little in the way of plot here to make this stand out, and the wooden pulpy dialogue does nothing to help matters. I will say that I wasn't familiar with Francesco Trifogli art and this is the book's one bright spot. The images blend the series' science and magical elements, the lines wavy and even indistinct. I especially liked the opening sequence that found our heroes hunting a zebra in a forest. The next panel pulls back and we realize that the forest is an exposed top of a New York skyscraper (and yes, I too wondered whether and why a zebra climbed a few dozen flights of stairs, but it was pretty).

The racks overflow with comics that I'd label as "can't be missed." Saga. East of West. The tragically soon to be ending Fables. With such rich work begging to be read, who can make time for "Hinterkind"?

A digital copy of this book was provided through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

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Jan 27, 2016 Caron rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-owned-read, reviewed, comics-manga-read, read-in-2016

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Hinterkind focuses on the divide that is between human and hinterkind- creatures of myth that no one knew existed until the world was basically destroyed.

We start out with Prosper and Angus, two teenagers out hunting in the forest who are rebellious and don’t understand the meaning of ‘Don’t leave’. After running away from their town they meet a man named Jon and from there, their lives are completely turned around

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Apr 04, 2014 Nadine Jones rated it liked it

Shelves: graphic-novels-and-comics, first-reads

I won a book! I received this book as part of the Goodreads First Reads giveaways.

This book arrived with a copy of the 2013 guide to DC Graphic Novels - a nice touch - it's interesting, AND a good marketing gimick! (Heavy on the superhero books, though.)

The story has a lot of promise: some undefined illness fells the majority of humans, letting the planet go back to Mother Nature (trees grow on the top of the Empire State Building, and the planet seems to have warmed, there are tropical birds an ...more

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Nov 18, 2014 Jenna rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy, dystopia, graphic-novels

Intriguing concept and I like the dystopia / fantasy combination, although I found the expository excerpts distracting and rather dull, which made me skip over them. Which probably wasn't a good thing, as I had no idea why mythical creatures populate the world now. I'd want a page or two summarizing that rather than the tedious voice over.

Drawing style wasn't the best and distracted me at times. I did like the backgrounds though. But regarding the people / expressions, I didn't care for them. It ...more

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Oct 07, 2014 Joe Young rated it it was amazing

Ian Edginton - writer
Francesco Trifogli - illustrator

Sometime in the future, an unknown catastrophe has decimated the human population of Earth. At the same time, perhaps as a result of the unnamed catastrophe, the older races of Earth, long thought to be legend or myth, return from hiding to claim dominion over the World. Now humans are an endangered species, while Elves, Trolls, Goblins, Faeries and all manner of mythological creatures roam across the land. When the the last remaining human se ...more

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Apr 13, 2014 Chris Lemmerman rated it liked it

Shelves: 2014-comics-and-manga-read

I read the first three issues in singles and wasn't really hooked, I much preferred Coffin Hill, the other Vertigo book that came out at the same time. Whilst the statement remains true, I do look on Hinterkind a bit more favorably after reading this trade. It's got some interesting ideas and intriguing characters, with a lot of moving parts for just 6 issues, but just as it gets going, the trade ends, so whilst I'm looking forward to volume 2, it still left me a little disappointed. The artwork ...more

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Apr 05, 2014 Drown Hollum rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy

I'm always excited for a new Vertigo series, and the art here is pretty cool, but the story is familiar and nothing to write home about. The dialogue is rough and the characters are unrelatable archetypes, little more. A lot of neat ideas implemented here are mucked up by an over abundance of cornball tropes. A lot of the designs are very interesting and the colors are inventive, fitting perfectly with the unique universe, but the story doesn't provide the necessary framework for this to be a fu ...more

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May 27, 2014 Ron rated it really liked it

Shelves: netgalley, supernatural, disasters, fairy-fae, comics

This is the tale of Prosper Monday told in graphic fashion and excerpts of her future writings.. After a series of disasters rack the world with disease diminishing the human population, Prosper Monday and other survivors of New York City find out that they are not alone. The Fae are coming back big time - all of them both fair and dark. Other players known and unknown are also entering the board. What part each will play will be made known in the next lavishly illustrated issue! Guess we will j ...more

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Mar 25, 2014 James rated it really liked it

Shelves: graphic-novels, 2014

The Hinterkind tells the story of a post-apocalyptic America, where humans are almost extinct and the dominant species are those formerly relegated to myth and fantasy, i.e., trolls, elves, sidhe, that have grown to despise humans. The story is fast-paced with lots of action and I found myself really drawn into this post-civilized world where so much is focused on mere survival. There are a lot of threads here that remain unresolved and I look forward to volume 2.

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Sep 16, 2014 Alex Sarll added it

I used to be mad for stories in which magic returned to the world. But then once there weren't so damn many of the bastards (see also: alternate timelines, vampires, and above all steampunk). Some intriguing possibilities are suggested, and the overgrown future Manhattan is gorgeous, but this can't help feeling like very well-trodden ground.

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Aug 24, 2016 Bookbear rated it really liked it

Shelves: graphic-novels-comics

A vibrant art style and a well written post apocalyptic story, mixed with fantastical creautures long since thought mythological, makes for a quick fun filled read. This is a well thought out world and well worth picking it up if you are into mythic creatures, post apocalyptic stories, or just epic adventures.

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Jul 05, 2015 Misha Husnain Ali rated it liked it

Pretty much what I expected from the blurb. The best thing about this seems to be that it is pretty straightforward and action oriented. The worst thing about it is that the story doesn't really offer anything new or particularly interesting yet. However, the various factions and sub-factions clashing later seems worth continuing the series.

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Jun 25, 2014 Charlos rated it it was ok

Shelves: graphic-novels-and-comics, fantasy

Eh. Messy art, okayish story. I just expected more. The premise seems like it could be used better.

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Jun 01, 2015 TJ Shelby rated it liked it

Frankly, I was a little underwhelmed. Like when you're watching a movie and you keep waiting for it to get better and then the credits roll.

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May 12, 2014 Sarah ~Sehrenity~ rated it liked it

Shelves: read-in-2014

So-so. There's a good story in here somewhere, but it's hiding in a bunch of random.

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Jun 10, 2016 Miranda rated it liked it

Shelves: adult, gn-manga, library

Not bad, but it's pretty ridic that even the Hinterkind use misogynistic slurs (one woman calls someone a pussy). Nothing says fantasy like a mythological creature using misogynistic, human slurs!

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Mar 04, 2016 Scott rated it really liked it

Felt like a mashup of Fables + Saga. I really like it. Looking forward to the next volumes!

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About Ian Edginton

Ian Edginton

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Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written L ...more