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This was so good! This is what I want from a comic: an interesting (gritty) story told with both words and art. The art is a bit different, I liked it. Michael Gaydos uses a dark, realistic style. (He’s not very good at creating different faces - sometimes people have the same face, just different t hair color.) Sometimes the faces look a little odd, but it’s part of the atmosphere. Plus, super-super bonus: the masterful Bill Sienkiewicz does the “sidekick” art.
When four volumes are sitting side by side on the library's new books shelf, you take it as a sign that you need to read them. I unintentionally started reading vol 4 first which starts with a flashback to 15 years ago -- it seemed so normal that I didn't even question it. But after a few pages I glanced down and realized my error. So I picked up volume 1 and wasn't disappointed. While I'm not crazy about the artwork, the storyline kept me interested. And I plan on finishing up the volumes I hav
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December Graphic Novel Read
Meh. I still feel the same way about 70% of the Marvel Max titles that I did when they were published the year I was still managing the comic store. We read this one for the relevance of Jessica Jones just being released and taking the world by storm -- which proved the reverse of the norm. The show was so much more coherent with a good long reaching story (number of stories) to tell.
Meh. I still feel the same way about 70% of the Marvel Max titles that I did when they were published the year I was still managing the comic store. We read this one for the relevance of Jessica Jones just being released and taking the world by storm -- which proved the reverse of the norm. The show was so much more coherent with a good long reaching story (number of stories) to tell.
read 10/25/16
Oct 21, 2017
Christine
marked it as to-read
Aug 26, 2019
Marlene
marked it as to-read
