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X Isle
A team of researchers drift on the ocean, lost, in their quest for an enigmatic island that's never been explored. Washing on its shores, they find a dense, terrifying jungle populated with animal and plant life that has evolved along a completely different path. What secret does this isle hold? Why are the life forms there so dangerous - and so alien? In the tradition of Alien and the recent horror-hit The Descent! Featuring art from Greg Scott (Gotham Central, Sword of Dracula).
128 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 2007
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April 21, 2022
Completely cliched Mysterious Island type story with murky art and coloring that often made it difficult to tell what was happening, particularly when the monsters would show up. Adding in aliens didn't make it any more interesting, just more confusing. Such as why the constellations were completely different on the island. Meh.
October 31, 2011
Don’t you hate it when your ship goes off course straight into a storm thus sinking leaving you stranded on an uncharted island? No, what if the island is populated with man-eating fauna? Total bummer.
X Isle was right in the middle for me. Everything seemed a little familiar. The best part of the book was the captain character, but even then I felt like I’ve met the guy before several times on many different movies. So it just left me a little indifferent about the book.
The main aspect that kept me going was the ‘what is going on’ factor. I wanted to know what was up with the island. The resolution wasn’t mind blowing but it was mildly interesting. It may have worked better as a longer novel or maybe a movie.
Reviewed by Chris for Book Sake.
X Isle was right in the middle for me. Everything seemed a little familiar. The best part of the book was the captain character, but even then I felt like I’ve met the guy before several times on many different movies. So it just left me a little indifferent about the book.
The main aspect that kept me going was the ‘what is going on’ factor. I wanted to know what was up with the island. The resolution wasn’t mind blowing but it was mildly interesting. It may have worked better as a longer novel or maybe a movie.
Reviewed by Chris for Book Sake.
September 21, 2017
Some pretty good one liners in the dialogue keep this from falling to 2 stars. Worth a borrow if you're a comixology unlimited subscriber but I couldn't recommend buying it.
January 6, 2020
I picked this book off Hoopla to fill a reading challenge. I needed an X titled graphic novel and I didn’t want to read X-men. The cover was all black so I had no idea what to expect. It was very much like the lost world. A marine science crew is looking into a strange animal that has washed up on the beach. They board a research vessel and go looking for more. Well they find it, but they also find themselves in a bad situation when their ship sinks and they end up on a remote island. But this is not just any remote island. Nothing is family, not even the animals. They are out of place, or maybe out of time, and for sure, finding alien habitats. This GN wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t good enough to have me finish the series (plus the next book is not on Hoopla, and I am not willing to pay for it.
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February 11, 2021
I was looking forward to a nice sci-fi/horror graphic novel when I picked this one up, but it was SO cliched and cheesy. Like...I'm starting to wonder if it was intentional and this was supposed to be a campy spoof or something.
There's definitely some amazing creatures, some scary moments, and a cool reveal about the the island itself...but nearly all the dialogue is eye-roll inducing and cringeworthy. Especially from the gruff, ex-military, one-liner-spouting captain. Seriously...everything that came out of his mouth was the height of cliched ridiculousness.
The artwork was also not super appealing. The darkness of it all was appropriate to the story, but I guess I'm used to YA and middle grade graphic novels that have a little more color and life when it comes to the illustrations.
There's definitely some amazing creatures, some scary moments, and a cool reveal about the the island itself...but nearly all the dialogue is eye-roll inducing and cringeworthy. Especially from the gruff, ex-military, one-liner-spouting captain. Seriously...everything that came out of his mouth was the height of cliched ridiculousness.
The artwork was also not super appealing. The darkness of it all was appropriate to the story, but I guess I'm used to YA and middle grade graphic novels that have a little more color and life when it comes to the illustrations.
December 3, 2021
It ends a bit anticlimactically, but the story as a whole is compelling. It isn’t a 100% fresh story, but it kept me captivated. Characters were okay. It was really the scenario that drew me in. Felt like an episode of X-Files.
They leave us on a cliffhanger, but not with a character I really care about, so it is about as done as it can be in my eyes.
They leave us on a cliffhanger, but not with a character I really care about, so it is about as done as it can be in my eyes.
February 1, 2022
It was neat, though I wish there was more to it, or more background, instead of just the one evening on the island. So many of the characters looked like actors (like Benga was definitely The Rock, right? lol) And I'm pretty sure one of the creatures was right out of the movie Evolution. Would definitely be curious what happens next to Greer
June 4, 2026
It was a fine little B-movie sci-fi horror survival tale where weird things slowly thin the stranded crew. It makes for a fun time but nothing deep or spectacular.
June 23, 2024
Nothing original here, I'm sorry to say. First we have the cliched characters:
The Vet with a chip on his shoulder
His possibly Native, do what the Vet says partner
The Scientist who puts science before his family
The Scientists bratty daughter who gets in danger
The overweight Nerd who's there as cannon fodder
The one female scientist, also there as cannon fodder
The black scientist who has to defend his place in the scientific community to the lone female scientist (Guess what happens to him)
The Unnatural phenomenon that drags them to a previously undiscovered island (shades of Fantastic Journey, one of the worst TV shows of the 70's!)
The strange creatures, all willing to (and do) kill most of the cast.
Let's mix this up with ZERO explanations for anything, a tepid, non-ending and what do you get? An hour's waste of time in reading this.
The Vet with a chip on his shoulder
His possibly Native, do what the Vet says partner
The Scientist who puts science before his family
The Scientists bratty daughter who gets in danger
The overweight Nerd who's there as cannon fodder
The one female scientist, also there as cannon fodder
The black scientist who has to defend his place in the scientific community to the lone female scientist (Guess what happens to him)
The Unnatural phenomenon that drags them to a previously undiscovered island (shades of Fantastic Journey, one of the worst TV shows of the 70's!)
The strange creatures, all willing to (and do) kill most of the cast.
Let's mix this up with ZERO explanations for anything, a tepid, non-ending and what do you get? An hour's waste of time in reading this.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 25, 2016
X Isle has an interesting premise about a group of people who end up on an alien island and must figure out how to survive. There are some creepy moments and I did feel bad when some of the characters died but I was ultimately left unsatisfied. James Tynion's The Woods does it much better.
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