A Million Ways to Die Hard

Die Hard #3

by Frank Tieri

The adventures of John McClane continue in this new explosive comic series based on the Die Hard franchise. 

Thirty years after the release of Die Hard, the deadly adventures of John McClane continue in this explosive new volume. With a conspiracy that draws him back to the scene of the first Die Hard film, John McClane is once again a man who will stop at nothing to fight against impossible odds and implacable foes. Die Hard has all the humor, action, and firepower of the franchise that defined the action genre. 

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Action

80 pages, Hardcover

First published October 16, 2018

Reviews

[Bill · Rating 1 out of 5]

This looked like a promising story, set 30 years after the original events in Die Hard. The artwork is okay, but apart from that it's a pile of crap. It's a weak story, with terrible dialogue, & is nothing more than an insult to Die Hard.
The best thing you could do with this graphic novel is to throw it from the top floor of the Nakatomi Plaza. A complete waste of time.

[Joel Caldarola · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was not good....like really not good. Pointless tie ins to the movies that aren't fleshed out, a terrible plot and a lame villain. John Mcclane doesn't even feel like John Mcclane.

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great art, and some interesting concepts, but I was disappointed with the execution. The story could have been, should have been longer. Some of the "wry" comments McClane makes, particularly to his wife Holly in the flashback scenes, make him seem like a complete dick.

[Logan Polk · Rating 2 out of 5]

A fun story ruined by awful digital coloring. Would be much higher otherwise.

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

An extraordinarily BAD comic book.

[Mike · Rating 1 out of 5]

A real “Nothing Burger” of a story. Possibly the worst thing from Frank Tieri I’ve ever read. Ridiculous plot, uninteresting characters, and BAD dialogue. John McClane doesn’t even act like the film character. Read Boom! Studios’ Die Hard: Year One instead.

[Adam Stone · Rating 1 out of 5]

Like reading an in-universe book by an author unrelated to the movie franchise, like walking into a bathroom with brown water seeping out from under the door, you have a pretty good idea of what you're going to get when you open up a book with Tieri's name on the cover: a glop of wet, choppy shit that you'll wish you'd never encountered.

Filled with clever insults like "neck-beard" and "pimple face", and hilarious jokes, such as a kid who pees himself when he sees someone pull out a gun, Tieri and Mark Texeira paint a vivid picture about what the Die Hard universe would look like through the eyes of an incel with writer's block.

I recommend this for sixty year old men who click on the Erectile Disfunction banners on their Microsoft Edge browsers.

[Bill Boswell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an easy 4 issue graphic novel compilation of a new Die hard story which sees a serial killer with a grudge, target John Mc Clane via the 30th anniversary of the Nakotomi plaza event.

The serial killer however kills his victims as tributes to movies, in which Joh faces The Swarm, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno and even Jaws

I really enjoyed it, certaining better than Die Hard 5 anyway

[John Hammond · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just finished A Million Ways to Die Hard. Fun premise, solid art, and a few sparks of classic McClane attitude, but the story never quite lands. It’s a quick, pulpy read—entertaining enough, yet pretty forgettable. Die Hard completists might not get the most out of it, but it still has some of that Die Hard energy.

[Ljfarve · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is very good the dialog is great when I was reading it I was the voice of Bruce Willis though out the story I wish a story like this could have been the proper final chapter in the die hard movie franchise

[Emily · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not enjoy this and I enjoy a lot of stupid things.

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tries way too hard.

[Robert Kimberlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty decent comic. Plenty action and outrageous dialogue. The art was very good. I wish the Interpol lady would have survived.

[LA Prescott · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not formatted properly so unreadable

You can only see half of each page and it hasn’t been set up so you can scroll through like normal

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was ok nothing special. Had the same problem as the 4th and 5th movie, apart from characters and the title, this was nothing like Die Hard. If anything it was more like Se7en!

Set on the 30th anniversary on the Nokatomi Plaza incident, John McClane is roped into an old adversaries game of cat and mouse, as he plays a movie quiz that holds each of his kidnapped hostages lives on the line.

Like I mentioned, Die Hard in name only.

[Scott Summerton · Rating 4 out of 5]

"A Million Ways to Die Hard" is yet another 'years later' story for Die Hard, but this one is rather unique: during a ceremony for the new Nakatomi building, hostages are taken and John McClane is called out. What we get is a movie fan villain taunting with traps and horror, which is a hell of an idea that the McClane character fares well against.

Frank Tieri is known for his crime/lowlife stories and nails it here, with Mark Texeira's gritty art serving the story well throughout. The large hardcover format displays it well but, for most of this, his McClane looks just like Dwayne Johnson and nothing like Bruce Willis, which is likely a rights issue but makes me think a Rock-Die Hard could actually work.

The villain is a masked man who is apparently from McClane's detective years and when he unmasks he, well he looks like someone yet, is never named, and is never identified. We're expected to know who this is it seems and yet he's never been shown before. Huge misstep there amidst everything.

Overall this was a lot of fun, a very quick read, did not hold back which I greatly appreciated and overachieved on it's premise. Fun stuff.

[Greg Trosclair · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was like reading a TV show pilot for a Diehard TV show. It was quite good. Mark Texiera's art is always nice to see. here wasn't a lot there for a storyline but it was still pretty good and still felt a John McClane story.

[Johnny · Rating 3 out of 5]

BIZARRE

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was fun, and that’s how you should think of it. A fun, bloody romp back into the world of cowboy John McCain.

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice, original continuation

[iamjacsmusings · Rating 2 out of 5]

#NotmyJohnMcClane.