Seven Deadly Sins

by Neil Gaiman (Contributor), Roz Kaveney (Contributor), Graham Higgins (Contributor)

Genres: Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Anthologies, Novels, Juvenile, Ebooks

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Cale · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection of short comics about the seven deadly sins varies from story to story, unsurprisingly. The Pride, Envy, and even the Anger story all tread similar ground, and none are particularly remarkable. Gluttony is unmemorable, using the theme as a character name and neurosis during the prohibition. Gaiman's contribution, Sloth, works primarily on the creative use of the medium as the message. But the highlight is actually Alan Moore's take on Lust, which uses it as a strong continued metaphor for the cold war, which shouldn't work as well as it does, and is the piece of this comic I'll carry with me going forward.

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

The list of contributors reads like a who's who of alternative comics from the late 1980s. This is quite a romp and extremely irreverent, but sadly it is also quite dated now and even main stream comics have surpassed much of the material contained herein. At the time, this was undoubtedly an extremely shocking and outrageous comic, but now it's just a silly romp. Still it's worth a gander if you're into underground comix or British anti-establishment humor.

[Jaimie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Considering that this book is a mere 64 pages, I'm a bit disgusted that it took me months to read... But that's what happens with ebooks that don't have due dates - I completely forget about them the second that I can have a real book in my hands! In terms of content, at least, the book was pretty interesting, even if it wasn't very good at making sure I came back to it. The concept is that each author/illustrator duo explores one of the seven Biblical sins in short comic form, and due to the creative nature of the contributors the stories were expectedly strange. Some were so strange that I don't really remember them, but the one standout story was about sloth. The whole comic was a meta-story about the author and illustrator trying to make a comic for the anthology, but ultimately failing to do so. The concept sounds simple enough, but what made the comic memorable was that as the story progressed the writing and artwork became evermore affected by sloth, to the point that the final panels are scribbles, nonsense, and then blank. Artfully done if nothing else! Even though the collection was a whole was a weird compilation it was an interesting viewpoint back in time to the early formative days of comic greats like Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore.

[David Raz · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got this as part of the Gaiman rarities Humble Bundle for 2016.

Quite an unremarkable collection of short stories in comics form, by a team of end-of-the-eighties alternative comics authors and illustrators. Perhaps at the time it was published it was "alternative", novel and subversive but it did not survive the passage of the years. Gaiman's contribution is rather forgettable, a silly joke about a religion based on Sloth and what its commandments and myths will be.
The reproduction isn't very good either, reading it on anything but a big screen was almost impossible and even on a big screen I couldn't read some of the smaller text.

[Shannon Kauderer · Rating 1 out of 5]

Picked this up from the Neil Gaiman Humble Bundle set. While I knew it wasn't my preferred style I thought I'd give it a try. Very hard to read on my Kobo, despite the 8" screen, and overall very lack luster. Tried reading the first, stopped a bit before the end. Skipped to the Neil Gaiman story which I did finish and thought was only ok.

[Nicholas Whyte · Rating 3 out of 5]

https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3839872.html

A 1989 collection of short takes on the Seven Deadly Sins by comics writers and artists. The only woman of the fourteen is Roz Kaveney. The best is Neil Gaiman and Bryan Talbot's take on Sloth.

[StrictlySequential · Rating 3 out of 5]

Should rate individually since all 5 ratings are within these seven stories.

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

From an old Neil Gaiman Humble bundle. Funny, but a bit too far over the top for me.

[Deborahanndilley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick read, but an excellent one nonetheless. I like collaborative graphic novels as you get the variety of the mundane (gluttony and greed), to the insightful (pride and envy), the silly (anger), and the overtly (lust) and subtly (sloth) brilliant.

[Bookshire Cat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dvě tři skvělé části, zbytek průměr až podprůměr.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though it was a challenge to read on my tablet, I enjoyed most of the stories. The one that creeped me out the most was Lust, which was about war games between the US and USSR.