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The Old Guard (Single Issues) #3.4
The Old Guard: Tales Through Time #4
"He'd been born in the West Indies, sold into the Colonies, fled to London, then condemned to the penal colony in New South Wales. He wasn't even thirty…He made me want to live again. Just so I could stay with him." His name was Achilles…and this is what happens when Andy returns, by MATT FRACTION and STEVE LIEBER (Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen).
Then DAVID F. WALKER (BITTER ROOT, Naomi) and MATTHEW CLARK (The Punisher, Amazing Spider-Man) send Nicky on a suicidal solo mission in the Civil War South!
Then DAVID F. WALKER (BITTER ROOT, Naomi) and MATTHEW CLARK (The Punisher, Amazing Spider-Man) send Nicky on a suicidal solo mission in the Civil War South!
30 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2021
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About the author
Matt Fraction
1,220 books1,865 followers"How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.
Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.
"My mother was not happy about that," he said.
But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.
Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.
"My mother was not happy about that," he said.
But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.
Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
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December 28, 2022
Continuously impressed.
July 29, 2021
docking a star off simply for Nicky's facial hair because wow
July 27, 2021
Story A review: I am sobbing oh my god I just want Andy to be happy
Story B: Nicky writing Joe love letters while killing confedorates... brilliant.
Story B: Nicky writing Joe love letters while killing confedorates... brilliant.
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February 24, 2025:I know that I will not find shelter from this terrible storm, for I am the shelter...just as surely as I am the storm.
July 28, 2021
Read Brzrkr #4 and Old Guard Tales Through Time #4 on the same day. Immortals seem to be the flavor of the month (and add in the movie Infinite in June). Flashbacks to the old Highlander movie and tv shows.
While I am enjoying these stories of Andy and her crew from the past, they are really just padding time until her newer stories return. Let's get to these stories.
While I am enjoying these stories of Andy and her crew from the past, they are really just padding time until her newer stories return. Let's get to these stories.
August 2, 2021
This issue as always has two stories - How to Make a Ghost Town and Love Letters. The art for both stories is phenomenal and I really enjoyed it.
In How to Make a Ghost Town, I have to commend the artist's ability to nail expressions because the entire story has no dialogues, therefore story progression is heavily reliant on the art and the captions and the art really nails the characters' feelings and thoughts.
I also like the tonality of the story and how it presents Andy as a character. This story follows Achilles and Andy and I liked it so much I wish this was how we had been introduced to them in the main storyline.
Love Letters is also a poignant tale set during the American Civil War and I really liked it. It was a pretty amazing story and I liked the concept of how the story was tied into the letter that Nicky is writing to Joe. The letter in itself is so rich in emotions and history that it served as a real testament to Joe and Nicky's relationship.
This is definitely one of the better issues of this anthology.
In How to Make a Ghost Town, I have to commend the artist's ability to nail expressions because the entire story has no dialogues, therefore story progression is heavily reliant on the art and the captions and the art really nails the characters' feelings and thoughts.
I also like the tonality of the story and how it presents Andy as a character. This story follows Achilles and Andy and I liked it so much I wish this was how we had been introduced to them in the main storyline.
Love Letters is also a poignant tale set during the American Civil War and I really liked it. It was a pretty amazing story and I liked the concept of how the story was tied into the letter that Nicky is writing to Joe. The letter in itself is so rich in emotions and history that it served as a real testament to Joe and Nicky's relationship.
This is definitely one of the better issues of this anthology.
July 20, 2022
Five stars. "How to Make a Ghost Town" gets five stars all on its own. Fraction did an absolutely flawless job and I won't tolerate any discussion on that. The framework between the title and the end lines, the way the story flows, the quality of the art... this story was breathtaking and I stopped reading to rave about it to my sister for a good six minutes when I finished it.
Three stars. The second story is a Civil War-era story about Joe and Nicky, but they're separated and in fact none of the Guard are together. I think it's weak for that aspect alone, because again the strength of this series is the cast and their chemistry together. I do like the full-circle ending, but it's not enough to raise the rest of it to par.
Four stars due to pure math, but know that Fraction's piece deserves more than that.
Three stars. The second story is a Civil War-era story about Joe and Nicky, but they're separated and in fact none of the Guard are together. I think it's weak for that aspect alone, because again the strength of this series is the cast and their chemistry together. I do like the full-circle ending, but it's not enough to raise the rest of it to par.
Four stars due to pure math, but know that Fraction's piece deserves more than that.
November 15, 2024
These were interesting installments. We get more of Andy and Achilles's story in a way that keeps the hurt alive for that pairing, while also keeping me questioning what would it have been like if they had found Noriko to keep her with Andy. Nicky, alone in the Confederate south, hurts my heart, too. My first thought of why him was quickly answered by who better than he. A faithful man on the side of Christians in the Crusades cut down by and with the "heathen" who would become the love of his life. Nicky knows so much about what drove the Confederacy, likely carries guilt and self-hatred for how he held similar beliefs in his original life, but his love of Joe has changed him so much that he knows on every level that the south had to fail in the Civil War. While I understand why Nicky is on this mission without Joe, I am not okay with the separation of the pairing in this way.
July 28, 2021
I look forward to another edition
August 10, 2021
"Andromache the Scythian went to work. Blood in, blood out. Just like she promised."
August 18, 2021
The Stories Thru Time Keep Getting Better
I really enjoyed both of the stories in this Issue; they were fun, believable and interesting. I highly recommend this Old Guard series.
I really enjoyed both of the stories in this Issue; they were fun, believable and interesting. I highly recommend this Old Guard series.
January 2, 2023
"Era um ótimo lugar para morrer, para todos, menos para ela."
March 28, 2023
That axe should have a name. Something sinister.
May 30, 2023
“I know that I will not find shelter from this terrible storm, for I am the shelter just as surely as I am the storm” / “…a world in which every day without you is a day I die”. Nicky, my Beloved,
December 15, 2023
".....a world in which everyday without you is a day i die." I CANT FUCKING BREATHE XKASFNAKFAG I NEED A NICKY IN MY LIFE
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