Throwaways, Vol. 1

Throwaways (Collected Editions) #1

by Caitlin Kittredge, Steven Sanders (Contributor), Maiko Kuzunisi (Contributor)

Abby Palmer and Dean Logan are two broken people with one thing in common: they're both victims of a brutal government mind control experiment--and they're the only two who escaped alive. Abby is a homeless drifter, and Dean is trying to outrun the horrors of his past when the program finds them again...and they become the other's only chance to survive. The program gifted them both with abilities beyond a normal human's imagination--and as Dean and Abby realize what was done to them, they're determined to use those abilities to destroy the program and its sinister architect, Dr. Elizabeth Ostrander, once and for all.
A brand new science fiction spy thriller by the creative team of CAITLIN KITTREDGE and STEVEN SANDERS.
Collects issues 1 through 4.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Mystery

112 pages, Paperback

Published December 27, 2016

About the author

Caitlin started writing novels at age 13. Her first was a Star Wars tie-in. Fortunately, she branched out from there and after a few years trying to be a screenwriter, a comic book writer and the author of copious amounts of fanfiction, she tried to write a novel again. Her epic dark fantasy (thankfully) never saw the light of day but while she was struggling with elves and sorcerers she got the idea of writing a story about a werewolf who fought crime.

Two years and many, many drafts later, she pitched Night Life to a bevy of agents and one of them, Rachel Vater, sold the series to St. Martin’s.

Caitlin collects comic books, print books, vintage clothes, and bad habits. She loves tea, loud music, the color black (especially mixed with the color pink) and ghost stories. She can drive a stick shift, play the violin and knows more English curses than American ones.

Caitlin lives in Olympia, WA with two pushy cats.

http://us.macmillan.com/bonegods/Cait...

Reviews

[Cecilia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting concept and characters but didn't really like the art style.

[Larakaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cool supernatural thriller

[Paul Allard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Black Ops series - not always clear

This collection deals with two main characters, Dean Logan and Abigail Palmer. He is the son of a paranoid survivalist who develops telekinetic powers amongst others while she is a “Manchurian Candidate” type of Special Ops operative who has been programmed. Both are on the run from all sorts and are befriended by others trying to help them. However it all smells of “who do you trust?”

Quite engaging and novel, it sets up further volumes as this only gets the whole plot started. The illustrations are quite good but could be more detailed or clearer. There's plenty of fighting and it seems promising.

[Chris Walker · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't really know what I was expecting, seeing as I haven't enjoyed any of the Caitlin Kittredge comics I've read up to this point. Clunky dialogue, an aimless plot, and really lackluster art. The characters could have been really interesting if they were given time to develop. Instead they bounce from one badly rendered action scene to the next. Avoid.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Throwaways has a neat idea, but the execution is quite poor, making it difficult to follow from moment to moment at times, and the characters don't always react as you would expect. The art is decent, but again, because of the haphazard pacing, makes it hard to like. The mystery does pull you through the story though, and the questions are the parts that are best thought out.

[M R · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love a good mind control, government conspiracy, double-agent, bad-ass women series so I'm looking forward to reading the next volume. There's not much to this collection, it's pretty standard intro stuff so I'm hoping vol. 2 will really take us into the who, what and why.

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

Managed to read this through to the end of the first issue in this volume (very surprised the series made it to at least a third volume TBH) - the jumble of black ops, Psy ops and telekinesis powers should have been up my street, but this did nothing for me. Disappointing...

[Christine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn’t really work for me, there’s only so much information you can withhold and so many double cross triple cross quadruple crosses you can pack into the first volume of something before it becomes frustrating and hard to connect with the characters.

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Haven't they done this a dozen times already i.e. the plot? Good artwork though.

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty average I guess. I enjoy the story. Art bugs me a little at times. (Read as single issues as published)

[Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really digging the Bourne vibe I get from this book. Next volume for sure.

[Kayleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of Kittredge's best work, just didn't hit the spot for me.

[Sean · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've enjoyed some of Caitlin Kittredge's work in the past but here I thought there were just a bunch of cliches thrown together. The plot didn't intrigue me and I thought the main characters were hard to feel for. The biggest problem was though was the stagnant art. Steve Sanders work is very stiff. The coloring also did the art a disservice. It was very tonal. Overall, a big disaster.

[Laci Carrera | Book Pairings · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF - I will post a full review over the weekend.

[Miriam · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 =)

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story isn’t anything especially new but it’s intriguing enough. This could really use better editing though: various attempts at non-linear storytelling aren’t clear, at multiple times it feels like a panel showing intermediate actions is missing. Just feels like it needed someone to help smooth out the storytelling.